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12:05 PM ET, May 26, 2017

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New York Times:
Live Election Results: Montana's At-Large Congressional District  —  Greg Gianforte, a Republican technology executive who was charged with assault on Wednesday night, faces Rob Quist, the Democratic candidate and folk singer, in a special election for Montana's at-large House seat on Thursday.
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Republicans' 7-point win in last night's Montana election is great news for Democrats  —  Winning narrowly in safe red seats is a bad sign.  —  Greg Gianforte's 7 percentage point win in the Montana special election keeps a seat in Republican hands but fundamentally represents bad news for the GOP.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
The GOP inherits what Trump has wrought
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump calls Gianforte's victory a ‘great win in Montana’
NBC News:
Jared Kushner Now Under FBI Scrutiny in Russia Probe, Say Officials  —  Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and one of his senior advisers, has come under FBI scrutiny in the Russia investigation, multiple U.S. officials told NBC News.  —  Investigators believe Kushner …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Bannon's back  —  The escalating crisis surrounding the Russia investigation (with reports last night on FBI interest in Jared Kushner) looks like good news for somebody in the White House: Steve Bannon.  —  Nine sources in the West Wing and within Trump's close orbit said the Russia situation is Bannon's shot at redemption.
David Freedlander / Politico:
Meet the Real Jared Kushner  —  He was supposed to be the calm one, cool and unflappable under his Ray-Bans and beltless blue bespoke suits.  If Steve Bannon was the Rumpelstiltskin of the administration, donning multiple half-tucked dress shirts at a time and always carrying a clutch …
Washington Post:
Jared Kushner now a focus in Russia investigation
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Law Enforcement Turns on the Law and Order President … Every time a new story breaks that moves the Russia story down the field, there's an inevitable eruption from the right and alt-right about the liberal media trying to bring the great man down.  It never fails.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Yashar Ali / New York Magazine:
Montana NBC Affiliate Refused to Cover Gianforte ‘Body Slam’
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
A Journalist Was Body Slammed, but Some Conservatives Want the News Media to Apologize
Michael Calderone / HuffPost:
Montana TV Station Won't Air Recording Of GOP Candidate's Attack On Journalist
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
The conservative mind has become diseased  —  To many observers on the left, the initial embrace of Seth Rich conspiracy theories by conservative media figures was merely a confirmation of the right's deformed soul.  But for those of us who remember that Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity …
Discussion: Raw Story
Peter Müller / Spiegel Online:
‘The Germans Are Bad, Very Bad’  —  At a meeting with European Union leaders on Thursday, U.S. President Donald Trump was sharply critical of Germany.  DER SPIEGEL spoke with meeting participants.  —  U.S. President Donald Trump voiced significant displeasure over Germany's trade surplus …
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Tom McTague / Politico:
Juncker: Trump wasn't aggressive in saying Germany was ‘very bad’
Discussion: ABC News
New York Times:
Did the Turkish President's Security Detail Attack Protesters in Washington?  What the Video Shows … The New York Times reviewed videos and photos to track the actions of 24 men, including armed members of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's security detail, who attacked protesters in Washington last week.
Karen Jowers / Military Times:
John Glenn's remains were disrespected at the military's mortuary, Pentagon documents allege  —  WASHINGTON — A senior mortuary employee at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware twice offered horrified inspectors a peek at American icon John Glenn's dead body while the famed astronaut awaited burial earlier …
Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Trump's Allies, Convicted of High Crimes Without a Trial  —  Maybe Flynn committed treason.  But so far no one has presented any evidence, just innuendo.  That's not justice.  —  Heard any good Mike Flynn jokes lately?  —  How about this one from “Morning Joe,” this week?
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Scott Feinberg / Hollywood Reporter:
Donald Trump Angled for Soviet Posting in 1980s, Says Nobel Prize Winner (Exclusive)  —  In 1986, the future president met with one of the few Americans who knew Mikhail Gorbachev, seeking information about the USSR's new leader and revealing plans to ask Ronald Reagan to post him to Moscow.
Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
DHS chief: If you knew what I knew about terror, you'd ‘never leave the house’  —  Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly on Friday said the terror threat is worse than most realize, saying some people would “never leave the house” if they knew the truth.  —  “I was telling [Fox host] Steve …
Discussion: The Right Scoop
RT:
Children among dozens killed as gunmen ambush convoy of Egyptian Coptic Christians (GRAPHIC VIDEO)  —  Gunmen opened fire on two buses and a truck carrying Coptic Christians in Minya, Egypt on Friday, killing at least 26, including children.  Some 26 people were also injured in the attack.
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Josh Margolin / ABC News:
FBI probing attempted hack of Trump Organization, officials say  —  The FBI is investigating an attempted overseas cyberattack against the Trump Organization, summoning President Donald Trump's sons, Don Jr. and Eric, for an emergency session with the bureau's cybersecurity agents and representatives of the CIA, officials tell ABC News.
Discussion: Business Insider
Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
Trump Is the Antithesis of Christian Values  —  The contrast between a grim-faced pope and the grinning president at the Vatican this past week was not lost on the press or late-night TV.  But they missed the mark, it seems to me.  They noted merely that the two leaders profoundly disagree on …
Max Boot / USA Today:
Trump talks tough to NATO but bows hypocritically to Saudi Arabia  —  His first trip abroad was revealing and not in a good way.  He's picking the wrong best friends for America.  —  At the beginning of his first overseas trip, President Trump spoke in Riyadh on May 21.
Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
How Republicans Botched Their Drug-Test Legislation  —  The GOP tries to give states more power and hampers them instead.  —  On St. Patrick's Day, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan tweeted a photo of himself and Republican Representative Kevin Brady of Texas, both in green ties …
Valerie Jones / Rigzone:
Former House Speaker Boehner: Trump ‘Still Learning How to be President’  —  John Boehner delivers a fierce keynote in which he shares his view on Trump's presidency, whether or not he'd consider running for president and of course, Russia.  —  Regina Mayor, KPMG's global sector head …
 
 
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Rumsfeld: 'I'm glad' Trump pressed NATO on defense spending
Discussion: RedState
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Trump, Ryan, Mulvaney, All of Them: Partners in Plutocracy
Angie Han / Mashable:
Alamo Drafthouse announces a women-only screening of ‘Wonder Woman’ and of course men are upset
Matt Dixon / Politico:
White pulls his name from 2022 House speaker's race
Discussion: Florida Politics
Bill Allison / Bloomberg:
Ted Cruz Failed to Show 2012 Loans From Goldman Sachs, FEC Says
Discussion: Political Wire
The Texas Tribune:
Fearing 2018 losses, Texas Republicans in Congress want special session on redistricting
Discussion: Off the Kuff
Emily Gee / Center for American ProgressCenter …:
CBO-Derived Coverage Losses by State and Congressional District
 Earlier Items: 
Neal Rothschild / Axios:
Democrats making major headway in special election losses
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Manu Raju / CNN:
Hill demands answers on Robert Mueller probe
Discussion: emptywheel and The Hill
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Carrier Sends Jobs to Mexico, Workers Say Trump ‘Misled’ Them
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