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Trump Returns to Crisis Over Kushner as White House Tries to Contain It — President Trump headed home on Saturday to confront a growing political and legal threat, as his top aides tried to contain the fallout from reports that his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is a focus of investigations …
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Daily Mail
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Trump considers major changes amid escalating Russia crisis — President Trump and his advisers, seeking to contain the escalating Russia crisis that threatens to consume his presidency, are considering a retooling of his senior staff and the creation of a “war room” within the White House …
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Business Insider, Mediaite, Political Wire and Raw Story

Trump family members met with GOP leaders to discuss strategy — Amid mounting questions at the White House about Russia, three prominent members of President Trump's family — his sons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., and Eric's wife, Lara — have ramped up their engagement …
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ThinkProgress, Balloon Juice, Mediaite, Raw Story, Hullabaloo and Political Wire


Russia scandal casts uncertainty over Kushner's future role — Once the untouchable son-in-law in a White House where top aides jockey for the president's ear, Jared Kushner has now been cast in a new role: reassuring people that he's not going to resign, while colleagues question whether he can survive politically.
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Raw Story and Washington Post

Trump adviser: ‘I would not be concerned’ about a Russia back channel, irrespective of Kushner — TAORMINA, Italy — President Trump's National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster said Saturday he “would not be concerned” about having a back-channel communications system with Russia …


Kushner Met With Russian Banker Who Is Putin Crony, Spy School Grad — The Russian banker Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner met with in December is viewed by U.S. intelligence as a “Putin crony” and a graduate of a “finishing school” for spies who was often tasked with sensitive financial operations by Putin …
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RedState, Politicus USA, Mediaite and Raw Story


Jared's Jam has White House on edge
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Washington Post, Politico, Raw Story, Political Wire, The Hill, ABC News and Balloon Juice

Ex-CIA Director: CIA would consider Kushner actions ‘espionage’
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Two top Trump advisers dodge Kushner questions
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Washington Post, Business Insider, New York Times, Mother Jones, Fusion, Raw Story, ABC News, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Washington Times

‘This is off the map’: Former intelligence officials say the reported Kushner-Russia plan …
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Hot Air, twitchy.com, Mediaite, Talking Points Memo, CANNONFIRE, emptywheel and New York Times

Trump son-in-law had undisclosed contacts with Russian envoy - sources
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The Atlantic, Hullabaloo, The Mahablog, Talking Points Memo, Business Insider, The Guardian, Fox News, Mediaite, The Hill, Washington Post, Axios, emptywheel, Political Wire and RedState

‘Game-changer’: MSNBC panelists explain magnitude of ‘devastating’ Kushner revelations
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Hullabaloo


Suspect in Portland Hate Crime Murders is a Known White Supremacist — Jeremy Christian, now accused of hate crime murders, at the right-wing “March for Free Speech” on April 29 — The man accused of the brutal hate crime slayings of two people at the Hollywood Transit Center on Friday afternoon is a known local white supremacist.
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BuzzFeed, WREG-TV, Raw Story, Mediaite, Refinery29, IJR, The Guardian and Patterico's Pontifications
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2 killed in stabbing on MAX train in Northeast Portland as man directs slurs at Muslim women, police say — Gallery: Deadly MAX stabbing, May 26, 2017 — Update, 3:30 a.m., May 27: Jeremy Joseph Christian, 35, was booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center on suspicion of aggravated murder …


I know because I interviewed him last month. — I shook the alleged killer's filthy hand 28 days ago. Mine feels tainted now, as though I somehow sanctioned his reported act, though I was only trying to get some information out of him. — He had just marched through Montavilla Park chanting …
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The Guardian, Washington Post and American Power


Two Killed in Portland After Trying to Stop Anti-Muslim Rant, Police Say
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KATU-TV, Willamette Week, Fusion and Balloon Juice


Scoop: Trump tells confidants U.S. will quit Paris climate deal — President Trump has privately told multiple people, including EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, that he plans to leave the Paris agreement on climate change, according to three sources with direct knowledge.
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Breitbart, Politico, CNN, CBS Miami, The Guardian, Hot Air, Mediaite, NPR, IJR, Politicus USA, Florida Politics and twitchy.com
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As Trump's Problems Mount, Breitbart's Numbers Are Cratering — A media business based on attack has been much less successful when forced to defend. — With its former chairman Steve Bannon as White House chief strategist and plans for an ambitious international expansion …
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Hullabaloo and Raw Story, more at Mediagazer »


Out of step: G7 leaders take a stroll, Trump takes a golf cart — The distance between Donald Trump and his G7 partners was spelled out dramatically today when Theresa May and the leaders of Italy, France, Germany, Japan and Canada strolled the streets of Taormina, Sicily — while he followed in a golf cart.
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Politicus USA and Business Insider


Donald Trump Shuns Press Conference, Celebrates Successful Foreign Trip with American Troops — President Donald Trump ignored the custom of holding a press conference to conclude his trip abroad, choosing, instead, to celebrate his successful trip with a speech to the troops.
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Weasel Zippers


When Al Franken body-slammed a demonstrator — When I wrote about Fightin' Greg Gianforte's assault (as it seems to me) on a reporter, I believed that Al Franken had a history of physical aggression against folks who annoyed him. However, the only incident I recalled (and only vaguely) …
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CBS News


With all that farmland, why are Venezuelans starving? — With all of the unrest, riots and murders in Venezuela these days, it's easy to overlook one very basic question about the abysmal conditions its citizens are enduring. Venezuela has some of the richest farmland in the western hemisphere …
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Instapundit


A Muslim-American Activist's Speech Raises Ire Even Before It's Delivered — Linda Sarsour, one of the most prominent Muslim-American activists in New York, says the messages have been arriving by the hour recently. — “Your time is coming.” — “A good Arab is a dead Arab.”
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Geller Report


How Team Obama tried to hack the election — MORE FROM: … New revelations have surfaced that the Obama administration abused intelligence during the election by launching a massive domestic-spy campaign that included snooping on Trump officials. — The irony is mind-boggling …
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Weasel Zippers, The Last Tradition, neo-neocon and Instapundit