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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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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, Raw Story 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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Daily Mail, Mediaite 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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Balloon Juice, Mediaite, ThinkProgress, Raw Story, Hullabaloo and Political Wire


A high-stakes gamble: How Jared Kushner reacted to previous crises — NEW YORK — Jared Kushner had barely survived a fight to save his family's real estate empire. — Taking charge of the business after his father went to prison, Kushner, 25 at the time, paid $1.8 billion in 2007 for the nation's most expensive office building.

Trump adviser: ‘I would not be concerned’ about a Russia back channel, irrespective of Kushner
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Kushner Met With Russian Banker Who Is Putin Crony, Spy School Grad
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Politicus USA, RedState, Mediaite and Raw Story

Ex-CIA Director: CIA would consider Kushner actions ‘espionage’
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Two top Trump advisers dodge Kushner questions
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Jared's Jam has White House on edge
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Politico, Raw Story, Political Wire and The Guardian

‘This is off the map’: Former intelligence officials say the reported Kushner-Russia plan …
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Hot Air, Washington Times, twitchy.com, Mediaite, Japan Times, The Hill, Talking Points Memo, Axios, Political Wire and CANNONFIRE


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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GotNews, BuzzFeed, Mediaite, IJR, Raw Story, Refinery29, 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 Gateway Pundit, twitchy.com, The Guardian, Washington Post, American Power and IJR

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


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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Trumping your life: How to be a better, stronger person by being more like the president — Weeks ago, I wrote the first installment of TRUMPING YOUR LIFE, delivering three ways you can change your life by following the example of President Trump. — This is the second of five installments I plan to share.


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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The Right Scoop, 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


‘He played me for a fool’: Kentucky Trump supporter laments he should have voted for Hillary — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — In a heartbreaking interview, one Kentucky voter for President Donald Trump revealed that he believed it when Trump told voters he would fight for them.


Criminal charges against March 4 Trump counter-protesters in Minnesota — ST. PAUL, Minn. (KMSP) - Prosecutors are filing criminal charges against eight counter-protesters who disrupted the “March 4 Trump” rally at the Minnesota State Capitol on March 4. Among those charged is Linwood Kaine …
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The Daily Caller, Hot Air and Twin Cities


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


Former Navy SEAL to Katy Perry: ‘Hold One of Your Concerts in Syria and See How That Goes’ — Former Navy SEAL Carl Higbie urged pop singer Katy Perry to try holding a concert in Syria if she wants to “hug it out” with Islamic terrorists. — Higbie, appearing as a guest on Fox News Thursday, said, “Go to hell, Katy Perry.
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Biden Implies Trump Legitimized ‘Hate Speech,’ Rails Against ‘Forces of Populism’ — On Saturday, former Vice President Joe Biden railed against the “disorienting” and “disheartening” “forces of populism” at home and abroad and implied that Donald Trump legitimized “hate speech” during the 2016 presidential election.