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New York Times:
Kushner's Relationship With Trump Tested as Russia Accusations Swirl — WASHINGTON — The most successful deal of Jared Kushner's short and consequential career in real estate and politics involves one highly leveraged acquisition: a pair of adjoining offices a few penny-loafer paces from his father-in-law's desk in the White House.
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Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Kushner under pressure to take hiatus from White House: report … Administration officials close to President Trump are reportedly pushing White House adviser Jared Kushner to take a leave of absence amid recent reports that he is under FBI scrutiny. — The FBI is reportedly interested …
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The Right Scoop
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Trump's obsession over Russia probe deepens — President Donald Trump has been aggressively working the phones since returning this weekend from his foreign trip, talking to friends and outside lawyers as he obsesses over the deepening investigations into his aides and Russia.
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Political Wire
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Trump: Many leaks are ‘fabricated lies’ made up by ‘fake news’ media
Trump: Many leaks are ‘fabricated lies’ made up by ‘fake news’ media
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Assange: ‘Kushner correct to create channels with everyone’
Assange: ‘Kushner correct to create channels with everyone’
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Washington Examiner, Sputnik International, RedState and TheBlaze
New York Times:
Reported Talks by Jared Kushner With Russia Would Be ‘Good Thing,’ Trump Official Says
Reported Talks by Jared Kushner With Russia Would Be ‘Good Thing,’ Trump Official Says
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Kelly: Any channel of communication with a country like Russia a ‘good thing’
Kelly: Any channel of communication with a country like Russia a ‘good thing’
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Politico and The Last Tradition
Miguel Medina / Agence France-Presse:
Merkel warns US, Britain no longer reliable partners — German Chancellor Angela Merkel says Europe must fight for its own destiny in a western alliance divided by Brexit and the presidency of Donald Trump, with whom she did not see eye to eye at the “six against one” G7 summit
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Matthew Karnitschnig / Politico:
What Angela Merkel meant at the Munich beer hall — Spoiler alert: The German chancellor didn't just throw in the towel on the alliance with America. — BERLIN — Did Angela Merkel just draw a line under the Western postwar order? — In a word, Nein. — A comment by Merkel …
New York Times:
Merkel, After Discordant G-7 Meeting, Is Looking Past Trump — BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Europe's most influential leader, has apparently concluded that the United States of President Trump is not the reliable partner her country and continent have automatically depended on in the past.
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The Daily Beast, War in Context, Media Matters for America and Booman Tribune
Samuel Osborne / The Independent:
Angela Merkel says Germany can no longer rely on Donald Trump's America: 'We Europeans must …
Angela Merkel says Germany can no longer rely on Donald Trump's America: 'We Europeans must …
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Sam Stein / HuffPost:
The Madness And Science Behind The Donald Trump Handshake — The definitive breakdown of the most insane greeting in all of politics. — Had French President Emmanuel Macron been paying close attention, he would have recognized quickly just how fraught his coming exchange with Donald Trump was to be.
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Danny Hakim / New York Times:
The Coat of Arms Said ‘Integrity.’ Now It Says ‘Trump.’ — LONDON — At the Trump National Golf Club outside Washington, which hosted the Senior P.G.A. Championship this weekend, the president's coat of arms is everywhere — the sign out front, the pro shop, even the exercise room.
Therese Apel / The Clarion Ledger:
Exclusive: Suspect confesses to C-L reporter; 8 dead, including deputy — Authorities from multiple agencies took Cory Godbolt into custody on East Lincoln Road in Brookhaven Sunday morning after they say he killed eight people, including a Lincoln County deputy.
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Eliza Relman / Business Insider:
Kellyanne Conway and other women reveal what it's like to work in Trump's White House — When K.T. McFarland first heard the 2005 tape of Donald Trump boasting about grabbing women's genitals, she talked to her two daughters. — “If anybody ever says stuff like that to you, walk away,” she told them.
Peter Jamison / Washington Post:
These 8th-graders from New Jersey refused to be photographed with Paul Ryan — For students across the country, the traditional eighth-grade trip to Washington is a chance to join the throngs on the Mall and perhaps spot some of the world's most powerful people on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol.
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IJR
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Nile Gardiner / CNN:
President Trump passes his first test on the world stage — Trump scolds NATO members for low payments — Nile Gardiner: On this first overseas tour, President Trump certainly made an indelible impression — Nile Gardiner is the director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom …
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The Moderate Voice and War in Context
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Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Trump's first foreign trip was a huge success
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Jim Bunning, RIP — Today's Washington Post features three obituaries — one for Zbigniew Brzezinski (written by long-time Post foreign policy writer Jim Hoagland), one for Gregg Allman, and one for Jim Bunning. The headline in the paper edition for Brzezinski's obit reads: “Combative adviser helped shape Carter's foreign policy.”
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Washington Post
Marwa Eltagouri / Chicago Tribune:
New accuser sues Dennis Hastert, alleging sexual abuse — Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert leaves Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago after sentencing on Wednesday, April 27, 2016. — Less than three months before Dennis Hastert's scheduled release from prison …
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Political Wire
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Pentagon chief: War with North Korea would be ‘catastrophic’ … Defense Secretary James Mattis warned on Sunday that a war with North Korea would be “catastrophic,” and would place United States allies in the region at extreme risk. — “The North Korean regime has hundreds of artillery cannons …
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Jack Kim / Reuters:
North Korea leader Kim guides test of new anti-aircraft weapon
North Korea leader Kim guides test of new anti-aircraft weapon
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The Atlantic, The Daily Caller, The Week and Financial Times
Fedor Zarkhin / Oregonian:
Surviving victim of Friday train stabbing a poet and PSU student — One of the men who came to the defense of a teenager wearing a hijab on a MAX train Friday won a 2013 poetry competition with a poem condemning prejudices faced by Muslims. — Micah David-Cole Fletcher was injured …
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Hillary Clinton for 2020 ‘not a good question,’ says Rahm Emanuel — Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D) on Sunday said he doesn't think asking whether Hillary Clinton — should run for the White House in 2020 is a “good question.” — During an interview on CNN's “State of the Union,” …
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The Daily Caller, Business Insider, The Last Tradition and Heat Street