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8:30 PM ET, May 30, 2017

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Brian Ross / ABC News:
Russia investigation expands to include Donald Trump's personal attorney  —  One of President Donald Trump's closest confidants, his personal lawyer Michael Cohen, has now become a focus of the expanding Congressional investigation into Russian efforts to influence the 2016 campaign.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:   Investigators Are Right To Be Looking at Michael Cohen
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Trump personal attorney declines congressional Russia probe request
Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Trump Lawyer Cohen Says He Won't Comply With House, Senate Requests
Discussion: CNBC
TMZ.com:
Kathy Griffin Beheads Donald Trump in Shocking Photo Shoot (PHOTO + VIDEO)  —  Kathy Griffin wants Donald Trump's head ... but she wants it bloody and detached from his body.  —  The comedian posed for the gory shot during a photo session with famed photog Tyler Shields, who's known for edgy, shocking pics.
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Chelsea Clinton: Kathy Griffin's Trump-beheading photo ‘vile and wrong’
Discussion: RedState, Daily Wire and Deadline
Hank Berrien / Daily Wire:
DISGUSTING: Kathy Griffin Holds Up Trump's Bloody, Chopped-Off Head
CNN:
Sources: Russians discussed potentially ‘derogatory’ information about Trump and associates during campaign  —  Sources: Russians talked potentially ‘derogatory’ info  —  (CNN)Russian government officials discussed having potentially “derogatory” information about then-presidential candidate Donald …
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Trump retweets report based on anonymous source after blasting anonymous sources
Mike Allen / Axios:
White House communications director resigns — more moves expected  —  Mike Dubke, President Trump's communications director, is leaving the White House — the start of a wave of changes as the West Wing struggles to cope with burgeoning scandals and a stalled agenda.
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The Daily Beast:
Trump Aides ‘Dreading’ a Return of ‘Trainwreck’ Corey Lewandowski … As the White House struggles to maintain message discipline with a compulsive tweeter in the Oval Office, whispers of Corey Lewandowski's reemergence have senior Trump administration officials gnashing their teeth.
Callum Borchers / Washington Post:
This White House statement on Trump's ‘positive energy’ reads like a parody
Discussion: Raw Story and Slate
Dennis Prager / National Review:
Why Conservatives Still Attack Trump  —  Trump is too far from their ideal leader for some conservatives to support him.  —  When people you know well and admire, and who share your values, do something you strongly oppose, you have two options:  —  (1) Cease admiring them or (2) try to understand them and change their minds.
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Jonah Goldberg / National Review:   Why Dennis Prager's Analysis of ‘Never Trump’ Conservatives Falls Short
Jim Michaels / USA Today:
U.S. successfully intercepts a long-range missile for the first time  —  The U.S. military on Tuesday successfully intercepted an intercontinental-range missile for the first time, a key test of its missile-defense system amid heightening tensions with North Korea.
Discussion: Fox News and The Daily Caller
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Tegna / KGW-TV:
Stabbing victim Micah Fletcher: 'I'm just trying to heal and recover' … PORTLAND, Ore. — During an emotional interview Tuesday morning with KGW, Micah Fletcher, one of three men stabbed during last week's racist attack on a MAX train, said he's having a hard time processing what happened to him.
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Spicer's ‘middle finger’ to the press  —  The hardest job in Washington is getting only harder.  —  White House press secretary Sean Spicer is once again expected to take on the additional role of communications director with the resignation of Michael Dubke, meaning he'll juggle the two jobs …
Discussion: Washington Post, Axios and Raw Story
New York Post:
Pissed off artist adds statue of urinating dog next to ‘Fearless Girl’  —  Artist Alex Gardega put his own Pissing Pug next to Wall Street's Fearless Girl.  —  Gabriella Bass  —  Gee whiz, artists are so sensitive!  —  City sculptor Alex Gardega — seething over the Fearless Girl statue …
CNN:
Trump, home all alone  — Instead of celebrating a victory lap after his trip, Trump returns to a raging controversy over Russia, writes Gloria Borger  —  (CNN)It's not that President Trump was excited about his first foreign trip.  He complained to friends beforehand it was going to be too long …
Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
Schmucks Like Us  —  Before you laugh at Tiger Woods . . .  Before you get too distracted mocking Tiger Woods and his problems, ask yourself: Would you pass the Iverson test?  —  I don't think I would.  —  I was for some years professionally obliged to follow the career and life of Allen Iverson …
New York Post:
Huma Abedin has invited Anthony Weiner back home  —  Just when you thought Huma Abedin finally had enough, the Hillary Clinton aide has invited her admitted sex offender hubby back home again, The Post has learned.  —  SEE ALSO  —  Anthony Weiner's long-suffering wife filed for divorce earlier this month …
The Guardian:
Guardian's Ben Jacobs gets new glasses after assault by Montana congressman … Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs replaced his glasses on Tuesday, after they were broken when he was assaulted by Republican congressional candidate Greg Gianforte.  —  Gianforte was charged with misdemeanor assault …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and IJR
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Fox News: New York Times boycotted Obama surveillance story.  Fox News: Oops, maybe not.  —  Conservatives last week devoured a story by John Solomon and Sara Carter at Circa with this title, “Obama intel agency secretly conducted illegal searches on Americans for years.”
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Did Barack Obama try to hack the election?  —  The Obama administration's illegal spying may have been worse than Watergate.  —  In 1972, some employees of President Nixon's re-election committee were caught when they broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters to plant a bug.
Discussion: his vorpal sword
Dion Nissenbaum / Wall Street Journal:
Mike Flynn's Pro-Turkey Work: An Unfinished Documentary to Boost Country's Image  —  Unseen film footage appears to represent the core of the Flynn Intel Group's $530,000 work on behalf of Turkey  —  WASHINGTON—Last fall, as retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn traveled the country stumping for Donald Trump …
Discussion: Raw Story
German Lopez / Vox:
A federal appeals court just reached a huge decision for transgender rights.  Seriously, it's big.  —  The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals just sided with a transgender student in a landmark decision.  —  A single student's case has turned into a massive legal decision for all transgender Americans.
Discussion: New York Magazine and Joe.My.God.
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Uber Fires Former Google Engineer at Heart of Self-Driving Dispute  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Uber has fired Anthony Levandowski, a vice president of technology and the star engineer leading the company's self-driving automobile efforts, according to an internal email sent to employees on Tuesday.
Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal:
Mike Flynn to Turn Over Business Records to Senate Intelligence Committee  —  Former national security adviser Mike Flynn will turn over documents from his businesses to the Senate Intelligence Committee, according to a person familiar with the matter, easing the possibility of a protracted legal standoff …
Business Insider:
Democrats are pushing an unlikely source — Jerry Springer — to run for governor in Ohio  —  Influential Ohio Democrats are pushing former Cincinnati mayor and daytime-TV host Jerry Springer to run for Ohio governor in 2018, more than half a dozen Democrats familiar with the race told Business Insider.
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
USAA to reinstate ads on ‘Hannity’  —  The United Services Automobile Association (USAA), a financial services company, announced Tuesday it will resume advertising on Sean Hannity's Fox News show, The Associated Press reported.  —  USAA was one of almost a dozen companies that initially pulled …
CNN:
Tiger Woods found asleep at wheel, arrest report says  —  (CNN)Tiger Woods was found asleep at the wheel the morning of his arrest on suspicion of driving under the influence, police records show.  —  Jupiter, Florida, police discovered Woods early Monday on the side of the road …
Noah Kulwin / VICE News:
Watch: Young Stephen Miller jokes “torture is a celebration of life”  —  It's the unofficial position of VICE News that anyone under 18 is allowed to be an a**hole.  Saying outrageous things to test the limits of authority and social acceptance is as crucial to growing up as bad haircuts and regrettable T-shirt slogans.
Discussion: Mediaite
 
 
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Associated Press:
Men probing Ivanka Trump brands in China arrested, missing
Discussion: Axios
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP leader tempers ObamaCare expectations
Kate Taylor / Business Insider:
Howard Schultz told Starbucks workers that Trump is creating ‘chaos’ that is impacting the economy in leaked video
Discussion: CNBC and Axios
Logan Chuchwell / Public Interest Legal Foundation:
Report: 5500+ Noncitizens Discovered on Voter Rolls in Virginia
Alex Emmons / The Intercept:
Gun Rights Group Takes a Shot at Elizabeth Warren — Over Effort to Make Hearing Aids Cheaper
Discussion: BostonGlobe.com and IJR
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Democratic poll: Party has a shot in sleepy South Carolina race
Kristen Gelineau / BostonGlobe.com:
Trump's actions have unsettled Americans, McCain says
Discussion: Sky News and The Daily Caller
Natalie Neysa Alund / Tennessean.com:
Predators fan who threw catfish on ice charged in Pittsburgh
Discussion: USA Today
 Earlier Items: 
USA Today:
Trump to interview John Pistole for FBI director job
Kara Fox / CNN:
Gay son of Indian immigrant likely to be Ireland's next leader
Richard Johnson / Page Six:
Melania Trump's ‘revenge’ on designers who won't dress her
Isaac Chotiner / Slate:
Putin's Defender  —  An American Russia scholar on why he …
Discussion: Raw Story
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
Speaker of the House of Trump
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January

 
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