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9:25 AM ET, May 30, 2017

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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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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Dubke resigns as White House communications director  —  Mike Dubke has resigned as White House communications director in the first of what could be a series of changes to President Trump's senior staff amid the growing Russia scandal.  —  Dubke, who served in the post for three months, tendered his resignation May 18.
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Six things to watch as Trump faces his new reality  —  President Donald Trump hoped to score a reset with his first foreign trip but is instead returning to a barrage of controversy at home.  —  The Russia probe, already put under the supervision of special counsel Robert Mueller before Trump left …
Discussion: War in Context, Mediaite and ABC
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Snubs and slights are part of the job in Trump's White House
Discussion: Slate and Raw Story
CNN:
WH communications director stepping down
Discussion: NY1 News
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: The White House staff shakeup begins
Discussion: Political Wire and Politico
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump's communications director is out as larger shakeup looms
Fox News:
Jared Kushner didn't suggest Russian communications channel in meeting, source says  —  A December meeting between Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law and one of the senior advisers in the Trump administration, and Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak at Trump Tower focused on Syria …
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
How President Trump consumes — or does not consume — top-secret intelligence  —  President Trump consumes classified intelligence like he does most everything else in life: ravenously and impatiently, eager to ingest glinting nuggets but often indifferent to subtleties.
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 …
Gus Bova / The Texas Observer:
Texas Republican Called ICE on SB 4 Protesters, Threatened to Shoot Colleague  —  A Texas Republican threatened to “put a bullet in one of his colleague's heads” during a scuffle on the House floor over the state's new anti-'sanctuary cities' law on Monday, the final day of the regular legislative session.
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The Texas Tribune:
Republican lawmaker: I called immigration authorities on Capitol protesters
Maxine Bernstein / Oregonian:
Portland MAX hero's last words: ‘Tell everyone on this train I love them’  —  Gallery: Vigil for Portland MAX attack victims  —  Even with headphones on, Rachel Macy said, she heard a man shouting and spewing foul language as soon as he boarded the eastbound MAX Green Line train Friday night at Lloyd Center.
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Madison Park / CNN:
Teen on Portland train: ‘They lost their lives because of me and my friend’
Sarah D / Los Angeles Times:
Rep. Devin Nunes says Democrats are using Russia investigation to justify Clinton's loss  —  House Select Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes speaks at the Tulare County Lincoln Dinner.  —  Embattled House Select Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes told hundreds of local Republicans …
Discussion: New York Times and Political Wire
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Pence to make campaign push amid GOP concerns over Trump  —  Vice President Mike Pence is embarking on a cross-country summer campaign tour amid rising fears that the GOP, reeling from a barrage of Trump-fueled controversies, is headed for a midterm election disaster.
Discussion: Political Wire, Raw Story and The Week
Wall Street Journal:
The Fourth Circuit Joins the ‘Resistance’  —  Taking a stand against Trump, the judges are also defying Supreme Court precedent.
Discussion: Instapundit
William D. Cohan / Vanity Fair:
How Stephen Miller Rode White Rage from Duke's Campus to Trump's West Wing  —  At the young age of 31, Stephen Miller has his own office in the West Wing and the President's ear.  He also has held a shocking worldview since he was a teenager.  From his writings on the 2006 Duke lacrosse-team rape scandal …
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
While other controversies rage, work on border wall moves forward  —  New revelations come almost by the minute in the Trump-Russia affair.  The White House moves into full-defense mode.  The Trump agenda stalls on Capitol Hill.  —  A reasonable observer might conclude that is all that is happening in the Trump administration.
Ryan Cooper / The Week:
Let's take stock of all the horrible stuff Trump and the GOP have done this month  —  Are you tired of all the winning yet?  —  No?  You're not?  Oh.  Maybe it's because the last month of Republican rule has brought a parade of scandal, incompetence, cruelty, and violence coming so fast …
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
Speaker of the House of Trump  —  A few weeks after the 2016 election, Newt Gingrich appeared at the Heritage Foundation to deliver what had been billed as a speech on the “Principles of Trumpism.”  Tellingly, he spent most of his time instead talking about the brilliance of Trump the Man …
Wall Street Journal:
Trump, Huddling With Aides, Looks to Get Past ‘Side Issues’  —  President Trump met privately with top advisers as he considered changes aimed at resetting the direction of an administration beset by expanding probes into his associates' ties to Russia.
Discussion: Raw Story
Jason Wilson / The Guardian:
Portland Republican says party should use militia groups after racial attack  —  County GOP chair James Buchal says security forces may be appropriate as tensions rise after two people died in a racial attack on public transport  —  As tensions continue in Portland following the racially charged murder …
Discussion: The Hill, Raw Story and Althouse
 
 
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Discussion: RT and CBS New York
Reuters:
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 Earlier Items: 
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Trump administration plans to minimize civil rights efforts in agencies
Tom Ciccotta / Breitbart:
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Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
‘Narrowcast’ Trump? Republicans Seek Formula to Keep House Majority
Discussion: Raw Story
Associated Press:
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