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11:40 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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CNN:
Sources: Russians discussed potentially ‘derogatory’ information about Trump and associates during campaign
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:   Investigators Are Right To Be Looking at Michael Cohen
Page Six:
Scott Pelley out of ‘CBS Evening News’ … Scott Pelley is out at “CBS Evening News,” Page Six has exclusively learned.  —  Sources tell us that 'Poison Pelley's' office was being cleared out on Tuesday while the anchor was away on an assignment for the network's news magazine “60 Minutes.”
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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Scott Pelley out at ‘CBS Evening News’
Discussion: The Right Scoop
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, Hot Air, Mediaite and Daily Wire
BuzzFeed:
No One Wants The Big White House Job That Just Opened Up  —  “Hell no,” one Republican said when asked about the communications director job in President Trump's administration.  “That would be career suicide.”  —  By Henry J. Gomez (BuzzFeed News Reporter) Tarini Parti (BuzzFeed News Reporter) …
Discussion: Raw Story and Fox News Insider
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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.
Mike Allen / Axios:
White House communications director resigns — more moves expected
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: Axios and Raw Story
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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Trump's aides are starting to rival their boss when it comes to praising him  —  The Debrief: An occasional series offering a reporter's insights  —  To most observers, President Trump's first overseas trip was either a moderate success that was at times overshadowed by viral GIFs …
Discussion: Political Wire and The BRAD BLOG
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
GOP taps anti-Clinton strategy to damage Elizabeth Warren early  —  BOSTON  —  Republicans are getting a jump on Elizabeth Warren's 2020 presidential campaign.  —  The Massachusetts Democrat is preparing to run for re-election to the Senate in 2018 and hasn't said yet whether she'll …
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 …
Discussion: Mediaite
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
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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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: RedState, The Daily Caller and IJR
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 …
Associated Press:
Men probing Ivanka Trump brands in China arrested, missing  —  A man investigating working conditions at a Chinese company that produces Ivanka Trump-brand shoes has been arrested and two others are missing, the arrested man's wife and an advocacy group said Tuesday.
Discussion: New York Times, Axios and Fast Company
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Brooke Seipel / The Hill:   Men investigating Ivanka Trump brand in China arrested, missing: report
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
The Scandal Hiding In Plain Sight  —  There is a deep irony in the fact that Democrats are hysterically demanding investigations of President Trump and his campaign team, and in fact multiple investigations are now in progress, even though there is zero evidence that anyone associated with the president has done anything wrong.
Discussion: his vorpal sword
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Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:   Did Barack Obama try to hack the election?
Wall Street Journal:
America First Doesn't Mean America Alone  —  We are asking a lot of our allies and partners.  But in return the U.S. will once again be a true friend.
Rebecca Solnit / Literary Hub:
The Loneliness of Donald Trump  —  ON THE CORROSIVE PRIVILEGE OF THE MOST MOCKED MAN IN THE WORLD  —  Once upon a time, a child was born into wealth and wanted for nothing, but he was possessed by bottomless, endless, grating, grasping wanting, and wanted more, and got it, and more after that, and always more.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
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.”
Discussion: RedState
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 …
Orlando Sentinel:
Armed man at Orlando airport in custody and ‘everyone safe,’ police say  —  Law enforcement officials are responding after reporting that an armed man is at Orlando International Airport.  —  Privacy Policy  —  An armed man who went to Orlando International Airport the rental car area inside …
Discussion: WREG-TV
Jesse Singal / New York Magazine:
How the Self-Esteem Craze Took Over America  —  And why the hype was irresistible.  —  In 1991, a children's book called The Lovables in the Kingdom of Self-Esteem was published.  Written by Diane Loomans and illustrated by Kim Howard, The Lovables imparts a simple, nurturing message …
Discussion: Althouse
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” …
Laura Bassett / HuffPost:
Trump Administration Moves To Roll Back Birth Control Coverage  —  Nancy Pelosi called the draft of a new rule “sickening.”  —  WASHINGTON The Trump administration is on the verge of rolling back a federal rule that requires most employers to cover birth control in their health insurance plans at no cost to women.
Kevin Campbell / Washington Examiner:
Blame Obamacare and Congress for the coming drought of doctors … When you go to the Internet or phone book today, there are hundreds of physicians listed in most urban areas.  But in the next two decades, you can expect more difficulty finding a physician in your hometown …
Michael Tomasky / New Republic:
Elitism Is Liberalism's Biggest Problem  —  There are plenty of non-deplorables in middle America.  The Democrats need to learn how to embrace them.  —  So here we are, finally past the hundred-day mark.  What we've learned about the president is self-evident—that the weight of the office …
Discussion: Mother Jones
Associated Press:
Republican US Rep. Lance contrasts with Trump, gets applause  —  Republican U.S. Rep. Leonard Lance told his constituents, at times to applause, that he opposes President Donald Trump's budget proposal, rejects the GOP-led House's health care overhaul and strongly supports NATO.
Discussion: Politico
Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
Trump's window for scoring early legislative victories is shrinking  —  President Trump faces an increasingly narrow path to win major legislative victories before the looming August recess, with only two months left to revive his health-care or tax initiatives before Congress departs for a long break.
Discussion: Political Wire
Fox News:
Gregg Jarrett: Jared Kushner gets mugged by the media mob  —  “This nation was dedicated to freedom under law, not under mobs.”  —  So wrote the late Justice, Tom Clark, who gave me my first tour of the Supreme Court in the 1970s.  Justice Clark cared deeply about the role of the news media in holding our government accountable.
 
 
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Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Trump's climate conundrum nears a verdict
Discussion: New York Times, Axios and Hullabaloo
Don411.com Media:
The Wallis and Writers Bloc Present Senator Al Franken In Conversation with Kathy Griffin on Friday, July 7 at 7:30pm
Discussion: Politico
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP leader tempers ObamaCare expectations
Dion Nissenbaum / Wall Street Journal:
Mike Flynn's Pro-Turkey Work: An Unfinished Documentary to Boost Country's Image
Discussion: Raw Story
Kate Taylor / Business Insider:
Howard Schultz told Starbucks workers that Trump is creating ‘chaos’ that is impacting the economy in leaked video
Discussion: CNBC
Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal:
Mike Flynn to Turn Over Business Records to Senate Intelligence Committee
Logan Chuchwell / Public Interest Legal Foundation:
Report: 5500+ Noncitizens Discovered on Voter Rolls in Virginia
Phil Stewart / Reuters:
U.S. starts providing weapons to Syrian Kurds
Discussion: IJR
 Earlier Items: 
German Lopez / Vox:
A federal appeals court just reached a huge decision for transgender rights. Seriously, it's big.
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and New York Magazine
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Democratic poll: Party has a shot in sleepy South Carolina race
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, and the fight to find the antidote to Trumpism
Kara Fox / CNN:
Gay son of Indian immigrant likely to be Ireland's next leader
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Financial Times:
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