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6:00 PM ET, May 31, 2017

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CNN:
Comey to testify publicly about Trump confrontations  —  (CNN)Fired FBI director James Comey plans to testify publicly in the Senate as early as next week to confirm bombshell accusations that President Donald Trump pressured him to end his investigation into a top Trump aide's ties to Russia, a source close to the issue said Wednesday.
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Tom Schoenberg / Bloomberg:
DOJ's Weissmann Joining Mueller's Russia Investigation Team, Sources Say  —  Andrew Weissmann oversaw VW, bank cases during Obama era  —  Loss of fraud chief leaves another senior post vacant at DOJ  —  Andrew Weissmann, head of the Justice Department's fraud section …
Discussion: Politico and Raw Story
Del Quentin Wilber / Wall Street Journal:   Comey to Testify That Trump Asked Him to Back Off Flynn Investigation
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Trump is pulling U.S. out of Paris climate deal  —  President Trump has made his decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the decision.  Details on how the withdrawal will be executed are being worked out by a small team including EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt.
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Ali Breland / The Hill:
Tesla CEO threatens to quit Trump biz council if US leaves Paris deal
Discussion: Vox, East Bay Times and Raw Story
New York Times:
Trump Expected to Pull U.S. From Paris Climate Accord
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump expected to withdraw from Paris climate deal
Todd Stern / The Atlantic:
Leaving the Paris Agreement Would Be Indefensible
Discussion: Mashable
Jennifer A Dlouhy / Bloomberg:
Musk Joins CEOs Calling for U.S. to Stay in Paris Climate Deal
Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal:
House Intelligence Panel Issues Seven Subpoenas in Russia Probe  —  Four are related to Russia investigation, three to ‘unmasking’ controversy, individuals say  —  The House Intelligence Committee issued seven subpoenas on Wednesday, in a sign that its investigation into alleged Russian meddling …
Kathy Griffin / TMZ.com:
Kathy Griffin's Gory Photo of Decapitated Trump Focus of Secret Service Investigation  —  Kathy Griffin may have been joking when she posed with what looked like the bloody head of Donald Trump, but the Secret Service isn't laughing.  —  Law enforcement sources tell us the Secret Service …
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Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Trump's ‘covfefe’ heard around the world
Barron Trump / TMZ.com:
THOUGHT BEHEADED IMAGE WAS HIS DAD  —  Barron Trump was watching television Tuesday at home with Melania when Kathy Griffin's photo appeared on the screen, and his initial reaction was that something terrible happened to his father.  —  Trump family sources tell us Barron was in front …
Michael Calderone / HuffPost:
The New York Times Is Eliminating The Public Editor Role  —  The accountability position was created in the wake of a 2003 plagiarism scandal.  —  The New York Times is eliminating the position of public editor, an accountability role the paper created in 2003 in the wake …
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The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation:
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll- May 2017: The AHCA's Proposed Changes to Health Care  —  Ashley Kirzinger, Bianca DiJulio, Liz Hamel, Elise Sugarman, and Mollyann Brodie  —  KEY FINDINGS:  — With Congress currently discussing the American Health Care Act (AHCA), a plan that would repeal …
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Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Cassidy takes heat on Obamacare repeal effort at fiery town hall
Discussion: Vox and Politicus USA
Wall Street Journal:
The White House Mess  —  A shakeup needs to start with some self-reflection at the top.
Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story
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John Bowden / The Hill:
White House will stop taking questions about Trump, Russia investigation
Discussion: Shareblue and Joe.My.God.
Meghann Farnsworth / Recode:
Live now: Watch Hillary Clinton from our Code Conference  —  Clinton will be interviewed by Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg.  —  Hillary Rodham Clinton has spent four decades in public service as an advocate, attorney, First Lady, U.S. Senator and U.S. Secretary of State.
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Madeline Conway / Politico:
Clinton: I was the ‘victim’ of an assumption that I would win
Discussion: White House Dossier
YouTube:
Full interview: Hillary Clinton, former U.S. Secretary of State | Code 2017
Discussion: Vox and Political Wire
Politico:
FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: Boehner: Trump is not a ‘disaster’  —  FIRST IN PLAYBOOK — FORMER SPEAKER JOHN BOEHNER: TRUMP IS NOT A ‘DISASTER’ — John Boehner got a lot of attention last week when he said the president has been a “complete disaster.”  The president himself wasn't too happy with Boehner …
NBC4 Washington:
‘Potential Disaster’ Averted: Man With Guns, Ammunition in Car Arrested at Trump Hotel  —  D.C. Police and the U.S. Secret Service acted on a tip about the man  —  A man accused of having guns and 90 rounds of ammunition in his car was arrested inside Trump International Hotel early Wednesday …
Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
Trump's “Good Job” Call to Roger Stone  —  On May 11th Roger Stone, Donald Trump's on-again, off-again political adviser for several decades, had just wrapped up a pair of morning television appearances when, according to two sources with direct knowledge, he received a call from the President.
Bloomberg:
Touting Ties to Trump Is the Only Thing That Unites the Feuding Kushners  —  David Kocieniewski, Wenxin Fan and David M. Levitt  —  Heads of the Kushner families' two sides dubbed Cain and Abel  —  Told to stop, Murray Kushner's company blamed others  —  Charles and Murray Kushner …
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Shawn Boburg / Washington Post:   How Jared Kushner built a luxury skyscraper using loans meant for job-starved areas
Brian Klaas / USA Today:
Donald Trump's business ties explain a lot of his dictator worship  —  As Donald Trump praises Rodrigo Duterte's death squads in the Philippines, Trump Tower Manila is going up.  —  President Trump makes more money when he embraces regimes that violate human rights.
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Poll: Support for Trump impeachment rises  —  An increasing percentage of voters want Congress to impeach President Donald Trump — even if they don't think Trump has committed the “high crimes and misdemeanors” the Constitution requires.  —  Forty-three percent of voters want Congress …
Monmouth University:
Monmouth University Polling Institute  —  Trump is His Own Worst Spokesperson; Spicer, Conway Not Much Better  —  VP Pence does best job representing his boss  —  West Long Branch, NJ - President Trump may not be well-served by his primary spokespeople, but he is probably his own worst mouthpiece …
David Ovalle / miamiherald:
He didn't give police his iPhone pass code, so he got 180 days in jail  —  A Hollywood man must serve 180 days in jail for refusing to give up his iPhone password to police, a Broward judge ruled Tuesday — the latest salvo in intensifying legal battles over law-enforcement access to smart phones.
Discussion: Hit & Run and The Daily Caller
Dell Cameron / Gizmodo:
Top Defense Contractor Left Sensitive Pentagon Files on Amazon Server With No Password  —  Sensitive files tied to a US military project were leaked by a multi-billion dollar firm once described as the world's most profitable spy operation, Gizmodo has confirmed.
Discussion: Axios, more at Techmeme »
Katie Mettler / Washington Post:
A New Jersey town denied Muslims a mosque.  Now it must pay them $3.25 million.  —  The worshipers waited four years and 39 public hearings for the official denial: Muslims in their small New Jersey town would not be allowed to build a mosque.  —  The 2015 decision made by the planning board …
Discussion: TheBlaze
 
 
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Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Franken: Dem colleague rejected Cruz during Secret Santa drawing
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Greg Moran / sandiegouniontribune.com:
Feds indict members of Tijuana's Hooligans bikers club in high-tech Jeep thefts
Discussion: The Verge and Gizmodo
Jeanne Whalen / Wall Street Journal:
Ohio Sues Five Drug Firms, Saying They Fueled Opioid Crisis
Discussion: New York Magazine
Kate Shaw / New York Times:
Should the President's Words Matter in Court?
Discussion: National Review
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Clinton: Media covered email server scandal ‘like it was Pearl Harbor’
Discussion: Political Wire
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Activists Give Philly Police Underwear to Protest ‘Stop-and-Fondle’
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Cathleen Decker / Los Angeles Times:
Analysis In President Trump's wake, divisions mark both Democratic and Republican parties
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
GOP launches attack on MSNBC's Morning Joe
Discussion: The Week, Raw Story and Mediaite
CNN:
Portland train suspect: ‘I hope everyone I stabbed died’
Discussion: IJR
Priya Anand / BuzzFeed:
Leaked Internal Documents Show UberPool Was A Cash-Burning Machine
Mike Allen / Axios:
Roger Ailes' last wish: Out-foxing Fox
Discussion: AOL
Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
What's a ‘Covfefe’? Trump Tweet Unites a Bewildered Nation
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
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Financial Times:
Sources: Meta plans to add displays to its Ray-Ban glasses as soon as H2 2025 to show notifications or AI responses, and has accelerated Orion's development

 
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