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John Solomon / The Hill:
Comey's private memos on Trump conversations contained classified material — More than half of the memos former FBI chief James Comey wrote as personal recollections of his conversations with President Trump about the Russia investigation have been determined to contain classified information …
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New York Times:
Trump's Son Met With Russian Lawyer After Being Promised Damaging Information on Clinton — President Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., was promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton before agreeing to meet with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign …
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Joshua Green / New York Magazine:
Steve Bannon Is Out of Trump's Doghouse and Leading the Charge Against Mueller — Why does Trump double-down every time it seems like he should retreat? Because Steve Bannon is back in his boss's good graces. — On May 22, just as a strange photo of President Trump, Saudi king Salman …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump accuses James Comey of breaking the law — based on a misleading Fox News report — President Trump's first day back in the office after his brief trip to Europe began, as so many do, with a flurry of tweets. It seems that Trump, as he so often does, tuned into “Fox and Friends” …
David Remnick / New Yorker:
The Truth Behind Donald Trump, Jr.,'s Meeting with a Russian Lawyer — Don't get ahead of the reporting. That's one of the first lessons you're supposed to learn as a novitiate in the church of journalism. Don't assert what is not yet established by the facts. The consequences can be dire.
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Donald Trump Jr. just contradicted a whole bunch of White House denials of Russian contacts — (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) — Donald Trump Jr. acknowledged Sunday that he met with a Russian lawyer who had promised damaging information on Hillary Clinton in June 2016.
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Nicole Lafond / Talking Points Memo:
Schiff: House Intelligence Committee ‘Will Want to Question’ Trump Jr. — The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee said he will want to question Donald Trump Jr. after news came out that the President's son met with a Kremlin-linked lawyer last June.
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Michael Walsh / New York Post:
The Times ‘exposé’ on Donald Trump Jr. is a big yawn
The Times ‘exposé’ on Donald Trump Jr. is a big yawn
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Josiah Ryan / CNN:
CNN's Cuomo, Conway clash over Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with Russian lawyer
CNN's Cuomo, Conway clash over Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with Russian lawyer
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Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Fire peers out from Trump-Russia smoke
The Note: Fire peers out from Trump-Russia smoke
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Putin Meets His Progeny
Putin Meets His Progeny
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Brandon Carter / The Hill:
Ex-Bush ethics lawyer on Trump Jr: ‘This borders on treason’
Ex-Bush ethics lawyer on Trump Jr: ‘This borders on treason’
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Michael Edison Hayden / ABC News:
Conway: No meaningful information received in Trump Jr.'s meeting with Russian lawyer
Conway: No meaningful information received in Trump Jr.'s meeting with Russian lawyer
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Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Donald Trump Jr. met with Russian lawyer during presidential campaign after being promised …
Donald Trump Jr. met with Russian lawyer during presidential campaign after being promised …
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David Wallace-Wells / New York Magazine:
When Will the Planet Be Too Hot For Humans? Much, Much Sooner Than You Imagine. — Famine, economic collapse, a sun that cooks us: What climate change could wreak — sooner than you think. … It is, I promise, worse than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated …
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Pew Research Center:
Sharp Partisan Divisions in Views of National Institutions — Republicans increasingly say colleges have negative impact on U.S. — Republicans and Democrats offer starkly different assessments of the impact of several of the nation's leading institutions - including the news media …
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The Intercept:
Jared Kushner Tried and Failed to Get a Half-Billion Dollar Bailout From Qatar — Not long before a major crisis ripped through the Middle East, pitting the United States and a bloc of Gulf countries against Qatar, Jared Kushner's real estate company had unsuccessfully sought …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
President Trump's enemies list — Donald Trump is less than six months into his presidency, yet one of the organizing principles of his political operation is already becoming clear: Payback. — In private, Trump has spoken of spending $10 million out of his own pocket to defeat …
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Brian Beutler / New Republic:
How Trumpcare Dies — Republicans' health care legislation is on the fritz. Here's what it'll take to grind it to a halt indefinitely. — One of the central challenges opponents of Trumpcare face is that they must constantly probe the bill for signs of life.
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Andy Slavitt / USA Today:
Republicans' best play amid health bill chaos is failure
Republicans' best play amid health bill chaos is failure
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Owen Bennett / HuffPost UK:
Tory MP Anne Marie Morris Recorded Saying Brexit No Deal Is A ‘N***** In A Woodpile’ — No reaction from other Tory MPs on the panel. — Deputy Political Editor, HuffPost UK — A Tory Brexiteer has described the UK leaving the EU without a deal as a “real n*****r in the woodpile” at a meeting of eurosceptics in Central London.
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Shawn Boburg / Washington Post:
Federal prosecutors step up probe of land deal pushed by wife of Bernie Sanders — A federal investigation into a land deal led by Jane Sanders, the wife and political adviser of Sen. Bernie Sanders, has accelerated in recent months — with prosecutors hauling off more than a dozen boxes …
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Jason Del Rey / Recode:
Amazon is quietly rolling out its own Geek Squad to set up gadgets in your home — The new service is aimed at educating customers about “the smart home” — and, naturally, about Alexa. — For 15 years, Best Buy's Geek Squad installation and repair service has served as one key advantage …
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Susan B. Glasser / Politico:
Does Trump Have a Point About Obama and Russia? — Did President Barack Obama “choke,” as his successor has now taken to claiming, by failing to respond more aggressively to the Russian hacking of the 2016 elections? — For President Donald Trump to say so carries more than a whiff …
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Kurtis Lee / Los Angeles Times:
Former Ohio official who accidentally released Social Security numbers is on Trump's voter fraud panel — Ken Blackwell's appointment to President Trump's voter fraud commission has drawn increased scrutiny to his tenure as Ohio secretary of state, during which millions of voters' Social Security numbers were accidentally released.
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Lena Dunham selling the dress she wore the night Trump won — Lena Dunham is selling the dress she says she cried in on election night last year, when President Trump defeated Hillary Clinton — The Kenzo ruffle-accented printed dress is one of more than a hundred items up for grabs from the former …
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Michael Wines / New York Times:
A Secretaries of State Meeting Used to Be Friendly. Then the White House Asked for Voter Data. — INDIANAPOLIS — In the partisan battlefield of elective office, the National Association of Secretaries of State has always been a DMZ of sorts, an alliance of obscure officials …