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5:10 PM ET, May 13, 2018

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Carl Bildt / Washington Post:
Trump's decision to blow up the Iran deal is a massive attack on Europe  —  Few ideas are as holy in President Trump's international liturgy as the concept of national sovereignty.  His National Security Strategy speaks of a “beautiful vision—a world of strong, sovereign, and independent nations …
Discussion: Axios
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Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Trump team sends mixed signals to Europe  —  National security adviser John Bolton on Sunday carefully doubled down on President Donald Trump's threat that European countries could be sanctioned by the United States if they continue to be involved with Iran.
New York Times:
Trump Vows to Save Jobs at China's ZTE Lost After U.S. Sanctions  —  SHANGHAI — President Trump wrote on Twitter on Sunday that he was working with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, to prevent the collapse of the Chinese electronics giant ZTE, which shut down major operations …
Washington Post:
Trump pledges to help Chinese phonemaker ZTE ‘get back into business’
Discussion: CNNMoney, CNET and Talking Points Memo
Jon Swaine / The Guardian:
US threatens European companies with sanctions after Iran deal pullout
Discussion: Axios
ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript 5-13-18: President Trump's national security adviser John Bolton
Discussion: Mother Jones and Breitbart
Gerard Alexander / New York Times:
Liberals, You're Not as Smart as You Think  —  I know many liberals, and two of them really are my best friends.  Liberals make good movies and television shows.  Their idealism has been an inspiration for me and many others.  Many liberals are very smart.  But they are not as smart, or as persuasive, as they think.
New York Times:
Trying for House Gains, Democrats Bless Moderates and Annoy Liberals  —  CONWAY, Ark. — To many Democratic leaders, the path to power in Washington looks like Clarke Tucker.  —  He supports the Affordable Care Act, but not a single-payer system.  He signals misgivings about Nancy Pelosi as the next House speaker.
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Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Dems worry Trump will win over economy
Discussion: Breitbart
New York Times:
Education Department Unwinds Unit Investigating Fraud at For-Profits  —  WASHINGTON — Members of a special team at the Education Department that had been investigating widespread abuses by for-profit colleges have been marginalized, reassigned or instructed to focus on other matters, according to current and former employees.
Discussion: Daily Kos and Common Dreams
Emily Stewart / Vox:
The White House's John McCain death joke controversy, explained  —  “He's dying anyway,” White House communications aide Kelly Sadler joked in a meeting.  The comment leaked, and the Trump administration still hasn't apologized.  —  A White House aide's joke that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) …
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:   No apology forthcoming for 'he's dying anyway' quip about McCain
WAFF-TV:
‘I knew it was wrong’: WI officer caught on video punching teen  —  WAUWATOSA, WI (WITI) - A violent punch from a police officer to a Wisconsin teen can be seen on a video recorded by a bystander who says he “knew it was wrong” as he saw it.  —  Cell phone video shows the takedown in the parking lot of a mall in a Milwaukee suburb.
Wall Street Journal:
Family of Suicide Bombers Attacks Churches in Indonesia  —  Attackers came from a single family; first time children involved in carrying terrorism in country  —  JAKARTA, Indonesia—A family of suicide bombers, including children, killed at least seven people and injured dozens in attacks …    SL 
Discussion: BBC, New York Times, The Week and Townhall
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The Jakarta Post:
IS-linked family responsible for Surabaya bombings, police say
New York Times:
Deadly Convenience: Keyless Cars and Their Carbon Monoxide Toll  —  Weaned from using a key, drivers have left cars running in garages, spewing exhaust into homes.  Despite years of deaths, regulatory action has lagged.  —  It seems like a common convenience in a digital age …
Jack Shafer / Politico:
This Is How a Newspaper Dies  —  It's with a spasm of profits.  —  For a preview of the newspaper industry's coming death, turn your gaze to Colorado, where the withering and emaciated Denver Post finds itself rolling in profits.  —  The Post's controlling owner, “vulture capitalist” …
Discussion: Free Press
Scott Johnson / Power Line:
Axios of weasel  —  Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei are two of the three founders of the news site Axios.  Allen came out of Politico via the Washington Post; VandeHei had co-founded Politico after work at the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal.  They are heavy hitters in the news business.
Discussion: Axios and The Gateway Pundit
Gus Garcia-Roberts / Los Angeles Times:
A notorious mansion.  An alleged assault by a Hollywood producer.  A suicide.  What happened to Brian Claflin?  —  In the early afternoon of June 5, 2014, a man appeared on the subway tracks between stations in Berlin.  He stood alone a few hundred yards into a tunnel …
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
For six decades, ‘the man with the golden arm’ donated blood — and saved 2.4 million babies … In 1951, a 14-year-old Australian boy named James Harrison awoke from a major chest operation.  Doctors had removed one of his lungs in a procedure that had taken several hours — and would keep him hospitalized for three months.
Washington Post:
‘Buckle up’: As Mueller probe enters second year, Trump and allies go on war footing … The grand jury witnesses arrive one by one at the windowless room in the federal courthouse on Constitution Avenue in downtown Washington.  They are struck first by how commonplace the setting feels …
Amy Russo / Mediaite:
NYT's Kristof: The Media Is Missing Important Stories With ‘All Trump, All the Time’ Addiction  —  New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof acknowledged the media's problematic addiction to President Donald Trump and said it's time to break the habit.  —  But while on CNN …
Peter Lovenheim / Politico:
Donald Trump's Mommy Issues  —  He may not have bonded successfully with his mother and that made him the adult—and the politician—that he is.  —  Donald Trump is easily the most psychoanalyzed president of modern times.  His decision-making style and behavior have been hotly debated by journalists …
Discussion: Peter Lovenheim and AOL
Josef Federman / Associated Press:
Israel kicks off US Embassy celebration, boosts border force  —  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel on Sunday kicked off festivities to celebrate the opening of the new U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, even as it bolstered its forces along the Gaza border and in the West Bank in anticipation of mass Palestinian protests of the move.
David Badash / Raw Story:
Trump picks bigot pastor who claims Jews are going to Hell to lead prayer at new Jerusalem embassy  —  Pastor Robert Jeffress, a Fox News contributor, megachurch Baptist preacher from Dallas, and close Trump ally and surrogate, has been chosen by the Trump administration to lead a prayer …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Sun-Sentinel:
Schools' culture of tolerance lets students like Nikolas Cruz slide  —  Broward County Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie, center, appears at a news conference with Sheriff Scott Israel, left, and Gov. Rick Scott on Feb. 14, the day Nikolas Cruz killed 17 staff and students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.
Yahoo:
Parents, friend of Chechnya-born Paris attacker questioned  —  PARIS (AP) — Investigators working to understand why a 20-year-old French citizen born in the Russian republic of Chechnya went on a stabbing rampage in central Paris detained the dead suspect's parents and a friend Sunday, French officials said.
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Agence France-Presse:   ISIS knifeman, 20, who killed one and injured four in rampage near Paris opera house is named …
 
 
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Marc Fisher / Washington Post:
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Wall Street Journal:
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Benny Johnson / The Daily Caller:
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Discussion: IJR
Washington Post:
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Lynn Kawano / Hawaii News Now:
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Emily Stewart / Vox:
Trump doesn't respect the independence of any institution around him
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Scott Bauer / Yahoo:
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Discussion: The Daily Caller
New York Times:
A Surge of Women Candidates, but Crowded Primaries and Tough Races Await
Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine:
Is the 2018 Democratic Wave Receding?
Discussion: Hullabaloo
New York Times:
How California Could Bust Up the Two-Party System
Jim VandeHei / Axios:
How to be the next Trump  —  Most coverage of President Trump focuses …
David Smith / The Guardian:
Joe Biden: the liberal everyman spoiling for a fight with Trump as 2020 looms
Martyn McLaughlin / Scotsman:
Donald Trump's Scottish resort paid by US taxpayers for ‘VIP visit’
Huda Majeed / Reuters:
Iraq PM Abadi appears ahead in poll, Sadr strong: sources