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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
A Grotesque Spectacle in Jerusalem — On Monday, Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and other leading lights of the Trumpist right gathered in Israel to celebrate the relocation of the American Embassy to Jerusalem, a gesture widely seen as a slap in the face to Palestinians who envision East Jerusalem as their future capital.
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Liel Leibovitz / Tablet Magazine:
Palestinians in Gaza Are Dying for a Photo-Op — And the media are complicit — “We are excited to storm and get inside,” a 23-year-old Gazan named Mohammed Mansoura, told the Washington Post yesterday. “When asked what he would do inside Israel,” the newspaper reported, “he said, ‘Whatever is possible, to kill, throw stones.’”
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New York Times:
Uneasy Calm Falls Over Gaza After Israel Kills Scores in Protests
Uneasy Calm Falls Over Gaza After Israel Kills Scores in Protests
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twitchy.com and Sputnik International
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Nothing says ‘peace’ like 58 dead Palestinians
Nothing says ‘peace’ like 58 dead Palestinians
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Matthew Haag / New York Times:
Pastor Who Said Jews Are Going to Hell Led Prayer at Jerusalem Embassy Opening
Pastor Who Said Jews Are Going to Hell Led Prayer at Jerusalem Embassy Opening
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Robert Mackey / The Intercept:
Ivanka Trump Opens U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem During Israeli Massacre of Palestinians in Gaza
Ivanka Trump Opens U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem During Israeli Massacre of Palestinians in Gaza
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Ahmed Abu Ratima / New York Times:
I Helped Start the Gaza Protests. I Don't Regret It.
I Helped Start the Gaza Protests. I Don't Regret It.
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Declan Walsh / New York Times:
Waves of Gazans vs. Israeli Tear Gas and Bullets: Deadliest Mayhem in Years
Waves of Gazans vs. Israeli Tear Gas and Bullets: Deadliest Mayhem in Years
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Mondoweiss, HuffPost, Vox and Bloomberg
Yaniv Kubovich / Haaretz:
Turkey Expels Israeli Ambassador Over Gaza Deaths; Israel Says 24 of Those Killed Were Militants
Turkey Expels Israeli Ambassador Over Gaza Deaths; Israel Says 24 of Those Killed Were Militants
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RT, Just Security and New York Times
S.V. Date / HuffPost:
Trump Orders Help For Chinese Phone-Maker After China Approves Money For Trump Project — Trump will profit from Indonesian resort project that will get $500 million in Chinese loans in a deal sealed days before before his tweet ordering help for ZTE. — WASHINGTON - A mere 72 hours …
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
China gave Trump a list of crazy demands, and he caved to one of them … After top Trump officials went to Beijing last month, the Chinese government wrote up a document with a list of economic and trade demands that ranged from the reasonable to the ridiculous.
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Trump supporters suffer unintended consequences of his policies … THE BIG IDEA: President Trump sometimes seems impervious to the second and third order consequences of his decisions. — Several recent developments have highlighted the unintended — though often foreseeable …
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Kansas City Star:
Case against Greitens is dropped, for now. Legislative leaders say nothing's changed — ST. LOUIS — In a stunning development, St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner on Monday dropped her prosecution of Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens in the face of the defense team's plan to call her as a witness.
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Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
In leaky West Wing, not even a phone ban can stop embarrassing disclosures — Washington (CNN)The dustup over a White House aide's crass remark about Sen. John McCain's health has once again inflamed the White House's frustration with staffers who reveal the inner workings of the West Wing to reporters outside the building.
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
The Strzok-Page Texts and the Origins of the Trump-Russia Investigation — Peter Strzok and Lisa Page's texts shine a highly redacted light on how the Trump-Russia investigation began. — It was July 31, 2016. Just days earlier, the Obama administration had quietly opened …
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CNN:
Haspel says CIA should not have conducted interrogation program — (CNN)Gina Haspel, President Donald Trump's pick to be the next CIA director, says in a new letter that the CIA should not have conducted then-President George W. Bush's interrogation and detention program where waterboarding …
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
GOP golden boy mails it in — Republicans worry that Josh Hawley, the party's top Senate recruit, is squandering his opportunity to beat vulnerable Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill. — FENTON, Mo. — As GOP Rep. Ann Wagner prepared to introduce candidates in a Republican Senate debate here Friday …
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Axios:
Scoop: Inside Trump's 2020 startup — As President Trump's campaign aides quietly launch his reelection campaign, they're eyeing two states as possible pickups for 2020: Minnesota, where Trump came close in 2016 without even trying; and Colorado, where his hands-off approach to marijuana enforcement is a possible selling point.
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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Not An Onion Story: Blake Farenthold Gets A New Job Lobbying Congress — It's only been a month since he quit his House seat amid an ethics committee probe into sexual harassment allegations. — WASHINGTON A month after abruptly resigning from Congress in an apparent effort to avoid …
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Corpus Christi Caller-Times and Roll Call
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Philip Wegmann / Washington Examiner:
Blake Farenthold secured $2.14M in federal pork for this port; they just gave him a $160K job
Blake Farenthold secured $2.14M in federal pork for this port; they just gave him a $160K job
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Robert Maguire / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
$1 million mystery gift to inauguration traced to conservative legal activists — WASHINGTON — One of the largest contributions to President Donald Trump's inaugural committee in 2016 appears to have been orchestrated by a set of powerful conservative legal activists who have since …
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RealClearInvestigations:
Two Colleagues Contradict Brennan's Denial of Reliance on Dossier — Former CIA Director John Brennan's insistence that the salacious and unverified Steele dossier was not part of the official Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian interference in the 2016 election is being contradicted by two top former officials.
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Emily Smith / Page Six:
Bill O'Reilly in talks to return to cable news — Bill O'Reilly is in talks to head back to cable news in his old 8 p.m. slot, but this time at Newsmax TV, sources exclusively tell Page Six. — A year after O'Reilly's abrupt exit from Fox News, where he was the top-rated host in cable news …
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Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
‘Real’ Americans are a myth. Don't you dare buy it. … The most offensive and corrosive idea in our politics today is that some Americans are more “real” than others. Don't you dare buy it. — Republicans are cynically peddling this un-American conceit.
John Solomon / The Hill:
Mueller may have a conflict — and it leads directly to a Russian oligarch — has withstood relentless political attacks, many distorting his record of distinguished government service. — But there's one episode even Mueller's former law enforcement comrades — and independent ethicists …
Joe Heim / Washington Post:
Philanthropist David Rubenstein reflects on the power of giving money away — You are unimaginably wealthy. Do you face any hardship? — I don't think if you have the kind of financial situation that I do that I can credibly say I have hardships, because people will laugh or people will throw brickbats.
Garrett M. Graff / Wired:
The Untold Story of Robert Mueller's Time in Combat — Robert Mueller's job is to make sense of how Russia hacked the 2016 election. But to make sense of Mueller, you have to revisit some of the bloodiest battles of Vietnam. — ONE DAY IN the summer of 1969, a young Marine lieutenant …
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David Beard / Poynter:
Morning Mediawire: The paper that portrayed rejoicing in Israel — Las Vegas paper puts ‘elated’ editorial by owner's wife on page one on deadly day in Israel — After Sheldon Adelson's secret purchase of the Las Vegas Review-Journal was exposed in December 2015, the billionaire GOP mega-donor promised …
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Karen Deyoung / Washington Post:
Allies fume over Trump's withdrawal from Iran deal but have few options to respond — America's three closest friends in Europe — Britain, France and Germany — are near-bursting with anger and exasperation at the United States. In a frenzy of meetings and phone calls among them over the past week …
Erin Dooley / ABC News:
Exclusive: Former for-profit college executive shaped Education Department policy that could benefit former employers: Documents — A senior U.S. Department of Education official hired straight out of the for-profit college sector helped dismantle regulations designed to protect student defrauded …
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Austin Frakt / New York Times:
Medical Mystery: Something Happened to U.S. Health Spending After 1980 — The spending began soaring beyond that of other advanced nations, but without the same benefits in life expectancy. — The United States devotes a lot more of its economic resources to health care than any other nation …
Henry Goldman / Bloomberg:
Bharara Weighs Independent Bid for New York Attorney General — He has the name recognition, resume and money to make the race — Former prosecutor plays coy about run and says ‘Stay Tuned’ — When a New York jury convicted ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on bribery charges last week …
Joe Pinsker / The Atlantic:
The Ivy League School That Won't Talk About Its Most Famous Graduate … For 176 years, William Henry Harrison was the only president the University of Pennsylvania had any kind of claim on, and even then it was kind of a stretch. As a student, Harrison did a brief stint at Penn, but he didn't stay long enough to get a degree.
Adam Bernstein / Washington Post:
Margot Kidder, who played Lois Lane in blockbuster ‘Superman,’ dies at 69 … Margot Kidder, a raspy-voiced actress who played ace reporter Lois Lane in the “Superman” movie phenomenon but whose career was eclipsed by her struggle with bipolar disorder, died May 13 at her home in Livingston, Mont. She was 69.
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Kevin Poulsen / The Daily Beast:
Russian Troll Farm Hijacked American Teen Girls' Computers for Likes … Online propaganda was phase one. Then came hijacking computers. — The Kremlin-linked Russian troll farm known as the Internet Research Agency took an ominous detour into malware distribution in the middle …
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
Morning Joe panel says Mueller should probe Trump and Kushner's shady dealings with China and Qatar — President Donald Trump pledged to help Chinese telecom giant ZTE stave off collapse, against the warnings of law enforcement and intelligence officials — and panelists on MSNBC's “Morning Joe” …