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1:15 PM ET, May 19, 2018

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New York Times:
F.B.I. Used Informant to Investigate Russia Ties to Campaign, Not to Spy, as Trump Claims  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump accused the F.B.I. on Friday, without evidence, of sending a spy to secretly infiltrate his 2016 campaign “for political purposes” even before the bureau had any inkling of the “phony Russia hoax.”
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Washington Post:
Secret FBI source for Russia investigation met with three Trump advisers during campaign  —  A retired American professor in 2016 began working as a secret informant for the FBI as it investigated Russia's interference in the U.S. presidential campaign, and he contacted three Trump advisers …
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Cambridge Professor Spied On Trump Campaign Advisers  —  A top-secret CIA and FBI source who spied on two Trump campaign advisers and initiated contact with a third was all but outed Friday night.  —  The New York Times and The Washington Post provided a detailed description of the source …
Asha Rangappa / Washington Post:
The FBI didn't use an informant to go after Trump.  They used one to protect him.  —  What the president doesn't get about counterintelligence.  —  President Trump and his allies are outraged at reports that the FBI used an “informant” to spy on Trump's 2016 campaign.
Washington Post:
The GOP's campaign against the FBI makes the nation less safe  —  IN THEIR paranoid partisan war on the Justice Department's Russia probe, President Trump's allies have been pushing for the dangerous disclosure of national security information, including information about a top-secret FBI and CIA informant.
Discussion: NPR and New Republic
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Why Trump Tweets
Discussion: Associated Press
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Warner: Identifying FBI source to undermine Russia probe could be a crime
Discussion: RedState
Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:   Talk of unproven FBI ‘plant’ in Trump campaign circulates among Republicans
New York Times:
Trump Jr. and Other Aides Met With Gulf Emissary Offering Help to Win Election  —  WASHINGTON — Three months before the 2016 election, a small group gathered at Trump Tower to meet with Donald Trump Jr., the president's eldest son.  One was an Israeli specialist in social media manipulation.
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Kate Brannen / Just Security:
Getting to the Bottom of the Trump Tower Meeting
Discussion: Washington Post
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Fake Facebook accounts and online lies multiply in hours after Santa Fe school shooting … In the first hours after the Texas school shooting that left at least 10 dead Friday, online hoaxers moved quickly to spread a viral lie, creating fake Facebook accounts with the suspected shooter's name …
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Houston Chronicle:   Details emerge about victims, survivors of Santa Fe shooting
Washington Post:   Alleged school killer Dimitrios Pagourtzis had a fondness for trench coats and a growing darkness
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
2018 has been deadlier for schoolchildren than service members
Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
BBC throws royal shade at Trump after wedding crowd dwarfs inauguration  —  Well played, BBC.  Well played.  —  As well-wishers gathered outside Windsor Castle Saturday morning to celebrate the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, BBC took a moment to throw some royal shade at Trump.
Discussion: Mother Jones, Bustle and The Resurgent
Katie Rogers / New York Times:
White House Keeps Details of Melania Trump's Health Under Wraps  —  WASHINGTON — This week, the first lady, Melania Trump, underwent a procedure for what the White House called a benign kidney condition.  Four days into her recovery for the procedure, which experts say typically …
Discussion: Raw Story, CNN, CNBC, IJR, The Daily Caller and AOL
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Brent D. Griffiths / Politico:
Melania Trump returns to the White House after hospital treatment  —  WASHINGTON — First lady Melania Trump returned to the White House on Saturday morning following hospital treatment for a kidney condition.  —  “She is resting comfortably and remains in high spirits.
Discussion: Reuters, ABC News and The Week
CBS News:
Royal wedding: Prince Harry, Meghan Markle marry at Windsor Castle — live updates  —  It's the most anticipated wedding of the year: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will tie the knot today at St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.  —  Harry and his brother and Best Man Prince William greeted cheering fans …
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Associated Press:   Prince Harry marries American bride Meghan Markle at Windsor Castle
Martin Belam / The Guardian:
Stars line up to attend royal wedding  —  Royal wedding watchers treated to a parade of A-list celebrities from both sides of the Atlantic  —  In a wedding that has broken royal tradition in many ways, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have also surprised with some of the choices for their guest list.
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
House GOP limping to Election Day as farm bill implodes  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  WHAT THE WORLD IS TALKING ABOUT — “Prince Harry and Meghan Markle marry and delight Windsor crowds,” by The Telegraph's Danny Boyle: “Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been proclaimed husband and wife …
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Naomi Martin / Dallas Morning News:
White, straight and Christian: Dallas County politician admits rewarding kids for marrying within race  —  Vickers “Vic” Cunningham, a former criminal district judge now in a runoff to be the sole Republican Dallas County commissioner, acknowledged Friday that in 2010 he set up a living trust …
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Dallas Morning News:   We withdraw Vickers Cunningham recommendation in GOP runoff for Dallas County Commissioners Court Precinct 2
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
In Politicized Justice, Desperate Times Call for Disparate Measures  —  FBI director Comey and the Obama Justice Department applied a double standard in their handling of the Clinton-email and Trump-Russia investigations.  —  We wuz robbed.  That's the theme Democrats and their media allies …
Discussion: Instapundit
Alissa de Carbonnel / Reuters:
Europe reassures Iran of commitment to nuclear deal without U.S  —  TEHRAN (Reuters) - The European Union's energy chief sought to reassure Iran on Saturday that the bloc remained committed to salvaging a nuclear deal with Tehran despite U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to exit the accord and reimpose sanctions.
Discussion: Politico
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Fred Lucas / The Daily Signal:   Pompeo to Unveil New Iran Strategy in Heritage Foundation Speech
Roger L Simon / PJ Media Home:
The Inspector General's Report Will Expose the MSM as Treasonous  —  One of the more notable differences between Watergate and the metastasizing scandals involving the FBI, our intelligence agencies, and the Obama administration — subjects of the soon-to-be-released inspector general's report — is that the media exposed Watergate.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP lawmakers want Trump to stop bashing Congress  —  Senate Republicans want President Trump  —  to stop taking jabs at Congress over its inability to get things done.  —  Trump loves to tout results and bash lawmakers when they do not move fast enough on his priorities.
Discussion: Washington Post
Axios:
Shocking details emerge from China's re-education camps for Muslims  —  Researchers and reporters have been slowly uncovering the massive scale of political re-education camps housing members of the Muslim minority in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in Western China.
Discussion: Instapundit
 
 
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