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5:50 PM ET, May 23, 2018

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Paul Wood / BBC:
Trump lawyer ‘paid by Ukraine’ to arrange White House talks  —  Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, received a secret payment of at least $400,000 to fix talks between the Ukrainian president and President Trump, according to sources in Kiev close to those involved.
Matt Apuzzo / New York Times:
Jared Kushner Gets Security Clearance, Ending Swirl of Questions Over Delay  —  WASHINGTON — Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and adviser, has been granted his permanent security clearance, a person briefed on the matter said on Wednesday, ending a period of uncertainty …
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Washington Post:
Jared Kushner, senior adviser and son-in-law to President Trump, receives permanent security clearance  —  By Washington Post Staff May 23 at 2:45 PM  —  The FBI's background check into Kushner's financial history and foreign contacts took more than a year, becoming a source of uncertainty for the West Wing aide.
Discussion: Political Wire
Victor Mather / New York Times:
N.F.L. Teams Will be Fined if Players Kneel During National Anthem  —  N.F.L. players will be allowed to stay in the locker room during the national anthem, but their teams will be fined by the league if they go onto the field and kneel, according to new rules adopted by owners on Wednesday …
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ESPN:
New policy requires on-field players, personnel to stand for anthem  —  ATLANTA — NFL owners have unanimously approved a new national anthem policy that requires players to stand if they are on the field during the performance but gives them the option to remain in the locker room if they prefer, it was announced Wednesday.
Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
New York Jets chairman, brother of Trump ambassador, says he'll pay fines for team players who protest during anthem
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and USA Today
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump's FBI Spy Theory Is Completely Insane  —  In the face of widening evidence of Trump campaign culpability in the Russia investigation, Republicans have churned through a frequently mutating series of conspiracy theories to defend him.  The latest, and possibly final, such theory …
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Alex Roarty / McClatchy Washington Bureau:   Dem operatives craft Trump-Mueller message for 2018 elections
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Poll: Trump reelection bid begins in a hole
Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
In reversal, Giuliani now says Trump should do interview with Mueller team  —  President Trump's lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani switched gears Wednesday, saying that he would prefer the president grant an interview to special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's office and that a decision would be made within “the next couple weeks.”
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Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Exclusive: Bannon says Rosenstein could be fired ‘very shortly’  —  's former chief strategist Stephen Bannon predicts that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein  —  could be fired “very shortly,” in an interview that will be broadcast Wednesday evening in the United Kingdom.
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New York Times:
Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says
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Washington Post:
Trump violated the Constitution when he blocked his critics on Twitter, a federal judge rules
Discussion: Daily Wire
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Devin Nunes' fundraising explodes amid aggressive defense of Trump from Russia probe  —  Rep. Devin Nunes raised an extraordinary approximate sum of $2.25 million in six weeks as grassroots Republicans rewarded the House Intelligence Committee chairman for quarterbacking President Trump's counterattack …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
Top Senate Republicans ask White House for entry into meeting on classified information
Associated Press:   Seething over Russia probe, Trump tears into ‘spygate’
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Garrett in turmoil, might quit Congress  —  Rep. Tom Garrett (R-Va.) has abruptly parted ways with his chief of staff and is considering not seeking reelection in November, according to three people familiar with the matter.  —  Garrett, a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus …
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Most Americans don't realize Robert Mueller's investigation has uncovered crimes  —  17 indictments and five guilty pleas so far.  —  A majority of Americans — 59 percent — say in a new survey that Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia and the 2016 campaign has not yet uncovered evidence …
Discussion: Politico and National Review
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Navigator:   What Are They Hiding?  —  Americans Want Answers on Mueller …
Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
Senator Jeff Flake to Harvard Law Grads: Trump ‘Debased’ Presidency … In highly charged and notably ominous terms, Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) on Wednesday laid bare his fears about the damage Donald Trump was inflicting on the office he holds, and called out his fellow Republicans for lacking the spine to fight to it.
Discussion: Political Wire
Aaron Katersky / ABC News:
Families of Sandy Hook victims, FBI agent file defamation lawsuit against right-wing radio host Alex Jones  —  Six families of victims killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting, as well as an FBI agent who responded to the scene, filed a defamation lawsuit today …
Sopan Deb / New York Times:
We Sat Down With the ‘Arrested Development’ Cast.  It Got Raw.  —  In a wide-ranging conversation about the new season, cast members got emotional as they discussed accusations of sexual misconduct against Jeffrey Tambor.  —  Perhaps no moment better defines “Arrested Development” …
James Hill / ABC News:
Mueller moves to prepare Papadopoulos for sentencing  —  In a court filing entered Wednesday, prosecutors representing the special counsel Robert Mueller asked the Court to take the first steps in the sentencing process for former Donald Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:   Mueller moves to sentence Papadopoulos, signaling key step
Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
The Risky Business of Speaking for President Trump  —  Flacks in this White House press office are getting enormous exposure — but potentially at a long-term cost to their credibility.  —  It was getting late on a Wednesday, and by 2018 standards the evening's news cycle felt almost serene.
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ABC News:
US disinvites China from multinational military exercise
Emily Rauhala / Washington Post:
State Department warns U.S. citizens in China after employee suffers possible sonic attack  —  BEIJING — The U.S. State Department is warning U.S. citizens in China that a government employee reported unusual “sensations of sound and pressure” and was later diagnosed with a mild traumatic brain injury …
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Christopher Bodeen / Associated Press:   US employee in China reported strange sounds, pressure
Brianne Pfannenstiel / Des Moines Register:
Three women accuse Iowa governor candidate Nate Boulton of sexual misconduct  —  Three women have accused Iowa Democratic gubernatorial candidate and state Sen. Nate Boulton of inappropriate sexual conduct.  —  One woman told the Des Moines Register that Boulton, now 38, repeatedly grabbed her buttocks at a bar in 2015.
The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: U.S. Government Can't Get Controversial Kaspersky Lab Software Off Its Networks … Federal agencies are so far unable to comply with a law banning Kaspersky Lab software from U.S. government networks by October, The Daily Beast has learned.  Multiple divisions of the U.S. government …
David Carnoy / CNET:
Would you wear this muzzle around the office for private calling?  —  A new accessory called Bloxvox muffles your phone conversations in an open office.  Just don't share it.  —  Enlarge Image  —  Back in January of 2017 I discovered a product at CES called HushMe that I described as …
Julia Reinstein / BuzzFeed:
That Viral “Odyssey” Post About Coachella Was Actually By A 28-Year-Old Man Who Catfished His Way Into The Site  —  Meet the real “Kaycie Allen.”  —  If you were on Twitter on April 22, you might remember this article.  —  “Sorry Not Sorry, My Parents Paid For My Coachella Trip,” …
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Administration Weighs New Tariffs on Imported Vehicles  —  White House has discussed plans for such tariffs with industry officials  —  WASHINGTON—The Trump administration is considering a plan that would impose new tariffs on imported vehicles on national-security grounds …
Discussion: Instapundit and Toronto Star
CNNMoney:
EPA again blocks journalists from attending summit: 'They ain't doing the CNN stuff'  —  Journalists blocked from EPA event  —  The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday barred journalists for the second consecutive day from attending a national summit focused on water contaminants …
Sharyl Attkisson / The Hill:
8 signs pointing to a counterintelligence operation deployed against Trump's campaign  —  illegally conspired with Russia and was so good at covering it up he's managed to outwit our best intel and media minds who've searched for irrefutable evidence for two years.  (We still await special counsel Robert Mueller
Washington Post:
In an internal memo, the White House considered whether to simply ‘ignore’ federal climate research  —  White House officials last year weighed whether to simply “ignore” climate studies produced by government scientists or to instead develop “a coherent, fact-based message about climate science …
Discussion: Mother Jones
Jason Samenow / Washington Post:
NASA head Jim Bridenstine, once doubtful, confirms he believes humans are the leading cause of climate change  —  NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, who previously questioned whether humans are primarily responsible for climate change, left no doubt Wednesday that his position has changed.
Max Fisher / New York Times:
Deep in the Desert, Iran Quietly Advances Missile Technology  —  When an explosion nearly razed Iran's long-range missile research facility in 2011 — and killed the military scientist who ran it — many Western intelligence analysts viewed it as devastating to Tehran's technological ambitions.
Laurie Goodstein / New York Times:
‘This Is Not of God’: When Anti-Trump Evangelicals Confront Their Brethren  —  LYNCHBURG, Va. — The night before Shane Claiborne came to town to preach at a Christian revival, he received a letter from the chief of police at Liberty University warning that if he set foot on the property …
Discussion: CANNONFIRE
Sean McElwee / New York Times:
The Rising Racial Liberalism of Democratic Voters  —  In response to both the election of Barack Obama in 2008 and the backlash in favor of Donald Trump in 2016, analysts and commentators have focused mostly on racial attitudes on the right.  Both scholarship and journalistic accounts …
Pamela McClintock / Hollywood Reporter:
Box-Office Preview: ‘Solo’ Headed for Lowest Opening of Disney ‘Star Wars’ Movies  —  The spinoff is the first of the new Star Wars movies to brave the summer box office, and opens only five months after ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ hit theaters.  —  If all goes well, a young Han Solo …
 
 
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Kevin Baron / Defense One:
No Joke: Top Special Ops Commander Says No Offense Intended, Lauds Press
David Adler / New York Times:
Centrists Are the Most Hostile to Democracy, Not Extremists
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
America's Version of Capitalism Is Incompatible With Democracy
Dan Williams / Reuters:
Exclusive: Israeli minister says U.S. may soon recognize Israel's hold on Golan
Scott Travis / Sun-Sentinel:
Principal whose daughter was killed at Stoneman Douglas blasts school district
Discussion: RedState
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
The Number of Female Chief Executives Is Falling
Steven G. Calabresi / The Hill:
The mess Rod Rosenstein made
Discussion: SSRN, MARK-CM and Conservative Review
Bryan Lowry / Kansas City Star:
Greitens' team grilled woman about sexual practices, arousal, bathing suit preference
 Earlier Items: 
Jon Swaine / The Guardian:
US firm that gave cash to Michael Cohen helped secure millions for Putin-linked oligarch
Discussion: New York Times
Carrie Dann / NBC News:
Women make up more than 40% of House Democratic nominees so far. That's a big deal.
New York Times:
How the Mueller Investigation Could Play Out for Trump
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
The new AG itching to take on Trump
 

 
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK
 
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