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Washington Post:
After summit pullout, South Korea and China have little appetite for Trump's ‘maximum pressure’ — SEOUL — President Trump credited his “maximum pressure” campaign of sanctions and threats with bringing North Korea to the negotiating table to discuss its nuclear weapons program.
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Politico and Joe.My.God.
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
President Trump Is a Better Dealbreaker Than Dealmaker — His blown-up North Korea summit proves it. — At 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, I was speaking with a senior Administration official involved in the preparations for President Trump's summit with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un.
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American Thinker
NBC News:
Inside the summit collapse: Trump wanted to cancel before N. Korean leader could — WASHINGTON — Early Thursday morning, after a flurry of calls with a handful of senior advisers, an angry President Donald Trump personally dictated the three-paragraph letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un …
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Just Security, Talking Points Memo, CNN, VICE News, The Daily Beast, The American Conservative, The Week, Axios and MSNBC
Fareed Zakaria / Washington Post:
Trump's true talent isn't negotiating. It's marketing.
Axios:
White House officials: We were closer to war with North Korea than realized
White House officials: We were closer to war with North Korea than realized
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New York Times, One America News Network and The Daily Beast
Washington Post:
‘A lot of dial tones’: The inside story of how Trump's North Korea summit fell apart
‘A lot of dial tones’: The inside story of how Trump's North Korea summit fell apart
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Politico, The Week, RedState, Shareblue Media, VICE News, New York Magazine and Little Green Footballs
BBC:
North Korea ready to talk ‘at any time’ with Donald Trump
North Korea ready to talk ‘at any time’ with Donald Trump
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Washington Post, CNN, Roll Call and Axios
Wall Street Journal:
Roger Stone Sought Information on Clinton from Assange, Emails Show — Ex-Trump adviser urged intermediary to ask WikiLeaks for specific dates of rival candidate's communications — Former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone privately sought information he considered damaging to Hillary Clinton …
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CNN:
Assange's refuge in Ecuadorian embassy ‘in jeopardy’ — Washington (CNN)Julian Assange's nearly six-year refuge at the Ecuadorian embassy in London is in danger, opening the WikiLeaks founder to arrest by British authorities and potential extradition to the US, multiple sources with knowledge tell CNN.
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Joe.My.God., New York Magazine, Daily Caller News Foundation, Raw Story and Mediaite
Sara Murray / CNN:
Roger Stone's finances examined by special counsel
Roger Stone's finances examined by special counsel
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The Gateway Pundit
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
The Real Constitutional Crisis — The FBI and Justice Department continue evading congressional oversight. — Democrats and their media allies are again shouting “constitutional crisis,” this time claiming President Trump has waded too far into the Russia investigation.
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Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
McConnell Says He Supports Mueller Investigation — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told NPR in an interview that he continues to support the Mueller Russia investigation — and that nothing in Thursday's hotly anticipated secret briefing on the Russia probe to congressional leaders changed his mind.
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Political Wire, BuzzFeed, Axios, Washington Post and Shareblue Media
The Daily Beast:
White House Lawyer Crashes FBI Meeting on Trump-Russia Investigation
White House Lawyer Crashes FBI Meeting on Trump-Russia Investigation
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JONATHAN TURLEY, Daily Kos, Shareblue Media, CNN, Joe.My.God. and ThinkProgress
Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Concerned by Trump, Some Republicans Quietly Align With Democrats — WASHINGTON — Since Donald J. Trump began dominating American politics more than two years ago, Democrats concerned about his policies and behavior have taken solace in a group of influential Republicans who have consistently assailed …
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo and Splinter
Ronan Farrow / New Yorker:
Behind the Scenes of Harvey Weinstein's Impending Arrest — After a seven-month investigation, the producer Harvey Weinstein is expected to turn himself in to the New York Police Department's First Precinct on Friday to face sexual-assault charges. According to law-enforcement officials …
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USA Today, CNN, Mother Jones, New York Times, Associated Press, NPR, WPSD Local 6, Gothamist, Althouse, VICE News and Vox
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Deadline:
Harvey Weinstein Officially Arrested, Charged With Rape After Turning Himself In
Harvey Weinstein Officially Arrested, Charged With Rape After Turning Himself In
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The Ringer
Shayna Jacobs / New York Daily News:
Harvey Weinstein set to turn himself in on sex crime charges in New York
Harvey Weinstein set to turn himself in on sex crime charges in New York
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Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
'We're closed!': Trump vents his anger over immigration at Homeland Security secretary — President Trump began berating Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen in the Oval Office earlier this spring, according to administration officials, griping about her performance and blaming her for a surge in illegal border crossings.
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Splinter
Lorenzo Reyes / USA Today:
Seahawks' Doug Baldwin: President Trump is ‘an idiot, plain and simple’ — Seahawks wide receiver Doug Baldwin ripped into President Trump for comments made earlier Thursday in which he said players who protest social inequality during the playing of the national anthem “maybe ... shouldn't be in the country.”
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Washington Post:
Sterling Brown's arrest shows why NFL players have a reason to kneel
Sterling Brown's arrest shows why NFL players have a reason to kneel
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USA Today, Vox and The Atlantic
Megan McArdle / Washington Post:
A defense of Roger Goodell
A defense of Roger Goodell
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The American Conservative, Vox, Hot Air, Q13 FOX News and Salt Lake Tribune
Jeff Collins / Orange County Register:
Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher says it's OK to not sell homes to gays; loses support of Realtors — U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher told a group of Realtors last week that homeowners should be able to refuse to sell their homes to gays and lesbians, a statement that cost him the support of a key national Realtor group.
Yashar Ali / New York Magazine:
The Reporter Who Took Down a Unicorn … In late September of 2015, Elizabeth Holmes, the CEO of the once-high-flying but now disgraced Silicon Valley health-care company Theranos, was in the News Corp. office of Rupert Murdoch. She had first met Murdoch in 2014 to pitch him on Theranos …
CNN:
GOP House candidate in Illinois is a 9/11 truther, said Beyonce had ties to the Illuminati — (CNN)The Republican nominee for a US House seat in Illinois has said the September 11 terrorist attacks were an inside job and that singer Beyonce Knowles has ties to the Illuminati.
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Raw Story
New York Times:
Turf War Between Kushner and Sessions Drove Federal Prisons Director to Quit — WASHINGTON — When Jared Kushner hosted a high-profile summit meeting on federal prison reform at the White House last Friday, some in attendance noticed that the man who was ostensibly in charge of the federal prison system …
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Politico, The Week, Splinter, Joe.My.God. and Talking Points Memo
Ben White / Politico:
Trump's next economic threat: Surging gas prices — A huge jump in driving costs in recent months is likely to fuel a wave of economic anger across the nation — just in time for the midterm elections. — President Donald Trump is hoping a wave of tax-cut-fueled economic euphoria will boost …
Josh Mitchell / Wall Street Journal:
Mike Meru Has $1 Million in Student Loans. How Did That Happen? — Escalating tuition and easy credit have yielded a class of student-loan borrowers with spectacular debt they may never pay back — DRAPER, Utah—Mike Meru, a 37-year-old orthodontist, made a big investment in his education.
Bloomberg:
Mick Mulvaney Is Having a Blast Running the Agency He Detests — One of the first things Mick Mulvaney did last year after President Trump asked him to be acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was to read the statute dictating the agency's powers.
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Axios
Ryan Saavedra / Daily Wire:
REPORT: Deputy Peterson Accused Of ‘Covering Up’ Alleged Sexual Assault By Broward Sheriff's Son — A local Miami news station released an explosive report on Thursday night about a “disturbing assault” that happened at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School four years to the day before the tragic shooting in February.
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Townhall and twitchy.com
KHQ-TV:
FIRST ON KHQ: Former Spokane NAACP president Rachel Dolezal facing felony theft charges for welfare fraud — Former Spokane Chapter NAACP President Rachel Dolezal is now facing legal trouble that could land her behind bars. KHQ has confirmed that Dolezal, who legally changed her name …
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The Daily Caller, Q13 FOX News, Law & Crime, AOL, Fox News, The Root, Raw Story, theGrio, Front Page Magazine, Power Line, twitchy.com and WGN-TV
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Are Republicans abetting a demagogue — or something worse? — By Michael Gerson Opinion writer May 24 at 5:14 PM Email the author Follow @mjgerson — Much about the future of American politics — and the historical judgment that will be visited on those associated with it …
Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Trump again pushes claim FBI informant planted for political purposes — President Donald Trump suggested Friday that an FBI informant who made contact with his campaign during the 2016 election was “paid a fortune,” boosting the unsubstantiated allegation a “spy” was implanted in his campaign for political purposes.
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Breitbart
Ryan Hutchins / Politico:
Poll: Menendez lead narrows to just 4 points over GOP foe Hugin — Sen. Bob Menendez holds a razor-thin four-point lead over his likely Republican rival in November's general election, according to a new poll, indicating the New Jersey Democrat is still suffering from a post-corruption-trial hangover.
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Political Wire
Molly Hennessy-Fiske / Los Angeles Times:
Border Patrol union calls Trump's National Guard deployment ‘colossal waste’ … A month after President Trump called for sending National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, the head of the national Border Patrol union called the deployment “a colossal waste of resources.”
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Politico, Talking Points Memo, The Week and Mother Jones
David Wasserman / The Cook Political Report:
The Drive to Elect Women Is Defining 2018's Democratic Primaries — Most analysis has framed this year's multitude of Democratic primaries as struggles for the soul of the party between moderate, “handpicked DC” candidates and left-wing “insurgents” in the Bernie Sanders mold.
Matt Zoller Seitz / Vulture:
The Cultural Vandalism of Jeffrey Tambor — I interviewed Jeffrey Tambor on Tuesday, briefly, in a room with some of his fellow Arrested Development cast members, not including his co-star Jessica Walter. But it doesn't matter what he told me. — It doesn't matter because Tambor said almost …
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Outside the Beltway and Front Page Magazine
CBC News:
2 males wanted after improvised explosive device blast at Mississauga restaurant injures 15 — Peel police say it's early to say if explosion is terror-related — An improvised explosive device set off inside an Indian restaurant in Mississauga is responsible for a blast that injured 15 people on Thursday night, police say.
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The Daily Caller and VICE News
Will Rahn / CBS News:
Commentary: The plot against Donald Trump — It's easy to get the basic gist of the Deep State conspiracy theory, which posits that the FBI and CIA ginned up a devious plot to help Hillary Clinton and hurt Donald Trump. But there's an arch, coy, almost feline quality to the way these arguments are presented.