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New York Times:
Trump Asked Sessions to Retain Control of Russia Inquiry After His Recusal — WASHINGTON — By the time Attorney General Jeff Sessions arrived at President Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort for dinner one Saturday evening in March 2017, he had been receiving the presidential silent treatment for two days.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
FBI was right to deploy informant, senior GOP lawmaker says — A senior House Republican who was part of a highly classified Justice Department briefing last week said on Tuesday that the FBI acted properly when it deployed an informant to gather information from advisers to President Donald Trump's campaign in 2016.
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Washington Post, Breitbart, Political Wire and Mother Jones
Samantha Schmidt / Washington Post:
On Fox News of all places, Trump's ‘spy’ claim is debunked by Trey Gowdy and even Judge Napolitano — President Trump has made it clear he likes what he hears on Fox News. The network often covers the president favorably, bringing on conservative commentators that push the president's agenda and …
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Fox News Insider, Mediaite, ABC News and The Root
Andrew Desiderio / The Daily Beast:
Trey Gowdy: FBI's Use of Informant for Trump Campaign Was Appropriate … Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said on Tuesday that the FBI's use of an informant for the Trump campaign in 2016 was appropriate, joining top Democrats in disputing President …
Aileen Graef / CNN:
NYT: Mueller probing Trump's request that Sessions rescind his recusal from Russia investigation
NYT: Mueller probing Trump's request that Sessions rescind his recusal from Russia investigation
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Raw Story
Tim Hains / RealClearPolitics:
Napolitano on Trump's ‘Spygate’ Claims: “I'd Want To See Evidence Before I Made An Allegation That Outrageous”
Napolitano on Trump's ‘Spygate’ Claims: “I'd Want To See Evidence Before I Made An Allegation That Outrageous”
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The Week
Clare Foran / CNN:
Gowdy says FBI ‘did exactly what my fellow citizens would want them to do’ in Russia investigation
Gowdy says FBI ‘did exactly what my fellow citizens would want them to do’ in Russia investigation
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New Republic
Mike Allen / Axios:
How social media crushed Roseanne for her racist tweet — Roseanne Barr's reboot at ABC is gone, less than 12 hours after her racist tweet and notwithstanding ratings so strong that she picked up a congratulatory phone call from President Trump. — Why it matters: The show's cancellation came …
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CANNONFIRE, Politico and Yahoo
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
EXCLUSIVE: Watch ABC kick off pitch to advertisers with jokes about Roseanne's offensive tweets — Two weeks ago, Roseanne's bigoted, conspiratorial tweets were a laugh riot. — On Tuesday, ABC canceled the sitcom Roseanne after the show's titular star tweeted that former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett reminder her of an ape.
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New York Times, The Hill, Raw Story, Vox and Hollywood Reporter
S.E. Cupp / New York Daily News:
Lesson from the Roseanne debacle: Stop hiring hateful nutjobs — As the acclaimed poet Maya Angelou once said, “When someone shows you who they are, believe them — the first time.” — That wise adage hasn't made its way to television executives, apparently, who can't help hiring …
Emily Heil / Washington Post:
ABC has canceled ‘Roseanne’ after its star, Roseanne Barr, went on a vitriolic and racist Twitter rampage.
ABC has canceled ‘Roseanne’ after its star, Roseanne Barr, went on a vitriolic and racist Twitter rampage.
Roger Kimball / Spectator USA:
Disney is considerably more repulsive than Roseanne
Jonathan V. Last / Weekly Standard:
Trumpism Corrupts: Roseanne Edition
Trumpism Corrupts: Roseanne Edition
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New York Times, Salon, Raw Story, ThinkProgress and Hot Air
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
ICM Partners Drops Roseanne Barr as Client After Racist Tweet, ‘Roseanne’ Cancellation
ICM Partners Drops Roseanne Barr as Client After Racist Tweet, ‘Roseanne’ Cancellation
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Raw Story, POLITICUSUSA, Vox, Lawyers, Guns & Money and ABC News, more at Mediagazer »
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Roseanne Barr Goes on Wild (And Racist) Tweetstorm About Clintons, George Soros, Chris Cillizza
Roseanne Barr Goes on Wild (And Racist) Tweetstorm About Clintons, George Soros, Chris Cillizza
Daniella Silva / NBC News:
Valerie Jarrett says ABC made the right call in canceling ‘Roseanne’ after racist comment
Valerie Jarrett says ABC made the right call in canceling ‘Roseanne’ after racist comment
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ABC, WGN-TV, Conservative News Today and Townhall
Courtney Kube / NBC News:
CIA report says North Korea won't denuclearize, but might open a burger joint — WASHINGTON — A new U.S. intelligence assessment has concluded that North Korea does not intend to give up its nuclear weapons any time soon, three U.S. officials told NBC News — a finding that conflicts …
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Associated Press:
AP sources: US to impose limits on some Chinese visas — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration plans to shorten the length of validity for some visas issued to Chinese citizens, the State Department said Tuesday, as President Donald Trump works to counter alleged theft of U.S. intellectual property by Beijing.
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Axios and One America News Network
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Playbook: Mueller probing whether Trump pressured Sessions to engage in Russia investigation
Playbook: Mueller probing whether Trump pressured Sessions to engage in Russia investigation
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Wall Street Journal
Joe Schneider / Bloomberg:
Cohen Prosecutors to Get Seized Phone Data by Wednesday — U.S. prosecutors in Manhattan will get a vast array of data seized from three phones belonging to President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen by Wednesday, according to a filing from a retired judge reviewing materials taken by the FBI.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
‘Special master’ in Cohen raid bills $47K for first week's work
‘Special master’ in Cohen raid bills $47K for first week's work
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Washington Post, Palmer Report and Talking Points Memo
Kara Scannell / CNN:
‘Taxi King’ gets better plea deal after raid on Trump's lawyer
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Trump bragged about classified Syria skirmish at fundraiser — The White House has tried to avoid discussing a February skirmish between U.S. troops and Russian mercenaries in Syria, but that didn't stop President Donald Trump from bragging about the Pentagon's performance at a recent closed-door fundraiser.
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Political Wire
Kansas City Star:
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens resigns, ending political career once aimed at presidency — Eric Greitens stormed into the governor's office in January 2017 vowing to clean up a state government he said was corrupt. — He resigned Tuesday — effective at 5 p.m. Friday …
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Renee DiResta / Wired:
How the Tech Giants Created What Darpa Couldn't — “EVERY PURCHASE YOU make with a credit card, every magazine subscription you buy and medical prescription you fill, every Web site you visit and e-mail you send or receive, every academic grade you receive, every bank deposit you make …
Ben Detrick / The Ringer:
The Curious Case of Bryan Colangelo and the Secret Twitter Account — A collection of Twitter accounts that has criticized Joel Embiid and Markelle Fultz, disclosed sensitive information, and outlined team strategy shares eye-opening similarities. What does that have to do with the Philadelphia 76ers' decision-maker?
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Grassley: Fusion GPS Founder Gave ‘Extremely Misleading’ Testimony About Trump Work — The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee is accusing Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson of giving “extremely misleading” statements, if not telling “outright lies,” during Senate testimony in 2017.
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Breitbart and The Gateway Pundit
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Steven T. Dennis / Bloomberg:
Fight Over Trump Jr.'s Testimony Simmers in the Senate
Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
Mike Pompeo to Huddle With Anti-Semite's Envoy … Viktor Orban won reelection as Hungary's prime minister last month through a blood-and-soil campaign that married antisemitism with Islamophobia. Donald Trump's secretary of state is about to reverse years of U.S. policy and receive Orban's chief diplomat at Foggy Bottom.
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Daily Kos, The Guardian and Washington Free Beacon
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Ivanka Trump Abruptly Leaves Call After Question About China Trademarks — Ivanka Trump abruptly left a conference call on Tuesday about a coming fitness event after receiving questions about her company's trademarks in China and her father's exercise regimen.
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Racked, CNBC, Media Matters for America and New York Magazine, more at Techmeme »
Washington Post:
A televangelist wants his followers to pay for a $54 million private jet. It's his fourth plane. — By Cleve R. Wootson Jr. May 29 at 1:17 PM Email the author — If Jesus were to descend from heaven and physically set foot on 21st-century Earth, prosperity gospel televangelist Jesse Duplantis told …
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USA Today, JONATHAN TURLEY, The Intellectualist and Sputnik International
Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Trump's ‘zero tolerance’ at the border is causing child shelters to fill up fast — The number of migrant children held in U.S. government custody without their parents has surged 21 percent in the past month, according to the latest figures, an increase driven by the Trump administration's …
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Political Wire, PolitiFact, IJR and American Greatness
Annie Karni / Politico:
White House silence on Melania stokes conspiracy theories — The first lady hasn't been seen in public since her release from the hospital after a routine procedure. — She's left the White House and moved back to New York City. — She's cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller.
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Political Wire and Talking Points Memo
Politico:
GOP sweats Trump's Heitkamp flirtation — The vulnerable North Dakota Democrat has been invited on Air Force One and to the White House — even as Republicans target her in the midterms. — When a small group of alarmed White House aides caught wind that Sen. Heidi Heitkamp …
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Political Wire
Holman W. Jenkins, Jr / Wall Street Journal:
Clapper Disinformation Campaign — Why does a former intelligence chief make claims he can't back up? — James Clapper, President Obama's director of national intelligence, gained a reputation among liberals as a liar for covering up the existence of secret data-collection programs.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix Exec: Productions From the Obamas Will Not Have a ‘Political Slant’ — Netflix has inked a multiyear deal with the Obamas for original programming — but the content from the former First Couple will not have any political bias, according to chief content officer Ted Sarandos.
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