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Peter Baker / New York Times:
How Trump's Election Shook Obama: ‘What if We Were Wrong?’  —  WASHINGTON — Riding in a motorcade in Lima, Peru, shortly after the 2016 election, President Barack Obama was struggling to understand Donald J. Trump's victory.  —  “What if we were wrong?” he asked aides riding with him in the armored presidential limousine.
Tom Winter / NBC News:
Prosecutors in Michael Cohen case piecing together shredded documents from raid  —  Federal prosecutors sorting through materials seized from Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's personal attorney, said Wednesday they needed more time to piece together the contents of a shredder taken in an FBI raid.
Discussion: MSNBC
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Josh Delk / The Hill:
FBI is reconstructing shredded documents obtained during Cohen raid
Discussion: CNN, Raw Story and Bloomberg
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Judge sets endpoint for review of seized Cohen files, rebukes Avenatti's ‘publicity tour’
Kara Scannell / CNN:   Avenatti drops request to participate in Cohen case after warning to ‘stop your publicity tour’
Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:
Keeping Up with the Kushners: With Jared Back on Top, Kim Kardashian Heads to the White House  —  Months of talks between Jared Kushner and Kim Kardashian is set to culminate in a meeting with President Trump, in which the reality-TV star will ask him to pardon a 62-year-old great-grandmother serving …
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The Daily Beast:
Trump Aides Brutally Turn on Each Other in War on Leaks … Not long after news broke that White House communications aide Kelly Sadler had made a flippant comment about Sen. John McCain's (R-AZ) impending death from brain cancer, President Donald Trump gathered a small group of staffers in the Oval Office.
German Lopez / Vox:
The Trump-Kim Kardashian meeting, explained  —  Kardashian is lobbying Trump to pardon Alice Marie Johnson, a great-grandmother convicted of drug trafficking.  —  President Donald Trump met with Kim Kardashian West on Wednesday.  —  “Great meeting with @KimKardashian today,” Trump tweeted …
Page Six:
Kim Kardashian meets with Trump to discuss prison reform
Discussion: Axios, The Daily Beast and Breitbart
New York Times:
F.B.I. Official Wrote Secret Memo Fearing Trump Got a Cover Story for Comey Firing  —  WASHINGTON — The former acting F.B.I. director, Andrew G. McCabe, wrote a confidential memo last spring recounting a conversation that offered significant behind-the-scenes details on the firing …
BuzzFeed:
Joy Reid Promoted An Infamous 9/11 Conspiracy Documentary On Her Old Blog  —  The MSNBC host, who has recently come under fire for claiming her blog was hacked, encouraged her readers to watch “Loose Change.”  —  MSNBC host Joy Reid encouraged readers of her now-defunct blog to watch …
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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S.V. Date / HuffPost:
Giuliani Says He Might Have Recused Himself From Russia Probe Too  —  The president's lawyer said he understands Trump's frustration but Sessions' recusal is defensible.  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani said that he can fully understand why Attorney General …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump ‘spygate’ offensive loses steam
Roxane Gay / New York Times:
‘Roseanne’ Is Gone, but the Culture That Gave Her a Show Isn't  —  On Twitter on Tuesday, Roseanne Barr wrote that if “muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby =vj.”  The message referred to President Barack Obama's former senior adviser Valerie Jarrett, and in it Ms. Barr traded …
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Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Former Trump Aide Michael Caputo Wants to Give Roseanne Reboot a New Home … Less than 24 hours after the “Roseanne” reboot was canceled, former Trump campaign aide Michael Caputo began plotting ways to get her back on air.  —  Caputo is the chief marketing officer of an online streaming …
Michael O'Connell / Hollywood Reporter:
Ben Sherwood Apologizes to 'Roseanne's' Now-Unemployed Staff in ABC Company Memo
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Michael Crowley / Politico:
The White House Official Trump Says Doesn't Exist
Adam Rawnsley / The Daily Beast:
Satellite Images Show North Korea Scrubbed Nuclear Test Site Before Unilaterally Destroying It
Discussion: Just Security
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Bolton Installs Anti-Muslim Wingnut As NSC Chief of Staff  —  When Donald Trump first took office, his national security adviser was a man who believed that the Florida Democratic Party was working to impose Sharia law on the Sunshine State — and that America's southern border was lined …
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Curt Mills / The National Interest:
Who is Fred Fleitz?  —  The ex-CIA analyst is the former point man …
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Reporters Without Borders:
Nothing justifies faking journalist's murder in Kiev, RSF says
John DiStaso / WMUR:
Exhaustive investigation reveals little evidence of possible voter fraud in NH  —  Secretary of state office, attorney general's office present data to state Ballot Law Commission  —  HIDE TRANSCRIPT SHOW TRANSCRIPT  —  CONCORD, N.H. —  An exhaustive review by state election officials …
Discussion: HuffPost and Balloon Juice
Meghan Lopez / TheDenverChannel.com:
Person calls police on Denver boys' Memorial Day lemonade stand  —  neighbor calls police on boys lemonade stand |  DENVER — Being a mom can be a delicate balance—one that Jennifer Knowles knows all too well.  She just earned her PhD while raising three rambunctious boys with her husband.
Discussion: Power Line
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CBS Denver:
Child's Lemonade Stand Shut Down For Lack Of Permit
Discussion: Daily Wire and IJR
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Senate Intelligence Committee Now Wants to Grill Roger Stone … The Senate intelligence committee has asked to interview Roger Stone, Donald Trump's longtime political adviser and self-described dirty trickster.  —  Stone's lawyer, Grant Smith, told The Daily Beast that the committee …
Discussion: Paste
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Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:   Charlie Kirk Is Working on a Book With Donald Trump Jr.
New York Times:
Big Banks to Get Reprieve from Volcker Rule  —  Big banks are getting a big reprieve from a post-crisis rule aimed at curbing risky behavior on Wall Street.  —  Federal bank regulators on Wednesday unveiled a sweeping plan to soften the Volcker Rule, opening the door for banks to resume …
Discussion: CNBC, Hit & Run, Axios and Mother Jones
Alex Pareene / Splinter:
Chuck Schumer Is Not Cutting It  —  I'm not sure there's a better possible illustration of “not up to the challenges of the political moment” than Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer standing outside a Washington filling station demanding that President Trump lower gas prices.
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Being Jeff Sessions  —  Think of the job that you dreamed you could have when you grew up.  Think of going through your whole life — and in an extraordinary twist of fate and luck and with a smart move — and, finally, that job will be the capstone to your career.
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.
Charles Davis / The Daily Beast:
What Happened to Jill Stein's Recount Millions? … Shortly after the 2016 election, Jill Stein raised more than $7 million from shell-shocked liberals eager to pursue a swing-state recount.  Nearly two years later, the U.S. Green Party's last candidate for president is still spending that money.
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
The Polls Are All Right  —  With the 2018 midterm elections approaching, we've updated FiveThirtyEight's pollster ratings for the first time since the 2016 presidential primaries.  Based on how the media portrayed the polls after President Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton later that year …
Discussion: New York Magazine
Adolfo Flores / BuzzFeed:
A Transgender Woman Who Was Part Of The Migrant Caravan Has Died In ICE Custody  —  “I didn't want to come to Mexico; I wanted to stay in Honduras but I couldn't.”  —  A transgender woman who was part of the caravan of Central American migrants that arrived at the US border earlier …
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Trump's weight-loss regimen: fish and half a bun  —  Washington (CNN)Dietitians have been consulted in the White House kitchens.  Steak has been swapped out for Dover sole, his favored fish.  And hamburger buns have been discarded — or at least the tops have.
Cgilman / ClickHole:
More Bad Press For Elon: The Car Elon Musk Launched Into Orbit Has Fallen Back Down To Earth And Crushed Malala Yousafzai  —  After going on a petulant Twitter tirade against the media that was applauded by anti-Semites and after facing months of scrutiny on his failing businesses …
Arwa Mahdawi / The Guardian:
Wearing glasses may really mean you're smarter, major study finds  —  It's not just a pop culture trope - a University of Edinburgh study has found intelligent people are 30% more likely to have genes related to poor eyesight  —  If you wear glasses I've got some good news: you may well be smarter than the average person.
Discussion: Big Think
 
 
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FOX News Radio:
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Discussion: The Daily Caller
Anna Heyward / Columbia Journalism Review:
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Abby Livingston / The Texas Tribune:
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Discussion: The Daily Caller and RedState
New York Times:
For ‘Columbiners,’ School Shootings Have a Deadly Allure
Discussion: National Review
Henry Olsen / American Greatness:
Gaslighting Themselves: Why Trump Critics Miss the Obvious
Guy Benson / Townhall:
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