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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 …
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Playbook: Trump flubs endorsement of N.Y. congressman — DRIVING THE DAY — AT 4:46 P.M. yesterday afternoon, PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP delivered REP. DAN DONOVAN (R-N.Y.) an endorsement the lawmaker had long been waiting for. Donovan is running against MICHAEL GRIMM, a former House Republican who was recently in prison.
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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.
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Annie Karni / Politico:
Email snafu reveals White House outreach to Obama and Clinton alumni — Recipients of a blast email were asked to ‘amplify’ Trump's policy on Iran — baffling some who have sharply disagreed with the president in public. — President Donald Trump is better known for speaking directly to his base than trying to win over his critics.
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Yes, the FBI Was Investigating the Trump Campaign When It Spied — Trey Gowdy and Marco Rubio evidently paid little attention to testimony before their own committees on how Obama officials made the Trump campaign the subject of a counterintelligence investigation. — Well, well, well.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump ‘spygate’ offensive loses steam — Legal experts and Trump critics say the defections have exposed cracks in the president's narrative. — President Donald Trump's claim that the FBI embedded a spy in his campaign for political purposes began to crumble Wednesday after a prominent Republican …
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The Week, Booman Tribune and Washington Monthly
Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
Trey Gowdy Didn't Even See Documents He Claims Exonerate FBI On Spygate: Reports
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Dennis Romboy / Deseret News:
Mitt Romney reveals his 2016 presidential vote — SALT LAKE CITY — Mitt Romney revealed Wednesday who he voted for in the 2016 presidential election. — His wife, Ann Romney. — “I wrote in the name of a person who I admire deeply, who I think would be an excellent president,” …
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Abigail Hauslohner / Washington Post:
New NSC chief of staff is from group that believes Muslims are plotting to take over U.S. — The White House has named a new National Security Council chief of staff from a group that propagates the conspiracy theory that Islamists have infiltrated the U.S. government in a plot to take over the country.
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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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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 …
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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.
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Chicago Tribune:
Illinois approves Equal Rights Amendment, 36 years after deadline — The Illinois House voted on the federal Equal Rights Amendment, more than 35 years after the deadline to ratify it passed. (Erin Hooley / Chicago Tribune) — Privacy Policy — The Illinois House voted Wednesday night …
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Tina Sfondeles / Chicago Sun-Times:
Dawn of an ERA? State House passes Equal Rights Amendment — 95 years later
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Associated Press:
Trump plans to go ahead with steel, aluminum tariffs on EU — President Donald Trump's administration is planning to impose tariffs on European steel and aluminum imports after failing to win concessions from the European Union, a move that could provoke retaliatory tariffs and inflame trans-Atlantic trade tensions.
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JONATHAN LEMIRE, ERIC TUCKER and LISA MASCARO / Asso …:
Saving Sessions: Inside the GOP effort to protect the AG — WASHINGTON (AP) — Days after President Donald Trump deemed Jeff Sessions “beleaguered” and threatened to fire him last July, members of the president's inner circle made a desperate case to save the attorney general's job.
Washington Post:
Pompeo and North Korean official will try to salvage nuclear summit with New York skyline below them — NEW YORK — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will hold a crucial meeting Thursday morning with the right-hand man to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to see if they can salvage …
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Adam Rawnsley / The Daily Beast:
Satellite Images Show North Korea Scrubbed Nuclear Test Site Before Unilaterally Destroying It
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Politico and One America News Network
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
California Democrats Don't Have a Reliable Farm Team — Preemptive finger-pointing is already starting among Democrats as they grow increasingly concerned that Tuesday's California primary could deal a painful blow to their hopes of recapturing the House of Representatives.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Mitch McConnell's record-breaking reign — The 76-year-old senator has made clear he plans to run again in 2020 and keep leading the Republican conference. — One of Mitch McConnell's toughest tasks is the daily head count he conducts of his 50-member caucus.
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Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Trump Immigration Policy Veers From Abhorrent to Evil — We as a nation have crossed so many ugly lines recently, yet one new policy of President Trump's particularly haunts me. I'm speaking of the administration's tactic of seizing children from desperate refugees at the border.
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Matt Stevens / New York Times:
Jury Leaves $4 to Family of Man Killed by Sheriff's Deputy, Along With Many Questions — For more than four years, questions swirled about the shooting death of Gregory Vaughn Hill Jr. at his home in Fort Pierce, Fla. After all, there were only three witnesses to how the entire episode unfolded …
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Althouse
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.
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Tyler McCarthy / Fox News:
Roseanne Barr says she may fight ABC firing, retweets claim Michelle Obama was behind ouster — Roseanne Barr made it clear on Wednesday she's considering fighting ABC's move to cancel her revival after her racist tweet — and the comic even pushed an accusation that former first lady Michelle Obama was behind her ouster.
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John Harwood / CNBC:
In America's racial din, ABC's decision on ‘Roseanne’ reflects a turn toward tolerance
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Laura Vozzella / Washington Post:
Virginia General Assembly approves Medicaid expansion to 400,000 low-income residents — RICHMOND — The Virginia legislature voted Wednesday to make government health insurance available to 400,000 low-income residents, overcoming five years of GOP resistance.
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Virginia's state Senate just voted to expand Medicaid
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
‘I Will Never Roll on Donald Trump,’ Promises Definitely Innocent Adviser Roger Stone — Roger Stone, a longtime confidante to Donald Trump, appeared on the Alex Jones show to ask listeners to fund his legal defense. Stone's associates have been questioned by Robert Mueller's investigators …
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Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
Howard Stern Reveals Trump Asked Him to Speak at the Republican National Convention … In an early teaser clip of David Letterman's Netflix series My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, the comedy legend sat down with another comedy giant in Howard Stern, with the two discussing President …
Alexandra Jardine / Ad Age:
Gunning is Imperial Woodpecker's first female director, Chen joins Stink — Lisa Gunning is signing with Imperial Woodpecker for first-time representation as a director in the U.S. She is the first woman to join the roster at Imperial Woodpecker. Gunning worked for many years as a film …
Caleb Melby / Bloomberg:
Trump's Net Worth Slides to $2.8 Billion, Lowest Since Campaign — Golf courses, Trump Tower in Manhattan lost value last year — Value of Washington hotel jumped $30 million as debt decreased — President Donald Trump's net worth slipped to $2.8 billion, a decline of $100 million …
Associated Press:
Denmark joins some European nations in banning burqa, niqab — COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark joined some other European countries in deciding Thursday to ban garments that cover the face, including Islamic veils such as the niqab or burqa. — In a 75-30 vote with 74 absentees …
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ProPublica:
Pictures From an Interrogation: Drawings by Abu Zubaydah — Sketches by the terror suspect, who has been held in CIA captivity since 2002, have been released under the Freedom of Information Act. They are published here for the first time. — The CIA spent years trying to probe the mind of Abu Zubaydah …
Scott Wong / The Hill:
Arizona governor huddles with John and Cindy McCain — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey on Tuesday quietly met with Sen. John McCain — (R) and his wife, Cindy, at the couple's home outside Sedona, Ariz., GOP sources in the state told The Hill. — The meeting, which was not on the governor's official schedule …
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Mark Joyella / Forbes:
Fox News Steamrolls Cable News Competition With Big Win In May Ratings — What happened to the rise of MSNBC? After showing historic growth—and a few months in 2017 when Rachel Maddow took the title of most-watched host in all of cable news, beating Fox News Channel's Sean Hannity …
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Tim Kenneally / The Wrap:
STX Beats Lawsuit Over ‘Happytime Murders’ Trailer With ‘Ejaculating Puppets’ — Sesame Workshop filed its trademark infringement lawsuit last week — The lawsuit over “The Happytime Murders” trailer featuring “ejaculating puppets” reached an explosive climax on Wednesday …
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