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Washington Post:
Trump imposes steel and aluminum tariffs on the European Union, Canada and Mexico  —  By Washington Post Staff May 31 at 9:43 AM  —  The move is certain to trigger retaliation by the E.U. against a range of American products, including Kentucky bourbon and Harley-Davidson motorcycles …
Discussion: Axios
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Ana Swanson / New York Times:
White House to Impose Metal Tariffs on Europe, Canada and Mexico, Risking Retaliation  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration announced on Thursday that it would impose tariffs on metals imported from its closest allies, a measure that could provoke retaliation against American businesses.
Discussion: Axios and Daily Wire
Christian Oliver / Politico:
EU announces retaliation against Trump tariffs
Associated Press:
The Latest: Trade dispute hits stock prices for US companies
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:   Conservative billionaire Koch brothers' network denounces Trump's tariffs on EU, Canada and Mexico
CNBC:   Dow drops 300 points after EU, Canada say they will retaliate to Trump's tariffs
Saagar Enjeti / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Dinesh D'Souza Tells Backstory Of His Pardon  —  Republican Sen. Ted Cruz was the major impetus behind the Thursday pardon of Dinesh D'Souza, the conservative activist tells The Daily Caller.  —  D'Souza noted that he and his wife had dinner with Cruz approximately a month ago.
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump offers pardon to conservative pundit Dinesh D'Souza, suggests others could be coming  —  President Trump announced Thursday that he would offer a full pardon to conservative pundit Dinesh D'Souza, who pleaded guilty in 2014 to violating federal campaign finance laws but later said he was targeted for his conservative views.
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Trump Is Weaponizing the Pardon Power
Discussion: CNN, twitchy.com and The Gateway Pundit
Oliver Willis / Shareblue Media:
Trump to pardon despicable, hate-spewing fanboy felon who pleaded guilty
Discussion: HuffPost, The Guardian and Hullabaloo
Associated Press:
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.
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BuzzFeed:
Trump Allies Don't See “Three-Dimensional Chess” In Dinesh D'Souza's Pardon
Discussion: The Week
Jason Meisner / Chicago Tribune:   Trump says he's considering commuting sentence of imprisoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich
Jon Levine / The Wrap:
White House Condemns ‘Vile and Vicious’ Samantha Bee, Calls on Time Warner, TBS to Act  —  “Time Warner and TBS must demonstrate that such explicit profanity about female members of this administration will not be condoned,” White House press secretary tells TheWrap
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Ken Haddad / WDIV-TV:
John Boehner in Michigan: ‘Republican Party is taking a nap somewhere’  —  Boehner sits down with Local 4's Devin Scillian  —  MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. - Former Speaker of the House John Boehner delivered a keynote address and was joined by Devin Scillian during the 2018 Mackinac Policy Conference on Thursday morning.
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Michael Sykes / Axios:
Boehner: “There is no Republican party.  There's a Trump party”  —  Former Speaker of the House John Boehner said the Republican party has lost its identity and is “taking a nap” somewhere at a political conference in Michigan on Thursday morning.  —  “There is no Republican party.  There's a Trump party.”
Discussion: Politico 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 …
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Playbook: Trump flubs endorsement of N.Y. congressman
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump bends the truth as he tries to beat back Russia probe
Discussion: Washington Post, NBC News and The Week
Bradley Hope / Wall Street Journal:
British Expert on the Royal Family Is Actually Tommy From Upstate New York  —  As the royal wedding unfolded, Thomas J. Mace-Archer-Mills, Esq. was on screen to enlighten many on the monarchy; he's from north of Albany  —  When Britain's Prince Harry and American actress Meghan Markle walked …
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Right About Roseanne  —  Of course ABC and its parent company Disney were right to cancel the sitcom “Roseanne” after its eponymous star, Roseanne Barr, wrote a racist tweet.  There are necessary taboos and essential decencies in every morally healthy society.
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Steve Holland / Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump - nuclear deal may take more than one meeting with North Korea's Kim  —  ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday it may take more than one meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to seal a denuclearization deal and that he would like Pyongyang …
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Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
Trump to impose total ban on luxury German cars: report  —  wants to impose a total ban on the imports of German luxury cars, according to a new report from CNBC and German magazine WirtschaftsWoche.  —  Several U.S. and European diplomats told the news outlets that Trump told French President …
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 …
Discussion: Splinter, Raw Story and Althouse
Hallie Jackson / MSNBC:
At least 8 white nationalists running for federal office  —  MSNBC's Morgan Radford spoke with white nationalists who are running for federal office this year on the Republican ticket.  According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, at least eight white nationalists are running, more than ever before.
Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
Trey Gowdy Didn't Even See Documents He Claims Exonerate FBI On Spygate: Reports  —  Gowdy claimed that the FBI's use of spies against the Trump campaign was perfectly proper, but multiple reports indicate he never even saw the full records Congress subpoenaed on the matter.
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Yes, the FBI Was Investigating the Trump Campaign When It Spied
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
FBI Spy Stefan Halper's Media Contacts Could Pose A Problem, Retired FBI Officials Say  — FBI spy Stefan Halper interacted with the media multiple times, according to a Cambridge researcher  — Former senior FBI officials said the interactions could be a cause for concern for the FBI, one calling them “highly irregular”
Aram Roston / BuzzFeed:
Jerry Falwell Jr. And A Young Pool Attendant Are Embroiled In A Lawsuit Over A Miami Beach Hostel  —  Trump's fixer Michael Cohen helped arrange Falwell's pivotal endorsement of Donald Trump, the first by a major evangelical.  —  Influential evangelical leader and Donald Trump backer Jerry Falwell Jr. went …
Emily Nussbaum / New Yorker:
“The Americans” Finale Was Elegant, Potent, and Unforgettable  —  Were you craving a bit more bloodshed from the finale of FX's “The Americans”?  Some tooth-pulling ultraviolence, or maybe another corpse crunched into a briefcase, on the long road to Moscow?  If so, you were clearly watching the wrong show.
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,” …
Caitlin Dewey / Washington Post:
White America's racial resentment is the real impetus for welfare cuts, study says  —  White Americans are increasingly critical of the country's social safety net, a new study suggests, thanks in part to a rising tide of racial resentment.  —  The study, conducted by researchers …
 
 
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