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5:35 PM ET, May 31, 2018

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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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The Daily Beast:
White House Demands TBS Cancel Samantha Bee's Show  —  White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders slammed comedienne Samantha Bee's comments about Ivanka Trump on Thursday.  “The language used by Samantha Bee last night is vile and vicious.  The collective silence by the left …
Sonia Rao / Washington Post:
Samantha Bee apologizes for calling Ivanka Trump a vulgar word after White House condemnation  —  Ivanka Trump sparked online outrage earlier this week when she tweeted a photo of herself with her younger son around the same time as reports circulated that the U.S. government had lost track of nearly 1,500 migrant children last year.
Lisa de Moraes / Deadline:
White House Blasts Samantha Bee Over Ivanka Slur, Demands TBS Cancel Show  —  The White House this morning blasted Samantha Bee and TBS over Bee having called White House staffer/ First Daughter Ivanka Trump a “feckless c**t” in a segment about President Donald Trump's immigration policy.
Discussion: Politico and Hollywood Life
Maegan Vazquez / CNN:
White House says Samantha Bee's attack on Ivanka Trump was ‘vile and vicious’
Saagar Enjeti / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Dinesh D'Souza Tells Backstory Of His Pardon  —  FBI Spy Stefan Halper's Media Contacts Could Pose A Problem, Retired FBI Officials Say  —  INVESTIGATIVE GROUP |  CHUCK ROSS  —  EXCLUSIVE: First Lady's Office Responds To Samantha Bee's Vulgar Tirade: ‘Double Standard Is Truly Astounding’
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New York Times:
Trump Pardons Dinesh D'Souza, Weighs Leniency for Rod Blagojevich and Martha Stewart  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump on Thursday pardoned Dinesh D'Souza, a conservative author, commentator and filmmaker, and said he was strongly considering commuting the sentence of former Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich of Illinois, a Democrat.
BuzzFeed:
Trump Allies Don't See “Three-Dimensional Chess” In Dinesh D'Souza's Pardon  —  “More often than not he's just eating the pieces.”  —  Reporting From Washington, DC  —  President Donald Trump's announcement that he was pardoning far-right commentator Dinesh D'Souza, who pleaded guilty …
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Trump Is Weaponizing Pardons
Discussion: HuffPost, CNN and USA Today
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump pardons conservative pundit Dinesh D'Souza, suggests others could be coming
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump's self-serving pardons
Discussion: New York Times, ABC News and Vox
Tim Mak / NPR:
LISTEN: How Michael Cohen Protects Trump By Making Legal Threats  —  Donald Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen is facing legal peril, including an FBI raid of his home and office — and involvement in a civil lawsuit with porn star Stormy Daniels.  —  But in the past, it was Cohen who has sought …
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Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
Stormy's lawyer was told to choose between his job and TV appearances. He chose TV
Discussion: VICE News
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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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Conservative billionaire Koch brothers' network denounces Trump's tariffs on EU, Canada and Mexico
Discussion: NTK Network
CNBC:   Dow drops 300 points after EU, Canada say they will retaliate to Trump's tariffs
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Trump repeatedly pressured Sessions on Mueller investigation  —  President Trump pressured Attorney General Jeff Sessions to reclaim control of the Russia investigation on at least four separate occasions, three times in person and once over the phone, according to sources familiar with the conversations.
Discussion: CNN and New York Magazine
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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”
Discussion: Politico and Breitbart
Sam Meredith / CNBC:
Trump reportedly said he wants to stop German luxury car imports in the US  — Trump reportedly told French President Emmanuel Macron last month that he would maintain his trade policy with the aim of stopping Mercedes-Benz models from driving down Fifth Avenue in New York.
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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 …
BuzzFeed:
Joy Reid's Blog Published A Photoshopped Image Of John McCain As The Virginia Tech Shooter  —  The MSNBC host's controversial old blog posts continue to surface, as Reid and the network stick to hacking claims.  —  MSNBC host Joy Reid's new-defunct blog published an image …
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 …
Discussion: The Guardian
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 …
Discussion: IJR
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Lauren Meier / Axios:
Pompeo: “Real progress” toward Trump-Kim summit
Discussion: ABC News and Politico
VICE News:
Google listed “Nazism” as the ideology of the California Republican Party  —  Less than a week before the California primary, Google listed “Nazism” as the ideology of the California Republican Party.  —  In the “knowledge panel” that provides easy access to information next to search results …
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.
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
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”
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
White House once touted FBI informant's support for Trump's trade agenda  —  Before President Donald Trump tagged him a “spy” who had “infiltrated” his campaign, Stefan Halper had a different relationship with the White House: helping advance Trump's trade agenda with China.
Discussion: New York Magazine
Rene Marsh / CNN:
First on CNN: US Secret Service overpaid presidential campaigns $4 million for plane travel  —  Washington (CNN)The US Secret Service overpaid presidential campaigns an estimated $4 million for plane travel during the 2016 election, a government watchdog says in a new report obtained by CNN.
Discussion: Axios and The Daily Caller
Allison Barrie / Fox News:
School shootings: This cannon fires unbelievable ammo to blast through walls and help rescue victims  —  A powerful modern-day cannon fires water bottles as cannonballs - smashing strong walls in mere seconds.  —  The humble, ordinary water cooler bottle used in offices all across America becomes …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Splinter
 
 
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Alex / Vox:
The record-low birthrate offers yet another sign that millennials are economically screwed
Discussion: Mother Jones and Democrats.com
Brendan Pierson / Reuters:
Goldman Sachs vice president charged with insider trading
Associated Press:
Italy edges toward populist-led government on second try
Discussion: Politico
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Meghan McCain fires back at Trump
Discussion: IJR
Sabrina Siddiqui / The Guardian:
Liberals' worst nightmare: a second supreme court pick for Trump
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump's self-serving pardons
Juliet Macur / New York Times:
N.F.L.'s Alternate ‘Cheerleaders’ Don't Cheer or Dance
Discussion: ProFootballTalk
Michael David Smith / ProFootballTalk:
Kaepernick's lawyer hints someone is ready to “dime out the NFL”
Discussion: The Root
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America's Teens Are Choosing YouTube Over Facebook
Aram Roston / BuzzFeed:
Jerry Falwell Jr. And A Young Pool Attendant Are Embroiled In A Lawsuit Over A Miami Beach Hostel
Discussion: New York Magazine
Emily Nussbaum / New Yorker:
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Caitlin Dewey / Washington Post:
White America's racial resentment is the real impetus for welfare cuts, study says
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Right About Roseanne  —  Of course ABC and its parent company Disney …
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New NSC chief of staff is from group that believes Muslims are plotting to take over U.S.
 

 
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