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New York Times:
Trump's Lawyers, in Confidential Memo, Argue to Head off a Historic Subpoena  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's lawyers have for months quietly waged a campaign to keep the special counsel from trying to force him to answer questions in the investigation into whether he obstructed justice …
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New York Times:
The Trump Lawyers' Confidential Memo to Mueller, Explained  —  The Times obtained copies of a confidential letter sent by President Trump's lawyers to the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III.  Reporters added context in annotations.  Below it is another letter from the president's lawyers sent last summer.
Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
In newly revealed memo, Trump asserts absolute power over Russia probe  —  In a letter to special counsel Robert Mueller, Trump's legal team argues that it's impossible for the president to commit obstruction — and that even if he did, he could pardon himself.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Senate Republicans Are Newly Hopeful About the Midterms.  For Good Reason.  —  WASHINGTON — After a turbulent first year confronting friendly fire from President Trump, Senate Republicans are entering the summer before the midterm elections feeling more hopeful about retaining their narrow majority …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump allies gang up on Gowdy  —  The GOP lawmaker was once a conservative hero.  Now he's under fire on the right for balking at Trump's ‘spygate’ theory.  —  Rep. Trey Gowdy has been a pitbull investigator for Republicans for years.  Now, he's is in President Donald Trump's doghouse …
Discussion: RedState and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Breaking from GOP orthodoxy, Trump increasingly deciding winners and losers in the economy  —  President Trump is increasingly intervening in the economy, making decisions about corporate winners and losers in ways that Republicans for decades have insisted should be left to free markets — not the government.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
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Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Trump Is Preparing to Prop Up Unprofitable Coal Plants With ‘Emergency’ Subsidies
New York Times:
A Courtside View of Scott Pruitt's Cozy Ties With a Billionaire Coal Baron  —  Three Bodies Found at House Where Massachusetts Kidnapping Suspect Lived  —  Obama Soothed.  Trump Stirs.  How 2 Presidents Have Tackled Racial Flare-Ups.  —  Technology »  —  Worried About Big Tech?
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Eric Lipton / New York Times:   Lobbyist Whose Wife Rented a Condo to Scott Pruitt Failed to Disclose E.P.A. Lobbying
New York Post:
Deadbeat son claims he's too broke to pay child support  —  He's not just a deadbeat son, he's also a deadbeat dad.  —  Michael Rotondo — the 30-year-old upstate man whose own parents sued him to get him out of the house — complained he was too broke to pay child support for his 8-year-old son …
Discussion: Syracuse Post-Standard and IJR
New York Times:
Trump Veers to a Korea Plan That Echoes Failures of the Past  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump never tires of pointing out that his predecessors left him the “mess” of a nuclear-armed North Korea — a legacy of errors he vows not to repeat.  —  But as Mr. Trump announced Friday …
Discussion: Shareblue Media
The Sun:
THE HOUNDING OF THE BICYCLES Benedict ­Cumberbatch saves defenceless Deliveroo cyclist from brutal assault by gang of four muggers  —  The star leapt to the rescue near Sherlock's fictional home in Baker Street as the yobs ‘punched the cyclist and smashed him over the head’
Kenneth Partridge / Billboard:
Bruce Springsteen's ‘Darkness on the Edge of Town’ at 40: Nighttime, Freedom & the Eternal Chase  —  In the Bruce Springsteen songwriting universe, nothing good ever happens in the daytime.  The hours between sunup and sundown are when you sweat it out on the streets, work on the highway …
Peter Berkowitz / Real Clear Politics:
Duke Erodes Liberal Education  —  On May 8, the Duke University student newspaper published a stirring letter addressed to the school community that was co-signed by 101 students and former students.  The letter protested the decision of the university's Sanford School of Public Policy …
Discussion: FIRE
Associated Press:
Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows  —  WASHINGTON — Guest lineups for the Sunday TV news shows:  —  ABC's “This Week” — White House National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow.  —  ___  —  NBC's “Meet the Press” — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau; Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump's personal lawyer.
Edward Malnick / Telegraph:
Russia should be suspended from Interpol after using international arrest warrant to detain Putin critic, MPs say  —  MPs will urge the Home Secretary to intervene over Russia's “abuse” of Interpol to target a prominent British critic of Vladimir Putin.  —  A cross-party group …
Discussion: Raw Story
Ian Lovett / Wall Street Journal:
Some Younger Evangelicals Waver in Support for Israel  —  Generational split reflects concern over Palestinians, spurring outreach by some churches and groups  —  JERUSALEM—Growing up in evangelical Christian churches, Caleb Fitzpatrick learned quickly to be a steadfast supporter of Israel.
Kansas City Star:
This ‘replica’ in the jeep next to Kobach stunned some onlookers at Shawnee parade  —  Kris Kobach made his way through a parade in Johnson County Saturday morning, waving from an American flag colored jeep with a large gun mounted in back.  —  The sight of Kobach, a Republican candidate …
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Did exactly 4,645 people die in Hurricane Maria?  Nope.  —  Few academic studies have received as much media coverage as a new report, published by the New England Journal of Medicine, that the death toll in Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria was much higher than official estimates of 64.
Discussion: twitchy.com, GitHub, Axios and Latino USA
Associated Press:
NATO chief says alliance won't aid Israel if Iran attacks  —  BERLIN (AP) — NATO's secretary-general says the alliance wouldn't come to Israel's defense in case of attack by arch enemy Iran.  —  Jens Stoltenberg told the magazine Der Spiegel in comments published Saturday that Israel is a partner …
Fareed Zakaria / Washington Post:
Steve Bannon's clever idea to save the GOP from brutal midterms  —  The Republican Party faces dim prospects in the midterm elections.  But it doesn't have to be that way, says Stephen K. Bannon, the chief ideologist of the populist wave that brought Donald Trump into the White House.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Wall Street Journal:
Steel Tariffs Are Taxing Some American Companies  —  U.S. firms say some customers are opting to import finished goods rather than absorb price increases; ‘a nightmare for steel consumers’  —  New tariffs intended to bolster the American steel and aluminum industries are starting …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Allison Horn / WFTX:
Another portion of the border wall is under construction in San Diego  —  SAN DIEGO — Construction started Friday on the US-Mexico border wall project at Border Field State Park, the third project in San Diego County.  —  The work will replace about 14 miles of scrap metal wall that stands …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Trump slams ‘the resistance’ in weekly address  —  tore into the so-called resistance of Democrats opposed to his agenda on Saturday, accusing them of “resisting the will of the American voter.”  —  In his weekly address, Trump blamed Democrats for slow-walking many of his nominees through …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
PredictWise:
Trade Benefits Both Sides  —  President Trump is going to fail in any trade negotiations because he is a terrible negotiator.  But, even more important in this case, he literally does not understand trade, which makes it very hard to do well in a negotiation.  —  Trump is a bad negotiator.
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Herbert Hoover's Ghost  —  In 2014 I published a book called “America in Retreat,” with the subtitle, “The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder.”  Though an entire chapter is devoted to a critique of Tea Party foreign policy, it was mainly a lament about what I saw …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Susan Davis / NPR:
GOP Lawmaker Requested ‘Sensitive’ Email Audit Of His Own Staff  —  On Monday, freshman Rep. Tom Garrett, R-Va., announced he will not seek re-election.  On Wednesday, he requested an investigation into his own congressional staff.  —  “This is (a) SENSITIVE request on behalf of the member …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
The Guardian:
The case for quarantining extremist ideas  —  When confronted with white supremacists, newspaper editors should consider ‘strategic silence’  —  George Lincoln Rockwell, the head of the American Nazi party, had a simple media strategy in the 1960s.  He wrote in his autobiography …
Tom McCarthy / The Guardian:
Donald Trump and the erosion of democratic norms in America  —  For some, the president's efforts to undermine the justice department and the Mueller investigation represent a threat to democracy  —  Ask people with deep knowledge of the US justice department about the damage Donald Trump might …
Discussion: Attorney IO
 
 
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Foreign Policy:
U.S. Close to Imposing Sanctions on European Companies in Russian Pipeline Project
Discussion: Sputnik International
Alex Pickett / courthousenews.com:
In Florida, Long Fight for Restored Vote Often Ends in Minutes
Thomas Gibbons-Neff / New York Times:
Mattis Accuses Beijing of ‘Intimidation and Coercion’ in South China Sea
Discussion: IJR, The Daily Caller and Axios
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
New Hampshire Police Charged and Arrested a Man for Criticizing Them on the Internet
Discussion: Portsmouth Herald
Shannon Vavra / Axios:
Eric Holder: Trump's pardons will not “thwart” Mueller investigation
Michael Biesecker / Associated Press:
Ex-chemical industry lawyer to lead Superfund task force
Annie Kelly / New York Times:
The Housewives of White Supremacy
Discussion: ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES
Stephanie Nebehay / Reuters:
America's poor becoming more destitute under Trump: U.N. expert
 Earlier Items: 
Steve Rubenstein / San Francisco Chronicle:
California adds 8th state to travel ban list: Oklahoma
Economist:
The not-quite-Gulag archipelago
Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
This Factory Was Ready to Expand. Then Came the Trump Trade Wars.
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
A society ripped apart by full-frontal incivility
Discussion: Raw Story, The Guardian and CBS Dallas
David M. Herszenhorn / Politico:
Pedro Sánchez sworn in as Spain's prime minister
David Siders / Politico:
Obama to headline DNC fundraiser
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Henry Mance / Financial Times:
Jordan Peterson: 'One thing I'm not is naive'
John Paul Rollert / BuzzFeed:
Trump's Power Isn't Fear. It's Fatigue.
Discussion: The Atlantic