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Matt Apuzzo / New York Times:
Mueller Accuses Paul Manafort of Attempted Witness Tampering  —  Federal prosecutors on Monday accused President Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, of attempting to tamper with witnesses in his federal tax and lobbying case.  —  In court documents, prosecutors working for the special counsel …
Discussion: The Week and Daily Kos
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Eric Beech / Reuters:
Manafort attempted to tamper with potential witnesses: U.S. special counsel  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, who has been indicted by U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller, attempted to tamper with potential witnesses, Mueller said in a court filing on Monday.
Discussion: BuzzFeed, CNN, Splinter and Political Wire
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Mueller accuses Manafort of witness tampering  —  Special counsel Robert Mueller's office on Monday accused Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman, of tampering with witnesses ahead of his upcoming trial on charges involving illegal lobbying work.
Discussion: ABC News, Axios and Breitbart
Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
Howard Schultz to Step Down as Starbucks Executive Chairman  —  SEATTLE — Howard Schultz, the outspoken executive chairman of Starbucks, will leave the company at the end of the month, bringing to an end the tenure of a socially conscious entrepreneur who turned a local Seattle coffee chain …
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Sarah Whitten / CNBC:
Howard Schultz, architect of modern Starbucks, to step down as executive chair and from the board  — Howard Schultz is stepping down from his role as executive chairman of Starbucks, effective June 26.  — Myron E. Ullman, former chairman and CEO of J.C. Penney was named chair …
Richard Primus / Politico:
Trump's Travel Ban Is in Trouble at the Supreme Court  —  Justice Kennedy's ruling in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case suggests the court's next big decision might go badly for the president.  —  In a much-anticipated decision Monday morning, the Supreme Court ruled - by a vote of 7 to 2 …
Discussion: Reason and Take Care Blog
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Sides With Baker Who Turned Away Gay Couple
Amy Howe / SCOTUSblog:
Opinion analysis: Court rules (narrowly) for baker in same-sex-wedding-cake case [Updated]
Discussion: Power Line and Outside the Beltway
CNN:
Bolton sidelined as Trump readies for North Korea  —  Pompeo: Kim Jong Un's ex-spy to deliver letter  —  Washington (CNN)As President Donald Trump huddled in the Oval Office on Friday with Kim Jong Un's right-hand man, he was accompanied by only one other US official: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Discussion: Politico and KTLA
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Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Why Melania Trump's vanishing act matters  —  WASHINGTON — First lady Melania Trump has all but vanished.  —  She hasn't been seen with President Donald Trump at a public event since May 10, four days before she underwent surgery for a kidney problem.  She won't be at her husband's side …
Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:
H.R. McMaster Is Shopping A Book Around  —  Political books are hot — and the former national security adviser might want in.  —  Former National Security Adviser Gen. H.R. McMaster is shopping a book around to publishers, his agent confirmed to BuzzFeed News, becoming the latest figure …
Matt Apuzzo / New York Times:
Trump Team Pushed False Story Line About Meeting With Kremlin-Tied Lawyer, Memo Shows  —  WASHINGTON — For nearly a year, the denials from President Trump's lawyers and spokeswoman were unequivocal.  No, the president did not dictate a misleading statement released in his son's name.
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Washington Post:
Trump's legal team readies for fraught showdown with Mueller, even as president declares broad powers  —  Despite President Trump's declarations that he has expansive powers that could blunt the special-counsel investigation, his legal team is preparing for the possibility of a presidential interview …
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CNN:
Trump's executive privilege argument is a loser
Discussion: The Atlantic and Washington Post
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
The likely next speaker of the House is a mindless sycophant  —  On the evidence of House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy's CNN interview over the weekend, the likely next speaker of the House is a mindless sycophant and a threat to the constitutional order.  —  Confronted with a simple …
Discussion: CNN
Ken Klippenstein / The Daily Beast:
Inside the Mysterious Intelligence Firm Now in Mueller's Sights … In the fall of 2016, Donald Trump Jr. and other key aides to the future president reportedly met in Trump Tower with Joel Zamel, the founder of a company called Wikistrat.  —  Wikistrat bills itself as a “crowdsourced” …
Discussion: Bloomberg.com
Washington Post:
Pruitt had aide do numerous personal tasks, including a hunt for a used Trump hotel mattress  —  In mid-September, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator's director of scheduling and advance, Millan Hupp, reached out to the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., with an unusual request.
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Anthony Adragna / Politico:
Pruitt wanted to buy ‘old mattress’ from Trump International Hotel  —  Two senior House Oversight Democrats are demanding Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) subpoena Scott Pruitt for documents after one of his closest aides told congressional investigators the EPA administrator had her book …
Jacqueline Klimas / Politico:
Pentagon investigates White House doctor Ronny Jackson  —  The Pentagon's inspector general is investigating President Donald Trump's former personal physician, who was accused of unprofessional behavior while being considered to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Discussion: ABC News and Splinter
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Deana Gamble / Mayor Kenney's Statement …:   Mayor Kenney's Statement on Eagles Cancelled White House Visit
Courier-Journal:
Crowd cheers when valedictorian quotes Trump.  Then reveals it was Obama  —  Ben Bowling graduation speech Courtesy of Ben Bowling  —  Bell County high school student and valedictorian Ben Bowling wanted to share some words of wisdom with his graduating class, but there was a twist that no one saw coming.
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Laura M. Holson / New York Times:   Kentucky Crowd Cheers Valedictorian's Trump Quote, Then Learns Obama Said It
Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
Special master in Michael Cohen case finds few privileged items in initial review of files  —  A court appointed watchdog in the case of President Donald Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, released an initial report Monday which found that relatively few documents in an initial tranche seized …
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Bloomberg:   Cohen Document Review So Far Yields Few Items Prosecutors Can't See
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Papadopoulos' Wife: Trump Aide Was ‘Absolutely Not’ Involved In Russian Collusion  —  George Papadopoulos' wife, Simona Mangiante, said her husband was not involved in collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government and that he pleaded guilty in the special counsel's investigation …
Caleb Ecarma / Mediaite:
VA GOP Senate Front-Runner Praised White Nationalist and Named Apparent Neo-Nazi ‘Volunteer of the Week’  —  Corey Stewart, the GOP front-runner in Virginia's Senate race, called white nationalist Paul Nehlen “one of my personal heroes” on-camera and praised an apparent neo-Nazi his campaign's official “volunteer of the week.”
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Kassy Dillon / Daily Wire:
WATCH: VA Senate Candidate Corey Stewart Calls Anti-Semite Paul Nehlen ‘Hero’
Discussion: Raw Story and Shareblue Media
Erin Gloria Ryan / The Daily Beast:
Bill Clinton's #MeToo Defense Is Shocking … Bill Clinton just doesn't fucking get it.  And he never will.  —  The former president sat down with NBC's Craig Melvin recently to hawk a book.  Melvin, thankfully, didn't stick to talking about the book that TV talk show hosts will spend the next few weeks pretending to have read.
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Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Bill Clinton: I wouldn't have done anything differently in Lewinsky scandal even in #MeToo era
Daily Mail:
Sailor pardoned by Trump is SUING Obama and Comey for going easy on Hillary Clinton but sending him to prison after he photographed classified area of nuclear sub  — Kristian Saucier spent 1 year in federal prison for taking souvenir photos of a classified area aboard the nuclear sub where he worked as a U.S. Navy sailor
U.S. Department of Justice:
Former Defense Intelligence Officer Arrested for Attempted Espionage  —  Ron Rockwell Hansen, 58, a resident of Syracuse, Utah, and a former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) officer, was arrested Saturday afternoon on federal charges including the attempted transmission of national defense information to the People's Republic of China.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
CNN:
Trump's phone call with Macron described as ‘terrible’  —  Washington (CNN)A call about trade and migration between US President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron soured last week after Macron candidly criticized Trump's policies, two sources familiar with the call told CNN.
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
DNC Deputy Chair Ellison expected to run for Minnesota AG  —  The move would leave the party committee without a leader of the Bernie Sanders wing.  —  Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) is expected to make a last-minute entry into the race for Minnesota attorney general on Tuesday, according to two people familiar with his plans.
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
What GOP cowering has gotten us: Talk of self-pardon and absolute power  —  Republican congressional leadership has repeatedly refused to stand up to President Trump — be it over threats to fire the special counsel, smears of the FBI or other attempts to delegitimize the investigation into Russian interference in our election.
Tyler Durden / Zero Hedge:
It's Now Against The Law In California To Shower And Do Laundry On The Same Day  —  Authored by Daisy Luther via The Organic Prepper blog,  —  Governor Jerry Brown is retiring but not before he passes a few draconian laws as parting gifts for California.  Two bills were signed into law …
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
4 states could expand Medicaid this year.  That's a big deal.  —  2018 is shaping up to be a watershed year for Obamacare's Medicaid expansion.  —  Virginia's legislature signed onto the expansion of coverage for low-income Americans last week.  Three additional states are looking at doing …
Discussion: Politico, Axios and Reuters
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
No, Conservatives, Rod Blagojevich Is Not a Sympathetic Figure … If you're looking to get a presidential pardon, the new strategy seems to be to go on Fox News, suck up to the president, and attack his enemies (President Obama, the Justice Department, etc).
Discussion: Raw Story, RedState and twitchy.com
Sarah Jones / Columbia Journalism Review:
The great remove  —  How journalism got so out of touch with the people it covers  —  To become a journalist, Rajaa Elidrissi knew she would need a strategy.  Growing up in a low-income household in Elmhurst, Queens, she started collecting clips at age 13.
 
 
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GOP staffers who wrote the tax bill cash in with lobbying gigs
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Billionaire Koch brothers' political network will spend millions to oppose Trump's tariffs …
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