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Trump and Abe's ‘Unshakable Bond’ Shows Some Cracks in Tokyo — TOKYO — Standing at side-by-side lecterns inside the gilded Akasaka State Guest House in Tokyo, President Trump and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan sought to show the world the strength of what Mr. Abe called their “unshakable bond.”
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Meridith McGraw / ABC News:
Trump backs Kim Jong Un's attacks on Biden, dismisses North Korea missile tests — President Donald Trump said he's not concerned by North Korea's recent missile tests and endorsed brutal dictator Kim Jong Un's attack on fellow American and former Vice President Joe Biden in a press conference in Toyoko Monday.
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Kim Tong-Hyung / Associated Press:
North Korea calls Bolton ‘war monger’ over missile comment
North Korea calls Bolton ‘war monger’ over missile comment
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The Daily Caller, Axios, The Week and YouTube
Jerry Dunleavy / Washington Examiner:
Ian Bremmer defends and then deletes false Trump statement about North Korea
Ian Bremmer defends and then deletes false Trump statement about North Korea
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Townhall, Breitbart, Daily Wire, Slate, The Federalist, The Week and Fox News
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Sarah Sanders Says Trump and Kim ‘Agree in Their Assessment’ of Biden
Sarah Sanders Says Trump and Kim ‘Agree in Their Assessment’ of Biden
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Vanity Fair
Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:
Time Magazine Columnist's Trump Quote Went Viral — Then He Admitted He Made It Up
Time Magazine Columnist's Trump Quote Went Viral — Then He Admitted He Made It Up
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RedState, The Gateway Pundit, NB Blog, Louder With Crowder, Mediaite, The Last Refuge and Mercury News
Avery Anapol / The Hill:
GOP Armed Services senator breaks with Trump: I find North Korean missile tests ‘very disturbing’
GOP Armed Services senator breaks with Trump: I find North Korean missile tests ‘very disturbing’
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New York Post
Washington Post:
European Parliament elections: Voters deny traditional centrists a majority, boost euroskeptics and Greens — BRUSSELS — Europeans dealt a blow to the continent's traditional center-left and center-right politicians in elections for the European Parliament on Sunday, depriving them of a majority …
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Politico:
Martin Selmayr: Populist wave has been ‘contained’ — Martin Selmayr's day-after take on the European election is that “the so-called populist wave, I think it was contained.” — The European Commission's powerful secretary-general was speaking at POLITICO's event “The Day after the Elections.
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One America News Network
Steven Erlanger / New York Times:
European Election Results Show Growing Split Over Union's Future
European Election Results Show Growing Split Over Union's Future
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Los Angeles Times, Quartz, Common Dreams, The Guardian and Home Page Rotator
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
EU in photos: How the results in the world's biggest multi-country election unfolded
EU in photos: How the results in the world's biggest multi-country election unfolded
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BBC, One America News Network, Politico and EUobserver
Stephen Castle / New York Times:
Nigel Farage's Populist Brexit Party Wins Big in European Parliament Elections
Nigel Farage's Populist Brexit Party Wins Big in European Parliament Elections
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Outside the Beltway, The Guardian and Politico
Tim Ball / Politico:
In pictures: European election highs and lows
In pictures: European election highs and lows
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One America News Network
Jonathan Miller / Spectator USA:
The European election results are a humiliation for Macron
New York Times:
‘Wow, What Is That?’ Navy Pilots Report Unexplained Flying Objects — WASHINGTON — The strange objects, one of them like a spinning top moving against the wind, appeared almost daily from the summer of 2014 to March 2015, high in the skies over the East Coast.
Arthur Allen / Politico:
How the anti-vaccine movement crept into the GOP mainstream — The anti-vaccine movement, which swelled with discredited theories that blamed vaccines for autism and other ills, has morphed and grown into a libertarian political rebellion that is drawing in state Republican officials who distrust government medical mandates.
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Raw Story
Sophie Weiner / Splinter:
Indiana Synagogue Vandal Says He Was Radicalized By Ben Shapiro, Far-Right Media — The man who vandalized a synagogue in Indiana with swastika graffiti last year told federal agents that he was radicalized by far-right media like Breitbart and by meeting with the white supremacist group Identity Evropa, according to BuzzFeed.
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Claudia Koerner / BuzzFeed News:
An Indiana Man Who Vandalized A Synagogue With Nazi Symbols Admitted How Far-Right Figures Radicalized Him — An Indiana man who plead guilty to defacing a synagogue with Nazi symbolism detailed to federal agents his road to radicalization, including meeting with members …
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Christina Zhao / Newsweek:
Fox News' Chris Wallace challenges Lindsey Graham on his 1998 claim that ignoring subpoenas is impeachable — Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday forced Senator Lindsey Graham to watch a 1998 clip of himself talking about the dangers of ignoring subpoenas from Congress during an era …
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Flynn's case could prompt release of some redacted parts of Mueller report — (CNN)Sought-after parts of the Mueller investigation may be made public this week, thanks to a federal judge who's taken an unusual approach in former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn's case.
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Distinguished persons of the week: They can stop Trump
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
As Barr mulls declassification, a familiar tune from critics — In February 2018, the House Intelligence Committee released the so-called Nunes memo. In four pages, the document, from the committee's then-chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, revealed much of what the public knows today …
New York Times:
With the 2020 Democratic Field Set, Candidates Begin the Races Within the Race — NEWTON, Iowa — Joseph R. Biden Jr. has built an early lead in the month since he entered the presidential campaign, confidently projecting himself as the Democratic front-runner and the candidate best positioned to defeat President Trump.
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Glenn Kirschner / NBC News:
Trump's proposed Memorial Day pardons dishonor veterans — and pervert justice — Pardoning war criminals would be the worst way to celebrate a holiday dedicated to those who sacrificed everything so that we can live in a just society. — In May, President Donald Trump pardoned former U …
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The Conversation
Regina Zilbermints / The Hill:
Liz Cheney: Statements by agents investigating Trump ‘could well be treason’ — Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said on Sunday that statements by FBI agents investigating President Trump sounded “an awful lot like a coup, and it could well be treason.” — Cheney told Martha Raddatz on ABC's …
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Nick Visser / HuffPost:
Trump HUD Official: 'I Honestly Don't Care' If I'm Breaking Federal Law — Lynne Patton said she may have violated the Hatch Act, then called anyone mad about it a “liberal snowflake.” — Lynne Patton, a regional administrator for the Department of Housing and Urban Development …
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Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
Colluders, Obstructionists, Leakers, and Other Projectionists — Before the defeat of Hillary Clinton, the idea that the Russians or anyone else could warp or tamper with our elections in any serious manner was laughed off by President Obama. “There is no serious person out there who would suggest …