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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Sarah Sanders Says Trump and Kim ‘Agree in Their Assessment’ of Biden — President Trump and the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, “agree” in their negative assessment of former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., the White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said on Sunday.
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Avery Anapol / The Hill:
GOP Armed Services senator breaks with Trump: I find North Korean missile tests ‘very disturbing’ — Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), a member of the Senate Armed Services committee, broke with President Trump on Sunday over North Korean missile tests. — Speaking on CNN's “State of the Union …
Washington Post:
Joe Biden's campaign of limited exposure: How long can he keep it up? — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) plans to enjoy ice cream with New Hampshire voters to celebrate Memorial Day. He won't be far from former congressman John Delaney, another presidential candidate, who's in the midst …
Quinn Scanlan / ABC News:
Cheney won't respond to tweet about Biden, says she supports Trump's N. Korea policy
Cheney won't respond to tweet about Biden, says she supports Trump's N. Korea policy
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Washington Post:
Trump climbs into a sumo ring to present a 60-pound 'President's Cup' in highlight of Japan trip
Trump climbs into a sumo ring to present a 60-pound 'President's Cup' in highlight of Japan trip
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Splinter, UPI, Al Jazeera, Althouse and Mediaite
Meridith McGraw / ABC News:
Donald Trump defends dictator Kim Jong Un, bashes Joe Biden from Japan
Donald Trump defends dictator Kim Jong Un, bashes Joe Biden from Japan
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Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
Sanders: Trump and Kim Jong Un agree on assessment of Biden
Sanders: Trump and Kim Jong Un agree on assessment of Biden
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The Daily Caller, Vox, New York Post, Slate, Mother Jones, The Gateway Pundit, Breitbart and Mediaite
Axios:
Sarah Sanders defends Trump siding with Kim Jong-un on Joe Biden
Sarah Sanders defends Trump siding with Kim Jong-un on Joe Biden
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Crooks and Liars, RedState, Mercury News, CNN, The Gateway Pundit, Raw Story, Washington Press and Breitbart
Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders, No Longer the Front-Runner, Brings Campaign Home to Vermont
Bernie Sanders, No Longer the Front-Runner, Brings Campaign Home to Vermont
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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.
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Splinter
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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Splinter, Law & Crime and twitchy.com
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
EU in photos: Take a look behind the scenes of the world's biggest multi-country election — The large centre-right and centre-left blocs lost their combined majority in the European Parliament, as the world's biggest multi-country election results came in over Sunday night.
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BBC, Politico and EUobserver
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Neal Rothschild / Axios:
Trump's tweets are losing their potency — President Trump's tweets don't pack the punch they did at the outset of his presidency. His Twitter interaction rate — a measure of the impact given how much he tweets and how many people follow him — has tumbled precipitously, according to data from CrowdTangle.
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Raw Story
Renato Mariotti / Politico:
Why Trump's Stonewalling Legal Strategy Will Keep Failing — In the space of three days this week, two federal judges ruled decisively in favor of Congress' right to subpoena President Donald Trump's personal financial and business records. The speed of the decisions …
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Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA
Bloomberg:
Macron Chastened as French Voters Hand Narrow Victory to Le Pen — Le Pen set for second straight win in European election — French Greens come third as traditional parties fade away — French President Emmanuel Macron suffered a narrow defeat to Marine Le Pen's nationalist movement …
Jason Wilson / The Guardian:
Christian rightwingers warn abortion fight could spark US civil war — Wave of extreme bans seems to have amped up predictions of coming conflict — Prominent figures on the Christian right in the US ranging from religious magazines to authors to elected politicians have warned that the fight …
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Washington Post:
Trump falls short on infrastructure after promising to build roads, bridges and consensus — Business leaders and communities around the country are expressing alarm that the bitter partisan impasse in Washington is paralyzing efforts to revamp the nation's deteriorating and outdated infrastructure.
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Raw Story
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Chris Wallace forces Lindsey Graham to watch old clips of himself calling for Clinton's impeachment — Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday confronted Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) with old video clips of himself calling for then-President Bill Clinton's impeachment.
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Red Painter / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Jim Acosta: A Senior White House Official Told Me 'The President's Insane' — Jim Acosta's new book, aptly called “The Enemy of the People”, will pull back the curtain even farther on a dysfunctional White House and a dangerous President — Remember when Donald Trump flipped out on Jim Acosta …
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Raw Story, The Guardian and Fox News
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
How Liberalism Loses — An inflexible agenda and a global retreat. — In Australia a week ago, the party of the left lost an election it was supposed to win, to a conservative government headed by an evangelical Christian who won working-class votes by opposing liberal climate policies.
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No More Mister Nice Blog
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Jill Lepore / New York Times:
Don't Let Nationalists Speak for the Nation
Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
Rep. Duncan Hunter Admits Taking Photos of Dead Combatants While in Marines — A Navy SEAL charged with a war crime “did one bad thing that I'm guilty of too — taking a picture of the body and saying something stupid,” congressman said — Rep. Duncan S. Hunter (R-CA) …
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Times of San Diego and Politico
Agence France-Presse:
Jews in Germany warned of risks of wearing kippah cap in public — Government commissioner says lifting of inhibitions and rise of uncouthness are factors behind rising incidence of antisemitism — Germany's government commissioner on antisemitism has warned Jews about the potential dangers …
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BBC, CNN, Jihad Watch, Slate and Meduza.io
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ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript 5-26-19: Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Rep. Liz Cheney, Sen. Martha McSally — A rush transcript of “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” airing on Sunday, May 26, 2019 on ABC News is below. This copy may not be in its final form, may be updated and may contain minor transcription errors.
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Justin Gomez / ABC News:
'It's a continuing horror show': Buttigieg sounds off on current state of Washington
'It's a continuing horror show': Buttigieg sounds off on current state of Washington
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Mediaite, Slate, Breitbart, The Week, POLITICUSUSA, Mother Jones and Bipartisan Report