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Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Sarah Sanders: North Korean missile tests aren't ‘bothering’ Trump — White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in an interview Sunday that recent missile tests by North Korea aren't “bothering” President Trump, despite concerns by some that they violated a United Nations resolution.
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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.
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:
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 Breitbart
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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One America News Network, The Daily Beast, Fox News, CNN, The Last Refuge, Bipartisan Report, Talking Points Memo, The Guardian and Politico
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, Daily Wire, New York Times, Raw Story, New York Post, Slate, The Gateway Pundit and Mother Jones
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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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 …
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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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BBC, CNBC and Power Line
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
EU in photos: How the results in the world's biggest multi-country election unfolded — 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 Monday.
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
Christian Oliver / Politico:
Greece's Tsipras calls snap election after EU poll drubbing
Greece's Tsipras calls snap election after EU poll drubbing
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One America News Network
Stephanie Liechtenstein / Washington Post:
Austria's big political crisis — what just happened?
Austria's big political crisis — what just happened?
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One America News Network and Politico
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.
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, twitchy.com and Law & Crime
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
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 …
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Axios
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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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POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
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.
Discussion:
Raw Story
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
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 …
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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