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Washington Post:
After summit pullout, South Korea and China have little appetite for Trump's ‘maximum pressure’ — SEOUL — President Trump credited his “maximum pressure” campaign of sanctions and threats with bringing North Korea to the negotiating table to discuss its nuclear weapons program.
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
President Trump Is a Better Dealbreaker Than Dealmaker — His blown-up North Korea summit proves it. — At 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, I was speaking with a senior Administration official involved in the preparations for President Trump's summit with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un.
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CANNONFIRE and American Thinker
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Says North Korea Summit May Be Rescheduled — WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Friday that his administration was back in touch with North Korea and the two sides may reschedule his summit meeting with Kim Jong-un, perhaps even on the original June 12 date, a stunning reversal …
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New Republic, Wall Street Journal, BBC, RedState and Associated Press
Axios:
White House officials: We were closer to war with North Korea than realized
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New York Times, One America News Network and RedState
Annie Karni / Politico:
White House advance team still planning to head to Singapore for North Korea summit logistics
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Axios, Politico, Washington Post and The Week
Laura Rosenberger / Washington Post:
How the United States botched its North Korea strategy.
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Vox, CNN and New York Times
Washington Post:
‘A lot of dial tones’: The inside story of how Trump's North Korea summit fell apart
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ABC News, Politico, Hot Air, The Week, Shareblue Media, The Daily Caller, Axios, New York Magazine, RedState, VICE News, The Daily Beast and Little Green Footballs
New York Times:
At Trump Tower, Michael Cohen and Oligarch Discussed Russian Relations — Eleven days before the presidential inauguration last year, a billionaire Russian businessman with ties to the Kremlin visited Trump Tower in Manhattan to meet with Donald J. Trump's personal lawyer and fixer …
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CNN, Raw Story, Political Wire, The Week and Mediaite
Indianapolis Star:
‘This is surreal,’ parent says of Indiana school shooting — Chad Lancaster, who has an eighth-grade daughter and sixth-grade son at the middle school, said he heard from his ex-wife in a phone call. — Their daughter, hiding under her desk, called the mother. She told her to run.
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Vox, CBS Pittsburgh, CBS Chicago, VICE News, KTLA and Splinter
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WDTN-TV:
2 in critical condition, one in custody after shooting at Indiana school
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Daily Wire
WGN Web Desk / WGN-TV:
At least 2 injured in shooting at Indiana middle school; student in custody
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Mother Jones, Townhall, Breitbart and IJR
Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
'We're closed!': Trump vents his anger over immigration at Homeland Security secretary — President Trump began berating Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen in the Oval Office earlier this spring, according to administration officials, griping about her performance and blaming her for a surge in illegal border crossings.
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Washington Monthly, Shakesville, New York Magazine, Joe.My.God., The Week, Raw Story and Splinter
Ronan Farrow / New Yorker:
Behind the Scenes of Harvey Weinstein's Impending Arrest — After a seven-month investigation, the producer Harvey Weinstein is expected to turn himself in to the New York Police Department's First Precinct on Friday to face sexual-assault charges. According to law-enforcement officials …
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USA Today, New York Times, The Guardian, NBC News, LifeZette, Raw Story, France 24, ABC News, Above the Law, Washington Post, VICE News, IndieWire, Gothamist, Althouse and Vox, more at Mediagazer »
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Aaron Katersky / ABC News:
Harvey Weinstein released on $1M bail after arrest on rape, sexual abuse charges
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CNN, Townhall, VICE News and twitchy.com
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
The Real Constitutional Crisis — The FBI and Justice Department continue evading congressional oversight. — Democrats and their media allies are again shouting “constitutional crisis,” this time claiming President Trump has waded too far into the Russia investigation.
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Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Concerned by Trump, Some Republicans Quietly Align With Democrats — WASHINGTON — Since Donald J. Trump began dominating American politics more than two years ago, Democrats concerned about his policies and behavior have taken solace in a group of influential Republicans who have consistently assailed …
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RedState, Talking Points Memo and Splinter
Bob Norman / WPLG-TV:
Parents call for investigation into Stoneman Douglas assault involving sheriff's son — Embattled former Deputy Scot Peterson handled case 4 years ago — PARKLAND, Fla. - Several parents of victims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre said that if former Broward Sheriff's …
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Ryan Saavedra / Daily Wire:
REPORT: Deputy Peterson Accused Of ‘Covering Up’ Alleged Sexual Assault By Broward Sheriff's Son
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Townhall and twitchy.com
Molly Hennessy-Fiske / Los Angeles Times:
Border Patrol union calls Trump's National Guard deployment ‘colossal waste’ … A month after President Trump called for sending National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, the head of the national Border Patrol union called the deployment “a colossal waste of resources.”
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ThinkProgress, Politico, Mother Jones, IJR, MSNBC, Mediaite, The Week and Talking Points Memo
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Lomi Kriel / Houston Chronicle:
Immigrant families separated at border struggle to find each other
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CNN:
Assange's refuge in Ecuadorian embassy ‘in jeopardy’ — Washington (CNN)Julian Assange's nearly six-year refuge at the Ecuadorian embassy in London is in danger, opening the WikiLeaks founder to arrest by British authorities and potential extradition to the US, multiple sources with knowledge tell CNN.
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Joe.My.God., New York Magazine, Daily Caller News Foundation, Raw Story and Mediaite
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Ex-aides say congressman and wife made them his servants — Rep. Tom Garrett and his wife made staffers pick up groceries, clothes — even dog poop, multiple former employees to the freshman Republican told POLITICO. — Freshman Rep. Tom Garrett (R-Va.) and his wife turned the congressman's staff …
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Political Wire, The Daily Beast and The American Spectator
Jeff Collins / Orange County Register:
Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher says it's OK to not sell homes to gays; loses support of Realtors — U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher told a group of Realtors last week that homeowners should be able to refuse to sell their homes to gays and lesbians, a statement that cost him the support of a key national Realtor group.
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ThinkProgress, BuzzFeed, Roll Call, Towleroad, The Week, CBS Los Angeles, Raw Story and Splinter
CNN:
GOP House candidate in Illinois is a 9/11 truther, said Beyonce had ties to the Illuminati — (CNN)The Republican nominee for a US House seat in Illinois has said the September 11 terrorist attacks were an inside job and that singer Beyonce Knowles has ties to the Illuminati.
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Daily Caller News Foundation and Raw Story
Josh Mitchell / Wall Street Journal:
Mike Meru Has $1 Million in Student Loans. How Did That Happen? — Escalating tuition and easy credit have yielded a class of student-loan borrowers with spectacular debt they may never pay back — DRAPER, Utah—Mike Meru, a 37-year-old orthodontist, made a big investment in his education.
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Daily Caller News Foundation
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Jordan Peterson Does Not Support ‘Equality of Opportunity’ — In the United States today, the richest 0.1 percent of households command as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent combined; the average CEO collects 140 times as large a salary as his (or, very occasionally her) typical employee …
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Slate Star Codex
Charles E. Cook, Jr / The Cook Political Report:
Why November's Downballot Races Matter — As Rhodes Cook, the longtime political analyst, recently wrote in his newsletter, “The breadth of Republican dominance these days is not just impressive, it's staggering. They control the White House, both chambers of Congress …
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Washington Monthly, Booman Tribune and TIME
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Lorenzo Reyes / USA Today:
Seahawks' Doug Baldwin: President Trump is ‘an idiot, plain and simple’ — Seahawks wide receiver Doug Baldwin ripped into President Trump for comments made earlier Thursday in which he said players who protest social inequality during the playing of the national anthem “maybe ... shouldn't be in the country.”
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KHQ-TV:
FIRST ON KHQ: Former Spokane NAACP president Rachel Dolezal facing felony theft charges for welfare fraud — Former Spokane Chapter NAACP President Rachel Dolezal is now facing legal trouble that could land her behind bars. KHQ has confirmed that Dolezal, who legally changed her name …
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RedState, The Daily Caller, Fox News, Q13 FOX News, The Gateway Pundit, Law & Crime, AOL, Raw Story, The Root, Front Page Magazine, theGrio, Power Line, twitchy.com and WGN-TV
Bloomberg:
Mick Mulvaney Is Having a Blast Running the Agency He Detests — One of the first things Mick Mulvaney did last year after President Trump asked him to be acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was to read the statute dictating the agency's powers.
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Are Republicans abetting a demagogue — or something worse? — By Michael Gerson Opinion writer May 24 at 5:14 PM Email the author Follow @mjgerson — Much about the future of American politics — and the historical judgment that will be visited on those associated with it …
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