For a president this polarizing, his party best look beyond his core supporters if they don't want to lose the House

By Ed Kilgore @ Daily Intelligencer @ nymag.com, May 23

@ WashingtonPost.com, May 23

Like some bizarre parody of a Trump rally, a belligerent man in a “Make America Great Again” hat was booted off a plane in Shanghai Sunday — defiantly waving as a crowd of passengers jeered in the terminal: “Lock him up! Lock him up!” [.....]

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@ TheDailyBeast.com, May 22

@ CNN.com, May 22, 9:34 pm

The top two leaders of the Senate intelligence committee are leaving the door open to holding Michael Flynn in contempt of Congress after President Trump's former national security adviser said he would invoke his Fifth Amendment rights rather than comply with a subpoena.

By the Editorial Board @ NYTimes.com, May 22

@ TheGuardian.com, May 22

At least 19 people were killed and more than 50 injured after an explosion in the foyer area of a crowded Manchester concert hall, which left hundreds of people fleeing in terror.

By Robert Barnes @ WashingtonPost.com, May 22

By Michael E. Miller @ WashingtonPost.com, May 21

In an industry where about half of employees say they have been sexually assaulted or harassed by a guest, perhaps the most unusual thing about what happened in Room 1065 of Washington’s Mayflower Hotel was that a man was arrested.

@ TheGuardian.com, May 20

Venezuelans take to the streets, furious about shortages, rocketing inflation and human rights crackdowns, demanding President Maduro hold elections

By David Stretfield @ Technology @ nytimes.com, May 20

By Peter Beamont in Jerusalem for theguardian.com, May 21

Israeli media reports say prime minister was angered to learn a number of ministers had planned to skip US president’s arrival

Sweden’s director of public prosecution says she has decided to discontinue the investigation into WikiLeaks founder

By Esther Addley & Alan Travis @theguardian.com, May 19

[.....] With the threat of extradition to Sweden removed, the 45-year-old Australian could potentially opt to leave the embassy.

By Thomas Erdbrink @ NYTimes.com, May 20

Hassan Rouhani’s resounding win should afford him the opportunity to strengthen reformist factions as the country prepares for the end of the rule of the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

By Mark Mazzetti, Adam Goldman, Michael S. Schmidt & Matt Apuzzo @ NYTimes.com, May 20

• China killed or jailed at least 18 C.I.A. informants between 2010 and 2012, former American officials said.
• The effort was described as one of the worst intelligence breaches in decades, and the debate over how it happened remains unresolved.

Op-ed by Molly Winker @ NYTimes.com, May 19

[....] Divorced, disrespectful and domineering, Mr. Trump might not have been the first choice of many Christians, but he was certainly more likely than his Democratic opponent to advance cultural conservatism on the court.

By Katie Bo Williams & Jordain Carney @ TheHill.com, May 18 6:39 pm

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein dropped two bombshells during a hotly-anticipated appearance before the Senate on Thursday, less than 24 hours after he announced the appointment of a special prosecutor in the FBI’s investigation into Russian election meddling.

By Ben Hubbard @ NYTimes.com, May 18

By Amanda Hess @ NYTimes.com, May 17

By William D. Cohan @ TheHive @ VanityFair.com, May 16

“The Comey firing is actually dispositive,” one Wall Street C.E.O told me. “Unlike the rest of this stuff that is going on . . . this is different. It feels different.”