| No Images? Click here  Tuesday, May 22WHITE HOUSE UNMASKING? The White House is to convene a meeting with top Republican lawmakers to “review highly classified and other information” from the Justice Department regarding the FBI’s use of a confidential informant to investigate the Trump campaign. Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani told us Monday that the president will not agree to an interview with special counsel Robert Mueller without first learning more about the FBI’s confidential source. [HuffPost]‘PUNCH POMPEO’ A senior Iranian military commander said Tuesday that the Islamic Republic’s people would respond to Mike Pompeo’s threat of sanctions by punching the secretary of state in the mouth. Pompeo said Monday the U.S. is planning measures that would “crush” Iran and vowed to forge a new and better nuclear agreement. [Reuters]SCOTUS STIFFS LABOR Employers who stiff their workers or discriminate against them got a big lift Monday from the Supreme Court, which issued a major ruling that makes it easier for companies to avoid employee lawsuits. The decision also helps companies get away with sexual harassment. [HuffPost]‘THE MENTAL SCARS REMAIN’ We went to Manchester, England, one year on from the terrorist attack at the Ariana Grande concert that killed 22. [HuffPost]HIT THE BLAKES Disgraced former Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Texas) may have been hired illegally for his new lobbying job at a Texas port authority, with a local newspaper arguing in a lawsuit filed Monday that the Calhoun Port Authority violated state law in hiring him. [HuffPost]‘POSTER CHILD FOR RACIAL PROFILING’ A Kansas police department is facing allegations of racism after a black man used his cellphone to record two white officers yanking him out of a vehicle after seeing “vegetation” on his window. [HuffPost] SINGAPORE SUMMIT SHAKY South Korean President Moon Jae-in is due to meet Trump at the White House on Tuesday, amid renewed tensions with North Korea that have jeopardized next month’s summit between the Washington and Pyongyang in Singapore. [The Washington Post]WHITE HOUSE SAVAGERY The Trump administration on Monday proposed rolling back a 2015 rule that bans aggressive predator-control tactics in national preserves in Alaska — including shooting bear cubs and wolf pups in their dens. [HuffPost]O LANDS NETFLIX DEAL Netflix announced that former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama will produce films and series for the streaming service. [HuffPost]CROWDFUNDING TRUMP’S WALL Rep. Diane Black (R-Tenn.) has introduced a crowdfunding bill to raise the $22 billion needed to build Trump’s border wall. That’s the same border wall that Mexico was absolutely, definitely going to pay for. [HuffPost]FOX VIEWERS IN A HOLE A newly released HuffPost/YouGov survey has found that 65 percent of Fox News viewers strongly disapprove of Robert Mueller, the longtime Republican law enforcement official now heading the special counsel probe into Russian interference in the presidential election. [HuffPost]NYC MAYOR TO COPS: IGNORE POT New York Mayor Bill De Blasio has told the NYPD to stop arresting people on the street for smoking weed. [HuffPost]
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