| No Images? Click here  Friday, May 18TRUMP TO GUT PLANNED PARENTHOOD The White House will reportedly announce massive cuts to Planned Parenthood and other taxpayer-backed abortion providers by reviving an old proposal that withdraws funding for any clinic that provides abortions or refers patients to places that do. [The New York Times]‘WHO'S THE MOLE?’ Trump and his allies are trying to force the FBI to expose the identity of a confidential government informant whom the president alleges spied on his 2016 campaign. The White House and conservative media are hoping to use the existence of an informant to undercut the investigation of special counsel Robert Mueller. [The Washington Post]FAMILY FLIP The former son-in-law of Paul Manafort has cut a plea deal with the Justice Department that requires him to cooperate with other criminal probes, likely increasing the legal pressure on Trump’s former campaign chairman, who is facing two indictments brought by Mueller. [HuffPost]‘FIVE MILES HIGH’ A crater on Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupted with a powerful explosion Thursday, hurling a massive plume of ash five miles into the sky. [HuffPost]‘WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HPV AND HIV?’ How to piss Trump off: Find footage of real billionaire Bill Gates mocking him for not knowing the difference between HPV and HIV and run it on a cable news channel he hates. [HuffPost]BEIJING BACKTRACK China has denied it offered Trump a package of trade concessions and increased purchases of American goods with the aim of cutting the U.S. trade deficit by $200 billion a year. [Reuters] THE PRINCE OF STRIDES Kensington Palace has revealed Prince Charles will walk Meghan Markle down the aisle at the royal wedding. [HuffPost]CANNES DOC BOMBSHELL A Cannes Film Festival documentary claims that Whitney Houston was molested as a child by singer Dee Dee Warwick — her cousin and the sister of Dionne Warwick. [HuffPost]BIGOT BOMBED OUT Aaron Schlossberg, the racist New York lawyer whose rant against Spanish-speakers went viral, has been evicted from his office and faces a disciplinary complaint. [HuffPost]‘HERO’ NUNES Trump factotum and House intelligence committee chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) told an audience of potential donors that the president has called him a “hero.” [HuffPost]ICE AGE Jeff Sessions has used the power of the attorney general’s office Thursday to limit the authority of immigration judges to administratively close cases as new figures show that ICE is arresting more immigrants — and increasingly immigrants who have not been convicted of crimes. [HuffPost]HOMOPHOBE HIRED Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has tapped Tony Perkins, an anti-LGBTQ pastor, to sit on his religious freedom panel. [HuffPost]
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