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3:10 PM ET, June 8, 2015

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Peyton M. Craighill / Washington Post:
Public to Supreme Court: Don't gut Obamacare  —  The Affordable Care Act hangs in the balance in the Supreme Court for the second time in three years, but the public has rendered a judgment ahead of the court's ruling.  By a margin of 55 percent to 38 percent, more people say the court …
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Sarah Wheaton / Politico:
Obama: Supreme Court shouldn't have heard Obamacare challenge  —  President Barack Obama expressed deep frustration with the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, questioning why justices even took up a case that imperils his signature health insurance reform plan.  —  The high court is set to issue …
Discussion: Bloomberg Business
Cliff Owen / Associated Press:
Supreme Court Rejects NRA Appeal To Loosen San Francisco Gun Laws
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Backs White House on Jerusalem Passport Dispute
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
The GOP has 5 plans to fix Obamacare if the Supreme Court blows it up. They're all a mess.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg Business:
Can Republicans Win by Losing at the Supreme Court?
Discussion: US News and ABC News
Kenneth Jost / Jost On Justice:   Counting Everyone for ‘One Person, One Vote’
Jennifer Gonnerman / New Yorker:
Kalief Browder, 1993-2015  —  Last fall, I wrote about a young man named Kalief Browder, who spent three years on Rikers Island without being convicted of a crime.  He had been arrested in the spring of 2010, at age sixteen, for a robbery he insisted he had not committed.
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Matt Pearce / Los Angeles Times:
Kalief Browder, jailed for 3 years in N.Y. without a trial, commits suicide  —  Kalief Browder, whose three years in jail without trial inspired calls for reform in New York, has committed suicide at age 22, his attorney said Sunday.  —  Browder was 16 when he was arrested on suspicion …
Discussion: Gothamist and 89.3 KPCC
Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic:
The Brief and Tragic Life of Kalief Browder
Discussion: Common Dreams
Alana Goodman / Washington Free Beacon:
Clinton Donated $100K to New York Times Group the Same Year Paper Endorsed Her  —  A little-known private foundation controlled by Bill and Hillary Clinton donated $100,000 to the New York Times' charitable fund in 2008, the same year the newspaper's editorial page endorsed Clinton …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Clintons gave $100k to NYT fund in '08
Bob Price / BREITBART.COM:
Video Emerges of Violence at ‘Innocent Pool Party’ in McKinney, Texas  —  Left media is ablaze with articles condemning the police response to a pool party at a McKinney, Texas, subdivision.  Now a video is emerging showing why police were called to the scene to begin with - violence.
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Yoni Appelbaum / The Atlantic:
McKinney, Texas, and the Racial History of American Swimming Pools  —  A woman swims in a pool in Tampa, Florida.  (Shaun Best / AP)  —  On Friday, a large group of teens gathered for a pool party in the city of McKinney, Texas.  Shortly thereafter, someone called the police.
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New York Post:
Employee probed as possible accomplice in jailbreak  —  A female prison worker was interrogated Sunday as a possible accomplice in the Hollywood-style escape of two killers from an upstate penitentiary, sources told The Post.  —  “It's an employee being questioned,” a high-level source said …
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Obama, sounding like his critics, admits no ‘complete strategy’ for Iraq  —  A presidential gaffe when talking about the fight against ISIL.  —  President Barack Obama still doesn't have a strategy to combat the Islamic State.  —  Back in September, Obama created a political problem for himself by saying …
Discussion: The Hill and Daily Kos
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Arlette Saenz / ABC News:
The Awkward Moment Between Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister
Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
Wisconsin straw poll surprise: A narrow Clinton win  —  Bernie Sanders surprises with 41 percent of the vote.  —  Bernie Sanders scored 41 percent in a straw poll vote at the Wisconsin Democratic Party convention this weekend — finishing a close second to Hillary Clinton, who won 49 percent.
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Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: What Scott Walker Said In Iowa
Michael Kruse / Politico:
On talk circuit, George W. Bush makes millions but few waves  —  Toward the end of his presidency, George W. Bush told Robert Draper, reporting for a book called Dead Certain, that he intended after vacating the Oval Office to “replenish the ol' coffers.”  He said he could make “ridiculous” money on the lecture circuit.
Beth Reinhard / Wall Street Journal:
Danny Diaz to Be Jeb Bush's Campaign Manager  —  Danny Diaz, a 39-year-old Washington, D.C., native who has worked for the last three Republican presidential nominees, will serve as campaign manager of Jeb Bush's anticipated presidential campaign.  —  The job of running day-to-day campaign operations …
Pamela McClintock / Hollywood Reporter:
Box Office: FIFA Movie ‘United Passions’ Bombs in U.S.  —  Even bad publicity is usually good publicity — except in the case of the FIFA-financed film United Passions, which was quickly red-carded at the U.S. box office this weekend.  —  Writer-director Frederic Auburtin's film beyond bombed …
FIRE:
College Declares Haymarket Riot Reference a Violent Threat to College President  —  Oakton Community College (OCC) is insisting that a one-sentence “May Day” email referencing the Haymarket Riot sent by a faculty member to several colleagues constituted a “true threat” to the college president.
Rupali Srivastava / ThinkProgress:
Concerns Mount As Artificial Turf Hits 120 Degrees At Women's World Cup  —  Rupali Srivastava is an intern with ThinkProgress at the Center for American Progress Action Fund.  —  The Women's World Cup is being played on artificial turf instead of natural grass.  —  CREDIT: AP PHOTO/Luca Bruno
Discussion: Washington Post
Derek Hunter / Townhall.com:
The Cream Of The Crop  —  Mainstream media has expended much ink over the size and varying quality of the Republican presidential field, and in some respects this is correct.  There are a lot of Republicans running, and some are less ready for primetime than others.  That happens every election cycle.
NBC News:
This Is the Way to Win Elections (But It Makes Governing Harder)  —  First Read is a morning briefing from Meet the Press and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter  —  This is how you win elections.  But it makes governing harder
 
 
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Andrew Knapp / Post and Courier:
Solicitor: Michael Slager indicted in Walter Scott case
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Ted Cruz: First Thing I'll Do As President Is Send Flowers And Condolences To Reporters Checking Into Therapy
Discussion: Mediaite
Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
Support for Same-Sex Marriage at Record High, but Key Segments Remain Opposed
Discussion: New York Times, Politico and Advocate
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Apple To Launch New Flipboard-Like App, While Newsstand Goes Away
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Why the most informed voters are often the most badly misled
Discussion: New York Times
Emily Smith / Page Six:
NBC may decide Brian Williams' future this week
Discussion: Daily Mail and FTVLive
Andrew Griffin / The Independent:
Taiwan ribbon worm video shows horrifying nemertea shoot out long proboscis
Andrea Noble / Washington Times:
Lone suspect in D.C. mansion murders flagged for deportation
Discussion: CBS DC and Daily Mail
 Earlier Items: 
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Santorum: Climate change about ‘political science’
Discussion: Political Wire
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Video of Boston police shooting released
Kate Zernike / New York Times:
Ex-Official Says Chris Christie Broke Grand Jury Law
Discussion: Fox News and Politico
WHOTV:
Des Moines Man's Tweets About Being ‘Trapped’ in Drive-thru Go Viral
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Which GOP governor can make best economic case in '16?
 

 
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is preparing to fire CEO Bob Bakish as soon as Monday, after he lost the trust of controlling shareholder Shari Redstone

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Some founders say the TikTok ban won't impact creator economy startups much, as they have diversified across multiple platforms after Trump's 2020 ban attempt

Elise Morton / Associated Press:
Russia arrests journalists Konstantin Gabov and Sergey Karelin on “extremism” charges for allegedly working for a group founded by the late Alexei Navalny

 
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