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9:30 PM ET, June 8, 2015

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Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg Business:
GOP Swiftly Rejects Obama's ‘One-Sentence Fix’ to Obamacare if Supreme Court Voids Subsidies  —  A Supreme Court ruling is expected within weeks.  —  President Barack Obama had barely finished proposing an idea to deal with a far-reaching Supreme Court decision on Obamacare before Republicans fired …
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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 …
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
The GOP has 5 plans to fix Obamacare if the Supreme Court blows it up. They're all a mess.
Discussion: New York Magazine and Daily Kos
Fox News:
Obama says Supreme Court should never have taken up health law case, in blunt challenge
CNN:
Poll: Trust lacking in Supreme Court over handling of key issues
Discussion: Politico
Peyton M. Craighill / Washington Post:
Public to Supreme Court: Don't gut Obamacare
The Hill:
Obama: Supreme Court wrong to take up ObamaCare challenge
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:
The N.Y. Times vs. Washington Free Beacon  —  Two years ago, The New York Times published a front-page story about Michael Goldfarb and the Washington Free Beacon, a website that, per the Times, was “gaining prominence as a conservative clarion.”  —  At Free Beacon, Goldfarb …
Discussion: BuzzFeed
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Clinton Family Foundation Donation To New York Times Charity Came After Endorsement
Discussion: Moe Lane
Alana Goodman / Washington Free Beacon:
‘New York Times’ Won't Reveal When Clintons Donated
Vanity Fair:   The War on the Times  —  The Sulzberger family would never let go of The New York Times.
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
NYT runs to Politico for comment on embarrassing Free Beacon story ... again
K. McDonald / CW33 NewsFix:
15-Year-Old Who Shot McKinney Pool Party Video Speaks Out  —  MCKINNEY, TX - Brandon Brooks, the 15-year-old boy who shot the McKinney pool party video that's being broadcast around the world, is telling his side of the story to NewsFix.  —  “The cops showed up and the parents immediately started yelling …
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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.
Yoni Appelbaum / The Atlantic:
McKinney, Texas, and the Racial History of American Swimming Pools
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
Discussion: Gothamist and 89.3 KPCC
Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic:
The Brief and Tragic Life of Kalief Browder
Discussion: Common Dreams
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
New doubts on Second Amendment rights  —  Raising significant new questions about how much protection the Constitution's Second Amendment actually gives to gun owners, the Supreme Court on Monday left intact a local ordinance that restricts access to guns even within one's own home.
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Cliff Owen / Associated Press:
Supreme Court Rejects NRA Appeal To Loosen San Francisco Gun Laws
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Why the most informed voters are often the most badly misled  —  The case for Hillary Clinton's proposal to make voter registration automatic is simple: it will make it easier for people to vote.  —  The case against Hillary Clinton's proposal to make voter registration automatic is also simple …
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Cheney: I don't know what makes Obama tick  —  Former Vice President Dick Cheney (R) said on Sunday that he has not figured out what motivates President Obama.  —  “I've tried for a long time, John, to understand what makes him tick, and frankly, I don't know,” Cheney told host John Catsimatidis on AM 970's …
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama: 'We don't yet have a complete strategy' against ISIS
Discussion: Politico, Daily Kos and Balloon Juice
Rupali Srivastava / ThinkProgress:
What's Happening To Players At The Women's World Cup, Where The Artificial Turf Is 120 Degrees  —  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.
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Sanders pulls within 8 points of Clinton in Wisconsin  —  Wisconsin Democrats might not be ready for Hillary Clinton, as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) finished just 8 percentage points behind Clinton in a new Badger State straw poll.  —  Clinton finished with 49 percent support among …
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Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
Wisconsin straw poll surprise: A narrow Clinton win
Bryan Alexander / USA Today:
Spike TV will cut Eastwood's Jenner joke  —  Clint Eastwood is courting controversy again, this time with a Caitlyn Jenner joke at the Spike TV Guys' Choice 2015 awards on Saturday night.  —  USA TODAY has learned that Spike TV will cut an Eastwood joke about Jenner when the show airs Saturday, June 18.
Patrick Wintour / Guardian:
Juncker vents fury over Greek bailout talks at G7 summit  —  Irate European commission president accuses Greek PM of undermining negotiations, and leaders agree to maintain Russia sanctions  —  European Union officials delivered a blistering attack on the Greek government at the G7 summit in Bavaria …
Discussion: American Spectator
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Jan Cienski / Politico:
Merkel convinces Canada and Japan on CO2
Discussion: ABC News
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Ted Cruz: First Thing I'll Do As President Is Send Flowers And Condolences To Reporters Checking Into Therapy  —  He said the second thing he'll do is start planning a pig roast on the South Lawn of the White House.  —  Scott Olson / Getty Images  —  Texas Sen. Ted Cruz poked fun at reporters …
Discussion: Mediaite
Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
Support for Same-Sex Marriage at Record High, but Key Segments Remain Opposed  —  72% Say Legal Recognition is ‘Inevitable’  —  As the Supreme Court prepares to decide a key case involving states' requirements to recognize same-sex marriage, public support for allowing gays and lesbians …
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 …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Fighting the Derp  —  When it comes to economics — and other subjects, but I'll focus on what I know best — we live in an age of derp and cheap cynicism.  And there are powerful forces behind both tendencies.  But those forces can be fought, and the place to start fighting is within yourself.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
Trove Seized in Syria Raid Opens Window on ISIS, U.S. Says  —  WASHINGTON — American intelligence agencies have extracted valuable information about the Islamic State's leadership structure, financial operations and security measures by analyzing materials seized during a Delta Force commando raid …
 
 
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Timothy W. Martin / Wall Street Journal:
Calpers to Cut External Money Managers by Half
Matthew Mosk / ABC News:
Dennis Hastert to Be Represented by High-Powered D.C. Attorney Thomas Green
Discussion: Politico and Associated Press
Larry Getlen / New York Post:
Book claims Whitney Houston was extorted amid ‘lesbian affair’
Discussion: Daily Mail and theGrio
Emily Smith / Page Six:
Man who bought the world's most expensive sculpture revealed
Telegraph:
David Cameron in crisis as he backtracks over ‘ministers must quit’ threat - as it happened
Discussion: Business Insider and Vox Popoli
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Fredreka Schouten / USA Today:
Exclusive: Two FEC officials implore agency to curb 2016 election abuse
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
Dem senator wants more funds to research Lyme Disease
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Derek Hunter / Townhall.com:
The Cream Of The Crop  —  Mainstream media has expended much ink …
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