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3:10 PM ET, June 9, 2017

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CNN:
Trump's lawyer to file complaint against Comey over memos  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's outside attorney plans to file a complaint against former FBI Director James Comey with the Justice Department Inspector General and the Senate judiciary committee, two sources with knowledge of the situation told CNN.
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Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
The Incompetence Defense  —  During former FBI Director James Comey's dramatic testimony before the Senate on Thursday, Republican senators settled on a pair of strange arguments for why President Trump hadn't obstructed justice: He didn't try very hard, or he was really bad at it.
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
There's no indication Comey violated the law.  Trump may be about to.  —  President Trump's declaration that the Thursday testimony of former FBI director James B. Comey was a “total and complete vindication” despite “so many false statements and lies” was the sort of brashly triumphant …
Discussion: Raw Story and Shakesville
Sean Illing / Vox:
Trump's lawyer: Comey violated executive privilege. 10 legal experts: No, he didn't.  —  After the public testimony of former FBI Director James Comey on Thursday, President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Marc Kasowitz, released a statement.  In addition to being riddled with typos, it contained a curious legal argument.
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Ryan denies GOP would try to impeach Dem accused of same actions as Trump  —  (R-Wis.) insisted on Thursday that Republicans wouldn't be calling for the impeachment of a Democratic president accused of the same actions as President Trump.  —  As fired FBI Director James Comey was before a Senate committee …
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Donald Trump's secret isn't that he lies.  It's that he crowds out the truth.  —  Trump isn't trying to win the argument.  He's trying to dominate it.  —  Donald Trump understands, better than any politician I've ever seen, that the question isn't whether you're winning the argument …
Steve Vladeck / Washington Post:
Trump's lawyer says Comey violated executive privilege.  He's wrong.  —  That isn't how executive privilege works at all.  —  A few hours after former FBI director James B. Comey finished testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday, President Trump's personal lawyer …
Washington Times:   Mr. Comey's not very good day
Los Angeles Times:
Read Trump lawyer Marc Kasowitz's statement after the Comey testimony
The Guardian:
DUP leader Arlene Foster vows to bring stability to UK with Conservatives  —  Arlene Foster confirms she will be having talks with Theresa May about details of arrangement with Northern Ireland party  —  The Democratic Unionist leader and most recent first minister of Northern Ireland …
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Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
The Fall of Theresa May — and Donald Trump?  —  Just a few months ago, it's worth remembering, we seemed to be careening to a new and possibly long-lived right-populist era in Anglo-American politics.  In the U.S., Donald Trump had stunned the world and his own party Establishment by seizing …
Charlie Cooper / Politico:
5 takeaways from the UK election
Discussion: Axios
Atrios / Eschaton:
The Kids Are Alright  —  No actual figures, but presumably …
Discussion: The Guardian and Balloon Juice
Alain Tolhurst / The Sun:
'I'M SORRY' Theresa May apologises over election disaster but vows to lead country with 'certainty …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Guardian
Daily Mail:
General Election exit polls see Tories lose majority
Greg Bluestein / Political Insider blog:
AJC poll: Ossoff opens lead over Handel in Georgia's 6th  —  An Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll released Friday shows Democrat Jon Ossoff has a 7-point edge over Republican Karen Handel in the nationally watched race to represent Georgia's 6th Congressional District.
Matea Gold / Washington Post:
White House social-media director Dan Scavino violated Hatch Act with tweet targeting GOP congressman  —  White House social-media director Dan Scavino Jr. violated a federal law that bars public officials from using their positions for political activity when he urged President Trump's supporters …
Discussion: Politico, Political Wire and Mashable
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Eric Lipton / New York Times:
White House Official Violated Law Banning Political Activity, Agency Says
Discussion: The Verge and Fast Company
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
CNN Drops Reza Aslan Following Anti-Trump Tweets  —  CNN no longer believes in “Believer,” the non-fiction series it launched earlier this year with Reza Aslan, the Iranian-American author and religious scholar.  —  “CNN has decided to not move forward with production on the acquired series 'Believer …
Robert Barnes / LawNewz:
Comey was Before Congress to Indict Trump.  Instead, He Might Have Indicted Himself.  —  The key interlude occurred with the ubiquitous Kamala Harris, the same Senator Harris who failed the bar the first time she took the bar exam.  Only a Kamala-Comey marriage could birth this debacle:
Nicole Carr / WSB-TV:
Prosecutors: Contractor wanted to ‘burn the White House down’  —  RICHMOND COUNTY, Ga. - An Augusta woman charged with leaking classified information was indicted by a federal grand jury on one count, but prosecutors said they are likely to add more.  —  A federal magistrate judge held …
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Business Insider:
JIM ROGERS: The worst crash in our lifetime is coming  —  Legendary investor Jim Rogers s  —  at down with Business Insider CEO Henry Blodget on this week's episode of “The Bottom Line.”  Rogers predicts a market crash in the next few years, one that he says will rival anything he has seen in his lifetime.
Discussion: IJR
Washington Post:
Twelve seconds of gunfire … Recess had finally started, so Ava Olsen picked up her chocolate cupcake, then headed outside toward the swings.  And that's when the 7-year-old saw the gun.  —  It was black and in the hand of someone the first-graders on the playground would later describe as a thin …
Niv Elis / The Hill:
Trump faces backlash over $3M Holocaust Museum cuts  —  A bipartisan group of 64 members of Congress is demanding a reversal on $3 million in funding cuts to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum proposed in President Trump's budget.  —  “In our view, the mission of the museum has never been more important …
Discussion: Raw Story
Ellen Mitchell / The Hill:
Qatar's leader won't accept Trump's White House invitation: report  —  The leader of Qatar reportedly has no plans to accept President Trump's invitation for a meeting at the White House until the country moves past an effort by several Persian Gulf neighbors to isolate the nation.
Discussion: Politico, Axios, CNBC, Booman Tribune and Reuters
 
 
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Anthony Cormier / BuzzFeed:
Michael Cohen Pitched Investors For A Powerful Ukrainian Oligarch's Company
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Stephen Miller / Heat Street:
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Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Guardian
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Grassley rips Trump administration for blowing off certain oversight requests
Discussion: Washington Times and Balloon Juice
U.S. Department of Justice:
Two Men Arrested for Terrorist Activities on Behalf of Hizballah's Islamic Jihad Organization
Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump targets illegal immigrants who were given reprieves from deportation by Obama
Discussion: IJR
Jessica Durando / USA Today:
Japan's parliament clears way for Emperor Akihito's abdication
Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Week
Fox News Insider:
Alan Dershowitz: President Trump Could Have Just Pardoned Michael Flynn
Discussion: Washington Post and Daily Wire
 Earlier Items: 
Katha Pollitt / The Nation:
Lack of Empathy Is Not the Problem
New York Post:
Puerto Rican day parade loses half its floats over honoree controversy
Kate Maltby / The Guardian:
Theresa May rejected the Tory detoxification project. That's what's behind this mess
Discussion: Refinery29
Henry F. Cooper / Wall Street Journal:
North Korea Dreams of Turning Out the Lights
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
BREAKING: TRUMP fires back at COMEY: 'Despite so many false statements and lies, total …
Abha Bhattarai / Washington Post:
Breitbart lost 90 percent of its advertisers in two months: Who's still there?
Discussion: Death and Taxes
Peter Baker / New York Times:
For Trump, the ‘Cloud’ Just Grew That Much Darker
Discussion: Axios, Bloomberg and The Atlantic
CNN:
Comey told senators Sessions may have met Russia's ambassador a third time
 

 
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Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times:
The Financial Times signs a deal with OpenAI to train AI models on the publisher's archived content and to let ChatGPT reply with short summaries of FT articles

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
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Ben Smith / Semafor:
Sources: Nicholas Carlson, who has been the global editor-in-chief of Business Insider since 2017, is expected to leave the publication later this summer

 
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