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8:10 PM ET, June 16, 2017

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Mike Levine / ABC News:
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein acknowledges he may need to recuse himself from Russia probe, sources say  —  The senior Justice Department official with ultimate authority over the special counsel's probe of Russia's alleged meddling in the 2016 election has privately acknowledged …
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The Daily Beast:
Trump Declares War on Rosenstein: ‘He Has No Qualms About Throwing Him Under a Bus’ … President Donald Trump woke up on Friday and decided to publicly confirm that he is under criminal investigation—and to put his deputy attorney general in the line of fire.
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump hires another high-profile lawyer as special counsel probe heats up  —  President Donald Trump has added another high-profile lawyer to his personal legal team as the special counsel investigation heats up.  —  John Dowd, who investigated Pete Rose for Major League Baseball …
Discussion: Political Wire and Raw Story
CNN:
Robert Mueller expands special counsel office, hires 13 lawyers
Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
Trump appears to confirm obstruction investigation, attack Rosenstein in morning tweet rant
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Trump allies on the offensive against Mueller
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Rosenstein friends say he won't be influenced by Trump tweets
Discussion: Mediaite and Washington Post
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Alex Jones Scoops Megyn Kelly And Proves The Media Isn't Ready For The Trolls  —  Thursday evening, Alex Jones dropped a bomb on Twitter.  After a week of roiling controversy surrounding the conspiracy theorist's upcoming interview with Megyn Kelly, Jones announced a plan to take the interview into his own hands and scoop NBC.
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Media Matters for America:
What Megyn Kelly says in leaked audio from Alex Jones  —  Kelly soothes Jones' fragile ego, assures him the interview will not be contentious, tells him that her show is about “fun,” and even promises to let Jones review any clips they use.  —  Just days ahead of Megyn Kelly's June 18 INTERVIEW …
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Alex Jones releases more secretly taped Megyn Kelly audio; NBC responds
Discussion: The Root and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Murkowski ‘committed’ to funding Planned Parenthood
Discussion: LifeNews.com and Vox
Jeff Stein / Vox:
Mitch McConnell is crippling The Resistance with his secret health care bill
Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Assassination List Found On James Hodgkinson's Body  —  James T. Hodgkinson, the shooter who opened fire on dozens of Republican congressmen and staffers at a baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia, on Wednesday, had a list of Republican names in his pocket that was recovered by the FBI, The Daily Caller has learned.
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David French / National Review:   A Sad and Terrible Verdict in Massachusetts
Mitch Smith / New York Times:
Minnesota Officer Acquitted in Killing of Philando Castile  —  ST. PAUL — A Minnesota police officer, whose fatal shooting of a black motorist transfixed the nation when his girlfriend livestreamed the aftermath, was acquitted of all charges on Friday.  —  The officer, Jeronimo Yanez …
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Mark Berman / Washington Post:
Minn. officer acquitted of manslaughter for shooting Philando Castile during traffic stop  —  The Minnesota police officer who fatally shot Philando Castile during a traffic stop was acquitted on all charges by a jury Friday, a decision that came nearly a year after the encounter …
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Trump Will Allow ‘Dreamers’ to Stay in U.S., Reversing Campaign Promise  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump has officially reversed his campaign pledge to deport the so-called Dreamers, undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as small children.  —  The Department of Homeland …
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Tal Kopan / CNN:
Trump administration reverses DAPA in ‘house cleaning’
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Coulter on Trump: ‘This Jackass is Really Ticking Me Off’  —  Ann Coulter is furious with President Trump today, and she's not holding back.  —  Earlier today, Mediaite took notice of how the conservative commentator launched a brutal tweetstorm, blasting Trump for not making more progress …
Tom LoBianco / CNN:
First on CNN: House Russia investigators want to bring in Trump digital director  —  Trump: Russia investigation a witch hunt  —  (CNN)House Russia investigators are planning to call on Brad Parscale, the digital director of President Donald Trump's campaign, as the congressional …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Business Wire:
Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods Market  —  Whole Foods Market ranked #28 and Amazon ranked #2 on Fortune's 2017 list of World's Most Admired Companies  —  SEATTLE & AUSTIN, Texas—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Whole Foods Market, Inc. (NASDAQ:WFM) today announced that they have entered …
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Foreign Policy:
White House Officials Push For Widening War in Syria Over Pentagon Objections  —  Two Trump officials want to confront Iranian-backed fighters, but Defense Secretary James Mattis has balked at the idea.  —  A pair of top White House officials is pushing to broaden the war in Syria …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
GOP sirens blare over Georgia special election  —  The GOP is bracing for the prospect of a loss in Tuesday's Georgia's special election that could have far-reaching implications for President Donald Trump and his party's fortunes in 2018.  —  As grim confidential polling data circulates …
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:   Trump's shadow and stalled GOP agenda loom over close Georgia race
BuzzFeed:
The FBI Won't Release Comey's Trump Memos Because They're Part Of “Law Enforcement Proceedings”  —  BuzzFeed News requested the memos written by former FBI Director James Comey on his interactions with the president via the Freedom of Information Act.  —  The FBI will not release memos written …
Discussion: Axios and The Week
Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
Beware of Blaming Government for London Tower Fire  —  Perhaps safety rules could have saved some residents.  But at what cost to others' lives?  There's always a trade-off.  —  A few days ago fire swept through Grenfell Tower, a large apartment building in London.
David Remnick / New Yorker:
Who in the White House Will Turn Against Donald Trump?  —  The yearning in the character of Donald Trump for dominance and praise is bottomless, a hunger that is never satisfied.  Last week, the President gathered his Cabinet for a meeting with no other purpose than to praise him …
Alex Lockie / Business Insider:
Defense Secretary Mattis explains what war with North Korea would look like  —  Asked on Thursday by Rep. Tim Ryan of the House Appropriations Committee to explain why the US doesn't just go to war to stop North Korea from developing the capability to hit the US, Secretary of Defense James Mattis painted a grim scenario.
Discussion: IJR, Mediaite, The Daily Caller and AOL
Theodoric Meyer / Politico:
Trump reports assets of at least $1.4 billion in financial disclosure  —  President Donald Trump reported assets of at least $1.4 billion and income of at least $596.3 million in his latest financial disclosure released by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics on Friday.
 
 
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New York Times:
Trump's Businesses Show Mixed Returns During Campaign and Presidency
Discussion: Mother Jones and Business Insider
Rafael Bernal / The Hill:
Bipartisan group, Netflix actress back bill for American Latino Museum
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Jeremy Berke / Business Insider:
One of Trump's closest allies is starting a lobbying group to change the President's stance on marijuana
Discussion: Raw Story
Michelle Cottle / The Atlantic:
Can Paul Ryan Push Republicans to Prioritize Poverty?
Discussion: Eschaton
John Podhoretz / Weekly Standard:
The Other Tom
Discussion: Instapundit
Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Exclusive: Bill O'Reilly Assembling Production Team to Launch New Project
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, IJR and Glenn Beck
Bloomberg:
CenturyLink Is Accused of Running a Wells Fargo-Like Scheme
Discussion: Consumerist
 Earlier Items: 
Sarah Leonard / New York Times:
Why Are So Many Young Voters Falling for Old Socialists?
CBS News:
Could Illinois be the first state to file for bankruptcy?
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, hires his own lawyer in Russia probe
Shaun King / New York Daily News:
KING: Why progressives and liberals continue to feel like unwelcome guests in the Democratic Party
Discussion: The Guardian
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Trump disapproval hits 64 percent in AP poll
Discussion: Shareblue and The Week
BuzzFeed:
From Russia With Blood  —  Lavish London mansions.  A hand-painted Rolls-Royce.
 

 
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Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Chinese officials have told Tesla that Beijing has tentatively approved the company's plan to launch its Full Self-Driving software in the country

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: the new iPad Pro may launch with an M4 chip, kicking off Apple's AI strategy that will be expanded at WWDC; the new Pencil will have haptic feedback

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Akamai: US Post Office phishing sites got significantly more DNS queries, cumulatively, than the legitimate website during some weeks of the 2023 holiday season

 
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