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12:40 PM ET, June 16, 2017

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Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:
Special counsel is investigating Jared Kushner's business dealings  —  Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller is investigating the finances and business dealings of Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and adviser, as part of the probe into Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election …
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
White House aides fret over Trump's Russia probe obsession  —  Donald Trump received three separate assurances from then-FBI Director James Comey that the president was not personally under investigation — but he may now be under investigation because he couldn't let his obsession go.
New York Times:
Trump Transition Team Orders Former Aides to Preserve Russia-Related Materials  —  WASHINGTON — Members of President Trump's transition team were ordered on Thursday to preserve documents and other materials related to the investigation of Russian interference in the presidential election …
CNN:
Robert Mueller expands special counsel office, hires 13 lawyers
Kenneth W. Starr / Washington Post:
Firing Mueller would be an insult to the Founding Fathers
Discussion: Althouse
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump transition officials ordered to save Russia documents
Greg B. Smith / New York Daily News:
President Trump chooses inexperienced woman who planned his son Eric's wedding to run N.Y. federal housing programs  —  She's arranged tournaments at Trump golf courses, served as the liaison to the Trump family during his presidential campaign, and even arranged Eric Trump's wedding.
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Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Trump appoints family event planner to oversee NY federal housing: report
Discussion: RedState and Political Wire
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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Dan Lyman / Infowars:
Leaked audio means to set the record straight  —  Alex Jones …
Tara Golshan / Vox:
We asked 8 Senate Republicans to explain what their health bill is trying to do  —  Senate Republicans can't answer simple and critical questions about the health care bill they're crafting in secret.  —  Some still can't say what it's trying to do — other than garner enough votes to pass the Senate …
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Jeff Stein / Vox:
Mitch McConnell is crippling The Resistance with his secret health care bill
Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Senate likely to miss its Obamacare repeal deadline
Discussion: Politicus USA and Vox
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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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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Bloomberg:
Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7 Billion  —  Deal allows outspoken Whole Foods co-founder to remain CEO  —  Activist investor Jana Partners has pushed grocer to seek deal  —  Amazon.com Inc. will acquire Whole Foods Market Inc. for $13.7 billion, a bombshell of a deal that catapults …
Sarah Whitten / CNBC:
Amazon is buying Whole Foods in a deal valued at $13.7 billion
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 …
Tim Alberta / Politico:
Man on a Wire: Mike Pence's Tightrope Act  —  Right around the time Donald Trump was boarding Air Force One en route to Saudi Arabia, soon to escape a capital city obsessed with investigations into his campaign's ties with Russia and the firing of FBI Director James Comey …
Discussion: Raw Story and Washington Post
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Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Pence hires outside counsel to deal with Russia probe inquiries
BuzzFeed:
From Russia With Blood  —  Lavish London mansions.  A hand-painted Rolls-Royce.  And eight dead friends.  For the British fixer Scot Young, working for Vladimir Putin's most vocal critic meant stunning perks - but also constant danger.  His gruesome death is one of 14 that US spy agencies …
Olivia Solon / The Guardian:
Revealed: Facebook exposed identities of moderators to suspected terrorists  —  A security lapse that affected more than 1,000 workers forced one moderator into hiding - and he still lives in constant fear for his safety  —  Facebook put the safety of its content moderators at risk …
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 …
Discussion: Shareblue and Mediaite
Rasmussen Reports:
in Politics  —  The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 50% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump's job performance.  Fifty percent (50%) disapprove.  —  This is the first time the president's overall approval rating has hit the 50% mark since late April.
Discussion: Daily Wire and The Gateway Pundit
Anne Branigin / Fusion:
Bigoted Homophobe Steve Scalise's Life Was Saved by a Queer Black Woman  —  Steve Scalise, the House Majority Whip who was shot by a gunman who attacked a congressional baseball practice on Wednesday, has kept company with racists.  He was forced to apologize for speaking at an international conference …
Alex Roarty / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Dems ask themselves: Has their rhetoric gone too far?  —  The year was 2009 and Nancy Pelosi had an emotional message to deliver to Republicans: The GOP's increasingly extreme rhetoric was bound to incite violence.  —  “I have concerns about some of the language that is being used because I saw …
Discussion: RedState
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:   The Empire Strikes Back  —  Along with many others …
 
 
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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Tucker Carlson Missed Last Night Show Due to Emergency Appendicitis
Discussion: The Hill and IJR
Fox News:
Hero homeowner holds escaped Georgia inmates at gunpoint until arrests
Discussion: The Jawa Report and IJR
Tony Barboza / Los Angeles Times:
‘Very unhealthy’ smog levels expected during heat wave, SoCal regulators warn
Andrew Ferguson / Weekly Standard:
The Kiss-Up That Wasn't  —  The media have a bad case of the Trumps.
Chris Jacobs / Wall Street Journal:
Don't Blame Trump When ObamaCare Rates Jump
Discussion: Instapundit
 Earlier Items: 
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
With shift on Cuba, Trump could undercut his company's hotel-industry rivals
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Grassley rankles GOP with new Comey investigation
Discussion: Political Wire
Amy Sherman / Naked Politics:
Here's what Canova told media about Wasserman Schultz rematch
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Rage Is All the Rage, and It's Dangerous
Discussion: Instapundit
Dave Lawler / Axios:
Justice Dept. releases cryptic statement on leaks