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11:40 AM ET, June 19, 2017

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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Congressional shooting clouds final days of Georgia special election  —  THE BIG IDEA:  —  JOHNS CREEK, Ga.—When Republican congressional candidate Karen Handel went table to table greeting patrons at Marlow's Tavern on Friday night, almost everyone asked her about the letters.
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Why The Georgia Special Election Matters
Discussion: The Week
New York Times:
Kushner Is Said to Be Reconsidering His Legal Team
Discussion: Politicus USA and Political Wire
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:   Democrats sweat the details in Georgia special election
Daily Mail:
Finsbury Park worshippers pinned ‘attacker’ to the ground  —  The van attack yards from Finsbury Park Mosque follows warnings of an unprecedented anti-Muslim backlash after recent terrorist atrocities.  —  Police in London recorded a spike in the number of Islamophobic incidents in the wake …
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Mynewsdesk:
LATEST: Incident in Finsbury Park
Danny Boyle / Telegraph:
Live Finsbury Park mosque attack latest: Extra police protect Muslims amid arrest after man dies
BBC:
Syria conflict: Russia issues warning after US coalition downs jet  —  Russia has warned the US-led coalition fighting in Syria that it will view its aircraft as targets, after a Syrian military plane was shot down.  —  The coalition said it had shot down the Syrian Su-22 after it bombed US-backed fighters in Raqqa province on Sunday.
Discussion: IJR and Raw Story
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Russia threatens U.S. after Syrian jet shot down
Tom Batchelor / The Independent:
Russia to treat US jets in Syria as ‘targets’ after America guns down first regime warplane
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court to hear potentially landmark case on partisan gerrymandering  —  The Supreme Court declared Monday that it will consider whether gerrymandered election maps favoring one political party over another violate the Constitution, a potentially fundamental change in the way American elections are conducted.
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Craig Gilbert / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
At heart of landmark Supreme Court case: a gerrymandered map that has helped lock in huge …
Discussion: USA Today
Joe Uchill / The Hill:
Data on 198M voters exposed by RNC contractor  —  A data analytics contractor employed by the Republican National Committee (RNC) left databases containing information on nearly 200 million potential voters exposed to the internet without security, allowing anyone who knew where to look to download it without a password.
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Zack Whittaker / ZDNet:
198 million Americans hit by “largest ever” voter records leak  —  Personal data on 198 million voters, including analytics data that suggests who a person is likely to vote for and why, was stored on an unsecured Amazon server.  —  A huge trove of voter data, including personal information …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Megyn Kelly Pantses Alex Jones  —  The censorious powers of the heckler's veto have evolved now to the point that people are willing to call for the banning and shunning of works of journalism not yet published.  Former Fox News Channel and current NBC News anchor Megyn Kelly got the treatment …
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Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
Megyn Kelly and NBC News take the gloves off in Alex Jones interview — and now he's mad  —  Megyn Kelly on the set of her NBC News prime-time magazine “Sunday Night.”  (Brian Doben / NBC)  —  Megyn Kelly presented a highly critical 19-minute piece on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on her NBC newsmagazine …
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Senate GOP considers deeper Medicaid cuts than House bill  —  A leading option in the Senate's ObamaCare repeal debate is to make even deeper cuts to Medicaid spending than the bill passed by the House, according to lobbyists and aides.  —  The proposal would start out the growth rate …
Discussion: Balloon Juice
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Christy Ford Chapin / New York Times:   How Did Health Care Get to Be Such a Mess?
Dylan Scott / Vox:   The health care industry doesn't love Obamacare enough to save it
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
We need a Robert Mueller resignation or a second special counsel  —  The only way to avoid a tainted investigation or a political explosion is another counsel to investigate possible obstruction of justice.  —  Special Counsel Robert Mueller has a problem: He has a disqualifying conflict of interest regarding a large part of his work.
Discussion: Scared Monkeys
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
New Study Shows What Really Happened in the 2016 Election  —  The Democracy Fund Voter Study Group has a new survey of the electorate that explodes many of the myths that we believe about American politics.  Lee Drutman has a fascinating report delving into the data.
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Apple, Amazon CEOs to White House as Kushner initiative gets underway  —  Apple CEO Tim Cook and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos will be among the business leaders at the White House on Monday as the internal think tank led by President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner begins the long process of modernizing …
Discussion: Politico
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Andrew Restuccia / Politico:   Trump demands face time with favored Cabinet heads
The Hill:
GOP considers cancelling August recess to salvage agenda  —  Alarmed by the stalemate on healthcare reform, lack of progress on tax reform and appropriations bills that are far behind schedule, Republican lawmakers across Congress are increasingly willing to consider cancelling the month-long August recess.
Discussion: Politico and The Week
Lynn Thompson / The Seattle Times:
Mother with knife killed by police was pregnant and had mental-health issues, family says  —  Seattle police on Sunday shot and killed a 30-year-old old woman who had called officers to report an attempted burglary and then displayed a knife, SPD said.  Police took three children from the home …
Discussion: New York Magazine and The Root
Warner Todd Huston / Breitbart:
Outdoor Clothing Giant Patagonia Pledging to Lead Resistance to Trump  —  The CEO of outdoor clothing giant Patagonia is burnishing her anti-Republican bona fides again, this time saying she intends to pledge her entire company to the “resistance” of President Donald Trump.
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Alexander C. Kaufman / HuffPost:
Patagonia's CEO Is Ready To Lead The Corporate Resistance To Donald Trump
Discussion: Infowars and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Officials: 17-year-old Muslim girl assaulted and killed after leaving Virginia mosque  —  Police found remains Sunday thought to be those of a missing Virginia teenager who they say was assaulted and disappeared overnight after leaving a mosque in the Sterling area, and a 22-year-old man …
Discussion: Shakesville, Daily Kos and The Guardian
Katherine J Cramer / The Guardian:
The great American fallout: how small towns came to resent cities  —  But Democrat or Republican, they usually tell Katherine Cramer - who has spent a decade visiting residents of small-town Wisconsin - the same thing: it's the cities that get all the breaks, and then have the gall to look down on them, too
Discussion: Instapundit
 
 
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
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New York Times:
Using Texts as Lures, Government Spyware Targets Mexican Activists and Their Families
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Joe Pompeo / Politico:
Sam Stein leaving HuffPost for The Daily Beast
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Conway repeats lawyer's claim: Trump didn't admit to being under investigation
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Huckabee: Trump like a doctor with gruff bedside manner
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Kate Allen / Financial Times:
Shrinking cities: population decline in the world's rust-belt areas
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Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
At height of Russia tensions, Trump campaign chairman Manafort met with business associate from Ukraine
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Fox's Bolling talks of a future Senate run
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
The State Department just broke a promise to minority and female recruits
NBC News:
NBC News Exclusive: Memo Shows Watergate Prosecutors Had Evidence Nixon White House Plotted Violence
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Ema O'Connor / BuzzFeed:
The Man Who Secretly Taped Planned Parenthood Could Be Going To Prison — Alongside His Criminal Lawyers
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