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Wall Street Journal:
Trump on Kim Talks: ‘Tell Him Yes’  —  U.S. officials rush to assemble a diplomatic strategy with little precedent in American history  —  Inside the Oval Office late Thursday, President Donald Trump interrupted a trio of South Korean officials as they analyzed an offer to meet …
Discussion: Bloomberg and Mediaite
Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
World watches as Tillerson admits he doesn't care about imploding State Dept  —  More than 60% of career diplomats have left in the past year, but Tillerson says he doesn't “lose a wink of sleep” over it.  —  One of America's top Latin American diplomats left the State Department this week …
Discussion: CBS News
Evan Osnos / New Yorker:
Three Key Questions About Donald Trump's Summit with Kim Jong Un  —  On February 21st, 1972, President Richard Nixon arrived in Beijing to meet with Chairman Mao Zedong, ending twenty-five years of hostility between the United States and China.  The preparations had been painstaking …
The Guardian:
Republican candidate's North Korea experience may not be all he claims  —  Rick Saccone, standing in Pennsylvania's special congressional election, says he negotiated regularly with communist officials - others remember it differently … North Korea rarely plays a prominent role …
Discussion: Mediaite
Washington Post:   A top U.S. diplomat in Latin America leaves in protest, swelling an exodus
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Damage control at White House to reverse Trump's stunning blunder
Sam Dolnick / New York Times:
The Man Who Knew Too Little  —  The most ignorant man in America knows that Donald Trump is president — but that's about it.  Living a liberal fantasy is complicated.  —  GLOUSTER, Ohio — At first, the experiment didn't have a name.  —  Right after the election, Erik Hagerman decided …
Discussion: Althouse and CANNONFIRE
Washington Post:
In a personal letter, Trump invited Putin to the 2013 Miss Universe pageant … Donald Trump was so eager to have Vladi­mir Putin attend the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow that he wrote a personal letter to the Russian president inviting him to the event, according to multiple people familiar with the document.
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Alexander Smith / NBC News:
Putin on U.S. election interference: 'I couldn't care less'  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin has told NBC News that he “couldn't care less” if Russian citizens tried to interfere in the 2016 American presidential election because, he claims, they were not connected to the Kremlin.
Discussion: CNBC, RT and Balloon Juice
CNN:
Gunman and victims identified in deadly standoff at California veterans home  —  (CNN)A gunman and three female hostages were found dead at a military veterans home in Northern California on Friday evening, officials said, a grim end to a standoff that lasted nearly eight hours.
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NBC News:
Suspected gunman, 3 women found dead after hostages taken at California veterans home
Discussion: Breitbart and NBC News
Fox News:
Veterans Home of California in Yountville on lockdown after reports of shots fired, officials say
Lucien Bruggeman / ABC News:
Former Trump aide speaks to Mueller, believes Russia probe is ‘not a witch hunt’  —  Five and a half hours after testifying before a grand jury in the Russia probe, a former political adviser to Donald Trump told ABC News exclusively that he believes the investigation is “warranted.”
Discussion: Politico
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Josh Delk / The Hill:
Trump lawyers seek to offer Mueller an interview in exchange for wrapping up probe: report
Discussion: RedState and Mediaite
Ben Mathis-Lilley / Slate:
Sweet Jesus, Will the NYT's Conservatives Ever Write About Anything but the “Intolerant Left” Ever Again?  —  David Brooks published a column in the New York Times on Friday complaining about the manner in which “[s]tudents across the country,” having become obsessed with “group identity,” …
Discussion: Eschaton
Cristina Alesci / CNN:
White House scolds Cabinet officials after embarrassing ethics reports  —  (CNN)The White House held private meetings with four Cabinet-level officials last month to scold them for embarrassing stories about questionable ethical behavior at their respective agencies, sources familiar with the sessions tell CNN.
Politico:
Search for Hicks replacement turns into West Wing food fight  —  Various White House factions are backing different candidates for communications director, while Trump is soliciting advice from Hicks on potential successors.  —  President Donald Trump on Thursday evening poked his head …
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Jennie Willoughby / Washington Post:
I was married to Rob Porter. Here's what John Kelly doesn't get about abuse.
Discussion: Raw Story
Ryan Browne / CNN:
Exclusive: Trump getting a parade but tanks won't roll down Pennsylvania avenue  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump will get his military parade, but it is unlikely to mirror the Paris Bastille Day event which inspired him as it will not involve any heavy military vehicles like tanks …
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Marwa Eltagouri / Washington Post:
Trump will get the military parade he wanted — just not the tanks
Discussion: Reuters, TheBlaze and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Trump administration studies seeking the death penalty for drug dealers  —  The Trump administration is studying new policy that could allow prosecutors to seek the death penalty for drug dealers, according to people with knowledge of the discussions, a sign that the White House wants …
Discussion: The Hill and RedState
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
I would've aborted a fetus with Down syndome.  Women need that right. … There is a new push in antiabortion circles to pass state laws aimed at barring women from terminating their pregnancies after the fetus has been determined to have Down syndrome.  These laws are unconstitutional, unenforceable — and wrong.
Bill Barrow / Associated Press:
Dems still wrestling over superdelegates - a 2016 issue  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Bernie Sanders is back in the Senate minority.  Hillary Clinton is selling books and playing with grandchildren.  And the Democratic Party is still navigating the fallout from their bitter 2016 presidential nominating fight.
Discussion: Axios
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Brent Budowsky / The Hill:
A Sanders-Warren ticket could win big in 2020
New York Times:
Statues Across India Are Vandalized as Political Tensions Rise  —  MEERUT, India — The vandals attacked a statue of Gandhi in the southern state of Kerala, breaking its wire-rimmed eyeglasses.  —  They targeted a monument to Lenin, using a hydraulic jackhammer to destroy the sculpture in the northeastern state of Tripura.
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Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
Trump's Latest Pardon Shows The Best Way To Get One: Go On Fox News  —  By comparing his case to Hillary Clinton's, a Navy sailor and his lawyer were able to grab Fox's attention — and the president's.  —  WASHINGTON A former Navy sailor who pleaded guilty to a felony count of unauthorized possession …
 
 
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