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Erica Pandey / Axios:
Guards “forcibly” prevent AP reporter from attending EPA summit  —  The Environmental Protection Agency blocked the AP, CNN, and E&E from attending a Tuesday morning summit featuring EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt on harmful contaminants in drinking water, reports the AP.
Discussion: ABC News and Politico
Miranda Green / The Hill:
Media push back against EPA limiting reporters at chemical summit
Discussion: New Republic and CNNMoney
NBC News:
Pruitt bars AP, CNN from EPA summit on contaminants, guards push reporter out of building
Discussion: Splinter
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
‘Too inconvenient’: Trump goes rogue on phone security  —  The president has kept features at risk for hacking and resisted efforts by staff to inspect the phones he uses for tweeting.  —  President Donald Trump uses a White House cell phone that isn't equipped with sophisticated security features designed …
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Trump's Email . . . Er, Cellphone, Scandal  —  Making the click-through worthwhile: Trump chooses to emulate one of Hillary Clinton's worst traits; a Democratic candidate with some weird beliefs down in Georgia; what to expect from the new Obama-Netflix deal; and an ugly scandal down in South Carolina's Low Country.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Is Doing Same Thing He Demanded Clinton Be Locked Up For  —  While serving as secretary of State, Hillary Clinton disregarded an instruction from the Foreign Affairs Manual directing her to use State Department equipment for day-to-day operations.  Clinton almost certainly …
Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump says ‘disgrace’ if FBI spied on campaign  —  The Latest on President Donald Trump and the Russia investigation (all times local):  —  President Donald Trump says it would be a “disgrace” to the country if it's shown that the FBI had “spies in my campaign.”
Discussion: Politico, Breitbart and ABC News
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Donald Trump Wants You to Hate Robert Mueller, Too
Discussion: CNN, Politico, Vox and Washington Post
Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:
White House pushes back on report that Trump's cell phones not secure
Discussion: Washington Post and Politico
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Jimmy Carter: Trump Has a Shot At a Nobel Prize  —  President Jimmy Carter believes that under Trump, democracy is threatened and moral leadership is lacking.  But if Korea goes well, he says there could be a Nobel Prize in Trump's future. … LYNCHBURG, Va. — Jimmy Carter thinks Donald Trump …
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Associated Press:
Can the ‘dealmaker’ president deliver on North Korea?  —  Weeks before his planned North Korea summit, President Donald Trump is staring down a dealmaker's worst nightmare: overpromising and under-delivering.  —  As the Singapore meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un draws near …
Axios:
3 factors behind Trump's cave on his China trade war  —  Who knows how the chest-bumping over China ends.  But for now, President Trump's anti-China advisers are right: The president is buckling on his threats to punish China with fundamental, lasting changes to trade tariffs and rules.
Axios:
Trump says summit with Kim Jong-un may not go ahead as planned
Discussion: Political Wire and Vox
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Says June Summit With North Korea ‘May Not Work Out’
Discussion: Mother Jones
Yonhap News Agency:
N. Korea-U.S. summit will be held as scheduled despite tensions: Seoul official
Discussion: ABC News and Breitbart
Annie Linskey / BostonGlobe.com:
Trump's tweets include grammatical errors.  And some are on purpose  —  WASHINGTON — The hallmark of President Trump's Twitter feed is that it sounds like him — grammatical miscues and all.  —  But it's not always Trump tapping out a Tweet, even when it sounds like his voice.
Amber Ferguson / Washington Post:
Proud mom orders ‘Summa Cum Laude’ cake online.  Publix censors it: Summa ... Laude.  —  Saturday was Jacob Koscinski's big day.  His whole family, many from out of town, saw the Charleston, S.C., student graduate from his Christian-based home-school program with a 4.89 grade-point average and the coveted honor of summa cum laude.
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TMZ.com:   Publix Refuses to Put ‘Cum’ On Son's Graduation Cake, Mom Pissed
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
U.S. Moves to Shutter All Iranian Nuclear Enrichment Sites in Major Reversal of Obama Policy  —  Pompeo call to kill Iran's nuclear program gaining traction  —  The Trump administration, in a major reversal of Obama administration policy, is seeking to shutter every Iranian nuclear enrichment site …
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Suzanne Maloney / Brookings:
The Trump administration's Plan B on Iran is no plan at all
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Feds Seized a Fortune From #Resistance Icons Accused of Boosting Online ‘Ponzi Schemes’ … In late 2016, federal agents showed up at the Fort Myers, Florida, homes of brothers Brian and Edward Krassenstein, seizing computers and financial records, and hauling off with “at least 20 to 30 bundles of stuff.”
Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Mystery in Mueller probe: Where's the hacking indictment?  —  In the year since the start of special counsel Robert Mueller  —  's investigation, one thing has been notably absent: a public indictment of any Russians for the hacking of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
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Politico:
DHS chief reignites debate over Russian election meddling findings
Discussion: The Daily Beast and MSNBC
Jamie Lovegrove / Post and Courier:
Top South Carolina candidate refuses to quit congressional race after abuse discovery  —  Archie Parnell, a Democratic congressional hopeful who earned national attention after nearly winning in deep red South Carolina last year, is resisting pleas to withdraw after his campaign staff discovered …
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Zach Montellaro / Politico:
Ryan offers brushback to his critics
Discussion: Sacramento Bee
Amanda Macias / CNBC:
Putin claimed a new nuclear-powered missile had unlimited range — but it flew only 22 miles in its most successful test yet  — Russian President Vladimir Putin bragged that a new nuclear-powered missile had unlimited range, but it has yet to perform a successful test …
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Alec Luhn / Telegraph:   Putin's ‘unlimited range’ nuclear missile crashed after 22 miles, US intelligence sources claim
New York Times:
Chances of China Trade Win Undercut by Trump Team Infighting  —  WASHINGTON — By the time American negotiators wrapped up high-level talks with a visiting Chinese delegation last week, President Trump's ambitions for a multibillion-dollar trade agreement had, for the time being …
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Greg Ip / Wall Street Journal:
In Trade War With U.S., China Gets the Upper Hand
Discussion: Breitbart and IJR
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Jamal Khashoggi / Washington Post:
Saudi Arabia's reformers now face a terrible choice
Sean Davis / The Federalist:
BREAKING: E-mails Show FBI Brass Discussed Dossier Briefing Details With CNN  —  New e-mails show former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe was surprisingly knowledgeable about CNN's understanding of and deliberation about a dossier briefing given to Donald Trump days before CNN ever reported on the matter.
David Wasserman / The Cook Political Report:
House Ratings Changes: GOP Fortunes Improve in Four Districts  —  After a rough start to year, House Republicans are suddenly feeling less pessimistic about their fall prospects.  At the “macro” level, robust economic data and positive developments on the Korean peninsula …
Costas Paris / Wall Street Journal:
Father of Accused Texas Shooter Believes Bullying Was Behind Rampage  —  Antonios Pagourtzis says 17-year-old son was a ‘good boy’ who had been ‘mistreated at school’  —  The father of the 17-year-old charged with killing 10 people at a high school in Santa Fe, Texas, said Monday that his son was a …
Discussion: Law & Crime
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
The Hard Truth at Newspapers Across America: Hedge Funds Are in Charge  —  From Miami to Denver, financial firms are playing a bigger role at local papers struggling to adapt in digital age  —  A group of journalists protesting outside the offices of a New York City hedge fund recently shined …
Wall Street Journal:
U.S., China Agree on Outline to Settle ZTE Controversy  —  Deal would lift the sales ban on ZTE and require the Chinese telecom giant to make significant changes to its management and board  —  Lingling Wei in Beijing and Bob Davis in  —  The U.S. and China have agreed on the broad outline …
Emily Stewart / Vox:
Harley-Davidson took its tax cut, closed a factory, and rewarded shareholders  —  The motorcycle maker in January told Kansas City workers it would close a plant there.  Days later, it announced a nearly $700 million stock buyback plan.  —  In September 2017, House Speaker Paul Ryan traveled …
Discussion: Raw Story and CNNMoney
Heather Timmons / Quartz:
An actual sinkhole has opened on the White House lawn.  It's growing  —  Construction on the US White House began in 1792.  It has been almost continuously occupied by US presidents since 1800, barring a few years after the British set it on fire in 1814.  —  But that doesn't mean …
NBC News:
Interior Dept. moves to allow Alaska bear hunting with doughnuts, bacon  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is moving to reverse Obama-era rules barring hunters on some public lands in Alaska from baiting brown bears with bacon and doughnuts and using spotlights to shoot mother black bears and cubs hibernating in their dens.
Discussion: The Week
Joe Jervis / Joe.My.God.:
Tony Perkins: School Shootings Happen Because Liberal Society Has Created A “Moral Vacuum” By Expelling God  —  Via press release from hate group leader Tony Perkins:  —  As the first bodies of those eight students and two teachers are laid to rest, America returns to the question burned on everyone's mind: why?
Grant Stern / Washington Press:
A new study was just released that proves Russia's Trump Twitter bots likely swayed election results  —  A new academic study released by the National Bureau of Economic Research says that Twitter bots, automated social accounts that post content, likely generated enough activity to sway …
Discussion: NBER, The Hill and Bloomberg
 
 
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USA Today:
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