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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
President Trump Is a Better Dealbreaker Than Dealmaker  —  His blown-up North Korea summit proves it.  —  At 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, I was speaking with a senior Administration official involved in the preparations for President Trump's summit with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un.
Discussion: American Thinker
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NBC News:
Inside the summit collapse: Trump wanted to cancel before N. Korean leader could  —  WASHINGTON — Early Thursday morning, after a flurry of calls with a handful of senior advisers, an angry President Donald Trump personally dictated the three-paragraph letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un …
Washington Post:
After summit pullout, South Korea and China have little appetite for Trump's ‘maximum pressure’  —  SEOUL — President Trump credited his “maximum pressure” campaign of sanctions and threats with bringing North Korea to the negotiating table to discuss its nuclear weapons program.
Discussion: Joe.My.God., Sky News and The Week
Laura Rosenberger / Washington Post:
How the United States botched its North Korea strategy.  —  Laura Rosenberger is director of the Alliance for Securing Democracy and a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States.  She was director for China and North Korea at the National Security Council and a member of the …
Brad Reed / Raw Story:   Trump threatens war against North Korea — and says South Korea and Japan will pay for it
Washington Post:
Trump impulsively blows up the North Korea summit
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Trump's Gamble Hits Reality Check in North Korea Negotiations
Discussion: The Atlantic, CNN, HuffPost and Axios
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Trump's summit flip-flop risks fallout far beyond North Korea
Wall Street Journal:
Roger Stone Sought Information on Clinton from Assange, Emails Show  —  Ex-Trump adviser urged intermediary to ask WikiLeaks for specific dates of rival candidate's communications  —  Former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone privately sought information he considered damaging to Hillary Clinton …
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CNN:
Assange's refuge in Ecuadorian embassy ‘in jeopardy’  —  Washington (CNN)Julian Assange's nearly six-year refuge at the Ecuadorian embassy in London is in danger, opening the WikiLeaks founder to arrest by British authorities and potential extradition to the US, multiple sources with knowledge tell CNN.
Sara Murray / CNN:
Roger Stone's finances examined by special counsel
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
The Real Constitutional Crisis  —  The FBI and Justice Department continue evading congressional oversight.  —  Democrats and their media allies are again shouting “constitutional crisis,” this time claiming President Trump has waded too far into the Russia investigation.
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Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Concerned by Trump, Some Republicans Quietly Align With Democrats  —  WASHINGTON — Since Donald J. Trump began dominating American politics more than two years ago, Democrats concerned about his policies and behavior have taken solace in a group of influential Republicans who have consistently assailed …
Jeff Collins / Orange County Register:
Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher says it's OK to not sell homes to gays; loses support of Realtors  —  U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher told a group of Realtors last week that homeowners should be able to refuse to sell their homes to gays and lesbians, a statement that cost him the support of a key national Realtor group.
Ronan Farrow / New Yorker:
Behind the Scenes of Harvey Weinstein's Impending Arrest  —  After a seven-month investigation, the producer Harvey Weinstein is expected to turn himself in to the New York Police Department's First Precinct on Friday to face sexual-assault charges.  According to law-enforcement officials …
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Shayna Jacobs / New York Daily News:
Harvey Weinstein set to turn himself in on sex crime charges in New York
Megan McArdle / Washington Post:
A defense of Roger Goodell  —  Whatever you think of Roger Goodell, commissioner of the National Football League, you should recognize that he's trying to solve a genuinely hard problem.  Or rather two problems.  On one hand, he's trying to maximize the audience for NFL games.
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Washington Post:
Sterling Brown's arrest shows why NFL players have a reason to kneel
Discussion: USA Today, Vox and The Atlantic
Lorenzo Reyes / USA Today:   Seahawks' Doug Baldwin: President Trump is ‘an idiot, plain and simple’
KHQ-TV:
FIRST ON KHQ: Former Spokane NAACP president Rachel Dolezal facing felony theft charges for welfare fraud  —  Former Spokane Chapter NAACP President Rachel Dolezal is now facing legal trouble that could land her behind bars.  KHQ has confirmed that Dolezal, who legally changed her name …
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Q13 FOX News:   Ex-Spokane NAACP head Rachel Dolezal charged with welfare fraud
New York Times:
Turf War Between Kushner and Sessions Drove Federal Prisons Director to Quit  —  WASHINGTON — When Jared Kushner hosted a high-profile summit meeting on federal prison reform at the White House last Friday, some in attendance noticed that the man who was ostensibly in charge of the federal prison system …
Ben White / Politico:
Trump's next economic threat: Surging gas prices  —  A huge jump in driving costs in recent months is likely to fuel a wave of economic anger across the nation — just in time for the midterm elections.  —  President Donald Trump is hoping a wave of tax-cut-fueled economic euphoria will boost …
Yashar Ali / New York Magazine:
The Reporter Who Took Down a Unicorn … In late September of 2015, Elizabeth Holmes, the CEO of the once-high-flying but now disgraced Silicon Valley health-care company Theranos, was in the News Corp. office of Rupert Murdoch.  She had first met Murdoch in 2014 to pitch him on Theranos …
Bloomberg:
Mick Mulvaney Is Having a Blast Running the Agency He Detests  —  One of the first things Mick Mulvaney did last year after President Trump asked him to be acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was to read the statute dictating the agency's powers.
Discussion: Axios
Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
'We're closed!':  Trump directs his anger over immigration at Homeland Security secretary  —  President Trump began berating Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen in the Oval Office earlier this spring, according to administration officials, griping about her performance and blaming her for a surge in illegal border crossings.
Molly Hennessy-Fiske / Los Angeles Times:
Border Patrol union calls Trump's National Guard deployment ‘colossal waste’ … A month after President Trump called for sending National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, the head of the national Border Patrol union called the deployment “a colossal waste of resources.”
Ryan Saavedra / Daily Wire:
REPORT: Deputy Peterson Accused Of ‘Covering Up’ Alleged Sexual Assault By Broward Sheriff's Son  —  A local Miami news station released an explosive report on Thursday night about a “disturbing assault” that happened at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School four years to the day before the tragic shooting in February.
Will Rahn / CBS News:
Commentary: The plot against Donald Trump  —  It's easy to get the basic gist of the Deep State conspiracy theory, which posits that the FBI and CIA ginned up a devious plot to help Hillary Clinton and hurt Donald Trump.  But there's an arch, coy, almost feline quality to the way these arguments are presented.
JONATHAN TURLEY:
Justice Delayed Is Justice: Mueller Fights To Delay Russian Collusion Trial  —  There is an old joke among criminal defense attorneys that “justice delayed is justice,” a twist of the old adage that “justice delayed is justice denied.”  The joke reflects that fact that the defense almost always benefits …
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The group least likely to think the U.S. has a responsibility to accept refugees?  Evangelicals.  —  In February 2017, as debate raged nationally over President Trump's decision to curtail immigration to the United States, the conservative Christian Broadcasting Network dipped into the Bible …
Matt Zoller Seitz / Vulture:
The Cultural Vandalism of Jeffrey Tambor  —  I interviewed Jeffrey Tambor on Tuesday, briefly, in a room with some of his fellow Arrested Development cast members, not including his co-star Jessica Walter.  But it doesn't matter what he told me.  —  It doesn't matter because Tambor said almost …
Discussion: Front Page Magazine
Sara Carter / Sara A. Carter:
What Happened During the FBI Interview With Flynn?  —  Sources: Reports that FBI agent with Flynn info will bring down Comey are false  —  FBI Special Agent Joe Pientka, if subpoenaed, will provide testimony regarding the circumstances surrounding his interview with former National Security Advisor Army …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Steve Reilly / USA Today:
Trump's company wouldn't say what his new $107K business was, until after we tracked it down  —  NEW YORK — For more than a week, nobody at the Trump Organization wanted to talk about the mysterious new corporation from which President Trump earned more than $100,000 last year.
Martin Bagot / mirror:
No amount of alcohol, sausage or bacon is safe according to cancer experts  —  Even small amounts of processed meats and booze increase the risk of a host of cancers outlined in World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) guidelines updated every decade  —  No amount of alcohol …
Tom Perriello / Slate:
It's Time for Democrats to Turn the Tables on Health Care  —  I lost my seat in Congress after voting for the Affordable Care Act.  Democrats should run hard on protecting it this fall.  —  Health care premiums are projected to skyrocket this year, after the Trump administration …
Discussion: LifeZette
CBC News:
2 males wanted after improvised explosive device blast at Mississauga restaurant injures 15  —  Peel police say it's early to say if explosion is terror-related  —  An improvised explosive device set off inside an Indian restaurant in Mississauga is responsible for a blast that injured 15 people on Thursday night, police say.
 
 
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