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11:45 AM ET, June 1, 2018

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HuffPost:
Congressional Candidate In Virginia Admits He's A Pedophile  —  Nathan Larson also ran online forums for pedophiles and misogynists.  —  Nathan Larson, a 37-year-old accountant from Charlottesville, Virginia, is running for Congress as an independent candidate in his native state.
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Billionaire Koch brothers' network launches digital ad blitz supporting Democrat Heidi Heitkamp as midterms near  — Americans for Prosperity is unleashing a digital advertising campaign on Friday thanking North Dakota Democratic Senator Heidi Heitkamp for cosponsoring the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protect Act.
Discussion: Political Wire and Roll Call
Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
Trudeau says NAFTA talks broke down after Pence made ultimatum  —  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said months of intense negotiations between his country, the United States and Mexico imploded Tuesday when Vice President Pence demanded that any deal expire automatically in five years.
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Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Trump's trade policy is stuck in the '80s — the 1680s
Discussion: Hullabaloo, The Week and HeraldScotland
Associated Press:   Macron talks to Trump, says tariffs illegal and a mistake
Anthony D'Alessandro / Deadline:
Television Academy Blocks Media From Tonight's Honors Ceremony Featuring Samantha Bee  —  In the wake of the Samantha Bee controversy whereby she called Ivanka Trump a “feckless c**t”, the Television Academy has put the kibosh on any press tonight attending its 11th Annual Television Academy Honors ceremony …
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Michael Schneider / IndieWire:
Samantha Bee Addresses Controversy: ‘We Spent the Day Wrestling With the Repercussions of One Bad Word’
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
‘Feckless c—’: Samantha Bee apologizes for misogyny that delighted her audience
Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
Your defenses of Dinesh D'Souza are garbage  —  “Why should you go to jail for a crime someone else noticed?” asks the character of Bob Loblaw, an attorney, in the sitcom “Arrested Development.”  —  That line, which was written as a joke, is being repurposed to defend President Trump's pardon …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
A Worthy Pardon for Dinesh D'Souza
CHRISTOPHER RUGABER / Associated Press:
US gains 223K jobs; unemployment at 18-year low of 3.8 pct.  —  Just now  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers extended a streak of solid hiring in May, adding 223,000 jobs and helping lower the unemployment rate to an 18-year low of 3.8 percent.  —  The Labor Department …
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Neil Irwin / New York Times:   We Ran Out of Words to Describe How Good the Jobs Numbers Are
Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Stormy Daniels's Lawyer Sought Help From Democrats in Fight With Trump  —  WASHINGTON — Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for Stephanie Clifford, the pornographic film actress who says she had a sexual encounter with President Trump, has sought help for his legal battle against Mr. Trump from leading Democratic operatives.
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Tim Mak / NPR:
LISTEN: How Michael Cohen Protects Trump By Making Legal Threats
Wall Street Journal:   Stormy Daniels Lawyer Michael Avenatti Dogged by His Own Legal Battles
NBC News:
Jared Kushner close friend Rick Gerson now under scrutiny from Mueller  —  WASHINGTON — A close friend of Jared Kushner has come under scrutiny by Special Counsel Robert Mueller for his proximity to some key meetings between Trump associates and foreign officials, according to five people familiar with the matter.
Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
Trump breaks protocol, sends markets a clear signal on jobs report before numbers are released  —  President Trump on Friday broke with decades of protocol and commented publicly about the highly anticipated jobs report data 69 minutes before they were released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Alexander Mallin / ABC News:
Trump tweet previewing jobs report appears to break protocol: Experts
Discussion: Politico
Wall Street Journal:
Kim's Letter to Trump Expresses Interest in Nuclear Summit  —  North Korean official aims to hand-deliver the letter to Trump on Friday  —  WASHINGTON—One of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's top lieutenants is expected to hand-deliver a letter to President Donald Trump in the White House …
Craig Timberg / Washington Post:
Signs of sophisticated cellphone spying found near White House, U.S. officials say  —  A federal study found signs that surveillance devices for intercepting cellphone calls and texts were operating near the White House and other sensitive locations in the Washington area last year.
Discussion: Political Wire
People.com:
Santa Fe Victim's Mom Challenged President Trump in Private Meeting for Calling Shooter ‘Wacky’  —  The mother of a teenage girl killed earlier this month in a massacre at Santa Fe High School in Texas tells PEOPLE she challenged President Donald Trump's views on gun violence during …
Discussion: Shareblue Media and Splinter
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John Brennan / Washington Post:
I will speak out until integrity returns to the White House  —  John Brennan served as director of the Central Intelligence Agency from March 2013 to January 2017.  —  My first visit to the Oval Office came in October 1990, when I was a 35-year-old CIA officer.
Michael Kruse / Politico:
‘He Pretty Much Gave In to Whatever They Asked For’  —  Trump says he's a master negotiator.  Those who've actually dealt with him beg to differ.  —  In 1985, Tony Schwartz, a writer for New York magazine, was sitting in Donald Trump's office in Trump Tower interviewing him for a story.
Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story
Brian Contreras / Stanford Daily:
Leaked emails show Hoover academic conspiring with College Republicans to conduct ‘opposition research’ on student  —  Emails between the Hoover Institution's Niall Ferguson and well-known Republican student activists John Rice-Cameron '20 and Max Minshull '20 reveal coordination on …
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
The Curious Case of Mr. Downer  —  His story about the Papadopoulos meeting calls the FBI's into question.  —  To hear the Federal Bureau of Investigation tell it, its decision to launch a counterintelligence probe into a major-party presidential campaign comes down to a foreign tip …
Discussion: Power Line
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Trump Ran as a Renegade.  Now He's Trying to Keep Them at Bay.  —  IUKA, Miss. — When Chris McDaniel first ran for Senate four years ago, his campaign became a cause for disaffected and restless Republicans across the country.  Activists waving “Don't Tread on Me” flags flooded Mississippi.
Dion Nissenbaum / Wall Street Journal:
John Bolton's Deputy Draws Ire of Jewish, Muslim Groups  —  Trump supporters defend appointment of Fred Fleitz to National Security Council post  —  WASHINGTON—Jewish and Muslim groups are objecting to the appointment of a former Central Intelligence Agency analyst to a top White House post …
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Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
A Radical Pick for the National Security Council
Jess McIntosh / ELLE:
I Went on a Date With Eric Schneiderman.  It Took Me Years to Process What Happened That Night.  —  Let's start at the beginning.  —  I'm 23, and the story I tell is called “The Time I Went Out with the (Relatively) Hot Older State Senator.”  I deploy it as a nerdy leg-up on the social ladder among friends.
Stephen L. Miller / Fox News:
President Trump, cut the celebrity shenanigans and commute the sentences that actually matter  —  President Trump says he is considering commuting sentence of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich.  —  One of the absolute powers that rests with the presidency is pardon power.
 
 
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Joy Reid: Bush Permitted ‘the Breaching of Our Borders’ to ‘Feed Slave Labor to Multinationals’
Dan Collyns / The Guardian:
Ecuador's president says Julian Assange can stay in embassy ‘with conditions’
Discussion: Gizmodo
Max Seddon / Financial Times:
Londongrad oligarchs are being forced back to Russia's embrace
Frances Robles / New York Times:
Nicaragua Protest on Mother's Day Kills at Least 15
Discussion: Althouse, NPR and Al Jazeera English
David Beard / Poynter:
10,000 Trump misstatements by the end of his term? Washington Post fact-checker says it's possible.
Discussion: Political Wire
The Daily Caller:
Imran Awan Allegedly Tried ‘To Hide His Money’ While DOJ Negotiates With Him
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Miami's Displaced Puerto Ricans Offer A Glimpse At America's Looming Climate Crisis
Tim Chitwood / ledger-enquirer:
Columbus teen who had no record is going to prison - over a pair of sneakers
Discussion: theGrio
David Brooks / New York Times:
One Reform to Save America
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Prosecutors interview Comey as they investigate whether McCabe should be charged
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
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Andrew Marchand / The Athletic:
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