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1:15 PM ET, June 6, 2018

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Felicia Schwartz / Wall Street Journal:
Kim Jong Un Begged for Summit ‘on His Hands and Knees,’ Giuliani Says  —  With the summit plans back in place, the U.S. has the upper hand, President Trump's lawyer said  —  TEL AVIV—President Donald Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, said North Korean leader Kim Jong Un got …
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Associated Press:
Giuliani says Mueller's team is trying to frame Trump  —  JERUSALEM (AP) — Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani says special counsel Robert Mueller's team is trying to frame President Trump.  —  Giuliani, who has been serving as Trump's lawyer amid the Russia scandal, says Wednesday in Israel …
Discussion: MSNBC, VICE News, Daily Kos and Mediaite
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Giuliani: Mueller's team is ‘trying very, very hard to frame’ Trump
Discussion: Politico
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Conor Finnegan / ABC News:
Obama admin granted Iran secret license to access US dollars: GOP report
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
GOP Senate report says Obama officials gave Iran access to US financial system
Discussion: The Daily Caller, Fox News and Townhall
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Republican investigation finds that Obama administration misled Congress on possible Iranian access …
Discussion: National Review and RedState
Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Exclusive: Trump considers dozens of new pardons  —  Washington (CNN)The White House has assembled the paperwork to pardon dozens of people, two sources with knowledge of the developments tell CNN, signaling that President Donald Trump is poised to exert his constitutional power and intervene …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Trump has commuted Alice Johnson's life sentence  —  President Trump has signed a commutation for Alice Johnson, currently serving a life sentence for a nonviolent drug offense, according to a source with direct knowledge.  CNN reported earlier today that the White House had prepped …
Mic:
President Donald Trump grants clemency to Alice Johnson after Kim Kardashian West involvement  —  President Donald Trump has granted clemency on Wednesday to Alice Marie Johnson, a first-time nonviolent drug offender who was given a life sentence without parole, Mic has learned.
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Speaker Ryan Dismisses Trump's Charges of a Spy in His Campaign  —  WASHINGTON — Speaker Paul D. Ryan agreed on Wednesday that the F.B.I. did nothing wrong by using a confidential informant to contact members of the Trump campaign as it investigated its ties to Russia, contradicting President …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Ryan backs Gowdy on FBI's use of informant to contact Trump associates  —  Speaker Paul Ryan dealt another blow to President Donald Trump's “Spygate” theory Wednesday, saying he's seen “no evidence” to support claims that the FBI spied on Trump's 2016 campaign for political purposes.
Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
Paul Ryan splits with Trump, says ‘no evidence’ FBI spied on president's campaign
Discussion: Mother Jones
Associated Press:
Ryan contradicts Trump's claim that the FBI planted a ‘spy’
Discussion: New Republic
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New York Times:
California Primary Election Results  —  At the top of the ballot in California is the race to replace Gov. Jerry Brown, a term-limited Democrat.  The big question on Tuesday is not so much who will place first — that's almost certain to be Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, a former mayor of San Francisco — but who will place second.
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Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
No, Democrats haven't shown they're going to win the House
Discussion: NBC News and AOL
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Sometimes The Parties Do Decide, After All
Christine Mai-Duc / Los Angeles Times:
Democrats look like they won't be shut out of critical California House races
BuzzFeed:
Ivanka Trump Was In Contact With A Russian Who Offered A Trump-Putin Meeting  —  Her contact, a Russian Olympic weightlifter, said a meeting between Trump and Putin could expedite a Trump tower in Moscow.  —  Amid intense scrutiny of contacts between Donald Trump's inner circle and representatives …
Discussion: Raw Story
Carole Cadwalladr / The Guardian:
Cambridge Analytica director ‘met Assange to discuss US election’  —  Brittany Kaiser also claims to have channelled payments and donations to WikiLeaks  —  A Cambridge Analytica director apparently visited Julian Assange in February last year and told friends it was to discuss what happened during …
Bob Egelko / San Francisco Chronicle:
Bid to recall Judge Aaron Persky appears successful in Santa Clara County  —  Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky was on his way to being voted out of office Tuesday, two years after he set off national outrage by sentencing a Stanford athlete to six months in jail …
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David Von Drehle / Washington Post:
There will be no Trump collapse  —  I've tried everything to avoid thinking about the next election — family travel, yard work, crossword puzzles.  But now it's only five months away, barely longer than the gestation period of a North American beaver, or the Stanley Cup playoffs.
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
It Looks Like America Is Finally Going To Have A Native American Congresswoman  —  Deb Haaland won her Democratic primary in New Mexico's congressional race.  She's likely to win in November, too.  —  Deb Haaland won the Democratic nomination for a New Mexico congressional seat on Tuesday …
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Alexia Fernández Campbell / Vox:
Deb Haaland's primary win means she will likely be the first Native American woman in Congress
Discussion: Politico, Newsweek and NPR
CNN:
Exclusive: Trump invokes War of 1812 in testy call with Trudeau over tariffs  —  Trudeau: No sign of US common sense prevailing  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had a testy phone call on May 25 over new tariffs imposed by the Trump administration targeting steel …
Noreen Malone / New York Magazine:
The New Yorker Staff Has Unionized  —  The era of white-collar organized labor is fully upon us: the editorial staff of The New Yorker wants to unionize.  This morning, organizers sent a letter to the magazine's editor, David Remnick, asking that the institution and its corporate owner …
Bryan Lowry / Kansas City Star:
Democrat Arthur wins Missouri special election days after Greitens resigns  —  Democratic Rep. Lauren Arthur prevailed by a double-digit margin over Republican Rep. Kevin Corlew in a special election for a state Senate seat Tuesday night.  —  Republicans won't risk losing control …
Washington Post:
The Post has mapped more than 52,000 homicides in major American cities over the past decade and found that across the country, there are areas where murder is common but arrests are rare.  —  Christopher Dickson felt justice had been served.  For weeks, he'd bragged around his neighborhood …
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Trump Transition Team Goes to War Over Rogue FBI Agent … At the time, it was one of the more controversial moments of Robert Mueller's probe: Late last year, news broke that a federal agency turned over tens of thousands of private emails of Trump transition team officials to the special counsel's team …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
New York Times:
Facebook Gave Data Access to Chinese Firm Flagged by U.S. Intelligence  —  Facebook has data-sharing partnerships with at least four Chinese electronics companies, including a manufacturing giant that has a close relationship with China's government, the social media company said on Tuesday.
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Facebook playing with fire in D.C.
Discussion: The Week and VICE News
Eli Watkins / CNN:
State Department spokeswoman notes D-Day in answer on ‘strong relationship’ with Germany  —  Nauert invokes D-Day while praising US-Germany relations  —  Washington (CNN)State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert on Tuesday cited the D-Day invasion during an answer about the current state of US-German relations.
Ned Ryun / The Hill:
If Trump team had done wrong, it would have leaked long ago  —  A little over a week ago, Trump's attorney Rudy Guiliani said that the basis of special counsel Robert Mueller  —  's investigation was illegitimate and he was absolutely correct.  —  Instead of discussing presidential pardons or subpoenas, President Trump
Washington Post:
Trump to sign veterans health bill as White House works against plan to fund it  —  President Trump is preparing to sign a sweeping new law Wednesday aimed at expanding veterans' access to private-sector health care.  But behind the scenes his administration is fighting a bipartisan Senate effort to fund the legislation.
Discussion: CNBC
Justin Glawe / The Daily Beast:
Steve Mnuchin Blacked Out Schedule on Days of Controversial Trips … Before stepping off a military jet in Kentucky last summer where he viewed a solar eclipse at Fort Knox, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin was doing something else in secret.  —  Mnuchin and his wife's trip on August 21 …
Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
GOP elects white supremacist who rioted in Charlottesville  —  Emboldened by Trump's racism, a record number of white supremacists are making their way into mainstream Republican politics.  —  A participant in last summer's deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville has been elected …
CBS News:
Secret Service arrests White House contractor with outstanding attempted murder warrant  —  The Secret Service arrested a contractor outside the White House on Tuesday for an outstanding warrant that includes an attempted murder charge, CBS News Washington correspondent Paula Reid reports.
Cynthia Nixon / The Nation:
Cynthia Nixon for Governor  —  New Yorkers deserve a true progressive champion.  —  Ever since Cynthia Nixon announced her long-shot campaign to become New York's next governor, the current incumbent has been a changed man.  Not only has Andrew Cuomo publicly reconsidered his longtime opposition …
 
 
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James Randerson / Politico:
David Davis accuses EU of legalistic approach to post-Brexit security
Chris Perez / New York Post:
Former college student who claimed rape admits it was all lies
Kat Stromquist / Gambit Weekly:
At Joe Biden's New Orleans appearance, further hints of a 2020 run
Bob McManus / City Journal:
Changing the Subject  —  Mayor de Blasio would rather undermine merit …
Terje Solsvik / Reuters:
Norway's $1 trillion wealth fund wants Elon Musk out as chairman of Tesla
Sam Baker / Axios:
Health care emerges as top midterm voting issue
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Arizona Republic:
Mesa officers on leave after video shows man being punched
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Hanna Kozlowska / Quartz:
Paul Manafort tried to hide from the feds using encrypted WhatsApp—but forgot about iCloud
Discussion: Mother Jones and VICE News
Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
The Enlightenment's Dark Side
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