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11:20 AM 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 …
Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Trump Wants Kim to Commit to Disarmament Timetable in Singapore  — Mar-a-Lago summit possible if talks go well between leaders  — White House hasn't described schedule beyond first meeting  —  The White House wants North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to commit to a timetable to surrender …
Tina Moore / New York Post:
Dennis Rodman will be in Singapore for Trump-Kim summit
Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: Secret Obama-era license let Iran tap dollars  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration secretly sought to give Iran access — albeit briefly — to the U.S. financial system by sidestepping sanctions kept in place after the 2015 nuclear deal, despite repeatedly telling Congress and the public it had no plans to do so.
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Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
GOP Senate report says Obama officials gave Iran access to US financial system
Discussion: The Daily Caller, Townhall and Fox News
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Obama Administration Skirted U.S. Sanctions to Grant Iran Billions in Cash
Discussion: Jihad Watch
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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Christine Mai-Duc / Los Angeles Times:
Democrats look like they won't be shut out of critical California House races
Steve Lopez / Los Angeles Times:   In the heart of the Trump resistance, so much apathy in California
Dakota Smith / Los Angeles Times:
California Sen. Josh Newman seems headed for removal from office for supporting higher gas tax
Discussion: CALmatters and KTLA
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 …
Discussion: Palo Alto Daily Post
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Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
Voters remove judge who sentenced Brock Turner to six months in Stanford sexual assault case
Discussion: Refinery29, twitchy.com and NPR
Grace Wyler / BuzzFeed:
The Judge In The Brock Turner Sexual Assault Case Has Been Recalled
Discussion: Vox and Mother Jones
Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Judge in Brock Turner sentencing recalled
Discussion: The Week, Splinter and babe
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 …
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 …
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David Weigel / Washington Post:
Democrats win state Senate seat in Missouri, their 42nd red-to-blue flip of the cycle
Mike Levine / ABC News:
DOJ watchdog finds Comey defied authority as FBI director, sources say  —  The Justice Department's internal watchdog has concluded that James Comey defied authority at times during his tenure as FBI director, according to sources familiar with a draft report on the matter.
Discussion: Political Wire
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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 …
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 …
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.
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.
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CNN:
White House contractor arrested at checkpoint on attempted murder warrant
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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.
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: VICE News, The Week and Political Wire
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 …
Wall Street Journal:
Rick Perry's Obama Imitation  —  His intrusion to save coal and nuclear plants is as bad as renewable subsidies.  —  One Trump Administration achievement has been liberating U.S. energy producers of all kinds from federal shackles.  Companies have responded with jobs and investment …
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Greg Ip / Wall Street Journal:   A Costly, Deadly Obsession With Coal
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.
CNN:
Press aide who mocked McCain is out at the White House  —  White House still won't apologize for McCain joke  —  (CNN)Kelly Sadler, the White House communications aide who made a imprudent comment about Republican Sen. John McCain's health last month, no longer works in the administration …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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
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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Matthew Flamm / Crain's New York Business:
‘Fast Company’ editorial staff votes to unionize
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Ryan backs Gowdy on FBI's use of informant to contact Trump associates
Discussion: Axios and Daily Wire
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
George Packer / New Yorker:
Witnessing the Obama Presidency, from Start to Finish
Tory Newmyer / Washington Post:
The Finance 202: Trump claims we're enjoying the best economy ever. But we're not
Arizona Republic:
Mesa officers on leave after video shows man being punched
Discussion: The Root and Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Lewinsky and Trump Shadow Bill Clinton on Book Tour
Discussion: Splinter
Hanna Kozlowska / Quartz:
Paul Manafort tried to hide from the feds using encrypted WhatsApp—but forgot about iCloud
Discussion: Mother Jones and VICE News
Jake Sherman / Politico:
Playbook scoop: Senate Democrats' August messaging plan
Discussion: CNN, Mediaite and New York Times
Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
The Enlightenment's Dark Side
Discussion: The Federalist
Nick Baumann / HuffPost:
A HuffPost Reporter Was Bombarded With Threats. Twitter Suspended Him.
 

 
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