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11:00 AM ET, June 7, 2018

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Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Trump and Bolton spurn top-level North Korea planning  —  After two months on the job, Trump's new national security adviser has not called a single top-level National Security Council meeting on North Korea.  —  National Security Adviser John Bolton has yet to convene a Cabinet-level meeting …
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Washington Post:
Trump complains about traveling to Canada ahead of Singapore summit with Kim  —  President Trump is planning to fly to Canada on Friday.  He is not exactly happy about it.  —  The president has vented privately about Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as their trade tensions have spilled into public view.
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Democrats Childishly Resist Trump's North Korea Efforts  —  Shock!  Horror!  President Trump is actually doing something right.  —  Sadly, Democrats in Congress are responding in a quite Trumpian way: They seem more concerned with undermining him than supporting a peace process with North Korea.
Discussion: New Republic
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:   Trump still holds Jimmy Carter's view on withdrawing U.S. troops from South Korea
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump and Kim could meet for second day in Singapore
Politico:
Another mess for Pruitt: Overstaying his White House welcome at lunch  —  Too many visits for lunch at the Mess earned a rebuke from the White House.  —  EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt loves eating at the White House mess, an exclusive U.S. Navy-run restaurant open only to White House officials, Cabinet members and other dignitaries.
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Washington Post:
Joseph Hagin, point person on Korea summit, plans to leave White House soon
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Breitbart
Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:
Pruitt Aide Resigns Amid Scandals
Mark Murray / NBC News:
Poll: Economic satisfaction under Trump isn't helping his party's 2018 chances  —  By a whopping 25-point margin, voters say they're more likely to back a congressional candidate who promises to serve as a check on President Donald Trump, according to a new national poll from NBC News and the Wall Street Journal.
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John Harwood / CNBC:
More Americans are crediting Trump with the stronger economy, but that isn't helping the GOP with voters: NBC/WSJ poll
Discussion: Blue Virginia and NTK Network
Peter Nicholas / Wall Street Journal:
Democrats' Interest in Midterm Elections Running Ahead of Republicans'
Discussion: Vox
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Lou Dobbs and Rep. Gaetz Trash ‘Disaster’ Paul Ryan: ‘Get the Hell Out of the Office’  —  If you thought SpyGate on Fox News primetime was lit, take a gander over at what's happening on Fox Business Network, where host Lou Dobbs is truly wilding on a nightly basis.
Discussion: Shareblue Media, Politico and MSNBC
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
GOP congressman blasts Trump's spy conspiracy  —  Rep. Tom Rooney, a top Republican lawmaker on the House Intelligence Committee, is ripping President Donald Trump's unsupported claim that the FBI inserted a spy inside his campaign.  —  “What is the point of saying that there was a spy in the campaign when there was none?”
Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
In private FEMA remarks, Trump's focus strays from hurricanes  —  The meeting was supposed to be about hurricane preparedness, as disaster officials gathered at Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters days after the start of the 2018 season.  —  But President Trump had a lot else on his mind …
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Playbook: Inside the House GOP's big immigration meeting
Discussion: Mother Jones, twitchy.com and Mediaite
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Foreign leaders who embraced Trump now feel burned  —  Trump's overseas friends are learning the hard way that handshakes and golf games can't convince Trump not to smack would-be allies.  —  Call it friends without benefits.  —  Foreign leaders are learning that hand-holding, golf games …
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Helene Fouquet / Bloomberg:
France Warns Trump It Won't Sign a G-7 Statement
Discussion: Politico, Political Wire, CNN and CBC News
Ken Klippenstein / TYT Network:
You'll Never Believe What Israel Gave to Donald Trump
Discussion: Splinter, Raw Story and CBS News
Daniel Victor / New York Times:
No, Mr. Trump, Canada Did Not Burn Down the White House in the War of 1812
Discussion: Bloomberg, CNN and New Republic
Charles Robinson / Yahoo! Sports:
Sources: Colin Kaepernick's legal team expected to subpoena President Trump in case against NFL  —  After months of circling President Donald Trump during NFL depositions and discovery, Colin Kaepernick's lawyers are expected to force Trump directly into the ongoing legal battle between the quarterback and league.
Berkeley Lovelace Jr / CNBC:
US strikes a deal with China's ZTE to end crippling sanctions, Commerce Secretary Ross says  — Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says the U.S. has struck a deal with Chinese telecom giant ZTE to end crippling American sanctions.  — Commerce said the deal includes a $1 billion penalty …
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Jacob Shamsian / Business Insider:
Rudy Giuliani danced to EDM at a restaurant in Israel, and, well, you just need to see it  —  Rudy Giuliani, one of President Donald Trump's personal lawyers and a former mayor of New York City, is in Israel this week to attend a business conference in Tel Aviv, where he's speaking …
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Alexandra Ma / Business Insider:
‘Delete all your emails and then acid-wash’ …
Discussion: twitchy.com and The Week
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Special counsel Robert Mueller's team is requesting that witnesses turn in their personal phones …
Alicia H. Munnell / Politico:
Millennials and retirement: How bad is it?  —  Today's young adults are falling behind but there's a way they can catch up. … Concern about the financial health of America's younger generations is growing—especially millennials, a demographic boom that came of age in an environment …
Houston Chronicle:
Trump: Many Texans watched Harvey from their boats, requiring Coast Guard rescue  —  AUSTIN — President Donald Trump praised the Coast Guard for its heroics during Hurricane Harvey Wednesday, but credited the high number of water rescues to people taking their boats out to watch the storm roll in, baffling first responders.
Discussion: CNN and The Texas Tribune
Renae Merle / Washington Post:
Mick Mulvaney fires all 25 members of consumer watchdog's advisory board  —  Mick Mulvaney, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, fired the agency's 25-member advisory board Wednesday, days after some of its members criticized his leadership of the watchdog agency.
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Papadopoulos Was Approached By ‘Highly Suspicous’ Businessmen, His Wife Claims  — A dossier source allegedly offered Papadopoulos $30,000 a month to work from inside Trump administration  —  In the wake of the revelation that an FBI informant lured George Papadopoulos to London during the 2016 campaign …
Erik Larson / Bloomberg:
Judge Calls Trump's Border Separations of Children ‘Brutal’  — ACLU lawsuit is allowed to proceed in San Diego federal court  — Administration says policy helps prosecute undocumented adults  —  The Trump administration failed to kill a legal challenge to its practice …
Discussion: HuffPost, Splinter and POLITICUSUSA
Washington Post:
This Ohio factory thought it could bring U.S. jobs back from China.  Then Trump got involved.  —  By David J. Lynch June 6 at 5:30 PM Email the author  —  CLEVELAND — Bill Adler was invited last year to bid on a contract to make commercial sausage stuffers for a company that wanted to replace its Chinese supplier.
Washington Post:
Does Google think it's better than the U.S. military?  —  Giving in to pressure from its workforce, Google recently announced that it is pulling out of Project Maven, a groundbreaking Pentagon program to harness artificial intelligence to sift through and interpret video imagery from drones.
Discussion: Stanford Daily
Liz Robbins / New York Times:
He Delivered Pizza to an Army Base in Brooklyn.  Now He Faces Deportation.  —  Food delivery.  Sanctuary.  Those are often the anchors for the more than half a million undocumented immigrants who live and work in New York City.  —  But an incident at the United States Army base in Fort Hamilton …
Discussion: Axios
Andrew Freedman / Axios:
Mapped: Global temperatures since 1880  —  Every area of the globe has warmed since instrument records began in 1880, NASA data shows.  The planet isn't warming equally, however — the fastest temperature increases are taking place at the poles.  That Arctic, for example …
Wall Street Journal:
New link at Wall Street Journal
Matt Dixon / Politico:
Gillum failed to disclose more than $400K in mortgage debts  —  TALLAHASSEE — Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum failed to disclose two mortgages on legally required financial disclosure forms going back to 2014, publicly available records show.  —  Gillum, who is a Democratic candidate for governor …
Discussion: The Capitolist
Tracy Neal / NWADG.com:
Man admits to intentionally getting HIV  —  BENTONVILLE — Stephen Koch admitted in court to intentionally contracting HIV so he could infect others with the virus.  —  Koch, 25, of Scranton, Ark. pleaded guilty Monday to attempting to exposing another person to HIV, possession of methamphetamine …
 
 
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Lee Smith / Tablet Magazine:
America's Cash-for-Genocide Program in Syria
Megan Thomas / CNNMoney:
Read Samantha Bee's on-air apology
Discussion: twitchy.com
Associated Press:
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Patrick Gregory / Big Law Business:
Trump Nominee Porter Denies Opposing Sotomayor Confirmation
Matthew Singer / Willamette Week:
A video shows Islam Elmasry, owner of the Small Pharoah's halal cart, arguing with the woman …
Christoph Koettl / New York Times:
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 Earlier Items: 
Liz Nagy / abc7news.com:
Woman, 94, goes up against Elgin officials over giant Trump yard sign
Pedro Nicolaci da Costa / Business Insider:
Elizabeth Warren says there's a dirty little secret behind the Republicans' push for broad deregulation
CNN:
From Reddit to Trump: How the President latched onto a conspiracy theory
Discussion: Vox and ThinkProgress
Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
Meet the New York architect who was a key figure in Donald Trump's deals and connections in Eastern Europe
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Democrats strengthen hand in seeking control of House, even if odds of a blue wave are diminishing
Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Border arrests exceed 50,000 for third month in a row
New York Times:
A Medical Mystery Grows as U.S. Consulate Workers in China Fall Ill
 

 
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Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
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