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12:30 PM 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
Discussion: New Republic
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Trump still holds Jimmy Carter's view on withdrawing U.S. troops from South Korea
Discussion: 38 North
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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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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Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Hannity Advises Mueller Witnesses: ‘Bash’ Your Phones ‘With a Hammer’  —  Sean Hannity raised eyebrows on Wednesday night by doling out advice to witnesses in special counsel Robert Mueller's probe, based on how Hillary Clinton handled her email investigation: destroy your phones.
Discussion: Washington Post and RedState
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BostonGlobe.com:
Why hasn't Bernie Sanders endorsed his son's run for Congress?  —  Senator Bernie Sanders has traveled to Iowa and narrated a 30-second ad to endorse one congressional candidate and journeyed to Allentown, Pa., on behalf of another.  He publicly backed a mayoral candidate in Omaha.
Discussion: Raw Story
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, CNN, Politico, Vox and MSNBC
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
GOP congressman blasts Trump's spy conspiracy
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.
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 …
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CNN:
Giuliani defends comments about Stormy Daniels' credibility  —  Giuliani: Melania believes Trump over Daniels  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, said Thursday he stands by his recent comments that adult film actress Stormy Daniels has no credibility because of her profession.
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Politico:
Judge Jeanine still tangoing with Trump over an administration role  —  The president has dangled top jobs in front of the Fox News host, a longtime New York pal, who has expressed interest in leaving her cable-news perch for government.  —  Jeanine Pirro has a top-rated Fox News show …
Discussion: Washington Post
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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Will Preet Bharara Run for Attorney General? He Just Registered to Vote
Discussion: Roll Call
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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Megan Cassella / Politico:
U.S. strikes deal with ZTE
Discussion: Breitbart and NPR
James Fanelli / New York Daily News:
Celebrity chef Adam Harvey arrested for poisoning seven-story maple tree blocking his solar panels  —  A tree dies in Brooklyn.  —  A celebrity chef with a warped sense of going green poisoned a neighbor's giant silver maple tree because it blocked sunlight from the solar panels on his Windsor Terrace home …
Discussion: grubstreet and Daily Wire
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 …
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
Curt Prendergast / Arizona Daily Star:
Tucson federal judge wants prosecutors to tell migrants where their children are located  —  After weeks of illegal border crossers pleading to know where their children are, a federal judge in Tucson told a prosecutor to help find them.  —  Magistrate Judge Bruce G. MacDonald's request …
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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.
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.
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 …
Los Angeles Times:
How Villaraigosa lost the governor's race despite tens of millions of dollars spent to boost his bid  —  When Antonio Villaraigosa was elected mayor of Los Angeles, it signaled the growing clout of California's Latino voters as well as the rise of a Democratic star whose charisma and ambition could take him to loftier perches.
Steve Annear / BostonGlobe.com:
‘Jarring’ nursery rhyme at Somerville school teaches kindergartners about lockdowns  —  While touring a kindergarten in Somerville on Wednesday to get a sense of what to expect when her 5-year-old daughter starts school in the fall, Georgy Cohen took stock of the items one might typically find in a classroom for young kids.
Discussion: Splinter
Amanda Mull / NYLON:
The Self-Defeating Myth Of “Pulling It Off”  —  Face it: Skinny girl privilege is real  —  If you've looked at a fashion trend in the past five years or so and felt it radiating an overwhelming sense of hostility toward everything about you as a person, not only are you not too sensitive, but you're exactly correct.
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 …
Discussion: New Republic
Sady Doyle / Medium:
The Deadly Incel Movement's Absurd Pop Culture Roots … For years, one of the first Google hits on my name was an article titled “Stalking Sady Doyle.”  It was written in 2011 by the “men's rights” advocate Paul Elam.  —  The post was a response to an article I'd written about sexist internet harassment.
Discussion: Gizmodo
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
Dianne Solis / Dallas Morning News:
Asylum seekers reportedly denied entry at border as Trump tightens ‘zero tolerance’ immigration policies  —  EL PASO — Immigration advocates are accusing U.S. border guards of refusing asylum-seekers entry to the U.S. at a bustling pedestrian bridge into the downtown of this city next to the Rio Grande.
Discussion: Axios, HuffPost, NBC News and Common Dreams
Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Facebook, Amazon, Google And Twitter All Work With Left-Wing SPLC  — The Southern Poverty Law Center helps Facebook, Amazon, Google and Twitter determine what organizations are “hate groups”  — The SPLC has been plagued with inaccuracies  — The nonprofit had to retract four articles in March and April
 
 
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Jon Gambrell / Associated Press:
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U.S. announces plan to release American ISIS suspect to Syria over his objections
Discussion: Just Security
Associated Press:
House GOP in eleventh-hour attempt for immigration accord
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