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4:00 PM ET, June 8, 2018

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Washington Post:
A note to readers  —  I have been uncharacteristically silent these past ten months.  I had thought that silence would soon be coming to an end, but I'm afraid I must tell you now that fate has decided on a different course for me.  —  In August of last year, I underwent surgery to remove a cancerous tumor in my abdomen.
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Greg Wilson / Fox News:
Fox News star Charles Krauthammer reveals he has weeks to live in heartbreaking letter  —  Charles Krauthammer, the beloved and brilliant Fox News Channel personality who gave up a pioneering career in psychiatry to become a Pulitzer Prize-winning political analyst, on Friday revealed …
Washington Post:
Fridays without Charles  —  FRIDAY HAS always been Charles's day.  Since long ago, before digital news, when space meant just a strip across the top of a printed page, we knew to save space on Friday's page for Charles Krauthammer.  Charles always filled the space, with just the right number of words, and the most acute words, too.
Discussion: Mediaite and Political Wire
Ben Shapiro / Daily Wire:
Charles Krauthammer Announces He Has Weeks To Live In Tragic Letter
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Brian Stelter / CNN:
CNN's Anthony Bourdain dead at 61  —  New York (CNN)Anthony Bourdain, a gifted storyteller and writer who took CNN viewers around the world, has died.  He was 61.  —  CNN confirmed Bourdain's death on Friday and said the cause of death was suicide.  —  “It is with extraordinary sadness …
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Matthew Haag / New York Times:
Anthony Bourdain, Travel Host and Author, Is Dead at 61  —  The travel host Anthony Bourdain, whose memoir “Kitchen Confidential” about the dark corners of New York's restaurants started a career in television, died on Friday at 61.  —  For the past several years, Mr. Bourdain hosted the show …
Patrick Radden Keefe / New Yorker:
Travels with Anthony Bourdain
Discussion: NPR, ThinkProgress and The Nation
Anna Silman / The Cut:
Anthony Bourdain Spoke Out Where Other Men Wouldn't
Corby Kummer / The Atlantic:
Remembering Anthony Bourdain
Discussion: The Federalist, Eater and Vox
New York Times:
Justice Dept. Seizes Times Reporter's Email and Phone Records in Leak Investigation  —  WASHINGTON — Federal law enforcement officials secretly seized years' worth of a New York Times reporter's phone and email records this year in an investigation of classified information leaks.
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:   Senate Intel Staffer Indicted In Leak Case Was Charged With Domestic Violence
Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Mueller Adds Obstruction Charge on Manafort and Indicts His Right-Hand Man  —  WASHINGTON — The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, brought new obstruction charges on Friday against President Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, and added allegations against a close associate …
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CNBC:
Special counsel Robert Mueller files witness tampering indictment against Paul Manafort and Russian citizen Konstantin Kilimnik  — Special counsel Robert Mueller filed new witness tampering charges against ex-Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort and Russian national Konstantin Kilimnik
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Andrew M Harris / Bloomberg:
Mueller Indicts Konstantin Kilimnik, Manafort's Ukraine Fixer
Discussion: Raw Story
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Under Trump, “America First” Really Is Turning Out to Be America Alone  —  From trade to the Iran deal to NAFTA, the President has created the highest level of tension between the U.S. and its allies in decades.  —  The Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was less than forty-eight hours away …
Discussion: New York Magazine and Politico
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Peter Navarro / New York Times:
The Era of American Complacency on Trade Is Over
Discussion: The Atlantic and The Diplomat
Susan E. Rice / New York Times:
How Trump Helps Putin
Discussion: Politico
Alexander Mallin / ABC News:
Trump's call for Russia to join G7 faces swift backlash
Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Trump will ask athletes who kneel during anthem to recommend people for pardoning  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump says he wants to meet with NFL players and athletes who kneel during the National Anthem so they can recommend people they think should be pardoned because they were treated unfairly by the justice system.
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump's bedtime story: “The Book”  —  It's not true President Trump doesn't read.  It's just exceptionally hard to get him to do it.  —  So the workarounds by savvy aides have become legendary in the West Wing.  Many of them revolve around the briefing binder that goes …
Washington Post:
China hacked a Navy contractor and secured a trove of highly sensitive data on submarine warfare  —  Chinese government hackers have compromised the computers of a Navy contractor, stealing massive amounts of highly sensitive data related to undersea warfare — including secret plans to develop …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Steve Contorno / Tampa Bay Times:
Adam Putnam's office stopped concealed weapons background checks for a year because it couldn't log in  —  A state investigation found that the lapse covered a period that included the biggest spike in permit applications in Florida history.  —  For more than a year, the state of Florida failed …
Discussion: Florida Politics and Raw Story
Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
Roger Stone Encouraged Trump to Pardon Marcus Garvey … One of Donald Trump's longest and closest associates has encouraged the president to grant a posthumous pardon to Marcus Garvey, the pan-African advocate and black nationalist who became a forebearer of the modern civil rights movement.
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NBC News:
U.S. officials prepare to thwart Chinese spying at Singapore summit  —  WASHINGTON — China may not have a seat at the table during President Donald Trump's upcoming nuclear summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, but U.S. officials say they are preparing to counter the Chinese spies …
Discussion: The Week and Vox
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Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Dennis Rodman traveling to Singapore for North Korea summit
Discussion: National Review
David Simon:
Bourdain  —  I've had a leasehold on davidsimon.com for years now.  People smarter than I am told me that even if I had no sense of its use at present, I should throw a few shekels down in case.  But until recently, I saw no reason to do much of anything with the site.  —  My ambivalence rests on a couple basic ideas:
Des Moines Register:
Des Moines DREAMer dies within weeks after being sent back to Mexico's violence  —  Editor's note: This column has been updated from the original online version with a statement from ICE.  —  Manuel Antonio Cano Pacheco should have graduated high school in Des Moines last month.
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
House GOP leaders craft framework to break immigration impasse
Discussion: Axios
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Democratic donors push Mark Warner to enter 2020 race as moderate alternative to Warren, Sanders  — Mark Warner, the Democratic Senator from Virginia, is getting pushed by some the party's biggest financiers to run for president in 2020, according to sources with direct knowledge of the matter.
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Guy Benson / Townhall:   Manchin: Come to Think of It, Endorsing Hillary in 2016 Was Actually a Mistake
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
We've Got a Problem.  A Big Problem.  —  There are certain frameworks and situations in the law in which it does not matter why something happened, it simply matters that something has demonstrably happened, to establish the point, making the finding or act.
Nicholas Bagley / The Incidental Economist:
Texas Fold 'Em  —  In an unexpected move, the Justice Department filed a brief this evening urging a Texas court to invalidate the Affordable Care Act's crucial insurance reforms—including the prohibition on refusing to cover people with preexisting conditions.
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Michael Wolff is back with “Fire and Fury” II  —  After torching the White House with “Fire and Fury,” Michael Wolff is coming back for more:  —  Wolff tells me he has signed with the same publisher, Henry Holt, for a sequel — although he says it's unclear what that means …
Evan Halper / Los Angeles Times:
Trump says he is likely to support ending federal ban on marijuana … President Trump said he likely will support a congressional effort to end the federal ban on marijuana, a major step that would reshape the pot industry and end the threat of a Justice Department crackdown.
 
 
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Ryan Devereaux / The Intercept:
1,358 Children and Counting — Trump's “Zero Tolerance” Border Policy Is Separating Families at Staggering Rates
Discussion: The Nation
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Jason Leopold / BuzzFeed:
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Discussion: Boing Boing
Axios:
Inside the State Department's hunt for leakers
Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
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Discussion: The Daily Caller and Daily Wire
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Discussion: GetReligion
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 Earlier Items: 
Daily Mail:
Women who refuse to have babies …
Khaleda Rahman / Reuters:
Austria's right-wing government plans to shut down seven mosques and expel up to 40 foreign …
Washington Post:
Trump is waging a trade war in the dumbest way possible
Justin Caruso / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: NYT Reporters Say ‘F**k The Military,’ Promote Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories, Tweet The N-Word
USA Today:
Cozy land deals meant big money for Trump family and friends
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
One Koch Brother Forces The Other Out Of The Family Business
Discussion: Mother Jones and New Republic