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8:20 AM ET, June 9, 2018

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Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Trump hits the world stage, Day 1: Come late, leave early, offend host, alienate allies  —  The president made quite an impression at the G-7 meeting in Canada on Friday.  Saturday he departs to Singapore for his summit with Kim Jong Un.  —  QUEBEC CITY — The world is getting a good look …
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John Harwood / CNBC:   Trump is helping Putin with a key goal when he spurns US allies
David M. Herszenhorn / Politico:
Trump's surprise G-7 pitch: ‘We should at least consider no tariffs’
Discussion: Political Wire and Politico
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Republicans deny evidence Russia meddled while Trump invites Putin to rejoin G-7
Julia Reinstein / BuzzFeed:
The Critic Whose Olive Garden Review Went Viral Remembers How Anthony Bourdain Spoke Up For Her  —  In 2012, then-88-year-old Marilyn Hagerty of Grand Forks, North Dakota, wrote arguably the most viral restaurant review ever written.  It was for Olive Garden.
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Jackie Wattles / CNNMoney:
Anthony Bourdain's ‘Kitchen Confidential’ becomes Amazon top seller  —  Remembering the life of Anthony Bourdain  —  Anthony Bourdain's 18-year-old memoir about the seedy secrets of restaurant kitchens has shot to the top of Amazon's bestseller list following news that the chef and television host took his own life Friday.
Joshua Keating / Slate:
The Unlikely Ambassador  —  Anthony Bourdain very nearly ate …
Jonathan Gold / Los Angeles Times:
Anthony Bourdain opened the working-class kitchen to the world and the world to us
Discussion: New York Times, The Mary Sue and Vox
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 …
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Marc Caputo / Politico:
Gun background check failure haunts ‘proud NRA sellout’ Putnam
Discussion: Florida Politics
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Iran Admits To Facilitating 9/11 Terror Attacks  —  Top Iranian official admits for first time Iran aided al Qaeda terrorists  —  Iranian officials, in a first, have admitted to facilitating the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the U.S. by secretly aiding the free travel of al Qaeda operatives …
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Hanna Bogorowski / The Daily Caller:
Iran Facilitated Passage Of 9/11 Attackers, Iranian Politician Says  —  A prominent Iranian politician admitted that Iran knowingly facilitated the passage of al-Qaeda members who later carried out the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, potentially confirming allegations in a 9/11 Commission report.
Discussion: Townhall
english.alarabiya.net:
WATCH: In first, Iran admits to facilitating passage of al-Qaeda's 9/11 attackers
Discussion: Breitbart
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 …
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Washington Post:
In charging Senate staffer and seizing reporter's records, Justice Dept. ignites debate over leak crackdown
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 …
Washington Post:
An open letter on trade: The facts speak for themselves  —  By 29 E.U. Ambassadors to the U.S. June 8 at 2:07 PM  —  There has been a lot of talk recently about the trade and investment relationship between the European Union and the United States.  Who wins?  Who loses?
Discussion: Politico
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Peter Navarro / New York Times:
The Era of American Complacency on Trade Is Over
Discussion: New Republic
Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
DNC panel adopts rule requiring candidates to run, serve as a Democrat  —  The Democratic National Committee (DNC) adopted a new rule on Friday aimed at keeping outsider candidates like Bernie Sanders  —  from trying to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020.
Discussion: Yahoo and Politico
Ramesh Ponnuru / Bloomberg:
Four Reasons Scott Pruitt's Luck May Be Running Out  —  The scandal-prone EPA director seemed untouchable.  That could be changing.  —  Scott Pruitt has shown an astonishing ability to stay on as director of the Environmental Protection Agency through scandals that would have felled nearly anyone else.
Discussion: Mother Jones
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Washington Post:
Trump's not wrong about pardoning himself  —  Michael W. McConnell is the Richard and Frances Mallery professor of law and director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.  He formerly served as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit.
New York Post:
Eatery workers: Boycott Army base that called ICE on pizza delivery guy  —  SEE ALSO  —  If an army marches on its stomach, the forces at Fort Hamilton had better learn to cook.  —  Eateries near the Brooklyn Army base, which handed over an undocumented pizza deliveryman to immigration agents last week …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Brandon Rittiman / KUSA-TV:
Truth Test: Was Stapleton ‘caught lying?’  —  Saying someone is lying is a strong accusation.  Is it fair to use against Walker Stapleton for an ad he's been airing for weeks?  —  KUSA— Republican frontrunner Walker Stapleton has been running a false ad in his campaign for governor for weeks now—and he's still running it.
Adam Weinstein / Task & Purpose:
I'm A US-Born Army Vet.  Why Did Border Patrol Just Try To Arrest Me And My Wife?  —  Editor's note: Before publication, Task & Purpose reached out to U.S. Customs and Border Protection for a comment on the experiences Dennis White recounts below.  A representative of the agency responded …
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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Jason Leopold / BuzzFeed:
John Kelly Instructed DHS Official Not To Email Staff To Avoid Public Scrutiny  —  “FOIA is real and everyday here in the cesspool, and even federal court action on personal accounts is real.”  —  When John Kelly was Secretary of Homeland Security, he instructed an official to refrain …
New York Times:
Judge Denies Trump's Secrecy Claim in Review of Cohen Documents  —  Striking a note for transparency, a federal judge ruled on Friday that President Trump and his longtime personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, cannot proceed in total secrecy as they weigh in on the final stages of a laborious review …
Politico:
Trump's latest health care move squeezes Republicans  —  Striking protections for pre-existing conditions renews a fraught repeal fight.  —  Republicans who have tried to repeal Obamacare for nearly a decade believe the Trump administration is reviving a politically risky battle with a court filing …
 
 
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Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Bill Clinton's Me Too Reckoning
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Eric Boehlert / Shareblue Media:
Trump has no idea Muhammad Ali doesn't need a pardon
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Bryn Elise Sandberg / Hollywood Reporter:
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This family lived in a car stuffed with pizza boxes. Three cops just changed their lives.
U.S. Department of Justice:
Jury Convicts Former CIA Officer of Espionage
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Kara Voght / Mother Jones:
This Evangelical Minister Helped Build the Religious Right.  He Now Believes He Made a Terrible Mistake.
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Kat Stoeffel / New York Times:
The Age of the MSNBC Mom
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Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
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