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5:05 PM ET, June 9, 2018

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Washington Post:
Trump at G-7 floats end to all tariffs, threatens major penalties for countries that don't agree  —  QUEBEC CITY - President Trump told foreign leaders at the Group of Seven summit that they must dramatically reduce trade barriers with the United States or they would risk losing access …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Why Trump lit the fire  —  The biggest key to understanding Trump's dogmatism on trade is that even as he switched political parties and changed his views on issue after issue, his one consistent stance over 40 years is that other countries are “ripping off the United States” in trade deals, as he put it in 1987.
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Trump Says U.S. Will No Longer Be 'Piggy Bank That Everybody's Robbing'  —  LA MALBAIE, Quebec — President Trump said on Saturday that he had brought up with America's closest allies the dramatic prospect of completely eliminating tariffs on goods and services, even as he threatened to end …
Jennifer Hansler / CNN:
Trump again calls for readmitting Russia to G7, blames Obama for Crimea's annexation  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump on Saturday doubled down on his call for Russia to be readmitted into the G7 and blamed his predecessor for Russia's aggression in Crimea.  —  “I think it would be an asset …
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
In Trump, some fear the end of the world order  —  When does a feud become a separation?  A separation a divorce?  When do arguments, sharp-tongued put-downs and perceived betrayal among allies become the collapse of the Western-dominated order that has ruled the world, under U.S. leadership, for the past seven decades?
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
Washington Post:
An open letter on trade: The facts speak for themselves
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Politico
Eliza Collins / USA Today:   German Chancellor Merkel's stare down photo sums up Trump's time at G-7
John Paul Tasker / CBC News:   Trump arrives late and leaves early as G7 leaders talk gender, oceans and climate
Associated Press:   Trump delivers warning on trade as he leaves G-7 summit
Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
A family was separated at the border, and this distraught father took his own life  —  A Honduran father separated from his wife and child suffered a breakdown at a Texas jail and killed himself in a padded cell last month, according to Border Patrol agents and an incident report filed by sheriff's deputies.
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Avery Anapol / The Hill:   Honduran man in US custody kills himself after being separated from wife and child at border: report
Dick Thornburgh / Washington Post:
We Republicans must all speak out to protect the Mueller investigation  —  Dick Thornburgh was U.S. attorney general from 1988 to 1991.  —  As a lifelong Republican, I am proud that my party has consistently revered the rule of law as a central tenet of our country's values.
Discussion: Washington Press
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Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
Reagan's attorney general comes out swinging in defense of Mueller  —  Dick Thornburgh, attorney general under presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, called out his fellow Republicans for attacking special counsel Mueller and undermining the rule of law.
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Forget Rudy: Here are Trump's fiercest defenders
Discussion: Raw Story
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Trump says he'll size up Kim Jong Un ‘within the first minute’ of Singapore summit  —  SINGAPORE — President Trump predicted Saturday that he will know almost immediately when meeting Kim Jong Un whether the North Korean dictator is serious about negotiating a nuclear deal …
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Victoria Kim / Los Angeles Times:   Singapore preps for Trump-Kim summit with fresh paint and arrests
Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
For Kim Jong Un, meeting Trump is about cementing power at home
Discussion: Mother Jones
Kirsten Powers / USA Today:
Americans are depressed and suicidal because something is wrong with our culture  —  On average, there are 123 suicides per day in the United States.  If you or someone you know needs help, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK.  —  Don't pathologize the despair …
Discussion: neo-neocon and New York Times
The Times & The Sunday Times:
Exclusive: Emails reveal Russian links of millionaire Brexit backer Arron Banks  —  Arron Banks, the millionaire businessman who helped fund Brexit, had three meetings with the Russian ambassador to Britain — raising explosive questions about attempts by Moscow to influence the referendum result.
Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
‘I must be doing something right’: Billionaire George Soros faces renewed attacks with defiance  —  ZURICH — George Soros, the billionaire investor and liberal donor, sat in his hotel suite by Lake Zurich this week, lamenting the turn much of the world has taken in recent years: “Everything that could go wrong, has gone wrong.”
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 Sen. Bernie Sanders  —  (I-Vt.) from trying to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020.
Discussion: twitchy.com, The Week and Politico
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Grabien News:
Sanders: Our Socialist Ideas Are Winning
Discussion: Scared Monkeys
Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
Joe Crowley Complains His Primary Opponent, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Making This Race “About Race”  —  On a warm Sunday evening in Queens, New York, Joe Crowley stood before a group of about two dozen Democratic activists and made his case for why he should be returned to Congress for a 10th term.
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Leak Investigations, Journalists, and Double Standards  —  It is an interesting contrast.  —  The media are in a lather over the Justice Department's grand-jury investigation of contacts between several reporters and a government source — the former Senate Intelligence Committee security director …
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Washington Post:
Shocked by Trump aggression against reporters and sources? The blueprint was drawn by Obama.
Lauretta Brown / Townhall:
Bill Clinton Defends Franken: It Was a ‘Difficult Case’ and the SNL Women Defended Him  —  PBS's Judy Woodruff asked former president Bill Clinton Thursday whether he thought it was a “good thing” that norms have changed when it comes to sexual harassment.  Woodruff's example …
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Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Bill Clinton's Me Too Reckoning
Coral Davenport / New York Times:
In the Trump Administration, Science Is Unwelcome.  So Is Advice.  —  As the president prepares for nuclear talks, he lacks a close adviser with nuclear expertise.  It's one example of a marginalization of science in shaping federal policy.  —  WASHINGTON — As President Trump prepares …
Shilpa Jamkhandikar / Reuters:
ABC apologizes for Hindu terror plot in Quantico after online backlash  —  MUMBAI (Reuters) - U.S. television studio ABC has apologies to Indian fans of its crime drama “Quantico” after an episode featuring Indian nationalists trying to frame Pakistan in a terrorist plot sparked online outrage …
Discussion: twitchy.com and Daily Wire
 
 
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Democratic lawmakers seek criminal probe of EPA chief Scott Pruitt
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Video of TSA agents searching 96-year-old woman in wheelchair sparks outrage
Discussion: Raw Story
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Playbook: Trump takes on the G7
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Pete Kasperowicz / Washington Examiner:
Trump's tariff on Canadian newsprint is killing US newspapers, Republicans warn
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Mueller's ‘witch hunt’ snags another witch
New York Times:
Judge Denies Trump's Secrecy Claim in Review of Cohen Documents
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The Critic Whose Olive Garden Review Went Viral Remembers How Anthony Bourdain Spoke Up For Her
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