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4:55 PM ET, June 11, 2018

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Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
U.S. won't bring up North Korea's human rights issues at Singapore summit  —  WASHINGTON — Wounded from torture and starving, Grace Jo's father died on a train heading to a North Korean prison camp, a fellow inmate told his family.  His crime: illegally possessing a bag of rice during the 1990s famine.
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Digital Chosunilbo:
Kim Jong-un's Flight to Singapore a Precision Maneuver  —  North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's flight to Singapore was a tightly planned maneuver using a decoy to throw attackers off the scent.  Three planes took off in North Korea at about an hour's interval on Sunday — an IL-76 …
Axios:
Sean Hannity scores Trump's North Korea interview  —  President Trump's first sit-down television interview after his historic summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is expected to be with his friend and confidant, Fox News host Sean Hannity, Axios has learned.
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
The Smallness of Trump's North Korea Diplomacy  —  The latest rumored concession - a U.S. embassy in Pyongyang - has its pluses and minuses.  —  As eyes turn to President Donald Trump's big summit in Singapore with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, the focus has been on the prospect of a decent deal …
Washington Post:
With smiles and a handshake, Trump and Kim could mask gulf on nuclear arms  —  SINGAPORE — When President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shake hands for the first time and sit down one-on-one here Tuesday, the bonhomie they plan to project will mask the huge gulf between …
Andy Borowitz / New Yorker:   Kim Jong Un Offers to Host Peace Talks Between United States and Canada
Yasmine Yahya / The Straits Times:
Singapore footing hotel bill for North Korean contingent at Trump-Kim summit: Vivian Balakrishnan
Discussion: AOL
Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
Sonia Sotomayor's Dissent in the Big Voter Purge Case Points to How the Law Might Still Be Struck Down  —  The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a controversial Ohio voter purge law which allows the state to begin the process of removing voters from the rolls based upon their failure to vote in a single election.
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court upholds Ohio's way of removing infrequent voters from rolls  —  Conservatives on the Supreme Court on Monday upheld Ohio's method of purging voters from the rolls after they miss elections.  —  The court ruled 5 to 4 that Ohio's process does not violate federal law.
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
Supreme Court, in 5-4 Decision, Allows States to Purge Voters for Their Failure to Vote
Discussion: NBC News and MSNBC
Dan McLaughlin / National Review:
The Supreme Court's Narrow Decision on Purging Voter Rolls
Discussion: Daily Wire
Lydia Wheeler / The Hill:
Supreme Court rules in favor of Ohio ‘voter purge’
Discussion: twitchy.com
Elise Foley / HuffPost:
Jeff Sessions Is Unilaterally Using Immigration Courts To Crack Down On Asylum Applicants  —  The attorney general said he is “confident” his moves will reduce the number of unauthorized immigrants who come to the U.S.  —  Untold numbers of victims of violence, including women abused by their partners …
Discussion: RedState
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Reuters:   Attorney General Sessions limits asylum for domestic violence victims
U.S. Department of Justice:
Attorney General Sessions Delivers Remarks to the Executive Office for Immigration Review Legal Training Program
Discussion: National Review
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Web of elite Russians met with NRA execs during 2016 campaign  —  WASHINGTON  —  Several prominent Russians, some in President Vladimir Putin's inner circle or high in the Russian Orthodox Church, now have been identified as having contact with National Rifle Association officials during …
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic:
A Senior White House Official Defines the Trump Doctrine: 'We're America, Bitch'  —  Many of Donald Trump's critics find it difficult to ascribe to a president they consider to be both subliterate and historically insensate a foreign-policy doctrine that approaches coherence.
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Inside Obama's secret meetings with 2020 contenders  —  Still the reluctant leader of the Democratic Party, Obama has been providing counsel to Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and other presidential hopefuls.  —  Barack Obama has in recent months met with at least nine prospective 2020 …
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Peter Beinart / The Forward:   Bernie Sanders' Criticism Of Israel Is Radical. And He's Taking It Mainstream
Joe Cunningham / RedState:
Man Who Destroyed the Democratic Party Gives Advice to Democratic Presidential Hopefuls
Tonda MacCharles / Toronto Star:
What led to Trump's outburst against Trudeau: Behind the scenes at the G7  —  QUEBEC CITY—U.S. President Donald Trump greeted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau warmly Friday morning as he arrived at the G7.  —  Although he'd tweeted grumpily the night before that Trudeau was “so indignant” …
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:   Ex-US ambassador to Canada: Navarro's attack on Trudeau ‘unconscionable’
Megan Cassella / Politico:
Trump officials kick into damage-control mode with Canada
Discussion: Vox, ThinkProgress and Raw Story
Anna Merlan / Jezebel:
The Reporter Who Exposed New York Times Star Glenn Thrush's Sexual Misconduct Says She Was the Victim of a Smear Campaign  —  Last November, Vox published a story by politics editor Laura McGann about New York Times politics reporter Glenn Thrush and what she called his “history of bad judgment” around young women journalists.
Kate Gibson / CBS News:
Jack Dorsey, Twitter's CEO, blasted for patronizing Chick-fil-A  —  Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey found himself back pedaling after tweeting about using Chick-fil-A's mobile app, saying he'd forgotten about the fast-food chain's history of opposing gay marriage.  —  Dorsey found himself the subject …
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Hayley Peterson / Business Insider:   Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey forced to apologize for eating Chick-fil-A during Pride Month
Lukas Mikelionis / Fox News:
Robert De Niro throws F-bombs at Trump during Tony Awards  —  Actor Robert De Niro launched a profanity-laced tirade at President Trump during Sunday's politically charged Tony Awards, earning a standing ovation.  —  “I'm gonna say one thing: F— Trump!” he stated, as he clenched his two fists in the air …
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Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Robert De Niro Says ‘F— Trump’ at Tony Awards, Gets Standing Ovation
April Glaser / Slate:
Day 1 of a Worse Internet  —  Net neutrality is officially dead.  Here's how you'll notice it's gone.  —  Monday, June 11, is the first day of the post-net neutrality internet.  In December, the Federal Communications Commission voted to repeal the Obama-era rules that prohibit internet companies …
Discussion: The Outline, Motherboard and CBS 4
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Adam Entous / New Yorker:
Donald Trump's New World Order  —  How the President, Israel, and the Gulf states plan to fight Iran—and leave the Palestinians and the Obama years behind.  —  On the afternoon of December 14, 2016, Ron Dermer, Israel's Ambassador to the United States, rode from his Embassy to the White House to attend a Hanukkah party.
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
There's actually lots of evidence of Trump-Russia collusion  —  The untenability of the “no collusion” talking point.  —  “In all of this, in any of this, there's been no evidence that there's been any collusion between the Trump campaign and President Trump and Russia,” …
Discussion: Paste
Monmouth University Polling Institute:
GOP Leads in CD12 Special  —  Lack of enthusiasm gap hinders Dem chances  —  West Long Branch, NJ - Republican State Senator Troy Balderson appears to have a slight advantage over Democratic county official Danny O'Connor in the special House of Representatives contest in Ohio's 12th Congressional District.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Politico:
Pence heading to Ohio for latest special election scare
J.J. McCullough / Washington Post:
Why Trudeau doesn't have the high ground on trade  —  One of President Trump's darkest talents is his ability to identify an opponent's delicate spot and stab it remorselessly.  From his knack for condescending nicknames (Low Energy Jeb, Little Rocket Man) to inviting Bill Clinton's various accusers …
Discussion: Conservative Review
VICE News:
Exclusive: First photos emerge of shadowy Manafort aide tied to Russian intelligence  —  KIEV, Ukraine — Konstantin Kilimnik, the shadowy Russian political operative indicted Friday by special counsel Robert Mueller, has led such an intensely secretive life that no photograph of him has ever emerged in public.
Discussion: New Century Times and Raw Story
New York Magazine:
A Company Built on a Bluff … It was sunny in Williamsburg on the last Wednesday in May, which also happened to be the second day of a new era at Vice Media.  Visitors were still required to sign in on a tablet that featured an image of a woman's red lips opened wide to reveal a tab of acid …
Amy S. Rosenberg / Philly.com:
‘Diversity is a bunch of crap and un-American,’ South Jersey congressional candidate Seth Grossman says  —  Seth Grossman's surprise victory in the Republican primary in New Jersey's Second Congressional District has brought immediate national scrutiny of the Trump purist from Democrats …
 
 
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Doyle Murphy / News Blog, Riverfront Times:
Racist Missouri Waitress Fired After ‘N—r Hunting’ Video
Discussion: Raw Story and The Root
Bree Burkitt / Arizona Republic:
Soldier killed in Somalia was 26-year-old from Chandler, Department of Defense says
Discussion: Fox News, IJR and CBS News
Casey Martin / KUOW:
Immigrant moms in SeaTac prison ‘could hear their children screaming’
Discussion: Splinter and Washington Post
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
How Trump Could Get Scott Pruitt to Fire Robert Mueller
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Unsolved killlings, what do they tell us?
Annie Karni / Politico:
White House aide Steven Cheung leaves communications staff
Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Comcast is preparing to announce bid for Fox on Wednesday if AT&T-Time Warner is approved, sources say
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Ben Domenech / The Federalist:
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James LaPorta / The Daily Beast:
Marine Veteran Trains White Supremacists in Military Tactics
Discussion: Shakesville, Raw Story and Jezebel
Benjamin Siegel / ABC News:
Dem: Pruitt's EPA has stalled production of public records
Steve Novak / Lehigh County News:
Driver allegedly poops on another man in fit of road rage
Discussion: CBS New York and Raw Story
Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
ICE Came for a Tennessee Town's Immigrants. The Town Fought Back.
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Jamie Dupree / AJC:
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