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11:55 AM ET, June 11, 2018

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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 …
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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.
Wall Street Journal:
The Art of the Foreign-Policy Deal: An Insider's Guide to Trump's Tactics
Discussion: Politico, Political Wire and Raw Story
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:   Trump Could Transform the U.S.-North Korea Relationship
David Jackson / USA Today:
Donald Trump, Kim Jong Un likely to meet alone at Singapore summit
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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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Escalating Clash With Canada, Trump Is Isolated Before North Korea Meeting  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump escalated a bitter clash with some of America's closest allies on Sunday, lashing out through his advisers at Canada's prime minister in unusually personal terms and leaving himself …
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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Joe Cunningham / RedState:   Man Who Destroyed the Democratic Party Gives Advice to Democratic Presidential Hopefuls
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 the 2016 U.S. election campaign.
Discussion: Daily Kos, Raw Story and The Week
U.S. Department of the Treasury:
Treasury Sanctions Russian Federal Security Service Enablers  —  Washington - Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated five Russian entities and three Russian individuals under Executive Order (E.O.) 13694, “Blocking the Property …
Discussion: Politico and Mother Jones
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Matthew Lee / Associated Press:   US hits Russian firms with sanctions, citing cyberattacks
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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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.
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.
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:   The Supreme Court Just Upheld Ohio's Aggressive Process For Purging Voters From The Rolls
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: Motherboard
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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.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Annie Karni / Politico:
Meet the guys who tape Trump's papers back together  —  The president's ‘unofficial filing system’ involves tearing up documents into pieces, even when they're supposed to be preserved.  —  Solomon Lartey spent the first five months of the Trump administration working in the Old Executive Office Building …
Nolan Finley / Detroit News:
Darn.  I may outlive Social Security  —  I've got to quick go see my doctor.  —  For years he's had me on a health maintenance plan with the goal, he says, of keeping me alive until I'm 90.  —  Now I need him to ease back on the medicine and good living advice.  I'm not sure my money will hold out that long.
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Robert J. Samuelson / Washington Post:
The cowardice of the political class
Discussion: Crooked Timber
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 …
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: Raw Story
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Mark Sanford running scared in Trump-fueled primary  —  A last-minute barrage of commercials from Sanford — a notoriously frugal figure who hasn't spent money on TV advertising in five years — is a sure sign he's under duress.  —  MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. — GOP Rep. Mark Sanford has spent …
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Jessica Taylor / NPR:   Will Voters Tell Mark Sanford To ‘Take A Hike’ For His Criticism Of Trump?
Craig Calcaterra / NBCSports.com:
Report: Shohei Ohtani likely to have Tommy John surgery, will be out until 2020  —  Here was Gomez's comment on SportsCenter: … There has been no confirmation by the Angels or anyone close to Ohtani, but nor has there been contradiction.  We'll obviously hear more on this today.
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Scott surges past Nelson with older Florida voters  —  Gov. Rick Scott is virtually tied with Sen. Bill Nelson among Florida voters, but the Republican is dominating the Democrat by 9 points among those nearing or at retirement age — a group that casts the majority of Florida's votes.
Discussion: Tampa Bay Times and The Capitolist
 
 
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
A Present-Day Bull Connor
Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Dinesh D'Souza to Compare Trump With Lincoln in Upcoming Film
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Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Going it alone: Trump increasingly relies on unilateral action to wield power
Nicole Lafond / Talking Points Memo:
Putin On Trump Suggestion That Russia Return To G-7: Thanks, But No Thanks
Discussion: Balloon Juice and New York Times
NBC News:
Democrats' October ‘surprise’ in the midterms? Hint: It has to do with health care costs
Tami Abdollah / Associated Press:
Maryland judge to hear foreign payments case against Trump
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The Equal Rights Amendment Is a Feminist Ruse
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The FBI's fractured fairytale
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A skeptical chairman Grassley really, really wants to see the Michael Flynn 302
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Charles Krauthammer Goes Out Like Gehrig
Discussion: National Review
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Top Senate Democratic super PAC to make $80 million fall TV investment in nine battleground states
Discussion: Political Wire
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