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4:05 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 …
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 …
Eli Lake / Bloomberg:   The Smallness of Trump's North Korea Diplomacy
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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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Upholds Ohio's Purge of Voting Rolls  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday upheld Ohio's aggressive efforts to purge its voting rolls.  —  The court ruled that a state may kick people off the rolls if they skip a few elections and fail to respond to a notice from state election officials.
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
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Supreme Court allows Ohio, other state voter purges
Discussion: Fox News, Townhall and Splinter
Lydia Wheeler / The Hill:
Supreme Court rules in favor of Ohio ‘voter purge’
Discussion: twitchy.com
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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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 …
Megan Cassella / Politico:
Trump officials kick into damage-control mode with Canada
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Raw Story
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Escalating Clash With Canada, Trump Is Isolated Before North Korea Meeting
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
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
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
Ben Domenech / The Federalist:
What Anthony Bourdain Reveals About Living In The Age Of Loneliness  —  I waited to start “God's Favorite Customer”, Father John Misty's latest album, until the propellers were spinning on the small plane at the end of the runway out of Dublin, headed on the short flight toward Glasgow.
Discussion: Page Six, Gothamist and AOL
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 …
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 …
Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Comcast is preparing to announce bid for Fox on Wednesday if AT&T-Time Warner is approved, sources say  — Comcast will formalize its all-cash bid for Fox's assets on Wednesday if AT&T's bid for Time Warner is approved, sources say.  — Comcast executives think Disney's stock will fall …
Jamie Dupree / AJC:
With my voice still gone, time for Jamie Dupree 2.0  —  As I sat in my doctor's office last Friday morning outside of the nation's capital, President Donald Trump was holding forth on the South Lawn of the White House.  Russia should be back in the G-7.  He might issue more pardons.
 
 
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