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4:05 PM ET, June 13, 2018

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George Stephanopoulos / ABC News:
Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen likely to cooperate as his attorneys leave case, sources say  —  As attorneys for Michael Cohen rush to meet Judge Kimba Wood's Friday deadline to complete a privilege review of over 3.7 million documents seized in the April 9 raids of Cohen's New York properties …
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Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen's Attorneys Expected to Quit His Case  —  Firm expected to cease representation after review of seized documents for client-attorney privilege  —  The attorneys for Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's longtime personal lawyer, are expected to stop representing …
New York Times:
Michael Cohen, Trump's Fixer, Parting With Lawyers as Federal Investigation Continues  —  Michael D. Cohen, President Trump's longtime personal fixer, will soon be parting from the lawyers who are representing him in a potentially damaging and wide-ranging federal investigation into his business dealings …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Ryan Goodman / Just Security:
What Could Michael Cohen Tell Mueller about Russia Collusion?  —  With news breaking that President Donald Trump's personal attorney and fixer, Michael Cohen, is likely to cooperate with federal investigators, one question is what his cooperation might mean for the Russia investigation.
Discussion: Vox, Law & Crime and Mediaite
CNN:
Trump's personal attorney splits with his own legal team  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, has split with the legal team that has shepherded him through a criminal investigation that included a high-profile FBI raid, a source familiar with the change said Wednesday.
Tom Hays / Associated Press:   Michael Cohen hunts for new lawyers in FBI probe
Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
Prosecutors ‘preparing paperwork’ to arrest Michael Cohen: MSNBC
Discussion: Splinter
NBC News:
Trump lawyer Michael Cohen expected to split with his attorneys
Discussion: MSNBC
Rick Wilson / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Negotiating Style Is Pure Art of the Moron … I'm often on the receiving end of the Trumpentariat's criticisms of Never Trump conservatives.  —  Don't I get it?  Don't I love how Trump is achieving the impossible, and soaring to heights to which no other president could aspire?
Discussion: Axios, ABC News and Raw Story
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US Department of State:
Remarks to Traveling Press  —  Special Briefing Secretary of State Seoul, South Korea  —  MS NAUERT: And so this will be on the record, but again, we have the meetings with Japan and South Korea tomorrow, and so we're not going to get ahead of those.  —  QUESTION: So to make the most …
Matthew Lee / Associated Press:   Iran deal comparisons cloud Trump's North Korea summit
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Pompeo calls questions about gaps in Trump-Kim statement ‘insulting and ridiculous’
Tim Hains / RealClearPolitics:
Scott Adams: Trump Video Message To Kim “Might Be The Best Thing Anybody Ever Did In A Negotiation, Period”
Discussion: Power Line
James Stavridis / TIME:
I Was a Navy Admiral. Here's Why Ending ‘War Games’ With South Korea Would Be a Grave Mistake
Discussion: The Independent
Erick Erickson / Macon Telegraph:   Trump tried diplomacy. He ended up legitimizing a monster in North Korea.
James Dobbins / Reuters:
Commentary: Why this wasn't Kim's father's - or grandfather's - summit
Discussion: New York Times and Washington Post
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
He's Not a ‘Firebrand,’ and He's Not a ‘Far-Right Activist’  —  How are reporters still struggling to call people like Corey Stewart what they are?  —  The Republicans in Virginia, like their co-religionists in Alabama, have picked themselves a real winner to run against incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Tim Kaine in the fall.
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Republicans 'don't want the tweet that I got': Mark Sanford says Trump sealed his loss
New York Times:
Republican Voters Embrace Trump-Style Candidates
Washington Post:
EPA chief Scott Pruitt tapped aide, donors to help wife land job at conservative group  —  Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt last year had a top aide help contact Republican donors who might offer his wife a job, eventually securing her a position at a conservative political group …
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Foreign Policy:
Trump Appointee Compiles Loyalty List of U.S. Employees at U.N., State  —  Mari Stull's arrival at the State Department's International Organization Bureau is triggering an exodus of top career staffers.  —  A senior advisor to the State Department appointed just two months ago …
Mercury News:
California woman ‘in shock’ after ICE agents detain father, a legal resident, outside home  —  The daughter of an Arleta man who was detained Sunday outside his home by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents spoke out this week about his treatment and the immigration policies that appear …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
New York Times Examines Work History of Reporter in Leak Case  —  The New York Times is reviewing the work history of Ali Watkins, a Washington-based reporter at the newspaper whose email and phone records were seized by prosecutors in a leak investigation case that has prompted an outcry among press advocates.
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Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Senate intelligence aide charged in U.S. leak probe pleads not guilty in District federal court
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Poll shows Mueller's public image at all-time low  —  Special counsel Robert Mueller's public image has sunk to an all-time low since he began his probe into possible collusion between the Trump 2016 presidential campaign and Russia, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll.
Associated Press:
Nevada pimp Dennis Hof wins GOP primary, ousts incumbent  —  Pimp Dennis Hof, the owner of half a dozen legal brothels in Nevada and star of the HBO adult reality series “Cathouse,” won a Republican primary for the state Legislature on Tuesday, ousting a three-term lawmaker.
Discussion: Washington Post
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John Nolte / Breitbart:
‘Daily News’ Writer Tells Puerto Rican Kimberly Guilfoyle to ‘Pick Grapes’
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and twitchy.com
CNN:
She says federal officials took her daughter while she breastfed the child in a detention center  —  500+ immigrant children separated from parents  —  McAllen, Texas (CNN)The undocumented immigrant from Honduras sobbed as she told an attorney Tuesday how federal authorities took her daughter …
Discussion: HuffPost
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“He Hate, Hate, Hates It”: Sessions Fumes as Kushner Pushes Pardons  —  With Kim Kardashian and liberals like Van Jones, the princely Trump son-in-law is trying to reset his reputation.  But not everyone in the administration is happy about it.  —  Donald Trump's biggest week on the global stage …
Discussion: Raw Story, IJR and New York Times
Paris Martineau / The Outline:
How alt-right Twitter tricks the media into panicking @thebradfordfile has been cited as evidence of the rise of the alt-right, but its popularity is faked through power-engagement groups and networks of sockpuppets.  —  A year ago, @thebradfordfile didn't exist.
Axios:
Giuliani's son loses West Wing access  —  Several months ago, Donald Trump ordered the promotion of Rudy Giuliani's son.  But instead of getting promoted, he has lost his West Wing pass.  —  Details: Trump ordered junior White House staffer Andrew Giuliani's promotion after dining at Mar …
Tessa Stuart / Rolling Stone:
A Day in the Life of George and Simona Papadopoulos  —  Talking foreign spies, federal agents and romantic drama with the newlyweds waiting out the Mueller probe  —  Over a recent lunch in Chicago, George Papadopoulos searches for words strong enough to describe the importance of his wife, Simona Mangiante Papadopoulos.
Chris Mooney / Washington Post:
Antarctic ice loss has tripled in a decade.  If that continues we are in serious trouble.  —  Antarctica's ice sheet is melting at a rapidly increasing rate, now pouring more than 200 billion tons of ice into the ocean annually and raising sea levels a half millimeter every year, a team of 80 scientists reported Wednesday.
John Myers / Los Angeles Times:
Radical plan to split California into three states earns spot on November ballot … California's 168-year run as a single entity, hugging the continent's edge for hundreds of miles and sprawling east across mountains and desert, could come to an end next year — as a controversial plan …
Noah Michelson / HuffPost:
If You Really Love LGBTQ People, You Just Can't Keep Eating Chick-fil-A  —  When I was growing up, there were few things as exciting to me as a trip to the Regency Mall in Racine, Wisconsin, for lunch at Chick-fil-A.  —  My family didn't have much money then so eating out was a rare treat.
Michael Finnegan / Los Angeles Times:
Stormy Daniels' crowdfunding cash could be seized in Avenatti firm bankruptcy  —  An Orange County lawyer has asked a bankruptcy judge to seize much of the $577,000 donated to porn star Stormy Daniels to pay legal bills in her suit against President Trump.  —  The lawyer, Jason Frank …
 
 
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Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
Cuomo Stretches Lead Over Cynthia Nixon in 2018 Election Poll
Discussion: Hot Air and Outside the Beltway
Maya Kosoff / Vanity Fair:
Amazon Crushes a Small Tax That Would Have Helped the Homeless
Discussion: New Republic, Hit & Run and Splinter
Wall Street Journal:
White House Seeks to Block Senate Bid to Kill ZTE Deal
Discussion: Lawfare and CNBC
Victoria Guida / Politico:
Fed raises rates, signals 2 more hikes coming in 2018
Discussion: Board of Governors … and NPR
Mariam Khan / ABC News:
Lawmakers to challenge Trump administration over pre-existing conditions
Jack Jenkins / Religion News Service:
Catholic bishops rebuke Trump's asylum changes, suggest ‘canonical penalties’
Boaz Weinstein / New York Times:
No Ethnic Group Owns Stuyvesant. All New Yorkers Do.
Discussion: Althouse
 Earlier Items: 
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Who Is Behind Trump's Links to Arab Princes? A Billionaire Friend
Discussion: Politico
BBC:
Irish Catholic hospitals ‘will have to perform abortions’
Discussion: National Review
Karla Zabludovsky / BuzzFeed:
113 Politicians Have Been Killed Ahead Of Mexico's Election. There Are Still Two Weeks To Go.
Discussion: The Guardian
Kelly Cohen / Washington Examiner:
Robert Mueller files request for 150 blank subpoenas in Paul Manafort case
Molly Olmstead / Slate:
Rep. Steve King Retweets Prominent Neo-Nazi to Celebrate Xenophobia
Discussion: Vox, HuffPost and Talking Points Memo
NBC News:
Tim Russert: Loss and lessons a decade later
Discussion: TVNewser and MSNBC
Sandra E. Garcia / New York Times:
Texas Woman Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison for Voter Fraud Loses Bid for New Trial
Discussion: Splinter
Amanda Terkel / HuffPost:
Democrats Score Special Election Upset In Wisconsin District Trump Won Big
Discussion: The Week