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5:50 PM ET, June 17, 2018

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Washington Post:
Trump associate Roger Stone reveals new contact with Russian national during 2016 campaign  —  MIAMI — One day in late May 2016, Roger Stone — the political dark sorcerer and longtime confidant of Donald Trump — slipped into his Jaguar and headed out to meet a man with a Make America Great Again hat and a viscous Russian accent.
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Jim Mannion / Yahoo:
Trump lawyer calls for inquiry on Mueller's Russia probe
Discussion: The Last Tradition
Tara Palmeri / ABC News:
Rudy Giuliani differs with Donald Trump on IG report: 'I don't think it exonerates him'
Discussion: Hot Air, Politico and Raw Story
Daniella Silva / NBC News:
First lady Melania Trump makes statement on family separations as protests grow  —  The first lady “hopes both sides of the aisle can finally come together to achieve successful immigration reform,” according to the statement.  —  First lady Melania Trump uncharacteristically waded …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Melania Trump Calls on ‘Both Sides’ to End Family Separation  —  WASHINGTON — Melania Trump urged “both sides of the aisle” on Sunday to come together to stop federal authorities from separating children from their parents when apprehended at the border, a rare public intervention in an issue …
Beth Quimby / Press Herald:   Collins says she opposes family separations at border, but calls Democratic bill to stop them too broad
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
FBI agent removed from Russia probe for anti-Trump texts says he's willing to testify before Congress  —  The FBI agent who was removed from the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election for sending anti-Trump texts intends to testify before the House Judiciary Committee …
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Luke Rosiak / The Daily Caller:
IG: McCabe Used Strzok's Mistress To Bypass Chain Of Command To Monitor Clinton Probe
Discussion: TheBlaze and The Hill
John Kass / Chicago Tribune:   Column: Obama's silky lie and FBI bias in the Clinton investigation
Axios:
Trump tweets defense of his North Korea summit  —  President Trump tweeted a defense of his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Sunday morning, claiming that he received “so much for peace in the world” and teasing that “more is being added in finals.”
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Instead of Trump's propaganda, how about a nice ‘truth sandwich’?  —  Last week was a particularly rough one for journalists and truth-seeking citizens.  —  President Trump declared the news media the nation's worst enemy.  And time after shocking time, his acolytes demeaned or threatened reporters …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
New York Times:
A Financier's Profit-Minded Mission to Open a Channel Between Kushner and North Korea
Discussion: Raw Story and Breitbart
Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
'I Can't Go Without My Son,' a Mother Pleaded as She Was Deported to Guatemala  —  As a growing number of families are being separated as part of the Trump administration's attempt to control illegal immigration, some parents are being deported before recovering their children.
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Caleb Howe / Mediaite:
Steve Bannon: Donald Trump Doesn't Lie, and Never Has ‘To My Knowledge’  —  President Donald Trump doesn't lie and hasn't lied to the American people, said former White House Chief Strategist and Trump campaign manager Steve Bannon Sunday on This Week.  —  Guest host Jon Karl played clips …
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Quinn Scanlan / ABC News:
Not necessary to justify separating kids, parents at border, 'it's zero tolerance': Bannon
Discussion: Politico
Aubree Eliza Weaver / Politico:
Bannon: 'I couldn't be prouder' of Trump
Discussion: ABC News and Politico
ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript 6-17-18: Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon
Discussion: New York Post and Townhall
Nomaan Merchant / Associated Press:
Hundreds of children wait in Border Patrol facility in Texas  —  McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Inside an old warehouse in South Texas, hundreds of children wait away from their parents in a series of cages created by metal fencing.  One cage had 20 children inside.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
National Journal:
The GOP's Rapid Retreat in the Midwest  —  Republicans have abandoned Senate races in states Trump carried, and could lose several key governorships as well.  Trump's boasting of crashing the blue wall is rapidly becoming ancient history.  —  One of the biggest red flags …
George Packer / New Yorker:
Donald Trump Goes Rogue  —  In half a week, between Quebec and Singapore, Trump showed that the liberal order is hateful to him, and that he wants out.  —  When President Trump walked out early from the meeting of the Group of Seven in Charlevoix, Quebec, on June 9th, he left …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
New York Times:
Ashley Parker, Michael Bender  —  Ashley Rebecca Parker and Michael Charles Bender were married June 16 at their home in Washington.  Justine Parker, the bride's sister who became a Universal Life minister for the event, officiated.  —  The bride, 35, and groom, 40, are Washington-based reporters covering …
Fox News:
New Jersey arts festival shooting leaves 22 injured, 1 suspect dead, officials say  —  Nearly two dozen people were injured after gunfire broke out early Sunday during a fight at an all-night art event in New Jersey's capital city, leaving one suspect dead and authorities investigating if any others were involved.
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Albert R. Hunt / Bloomberg:
Paul Ryan Has Sacrificed the Rest of His Principles  —  To keep his job for the next 200 days, the speaker caves in to Trump's cruelty on immigration.  —  Paul Ryan, departing ingloriously from Congress in six months, has capitulated to Donald Trump and House right-wingers at the expense of the …
New York Times:
Safety Concerns Grow as Inmates Are Guarded by Teachers and Secretaries  —  BIG SPRING, Tex. — On a recent rainy day, more than 400 sex offenders, gang members and other inmates at the federal prison in this West Texas town weathered the storm by crowding into a three-story building.
Cary Darling / Houston Chronicle:
Cruz edges out Kimmel in charity basketball game in Houston  —  It was the Thunderdome from “Mad Max” or the coliseum from “Spartacus,” if either Max or Sparty were two, middle-aged American men playing a slow-motion car-crash of half-court basketball for charity and political one upsmanship.
Discussion: Daily Wire
New York Times:
Corey Stewart, Virginia Senate Nominee, Evokes Trump on Racial Issues  —  Mr. Stewart, a Minnesota transplant who has defended the Confederacy and praised white nationalists, has seized opportunities to gain media attention, especially with harsh remarks about immigrants.
 
 
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Christopher F. Rufo / City Journal:
Fed Up in Seattle  —  Citizens of the ultra-progressive city …
Joel Kotkin / Orange County Register:
Patriarchy or no, it's good to have dad around on Father's Day
Sarah Mervosh / New York Times:
A Legal Resident, an Arrest by ICE and Father's Day in Jail
Nicole Belle / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Where Are The Girls Being Detained By The Trump Administration?
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Thomas Boswell / Washington Post:
Once again, the USGA has created an identity crisis for Shinnecock Hills
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S.E. Cupp / New York Times:
No, Not All Women Are Democrats
Morgan Greene / Chicago Tribune:
In Chicago, Stormy Daniels muses: ‘Should I run for president?’
Discussion: IJR and Daily Wire
Phoebe Southworth / Daily Mail:
Less than one in 20 street robberies and burglaries are being solved by police, new figures reveal
Leigh Ann Caldwell / NBC News:
GOP fears midterms backlash from breaking up families at the border
Nancy Cook / Politico:
Slow-moving White House communications shakeup sinks morale
Boston Herald:
Boston Globe suspends columnist accused of embellishing Boston Marathon bombings story
Slate:
Here's How You Can Help Fight Family Separation at the Border
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Woman shouting ‘Allahu akbar’ attacks 2 with box cutter at supermarket in France
 

 
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