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4:30 PM ET, June 13, 2019

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Washington Post:
Federal watchdog agency recommends removal of Kellyanne Conway from federal office for violating the Hatch Act  —  The Office of Special Counsel on Thursday recommended the removal of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway from federal office for violating the Hatch Act …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Is Urged to Fire Kellyanne Conway for Hatch Act Violations  —  WASHINGTON — An independent government agency recommended on Thursday that President Trump fire Kellyanne Conway, his White House counselor, for repeated violations of an ethics law barring partisan politics from the federal workplace.
Mad Dog PAC:
OSC Conway should be removed from her position forthwith  —  OSC - Conway should be fired, unlikely Trump will do so  —  Office of Special Counsel: … The OSC sent their final 17 page report to the President concerning KellyAnne Conway's repeated violations of The Hatch Act - 5 U.S.C.
The Hill:
Federal watchdog recommends Conway be removed from role for Hatch Act violations
Discussion: Axios, Newser and twitchy.com
Lucien Bruggeman / ABC News:
EXCLUSIVE: Trump reveals historic redesign of Air Force One  —  Less than a year after announcing a $3.9 billion makeover for America's most famous aircraft, President Donald Trump shared never-before-seen images of Air Force One's prospective redesign on Wednesday during an exclusive interview with ABC News.
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Ana Radelat / The CT Mirror:
Courtney foils Trump's red, white, blue Air Force One plan  —  Amendment won't allow gold-plated interior fixtures, either  —  Washington — Rep. Joe Courtney on Wednesday threw a big wrench into President Donald Trump's plans to paint the iconic Air Force One jets red, white and blue.
Discussion: Politico
Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:
EXCLUSIVE: Harris says she'd prosecute Trump.  He says 'I'd make the same statement'  —  President Donald Trump slammed Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris for saying that, if elected, she would “have no choice” but to pursue criminal charges of obstruction of justice against a former President Trump.
Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
House Republicans try to spin Trump's foreign dirt comment  —  Amid blistering bipartisan criticism of President Donald Trump's willingness to accept dirt on his 2020 rivals from foreign adversaries, House Republicans decided Thursday that they had found the real culprit: Democrats.
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Pelosi doesn't budge on impeachment after Trump's ‘appalling’ claim he'd take 2020 campaign dirt from foreign powers
Discussion: Political Wire
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Majority of Democrats on House Judiciary Committee now back impeachment
Discussion: Political Wire
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
Trump's Awful Comments Need a Real Response
David Lauter / Los Angeles Times:
California Democratic 2020 presidential primary is a wide-open race, poll finds … With the Democratic presidential field now largely set, the race in the nation's largest state is wide open, with at least five candidates in serious contention and no clear favorite.
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Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
How Pete Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren Cracked the Code of the 2020 Race  —  CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Pete Buttigieg ran through his stump speech (six minutes on generational change), tossed bean bags with activists (in front of as many cameras as Iowa voters), took seven questions from reporters …
David Montanaro / Fox News:
Payne: Bernie Sanders ‘sounds like a naive college student’ with claims about Democratic socialism
Jeff Sommer / New York Times:
Social Security Is Staring at Its First Real Shortfall in Decades.  Big Cuts Could Follow.  —  A slow-moving crisis is approaching for Social Security, threatening to undermine a central pillar in the retirement of tens of millions of Americans.  —  Next year, for the first time since 1982 …
Discussion: Mother Jones
Associated Press:
The Latest: Charges dropped in Flint water scandal  —  FLINT, Mich. (AP) — The Latest on criminal charges dropped in the Flint water scandal (all times local):  —  Prosecutors say they're dismissing all criminal charges against eight people in the Flint water scandal and starting the investigation over again.
Discussion: Detroit Free Press and The Week
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Mitch Smith / New York Times:
Flint Water Crisis: Prosecutors Drop All Criminal Charges  —  The Michigan attorney general's office dismissed all pending criminal cases tied to the Flint water crisis on Thursday, ending the prosecutions of eight current and former officials accused of neglecting their duties …
Center for Public Integrity:
Why the Trump campaign won't pay police bills  —  “Do we love law enforcement or what?”  President Donald Trump asked a cheering crowd during his “Make America Great Again” political rally Oct. 12 in Lebanon, Ohio.  —  “Thank you, law enforcement!” the president later told officers, who he called “heroes.”
Washington Post:
Oil tankers attacked in Gulf of Oman, U.S. Navy says  —  ISTANBUL — Two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman came under suspected attack early Thursday amid soaring tensions between the United States and Iran in the region.  —  One ship was adrift and on fire in the strategic waterway …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Manchin eyes Senate exit  —  Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is eyeing a possible exit from the Senate, and his decision could be a significant factor in which party controls the majority in 2021.  —  In moments of frustration, the centrist senator has gone so far as to tell colleagues he may leave …
San Diego Union-Tribune:
Margaret Hunter admits guilt in campaign-finance scandal  —  Wife of Alpine congressman facing up to five years at sentencing later this year  —  Years of cavalier spending of her husband's political contributions culminated in a guilty plea Thursday for Margaret Hunter …
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Andrew O'Reilly / Fox News:
Duncan Hunter's wife pleads guilty to corruption charge; faces up to 5 years in prison
New York Times:
Rent Regulations in New York: How They'll Affect Tenants and Landlords  —  The changes would be sweeping, covering everything from security deposits to apartment upgrades.  —  Democratic lawmakers in New York harnessed their new powers on Tuesday to broker sweeping changes to rent laws …
Discussion: New York Daily News, VICE and Splinter
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New York Times:
Titans of Real Estate in ‘Shock’ Over New York Rent Law Deal
Discussion: Splinter
John Solomon / The Hill:
Feds gone wild: DOJ's stunning inability to prosecute its own bad actors  —  One was caught red-handed engaged in nepotism.  Another, a lawyer no less, admitted to shoplifting at a Marine barracks store.  A third leaked sealed court information to the news media.
Raphael Satter / Associated Press:
Experts: Spy used AI-generated face to connect with targets  —  LONDON (AP) — Katie Jones sure seemed plugged into the Washington's political scene.  The 30-something redhead boasted a job at a top think tank and a who's-who network of pundits and experts, from the centrist Brookings Institution to the right-wing Heritage Foundation.
Discussion: Mashable, Gizmodo and The Verge
Errin Haines Whack / Associated Press:
House hearing on reparations for slavery set for next week  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The topic of reparations for slavery is headed to Capitol Hill for its first hearing in more than a decade with writer Ta-Nehisi Coates and actor Danny Glover set to testify before a House panel.
Nathaniel Meyersohn / CNN:
First on CNN Business: 600 companies including Walmart, Costco and Target warn Trump on tariffs  —  New York (CNN Business)American retailers, manufacturers and tech companies warned President Donald Trump on Thursday that tariffs on China will damage the US economy, lead to job losses and harm millions of consumers.
Discussion: KTVQ-TV
Pramila Jayapal / New York Times:
Rep. Pramila Jayapal: The Story of My Abortion  —  What it taught me about the deeply personal nature of reproductive choice.  —  Ms. Jayapal is a Democratic congresswoman.  —  I call my child a miracle.  Born unexpectedly in India at 26.5 weeks, shortly before I was due to come …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Peter Hamby / Vanity Fair:
“WHAT CAN YOU SAY IN 60 SECONDS?”:  AS THE FIRST DEBATE LOOMS, DEMOCRATS PREPARE TO FACE REALITY  —  It's taken as an article of faith inside network greenrooms that the primary debates will shake up the race, ushering in a kinetic new phase of candidate-on-candidate warfare.
Stephanie Saul / New York Times:
Joe Biden Said He Did Not View Abortion ‘As a Choice and a Right’ in 2006  —  In a newly unearthed video from 2006, Joseph R. Biden Jr. said he supported Roe v. Wade but did not view abortion as “a choice and a right” — remarks that raise further questions about how he views abortion rights …
Discussion: CNN, USA Today and The Daily Caller
Anna Merlan / Jezebel:
Legislative Staffer Describes Meeting With Jessica Biel and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as They Lobbied to Kill a Bill Tightening Vaccine Exemptions  —  On Wednesday, a series of photos posted by activist and vaccine “skeptic” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. showed him and actress Jessica Biel lobbying California state lawmakers.
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Brace for a Voter-Turnout Tsunami  —  Signs are growing that voter turnout in 2020 could reach the highest levels in decades—if not the highest in the past century—with a surge of new voters potentially producing the most diverse electorate in American history.
Julia Wallace / Laredo Morning News:
Meet Jessica Cisneros, the 26-year-old Laredo attorney running against Cuellar in Congress  —  A 26-year-old Laredoan, former valedictorian of Early College High School and current immigration and human rights attorney, Jessica Cisneros is announcing her campaign Thursday to run for Congress …
Discussion: Roll Call and The Daily Caller
Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
Senator says South Dakota lost half a billion dollars from Trump's trade war  —  Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.C.) told Axios' Mike Allen on Thursday that President Trump's trade war with China has caused the price of his state's soybeans to plummet 20%, costing South Dakota half a billion dollars.
Discussion: Politico and POLITICUSUSA
Tasneem Nashrulla / BuzzFeed News:
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders Is Leaving The White House  —  Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the combative White House press secretary who unflappably defended President Donald Trump and followed his charge to discredit journalists who cover him, will leave the White House at the end of June, Trump tweeted Thursday.
 
 
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William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Oberlin College hit with maximum PUNITIVE DAMAGES (capped at $22 million by law) in Gibson's Bakery case
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Alex Pappas / Fox News:
DOJ lost track of foreign nationals with criminal histories after bringing them to US: audit
NBC News:
Anita Hill on whether she'd vote for Biden over Trump
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Republican blocks bill requiring campaigns to alert FBI to foreign assistance
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Mitch McConnell, Too, Welcomes Russian Interference
Discussion: USA Today and Shareblue Media
Nidhi Prakash / BuzzFeed News:
The Trump Administration Admits It's Denying Housing Loans To DACA Recipients
Discussion: Politico
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Ramesh Ponnuru / National Review:
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Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
Team Beto Is Tired of the Media's ‘Bullshit’ Narrative
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Trump betrays his country again by inviting foreign interference
Discussion: MSNBC
Jeremy Herb / CNN:
Rick Gates and Michael Flynn subpoenaed by House intel panel
Discussion: The Week and The Hill
BBC:
Tory leadership contest: Boris Johnson tops first ballot
Discussion: BBC
Melanie Zanona / Politico:
Republicans dodge nasty Senate primary in North Carolina
Jack Flemming / Los Angeles Times:
Donald Trump's Beverly Hills home quietly sells for $13.5 million
Discussion: Fox News