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3:00 PM ET, June 14, 2019

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Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
See a Design of the Harriet Tubman $20 Bill That Mnuchin Delayed  —  WASHINGTON — Extensive work was well underway on a new $20 bill bearing the image of Harriet Tubman when Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced last month that the design of the note would be delayed for technical reasons …
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Gwynedd Stuart / Los Angeles Magazine:
Louise Linton, aka Mrs. Steven Mnuchin, Is Sorry  —  Swaddled in a white terry cloth robe and perched on a director's chair in the marble-floored powder room of her massive Bel Air mansion (a stone's throw from Salma Hayek's), Louise Linton is being administered to by a makeup artist …
Ben Dooley / New York Times:
‘Flying Object’ Struck Tanker in Gulf of Oman, Operator Says, Not a Mine  —  TOKYO — One of the tankers that were attacked in the Gulf of Oman was struck by a flying object, the ship's Japanese operator said on Friday, disputing at least part of the account of United States officials who had blamed Iran for the attack.
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Chris Riotta / The Independent:
Trump administration providing ‘false’ information about Gulf of Oman attack, says Japanese tanker owner  —  Chief executive of Japanese company operating Kokuka Courageous says ‘flying objects’ were cause of damage to vessel  —  The owner of the Japanese tanker attacked on Thursday …
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Barbie Latza Nadeau / The Daily Beast:
Japanese Tanker Owner Says U.S. Is Wrong About Gulf Attack  —  Yutaka Katada, the owner of one of the stricken fuel tankers crippled in explosions in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday, says the U.S. is wrong about the way the attack was carried out.  Speaking at a press conference in Tokyo on Friday …
CBS News:
Tanker owner seems to dispute U.S. account of Gulf of Oman attack  —  The Japanese owner of the Kokuka Courageous, one of two oil tankers targeted near the Strait of Hormuz, said Friday that sailors on board saw “flying objects” just before it was hit, suggesting the vessel wasn't damaged by mines.
Maureen Groppe / Indianapolis Star:
Exclusive: Indiana Republican Susan Brooks will not seek re-election to Congress  —  WASHINGTON — Indiana Rep. Susan Brooks, one of only 13 Republican women in the House as well as the head of GOP recruitment for 2020, found someone she could not convince to run: herself.
Discussion: Politico, UPI and Joe.My.God.
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Bill Allison / Bloomberg:
Ivanka Trump Made $4 Million From President's Washington Hotel  — Husband Jared Kushner had at least $27 million in debt  — Filing shows closed fashion brand earnings of $1 million  —  Ivanka Trump made $4 million from her investment in her father's Washington hotel last year …
Discussion: Axios, Vanity Fair and Joe.My.God.
Justin Fishel / ABC News:
EXCLUSIVE: Trump disputes account of White House counsel's testimony to Mueller  —  President Donald Trump is directly disputing the account of a key witness in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into possible obstruction of justice during the course of the Russia probe saying that it …
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: Elizabeth Warren's lucky debate draw  —  BREAKING — DEMOCRATIC DEBATE LINEUPS ... Orange group: Cory Booker, Julián Castro, Bill de Blasio, John Delaney, Tulsi Gabbard, Jay Inslee, Amy Klobuchar, Beto O'Rourke, Tim Ryan and Elizabeth Warren. ...
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Sarah Sanders was the disdainful Queen of Gaslighting  —  When Sarah Sanders said Thursday that she hopes to be remembered for her transparency and honesty, the first impulse was to laugh.  —  But lying to citizens while being paid by them really isn't all that funny.
Discussion: Balloon Juice
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Roger Kimball / Spectator USA:
Godspeed, Sarah Sanders
Discussion: CNN, The Week and Associated Press
Steven Nelson / Washington Examiner:
Dozen contenders: Sarah Sanders departure triggers scramble for new press secretary
Discussion: CNN, The Week and The Daily Caller
Dartunorro Clark / NBC News:
NBC announces lineup of Democrats for each of the two nights for first 2020 debate  —  To decide the match-ups, candidates' names were drawn manually at NBC News' headquarters in New York.  —  NBC News on Friday announced the lineups of Democratic presidential candidates who are appearing …
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Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:   Here's Who Will and Won't Get to Face Joe Biden in the First 2020 Democratic Debate
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
The Illiberal Right Throws a Tantrum  —  By the tail end of the Obama administration, the culture war seemed lost.  The religious right sued for détente, having been swept up in one of the most rapid cultural shifts in generations.  Gone were the decades of being able to count …
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
ABC Stations Helped Trump Build a Campaign Email List on His Birthday  —  Some of the network's largest affiliates promoted on their websites a ‘birthday card’ for President Trump that is really just a list-building campaign.  It's since been removed.  —  On Friday morning …
New York Times:
The Youngest Known Child Separated From His Family by the Trump Administration  —  Caitlin Dickerson is a Peabody award-winning national immigration reporter, who profiles the lives of immigrants, including those without legal status.  Last year, Caitlin reported that the Trump administration …
John Solomon / The Hill:
Delirious Democrats are now accusing Team Obama of treason  —  If you read the newspapers, tuned into the cable TV pundits or received an email from one of the Democrats running for president, you'd swear Donald Trump was back to his treasonous ways.  —  All that was missing …
Discussion: twitchy.com
Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
President Trump's internal polling data from March showed him far behind Joe Biden in key battleground states  —  Data from President Donald Trump's first internal reelection campaign poll conducted in March, obtained exclusively by ABC News, showed him losing a matchup by wide margins …
Pia Deshpande / Politico:
Trump says Melania T is the new Jackie O  —  President Donald Trump on Friday likened his wife to the beloved former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, saying, “We have our own Jackie O, it's called Melania, Melania T.”  —  Trump has often talked up his wife as a strong asset in the White House …
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Politico:
Trump declines to give Pence his endorsement for a 2024 presidential run
Discussion: Shareblue Media
Associated Press:
Trump doesn't commit to backing Pence for president in 2024
Discussion: Washington Post, Politico and Breitbart
Peter Jamison / Washington Post:
Trump still owes D.C. $7 million in inauguration costs as he plans July Fourth gala  —  President Trump's speech at the Lincoln Memorial on the Fourth of July is expected to drive up security costs for an annual event that draws hundreds of thousands of visitors to the nation's capital.
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and The Guardian
HuffPost:
Sara Gideon, Maine's Democratic House Speaker, To Run Against Senator Susan Collins  —  The GOP senator faces intense backlash from state Democrats and abortion rights activists over her vote for Brett Kavanaugh.  —  Maine House Speaker Sara Gideon, a Democrat, is expected to formally announce …
Elizabeth Warren / Team Warren:
Leveling the Playing Field for Entrepreneurs  —  Every American should have a fair shot at starting a small business.  The only things that should determine whether a new business succeeds are the strength of the idea and the hard work of the owners and employees.
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Phoebe Neidl / Rolling Stone:
Elizabeth Warren's New Plan to Close the Racial Wealth Gap
Discussion: CNBC
Zack Budryk / The Hill:
Federal employees turn their backs on Agriculture secretary after relocation plans announced  —  Members of the American Federation of Government Employees turned their backs on Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue on Thursday, apparently over plans to relocate them from Washington to the Kansas City area.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The Trump camp's latest lies cannot obscure what's now been exposed  —  The large outlines of the Russiagate scandal have long been hiding in plain sight: President Trump and his campaign encouraged, eagerly sought to benefit from and worked to conspire with a foreign power's sweeping effort …
Discussion: HuffPost
Allyson Chiu / Washington Post:
‘They are worthy of death’: A cop preached that the government should execute LGBTQ people  —  Standing at the front of the All Scripture Baptist Church in Knoxville, Tenn., Pastor Grayson Fritts had the rapt attention of his congregation.  It was June 2, the first Sunday of Pride Month, and Fritts had planned a timely sermon.
Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed News:
The Trump Administration Can't Block Undocumented Teens From Getting Abortions, A Federal Appeals Court Ruled  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration cannot block pregnant, undocumented teenagers held in government custody from getting abortions, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Week
Reveal:
Inside hate groups on Facebook, police officers trade racist memes, conspiracy theories and Islamophobia  —  Hundreds of active-duty and retired law enforcement officers from across the United States are members of Confederate, anti-Islam, misogynistic or anti-government militia groups on Facebook, a Reveal investigation has found.
Wall Street Journal:
Trump's 2020 Re-Election Campaign Wants Order and Discipline, Down to Font Sizes  —  Four years after the president flouted electioneering tradition, his re-election team is taking a more conventional approach  —  ARLINGTON, Va.—President Trump's path to a second term starts not in Florida …
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Elizabeth Warren isn't Hillary Clinton  —  How Warren is using many policies to reinforce one message, and a few other notes from our conversation.  —  My old American Prospect editor Mark Schmitt had a maxim I always liked: “It's not what you say about the issues; it's what the issues say about you.”
Thomas Gibbons-Neff / New York Times:
U.S. Special Forces Battle Against ISIS Turns to Containment, and Concern  —  DEH BALA, Afghanistan — Two years ago, Pentagon officials said that American forces in the remote reaches of Afghanistan could defeat the Islamic State's offshoot here by the end of 2017.
 
 
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Question For Bernie: What Happens To Those Who Don't Want To Join Your Commune?
Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Lindsey Graham wants to invade Venezuela to put ‘points on the board’
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Hispanics stick with Trump despite tough border stance
Jack Holmes / Esquire:
An Expert on Concentration Camps Says That's Exactly What the U.S. Is Running at the Border
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
David Brooks / New York Times:
Voters, Your Foreign Policy Views Stink!
Perry Bacon Jr / FiveThirtyEight:
Should We Take These Early General Election Polls Seriously? $#!% No!
Discussion: MinnPost and PinkNews
 Earlier Items: 
Heather Mac Donald / Wall Street Journal:
Who ‘Deserves’ to Go to Harvard?
Discussion: Power Line
Anne Flaherty / ABC News:
EXCLUSIVE: Trump says of Fed Reserve chairman 'I've waited long enough'
Katrin Bennhold / New York Times:
Nazis Killed Her Father. Then She Fell in Love With One.
Corky Siemaszko / NBC News:
Former Democractic rising star and Afghanistan War veteran speaks out for first time about PTSD treatment
Associated Press:
Emails: Trump official consulting climate change rejecters
Michael Kruse / Politico:
The Escalator Ride That Changed America
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Liberal Wonks, or at Least Elizabeth Warren, Have a Plan for That
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Forget “No Collusion,” Trump Is Now Pro-Collusion