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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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Axios:
Sean Hannity scores Trump's North Korea interview  —  President Trump's first sit-down television interview after his historic summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is expected to be with his friend and confidant, Fox News host Sean Hannity, Axios has learned.
Politico:
Ivanka Trump made $3.9 million from D.C. hotel in 2017  —  President Donald Trump's daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump made $3.9 million in profit last year off her stake in the Trump International Hotel, while taking in at least $5 million from businesses connected to her personal brand, a newly released financial disclosure shows.
Discussion: Axios
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 …
Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
The Smallness of Trump's North Korea Diplomacy
Discussion: Axios
Andy Borowitz / New Yorker:   Kim Jong Un Offers to Host Peace Talks Between United States and Canada
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Trump turns up the heat on Kim while lowering expectations for a deal
Washington Post:
With smiles and a handshake, Trump and Kim could mask gulf on nuclear arms
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.
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Benjamin Hart / New York Magazine:   Trump Official: 'We're America, Bitch' Is Administration's Doctrine
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Web of elite Russians met with NRA execs during 2016 campaign  —  WASHINGTON  —  Several prominent Russians, some in President Vladimir Putin's inner circle or high in the Russian Orthodox Church, now have been identified as having contact with National Rifle Association officials during …
George Conway / Lawfare:
The Terrible Arguments Against the Constitutionality of the Mueller Investigation  —  In an early-morning tweet last week, President Trump took aim once again at Special Counsel Robert Mueller, but with a brand new argument: “The appointment of the Special Councel,” the president typed, “is totally UNCONSTITUTIONAL!”
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
Discussion: Conservative Review
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Ex-US ambassador to Canada: Navarro's attack on Trudeau ‘unconscionable’
Discussion: CNN
Elise Foley / HuffPost:
Jeff Sessions Is Unilaterally Using Immigration Courts To Crack Down On Asylum Applicants  —  The attorney general said he is “confident” his moves will reduce the number of unauthorized immigrants who come to the U.S.  —  Untold numbers of victims of violence, including women abused by their partners …
Discussion: RedState
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Evan Halper / Los Angeles Times:
Trump administration moves to block victims of gang violence, domestic abuse from claiming asylum
Maria Sacchetti / Washington Post:
Sessions: Victims of domestic, gang violence ‘generally’ won't qualify for asylum
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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David Siders / Politico:   Democrats turn to Hollywood for messaging help
Peter Beinart / The Forward:   Bernie Sanders' Criticism Of Israel Is Radical. And He's Taking It Mainstream
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.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Upholds Ohio's Purge of Voting Rolls
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
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.
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
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
Andrew Lautz / NTK Network:
Bill Clinton: Norms of ‘What You Can Do to Someone Against Their Will’ Have Changed  —  President Bill Clinton's new interview with PBS NewsHour, which aired last week, featured some shocking, and strikingly tone-deaf, comments from the former president about sexual harassment and assault …
Sally Yates / CNN:
When my dad lost his struggle with depression  —  We need to start talking about depression  —  Sally Yates is the former Deputy Attorney General and Acting Attorney General of the US.  The opinions expressed in this commentary are her own.  —  (CNN)It was May 6, 1986, and I was just days away from graduating from law school.
Amy S. Rosenberg / Philly.com:
‘Diversity is a bunch of crap and un-American,’ South Jersey congressional candidate Seth Grossman says  —  Seth Grossman's surprise victory in the Republican primary in New Jersey's Second Congressional District has brought immediate national scrutiny of the Trump purist from Democrats …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Ari Berman / Mother Jones:
We Now Know Why Steve Bannon and Kris Kobach Lobbied for a Citizenship Question on the Census  —  New documents reveal anti-immigration hardliners' motivation in pushing for the question.  —  In December 2017, the Justice Department asked the Commerce Department, which overseas the Census Bureau …
Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
ICE Came for a Tennessee Town's Immigrants.  The Town Fought Back.  —  Agents conducted one of the biggest workplace raids since President Trump announced a crackdown on illegal immigration, detaining 97 workers in Morristown.  But for residents, these workers were their neighbors.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
How Trump Could Get Scott Pruitt to Fire Robert Mueller  —  In the middle of a juicy New York Times report about palace intrigue and ongoing staff dysfunction in the Trump administration is a revelation of potentially vast significance.  The story notes that Trump has ignored his chief …
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 …
Aarthi Swaminathan / Yahoo! Finance:
Domino's Pizza unveils U.S. infrastructure project filling potholes  —  $DPZ) is filling in potholes in towns across the U.S. with a new '"Paving for Pizza" initiative.  The American pizza chain announced on Monday that it will help “smooth the ride home” for deliveries by making pothole repairs in towns nominated by their customers.
Discussion: ThinkProgress, Raw Story and WREG-TV
 
 
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Doyle Murphy / News Blog, Riverfront Times:
Racist Missouri Waitress Fired After ‘N—r Hunting’ Video
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Casey Martin / KUOW:
Immigrant moms in SeaTac prison ‘could hear their children screaming’
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Annie Karni / Politico:
White House aide Steven Cheung leaves communications staff
Alex Sherman / CNBC:
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Ben Domenech / The Federalist:
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Jamie Dupree / AJC:
With my voice still gone, time for Jamie Dupree 2.0
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