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2:30 PM ET, June 11, 2018

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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 …
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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.
Washington Post:
With smiles and a handshake, Trump and Kim could mask gulf on nuclear arms  —  SINGAPORE — When President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shake hands for the first time and sit down one-on-one here Tuesday, the bonhomie they plan to project will mask the huge gulf between …
Andy Borowitz / New Yorker:
Kim Jong Un Offers to Host Peace Talks Between United States and Canada  —  SINGAPORE (The Borowitz Report)—One day before his summit with Donald J. Trump, the North Korean dictator, Kim Jong Un, has offered to host peace talks between the United States and Canada.
Yasmine Yahya / The Straits Times:
Singapore footing hotel bill for North Korean contingent at Trump-Kim summit: Vivian Balakrishnan
Discussion: AOL
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
Supreme Court, in 5-4 Decision, Allows States to Purge Voters for Their Failure to Vote  —  In a 5-4 decision handed down Monday morning, the Supreme Court ruled that states may purge voters from the rolls due to their failure to cast a ballot.  The ruling will disproportionately disenfranchise minorities …
Discussion: NBC News and MSNBC
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court upholds Ohio's way of removing infrequent voters from rolls  —  Conservatives on the Supreme Court on Monday upheld Ohio's method of purging voters from the rolls after they miss elections.  —  The court ruled 5 to 4 that Ohio's process does not violate federal law.
Richard L. Hasen / Slate:   Sonia Sotomayor's Dissent in the Big Voter Purge Case Points to How the Law Might Still Be Struck Down
Ari Berman / Mother Jones:
The Supreme Court Is Helping Republicans Kill a Key Voting Rights Law
Discussion: Daily Kos
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:   The Supreme Court Just Upheld Ohio's Aggressive Process For Purging Voters From The Rolls
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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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Escalating Clash With Canada, Trump Is Isolated Before North Korea Meeting
Megan Cassella / Politico:
Trump officials kick into damage-control mode with Canada
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Raw Story
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 the 2016 U.S. election campaign.
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.
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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Joe Cunningham / RedState:   Man Who Destroyed the Democratic Party Gives Advice to Democratic Presidential Hopefuls
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.
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 …
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Hayley Peterson / Business Insider:   Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey forced to apologize for eating Chick-fil-A during Pride Month
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 …
Discussion: Motherboard and CBS 4
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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.
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 …
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U.S. Department of the Treasury:
Treasury Sanctions Russian Federal Security Service Enablers  —  Washington - Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated five Russian entities and three Russian individuals under Executive Order (E.O.) 13694, “Blocking the Property …
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Matthew Lee / Associated Press:   US hits Russian firms with sanctions, citing cyberattacks
VICE News:
Exclusive: First photos emerge of shadowy Manafort aide tied to Russian intelligence  —  KIEV, Ukraine — Konstantin Kilimnik, the shadowy Russian political operative indicted Friday by special counsel Robert Mueller, has led such an intensely secretive life that no photograph of him has ever emerged in public.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
There's actually lots of evidence of Trump-Russia collusion
Discussion: Paste
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.
Nolan Finley / Detroit News:
Darn.  I may outlive Social Security  —  I've got to quick go see my doctor.  —  For years he's had me on a health maintenance plan with the goal, he says, of keeping me alive until I'm 90.  —  Now I need him to ease back on the medicine and good living advice.  I'm not sure my money will hold out that long.
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Robert J. Samuelson / Washington Post:
The cowardice of the political class
Discussion: Crooked Timber
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 …
 
 
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Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Dinesh D'Souza to Compare Trump With Lincoln in Upcoming Film
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Tami Abdollah / Associated Press:
Maryland judge to hear foreign payments case against Trump
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
A skeptical chairman Grassley really, really wants to see the Michael Flynn 302
Discussion: Power Line
Craig Calcaterra / NBCSports.com:
Report: Shohei Ohtani likely to have Tommy John surgery, will be out until 2020
Fay Vincent / Wall Street Journal:
Charles Krauthammer Goes Out Like Gehrig
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