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7:25 PM ET, June 8, 2015

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Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg Business:
GOP Swiftly Rejects Obama's ‘One-Sentence Fix’ to Obamacare if Supreme Court Voids Subsidies  —  A Supreme Court ruling is expected within weeks.  —  President Barack Obama had barely finished proposing an idea to deal with a far-reaching Supreme Court decision on Obamacare before Republicans fired …
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Sarah Wheaton / Politico:
Obama: Supreme Court shouldn't have heard Obamacare challenge  —  President Barack Obama expressed deep frustration with the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, questioning why justices even took up a case that imperils his signature health insurance reform plan.  —  The high court is set to issue …
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
New doubts on Second Amendment rights  —  Raising significant new questions about how much protection the Constitution's Second Amendment actually gives to gun owners, the Supreme Court on Monday left intact a local ordinance that restricts access to guns even within one's own home.
Discussion: 89.3 KPCC, NPR and Outside the Beltway
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
The GOP has 5 plans to fix Obamacare if the Supreme Court blows it up. They're all a mess.
Discussion: New York Magazine and Daily Kos
Peyton M. Craighill / Washington Post:
Public to Supreme Court: Don't gut Obamacare
Fox News:
Obama says Supreme Court should never have taken up health law case, in blunt challenge
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Backs White House on Jerusalem Passport Dispute
Cliff Owen / Associated Press:
Supreme Court Rejects NRA Appeal To Loosen San Francisco Gun Laws
CNN:
Poll: Trust lacking in Supreme Court over handling of key issues
Discussion: Politico
The Hill:
Obama: Supreme Court wrong to take up ObamaCare challenge
Alana Goodman / Washington Free Beacon:
Clinton Donated $100K to New York Times Group the Same Year Paper Endorsed Her  —  A little-known private foundation controlled by Bill and Hillary Clinton donated $100,000 to the New York Times' charitable fund in 2008, the same year the newspaper's editorial page endorsed Clinton …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
The N.Y. Times vs. Washington Free Beacon  —  Two years ago, The New York Times published a front-page story about Michael Goldfarb and the Washington Free Beacon, a website that, per the Times, was “gaining prominence as a conservative clarion.”  —  At Free Beacon, Goldfarb …
Discussion: BuzzFeed
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Clinton Family Foundation Donation To New York Times Charity Came After Endorsement
Discussion: Moe Lane
Alana Goodman / Washington Free Beacon:   ‘New York Times’ Won't Reveal When Clintons Donated
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
NYT runs to Politico for comment on embarrassing Free Beacon story ... again
Vanity Fair:   The War on the Times  —  The Sulzberger family would never let go of The New York Times.
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Clintons gave $100k to NYT fund in '08
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama: 'We don't yet have a complete strategy' against ISIS  —  President Obama said Monday the United States does not have a complete plan to train and equip Iraqi forces to fight the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), saying Baghdad needs to show a greater commitment to building a fighting force.
Discussion: Politico and Balloon Juice
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Cheney: I don't know what makes Obama tick
Discussion: Daily Kos
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Obama, sounding like his critics, admits no ‘complete strategy’ for Iraq
Discussion: Daily Kos
Jennifer Gonnerman / New Yorker:
Kalief Browder, 1993-2015  —  Last fall, I wrote about a young man named Kalief Browder, who spent three years on Rikers Island without being convicted of a crime.  He had been arrested in the spring of 2010, at age sixteen, for a robbery he insisted he had not committed.
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Matt Pearce / Los Angeles Times:
Kalief Browder, jailed for 3 years in N.Y. without a trial, commits suicide
Discussion: Gothamist and 89.3 KPCC
Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic:
The Brief and Tragic Life of Kalief Browder
Discussion: Common Dreams
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Why the most informed voters are often the most badly misled  —  The case for Hillary Clinton's proposal to make voter registration automatic is simple: it will make it easier for people to vote.  —  The case against Hillary Clinton's proposal to make voter registration automatic is also simple …
Rupali Srivastava / ThinkProgress:
What's Happening To Players At The Women's World Cup, Where The Artificial Turf Is 120 Degrees  —  Rupali Srivastava is an intern with ThinkProgress at the Center for American Progress Action Fund.  —  The Women's World Cup is being played on artificial turf instead of natural grass.
Beth Reinhard / Wall Street Journal:
Danny Diaz to Be Jeb Bush's Campaign Manager  —  Danny Diaz, a 39-year-old Washington, D.C., native who has worked for the last three Republican presidential nominees, will serve as campaign manager of Jeb Bush's anticipated presidential campaign.  —  The job of running day-to-day campaign operations …
Bob Price / BREITBART.COM:
Video Emerges of Violence at ‘Innocent Pool Party’ in McKinney, Texas  —  Left media is ablaze with articles condemning the police response to a pool party at a McKinney, Texas, subdivision.  Now a video is emerging showing why police were called to the scene to begin with - violence.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Fighting the Derp  —  When it comes to economics — and other subjects, but I'll focus on what I know best — we live in an age of derp and cheap cynicism.  And there are powerful forces behind both tendencies.  But those forces can be fought, and the place to start fighting is within yourself.
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Ted Cruz: First Thing I'll Do As President Is Send Flowers And Condolences To Reporters Checking Into Therapy  —  He said the second thing he'll do is start planning a pig roast on the South Lawn of the White House.  —  Scott Olson / Getty Images  —  Texas Sen. Ted Cruz poked fun at reporters …
Discussion: Mediaite
Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
Wisconsin straw poll surprise: A narrow Clinton win  —  Bernie Sanders surprises with 41 percent of the vote.  —  Bernie Sanders scored 41 percent in a straw poll vote at the Wisconsin Democratic Party convention this weekend — finishing a close second to Hillary Clinton, who won 49 percent.
Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
Support for Same-Sex Marriage at Record High, but Key Segments Remain Opposed  —  72% Say Legal Recognition is ‘Inevitable’  —  As the Supreme Court prepares to decide a key case involving states' requirements to recognize same-sex marriage, public support for allowing gays and lesbians …
Business Wire:
Introducing Apple Music — All The Ways You Love Music.  All in One Place.  —  SAN FRANCISCO—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Apple® today unveiled Apple Music™, a single, intuitive app that combines the best ways to enjoy music — all in one place.  Apple Music is a revolutionary streaming music service …
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Apple To Launch New Flipboard-Like App, While Newsstand Goes Away  —  Apple plans to announce a free, Flipboard-like product that will show consumers samplings of content from big media partners including ESPN, the New York Times, Conde Nast and Hearst, sources say.
 
 
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Larry Getlen / New York Post:
Book claims Whitney Houston was extorted amid ‘lesbian affair’
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Emily Smith / Page Six:
Man who bought the world's most expensive sculpture revealed
Telegraph:
David Cameron in crisis as he backtracks over ‘ministers must quit’ threat - as it happened
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Fredreka Schouten / USA Today:
Exclusive: Two FEC officials implore agency to curb 2016 election abuse
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Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
Dem senator wants more funds to research Lyme Disease
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Solicitor: Michael Slager indicted in Walter Scott case
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Derek Hunter / Townhall.com:
The Cream Of The Crop  —  Mainstream media has expended much ink …
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College Declares Haymarket Riot Reference a Violent Threat to College President
Yoni Appelbaum / The Atlantic:
McKinney, Texas, and the Racial History of American Swimming Pools
 

 
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe, a music distributor in 50+ countries, and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, accusing Believe of copyright infringement

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
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