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9:30 AM ET, June 9, 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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New York Post:
From ObamaCare to ISIS: The president's fictions of the day  —  U.S. President Barack Obama, center, laughs as he looks at British Prime Minister David Cameron, left, with French President Francois Hollande at right, during a G7 session in Brussels, Belgium, Thursday, June 5, 2014.
Discussion: Betsy's Page and ABC News
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP fears it will win ObamaCare court battle  —  Republicans in Congress are worried the Supreme Court will hand them a major headache this month if it rules against the federal health insurance exchanges in more than 30 states, ending subsidies for millions of people.
New York Times:
Struggles With Finances Track Marco Rubio's Career  —  WEST MIAMI, Fla. — For years, Senator Marco Rubio struggled under the weight of student debt, mortgages and an extra loan against the value of his home totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars.  But in 2012, financial salvation seemed to have arrived …
K. McDonald / CW33 NewsFix:
15-Year-Old Who Shot McKinney Pool Party Video Speaks Out  —  MCKINNEY, TX - Brandon Brooks, the 15-year-old boy who shot the McKinney pool party video that's being broadcast around the world, is telling his side of the story to NewsFix.  —  “The cops showed up and the parents immediately started yelling …
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Monica Davey / New York Times:
Dennis Hastert to Appear in Chicago Court for Arraignment  —  CHICAGO — J. Dennis Hastert, the former speaker of the House of Representatives who has been publicly silent and out of sight since he was indicted late last month, is to appear in court here on Tuesday afternoon for his arraignment.
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ABC News:
Dennis Hastert Emerges From Seclusion at Wisconsin Property
Discussion: Washington Post
Matthew Mosk / ABC News:
Dennis Hastert to Be Represented by High-Powered D.C. Attorney Thomas Green
Discussion: Politico and Associated Press
Tim Devaney / The Hill:
Dems move to ban plastic guns  —  Congressional Democrats are proposing to ban plastic guns, following reports of major security lapses at the nation's airports  —  Plastic guns can be even more dangerous than traditional firearms because they're harder to detect, says Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.).
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Caroline May / BREITBART.COM:
TSA Failed To Identify 73 Aviation Workers With ‘Links To Terrorism’
Emily Lane / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
After 4 decades in solitary, Albert Woodfox's release ordered by federal judge  —  A federal judge in Baton Rouge has called for the unconditional release of Albert Woodfox, the only remaining imprisoned member of the Angola 3.  —  Woodfox, 68, was placed solitary confinement …
Des Moines Register:
Santorum calls crowd of 4 in rural Iowa a success  —  HAMLIN, Ia.  - When just one Iowan showed up to Rick Santorum's 2 p.m. campaign stop at a restaurant here Monday, the winner of the 2012 Iowa caucuses made a quick decision: Might as well order lunch.  —  “I haven't eaten, actually …
Fox News:
Obama under fire for saying no ‘complete strategy’ yet for training Iraqis  —  President Obama took heat Monday for admitting he doesn't yet have a “complete strategy” in hand for training Iraqis to fight the Islamic State — months into the coordinated campaign to defeat the deadly terrorist network.
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Cheney: I don't know what makes Obama tick
Discussion: Daily Kos
Nick Gass / Politico:
Huckabee to Megyn Kelly: Media exploiting Duggar family  —  Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee continued to defend the Duggar family in an interview with Fox News' Megyn Kelly on Monday night, attacking the media for its “exploitation” of the girls whom older brother Josh Duggar admitted to molesting when he was a teenager.
Barak Ravid / Haaretz:
CIA chief makes secret visit to Israel ahead of Iran deal  —  John Brennan was the guest of Mossad chief Tamir Pardo and met with various members of the Israeli intelligence community, as well as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.  —  United States Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan came …
Discussion: Politico and Israel Matzav
Noemie Emery / Washington Examiner:
Temperament Counts  —  President Obama, wrote the Washington Post's Greg Jaffe in a recent story about the president's view of his country, articulates “his vision of a nation that can acknowledge and, learn from, its mistakes.”  Would that this vision applied to himself.
9news.com.au:
Woman charged after allegedly stubbing lit cigarette into 9NEWS reporter's face  —  A woman visiting court to witness murder charges against another woman has been arrested after allegedly stubbing a lit cigarette into a 9NEWS reporter's face.  —  The 23-year-old woman pushed a baby stroller …
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Cadre of 1984 Hart campaign veterans critical for O'Malley's long-shot bid  —  They're grayer now and thicker around the middle, with real jobs, families and responsibilities.  But they still cling to the idealism that led them to work for Gary Hart's come-from-nowhere 1984 presidential campaign.
New York Times:
Cleveland Leaders Bypass Prosecutors to Seek Charge in Tamir Rice Case  —  WASHINGTON — Community leaders in Cleveland, distrustful of the criminal justice system, said Monday that they would not wait for prosecutors to decide whether to file charges against the police officers involved …
Discussion: Hot Air, Business Insider and The Week
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Clinton Family Foundation Donation To New York Times Charity Came After Endorsement  —  WASHINGTON — A charity administered by the New York Times received a $100,000 check from the Clinton Family Foundation on July 24, 2008, months after the paper endorsed Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary …
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Ron Fournier / National Journal:
The Right Way and Wrong Way to Win the Presidency  —  Hillary Clinton appears to be taking the easy path.  It would be the wrong one.  —  Democratic and Republican presidential candidates face a choice: They can appeal to the broadest possible audience or pander to their most devoted partisans.
Bryan Alexander / USA Today:
Spike TV will cut Eastwood's Jenner joke  —  Clint Eastwood is courting controversy again, this time with a Caitlyn Jenner joke at the Spike TV Guys' Choice 2015 awards on Saturday night.  —  USA TODAY has learned that Spike TV will cut an Eastwood joke about Jenner when the show airs Saturday, June 18.
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.
Jim Miklaszewski / NBC News:
Army's Public Website Hacked by Unknown Intruders  —  Defense officials confirm the official public Army website has been hacked by unknown intruders demanding the U.S. stop training rebel fighters inside Syria.  —  Unlike the massive hack into Office of Personnel Management records …
Discussion: Engadget
Salon:
Seinfeld slams politically correct students for hurting comedy: “They just want to use these words, 'that's racist, that's sexist, that's prejudice'”  —  The comedian thinks that PC culture, particularly on college campuses, has gone too far  —  Speaking on ESPN Radio's “The Herd with Colin Cowherd” …
Discussion: RedState
 
 
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Steven Perlberg / Wall Street Journal:
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Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
Is Hillary Clinton Dooming Real Election Reform?
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Sanders pulls within 8 points of Clinton in Wisconsin
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
Discussion: Daily Mail and artnet News
Telegraph:
David Cameron in crisis as he backtracks over ‘ministers must quit’ threat - as it happened
Discussion: Business Insider and Vox Popoli
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Fighting the Derp
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
Dem senator wants more funds to research Lyme Disease
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Ted Cruz: First Thing I'll Do As President Is Send Flowers And Condolences To Reporters Checking Into Therapy
Discussion: Mediaite
Rupali Srivastava / ThinkProgress:
What's Happening To Players At The Women's World Cup, Where The Artificial Turf Is 120 Degrees
Discussion: NBC News and ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES
 

 
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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:
iHeart says it is laying off employees; a source says the layoffs affect less than 5% of a workforce of more than 10,000 employees

 
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