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3:40 PM ET, June 2, 2017

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New York Times:
Bucking Trump, These Cities, States and Companies Commit to Paris Accord  —  Representatives of American cities, states and companies are preparing to submit a plan to the United Nations pledging to meet the United States' greenhouse gas emissions targets under the Paris climate accord …
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Michael Grunwald / Politico:
Why Trump Actually Pulled Out Of Paris  —  Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement was not really about the climate.  And despite his overheated rhetoric about the “tremendous” and “draconian” burdens the deal would impose on the U.S. economy, Trump's decision wasn't really about that, either.
Emily Flitter / Reuters:
Trump misunderstood MIT climate research, university officials say  —  Massachusetts Institute of Technology officials said U.S. President Donald Trump badly misunderstood their research when he cited it on Thursday to justify withdrawing the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement.
Max Boot / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed Why did Trump withdraw from Paris?  To appease his base  —  President Donald Trump walks away from the podium after speaking about the U.S. role in the Paris climate change accord on June 1 in the Rose Garden of the White House.  (Pablo Martinez Monsivais / Associated Press)
Discussion: Mother Jones and CNBC
Amy Harder / Axios:
To Trump, Paris deal isn't about climate
Discussion: Washington Post, Politico and ABC News
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
White House Protesters Shame Donald Trump Over Paris Climate Deal
Discussion: TheBlaze, Raw Story and Politicus USA
Hannah Parry / Daily Mail:
Fox news host Kimberly Guilfoyle …
Discussion: Political Wire and Reuters
Timothy Cama / The Hill:
Tillerson's first post-Paris remarks: US will reduce emissions
Discussion: Axios
Foreign Policy:
Why Abandoning Paris Is a Disaster for America
Lauretta Brown / Townhall.com:
Rand Paul Blasts Climate Alarmism in Debate with Jake Tapper: ‘Mass Extinction, Really?’
Discussion: The Resurgent
Washington Post:
Inside Trump's climate decision: After fiery debate, he 'stayed where he's always been'
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
White House orders agencies to ignore Democrats' oversight requests  —  The White House is telling federal agencies to blow off Democratic lawmakers' oversight requests, as Republicans fear the information could be weaponized against President Donald Trump.  —  At meetings with top officials …
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Susan Heavey / Reuters:
Trump to decide whether to block Comey testimony: White House adviser  —  U.S. President Donald Trump will decide whether to invoke his presidential powers to block former FBI Director James Comey from giving congressional testimony next week, White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway said on Friday.
Discussion: RedState
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Lawmakers baffled that immigration getting short shrift in Washington
Discussion: Mother Jones, Recode and Balloon Juice
Alexander Smith / NBC News:
Vladimir Putin to Megyn Kelly: Even Children Could Hack an Election  —  LONDON — Vladimir Putin again denied that Russia interfered in last year's U.S. election, joking to NBC News' Megyn Kelly on Friday that even her “underage daughter” could have been behind the hacking.
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Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Former Diplomats: Trump Team Sought to Lift Sanctions on Russia  —  The Trump administration was gearing up to lift sanctions on Russia when the president took office, but career diplomats ginned up pressure in Congress to block the move, two senior former State Department officials told NBC News Thursday.
MJ Lee / CNN:
God and the Don  —  Presidents often turn to faith in times of crisis.  That seems unlikely for Trump.  —  Two days before his presidential inauguration, Donald Trump greeted a pair of visitors at his office in Trump Tower.  —  As a swarm of reporters waited in the gilded lobby …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
Scarborough fingers Bannon as leaker: He's been ‘bragging’ he would sideline Kushner on Russia  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough on Friday revealed that some of his sources within the White House have hinted that White House chief political …
Discussion: The Root
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Brian Ross / ABC News:   Lawmakers: Did looming debt leave Jared Kushner vulnerable to Russian influence?
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Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:   GOP senator: Healthcare deal unlikely this year
Patrick McGreevy / Los Angeles Times:
Single-payer healthcare plan advances in California Senate — without a way to pay its $400-billion tab
Discussion: National Review and Instapundit
New York Times:
Trump Administration Starts Returning Copies of C.I.A. Torture Report to Congress  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has begun returning copies of a voluminous 2014 Senate report about the Central Intelligence Agency's detention and interrogation program to Congress …
Discussion: Political Wire and Politicus USA
Reuters:
Exclusive: Special counsel Mueller to probe ex-Trump aide Flynn's Turkey ties  —  Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating possible ties between the Trump election campaign and Russia, is expanding his probe to include a grand jury investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn, three sources told Reuters.
New York Times:
C.I.A. Names New Iran Chief in a Sign of Trump's Hard Line  —  WASHINGTON — He is known as the Dark Prince or Ayatollah Mike, nicknames he earned as the Central Intelligence Agency officer who oversaw the hunt for Osama bin Laden and the American drone strike campaign that killed thousands …
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Franken backtracks, cancels event with comedian Griffin after Trump photo controversy  —  Sen. Al Franken has reversed himself and decided “it would be best” for Kathy Griffin not to attend an event that the Minnesota senator had scheduled with the comedian for July.
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Andrew Bahl / Yahoo:
Franken: Clinton should ‘move on’ from election loss
Discussion: Newsmax and Washington Times
David Brooks / New York Times:
Donald Trump Poisons the World  —  This week, two of Donald Trump's top advisers, H. R. McMaster and Gary Cohn, wrote the following passage in The Wall Street Journal: “The president embarked on his first foreign trip with a cleareyed outlook that the world is not a ‘global community’ but an arena …
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Bari Weiss / New York Times:
When the Left Turns on Its Own
Derek Hawkins / Washington Post:
How a short letter in a prestigious journal contributed to the opioid crisis  —  Long before opioid abuse exploded into a public health crisis, before drugs such as OxyContin and Vicodin claimed hundreds of thousands of American lives and ruined countless others, one respected Boston University doctor had a question he wanted answered.
Jonathan Goldsmith / Politico:
How the World's Most Interesting Man Befriended the World's Most Powerful Man  —  “Damn,” he said in a half-hushed whisper.  “This guy's good.”  —  I could hear President Obama as he walked up the path behind me and spied the multiple arrows I had placed, undetected, in the bull's-eye.
Discussion: Raw Story
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
May nonfarm payrolls total 138,000 vs 185,000 expected  —  Job creation fell sharply in May with just 138,000 new positions created, while the unemployment rate declined to 4.3 percent, according to Labor Department data released Friday.  —  Economists surveyed by Reuters expected nonfarm payrolls …
Discussion: New York Times and Forbes
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Liz Spayd / New York Times:
The Public Editor Signs Off  —  There probably hasn't been a time in recent American history when the role of the media was more important than now.  The Trump administration is drowning in scandal, the country is calcified into two partisan halves.  And large newsrooms are faced with a choice …
 
 
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Kaila White / USA Today:
Arizona man wears colander in driver's license photo in name of religious freedom
Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
White House ‘Muslim Ban’ Man Pushes for Even More Power
Katy Murphy / Mercury News:
California Senate passes single-payer health care plan
Courier-Journal:
Gov. Matt Bevin's solution to violence: West End prayer patrols
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
The News You Didn't Hear  —  Reporters only want to talk about Russia …
Discussion: Instapundit
Bloomberg:
Mnuchin and Mulvaney Are at Odds on Debt Ceiling Strategy
Wall Street Journal:
GOP Senators Weigh Taxing Employer-Health Plans
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Conway won't rule out Trump trying to block Comey's testimony
Discussion: National Review, The Hill and Hot Air
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Jocelyn McClurg / USA Today:
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New York Post:
Dad overdoses on heroin to teach his addict son a lesson
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COMMENTARY: Conspiracy theories and the death of a Democratic National Committee staffer
mydaytondailynews:
‘Until we found the treatment that worked for (our sons,) the voice of worry was very loud and it was very scary.’
Discussion: IJR
Mike Allen / Axios:
Behind the scenes of Trump's Paris decision
Discussion: Vox, The Daily Caller and Politico
New York Times:
How to Raise a Feminist Son
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

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News Corp and Telstra agree to sell Australian pay TV company Foxtel Group to sports streaming platform DAZN in a deal worth ~$2.1B

Bloomberg:
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