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11:55 PM ET, June 5, 2017

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The Intercept:
Top-Secret NSA Report Details Russian Hacking Effort Days Before 2016 Election  —  Russian military intelligence executed a cyberattack on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and sent spear-phishing emails to more than 100 local election officials just days before last November's presidential election …
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U.S. Department of Justice:
Federal Government Contractor in Georgia Charged With Removing and Mailing Classified Materials to a News Outlet  —  A criminal complaint was filed in the Southern District of Georgia today charging Reality Leigh Winner, 25, a federal contractor from Augusta, Georgia, with removing classified material …
The Daily Beast:
Mom Shocked at Daughter's Arrest for Leaking Secrets … Reality Winner, a 25-year-old National Security Agency contractor, is the first casualty in the Trump administration's promised war on leakers.  Winner was arrested over the weekend for allegedly leaking top secret information to a news organization …
CNN:
Contractor charged with leaking classified NSA info on Russian hacking  —  (CNN)The Justice Department announced charges Monday against a federal contractor with Top Secret security clearance, after she allegedly leaked classified information to an online media outlet.
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
NSA Leaker Is A Bernie Supporter Who ‘Resists’ Trump
Discussion: TheBlaze
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Intelligence Contractor Is Charged in First Leak Case Under Trump
Discussion: Business Insider and CBS New York
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
Why Would Russia Stop at ‘Influence’ When They Could Hack Directly?
New York Times:
Trump Grows Discontented With Attorney General Jeff Sessions  —  WASHINGTON — Few Republicans were quicker to embrace President Trump's campaign last year than Jeff Sessions, and his reward was one of the most prestigious jobs in America.  But more than four months into his presidency …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Trump's tweets prompt backlash from GOP lawyers  —  Prominent Republican attorneys are staging what amounts to an unprecedented public intervention against President Donald Trump, warning that his tweeting habit was doing serious harm to his bid to preserve his travel ban policy at the Supreme Court …
Discussion: Raw Story, The Hill and ABC News
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Conway's husband rips Trump for ‘travel ban’ tweets
Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump's tweets have consequences
Discussion: Politicus USA
Brandon Carter / The Hill:
London mayor calls for cancellation of Trump visit to UK  —  London Mayor Sadiq Khan is calling on the British government to cancel a state visit from President Trump after Trump criticized his response to this weekend's terror attacks in London.  —  “I don't think we should roll …
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Julian Borger / The Guardian:
Cancel Trump state visit, says Sadiq Khan, after London attack tweets
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Hillary Clinton defends London mayor after Trump tweets
Discussion: Politicus USA and TheBlaze
Cathy Newman / Channel 4 News:
Sadiq Khan: 'We shouldn't roll out carpet to Trump'
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
CNN:
Sources: Acting US ambassador to China quit over Trump climate decision  —  Trump has said often climate change isn't real  —  Washington (CNN)Acting US ambassador to China David Rank resigned from his post in Beijing over President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Brandon Carter / The Hill:
Acting US ambassador to China resigns over Trump's Paris decision: report
Discussion: Power Line and The Gateway Pundit
Kimberly Dozier / The Daily Beast:
White House Looked At Dropping Russia Sanctions—Even After Firing Michael Flynn … The White House explored unilaterally easing sanctions on Russia's oil industry as recently as late March, arguing that decreased Russian oil production could harm the American economy, according to former U.S. officials.
Discussion: Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
GOP Leaders to Present Senate Republicans With Proposals to Shape Health-Care Bill  —  GOP leaders are expected to present Senate Republicans options for the major policy decisions shaping their health-care bill during a closed-door lunch Tuesday, Senate aides say.
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Bloomberg:
Obamacare Repeal's Latest Obstacle Involves Native Americans
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Hotel Received $270,000 From Lobbying Campaign Tied to Saudis  —  President Trump's Washington hotel received catering, lodging and parking payments linked to Saudi Arabia as part of the Gulf kingdom's fight against a law that lets Americans sue foreign countries over terrorist attacks.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Saudis Spent $270K At Trump Hotel In Lobbying Campaign Against 9/11 Bill
Discussion: Politicus USA and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Post-ABC poll: Nearly 6 in 10 oppose Trump scrapping Paris agreement  —  Most Americans oppose President Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, with a majority saying the move will damage the United States' global leadership, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
William McGurn / Wall Street Journal:
Why Elites Hate  —  The liberal contempt for middle America is baked into the idea of identity politics.
Ron Fonger / MLive.com:
Official resigns after using n-word to describe Flint residents  —  UPDATE: Activist says more recordings on the way of official who used racial slur  —  FLINT, MI — The sales manager of the Genesee County Land Bank has resigned his position after water activists recorded him saying Flint's problems …
Lawfare:
The $110 Billion Arms Deal to Saudi Arabia is Fake News  —  Editor's note: This post originally appeared on Markaz.  —  Last month, President Trump visited Saudi Arabia and his administration announced that he had concluded a $110 billion arms deal with the kingdom.  Only problem is that there is no deal.
New York Times:
Trump Organization to Go Budget Friendly With ‘American Idea’ Hotel Chain  —  On the campaign trail, President Trump's children rolled through dozens of small towns across the country, reveling in the adoration of the crowds.  But they were less enamored of the budget-friendly hotels along the way …
Discussion: Boing Boing
David Dayen / The Fiscal Times:
Trump's Air Traffic Control Plan: Airlines Win, Passengers Lose  —  Happy Infrastructure Week!  I know, you're still getting over the last Infrastructure Week three weeks ago.  But the Trump administration has usurped the label, spotlighting its commitment to a bipartisan priority: rebuilding the nation's critical needs.
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Jeffrey Cook / ABC News:
What privatizing air traffic control could mean, as Trump outlines proposal
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
In the Withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, the Koch Brothers' Campaign Becomes Overt  —  If there was any lingering doubt that a tiny clique of fossil-fuel barons has captured America's energy and environmental policies, it was dispelled last week, when the Trump Administration withdrew from the Paris climate accord.
Erika Solomon / Financial Times:
The $1bn hostage deal that enraged Qatar's Gulf rivals  —  Doha reportedly paid al-Qaeda affiliate and Iran to win release of royal hunting party  —  Read next … Qatar paid up to $1bn to release members of the Gulf state's royal family who were kidnapped in Iraq while on a hunting trip …
Discussion: The Atlantic, Business Insider and AOL
Verne Gay / Newsday:
Megyn Kelly off to rough start with NBC show's premiere  —  Megyn Kelly launched her new magazine at NBC Sunday, and the stakes couldn't have been much higher for either.  Kelly, now among the highest paid personalities on network news (nearly $20 million per year), left Fox News …
Susan B. Glasser / Politico:
Trump National Security Team Blindsided by NATO Speech  —  When President Donald Trump addressed NATO leaders during his debut overseas trip little more than a week ago, he surprised and disappointed European allies who hoped—and expected—he would use his speech to explicitly reaffirm America's commitment …
Maria Lisignoli / KCCI-TV:
Cellphone video captures nasty brawl unfolding at McDonald's  —  HIDE TRANSCRIPT SHOW TRANSCRIPT  —  A bystander at a McDonald's restaurant drive-thru on Des Moines' northeast side captured a nasty brawl on video depicting a woman apparently assaulting an employee.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Todd Van Luling / HuffPost:
Senator Al Franken Cancels Bill Maher Appearance Amid Controversy  —  “Senator Franken believes that what Bill Maher said was inappropriate and offensive,” a spokesperson said.  —  A spokesperson for Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) confirmed to HuffPost that the senator is canceling his appearance …
Mercury News:
Derick Almena, second Ghost Ship tenant charged with 36 counts of manslaughter  —  OAKLAND — Ghost Ship master tenant Derick Almena and his second-in-command, Max Harris, were arrested Monday and charged with 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter in conjunction with the Dec. 2 Ghost Ship fire that killed three dozen people.
Discussion: East Bay Times, NPR and The Week
 
 
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The Guardian:
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Discussion: Hot Air
Mark Meadows / CNN:
How Russia hysteria paralyzes Congress
Discussion: The Daily Caller
ProPublica:
Here Are the Financial Disclosures of 349 Officials Trump Has Installed Across the Government
Discussion: Political Wire
Matt Vespa / Townhall.com:
Democrats To Clinton: Lady, It Wasn't The Data-You Just Had No Clue What You Were Doing
Discussion: Blazing Cat Fur
Paul Lewis / The Guardian:
California's would-be governor prepares for battle against job-killing robots
Discussion: Breitbart and Axios
Washington Times:
Evergreen faculty demand ‘investigation’ into professor who dissented from no-whites day
Discussion: Blazing Cat Fur
Elana Schor / Politico:
Sanders snagged $795K book advance last year
 Earlier Items: 
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Trump's Incredible Shrinking America
Discussion: IJR
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Washington Post writer: 'Serious concerns about this president's mental stability'
Discussion: RedState
Katia Porzecanski / Bloomberg:
Ray Dalio Is Changing His Mind About Donald Trump
Discussion: CNBC
The Sun:
THE JIHADI NEXT DOOR London Bridge attacker in Arsenal shirt was ex-Tube worker 'family man …
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
What Trump Really Fears  —  As the blast radius of the Russia …
Discussion: RedState