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11:30 PM ET, June 10, 2017

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Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Sessions to testify in front of Senate Intel committee this week  —  will testify in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee this week to respond to former James Comey's testimony about him last week.  —  Sessions was originally supposed to testify in front of the House …
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Amid growing controversy, Sessions abruptly cancels public testimony  —  The sudden move comes as Sessions faces more scrutiny for his involvement in the Comey firing and meetings with Russia.  —  Attorney General Jeff Sessions was scheduled to testify publicly next Tuesday before the House and Senate appropriations committees.
Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:
Sessions won't testify at congressional budget hearings but at Senate intelligence hearing instead  —  Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who had agreed to testify this week before the Senate and House appropriations committees about the Justice Department budget, wrote the chairmen …
CNN:   Sessions says he plans to testify before Senate intelligence panel
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Senators debate bringing in Comey for Round 2
Discussion: ABC News and The Week
Sam Stein / HuffPost:
Top Dem Donor Calls On Lawmakers To Take Up Trump Impeachment
Discussion: Power Line and Politicus USA
Mike Barnes / Hollywood Reporter:
Adam West, Straight-Faced Star of TV's ‘Batman,’ Dies at 88  —  The actor struggled to find work after the campy superhero series was canceled, but he rebounded with voiceover gigs, including one as the mayor of Quahog on ‘Family Guy.’  —  Adam West, the ardent actor who managed to keep …
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Brian Lowry / Variety:
Adam West, TV's ‘Batman,’ Dies at 88  —  Adam West — an actor defined and also constrained by his role in the 1960s series “Batman” — died Friday night in Los Angeles.  He was 88.  A rep said that he died after a short battle with leukemia.  —  “Our dad always saw himself as The Bright Knight …
Asha Rangappa / Washington Post:
I was an FBI agent.  Trump's lack of concern about Russian hacking shocks me.  —  Is the president breaking his oath to protect and defend the country from foreign attacks?  —  Reactions to former FBI director James B. Comey's testimony Thursday mostly seemed to follow predictable, partisan lines.
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New York Times:
Trump-Comey Feud Eclipses a Warning on Russia: ‘They Will Be Back’  —  WASHINGTON — Lost in the showdown between President Trump and James B. Comey that played out this past week was a chilling threat to the United States.  Mr. Comey, the former director of the F.B.I. …
Politico:
How Theresa May lost it  —  A reluctance to delegate, hubris and campaigning ineptitude ruined British prime minister's grand plan to secure a mandate.  —  alfway through Britain's seven-week snap election campaign, some in Theresa May's team came to the conclusion that they had a problem — the candidate.
Discussion: Business Insider
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Alan Cochrane / Telegraph:
Ruth Davidson planning Scottish Tory breakaway as she challenges Theresa May's Brexit plan
Discussion: The Guardian and Business Insider
Theodore Dalrymple / City Journal:   Britain's Election Disaster
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Fight breaks out at anti-Sharia protest  —  An anti-Sharia protest in Seattle turned violent on Saturday after a fight broke out between demonstrators and counter-protesters. … The protest in Seattle was among dozens of demonstrations that took place across the country on Saturday.
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Abigail Hauslohner / Washington Post:
Anti-sharia demonstrators hold rallies in cities across the country
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Shayna Jacobs / New York Daily News:
Former Vice President Joe Biden's niece evades jail after pleading guilty in $110G credit card scam  —  A niece of former Vice President Joe Biden pleaded guilty Friday to a $110,000 credit card scam at an iconic Manhattan pharmacy, prosecutors said.  —  Caroline Biden, 29 …
Discussion: IJR and New York Post
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CNN:
Joe Biden encourages Mitt Romney to run for Senate
Discussion: Mediaite, Politico and The Week
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
One explanation for McCain's grogginess: a 75,000-mile itinerary as ‘shadow’ diplomat  —  Maybe this is why Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) seemed a bit groggy during Thursday's high-profile congressional hearing: He had spent the previous week on the other side of the world …
Discussion: Fox News
Josh Einiger / abc7ny.com:
Students, parents say some Wall Township High School yearbook photos were censored … <iframe width="476" height="267" src="http://abc7ny.com/video/embed/ ?pid=2078795" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>  —  Something's fishy behind the scenes of the Wall Township High School yearbook.
Discussion: IJR
Reuters:
U.S. joins battle as Philippines takes losses in besieged city  —  U.S. special forces have joined the battle to crush Islamist militants holed up in a southern Philippines town, officials said on Saturday, as government forces struggled to make headway and 13 marines were killed in intense urban fighting.
CNN:
Mueller staffing up Russia probe while Trump lawyer declares victory  — Special counsel Mueller has built a team of formidable legal minds who've worked on everything from Watergate to Enron  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump's lawyer has responded to fired FBI Director James Comey's tell-all to Congress by taking a victory lap.
Discussion: Fox News, The Mahablog and NPR
Crispin Sartwell / Wall Street Journal:
Fiestas and Apple Orchards: Small-Town Life Before Trump  —  My corner of Pennsylvania was thriving again—until immigration agents began carting people away.
Discussion: Hit & Run
Laurie Goodstein / New York Times:
Religious Liberals Sat Out of Politics for 40 Years.  Now They Want in the Game.  —  Faith leaders whose politics fall to the left of center are getting more involved in politics to fight against President Trump's policies.  —  In Nashville, a crowd of ministers carrying palm fronds occupied …
 
 
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Carol Kozma / providencejournal.com:
R.I. state rep. apologizes after handing out document with pornographic references
Discussion: WPRI-TV, IJR and Raw Story
Ian Kullgren / Politico:
Trump's ‘Apprentice’ gamble
Discussion: CNN and ABC News
T.A. Frank / Vanity Fair:
Can Hillary Clinton Please Go Quietly into the Night?
Christopher Clarey / New York Times:
Jelena Ostapenko, Unseeded Latvian, Rallies to Win French Open
Tom Ciccotta / Breitbart:
Ms. Magazine: When Will Wonder Woman Be a ‘Fat Femme Woman of Color’?
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
‘Shut up, slave!’: A spilled Starbucks drink led to a racist tirade and sidewalk fight, police say
Discussion: theGrio
Jeff Greenfield / Politico:
The GOP That Failed  —  As the carnage of World War I widened …
Discussion: The Atlantic
Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
The French Are Spinning American Food
Discussion: Clayton Cramer
 Earlier Items: 
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
TRUMP to rollback some of Obama's Cuba policies …
Discussion: The Hill and Axios
Theodore Schleifer / CNN:
Republican fundraisers can stomach Trump — if only he'd call
Discussion: Democracy Chronicles
Gloria Gomez / FOX13news:
Alleged neo-Nazi bomb-maker gets bond
Discussion: Raw Story
Jerry Oppenheimer / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Lordy! …
Discussion: Fox News Insider, TheBlaze and AOL
Marilyn Geewax / NPR:
Trump Administration Calls For Lawsuit About His Businesses To Be Dismissed
John Amato / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
CNN Host Called Out For Being ‘Obsessed With The Facts’
Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
Masquerading as Reporter, Assassin Hunted Putin Foes in Ukraine