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8:00 AM ET, June 11, 2017

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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.
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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 …
Discussion: Political Wire
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 …
CNN:
Sessions says he plans to testify before Senate intelligence panel  — Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will testify to House and Senate appropriations panels Tuesday  —  (CNN)Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Saturday that he plans to testify before the Senate intelligence committee Tuesday …
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
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.
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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
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
Brandon Carter / The Hill:
Overheard conversation earns Conway leaker label  —  White House counselor Kellyanne Conway reportedly shared behind-the-scenes White House conversations with reporters at a Washington, D.C. party on Friday night in conversations that were overheard by another party guest.
Discussion: RedState and TheBlaze
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
TRUMP to rollback some of Obama's Cuba policies …
Discussion: Axios
Richard V. Reeves / New York Times:
Stop Pretending You're Not Rich  —  When I was growing up, my mother would sometimes threaten my brother and me with elocution lessons.  It is no secret that how you talk matters a lot in a class-saturated society like the United Kingdom.  Peterborough, our increasingly diverse hometown, was prosperous enough, but not upscale.
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Comey and Trump, the G-Man vs. the Mob Boss  —  Lordy, what a fine day to be Donald Trump.  —  Three hours of earnest James Comey testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee and the president is not in immediate jeopardy of being indicted or impeached.  —  High crimes can wait.
Discussion: IJR
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
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 …
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Laurie Goodstein / New York Times:
Religious Liberals Sat Out of Politics for 40 Years. Now They Want in the Game.
Shayna Jacobs / New York Daily News:
Former Vice President Joe Biden's niece evades jail after pleading guilty in $110G credit card scam
Discussion: IJR and New York Post
Josh Einiger / abc7ny.com:
Students, parents say some Wall Township High School yearbook photos were censored
Discussion: IJR
Carol Kozma / providencejournal.com:
R.I. state rep. apologizes after handing out document with pornographic references
Discussion: WPRI-TV, IJR and Raw Story
CNN:
Mueller staffing up Russia probe while Trump lawyer declares victory
Discussion: The Mahablog and NPR
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
One explanation for McCain's grogginess: a 75,000-mile itinerary as ‘shadow’ diplomat
Discussion: Language Log
 Earlier Items: 
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?
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and IJR
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’?
Jeff Greenfield / Politico:
The GOP That Failed  —  As the carnage of World War I widened …
Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
The French Are Spinning American Food
Discussion: Clayton Cramer
Gloria Gomez / FOX13news:
Alleged neo-Nazi bomb-maker gets bond
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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John Koblin / New York Times:
NBC names Craig Melvin as Hoda Kotb's successor on Today, teaming up with Savannah Guthrie, starting January 13; Melvin has been Today's news anchor since 2018

Mia Sato / The Verge:
Facebook makes Views its primary metric for content, bringing it in line with Instagram; each time a piece of content appears on a screen, it counts as a View

Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
On Fox News, LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong discussed his new approach to publish “views from both sides”, and said the paper had conflated news and opinion

 
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