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11:00 AM ET, June 1, 2018

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HuffPost:
Congressional Candidate In Virginia Admits He's A Pedophile  —  Nathan Larson also ran online forums for pedophiles and misogynists.  —  Nathan Larson, a 37-year-old accountant from Charlottesville, Virginia, is running for Congress as an independent candidate in his native state.
Discussion: The Daily Caller, Splinter and The Week
Anthony D'Alessandro / Deadline:
Television Academy Blocks Media From Tonight's Honors Ceremony Featuring Samantha Bee  —  In the wake of the Samantha Bee controversy whereby she called Ivanka Trump a “feckless c**t”, the Television Academy has put the kibosh on any press tonight attending its 11th Annual Television Academy Honors ceremony …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
‘Feckless c—’: Samantha Bee apologizes for misogyny that delighted her audience
Discussion: ThinkProgress, Townhall and ABC News
The Daily Beast:
White House Demands TBS Cancel Samantha Bee's Show
New York Times:
Dinesh D'Souza?  Really?  —  The editorial board represents the opinions of the board, its editor and the publisher.  It is separate from the newsroom and the Op-Ed section.  —  The handful of pardons that President Trump has granted so far may appear to be scattershot …
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Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
Your defenses of Dinesh D'Souza are garbage
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
A Worthy Pardon for Dinesh D'Souza
Slate:
Performative Pardons  —  Starting with the caveat that it is folly …
CHRISTOPHER RUGABER / Associated Press:
US gains 223K jobs; unemployment at 18-year low of 3.8 pct.  —  Just now  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers extended a streak of solid hiring in May, adding 223,000 jobs and helping lower the unemployment rate to an 18-year low of 3.8 percent.  —  The Labor Department …
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Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Stormy Daniels's Lawyer Sought Help From Democrats in Fight With Trump  —  WASHINGTON — Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for Stephanie Clifford, the pornographic film actress who says she had a sexual encounter with President Trump, has sought help for his legal battle against Mr. Trump from leading Democratic operatives.
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Tim Mak / NPR:
LISTEN: How Michael Cohen Protects Trump By Making Legal Threats  —  Donald Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen is facing legal peril, including an FBI raid of his home and office — and involvement in a civil lawsuit with porn star Stormy Daniels.  —  But in the past, it was Cohen who has sought …
Wall Street Journal:   Stormy Daniels Lawyer Michael Avenatti Dogged by His Own Legal Battles
NBC News:
Jared Kushner close friend Rick Gerson now under scrutiny from Mueller  —  WASHINGTON — A close friend of Jared Kushner has come under scrutiny by Special Counsel Robert Mueller for his proximity to some key meetings between Trump associates and foreign officials, according to five people familiar with the matter.
John Brennan / Washington Post:
I will speak out until integrity returns to the White House  —  John Brennan served as director of the Central Intelligence Agency from March 2013 to January 2017.  —  My first visit to the Oval Office came in October 1990, when I was a 35-year-old CIA officer.
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Trump's trade policy is stuck in the '80s — the 1680s  —  President Trump often seems as though he's stuck in the '80s.  But maybe the better comparison is to the 1680s, not the Reagan era.  —  Consider his announcement Thursday of new tariffs on steel and aluminum imported from the European Union, Canada and Mexico.
Discussion: Hullabaloo, The Week and HeraldScotland
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Associated Press:   Macron talks to Trump, says tariffs illegal and a mistake
Nicholas Nehamas / miamiherald:
Paramedics wanted to enter Parkland school where kids were dying.  BSO said no.  —  During the chaos of the Parkland school shooting, paramedics from Coral Springs-Parkland Fire Department were desperate to go inside the building where students were wounded and dying.
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Billionaire Koch brothers' network launches digital ad blitz supporting Democrat Heidi Heitkamp as midterms near  — Americans for Prosperity is unleashing a digital advertising campaign on Friday thanking North Dakota Democratic Senator Heidi Heitkamp for cosponsoring the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protect Act.
Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
Trump breaks protocol, sends markets a clear signal on jobs report before numbers are released  —  President Trump on Friday broke with decades of protocol and commented publicly about the highly anticipated jobs report data 69 minutes before they were released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Craig Timberg / Washington Post:
Signs of sophisticated cellphone spying found near White House, U.S. officials say  —  A federal study found signs that surveillance devices for intercepting cellphone calls and texts were operating near the White House and other sensitive locations in the Washington area last year.
Discussion: Political Wire
People.com:
Santa Fe Victim's Mom Challenged President Trump in Private Meeting for Calling Shooter ‘Wacky’  —  The mother of a teenage girl killed earlier this month in a massacre at Santa Fe High School in Texas tells PEOPLE she challenged President Donald Trump's views on gun violence during …
Discussion: Shareblue Media and Splinter
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Dion Nissenbaum / Wall Street Journal:
John Bolton's Deputy Draws Ire of Jewish, Muslim Groups  —  Trump supporters defend appointment of Fred Fleitz to National Security Council post  —  WASHINGTON—Jewish and Muslim groups are objecting to the appointment of a former Central Intelligence Agency analyst to a top White House post …
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Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
A Radical Pick for the National Security Council
Jennifer A. Hillman / New York Times:
Trump's ‘National Security’ Tariffs Hurt National Security
Michael Kruse / Politico:
‘He Pretty Much Gave In to Whatever They Asked For’  —  Trump says he's a master negotiator.  Those who've actually dealt with him beg to differ.  —  In 1985, Tony Schwartz, a writer for New York magazine, was sitting in Donald Trump's office in Trump Tower interviewing him for a story.
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
The Curious Case of Mr. Downer  —  His story about the Papadopoulos meeting calls the FBI's into question.  —  To hear the Federal Bureau of Investigation tell it, its decision to launch a counterintelligence probe into a major-party presidential campaign comes down to a foreign tip …
Discussion: Power Line
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Trump Ran as a Renegade.  Now He's Trying to Keep Them at Bay.  —  IUKA, Miss. — When Chris McDaniel first ran for Senate four years ago, his campaign became a cause for disaffected and restless Republicans across the country.  Activists waving “Don't Tread on Me” flags flooded Mississippi.
Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
Trudeau says NAFTA talks broke down after Pence made ultimatum  —  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said months of intense negotiations between his country, the United States and Mexico imploded Tuesday when Vice President Pence demanded that any deal expire automatically in five years.
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Brian Contreras / Stanford Daily:
Leaked emails show Hoover academic conspiring with College Republicans to conduct ‘opposition research’ on student  —  Emails between the Hoover Institution's Niall Ferguson and well-known Republican student activists John Rice-Cameron '20 and Max Minshull '20 reveal coordination on …
Jess McIntosh / ELLE:
I Went on a Date With Eric Schneiderman.  It Took Me Years to Process What Happened That Night.  —  Let's start at the beginning.  —  I'm 23, and the story I tell is called “The Time I Went Out with the (Relatively) Hot Older State Senator.”  I deploy it as a nerdy leg-up on the social ladder among friends.
Luke O'Brien / HuffPost:
Trump's Loudest Anti-Muslim Twitter Troll Is A Shady Vegan Married To An (Ousted) WWE Exec  —  @AmyMek anonymously spread hate online for years.  She can't hide anymore.  —  She was supposed to be a Russian bot.  That seemed like the best explanation for @AmyMek.  No normal person could be so prolific and prejudiced.
Max Seddon / Financial Times:
Londongrad oligarchs are being forced back to Russia's embrace  —  As the west's relations with Moscow plumb ever lower depths, the UK is abuzz with calls to do something about its oligarch problem.  “We are going after the money,” Boris Johnson, foreign secretary, vowed after former double agent Sergei Skripal was poisoned.
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Prosecutors interview Comey as they investigate whether McCabe should be charged  —  Investigators from the D.C. U.S. Attorney's Office recently interviewed former FBI director James B. Comey as part of a probe into whether his deputy, Andrew McCabe, broke the law by lying to federal agents …
 
 
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Stephen L. Miller / Fox News:
President Trump, cut the celebrity shenanigans and commute the sentences that actually matter
Steve Vladeck / Just Security:
OLC's Formal (and Remarkably Broad) Defense of the April Syria Strikes
Frances Robles / New York Times:
Nicaragua Protest on Mother's Day Kills at Least 15
Discussion: Althouse, NPR and Al Jazeera English
David Beard / Poynter:
10,000 Trump misstatements by the end of his term? Washington Post fact-checker says it's possible.
Discussion: Political Wire
The Daily Caller:
Imran Awan Allegedly Tried ‘To Hide His Money’ While DOJ Negotiates With Him
Alexander C. Kaufman / HuffPost:
Miami's Displaced Puerto Ricans Offer A Glimpse At America's Looming Climate Crisis
Tim Chitwood / ledger-enquirer:
Columbus teen who had no record is going to prison - over a pair of sneakers
Discussion: theGrio
 Earlier Items: 
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Trump's FBI attacks divide bureau's longtime critics
Lee Fang / The Intercept:
Leaked Emails Show Google Expected Lucrative Military Drone AI Work to Grow Exponentially
Discussion: Engadget and GeekWire
David Brooks / New York Times:
One Reform to Save America
Andrew Perez / MapLight:
Southern Co., CVS, Dow Chemical Funding Trump Dark Money Group Tied to Racist, Anti-Semitic Views
Discussion: Splinter
 

 
From Mediagazer:

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

Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg:
Riot Games says it spent $250M on an unusual deal to finance two seasons of League of Legends show Arcane on Netflix; sources: there was no plan to recoup costs

Kimberly Nordyke / The Hollywood Reporter:
News Corp and Telstra agree to sell Australian pay TV company Foxtel Group to sports streaming platform DAZN in a deal worth ~$2.1B

 
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