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12:45 PM 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.
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VICE News:   This candidate for Congress is in favor of pedophilia and thinks Hitler did some good things
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.
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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David Frum / The Atlantic:   The Antidote to Trump Is Decency
Michael Schneider / IndieWire:
Samantha Bee Addresses Controversy: ‘We Spent the Day Wrestling With the Repercussions of One Bad Word’
Peggy Drexler / CNN:
Samantha Bee's message was right even if her word wasn't
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
‘Feckless c—’: Samantha Bee apologizes for misogyny that delighted her audience
Discussion: ThinkProgress, Townhall and Fox News
John Harwood / CNBC:
Trump's tariffs on US allies will shrink the savings Americans gained from tax cuts  — The U.S. says it will impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from allies such as Canada, Mexico and the European Union.  — While the White House acknowledges that these measures will lead to higher prices …
Discussion: Hit & Run and NTK Network
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Scott Gilmore / Macleans.ca:
Trade sanctions against America won't work. Sanctioning Trump himself might.
Discussion: Daily Kos and CNNMoney
Associated Press:
US allies to fight Trump's tariffs plan, warn of trade war
Discussion: Politico
Associated Press:   Macron talks to Trump, says tariffs illegal and a mistake
Neil Irwin / New York Times:
We Ran Out of Words to Describe How Good the Jobs Numbers Are  —  The economy is in a sweet spot, with steady growth and broad improvement in the labor market.  —  The real question in analyzing the May jobs numbers released Friday is whether there are enough synonyms for “good” in an online thesaurus to describe them adequately.
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CHRISTOPHER RUGABER / Associated Press:
US gains 223K jobs; unemployment at 18-year low of 3.8 pct.
Discussion: Sean Hannity
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 …
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Jennifer A Dlouhy / Bloomberg:
Trump Prepares Lifeline for Money-Losing Coal Power Plants  — Energy Department is weighing emergency electricity reserve  — Move would be unprecedented intervention in energy markets  —  Trump administration officials are making plans to order grid operators to buy electricity …
Jeet Heer / New Republic:
Niall Ferguson wanted opposition research on a student.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and Splinter
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.
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Alexander Mallin / ABC News:
Trump tweet previewing jobs report appears to break protocol: Experts
Discussion: Politico
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.
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Naomi Fry / New Yorker:
Kim Kardashian Meeting Donald Trump in the Oval Office Is a Nightmare We Can't Wake Up From
Discussion: Althouse, Glamour, theGrio and Vox
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.
Washington Post:
EPA's Pruitt spent $1,560 on 12 customized fountain pens from Washington jewelry store  —  The account manager at the Tiny Jewel Box, which calls itself Washington's “premier destination for fine jewelry and watches,” had promised to expedite the order of a dozen customized silver fountain pens …
Wall Street Journal:
Kim's Letter to Trump Expresses Interest in Nuclear Summit  —  North Korean official aims to hand-deliver the letter to Trump on Friday  —  WASHINGTON—One of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's top lieutenants is expected to hand-deliver a letter to President Donald Trump in the White House …
Discussion: CNBC
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
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.
Discussion: Mediaite and CNN
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 …
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Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
Your defenses of Dinesh D'Souza are garbage  —  “Why should you go to jail for a crime someone else noticed?” asks the character of Bob Loblaw, an attorney, in the sitcom “Arrested Development.”  —  That line, which was written as a joke, is being repurposed to defend President Trump's pardon …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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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.
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
Sam Biddle / The Intercept:
Here's the Email Russian Hackers Used to Try to Break Into State Voting Systems  —  Just days before the 2016 presidential election, hackers identified by the National Security Agency as working for Russia attempted to breach American voting systems.  Among their specific targets were the computers …
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
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
 
 
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The Daily Beast:
Maria Bartiromo's Strange Trip From ‘Money Honey’ to One of Trump's Top Boosters
Dan Collyns / The Guardian:
Ecuador's president says Julian Assange can stay in embassy ‘with conditions’
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 Earlier Items: 
Stephen L. Miller / Fox News:
President Trump, cut the celebrity shenanigans and commute the sentences that actually matter
The Daily Caller:
Imran Awan Allegedly Tried ‘To Hide His Money’ While DOJ Negotiates With Him
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Trump's trade policy is stuck in the '80s — the 1680s
Discussion: The Week, Hullabaloo and HeraldScotland
Jess McIntosh / ELLE:
I Went on a Date With Eric Schneiderman. It Took Me Years to Process What Happened That Night.
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One Reform to Save America
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UnHerd:
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