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Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
Howard Schultz to Step Down as Starbucks Executive Chairman — SEATTLE — Howard Schultz, the outspoken executive chairman of Starbucks, will leave the company at the end of the month, bringing to an end the tenure of a socially conscious entrepreneur who turned a local Seattle coffee chain …
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Sarah Whitten / CNBC:
Howard Schultz, architect of modern Starbucks, to step down as executive chair and from the board — Howard Schultz is stepping down from his role as executive chairman of Starbucks, effective June 26. — Myron E. Ullman, former chairman and CEO of J.C. Penney was named chair …
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Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Mueller has waited long enough. It's subpoena time. — What should the special counsel do next? I'd suggest it's subpoena time. — Robert S. Mueller III has proved himself a remarkably patient prosecutor. His negotiations with President Trump's lawyers have stretched on for at least six months …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Secret memo to Mueller actually reveals weakness of Trump's position — THE MORNING PLUM: — This morning, President Trump declared on Twitter that he has “the absolute right to PARDON myself.” Trump also said he wouldn't need to do this, because he didn't do anything wrong …
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Trump Says Appointment of Special Counsel Is ‘Totally Unconstitutional’
Trump Says Appointment of Special Counsel Is ‘Totally Unconstitutional’
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court throws out lower court decision that allowed immigrant teenager to obtain abortion — The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a lower court's decision that allowed an undocumented immigrant teenager to obtain an abortion over the protests of the Trump administration.
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court rules in favor of baker who would not make wedding cake for gay couple
Supreme Court rules in favor of baker who would not make wedding cake for gay couple
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Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
Gay Americans Have Little to Fear From the Supreme Court's Compromise in Masterpiece Cakeshop
Gay Americans Have Little to Fear From the Supreme Court's Compromise in Masterpiece Cakeshop
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David French / National Review:
In Masterpiece Cakeshop, Justice Kennedy Strikes a Blow for the Dignity of the Faithful
In Masterpiece Cakeshop, Justice Kennedy Strikes a Blow for the Dignity of the Faithful
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Sides With Baker Who Turned Away Gay Couple
Supreme Court Sides With Baker Who Turned Away Gay Couple
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Nina Totenberg / NPR:
In Narrow Opinion, Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Baker Over Same-Sex Couple
In Narrow Opinion, Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Baker Over Same-Sex Couple
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Washington Post:
Pruitt had aide do numerous personal tasks, including a hunt for a used Trump hotel mattress — In mid-September, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator's director of scheduling and advance, Millan Hupp, reached out to the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., with an unusual request.
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Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
The likely next speaker of the House is a mindless sycophant — On the evidence of House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy's CNN interview over the weekend, the likely next speaker of the House is a mindless sycophant and a threat to the constitutional order. — Confronted with a simple …
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Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Why Melania Trump's vanishing act matters — WASHINGTON — First lady Melania Trump has all but vanished. — She hasn't been seen with President Donald Trump at a public event since May 10, four days before she underwent surgery for a kidney problem. She won't be at her husband's side …
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Khorri Atkinson / Axios:
White House releases more details on North Korea summit
White House releases more details on North Korea summit
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Courier-Journal:
Crowd cheers when valedictorian quotes Trump. Then reveals it was Obama — Ben Bowling graduation speech Courtesy of Ben Bowling — Bell County high school student and valedictorian Ben Bowling wanted to share some words of wisdom with his graduating class, but there was a twist that no one saw coming.
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Cleve R. Wootson Jr / Washington Post:
A Kentucky crowd cheered a valedictorian for quoting Trump. Then he told them it was Obama.
A Kentucky crowd cheered a valedictorian for quoting Trump. Then he told them it was Obama.
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Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Trump Told Kim Kardashian She and Kanye West Are Helping Him With Black Voters — Met with reality TV star on pardon plea for 63-year-old woman — Credits her husband Kanye West with rise in black support — President Donald Trump welcomed Kim Kardashian to the White House last week to discuss prison reform.
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Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
Special master in Michael Cohen case finds few privileged items in initial review of files — A court appointed watchdog in the case of President Donald Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, released an initial report Monday which found that relatively few documents in an initial tranche seized …
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Sarah Jones / Columbia Journalism Review:
The great remove — How journalism got so out of touch with the people it covers — To become a journalist, Rajaa Elidrissi knew she would need a strategy. Growing up in a low-income household in Elmhurst, Queens, she started collecting clips at age 13.
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Papadopoulos' Wife: Trump Aide Was ‘Absolutely Not’ Involved In Russian Collusion — George Papadopoulos' wife, Simona Mangiante, said her husband was not involved in collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government and that he pleaded guilty in the special counsel's investigation …
Erin Gloria Ryan / The Daily Beast:
Bill Clinton's #MeToo Defense Is Shocking … Bill Clinton just doesn't fucking get it. And he never will. — The former president sat down with NBC's Craig Melvin recently to hawk a book. Melvin, thankfully, didn't stick to talking about the book that TV talk show hosts will spend the next few weeks pretending to have read.
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Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Bill Clinton: I wouldn't have done anything differently in Lewinsky scandal even in #MeToo era
Bill Clinton: I wouldn't have done anything differently in Lewinsky scandal even in #MeToo era
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CNN:
Trump's phone call with Macron described as ‘terrible’ — Washington (CNN)A call about trade and migration between US President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron soured last week after Macron candidly criticized Trump's policies, two sources familiar with the call told CNN.
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Tyler Durden / Zero Hedge:
It's Now Against The Law In California To Shower And Do Laundry On The Same Day — Authored by Daisy Luther via The Organic Prepper blog, — Governor Jerry Brown is retiring but not before he passes a few draconian laws as parting gifts for California. Two bills were signed into law …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Did Putin Help Trump Come Up With His Cover Story? (Pretty Likely) — One of the many revelations from that “leaked” letter from the White House to the Mueller team is that the White House is now stating as a fact what it had long denied or at least seriously downplayed: that the President personally …
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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
BuzzFeed Allowed Key Defense in Russian's Defamation Suit Over Trump Dossier — A Florida judge rejects a Russian entrepreneur who argued that the Trump dossier publication wasn't protected as a fair report of official government action. — In its continuing fight against a Russian tech entrepreneur …
Patti Davis / Washington Post:
Mourning America: What my father, Ronald Reagan, would say today — Patti Davis is an author and the daughter of Ronald and Nancy Reagan. — My father used to talk about a recurring dream he had in which he was walking into a beautiful white building with grand columns, knowing that it was his new home.
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Sarah Kliff / Vox:
4 states could expand Medicaid this year. That's a big deal. — 2018 is shaping up to be a watershed year for Obamacare's Medicaid expansion. — Virginia's legislature signed onto the expansion of coverage for low-income Americans last week. Three additional states are looking at doing …
Monmouth University Polling Institute:
CD01 Incumbent Popular, But Race is Close — Democratic enthusiasm makes race competitive — West Long Branch, NJ - The race for House of Representatives in Pennsylvania's newly drawn 1st congressional district is shaping up to be a close contest, according to the Monmouth University Poll.
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Benjamin Wittes / The Atlantic:
The Flaw in Trump's Obstruction-of-Justice Defense — President Trump's lawyers, in a letter released over the weekend, staked out bold the ground that the president can't commit obstruction of justice in his interactions with the federal law-enforcement apparatus—neither by firing investigators nor …
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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
How The Alt-Right Manipulates The Internet's Biggest Commenting Platform — The commenting giant Disqus has said repeatedly that it doesn't allow hate speech. But its platform is overrun with trolls, white nationalists, and neo-Nazis. — The alt-right and white nationalist trolls …
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Jacqueline Klimas / Politico:
Pentagon investigates White House doctor Ronny Jackson — The Pentagon's inspector general is investigating President Donald Trump's former personal physician, who was accused of unprofessional behavior while being considered to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Franco Ordoñez / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Venezuela charges Pompeo with leading coup d'etat — WASHINGTON — The Venezuelan Foreign Minister accused Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Monday of leading a coup d'etat against the Caracas government. — Jorge Arreaza, the Venezuelan official, promised to fight the “imperalists” to the North.
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Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal:
Why Robocallers Win Even if You Don't Answer — Ignoring a robocall doesn't keep some scammers from making money from caller-ID services — Caller ID is feeding one of the very problems it was developed to stop: junk calls. — Illegitimate robocallers, or outfits that flood American landlines …
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