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8:15 PM ET, June 4, 2018

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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 …
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
Richard Primus / Politico:   Trump's Travel Ban Is in Trouble at the Supreme Court
Amy Howe / SCOTUSblog:
Opinion analysis: Court rules (narrowly) for baker in same-sex-wedding-cake case [Updated]
Discussion: Power Line and Outside the Beltway
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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Matt Apuzzo / New York Times:
Trump Team Pushed False Story Line About Meeting With Kremlin-Tied Lawyer, Memo Shows  —  WASHINGTON — For nearly a year, the denials from President Trump's lawyers and spokeswoman were unequivocal.  No, the president did not dictate a misleading statement released in his son's name.
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 …
CNN:
Trump's executive privilege argument is a loser
Discussion: Washington Post
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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Anthony Adragna / Politico:
Pruitt wanted to buy ‘old mattress’ from Trump International Hotel
Discussion: CNN and VICE News
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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Bloomberg:
Cohen Document Review So Far Yields Few Items Prosecutors Can't See  —  An initial review of items seized during an FBI raid on the president's longtime lawyer Michael Cohen yielded only a few items that may not be reviewed by prosecutors.  A retired judge found 162 items of almost 300,000 …
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 …
Discussion: CNN
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
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.
Discussion: VICE
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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Jeff Weiss / Washington Post:   Kanye West's ‘Ye’ is the unedited ramblings of the world's oldest adolescent
Caleb Ecarma / Mediaite:
VA GOP Senate Front-Runner Praised White Nationalist and Named Apparent Neo-Nazi ‘Volunteer of the Week’  —  Corey Stewart, the GOP front-runner in Virginia's Senate race, called white nationalist Paul Nehlen “one of my personal heroes” on-camera and praised an apparent neo-Nazi his campaign's official “volunteer of the week.”
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Kassy Dillon / Daily Wire:
WATCH: VA Senate Candidate Corey Stewart Calls Anti-Semite Paul Nehlen ‘Hero’
Discussion: Shareblue Media and Raw Story
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Bill Clinton: I wouldn't have done anything differently in Lewinsky scandal even in #MeToo era  —  Clinton stuck by his decision to fight his impeachment rather than resign.  “I think I did the right thing.  I defended the Constitution,” he said.  —  Former President Bill Clinton says that …
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Erin Gloria Ryan / The Daily Beast:
Bill Clinton's #MeToo Defense Is Shocking
Aaron Klein / Breitbart:
EXCLUSIVE - Juanita Broaddrick: NBC Skipped ‘Perfect Opportunity’ to Ask Bill Clinton About Rape Allegations
Discussion: IJR and Townhall
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 …
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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Meg Dalton / Columbia Journalism Review:   When the math doesn't work
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.
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 …
Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:
H.R. McMaster Is Shopping A Book Around  —  Political books are hot — and the former national security adviser might want in.  —  Former National Security Adviser Gen. H.R. McMaster is shopping a book around to publishers, his agent confirmed to BuzzFeed News, becoming the latest figure …
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 …
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.
Discussion: ABC News and Splinter
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.
Discussion: Breitbart
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 …
Discussion: Politico, Axios and Reuters
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 …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Raw Story
 
 
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U.S. Department of Justice:
Former Defense Intelligence Officer Arrested for Attempted Espionage
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Ime Archibong / Facebook:
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States Want Young Voters
Nadia Khomami / The Guardian:
Teenage girl found guilty of plotting terror attack in London
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Jihad Watch
Ryan Cooper / The Week:
The Democratic Party is flying blind on economics
Discussion: New Republic
Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal:
Why Robocallers Win Even if You Don't Answer
Discussion: Mother Jones
Matthew Karnitschnig / Politico:
Vienna calling Putin
Fran Brennan / NTK Network:
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Benjamin Wittes / The Atlantic:
The Flaw in Trump's Obstruction-of-Justice Defense
Discussion: Hit & Run and Outside the Beltway
Monmouth University Polling Institute:
CD01 Incumbent Popular, But Race is Close
Discussion: National Review and Political Wire
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Billionaire Koch brothers' political network will spend millions to oppose Trump's tariffs …
Discussion: New York Magazine
Michael Mcgough / Sacramento Bee:
Nearly half of Bay Area residents want out, poll shows. The reason why is no surprise
Discussion: Sean Hannity
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Cops are called when a senator tries to see kids taken from their immigrant parents
Discussion: Oregonian, HuffPost, Splinter, IJR and CNN
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January
 
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