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S.V. Date / HuffPost:
Giuliani: Trump Could Have Shot Comey And Still Couldn't Be Indicted For It  —  Congress would have to impeach Trump first before any criminal prosecution could move forward, the president's lawyer says.  —  WASHINGTON Candidate Donald Trump bragged that he could shoot someone …
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Cops are called when a senator tries to see kids taken from their immigrant parents  —  THE BIG IDEA: As the sun set Sunday night, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) went to a shuttered Walmart in Brownsville, Texas, that has been converted into a detention center for immigrant children who have been separated from their parents.
Discussion: Oregonian, HuffPost, CNN and Raw Story
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Playbook: Four things to watch as Washington begins the summer  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  CONGRESS IS BACK THIS WEEK... HERE ARE 4 THINGS TO WATCH ...  — IMMIGRATION BLOW UP: A petition to force a wide-ranging immigration debate on the House floor stands at 213 — five short of the requisite 218.
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Trump Says Appointment of Special Counsel is ‘Totally Unconstitutional’  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump declared Monday that the appointment of the special counsel in the Russia investigation is “totally UNCONSTITUTIONAL!” and asserted that he has the power to pardon himself …
Discussion: CNN, Vox and Mother Jones
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Trump's Lawyers Say He Is the Law
Axios:
What we're watching: Bill Clinton confronted on #MeToo, Monica Lewinsky  —  Reflecting on his presidency in light of the #MeToo movement, former president Bill Clinton told NBC News' “Today” that he believes he did “the right thing” during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, adding …
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Daily Mail:
Bill Clinton insists he doesn't owe Monica Lewinsky an apology for hijacking her life by taking advantage of her while president - and says HE'S a victim because he left the White House deeply in debt  — Clinton rocked the political world during the 1990s when he was forced to admit an affair …
Discussion: TODAY.com, Splinter and TVNewser
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 …
Discussion: Townhall, Mediaite, Joe.My.God. and TheBlaze
Andrew Kugle Follow / Washington Free Beacon:
Clinton Accuses Reporter of Giving One Side of the Facts When Asked About Monica Lewinsky
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Albert R. Hunt / Bloomberg:   Trump's Presidency Is Built Upon Double Standards
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.
Philip Oltermann / The Guardian:
New US ambassador to Germany under fire for rightwing support  —  Politicians accuse Richard Grenell of breach of protocol after interview in Breitbart  —  German politicians have criticised Donald Trump's new ambassador to Germany after he said he wanted to “empower” anti-establishment rightwing forces throughout Europe.
Discussion: BBC, BuzzFeed, Breitbart and CNBC
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Yahoo! News:   Germany asks Trump envoy to clarify ‘empowering’ right call
Ben White / Politico:
Cohn kept the jobs numbers for Trump  —  COHN KEPT THE JOBS NUMBERS FROM TRUMP — MM hears that before he left the White House, former National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn would withhold jobs report data from President Trump until shortly before their release because he was worried …
Reuters:
North Korea's top three military officials replaced, U.S. official says  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea's top three military officials have been removed from their posts, a senior U.S. official said on Sunday, as U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un prepare to meet on June 12 in Singapore.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Bryan Bender / Politico:   The ‘weirdness’ of dealing with North Korean officials
Washington Post:   North Korea replaces three top military leaders, Yonhap news agency reports
Yonhap News Agency:
(LEAD) N. Korea brings in moderate as new defense minister
Discussion: USA Today and VICE News
New York Times:
Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends  —  The company formed data-sharing partnerships with Apple, Samsung and dozens of other device makers, raising new concerns about its privacy protections.  —  As Facebook sought to become the world's dominant social media service …
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.
Discussion: HuffPost, Raw Story and Mediaite
Washington Post:
A historic exodus is leaving Venezuela without teachers, doctors and electricians  —  An unruly 9-year-old bolted from his classroom, prompting a volunteer teacher to chase him down the hall.  He would normally be hauled straight to Romina Sciaca's office.  But the guidance counselor was gone …
Discussion: Instapundit
Jim VandeHei / Axios:
Trump's mind-control superpowers  —  In our lifetime, no president has matched Donald Trump's ability to summon the power of the pulpit, friendly media, and the tweet-by-tweet power of repetition and persuasion to move minds en masse.  —  The big picture: You see this in the silence of Republican critics …
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Daniel Chaitin / Washington Examiner:
Devin Nunes warns Google may need to testify if anti-GOP search results keep showing up
Discussion: Splinter
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
The Scandal on the Other Foot  —  Consider the following alternate reality.  —  Imagine that it is now summer 2024.  A 78-year-old lame-duck President Trump is winding down his second term, basking in positive polls.  His dutiful vice president in waiting, Mike Pence, is at last getting his chance to run for president.
Discussion: RealClearPolitics
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.
Meridith McGraw / ABC News:
First lady Melania Trump will not join President Trump on G7, Singapore summits  —  First lady Melania Trump will not be joining President Donald Trump on his upcoming trips to the G7 summit in Quebec and the highly anticipated summit between the United States and North Korea in Singapore, her spokeswoman told ABC News.
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Kate Bennett / CNN:
Melania Trump expected to attend Gold Star event at White House
Discussion: Raw Story, Mediaite and The Week
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.
Discussion: Politico
Jane Ross / Reuters:
California city fights poverty with guaranteed income  —  STOCKTON, Calif. (Reuters) - Michael Tubbs, the 27-year-old mayor of Stockton, California, has a radical plan to combat poverty in his cash-strapped city: a “no strings” guaranteed basic income of $500 a month for its residents.
Martin Crutsinger / Associated Press:
Business economists worry about possible recession in 2020  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — A group of top business economists believes the major tax cuts President Donald Trump pushed through Congress will give a significant boost to economic growth this year and next year.
Discussion: Axios
Amanda Erickson / Washington Post:
The United Nations says Trump is making life harder for the poor  —  The United Nations has never been shy about attacking the United States.  —  In recent years, U.N. officials accused the Obama administration of failing to address police brutality and sexual assault in the military.
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Sports Site ‘The Athletic’ Expands Aggressively, Betting on Subscriptions  —  Premium salaries lure writers; skeptics caution business model is risky  —  Stephen Curry, the star point guard for the Golden State Warriors, looked puzzled at a news conference last fall when a journalist introduced himself …
 
 
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John D. O'Connor / The Daily Caller:
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CNN:
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
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Eli Saslow / Washington Post:
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Andrew O'Reilly / Fox News:
Gaza preschoolers seen performing mock execution of Israeli soldier
Mike Memoli / NBC News:
Joe Biden steams into midterm campaigns as 2020 question looms
Dion Nissenbaum / Wall Street Journal:
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Ali Watkins / New York Times:
When Guns Are Sold Illegally, A.T.F. Is Lenient on Punishment
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Michael Cohen's secret dream
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

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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