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11:35 AM ET, June 4, 2018

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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, CNN, HuffPost and Raw Story
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: Vox, CNN and Mother Jones
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Trump's Lawyers Say He Is the Law
Washington Post:
The many holes in the memo from the president's legal team.
Discussion: RedState, POLITICUSUSA and Lawfare
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Playbook: Four things to watch as Washington begins the summer
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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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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 Mediaite
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
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 and Breitbart
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court rules in favor of baker who would not make wedding cake for gay couple  —  The Supreme Court on Monday ruled narrowly for a Colorado baker who refused to create a wedding cake for a gay couple.  —  In an opinion by Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, the court held …
FOX31 Denver:
Supreme Court sides with Lakewood baker in same-sex wedding cake case  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a Lakewood baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple because of religious beliefs did not violate Colorado's anti-discrimination law.
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.
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.
Discussion: Political Wire
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New York Times:
Aide Sought a New Apartment for Scott Pruitt, as Well as an ‘Old Mattress’ From Trump Hotel  —  WASHINGTON — A senior Environmental Protection Agency official acted essentially as the personal assistant to the administrator, Scott Pruitt, helping him hunt for an apartment …
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 …
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.
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.
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Yahoo! News:   Germany asks Trump envoy to clarify ‘empowering’ right call
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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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 …
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
Bryan Bender / Politico:
The ‘weirdness’ of dealing with North Korean officials  —  Expect lies.  Do your homework — because they will have.  Choose your words very carefully.  And have Job-like patience.  Oh, and remember that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un considers himself a supreme being.
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Reuters:
North Korea's top three military officials replaced, U.S. official says
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.
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.
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
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
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
The president as the persecuted: Donald Trump's strategy of self-victimization  —  Unfair is one of his favorite words, and he has used it in 69 tweets.  He calls the federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election a rigged witch hunt.
Sheera Frenkel / New York Times:
Facebook Tried to Rein In Fake Ads.  It Fell Short in a California Race.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Regina Bateson had just finished an Easter egg hunt with her children on April 1 when her phone started buzzing.  Take a look at Facebook, messages from her friends and colleagues urged.
Will Bunch / Philly.com:
The week Trump went full dictator and no one tried to stop him |  Will Bunch  —  It sounds bad when you describe it this way: The president of the United States explicitly violating a government rule to divulge secret jobs data, causing a billions-of-dollars move in the world's financial markets.
Discussion: New York Magazine
Eli Saslow / Washington Post:
'It was my job, and I didn't find him': Stoneman Douglas resource officer remains haunted by massacre  —  BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. — Scot Peterson had spent much of the past three months in hiding, but now somebody was walking onto his porch and toward the front door.  A motion detector activated an alarm inside his duplex.
Discussion: National Review
 
 
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Marjory Stoneman Douglas students to embark on summer tour
Rory Carroll / The Guardian:
Elon Musk: as business fortunes dip, he starts a war with the media
Ronald Radosh / The Daily Beast:
Pro-Trump Author Says CIA Has Plan to Kill the President
Discussion: National Review
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
I, Sy: Seymour Hersh's Memoir of a Life Making the Mighty Sweat
CNN:
Guatemala's Fuego volcano erupts, killing at least 25
Discussion: Latino USA and The Daily Caller
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Jon Stewart Defends Samantha Bee: Trump Doesn't ‘Give a Sh*t About the Word C*nt’
Discussion: IJR, Mashable and Mediaite
Amanda Erickson / Washington Post:
The United Nations says Trump is making life harder for the poor
Tripp Mickle / Wall Street Journal:
Apple's New Software Aim: Fewer Features, But Fewer Bugs
Discussion: FiveThirtyEight and The Verge
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John D. O'Connor / The Daily Caller:
POLITICIZING THE FBI: How James Comey Succeeded Where Richard Nixon Failed
Discussion: Instapundit
CNN:
CNN obtains report showing fund for coal miners with black lung is in trouble
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Sports Site ‘The Athletic’ Expands Aggressively, Betting on Subscriptions
Rod Nordland / New York Times:
One Family's Toll on a Cruel Day: 7 Children With Amputated Legs
Vivian Yee / New York Times:
Democrats Hope an Asian Influx Will Help Turn Orange County Blue
Michael Smolens / sandiegouniontribune.com:
Column | Will San Diego be the ‘blue wave’ canary in a coal mine?
Discussion: HuffPost
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Michael Cohen's secret dream
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
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Financial Times:
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