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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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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: CNN, Oregonian, Talking Points Memo and IJR
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Secret memo to Mueller actually reveals weakness of Trump's position
S.V. Date / HuffPost:
Giuliani: Trump Could Have Shot Comey And Still Couldn't Be Indicted For It
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.
Allan Smith / Business Insider:
Rudy Giuliani: Here's what Trump's talking about when he floats pardoning himself and lashing out at Mueller
Discussion: Mother Jones, Vox and TalkLeft
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 …
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Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
Gay Americans Have Little to Fear From the Supreme Court's Compromise in Masterpiece Cakeshop  —  Like a good wedding cake, the Supreme Court's 7-2 decision on Monday in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission has a little something for everyone.
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, Axios and Breitbart
Leah Litman / Take Care Blog:   Masterpiece Cakeshop And The Entry Ban
David French / National Review:   In Masterpiece Cakeshop, Justice Kennedy Strikes a Blow for the Dignity of the Faithful
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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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 …
Discussion: Politico, The Daily Caller and Mediaite
Associated Press:   Aide: EPA's Pruitt sought used Trump-hotel mattress
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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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.
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.
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Billionaire Koch brothers' political network will spend millions to oppose Trump's tariffs - the group's biggest split with the president so far  — The Koch political network unveils a multi-year, multimillion dollar campaign opposing the tariffs implemented by President Donald Trump's administration.
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Jonathan Karl / ABC News:
Koch brothers taking on Trump with free trade campaign
Discussion: Political Wire
Axios:   Koch network to launch multi-million dollar campaign for free trade
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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Bryan Bender / Politico:
The ‘weirdness’ of dealing with North Korean officials
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 …
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.
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.
Discussion: Political Wire
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.
Discussion: Noisey and smokeroom.com
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 …
Michael Mcgough / Sacramento Bee:
Nearly half of Bay Area residents want out, poll shows.  The reason why is no surprise  —  The idea of a Bay Area “exodus” is no joke, and appears to be growing more vivid and real with each year.  —  A poll released Sunday by a local advocacy group showed that 46 percent of Bay Area residents surveyed …
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.
Kassy Dillon / Daily Wire:
WATCH: VA Senate Candidate Corey Stewart Calls Anti-Semite Paul Nehlen ‘Hero’  —  A video has recently surfaced of Corey Stewart, the perceived front-runner of the Virginia Republican nomination for Senate, calling known anti-Semite Paul Nehlen one of his “personal heroes.”
Discussion: Raw Story
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
 
 
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Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
House generic ballot a toss-up: poll
Discussion: Power Line, Axios, Newsmax and Splinter
President Donald J. Trump / The White House:
500 DAYS: In his first 500 days in office, President Donald J. Trump has achieved results domestically …
Discussion: The Guardian
Golnaz Esfandiari / Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
Shah-Era Iranian Diplomat Warns Against Creating ‘Another Iraq’
Kyle Olson / The American Mirror:
WOKE? Maxine Waters plays to empty seats as only 10 millennials show up to campaign event
Discussion: Daily Wire
Jared Keller / Task & Purpose:
The Civil War's Latest Casualty: This Reenactor Who Shot Himself With A Minie Ball
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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
How The Alt-Right Manipulates The Internet's Biggest Commenting Platform
Discussion: Raw Story
Sarah Jones / Columbia Journalism Review:
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Rory Carroll / The Guardian:
Elon Musk: as business fortunes dip, he starts a war with the media
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
The Scandal on the Other Foot  —  Consider the following alternate reality.
Discussion: RealClearPolitics
Jim VandeHei / Axios:
Trump's mind-control superpowers
Discussion: Daily Kos
Martin Crutsinger / Associated Press:
Business economists worry about possible recession in 2020
Discussion: Axios
Jane Ross / Reuters:
California city fights poverty with guaranteed income
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