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12:55 AM ET, June 6, 2018

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Washington Post:
Scott Pruitt enlisted an EPA aide to help his wife find a job — at Chick-fil-A  —  Three months after Scott Pruitt was sworn in as head of the Environmental Protection Agency, his executive scheduler emailed Dan Cathy, chairman and president of the fast food company Chick-fil-A …
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Alexander C. Kaufman / HuffPost:
EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Has Racked Up At Least 10 New Scandals In Just The Past Month
Discussion: CNN, Breitbart and Washington Post
Bloomberg:
Republican Senator Calls Pruitt ‘as Swampy as You Get’
Discussion: Politico, The Week and Daily Kos
Tina Moore / New York Post:
Dennis Rodman will be in Singapore for Trump-Kim summit  —  NBA star turned Kim Jong Un soulmate Dennis Rodman will be in Singapore during President Trump's summit with the North Korean dictator next week, The Post has learned.  —  “The Worm” will arrive in the country a day before the June 12 sitdown …
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Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Trump Wants Kim to Commit to Disarmament Timetable in Singapore  — Mar-a-Lago summit possible if talks go well between leaders  — White House hasn't described schedule beyond first meeting  —  The White House wants North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to commit to a timetable to surrender …
New York Times:
Gavin Newsom Wins Spot in California Election for Governor  —  LOS ANGELES — Gavin Newsom, the Democratic lieutenant governor and former mayor of San Francisco, took a major step Tuesday in his bid to become California's next governor, capturing one of two spots on the November ballot …
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Los Angeles Times:
Live results from the California primary
Discussion: KTLA and Los Angeles Times
Matt Pearce / Los Angeles Times:
118,522 voters accidentally left off Los Angeles County polling place rosters
Discussion: electionlawblog.org
Steve Lopez / Los Angeles Times:   In the heart of the Trump resistance, so much apathy in California
Maeve Reston / CNN:
Error leaves 118,000 voters in California off rosters in Los Angeles County
Discussion: 89.3 KPCC and Raw Story
Bryan Lowry / Kansas City Star:
Democrat Arthur wins Missouri special election days after Greitens resigns  —  Democratic Rep. Lauren Arthur prevailed by a double-digit margin over Republican Rep. Kevin Corlew in a special election for a state Senate seat Tuesday night.  —  Republicans won't risk losing control …
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Matthew Chapman / Shareblue Media:
Former schoolteacher flips Missouri Senate seat blue in Trump country  —  Lauren Arthur is the 42nd Democrat this cycle to win a red seat in a special election.  —  On Tuesday night, as major primaries all across the nation were decided, yet another special election was held, this time for a vacant GOP-held seat in Missouri.
Discussion: CNN and KCUR
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Democrats win state Senate seat in Missouri, their 42nd red-to-blue flip of the cycle
Discussion: Axios and Political Wire
CNN:
Press aide who mocked McCain is out at the White House  —  White House still won't apologize for McCain joke  —  (CNN)Kelly Sadler, the White House communications aide who made a imprudent comment about Republican Sen. John McCain's health last month, no longer works in the administration …
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New York Times:
Kelly Sadler, Aide Who Mocked McCain, Leaves White House  —  WASHINGTON — A White House communications aide who made headlines in May for cracking a macabre joke about the health of Senator John McCain has left the White House.  —  The aide, Kelly Sadler, made off-the-cuff comments …
Discussion: Splinter and Axios
Eric Adler / Kansas City Star:
Kate Spade suffered years of mental illness, sister says.  Suicide ‘not unexpected’  —  Grieving deeply, Kate Spade's older sister told The Star on Tuesday that her famous designer sister suffered debilitating mental illness for the last three or four years and was self-medicating with alcohol.
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
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Robin Givhan / Washington Post:   Kate Spade's aesthetic was the happy answer to fashion snobbery
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Andrew Desiderio / The Daily Beast:
National Security Council Contractor Arrested at White House for Attempted Murder
Discussion: Washington Times and Daily Wire
New York Times:
Facebook Gave Data Access to Chinese Firm Flagged by U.S. Intelligence  —  Facebook has data-sharing partnerships with at least four Chinese electronics companies, including a manufacturing giant that has a close relationship with China's government, the social media company said on Tuesday.
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Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Facebook granted devices from Huawei, a Chinese telecom firm, special access to social data
Discussion: Motherboard, Breitbart and Gizmodo
Tom Schad / USA Today:
Fox News apologizes after Eagles' Zach Ertz blasts national anthem ‘propaganda’  —  Hours after Philadelphia Eagles tight end Zach Ertz and defensive lineman Chris Long criticized Fox News for showing footage of Eagles players praying before games — during a segment about protests during …
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Politico:
Inside Trump's snub of the Philadelphia Eagles
Laura Jarrett / CNN:
McCabe seeks immunity for testimony in congressional hearing over FBI handling of Clinton email probe  —  Justice IG submits criminal referral on McCabe  —  (CNN)Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe has requested the Senate Judiciary Committee provide him with immunity from prosecution …
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Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
The Enlightenment's Dark Side  —  The Enlightenment is having a renaissance, of sorts.  A handful of centrist and conservative writers have reclaimed the 17th- and 18th-century intellectual movement as a response to nationalism and ethnic prejudice on the right and relativism and “identity politics” on the left.
Wall Street Journal:
European Officials Say U.S. Threat of Sanctions Imperils Bid to Save Iran Deal  —  Letter to Trump administration says secondary sanctions undercuts their push to preserve trade and investment with Tehran  —  Senior European officials conceded in a letter to the Trump administration …
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John Cassidy / New Yorker:
More Legal Trouble for Paul Manafort—and Donald Trump  —  Coincidences do happen, but this seems to be an unlikely one.  On Sunday morning, seemingly apropos of nothing, Donald Trump posted a message on Twitter that stated the following: “As only one of two people left who could become President …
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The Onion / politics.theonion.com:   Rain-Soaked Robert Mueller Lets Manafort Surf One Final Monster Wave Before Bringing Him In
Nick Baumann / HuffPost:
A HuffPost Reporter Was Bombarded With Threats.  Twitter Suspended Him.  —  When Twitter outsources policing its platform to victims of harassment, it empowers brigades of trolls and extremists.  —  Last week HuffPost reporter Luke O'Brien published a story identifying the woman behind @AmyMek …
Washington Post:
GOP Rep. Martha Roby, who criticized Trump, forced into runoff  —  Rep. Martha Roby, who angered constituents by un-endorsing then-candidate Donald Trump in 2016, was forced into a runoff in Alabama's conservative-leaning 2nd Congressional District.  —  With 59 percent of the precincts reporting …
Tara Palmeri / ABC News:
Treasury Secretary urged Trump to exempt Canada from steel and aluminum tariffs: Sources  —  At a White House trade meeting on Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin urged President Donald Trump to exempt Canada from steep steel and aluminum tariffs, two senior administration officials …
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Ana Swanson / New York Times:
Mexico Hits U.S. With Tariffs, Escalating Global Trade Tensions
Discussion: The Texas Observer
OHCHR:
Subject: (1) Egypt, (2) United States and (3) Ethiopia  —  (1) Egypt  —  A spate of arrests, interrogations and detentions of activists, bloggers and journalists in Egypt over the last few weeks appears to indicate a significant escalation in the crackdown against the rights to freedom of expression …
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Washington Post:
Trump fixates on pardons, could soon give reprieve to 63-year-old woman after meeting with Kim Kardashian  —  President Trump is privately telling aides that he is strongly considering pardoning Alice Marie Johnson, a 63-year-old woman serving a life sentence, after meeting with Kim Kardashian …
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
SD state lawmaker: Businesses should be allowed to ‘turn away people of color’  —  A South Dakota state lawmaker argued in a Facebook comment that businesses should be allowed to turn down people based on the color of their skin.  —  The comment from state Rep. Michael Clark (R) …
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Argus Leader
Jeff Tavss / WPLG-TV:
Family of Stoneman Douglas student advocate David Hogg ‘swatted’ at home  —  Hogg was not home at time of incident  —  CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. - The family of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student David Hogg was “swatted” Tuesday morning, causing police to respond to their Parkland home.
Washington Post:
In the Army and the Klan, he hated Muslims.  —  Chris Buckley walks out to his porch, where the doormat once greeted customers at a Subway, and looks up and down the empty street.  —  “I admit it, I'm nervous,” he says, lighting a cigarette with heavily tattooed hands.
Connor Sheets / al.com:
Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin loses GOP primary, concedes to opponent  —  Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin has conceded to his Republican challenger, Rainbow City Police Chief Jonathon Horton.  —  Horton will become the county's next sheriff as there are no Democrats on the ballot.
Discussion: WHNT-TV
Tim Hains / RealClearPolitics:
Hugh Hewitt to Jeff Sessions: Why Is It Necessary To Separate Parents From Children When Detained At Border?  —  Attorney General Jeff Sessions tells syndicated radio host Hugh Hewitt why parents and children are separated when they are detained or arrested at the border.
Discussion: Daily Kos and NBC News
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Sean Patrick Maloney Jumps Into New York Attorney General's Race  —  Representative Sean Patrick Maloney, a Hudson Valley Democrat and New York's first openly gay member of Congress, will run for New York attorney general, shaking up the field in what will be a 100-day sprint for one of the state's most powerful posts.
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
It Looks Like America Is Finally Going To Have A Native American Congresswoman  —  Deb Haaland won her Democratic primary in New Mexico's congressional race.  She's likely to win in November, too.  —  Deb Haaland won the Democratic nomination for a New Mexico congressional seat on Tuesday …
Bob Egelko / San Francisco Chronicle:
Bid to recall Judge Aaron Persky appears successful in Santa Clara County  —  Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky was on his way to being voted out of office Tuesday, two years after he set off national outrage by sentencing a Stanford athlete to six months in jail …
Discussion: Palo Alto Daily Post
Julia Marsh / New York Post:
Trump must sit for deposition in Zervos defamation case: judge  —  President Trump must sit for a seven-hour deposition by Jan. 31, 2019, in a defamation case brought by former “Apprentice” contestant Summer Zervos, a Manhattan judge ruled Tuesday.  —  Trump's attorney Marc Kasowitz …
 
 
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Lee Mathews / Geek.com:
MIT Creates An AI Psychopath Because Someone Had To Eventually
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Kyra Gurney / miamiherald:
Amid worsening violence, Nicaraguans say crisis has reached ‘catastrophic’ proportions
Ryan Saavedra / Daily Wire:
‘JEWISH JIHADISTS’: Joy Reid's Blog Published Posts Blaming Jews For Terrorism
Tess Owen / VICE News:
If you think ICE is racist, blame Congress, says agency's director
Discussion: New York Magazine
Owen Gleiberman / Variety:
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Zephyr Teachout:
Announcement Speech at Trump Tower
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Jia Tolentino / New Yorker:
The Fiends and the Folk Heroes of Grifter Season
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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
It Sure Looks Like The Courts Are About To Get Tougher On Black People
 Earlier Items: 
Washington Post:
Mueller was investigating Trump adviser as unregistered agent of Israel, his wife says
Scott Waldman / Scientific American:
Judge Orders EPA to Produce Science behind Pruitt's Warming Claims
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Becky Peterson / Business Insider:
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi insists that leaders say they ‘have the D’ in meetings …
Discussion: Mashable, Gizmodo and New York Magazine
Summer Concepcion / Associated Press:
DeVos: ‘We Are Actually Studying School Safety’ By Not Considering Role Of Guns
Discussion: Politico, Raw Story and Axios
Pew Research Center:
Almost seven-in-ten Americans have news fatigue, more among Republicans
 

 
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