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New York Times:
California Primary Election Results — At the top of the ballot in California is the race to replace Gov. Jerry Brown, a term-limited Democrat. The big question on Tuesday is not so much who will place first — that's almost certain to be Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, a former mayor of San Francisco — but who will place second.
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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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Wall Street Journal, ABC News, CBS San Francisco and Mediaite
Los Angeles Times:
Live results from the California primary — Polls close at 8 p.m. Pacific time. — Results are expected soon thereafter. This page will update as they arrive. Here are three storylines we will be tracking tonight: — 1. Can the GOP make the cut for governor?
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KTLA and Los Angeles Times
Steve Lopez / Los Angeles Times:
In the heart of the Trump resistance, so much apathy in California — Sure, it's just a primary. — And the general election is five months away. — But is that reason enough, in a state that has screamed its political resistance loud and clear, to sleep through an election? — Read More
Matt Pearce / Los Angeles Times:
118,522 voters accidentally left off Los Angeles County polling place rosters — If you are a registered voter in Los Angeles County and poll workers say they can't find your name on the roster at the polling place when you go to vote, don't worry — you can still cast a provisional ballot.
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HuffPost, The Week and electionlawblog.org
Maeve Reston / CNN:
Error leaves 118,000 voters in California off rosters in Los Angeles County
Error leaves 118,000 voters in California off rosters in Los Angeles County
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89.3 KPCC, Raw Story and Washington Times
Joe Garofoli / San Francisco Chronicle:
Gavin Newsom, John Cox to face off in fall CA governor's race
Gavin Newsom, John Cox to face off in fall CA governor's race
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Mother Jones, San Francisco Chronicle, HuffPost and The Gateway Pundit
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 …
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The American Conservative and BloombergQuint
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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The Daily Beast, KMBC, Associated Press, HuffPost and The Week
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David Weigel / Washington Post:
Democrats win state Senate seat in Missouri, their 42nd red-to-blue flip of the cycle
Democrats win state Senate seat in Missouri, their 42nd red-to-blue flip of the cycle
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The Week, Associated Press, Axios and Political Wire
Matthew Chapman / Shareblue Media:
Former schoolteacher flips Missouri Senate seat blue in Trump country
Former schoolteacher flips Missouri Senate seat blue in Trump country
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CNN, Washington Press and KCUR
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 …
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
EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Has Racked Up At Least 10 New Scandals In Just The Past Month
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CBS News:
Secret Service arrests White House contractor with outstanding attempted murder warrant — The Secret Service arrested a contractor outside the White House on Tuesday for an outstanding warrant that includes an attempted murder charge, CBS News Washington correspondent Paula Reid reports.
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Washington Post, Boing Boing, Mediaite, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller, Splinter and Discourse.net
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Andrew Desiderio / The Daily Beast:
National Security Council Contractor Arrested at White House for Attempted Murder
National Security Council Contractor Arrested at White House for Attempted Murder
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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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RAPPLER, Mashable, The Week, BuzzFeed, Boing Boing and Engadget, more at Techmeme »
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Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Facebook granted devices from Huawei, a Chinese telecom firm, special access to social data
Facebook granted devices from Huawei, a Chinese telecom firm, special access to social data
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Gizmodo, Motherboard, Breitbart and Engadget
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.
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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 …
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Washington Post and Palo Alto Daily Post
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.
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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People's Pundit Daily, JONATHAN TURLEY, Breitbart and Mediaite
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Sara Carter / Sara A. Carter:
Lawmakers Warn IG Being Pressured to Slow Roll Clinton FBI Report
Lawmakers Warn IG Being Pressured to Slow Roll Clinton FBI Report
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Fox News, New York Times, Politico, The Post & Email, The Gateway Pundit and Sean Hannity
Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
GOP elects white supremacist who rioted in Charlottesville — Emboldened by Trump's racism, a record number of white supremacists are making their way into mainstream Republican politics. — A participant in last summer's deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville has been elected …
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The Stranger, The Mary Sue, HuffPost and Shakesville
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.
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David Ovalle / miamiherald:
‘All the signs were there.’ On video, guard says school knew Parkland shooter posed threat
‘All the signs were there.’ On video, guard says school knew Parkland shooter posed threat
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twitchy.com, NBC News and TheBlaze
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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Bleeding Green Nation, TheBlaze, New York Magazine, ProFootballTalk and Breitbart
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 …
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Bernard Media, more at Mediagazer »
Washington Post:
Mueller was investigating Trump adviser as unregistered agent of Israel, his wife says — Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III last summer threatened to charge George Papadopoulos, a former campaign adviser to President Trump, with acting as an unregistered agent of Israel, Papadopoulos's wife said Tuesday.
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The Daily Caller, Talking Points Memo, NBC News and Conservative Review
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John R. Schindler / The New York Observer:
Mueller Finally Starts to Target Trump's Israel Ties
Mueller Finally Starts to Target Trump's Israel Ties
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The Daily Beast
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 …
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ABC News, Politico and Daily Caller News Foundation
The Onion / politics.theonion.com:
Rain-Soaked Robert Mueller Lets Manafort Surf One Final Monster Wave Before Bringing Him In — VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA—Standing on the beach and stoically observing the tiny diagonal line that Trump's desperately paddling campaign manager made across the sheer magnificence of the thrashing ocean …
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John Cassidy / New Yorker:
More Legal Trouble for Paul Manafort—and Donald Trump
More Legal Trouble for Paul Manafort—and Donald Trump
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Daily Kos, Weekly Standard and Washington Post
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 …
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Raw Story, Vox, New Republic, Washington Times and Bloomberg
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) …
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Joe.My.God. and Argus Leader
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.
New York Times:
Putin Moves to Capitalize on Europe's Fury With Trump — BRUSSELS — Russian President Vladimir V. Putin arrived in Austria on Tuesday sensing an opportunity almost unimaginable just months ago: to overhaul frosty relations with a European Union infuriated by President Trump on a host of issues …
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BloombergQuint, The Intercept, Spectator USA and Axios
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 …
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.