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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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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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Los Angeles Times, KTLA and The Daily Caller
New York Times:
Gavin Newsom Wins Spot in California Election for Governor
Gavin Newsom Wins Spot in California Election for Governor
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Wall Street Journal, ABC News, CBS San Francisco and Mediaite
Christine Mai-Duc / Los Angeles Times:
Democrats look like they won't be shut out of critical California House races
Democrats look like they won't be shut out of critical California House races
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Axios
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, Splinter, Raw Story and Washington Times
Matt Pearce / Los Angeles Times:
118,522 voters accidentally left off Los Angeles County polling place rosters
118,522 voters accidentally left off Los Angeles County polling place rosters
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Roll Call, CALmatters, HuffPost, The Week and electionlawblog.org
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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San Francisco Chronicle, HuffPost, Mother Jones and The Gateway Pundit
Angela Hart / Sacramento Bee:
Gavin Newsom, John Cox advance to general election in California governor's race
Gavin Newsom, John Cox advance to general election in California governor's race
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NBC Bay Area, Breitbart and Bloomberg
Dakota Smith / Los Angeles Times:
California Sen. Josh Newman seems headed for removal from office for supporting higher gas tax
California Sen. Josh Newman seems headed for removal from office for supporting higher gas tax
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CALmatters and KTLA
Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: Secret Obama-era license let Iran tap dollars — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration secretly sought to give Iran access — albeit briefly — to the U.S. financial system by sidestepping sanctions kept in place after the 2015 nuclear deal, despite repeatedly telling Congress and the public it had no plans to do so.
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Axios
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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Palo Alto Daily Post
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Grace Wyler / BuzzFeed:
The Judge In The Brock Turner Sexual Assault Case Has Been Recalled
The Judge In The Brock Turner Sexual Assault Case Has Been Recalled
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Vox, Mother Jones and The Week
Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
Voters remove judge who sentenced Brock Turner to six months in Stanford sexual assault case
Voters remove judge who sentenced Brock Turner to six months in Stanford sexual assault case
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Refinery29, twitchy.com and NPR
Maggie Astor / New York Times:
California Voters Remove Aaron Persky, the Judge Who Gave a 6-Month Sentence for Sexual Assault
California Voters Remove Aaron Persky, the Judge Who Gave a 6-Month Sentence for Sexual Assault
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HuffPost, Axios, USA Today and CALmatters
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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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 …
Associated Press:
Giuliani says Mueller's team is trying to frame Trump — JERUSALEM (AP) — Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani says special counsel Robert Mueller's team is trying to frame President Trump. — Giuliani, who has been serving as Trump's lawyer amid the Russia scandal, says Wednesday in Israel …
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Daily Kos, Political Wire and Mediaite
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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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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Politico, Associated Press, The Week, Axios and Political Wire
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, ABC News, The Daily Beast, Boing Boing, Mediaite, twitchy.com, The Gateway Pundit, Splinter, HuffPost, Discourse.net, The Daily Caller and The Week
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David Von Drehle / Washington Post:
There will be no Trump collapse — I've tried everything to avoid thinking about the next election — family travel, yard work, crossword puzzles. But now it's only five months away, barely longer than the gestation period of a North American beaver, or the Stanley Cup playoffs.
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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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Trump Transition Team Goes to War Over Rogue FBI Agent … At the time, it was one of the more controversial moments of Robert Mueller's probe: Late last year, news broke that a federal agency turned over tens of thousands of private emails of Trump transition team officials to the special counsel's team …
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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Mike Allen / Axios:
Facebook playing with fire in D.C.
Facebook playing with fire in D.C.
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VICE News, The Week and Political Wire
Noreen Malone / New York Magazine:
The New Yorker Staff Has Unionized — The era of white-collar organized labor is fully upon us: the editorial staff of The New Yorker wants to unionize. This morning, organizers sent a letter to the magazine's editor, David Remnick, asking that the institution and its corporate owner …
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Why Is Trump Mad at Sessions? A Tweet Provides the Answer — WASHINGTON — For nearly a year, President Trump has been relentlessly attacking his handpicked attorney general for recusing himself from the Russia investigation that has so nettled him. And so in that sense …
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Washington Post:
The Post has mapped more than 52,000 homicides in major American cities over the past decade and found that across the country, there are areas where murder is common but arrests are rare. — Christopher Dickson felt justice had been served. For weeks, he'd bragged around his neighborhood …
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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Jake Sherman / Politico:
Playbook scoop: Senate Democrats' August messaging plan — DRIVING THE DAY — STRATEGY MEMO ... SENATE DEMOCRATS, forced by Republicans to stay in Washington during the August recess, are planning to try to turn the session into a referendum on Republicans' handling of health-care policy.
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Joe.My.God., The Week, Washington Post and Political Wire
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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Sean Patrick Maloney Jumps Into New York Attorney General's Race
Sean Patrick Maloney Jumps Into New York Attorney General's Race
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CNN and RRH Elections
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 …
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ThinkProgress, The Daily Beast and Shakesville
Washington Post:
Trump to sign veterans health bill as White House works against plan to fund it — President Trump is preparing to sign a sweeping new law Wednesday aimed at expanding veterans' access to private-sector health care. But behind the scenes his administration is fighting a bipartisan Senate effort to fund the legislation.
New York Times:
Grifters Gonna Grift — The editorial board represents the opinions of the board, its editor and the publisher. It is separate from the newsroom and the Op-Ed section. — This is shaping up to be another red-letter week for Draining the Swamp. — On Monday, Paul Manafort …
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Washington Post:
Scott Pruitt enlisted an EPA aide to help his wife find a job — at Chick-fil-A
Scott Pruitt enlisted an EPA aide to help his wife find a job — at Chick-fil-A
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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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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.
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The Federalist
Justin Glawe / The Daily Beast:
Steve Mnuchin Blacked Out Schedule on Days of Controversial Trips … Before stepping off a military jet in Kentucky last summer where he viewed a solar eclipse at Fort Knox, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin was doing something else in secret. — Mnuchin and his wife's trip on August 21 …
Hanna Kozlowska / Quartz:
Paul Manafort tried to hide from the feds using encrypted WhatsApp—but forgot about iCloud — Special counsel Robert Mueller has accused Donald Trump's former campaign chief Paul Manafort of witness tampering. Manafort allegedly tried to hide his communications with potential witnesses using …
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Mother Jones, VICE News and TheBlaze
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, The Daily Beast and Shakesville
George Packer / New Yorker:
Witnessing the Obama Presidency, from Start to Finish — Ben Rhodes was the President's speechwriter, foreign-policy adviser, and confidant. His book records the Administration's struggle to shape its own narrative. — Barack Obama was a writer before he became a politician, and he saw his Presidency as a struggle over narrative.