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12:25 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 …
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  —  Republicans have lost the first election in Missouri since Eric Greitens resigned the governor's post in disgrace, with Democrat Lauren Arthur picking up a state senate seat in the Kansas City suburbs.
Discussion: Axios, Political Wire and The Week
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
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
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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
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
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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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
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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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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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.
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
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
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 …
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 …
Politico:
McConnell cancels most of August recess  —  The chamber will still be off for one week.  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced on Tuesday that he has canceled three weeks of the chamber's month-long August recess due to “historic obstruction” by Democrats.
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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 …
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.
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.
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 …
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
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 …
Discussion: Politico and New York Magazine
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?
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
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 …
Pew Research Center:
Almost seven-in-ten Americans have news fatigue, more among Republicans  —  If you feel like there is too much news and you can't keep up, you are not alone.  A sizable portion of Americans are feeling overwhelmed by the amount of news there is, though the sentiment is more common on the right side …
 
 
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Scott Waldman / Scientific American:
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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi insists that leaders say they ‘have the D’ in meetings …
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