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Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Trump and Bolton spurn top-level North Korea planning  —  After two months on the job, Trump's new national security adviser has not called a single top-level National Security Council meeting on North Korea.  —  National Security Adviser John Bolton has yet to convene a Cabinet-level meeting …
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Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
In private FEMA remarks, Trump's focus strays from hurricanes  —  The meeting was supposed to be about hurricane preparedness, as disaster officials gathered at Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters days after the start of the 2018 season.  —  But President Trump had a lot else on his mind …
Washington Post:
Trump complains about traveling to Canada ahead of Singapore summit with Kim  —  President Trump is planning to fly to Canada on Friday.  He is not exactly happy about it.  —  The president has vented privately about Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as their trade tensions have spilled into public view.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
President Trump Still Way Too Lazy to Do His Job  —  Donald Trump possessed less relevant experience and subject expertise for the job of president than any person ever elected to the job.  Those deficits can be offset, to a degree, with dogged study and hard work.
Discussion: Politico and MSNBC
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Democrats Childishly Resist Trump's North Korea Efforts  —  Shock!  Horror!  President Trump is actually doing something right.  —  Sadly, Democrats in Congress are responding in a quite Trumpian way: They seem more concerned with undermining him than supporting a peace process with North Korea.
Discussion: New Republic
John Hudson / Washington Post:   A cryptocurrency for marijuana is backing Dennis Rodman's trip to Singapore
Jennifer Hansler / CNN:
Japanese PM Abe mistakenly retweets Trump's attack on GOP senator
Discussion: twitchy.com
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Trump still holds Jimmy Carter's view on withdrawing U.S. troops from South Korea
Discussion: 38 North
Mark Murray / NBC News:
Poll: Economic satisfaction under Trump isn't helping his party's 2018 chances  —  By a whopping 25-point margin, voters say they're more likely to back a congressional candidate who promises to serve as a check on President Donald Trump, according to a new national poll from NBC News and the Wall Street Journal.
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Politico:
Judge Jeanine still tangoing with Trump over an administration role  —  The president has dangled top jobs in front of the Fox News host, a longtime New York pal, who has expressed interest in leaving her cable-news perch for government.  —  Jeanine Pirro has a top-rated Fox News show …
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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Will Preet Bharara Run for Attorney General?  He Just Registered to Vote  —  Preet Bharara, the former United States attorney in Manhattan who was fired by President Trump, has registered as a Democratic voter in New York for the first time in more than a decade amid speculation that he might run for attorney general.
Discussion: Roll Call
BostonGlobe.com:
Why hasn't Bernie Sanders endorsed his son's run for Congress?  —  Senator Bernie Sanders has traveled to Iowa and narrated a 30-second ad to endorse one congressional candidate and journeyed to Allentown, Pa., on behalf of another.  He publicly backed a mayoral candidate in Omaha.
Discussion: Axios, Daily Wire and Raw Story
Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
'It's Horrendous': The Heartache of a Migrant Boy Taken From His Father  —  When he landed in Michigan in late May, all the weary little boy carried was a trash bag stuffed with dirty clothes from his dayslong trek across Mexico, and two small pieces of paper — one a stick-figure drawing …
Alexandra Ma / Business Insider:
‘Delete all your emails and then acid-wash’ your hard drives: Sean Hannity suggests Mueller probe witnesses should destroy their evidence  — The Fox News anchor Sean Hannity on Wednesday night urged witnesses in the Russia investigation to delete evidence and destroy their electronics …
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Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Hannity Advises Mueller Witnesses: ‘Bash’ Your Phones ‘With a Hammer’
Discussion: Washington Post and RedState
Politico:
Another mess for Pruitt: Overstaying his White House welcome at lunch  —  Too many visits for lunch at the Mess earned a rebuke from the White House.  —  EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt loves eating at the White House mess, an exclusive U.S. Navy-run restaurant open only to White House officials, Cabinet members and other dignitaries.
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John Santucci / ABC News:
Despite mounting scandals, some White House officials believe Trump might not fire Pruitt
Discussion: Raw Story
Charles Robinson / Yahoo! Sports:
Sources: Colin Kaepernick's legal team expected to subpoena President Trump in case against NFL  —  After months of circling President Donald Trump during NFL depositions and discovery, Colin Kaepernick's lawyers are expected to force Trump directly into the ongoing legal battle between the quarterback and league.
Kate Riga / Talking Points Memo:
Giuliani Casts Doubt On Trump's Stormy Daniels Affair: ‘Look At His Three Wives’  —  Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani went after Stormy Daniels on Wednesday at a press conference in Israel, expressing his disbelief that her alleged affair with President Donald Trump occurred because of Daniels' looks and occupation.
Discussion: Vox, New Republic and ABC News
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CNN:
Giuliani defends comments about Stormy Daniels' credibility
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Foreign leaders who embraced Trump now feel burned  —  Trump's overseas friends are learning the hard way that handshakes and golf games can't convince Trump not to smack would-be allies.  —  Call it friends without benefits.  —  Foreign leaders are learning that hand-holding, golf games …
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Helene Fouquet / Bloomberg:
France Warns Trump It Won't Sign a G-7 Statement
Discussion: New Republic and Politico
Liz Robbins / New York Times:
He Delivered Pizza to an Army Base in Brooklyn.  Now He Faces Deportation.  —  Food delivery.  Sanctuary.  Those are often the anchors for the more than half a million undocumented immigrants who live and work in New York City.  —  But an incident at the United States Army base in Fort Hamilton …
Discussion: HuffPost and BuzzFeed
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CNBC:
US hits China's ZTE with $1 billion penalty in deal to end crippling sanctions, Commerce Secretary Ross says  — Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says the U.S. has struck a deal with Chinese telecom giant ZTE to end crippling American sanctions.  — The department says the deal includes …
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James Fanelli / New York Daily News:
Celebrity chef Adam Harvey arrested for poisoning seven-story maple tree blocking his solar panels  —  A tree dies in Brooklyn.  —  A celebrity chef with a warped sense of going green poisoned a neighbor's giant silver maple tree because it blocked sunlight from the solar panels on his Windsor Terrace home …
Discussion: grubstreet and Daily Wire
Washington Post:
This Ohio factory thought it could bring U.S. jobs back from China.  Then Trump got involved.  —  By David J. Lynch June 6 at 5:30 PM Email the author  —  CLEVELAND — Bill Adler was invited last year to bid on a contract to make commercial sausage stuffers for a company that wanted to replace its Chinese supplier.
New York Times:
A Secretive Owner of Triple-Crown Contender Justify: George Soros  —  If the strapping chestnut colt Justify wins the Belmont Stakes on Saturday to become just the 13th horse in history to claim horse racing's Triple Crown, two of the three groups that have an ownership stake …
Discussion: NTK Network
Erik Larson / Bloomberg:
Judge Calls Trump's Border Separations of Children ‘Brutal’  — ACLU lawsuit is allowed to proceed in San Diego federal court  — Administration says policy helps prosecute undocumented adults  —  The Trump administration failed to kill a legal challenge to its practice …
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Curt Prendergast / Arizona Daily Star:   Tucson federal judge wants prosecutors to tell migrants where their children are located
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Former Fox News analyst says Fox has become ‘destructive propaganda machine’  —  Ex-analyst: Fox News doing extreme damage  —  He was a Fox News military analyst for many years.  Now he says Fox is doing a “great deal of damage” to the United States.  —  Ralph Peters left the network …
Discussion: New York Times
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Lou Dobbs and Rep. Gaetz Trash ‘Disaster’ Paul Ryan: ‘Get the Hell Out of the Office’  —  If you thought SpyGate on Fox News primetime was lit, take a gander over at what's happening on Fox Business Network, where host Lou Dobbs is truly wilding on a nightly basis.
Discussion: Shareblue Media, Politico, CNN, Vox, MSNBC and CNBC
Renae Merle / Washington Post:
Mick Mulvaney fires all 25 members of consumer watchdog's advisory board  —  Mick Mulvaney, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, fired the agency's 25-member advisory board Wednesday, days after some of its members criticized his leadership of the watchdog agency.
Washington Post:
U.S. suicide rates rise sharply across the country, new report shows  —  By Amy Ellis Nutt June 7 at 1:14 PM Email the author  —  Suicide rates rose in all but one state between 1999 and 2016, with increases seen across age, gender, race and ethnicity, according to a report released Thursday …
Alicia H. Munnell / Politico:
Millennials and retirement: How bad is it?  —  Today's young adults are falling behind but there's a way they can catch up. … Concern about the financial health of America's younger generations is growing—especially millennials, a demographic boom that came of age in an environment …
Houston Chronicle:
Trump: Many Texans watched Harvey from their boats, requiring Coast Guard rescue  —  AUSTIN — President Donald Trump praised the Coast Guard for its heroics during Hurricane Harvey Wednesday, but credited the high number of water rescues to people taking their boats out to watch the storm roll in, baffling first responders.
Amanda Mull / NYLON:
The Self-Defeating Myth Of “Pulling It Off”  —  Face it: Skinny girl privilege is real  —  If you've looked at a fashion trend in the past five years or so and felt it radiating an overwhelming sense of hostility toward everything about you as a person, not only are you not too sensitive, but you're exactly correct.
Megan Thomas / CNNMoney:
Read Samantha Bee's on-air apology  —  Samantha Bee: ‘Sorry for breaking America’  —  In a new episode of “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” on Wednesday, the late-night host addressed the controversy over her use of a vulgar term to describe first daughter Ivanka Trump.
Discussion: twitchy.com
 
 
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David Faris / The Week:
Democrats are totally blowing it
Discussion: Sean Hannity, CNN and Mediaite
CNN:
John Bolton's chief of staff defended fringe anti-Muslim, far-right activists in online columns
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Sam Levin / The Guardian:
Scooters littering US city streets shout at people: 'Unlock me or I'll call the police'
Discussion: Denver Post
Nina Totenberg / NPR:
The Quiet Rage Of Mazie Hirono
Los Angeles Times:
How Villaraigosa lost the governor's race despite tens of millions of dollars spent to boost his bid
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Steve Annear / BostonGlobe.com:
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