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10:45 PM ET, June 8, 2018

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Washington Post:
A note to readers  —  I have been uncharacteristically silent these past ten months.  I had thought that silence would soon be coming to an end, but I'm afraid I must tell you now that fate has decided on a different course for me.  —  In August of last year, I underwent surgery to remove a cancerous tumor in my abdomen.
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Greg Wilson / Fox News:
Fox News star Charles Krauthammer reveals he has weeks to live in heartbreaking letter  —  Charles Krauthammer, the beloved and brilliant Fox News Channel personality who gave up a pioneering career in psychiatry to become a Pulitzer Prize-winning political analyst, on Friday revealed …
Washington Post:
Fridays without Charles
Discussion: Mediaite and Political Wire
Ben Shapiro / Daily Wire:
Charles Krauthammer Announces He Has Weeks To Live In Tragic Letter
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Julia Reinstein / BuzzFeed:
The Critic Whose Olive Garden Review Went Viral Remembers How Anthony Bourdain Spoke Up For Her  —  In 2012, then-88-year-old Marilyn Hagerty of Grand Forks, North Dakota, wrote arguably the most viral restaurant review ever written.  It was for Olive Garden.
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
CNN's Anthony Bourdain dead at 61  —  Remembering the life of Anthony Bourdain  —  Programming note: CNN will air “Remembering Anthony Bourdain,” a special report on the life and legacy of the chef, storyteller and writer, tonight at 10 p.m. ET.  —  New York (CNN)Anthony Bourdain …
Helen Rosner / New Yorker:
Anthony Bourdain and the Power of Telling the Truth  —  I have long maintained a theory that Anthony Bourdain—who died on Friday, at the age of sixty-one, of an apparent suicide—was the best-known celebrity in America.  There are, I realize, actual ways to measure this sort of thing …
Joshua Keating / Slate:
The Unlikely Ambassador  —  Anthony Bourdain very nearly ate his first meal in Japan at a Starbucks.  As he recounts in Kitchen Confidential, the 2000 memoir that made him a celebrity, he had been dispatched in 1998 by the owners of Les Halles, the New York restaurant where he was executive chef, to open a Tokyo branch.
Discussion: New Yorker, The Guardian and Vox
Jonathan Gold / Los Angeles Times:
Anthony Bourdain opened the working-class kitchen to the world and the world to us
Discussion: New York Times, Vox and East Bay Times
Jackie Wattles / CNNMoney:
Anthony Bourdain's ‘Kitchen Confidential’ becomes Amazon top seller
Discussion: CNN, The Atlantic and Eater
Steve Contorno / Tampa Bay Times:
Adam Putnam's office stopped concealed weapons background checks for a year because it couldn't log in  —  A state investigation found that the lapse covered a period that included the biggest spike in permit applications in Florida history.  —  For more than a year, the state of Florida failed …
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Marc Caputo / Politico:
Gun background check failure haunts ‘proud NRA sellout’ Putnam
Discussion: Florida Politics
Alexander Mallin / ABC News:
Trump's call for Russia to join G7 faces swift backlash  —  President Donald Trump's call Friday for Russia to re-enter the G7 four years after the country was kicked out from the group of countries over its annexation of Crimea has resulted in a fierce backlash from foreign policy critics on both sides of the aisle.
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Peter Navarro / New York Times:
The Era of American Complacency on Trade Is Over
Discussion: New Republic
John Harwood / CNBC:   Trump is helping Putin with a key goal when he spurns US allies
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Trump Attends G-7 with Defiance, Proposing to Readmit Russia
Discussion: HuffPost and The Atlantic
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Under Trump, “America First” Really Is Turning Out to Be America Alone
Kathleen Harris / CBC News:   Russia was kicked out of what was then G8 in 2014 over annexation of Ukraine's Crimea
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Iran Admits To Facilitating 9/11 Terror Attacks  —  Top Iranian official admits for first time Iran aided al Qaeda terrorists  —  Iranian officials, in a first, have admitted to facilitating the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the U.S. by secretly aiding the free travel of al Qaeda operatives …
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english.alarabiya.net:
WATCH: In first, Iran admits to facilitating passage of al-Qaeda's 9/11 attackers
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Washington Post:
China hacked a Navy contractor and secured a trove of highly sensitive data on submarine warfare  —  Chinese government hackers have compromised the computers of a Navy contractor, stealing massive amounts of highly sensitive data related to undersea warfare — including secret plans to develop …
Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Mueller Adds Obstruction Charge on Manafort and Indicts His Right-Hand Man  —  WASHINGTON — The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, brought new obstruction charges on Friday against President Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, and added allegations against a close associate …
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Adam Weinstein / Task & Purpose:
I'm A US-Born Army Vet.  Why Did Border Patrol Just Try To Arrest Me And My Wife?  —  Editor's note: Before publication, Task & Purpose reached out to U.S. Customs and Border Protection for a comment on the experiences Dennis White recounts below.  A representative of the agency responded …
Discussion: Immigration Impact
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Ryan Devereaux / The Intercept:
1,358 Children and Counting — Trump's “Zero Tolerance” Border Policy Is Separating Families at Staggering Rates
Discussion: The Nation
Evan Halper / Los Angeles Times:
Trump says he is likely to support ending federal ban on marijuana … President Trump said he likely will support a congressional effort to end the federal ban on marijuana, a major step that would reshape the pot industry and end the threat of a Justice Department crackdown.
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Ramesh Ponnuru / Bloomberg:
Four Reasons Scott Pruitt's Luck May Be Running Out  —  The scandal-prone EPA director seemed untouchable.  That could be changing.  —  Scott Pruitt has shown an astonishing ability to stay on as director of the Environmental Protection Agency through scandals that would have felled nearly anyone else.
Discussion: Mother Jones and CNN
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Jason Leopold / BuzzFeed:
John Kelly Instructed DHS Official Not To Email Staff To Avoid Public Scrutiny  —  “FOIA is real and everyday here in the cesspool, and even federal court action on personal accounts is real.”  —  When John Kelly was Secretary of Homeland Security, he instructed an official to refrain …
Politico:
Trump's latest health care move squeezes Republicans  —  Striking protections for pre-existing conditions renews a fraught repeal fight.  —  Republicans who have tried to repeal Obamacare for nearly a decade believe the Trump administration is reviving a politically risky battle with a court filing …
Discussion: Political Wire
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Press Groups Criticize the Seizing of a Times Reporter's Records  —  The revelation that federal prosecutors seized years' worth of email and phone records from a New York Times reporter drew criticism on Friday from news organizations and press rights groups, which expressed outrage …
Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
Roger Stone Encouraged Trump to Pardon Marcus Garvey … One of Donald Trump's longest and closest associates has encouraged the president to grant a posthumous pardon to Marcus Garvey, the pan-African advocate and black nationalist who became a forebearer of the modern civil rights movement.
Discussion: Hot Air, Raw Story and MSNBC
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NBC News:
Trump says he's considering pardon for Muhammad Ali, who doesn't need one
Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
Trump: First lady had ‘big operation,’ can't fly for a month  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said his wife, Melania, had a “big operation” to treat a kidney condition that lasted close to four hours, but that the first lady is “doing great” although she did not accompany him to Canada on Friday, per her doctors' orders.
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Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Gave Some Companies Access to Additional Data About Users' Friends  —  Special deals gave a small number of companies access to data after shutting off access for other developers  —  Facebook Inc. FB 0.49% struck customized data-sharing deals with a select group of companies …
Rebecca Ellis / miamiherald:
This family lived in a car stuffed with pizza boxes.  Three cops just changed their lives.  —  Dewayne Eason and Anieshea Dansby tried to make homelessness fun for their four kids.  —  The couple treated it like family time.  They would snuggle in the back of their blue Ford Taurus …
Lisa J. Huriash / Sun-Sentinel:
Retired Secret Service agent had warned Stoneman Douglas about security failures  —  Two months before the massacre at Stoneman Douglas High School, a retired Secret Service agent warned administrators that the school could be vulnerable to a gunman.  —  Sun Sentinel  —  Privacy Policy
 
 
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Eatery workers: Boycott Army base that called ICE on pizza delivery guy
Brandon Rittiman / KUSA-TV:
Truth Test: Was Stapleton ‘caught lying?’
U.S. Department of Justice:
Jury Convicts Former CIA Officer of Espionage
Discussion: New York Times
Kara Voght / Mother Jones:
This Evangelical Minister Helped Build the Religious Right.  He Now Believes He Made a Terrible Mistake.
Discussion: Raw Story
CNN:
Carl Higbie, who left Trump administration over racist comments, resigns from Trump-aligned group
Discussion: Mediaite
Alan Gomez / USA Today:
Canada warns immigrants in U.S. about heading north of the border
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Fenit Nirappil / Washington Post:
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Mia Sato / The Verge:
Facebook makes Views its primary metric for content, bringing it in line with Instagram; each time a piece of content appears on a screen, it counts as a View

Peter Blumberg / Bloomberg:
X sues to block California's AB 2655, aimed at curbing AI-generated deceptive election content on social media, claiming it impinges on free speech

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