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Justice Dept. Seizes Times Reporter's Email and Phone Records in Leak Investigation — WASHINGTON — Federal law enforcement officials secretly seized years' worth of a New York Times reporter's phone and email records this year in an investigation of classified information leaks.
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U.S. Department of Justice:
Former U.S. Senate Employee Indicted on False Statements Charges — Longtime Director of Security for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Accused of Lying to FBI About Repeated Contacts with Reporters — WASHINGTON - A former staff employee of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence …
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Wall Street Journal:
Senate Intelligence Committee Staffer Under Scrutiny in Leak Investigation — Federal prosecutors expected to unseal charges against staffer in coming days — A veteran Senate staffer is under investigation as part of a probe related to unauthorized disclosure of classified information …
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Top Senate staffer arrested in leak probe, after NY Times reporter's records are seized
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
CNN's Anthony Bourdain dead at 61 — New York (CNN)Anthony Bourdain, a gifted storyteller and writer who took CNN viewers around the world, has died. He was 61. — CNN confirmed Bourdain's death on Friday and said the cause of death was suicide. — “It is with extraordinary sadness …
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Matthew Haag / New York Times:
Anthony Bourdain, Travel Host and Author, Is Dead at 61 — The travel host Anthony Bourdain, whose memoir “Kitchen Confidential” about the dark corners of New York's restaurants started a career in television, died on Friday at 61. — For the past several years, Mr. Bourdain hosted the show …
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Abby Ohlheiser / Washington Post:
Anthony Bourdain has died at 61
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Nell Greenfieldboyce / NPR:
CDC: U.S. Suicide Rates Have Climbed Dramatically
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Sam Baker / Axios:
Trump's Justice Department says the ACA is unconstitutional — The Justice Department will not defend the Affordable Care Act in court, and says it believes the law's individual mandate — the provision the Supreme Court upheld in 2012 — has become unconstitutional.
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Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
Trump administration won't defend ACA in case brought by GOP states
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Nicholas Bagley / The Incidental Economist:
Texas Fold 'Em
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Leah Litman / Take Care Blog:
The Establishing Shots of a Heist: The Trump DOJ Meets the Affordable Care Act
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Brent D. Griffiths / Politico:
Trump to depart G-7 summit early — President Donald Trump will leave the G-7 summit before its conclusion, the White House announced on Thursday night, following a day of back-and-forth with fellow world leaders that foreshadowed confrontations during the meeting of the world's largest advanced economies.
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Susan E. Rice / New York Times:
How Trump Helps Putin — Traditionally, the outgoing president writes a personal letter to his successor, offering wisdom and best wishes. President Obama duly left such a letter for President Trump, as President Bush did eight years earlier. — Imagine if Vladimir Putin, the Russian president …
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Under Trump, “America First” Really Is Turning Out to Be America Alone — From trade to the Iran deal to NAFTA, the President has created the highest level of tension between the U.S. and its allies in decades. — The Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was less than forty-eight hours away …
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Des Moines Register:
Sent back to Mexico's violence, Des Moines student dies within weeks — Editor's note: This column has been updated from the original online version with a statement from ICE. — Manuel Antonio Cano Pacheco should have graduated high school in Des Moines last month.
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Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
Iowa student killed after being deported to Mexico
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New York Times:
With Mueller Closing In, Manafort's Allies Abandon Him — WASHINGTON — The special counsel's accusation this week that Paul Manafort, President Trump's former campaign chairman, tried to tamper with potential witnesses originated with two veteran journalists who turned on Mr. Manafort …
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Romney: Trump will be reelected in 2020 — DEER VALLEY, UTAH — Republican Senate candidate Mitt Romney bluntly predicted here on Thursday evening that President Donald Trump would win reelection in 2020. — Addressing a group of major GOP donors, Romney — who bitterly collided …
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Joe Scarborough / Washington Post:
Trump is hurtling toward a Nixonian ending
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The Daily Beast:
Scott Pruitt Made Public Servants Fetch His Protein Bars and Greek Yogurt … If you've worked for Scott Pruitt, there's a not-insignificant chance that you have fetched him his favorite junk—and health!—food while on the job. — According to four sources familiar with the work environment …
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Pruitt enlisted security detail in picking up dry cleaning, moisturizing lotion
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump's bedtime story: “The Book” — It's not true President Trump doesn't read. It's just exceptionally hard to get him to do it. — So the workarounds by savvy aides have become legendary in the West Wing. Many of them revolve around the briefing binder that goes …
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Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
One Koch Brother Forces The Other Out Of The Family Business — An arch-conservative political machine will be down one billionaire but have more clout than ever. — The retirement of David Koch from Koch Industries will make it easier to see more clearly what has been true from the start …
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Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Trump floats posthumous pardon for Muhammad Ali — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump said Friday he is considering posthumously pardoning boxer Muhammad Ali, who was convicted in the 1960s after refusing military service in Vietnam. — Trump floated the possibility while speaking …
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Washington Post:
Trump calls for readmitting Russia to G-7 four years after it was expelled for its role in Crimean crisis — By Washington Post Staff June 8 at 8:34 AM — President Trump said Russia should be readmitted to the Group of Seven leading economies, breaking with other world leaders …
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Politico:
‘Cryin’ Chuck' might just get the last laugh — Democratic leader Chuck Schumer has managed to placate the most liberal senators, keep his centrists happy, and stay on decent terms with Trump and McConnell. — He's been beat up by the left over his centrist instincts and vilified by the right …
Christopher Massie / CNN:
Giuliani says people in the porn business are not credible. Trump has appeared in three softcore porn videos. — Trump pours champagne on limo in 2000 adult video — (CNN)When Rudy Giuliani said Wednesday that Stormy Daniels has no credibility because she is is a porn star …
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Democrats gain in congressional vote test — With five months until Election Day, Democrats hold the enthusiasm advantage — and that puts them ahead of Republicans in the congressional vote as well. — A Fox News poll released Thursday finds 48 percent of voters favor …
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Natasha Bertrand / The Atlantic:
Senate Investigators May Have Found a Missing Piece in the Russia Probe — An ex-congressman has attracted scrutiny from the Senate Judiciary Committee, as it continues to investigate whether President Donald Trump's campaign conspired with Moscow to sway the 2016 presidential election.
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Reuters:
Exclusive: U.S. immigration authorities sending 1,600 detainees to federal prisons — WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - U.S. authorities are transferring into federal prisons about 1,600 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees, officials told Reuters on Thursday …
USA Today:
Cozy land deals meant big money for Trump family and friends — The purchase of three properties by President Trump's son-in-law on the banks of a toxic Brooklyn canal triggered a series of unusual real estate deals and a windfall profit from transactions financed by a bank tied to the Trump family.
Michael Kruse / Politico:
The ‘What, Me Worry?’ President — Donald Trump has long said he doesn't worry about the future because nothing really matters. Next week, he'll be negotiating with a rogue nuclear state. — “My attitude,” Donald Trump said last month, “is whatever happens, happens.”
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Bloomberg:
Mueller Team Views Giuliani More as Spokesman Than Lawyer, Sources Say — Former New York mayor has attacked probe in TV appearances — Trump lawyer not seen as major legal player, officials say — Rudy Giuliani has yet to genuinely affect the course of Robert Mueller's Russia probe despite …
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