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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 …
Ben Shapiro / Daily Wire:
What Can We Do To Stop Suicide?  —  NOTE: If you are depressed or suicidal, please call the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at 1-800-273-8255.  —  On Friday morning, CNN reported that host Anthony Bourdain had committed suicide at age 61.  Bourdain had struggled with depression for years …
Abby Ohlheiser / Washington Post:
Anthony Bourdain has died at 61  —  Anthony Bourdain, the chef who became a world-traveling storyteller, has died at age 61, according to CNN.  —  He died in France, while working on an episode of his CNN show, “Parts Unknown.”  Bourdain was found unresponsive in his hotel room by a close friend …
Politico:
Trump calls celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain's death ‘very sad’
New York Times:
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 …
Mike Allen / Axios:
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Discussion: Washington Post and Just Security
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 …
Discussion: Politico and New York Magazine
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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 …
Discussion: Politico
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Is Fulfilling Russia's Dream of Splitting the Western Alliance  —  One of Russia's principal foreign-policy goals for decades has been to split the United States from is allies.  Whether by accident or by design, President Trump appears intent on bringing that dream to fruition.
Washington Post:
Trump calls for readmitting Russia to G-7 four years after it was expelled for its role in Crimean crisis
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.
Discussion: Politico and Splinter
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Leah Litman / Take Care Blog:
The Establishing Shots of a Heist: The Trump DOJ Meets the Affordable Care Act  —  Earlier today, the Justice Department filed a document in a case about the Affordable Care Act that was so radical, and so self-evidently without merit, that career lawyers in that agency would not sign their names to it.
Des Moines Register:
Des Moines DREAMer dies within weeks after being sent back to Mexico's violence  —  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.
Discussion: Shakesville, HuffPost and The Week
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Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
Iowa student killed after being deported to Mexico
Discussion: Washington Press
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump says he ‘probably’ will support bill to protect states that have legalized marijuana  —  President Trump said Friday that he is likely to support a bipartisan congressional effort to give states autonomy over their marijuana laws — a move that would put the White House in direct conflict with the Justice Department.
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump says he may pardon Muhammad Ali — a move the late boxer's attorney calls unnecessary
Associated Press:   APNewsBreak: US lifts secrecy on foreign lobbying opinions
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Trump will ask athletes who kneel during anthem to recommend people for pardoning  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump says he wants to meet with NFL players and athletes who kneel during the National Anthem so they can recommend people they think should be pardoned because they were treated unfairly by the justice system.
Discussion: Daily Wire
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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 …
Discussion: Mother Jones and New Republic
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 …
Justin Caruso / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: NYT Reporters Say ‘F**k The Military,’ Promote Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories, Tweet The N-Word  —  A number of reporters for The New York Times have interesting Twitter pasts, The Daily Caller has learned.  —  The Times employs individuals who have expressed anti-military views …
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 …
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 …
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 …
NBC News:
U.S. officials prepare to thwart Chinese spying at Singapore summit  —  WASHINGTON — China may not have a seat at the table during President Donald Trump's upcoming nuclear summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, but U.S. officials say they are preparing to counter the Chinese spies …
Discussion: Vox and CNBC
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.
Washington Post:
A political prisoner in Russia is starving.  The world should take notice.  —  FOUR YEARS after Russia invaded and illegally annexed the Crimea region of Ukraine, the crime and its victims get little attention.  One of them, a courageous activist and filmmaker named Oleg Sentsov, is determined to change that.
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 …
Discussion: Associated Press
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.”
Discussion: New York Times
 
 
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Washington Post:
Trump is waging a trade war in the dumbest way possible
Yasmine Salam / Politico:
Scottish Euroskeptics less likely to support independence: report
Maria Lencki / The College Fix:
Public university prohibits ‘harsh text messages’
Discussion: Daily Wire
The Hill:
House passes Trump's plan to claw back $15 billion in spending
Discussion: CNN and The Daily Signal
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Rod Rosenstein delivers a stirring lecture on the rule of law, but actions matter more than words
Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
Devin Nunes protects witnesses who might have committed perjury
Discussion: Mother Jones, Joe.My.God. and NBC News
 Earlier Items: 
Bridget Chapman / WREG-TV:
Woman says she was racially profiled at Victoria's Secret in Collierville
Discussion: The Root and Raw Story
Axios:
Wave watch: It's Trump vs. the economy
Discussion: Political Wire
Jeff Tollefson / Nature:
Sucking carbon dioxide from air is cheaper than scientists thought
Joe Scarborough / Washington Post:
Trump is hurtling toward a Nixonian ending
Discussion: Althouse, Raw Story and TIME
Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
New Book: Trump Team, Not Deep State, Revealed Flynn's Talks With Russians
HuffPost:
What Will House Republicans Do If Trump Pardons Himself? We Asked Them.
Natasha Bertrand / The Atlantic:
Senate Investigators May Have Found a Missing Piece in the Russia Probe
 

 
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Financial Times:
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