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11:20 AM ET, June 8, 2018

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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 …
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
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.
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump says he may pardon the late boxer Muhammad Ali
Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Trump will ask athletes who kneel during anthem to recommend people for pardoning
Discussion: Daily Wire
Associated Press:   APNewsBreak: US lifts secrecy on foreign lobbying opinions
Wall Street Journal:
Senate Intelligence Committee Staffer Under Scrutiny in Leak Investigation
Discussion: Raw Story and Axios
Leah Litman / Take Care Blog:
The Establishing Shots of a Heist: The Trump DOJ Meets the Affordable Care Act
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Mike Allen / Axios:
Axios AM
Discussion: Washington Post and Just Security
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 …
Politico:
Trump calls celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain's death ‘very sad’
Abby Ohlheiser / Washington Post:
Anthony Bourdain has died at 61
Discussion: National Review, smokeroom.com and Vox
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 …
Washington Post:
France's Macron threatens rare rebuke of U.S. at G-7, Trump fires back  —  QUEBEC CITY — French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday threatened to join with other world leaders to issue a rare rebuke of the United States at a global summit here this weekend, drawing immediate and sharp replies from President Trump.
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.
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
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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HuffPost:   What Will House Republicans Do If Trump Pardons Himself? We Asked Them.
Joe Scarborough / Washington Post:
Trump is hurtling toward a Nixonian ending
Discussion: NewsBusters, Althouse, Raw Story and TIME
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 …
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
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
Devin Nunes protects witnesses who might have committed perjury  —  Devin Nunes is refusing to comply with requests to release transcripts that appear to confirm that key witnesses lied during congressional testimony.  —  Devin Nunes, chairman of the House intelligence committee …
Discussion: Mother Jones, NBC News and Joe.My.God.
 
 
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Maria Lencki / The College Fix:
Public university prohibits ‘harsh text messages’
Discussion: Daily Wire
NBC News:
U.S. officials prepare to thwart Chinese spying at Singapore summit
Discussion: Vox and CNBC
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
Bridget Chapman / WREG-TV:
Woman says she was racially profiled at Victoria's Secret in Collierville
Discussion: The Root and Raw Story
Michael Kruse / Politico:
The ‘What, Me Worry?’ President
Discussion: New York Times
Axios:
Wave watch: It's Trump vs. the economy
Discussion: Political Wire
 Earlier Items: 
Bloomberg:
Mueller Team Views Giuliani More as Spokesman Than Lawyer, Sources Say
Discussion: Associated Press
Jeff Tollefson / Nature:
Sucking carbon dioxide from air is cheaper than scientists thought
Gabby Morrongiello / Washington Examiner:
Mulvaney fires all 25 members of CFPB's advisory board
Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
New Book: Trump Team, Not Deep State, Revealed Flynn's Talks With Russians
Natasha Bertrand / The Atlantic:
Senate Investigators May Have Found a Missing Piece in the Russia Probe
Christopher Massie / CNN:
Giuliani says people in the porn business are not credible.  Trump has appeared in three softcore porn videos.
 

 
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