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Victoria Kim / Los Angeles Times:
Singapore preps for Trump-Kim summit with fresh paint and arrests … Throw on a fresh coat of paint and refresh the tile grout. Install security cameras, start closing streets and putting up security checkpoints. And by all means, keep hordes of pesky reporters away.
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Kathryn Watson / CBS News:
Trump calls summit a “one-time shot” for Kim Jong Un, warns ally nations on trade — As tensions with U.S. allies over trade flare, President Trump kicked off the second day of the G-7 summit in Canada in a similar fashion to how he arrived the day before: late.
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Talking Points Memo
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Playbook: Trump takes on the G7 — DRIVING THE DAY — G7 UPDATE ... FROM ANDREW BEATTY OF AFP, TODAY'S POOLER: “Around 8:15 the pool was led into the equality breakfast where the leaders were sat around a large oval table. — “There was an empty chair where POTUS was meant to be.
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BuzzFeed
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
In Trump, some fear the end of the world order — When does a feud become a separation? A separation a divorce? When do arguments, sharp-tongued put-downs and perceived betrayal among allies become the collapse of the Western-dominated order that has ruled the world, under U.S. leadership, for the past seven decades?
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Raw Story
Evan Osnos / New Yorker:
Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un's Nuclear Summit and the Bid for History
Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un's Nuclear Summit and the Bid for History
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Wall Street Journal
Gi-Wook Shin / Axios:
A denuclearization deal will not end the North Korea problem
A denuclearization deal will not end the North Korea problem
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Yonhap News Agency and One America News Network
Dick Thornburgh / Washington Post:
We Republicans must all speak out to protect the Mueller investigation — Dick Thornburgh was U.S. attorney general from 1988 to 1991. — As a lifelong Republican, I am proud that my party has consistently revered the rule of law as a central tenet of our country's values.
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Trump hits the world stage, Day 1: Come late, leave early, offend host, alienate allies — The president made quite an impression at the G-7 meeting in Canada on Friday. Saturday he departs to Singapore for his summit with Kim Jong Un. — QUEBEC CITY — The world is getting a good look …
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David M. Herszenhorn / Politico:
Trump's surprise G-7 pitch: ‘We should at least consider no tariffs’ — LA MALBAIE, Quebec — President Donald Trump on Friday floated the idea of ending all tariffs and trade barriers between the U.S. and its G-7 allies — an unexpected pitch that comes amid a tit-for-tat trade war Trump recently launched.
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Political Wire, Politico and NBC News
Washington Post:
An open letter on trade: The facts speak for themselves — By 29 E.U. Ambassadors to the U.S. June 8 at 2:07 PM — There has been a lot of talk recently about the trade and investment relationship between the European Union and the United States. Who wins? Who loses?
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Politico
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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Helen Rosner / New Yorker:
Anthony Bourdain and the Power of Telling the Truth
Anthony Bourdain and the Power of Telling the Truth
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Joshua Keating / Slate:
The Unlikely Ambassador — Anthony Bourdain very nearly ate …
The Unlikely Ambassador — Anthony Bourdain very nearly ate …
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New York Times, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and The Mary Sue
Jackie Wattles / CNNMoney:
Anthony Bourdain's ‘Kitchen Confidential’ becomes Amazon top seller
Anthony Bourdain's ‘Kitchen Confidential’ becomes Amazon top seller
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CNN, Washington Post and NBC News
Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
A family was separated at the border, and this distraught father took his own life — A Honduran father separated from his wife and child suffered a breakdown at a Texas jail and killed himself in a padded cell last month, according to Border Patrol agents and an incident report filed by sheriff's deputies.
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Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
DNC panel adopts rule requiring candidates to run, serve as a Democrat — The Democratic National Committee (DNC) adopted a new rule on Friday aimed at keeping outsider candidates like Bernie Sanders — from trying to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020.
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Hunter Walker / Yahoo:
With an eye on Bernie Sanders, the Democratic National Committee adopts new restrictions …
With an eye on Bernie Sanders, the Democratic National Committee adopts new restrictions …
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Common Dreams
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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Power Line, Jihad Watch, TheBlaze, Daily Wire, The Gateway Pundit and RedState
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Chuck Goudie / abc7chicago.com:
Ex-Trump aide George Papadopoulos, wife: from “paradise to hell” — The wife of Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty to lying about his Russian contacts, has offered a detailed accounting of her intriguing relationship with the Chicagoan now at the core of a political firestorm.
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Raw Story
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Republicans deny evidence Russia meddled while Trump invites Putin to rejoin G-7
Republicans deny evidence Russia meddled while Trump invites Putin to rejoin G-7
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Washington Press, Shakesville and Daily Kos
John Harwood / CNBC:
Trump is helping Putin with a key goal when he spurns US allies
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 …
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National Review, Techdirt, VICE News, twitchy.com, Townhall, NBC News, The Intercept and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
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Alex Pappas / Fox News:
Ali Watkins' past tweets come back to haunt NYT reporter amid leak case
Ali Watkins' past tweets come back to haunt NYT reporter amid leak case
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Power Line, Conservative News Today, LifeZette and twitchy.com
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
Gun background check failure haunts ‘proud NRA sellout’ Putnam
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Florida Politics
Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
Joe Crowley Complains His Primary Opponent, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Making This Race “About Race” — On a warm Sunday evening in Queens, New York, Joe Crowley stood before a group of about two dozen Democratic activists and made his case for why he should be returned to Congress for a 10th term.
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Forget Rudy: Here are Trump's fiercest defenders — Trump chose not to hire lawyers Joseph diGenova and Victoria Toensing, but they are ‘playing the role of lawyers’ on TV, diGenova says. — Joseph diGenova and Victoria Toensing didn't quite make the cut to become President Donald Trump's attorneys in late March.
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Raw Story
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Why Trump lit the fire — The biggest key to understanding Trump's dogmatism on trade is that even as he switched political parties and changed his views on issue after issue, his one consistent stance over 40 years is that other countries are “ripping off the United States” in trade deals, as he put it in 1987.
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Mueller's ‘witch hunt’ snags another witch — On Friday afternoon, the 24th and 25th shoes dropped on Paul Manafort. — Earlier this week, special counsel Robert S. Mueller III filed court documents alleging that Manafort and an unnamed individual had tried to tamper with a potential witness in the case.
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New York Magazine, National Review, RedState and Eschaton
New York Post:
Eatery workers: Boycott Army base that called ICE on pizza delivery guy — SEE ALSO — If an army marches on its stomach, the forces at Fort Hamilton had better learn to cook. — Eateries near the Brooklyn Army base, which handed over an undocumented pizza deliveryman to immigration agents last week …
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