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10:30 AM ET, June 9, 2018

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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 …
Discussion: CBS News, HuffPost, RedState and ABC News
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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.
Discussion: Political Wire and Politico
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?
Discussion: 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  —  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 …
Jackie Wattles / CNNMoney:
Anthony Bourdain's ‘Kitchen Confidential’ becomes Amazon top seller
Discussion: CNN, Washington Post and NBC News
Joshua Keating / Slate:
The Unlikely Ambassador  —  Anthony Bourdain very nearly ate …
Jonathan Gold / Los Angeles Times:
Anthony Bourdain opened the working-class kitchen to the world and the world to us
Discussion: New York Times, The Mary Sue and Vox
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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Adam Weinstein / Task & Purpose:   I'm A US-Born Army Vet. Why Did Border Patrol Just Try To Arrest Me And My Wife?
Mica Rosenberg / Reuters:
Exclusive: Nearly 1,800 families separated at U.S.-Mexico border in 17 months through February
Discussion: The Week
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.
Discussion: The Week and Politico
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Hunter Walker / Yahoo:
With an eye on Bernie Sanders, the Democratic National Committee adopts new restrictions for 2020 presidential candidates  —  WASHINGTON — The Democratic National Committee's rules and bylaws committee adopted a new rule on Friday that would prevent outsiders like Bernie Sanders from seeking …
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.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Republicans deny evidence Russia meddled while Trump invites Putin to rejoin G-7
John Harwood / CNBC:   Trump is helping Putin with a key goal when he spurns US allies
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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Hanna Bogorowski / The Daily Caller:
Iran Facilitated Passage Of 9/11 Attackers, Iranian Politician Says
Discussion: Townhall
english.alarabiya.net:
WATCH: In first, Iran admits to facilitating passage of al-Qaeda's 9/11 attackers
Discussion: Breitbart
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.
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
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Washington Post:
In charging Senate staffer and seizing reporter's records, Justice Dept. ignites debate over leak crackdown
Evan Osnos / New Yorker:
Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un's Nuclear Summit and the Bid for History  —  In Kim's attempt to unleash the economy and hold on to his dictatorship, he seems to be taking a lesson from China's Communist Party: change, or die.  —  In the city of Pyongyang, the sanctum sanctorum of the Workers' Party of Korea …
Discussion: Politico and Wall Street Journal
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Gi-Wook Shin / Axios:
A denuclearization deal will not end the North Korea problem
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 …
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 …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
New York Times:
Judge Denies Trump's Secrecy Claim in Review of Cohen Documents  —  Striking a note for transparency, a federal judge ruled on Friday that President Trump and his longtime personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, cannot proceed in total secrecy as they weigh in on the final stages of a laborious review …
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Washington Post:
Trump's not wrong about pardoning himself  —  Michael W. McConnell is the Richard and Frances Mallery professor of law and director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.  He formerly served as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit.
Discussion: USA Today
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.
Discussion: Raw Story
Brandon Rittiman / KUSA-TV:
Truth Test: Was Stapleton ‘caught lying?’  —  Saying someone is lying is a strong accusation.  Is it fair to use against Walker Stapleton for an ad he's been airing for weeks?  —  KUSA— Republican frontrunner Walker Stapleton has been running a false ad in his campaign for governor for weeks now—and he's still running it.
Lauretta Brown / Townhall:
Bill Clinton Defends Franken: It Was a ‘Difficult Case’ and the SNL Women Defended Him  —  PBS's Judy Woodruff asked former president Bill Clinton Thursday whether he thought it was a “good thing” that norms have changed when it comes to sexual harassment.  Woodruff's example …
 
 
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Mueller's ‘witch hunt’ snags another witch
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Bill Clinton's Me Too Reckoning
Discussion: HuffPost, Bloomberg and Instapundit
Eric Boehlert / Shareblue Media:
Trump has no idea Muhammad Ali doesn't need a pardon
Discussion: CNN and The Week
Bryn Elise Sandberg / Hollywood Reporter:
Shonda Rhimes Sets Anna Delvey Series as First Netflix Project
Rebecca Ellis / miamiherald:
This family lived in a car stuffed with pizza boxes. Three cops just changed their lives.
Politico:
Trump's latest health care move squeezes Republicans
Ramesh Ponnuru / Bloomberg:
Four Reasons Scott Pruitt's Luck May Be Running Out
Discussion: Mother Jones
 Earlier Items: 
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
Alan Gomez / USA Today:
Canada warns immigrants in U.S. about heading north of the border
Discussion: Townhall
Jason Leopold / BuzzFeed:
John Kelly Instructed DHS Official Not To Email Staff To Avoid Public Scrutiny
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Bloomberg:
A look at the challenges facing Crunchyroll, as current and ex-staffers say its management is out of touch, amid Disney and Netflix's expansion into anime

Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Trump may erode press protections but the ABC case is not evidence of that as the decision to settle appears reasonable given Stephanopoulos' imprecise remarks

 
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