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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 …
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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 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?
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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 — 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 …
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The Nation, CNN, WSVN-TV, NBC News, CBS Pittsburgh, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Mashable, more at Mediagazer »
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
Joshua Keating / Slate:
The Unlikely Ambassador — Anthony Bourdain very nearly ate …
The Unlikely Ambassador — Anthony Bourdain very nearly ate …
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Refinery29 and CityLab
Jonathan Gold / Los Angeles Times:
Anthony Bourdain opened the working-class kitchen to the world and the world to us
Anthony Bourdain opened the working-class kitchen to the world and the world to us
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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
Exclusive: Nearly 1,800 families separated at U.S.-Mexico border in 17 months through February
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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.
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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.
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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, Daily Kos and Shakesville
John Harwood / CNBC:
Trump is helping Putin with a key goal when he spurns US allies
CNN:
Trump says Russia should be reinstated in group of leading industrialized nations
Trump says Russia should be reinstated in group of leading industrialized nations
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mccain.senate.gov, Raw Story, Washington Press, Shareblue Media, ThinkProgress, The Root and TheBlaze
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Trump Attends G-7 with Defiance, Proposing to Readmit Russia
Trump Attends G-7 with Defiance, Proposing to Readmit Russia
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Sputnik International, Defense One, The Guardian, Washington Post and Taylor Marsh
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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Jihad Watch, TheBlaze, Daily Wire, The Gateway Pundit and RedState
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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
Gun background check failure haunts ‘proud NRA sellout’ Putnam
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Florida Politics
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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Fox News, LifeZette, Techdirt, twitchy.com, VICE News, Townhall and National Review, more at Mediagazer »
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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 …
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Politico and Wall Street Journal
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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
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 …
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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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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 …
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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.
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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.
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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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