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9:20 PM ET, June 9, 2018

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Washington Post:
Trump at G-7 floats end to all tariffs, threatens major penalties for countries that don't agree  —  QUEBEC CITY - President Trump told foreign leaders at the Group of Seven summit that they must dramatically reduce trade barriers with the United States or they would risk losing access …
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Trump Says U.S. Will No Longer Be 'Piggy Bank That Everybody's Robbing'  —  LA MALBAIE, Quebec — President Trump said on Saturday that he had brought up with America's closest allies the dramatic prospect of completely eliminating tariffs on goods and services, even as he threatened to end …
Ashish Kumar Sen / Atlantic Council:
Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats: Russia is Attempting to Influence US Midterms, Divide Transatlantic Alliance  —  Russia is attempting to influence the midterm elections in the United States in November as well as divide the transatlantic alliance, US Director …
Discussion: Political Wire
Jonathan Swan / Axios:   Why Trump lit the fire
The Guardian:
Arron Banks ‘met Russian officials multiple times before Brexit vote’  —  Arron Banks, the millionaire businessman who bankrolled Nigel Farage's campaign to quit the EU, had multiple meetings with Russian embassy officials in the run-up to the Brexit referendum, documents seen by the Observer suggest.
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The Times & The Sunday Times:
Exclusive: Emails reveal Russian links of millionaire Brexit backer Arron Banks  —  Arron Banks, the millionaire businessman who helped fund Brexit, had three meetings with the Russian ambassador to Britain — raising explosive questions about attempts by Moscow to influence the referendum result.
Axios:
Scoop: Trump open to U.S. embassy in Pyongyang, North Korea  —  President Trump is willing to consider establishing official relations with North Korea and even eventually putting an embassy in Pyongyang, according to two sources familiar with preparations for the Singapore summit.
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Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
In Trump, some fear the end of the world order
Discussion: Raw Story
David Nakamura / Washington Post:   Trump says he'll size up Kim Jong Un ‘within the first minute’ of Singapore summit
Victoria Kim / Los Angeles Times:   Singapore preps for Trump-Kim summit with fresh paint and arrests
Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
For Kim Jong Un, meeting Trump is about cementing power at home
Discussion: Mother Jones
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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Avery Anapol / The Hill:   Honduran man in US custody kills himself after being separated from wife and child at border: report
Eliza Collins / USA Today:
German Chancellor Merkel's stare down photo sums up Trump's time at G-7  —  WASHINGTON — If a picture is worth 1,000 words, Angela Merkel has some thoughts.  —  The German chancellor uploaded a photograph on Instagram of her and French President Emmanuel Macron seeming to stare down President Trump.
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John Paul Tasker / CBC News:
Trump demands Canada dismantle supply management or risk trading relationship  —  'We don't want to pay anything, why should we pay anything?'  Trump says of Canadian tariffs on dairy products  —  U.S. President Donald Trump says Canada will have to dismantle its supply-managed dairy system …
Associated Press:   Trump delivers warning on trade as he leaves G-7 summit
John Paul Tasker / CBC News:
Trump arrives late and leaves early as G7 leaders talk gender, oceans and climate
Discussion: Daily Kos and Washington Press
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.
Discussion: Washington Press
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Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
Reagan's attorney general comes out swinging in defense of Mueller  —  Dick Thornburgh, attorney general under presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, called out his fellow Republicans for attacking special counsel Mueller and undermining the rule of law.
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Mueller's ‘witch hunt’ snags another witch
Washington Post:
Why can't we hate men?  —  Suzanna Danuta Walters, a professor of sociology and director of the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Northeastern University, is the editor of the gender studies journal Signs.  —  It's not that Eric Schneiderman (the now-former …
Kirsten Powers / USA Today:
Americans are depressed and suicidal because something is wrong with our culture  —  On average, there are 123 suicides per day in the United States.  If you or someone you know needs help, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK.  —  Don't pathologize the despair …
Discussion: neo-neocon
Coral Davenport / New York Times:
In the Trump Administration, Science Is Unwelcome.  So Is Advice.  —  As the president prepares for nuclear talks, he lacks a close adviser with nuclear expertise.  It's one example of a marginalization of science in shaping federal policy.  —  WASHINGTON — As President Trump prepares …
Discussion: Axios
Sean Rossman / USA Today:
USA TODAY foreign affairs reporter Oren Dorell killed in hit-and-run  —  Oren Dorell, a former construction contractor who became a globe-trotting foreign affairs reporter for USA TODAY, died Friday evening in Washington D.C. He was 53.  —  Dorell was hit by a suspected impaired driver while riding his motorcycle.
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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Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Bill Clinton's Me Too Reckoning
 
 
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Vienna possible venue for Trump-Putin summit: Kremlin
Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Democratic lawmakers seek criminal probe of EPA chief Scott Pruitt
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Video of TSA agents searching 96-year-old woman in wheelchair sparks outrage
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Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
‘I must be doing something right’: Billionaire George Soros faces renewed attacks with defiance
Pete Kasperowicz / Washington Examiner:
Trump's tariff on Canadian newsprint is killing US newspapers, Republicans warn
Discussion: RedState
Shilpa Jamkhandikar / Reuters:
ABC apologizes for Hindu terror plot in Quantico after online backlash
Discussion: twitchy.com and Daily Wire
Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
Joe Crowley Complains His Primary Opponent, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Making This Race “About Race”
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Forget Rudy: Here are Trump's fiercest defenders
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Financial Times:
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