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Noah Weiland / New York Times:
Trump Economic Adviser Ties G-7 Pullout to North Korea Meeting — WASHINGTON — President Trump's top economic adviser said on Sunday that Mr. Trump had pulled out of a joint statement with allies at the Group of 7 meeting over the weekend because a “betrayal” by the Canadian prime minister …
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Political Wire
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David Frum / The Atlantic:
Trump Goes to War Against the Democracies — “He's like Heath Ledger's Joker—but without the operational excellence.” That was the grim after-action assessment of one senior G7 official with whom I spoke in the shocked aftermath of President Donald Trump's savage post-summit tweets.
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NBC News, The Guardian and RedState
Axios:
Scoop: Trump's deal-of-the-decade North Korea plan — President Trump will confront Kim Jong-un using “a strategy to impress as well as intimidate” — and is open to planting a U.S. embassy in North Korea. — The big picture: U.S. officials involved in the summit preparations …
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Politico and Washington Post
Eric Talmadge / Associated Press:
Business as usual in North Korea as public unaware of summit — PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — With all the international attention focused on Singapore and the historic summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Pyongyang must be buzzing with excitement, right?
CBS News:
Trump retracts his endorsement of G7 final statement — President Trump retracted his endorsement of the final statement from the G7, tweeting afterward he had instructed representatives “not to endorse” it. He blamed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's statement afterward that Canada will not be …
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Washington Post, The Hill, The Last Tradition, TheBlaze, CBS New York and The Daily Caller
Axios:
Kudlow: Trump's G7 decision was a show of strength before Kim summit — During an appearance on CNN's “State of the Union” this morning, President Trump's chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow said that Trump's unprecedented decision not to sign onto the G7 summit's joint communique came …
John Paul Tasker / CBC News:
Trump demands Canada dismantle supply management or risk trading relationship
Trump demands Canada dismantle supply management or risk trading relationship
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Power Line, BuzzFeed, The White House, The Daily Caller and Mother Jones
Axios:
Scoop: Trump open to U.S. embassy in Pyongyang, North Korea
Scoop: Trump open to U.S. embassy in Pyongyang, North Korea
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Politico, ThinkProgress, Washington Post, One America News Network, Breitbart, Political Wire, Reuters and Raw Story
Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
North Korea's Kim Jong Un arrives in Singapore for historic summit with Trump
North Korea's Kim Jong Un arrives in Singapore for historic summit with Trump
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Politico, One America News Network, The Daily Caller and TheDrive
Mark Landler / New York Times:
Meeting With Kim Tests Trump's Dealmaking Swagger
Meeting With Kim Tests Trump's Dealmaking Swagger
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FiveThirtyEight, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Political Wire and France 24
BBC:
Leave.EU ‘downplayed Russian links’ — The founder of Leave.EU, Arron Banks, has confirmed he will appear before MPs this week to answer new allegations about his links with Russia. — It has been reported that Mr Banks, who bankrolled the unofficial leave campaign, had more contact …
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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.
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 …
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Outside the Beltway and HuffPost
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New York Times:
‘Drama, Action, Emotional Power’: As Exhausted Aides Eye the Exits, Trump Is Re-Energized — WASHINGTON — President Trump has gone overseas to embark on some of the most consequential diplomatic negotiations of his tenure, threatening an all-out trade war with allies and seizing a chance to make peace with a nuclear-armed menace.
Washington Post:
‘They just took them?’ Frantic parents separated from their kids fill courts on the border — By Michael E. Miller June 9 at 6:44 PM Email the author — MCALLEN, Texas — The words “all rise” were still ringing in the brightly lit South Texas courtroom last week when Peter E. Ormsby slipped unceremoniously into his seat.
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Breitbart, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Mother Jones, Hullabaloo, ThinkProgress and New York Magazine
New York Times:
Turning Affluent Suburbs Blue Isn't Worth the Cost — Ms. Geismer is the author of “Don't Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party.” Mr. Lassiter is the author of “The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South.”
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Washington Monthly and Outside the Beltway
Salena Zito / New York Post:
How suicide became my ‘family secret’ — and shaped who I am — On May 12, 1915, Clifford G. Peiffer walked down East Lacock Street on Pittsburgh's North Side with a note in his pocket, sadness in his heart and a determination in his step. — Earlier that morning, he had told his wife …
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
New York Times reporter broke the biggest rule in journalism — On previous occasions, I've written about the blunt way legendary New York Times editor Abe Rosenthal dealt with a conflict of interest. The story bears repeating after the indictment of a top Senate official over his contacts with reporters …
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NewsBusters, The First Street Journal and American Greatness
Blake Montgomery / BuzzFeed:
A Restaurant Owner Featured On “No Reservations” Said Anthony Bourdain Changed Their Lives — Xi'an Famous Foods said it was donating all of its June 8 sales to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline to honor Bourdain's memory. — After Anthony Bourdain was found dead Friday of a reported suicide …
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Andrew Solomon / New Yorker:
Preventable Tragedies — The pattern of highly accomplished …
Preventable Tragedies — The pattern of highly accomplished …
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Philip Pullella / Reuters:
Astronauts give pope personalized space suit, add white cape — VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Astronauts from the International Space Station gave Pope Francis his own blue jump suit on Friday but to distinguish him from ordinary planetary pilgrims like themselves they added a white cape.
Wall Street Journal:
Jeff Sessions Struggles to Get Planned Marijuana Crackdown Going — Attorney general vowed to toughen federal enforcement of the drug, but he doesn't have support from Trump or Congress — Attorney General Jeff Sessions vowed to use federal law to get tough on marijuana …