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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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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, RedState and New York Times


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


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?

Isolated Kim takes big gamble leaving home for Trump summit
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Politico

Trump's top economic aide on Trudeau: ‘It was a betrayal’
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The Atlantic, Townhall, Talking Points Memo, Jamie Dupree - AJC, Breitbart and BuzzFeed

Fox & Friends host slips: Trump's North Korea summit is a ‘historic meeting between two dictators’
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Shareblue Media

Singapore deports South Korean journalists in trespass case
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The Daily Caller and Mediaite

Scoop: Trump open to U.S. embassy in Pyongyang, North Korea
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Washington Post, Politico, ThinkProgress, One America News Network, Breitbart, Reuters, Raw Story and Political Wire

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

Meeting With Kim Tests Trump's Dealmaking Swagger
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Mother Jones, FiveThirtyEight, Lawyers, Guns & Money and France 24


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 Times & The Sunday Times
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A classic Russian fishing expedition lands back channel to White House — In Arron Banks and Andy Wigmore the Kremlin had spotted men it could use. Then they vaulted to the heart of western politics — Today's revelations are the result of an investigation that I was carrying …


‘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.

US blames Canada for G7 fiasco, says Trudeau ‘stabbed us in the back’ — US President Donald Trump left the G7 summit early en route for Singapore and a historic nuclear summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, only to take exception to comments made by Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a news conference
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Althouse
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Trump's Blasts Upend G-7, Alienating Oldest Allies
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Talking Points Memo, CNN and HuffPost

Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats: Russia is Attempting to Influence US Midterms …
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Outside the Beltway and HuffPost


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 and The First Street Journal


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 …
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Power Line, The White House, The Daily Caller and Mother Jones
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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 …


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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No More Mister Nice Blog, Washington Monthly and Outside the Beltway


‘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


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 …


Romney looks to lead GOP's establishment wing — Mitt Romney is positioning himself to be a force in the Senate — and a potential counterweight to Donald Trump. — DEER VALLEY, UTAH - Mitt Romney is mapping out plans to become a major player in the Senate — positioning himself …
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New York Times


Amazon Blasted Over China Echo Factory Conditions — China Labor Watch cites low pay, long hours, safety concerns — Amazon says it identified concerns and is addressing them — A watchdog group is calling on Amazon.com Inc. to improve conditions for factory workers in China …


Trump's criticism of G-7 is ‘unprecedented’ scream the elite — That's the whole point of Trump! — President's confrontational trade policies and controversial idea of resurrecting Russia's membership in the elite club raise eyebrows; Kevin Corke reports from Quebec City.


How George Orwell Predicted the Challenge of Writing Today — The following is adapted from a lecture delivered in Barcelona at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona on June 6, 2018, in honor of Orwell Day. — Some essays are letters into the future.


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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Preventable Tragedies — The pattern of highly accomplished …
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