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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 …
Discussion: 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.
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?
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 …
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 …
Foster Klug / Associated Press:
Isolated Kim takes big gamble leaving home for Trump summit
Discussion: Politico
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Fox & Friends host slips: Trump's North Korea summit is a ‘historic meeting between two dictators’
Discussion: Shareblue Media
Annabelle Liang / Associated Press:
Singapore deports South Korean journalists in trespass case
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Mediaite
Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
North Korea's Kim Jong Un arrives in Singapore for historic summit with Trump
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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Isabel Oakeshott / The Times & The Sunday Times:   A classic Russian fishing expedition lands back channel to White House
The Guardian:
Arron Banks ‘met Russian officials multiple times before Brexit vote’
Discussion: Washington Monthly
The Times & The Sunday Times:   Email trail shows how Arron Banks and Andy Wigmore were cultivated
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.
Discussion: IJR, Raw Story, AOL and Mediaite
Maïa de La Baume / Politico:
France blasts ‘incoherent’ Trump after G7 fiasco  —  France pledged on Sunday to stand by the G7 summit statement disowned by Donald Trump and took a swipe at the U.S. president by declaring that international cooperation could not depend on “fits of anger” or “little words.”
Discussion: NPR, Sommet du G7 and Shareblue Media
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Guy Lawson / New York Times:   First Canada Tried to Charm Trump. Now It's Fighting Back.
New York Times:
Trump's Blasts Upend G-7, Alienating Oldest Allies  —  WASHINGTON — Shortly before leaving the annual meeting of major world powers on Saturday, President Trump boasted that it had been “tremendously successful” and that on a scale of 0 to 10, “the relationship is a 10.”
Discussion: Talking Points Memo, CNN and HuffPost
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W.G. Dunlop / Yahoo:
US blames Canada for G7 fiasco, says Trudeau ‘stabbed us in the back’
Discussion: Althouse
Ashish Kumar Sen / Atlantic Council:
Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats: Russia is Attempting to Influence US Midterms …
Discussion: AOL, Outside the Beltway and HuffPost
Liz Goodwin / BostonGlobe.com:
Down on the border, a new trail of tears  —  McALLEN, Texas — Every night before bed, Wil, who is 6 years old, says his prayers and then kisses two printed-out photos of his mom and dad that are taped on the wall by his bed goodnight.  —  A few hours later, he's likely to wander …
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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.
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 …
Discussion: NewsBusters
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 …
Brian Faler / Politico:
Blue states find ways to undercut GOP tax law  —  In states like New York, taxpayers would be better off than they were before Republicans changed the tax law.  —  Residents of some blue states may get a surprisingly big tax cut thanks to workarounds state lawmakers are crafting to subvert …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
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 …
Discussion: New York Times
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.”
Masha Gessen / New Yorker:
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.
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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Vladimir Isachenkov / Associated Press:
Putin says willing to meet Trump whenever US is ready
Discussion: AOL
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Steve Hilton / Fox News:
Trump's criticism of G-7 is ‘unprecedented’ scream the elite — That's the whole point of Trump!
Wall Street Journal:
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