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Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
U.S. won't bring up North Korea's human rights issues at Singapore summit — WASHINGTON — Wounded from torture and starving, Grace Jo's father died on a train heading to a North Korean prison camp, a fellow inmate told his family. His crime: illegally possessing a bag of rice during the 1990s famine.
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Digital Chosunilbo:
Kim Jong-un's Flight to Singapore a Precision Maneuver — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's flight to Singapore was a tightly planned maneuver using a decoy to throw attackers off the scent. Three planes took off in North Korea at about an hour's interval on Sunday — an IL-76 …
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Washington Post:
With smiles and a handshake, Trump and Kim could mask gulf on nuclear arms — SINGAPORE — When President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shake hands for the first time and sit down one-on-one here Tuesday, the bonhomie they plan to project will mask the huge gulf between …
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Fox News host apologizes after calling Trump-Kim summit ‘meeting between two dictators’
Fox News host apologizes after calling Trump-Kim summit ‘meeting between two dictators’
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Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, CNBC and Mediaite
Eric Talmadge / Associated Press:
Analysis: Wit, wisdom are likely tactics from Kim's playbook
Analysis: Wit, wisdom are likely tactics from Kim's playbook
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Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Politico
Tonda MacCharles / Toronto Star:
What led to Trump's outburst against Trudeau: Behind the scenes at the G7 — QUEBEC CITY—U.S. President Donald Trump greeted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau warmly Friday morning as he arrived at the G7. — Although he'd tweeted grumpily the night before that Trudeau was “so indignant” …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Escalating Clash With Canada, Trump Is Isolated Before North Korea Meeting — WASHINGTON — President Trump escalated a bitter clash with some of America's closest allies on Sunday, lashing out through his advisers at Canada's prime minister in unusually personal terms and leaving himself …
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New York Times:
Trump's ‘Bully’ Attack on Trudeau Outrages Canadians
Trump's ‘Bully’ Attack on Trudeau Outrages Canadians
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ThinkProgress, TIME, Fox News, TheBlaze, Shareblue Media, MSNBC and The Guardian
NBC News:
The GOP once championed alliances and free trade. Why is it silent now?
The GOP once championed alliances and free trade. Why is it silent now?
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ThinkProgress, Raw Story, Politico and Daily Kos
Megan Cassella / Politico:
Trump officials kick into damage-control mode with Canada
Trump officials kick into damage-control mode with Canada
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Raw Story
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Inside Obama's secret meetings with 2020 contenders — Still the reluctant leader of the Democratic Party, Obama has been providing counsel to Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and other presidential hopefuls. — Barack Obama has in recent months met with at least nine prospective 2020 …
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Joe Cunningham / RedState:
Man Who Destroyed the Democratic Party Gives Advice to Democratic Presidential Hopefuls — Barack Obama, former president and Republican sleeper agent who successfully destroyed the Democratic Party in eight years, is back in the news after hosting a series of private, one-on-one meetings …
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Scott surges past Nelson with older Florida voters
Scott surges past Nelson with older Florida voters
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Breitbart, Tampa Bay Times and The Capitolist
Dan Merica / CNN:
Obama meeting with 2020 hopefuls to discuss party future, running in the age of Trump
Obama meeting with 2020 hopefuls to discuss party future, running in the age of Trump
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Breaking News USA, Axios and Washington Times
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic:
A Senior White House Official Defines the Trump Doctrine: 'We're America, Bitch' — Many of Donald Trump's critics find it difficult to ascribe to a president they consider to be both subliterate and historically insensate a foreign-policy doctrine that approaches coherence.
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Talking Points Memo, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Raw Story and Mediaite
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Web of elite Russians met with NRA execs during 2016 campaign — WASHINGTON — Several prominent Russians, some in President Vladimir Putin's inner circle or high in the Russian Orthodox Church, now have been identified as having contact with National Rifle Association officials during the 2016 U.S. election campaign.
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court upholds Ohio's way of removing infrequent voters from rolls — Conservatives on the Supreme Court on Monday upheld Ohio's method of purging voters from the rolls after they miss elections. — The court ruled 5 to 4 that Ohio's process does not violate federal law.
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Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
Supreme Court, in 5-4 Decision, Allows States to Purge Voters for Their Failure to Vote
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
The Supreme Court Just Upheld Ohio's Aggressive Process For Purging Voters From The Rolls
Ari Berman / Mother Jones:
The Supreme Court Is Helping Republicans Kill a Key Voting Rights Law
The Supreme Court Is Helping Republicans Kill a Key Voting Rights Law
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Daily Kos
U.S. Department of the Treasury:
Treasury Sanctions Russian Federal Security Service Enablers — Washington - Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated five Russian entities and three Russian individuals under Executive Order (E.O.) 13694, “Blocking the Property …
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Lukas Mikelionis / Fox News:
Robert De Niro throws F-bombs at Trump during Tony Awards — Actor Robert De Niro launched a profanity-laced tirade at President Trump during Sunday's politically charged Tony Awards, earning a standing ovation. — “I'm gonna say one thing: F— Trump!” he stated, as he clenched his two fists in the air …
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Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Robert De Niro Says ‘F— Trump’ at Tony Awards, Gets Standing Ovation
Robert De Niro Says ‘F— Trump’ at Tony Awards, Gets Standing Ovation
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CNN, The American Conservative, The Gateway Pundit, The Last Tradition, Scared Monkeys and AOL
April Glaser / Slate:
Day 1 of a Worse Internet — Net neutrality is officially dead. Here's how you'll notice it's gone. — Monday, June 11, is the first day of the post-net neutrality internet. In December, the Federal Communications Commission voted to repeal the Obama-era rules that prohibit internet companies …
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Keith Collins / New York Times:
Net Neutrality Repeal Is Official. Here's How That Could Affect You.
Net Neutrality Repeal Is Official. Here's How That Could Affect You.
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RedState, Fast Company, Associated Press and BuzzFeed
Adam Entous / New Yorker:
Donald Trump's New World Order — How the President, Israel, and the Gulf states plan to fight Iran—and leave the Palestinians and the Obama years behind. — On the afternoon of December 14, 2016, Ron Dermer, Israel's Ambassador to the United States, rode from his Embassy to the White House to attend a Hanukkah party.
Kate Gibson / CBS News:
Jack Dorsey, Twitter's CEO, blasted for patronizing Chick-fil-A — Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey found himself back pedaling after tweeting about using Chick-fil-A's mobile app, saying he'd forgotten about the fast-food chain's history of opposing gay marriage. — Dorsey found himself the subject …
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Nolan Finley / Detroit News:
Darn. I may outlive Social Security — I've got to quick go see my doctor. — For years he's had me on a health maintenance plan with the goal, he says, of keeping me alive until I'm 90. — Now I need him to ease back on the medicine and good living advice. I'm not sure my money will hold out that long.
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Robert J. Samuelson / Washington Post:
The cowardice of the political class
The cowardice of the political class
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Crooked Timber
New York Magazine:
A Company Built on a Bluff … It was sunny in Williamsburg on the last Wednesday in May, which also happened to be the second day of a new era at Vice Media. Visitors were still required to sign in on a tablet that featured an image of a woman's red lips opened wide to reveal a tab of acid …
Gabriela Galindo / Politico:
Spain will welcome migrant rescue ship turned away by Italy — A rescue ship that's been stranded in the Mediterranean since Sunday with over 600 people on board will be allowed to dock in Valencia, Spanish authorities announced Monday. — The government said in a statement …
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VICE News:
Exclusive: First photos emerge of shadowy Manafort aide tied to Russian intelligence — KIEV, Ukraine — Konstantin Kilimnik, the shadowy Russian political operative indicted Friday by special counsel Robert Mueller, has led such an intensely secretive life that no photograph of him has ever emerged in public.
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Raw Story
Anna Merlan / Jezebel:
The Reporter Who Exposed New York Times Star Glenn Thrush's Sexual Misconduct Says She Was the Victim of a Smear Campaign — Last November, Vox published a story by politics editor Laura McGann about New York Times politics reporter Glenn Thrush and what she called his “history of bad judgment” around young women journalists.
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The Daily Beast
Craig Calcaterra / NBCSports.com:
Report: Shohei Ohtani likely to have Tommy John surgery, will be out until 2020 — Here was Gomez's comment on SportsCenter: … There has been no confirmation by the Angels or anyone close to Ohtani, but nor has there been contradiction. We'll obviously hear more on this today.