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7:00 AM ET, June 11, 2018

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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 …

Discussion: CNN, The Week, Montreal Gazette, Vox, RedState and Shareblue Media

Selena Ross / Washington Post:

Trudeau takes his turn as Trump's principal antagonist, and Canadians rally around him — MONTREAL — Before he was elected Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau faced a consistent type of criticism from his opponents: he was too young and too eager to please, conservatives said.

Discussion: CBC News, Splinter and The Mahablog

New York Times:

Trump's ‘Bully’ Attack on Trudeau Outrages Canadians — MONTREAL — Canadians have had enough. — It takes a lot to rile people in this decidedly courteous nation. But after President Trump's parting shots against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the day he left the Group of 7 summit meeting in Quebec …

Discussion: New Republic, CNN and POLITICUSUSA

Brent D. Griffiths / Politico:

Navarro: ‘Special place in hell’ for Trudeau — White House trade adviser Peter Navarro lit into Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Sunday, saying there's a “special place in hell” for a world leader who double crosses President Donald Trump. — “There's a special place in hell …

Discussion: Axios, One America News Network, Breitbart, The Daily Caller, The Hill, Politico, New Republic, Talking Points Memo, Daily Caller News Foundation and ThinkProgress

David Leonhardt / New York Times:

Trump Tries to Destroy the West — The alliance between the United States and Western Europe has accomplished great things. It won two world wars in the first half of the 20th century. Then it expanded to include its former enemies and went on to win the Cold War, help spread democracy …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, BBC and Mediaite

Maïa de La Baume / Politico:
France blasts ‘incoherent’ Trump after G7 fiasco

Discussion: Shareblue Media, Palmer Report, Talking Points Memo, Splinter, Reuters, The Guardian, Sommet du G7, Mediaite and Washington Post

Washington Post:
Trump accuses Canadian leader of being ‘dishonest’ and ‘weak’

Discussion: The American Conservative, BBC and The Guardian

Sky News:
Merkel labels Trump behaviour ‘a bit depressing’ as G7 agreement lies in tatters

Discussion: Mediaite

Associated Press: White House takes up fight against ‘back-stabbing’ Trudeau

Deutsche Welle / DW.COM:
Chancellor Angela Merkel: Trump's rejection of G7 communique ‘sobering’ and ‘depressing’

Discussion: Politico

Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
After Trump's G-7 summit fiasco, be afraid

Discussion: Fox News, Power Line, Splinter and The Atlantic

Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Debacle in Quebec

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog

Eli Watkins / CNN:
Peter Navarro says 'there's a special place in hell' for Justin Trudeau

Discussion: BuzzFeed, Mediaite, Toronto Star, TMZ.com, The Gateway Pundit, Mother Jones, The Week and Daily Kos

Gregg Re / Fox News:
There's a ‘special place in hell’ for Trudeau after his G7 ‘stunt,’ top WH Trade Adviser Peter Navarro says

Discussion: ABC News, POLITICUSUSA, Mediaite, Daily Caller News Foundation, The Last Tradition, National Observer, NPR, The Daily Caller, Business Insider and Splinter

Eli Watkins / CNN:
Trump's top economic aide on Trudeau: ‘It was a betrayal’

Discussion: Washington Post, The Week, EURACTIV.com, Mediaite, Axios, Talking Points Memo, Hullabaloo, IJR, Politico, New York Magazine, New Republic, The Atlantic, CBC News, Jamie Dupree - AJC, ThinkProgress, National Observer, Associated Press and Townhall

Annie Karni / Politico:

Meet the guys who tape Trump's papers back together — The president's ‘unofficial filing system’ involves tearing up documents into pieces, even when they're supposed to be preserved. — Solomon Lartey spent the first five months of the Trump administration working in the Old Executive Office Building …

Discussion: CNN, New York Magazine, Althouse, HuffPost, POLITICUSUSA, Daily Kos, Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Week, Washington Monthly, twitchy.com, Raw Story, Mediaite and Axios

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 …

Wall Street Journal:
The Art of the Foreign-Policy Deal: An Insider's Guide to Trump's Tactics

Discussion: Raw Story

Nasser Karimi / Associated Press:
Iran, spurned by US, angrily watches Trump-North Korea talks

Discussion: Washington Times

Wall Street Journal:
Trump, Kim Jong Un Gird for High-Stakes Summit in Singapore

Discussion: The Daily Beast

Luis Martinez / ABC News:
Trump-Kim summit: What it would take to move forward

Discussion: Foreign Policy, Axios, Mediaite and Townhall

Axios:
Scoop: Trump's deal-of-the-decade North Korea plan

Discussion: Politico, One America News Network, ThinkProgress and PJ Media Home

David Edwards / Raw Story:
Fox & Friends host slips: Trump's North Korea summit is a ‘historic meeting between two dictators’

Discussion: HuffPost, AOL, ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES, Mashable, Shareblue Media and Grabien News

Alex Isenstadt / Politico:

Mark Sanford running scared in Trump-fueled primary — A last-minute barrage of commercials from Sanford — a notoriously frugal figure who hasn't spent money on TV advertising in five years — is a sure sign he's under duress. — MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. — GOP Rep. Mark Sanford has spent …

Lesley Stahl / CBS News:

Facebook “embeds,” Russia and the Trump campaign's secret weapon — Brad Parscale, digital director for Trump's campaign, was a critical factor in the president's election. Now questions surround how he did it — Tonight you will hear from the man President Donald Trump appointed as his 2020 re-election campaign manager.

Dennis Romero / NBC News:

Ex-NFL player was house hunting when neighbor called police, rep says — An ex-NFL player was house hunting for his mother-in-law in southern California when he was arrested on suspicion of burglary after a neighbor called police, authorities and the former tight end's representative said.

Discussion: ProFootballTalk and The Root

Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:

New Russian Media Venture Wants to Wage ‘Information War’ in Washington, D.C. … A Russian government adviser who aims to wage “information war” in the U.S. and Europe is running a new media venture blocks from the White House that cybersecurity experts say has ties to the country's infamous disinformation apparatus.

Jonathan Swan / Axios:

Scoop: Trump tells Macron the EU is “worse” than China — When French President Emmanuel Macron visited Washington, he and President Trump had a tough conversation about trade that foreshadowed the breakdown of transatlantic relations at the G7 summit. — What happened: In their bilateral meeting …

Discussion: CNN, POLITICUSUSA and BBC

Gabriela Galindo / Politico:

Italian mayors rebel against Salvini's order to block migrant ship — A number of mayors across southern Italy are pushing back against Matteo Salvini's decision Sunday to close off the country's ports to a rescue ship carrying more than 600 migrants. — Salvini — Italy's new interior minister …

Discussion: One America News Network and Reuters

Linda Massarella / New York Post:

Cynthia Nixon skips Puerto Rican Day Parade — Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Cynthia Nixon blamed rival Gov. Cuomo for causing woes in Puerto Rico - but then she skipped Sunday's Puerto Rico Day Parade in Manhattan, instead traveling to Rochester to campaign.

Nico Hines / The Daily Beast:

How a Journalist Kept Russia's Secret Links to Brexit Under Wraps … LONDON—The extent of Russia's interference in the 2016 votes for Trump and Brexit has been investigated by intelligence agencies, congressional and parliamentary inquiries, the FBI and special counsel Robert Mueller's office for more than a year.