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12:55 PM ET, June 16, 2018

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Molly Hennessy-Fiske / Los Angeles Times:
Was a breastfeeding infant really taken from an immigrant mother?  The answer to this and other questions about families separated at the border  —  Last month, U.S. Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions announced the Trump administration's “zero tolerance” policy of charging migrants in federal criminal court …
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Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:   PHOTOS: Inside Shelter for Illegal Alien Children Separated from Parents
Washington Post:
Trump cites as a negotiating tool his policy of separating immigrant children from their parents
Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Week
BBC:   US child migrants: 2,000 separated from families in six weeks
Rob Rogers / New York Times:
I Was Fired for Making Fun of Trump  —  Mr. Rogers joined The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette as an editorial cartoonist in 1993.  He worked there until this week.  In 1999, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.  —  After 25 years as the editorial cartoonist for The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, I was fired on Thursday.
Johnny Oleksinski / New York Post:
‘Gotti’ flick is the worst mob movie of all-time … I'd rather wake up next to a severed horse head than ever watch “Gotti” again.  —  The worst movie of the year so far, the long-awaited biopic about the Gambino crime boss' rise from made man to top dog took four directors, 44 producers and eight years to make.
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Viva le resistance: How political bias infected FBI Trump, Clinton probes  —  It didn't take long for defenders of the FBI's Trump-Russia investigation to claim that the Justice Department inspector general's report found no bias in the bureau's conduct of the Hillary Clinton email investigation …
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Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
11 Quick Things To Know About The Inspector General's Report
New York Times:
Trump Has a Few Things He'd Like to Get Off His Chest
Discussion: CNN and NY State of Politics
Jia Tolentino / New Yorker:
“Coco,” a Story About Borders and Love, Is a Definitive Movie for This Moment  —  One weekend last fall, my boyfriend, Andrew, whose favorite movies include “Deliverance” and the original “Texas Chain Saw Massacre,” went off to go see the Pixar movie “Coco,” by himself, and came back in a delirium of happy, wistful tears.
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Problems at the Justice Department and FBI Are Serious  —  And they won't be solved by whining about criticism.  —  What do you do with an FBI agent, sworn to uphold the law, who flagrantly violates the law in a rogue investigation aimed at making a name for himself by bringing down some high-profile targets?
Discussion: RedState and Chicago Boyz
Des Moines Register:
China tariffs on U.S. soybeans could cost Iowa farmers up to $624 million  —  Perhaps Iowa farmers' biggest fear is becoming a harsh reality: The escalating U.S.-China trade dispute erupted Friday, with each country vowing to levy 25 percent tariffs on $50 billion in goods.
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Danny Lawhon / Des Moines Register:   Experts: Trump's latest tariffs put increased risk into already uncertain Iowa economy
Ottawa Citizen:
How quickly could Canada build an atomic bomb?  —  We've got the uranium, the know-how and a sudden desire to be respected by our nearest neighbour  —  NOTE: Just to be clear, all sources quoted in this story think a Canadian nuclear bomb is an unbelievably terrible idea that is bad for everyone in almost every way.
Toni Airaksinen / Campus Reform:
Harvard Medical School ashamed of white male department heads  — Harvard Medical School has removed 31 portraits of its former department heads from a lecture hall because all of the individuals are men, and 30 of them are white.  — Dr. Betsy Nabel, the hospital's president …
Ruby Samuels / pluralist:
Canada Might Sanction Trump By Going After His Administration Rather Than the American People  —  “I fear President Trump has put us in that position.”  —  Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said Tuesday that she is open to using a law normally reserved for leaders responsible …
Discussion: The Hill
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Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:
FBI recovers WhatsApp, Signal data stored on Michael Cohen's BlackBerry  —  Letter to judge reveals 731 pages of messages, call logs uncovered on one of two phones.  —  In a letter to the presiding judge in the case against Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's long-time personal attorney …
Discussion: Gizmodo and Law & Crime
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Frances Stead Sellers / Washington Post:
Cohen looks to force Michael Avenatti to stop talking about Stormy Daniels case
Discussion: ABC News, Daily Kos, Politico and Mediaite
Aris Folley / The Hill:
Watergate prosecutor says Manafort may never again ‘see the outside of a jail cell’  —  Former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman said on Friday that Paul Manafort  —  may never again “see the outside of a jail cell” after his house arrest arrangement was revoked on Friday.  —  President Trump
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Virginia Heffernan / Los Angeles Times:
Paul Manafort is in the klink.  It's OK to be pleased  —  Paul Manafort, the former campaign manager of Donald Trump, is in the klink.  It's OK to be pleased.  —  Oh, Manafort.  —  As one of the early casualties of the Trump-Russia inquiry, he was first indicted in October 2017 …
Washington Post:
For the biggest group of American workers, wages aren't just flat.  They're falling.  —  The average hourly wage paid to a key group of American workers has fallen from last year when accounting for inflation, as an economy that appears strong by several measures continues to fail to create bigger paychecks …
Discussion: Washington Press
Michael Wines / New York Times:
North Carolina Republicans Are Back With a New Plan for Strict Voter Laws  —  WASHINGTON — The last time Republicans in the North Carolina Legislature enacted a law making it harder for some of the state's residents to vote, a federal court said the statute targeted African-American voters …
Laura McGann / Vox:
Are Democrats brave enough to run a woman against Donald Trump?  —  Liberals can't decide how to deal with Trump in the era of #MeToo.  —  Democrats agree that Donald Trump's history of bragging about groping and assaulting women is unacceptable, but they don't agree about how to deal with it in 2020.
Discussion: Jacobin
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Donald dreams of dictators  —  In the three years since he first descended his golden escalator to announce his presidential bid, Trump has made clear he yearns for fealty along with authority.  —  President Donald Trump reliably tells the truth on one thing: He likes the way dictators do business.
John Carreyrou / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Files Criminal Charges Against Theranos's Elizabeth Holmes, Ramesh Balwani  —  Indictments allege leaders of blood-testing company defrauded investors, doctors and patients  —  Federal prosecutors filed criminal charges against Theranos Inc. founder Elizabeth Holmes …
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Washington Post:
After forging new ties with North Korea, Trump administration turns to Russia  —  Days after a historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the Trump administration is forging ahead with new engagements with another longtime adversary: Russia.  —  President Trump is expected to meet …
Discussion: AOL, The Hill, Mediaite, Vox and Politico
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Nora Gámez Torres / miamiherald:   Trump is willing to negotiate with North Korea — but not Cuba
 
 
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Julián Aguilar / The Texas Tribune:
Trump administration opens tent city near El Paso to house separated immigrant children
NBC News:
This man is running Russia's newest propaganda effort in the U.S. — or at least he's trying to
Associated Press:
When, not if: US poised to quit UN's human rights council
Discussion: Shareblue Media
CNN:
DHS: 2,000 kids separated from parents at border over 6 week period
Kyle Swenson / Washington Post:
Sessions says the Bible justifies separating immigrant families. The verses he cited are infamous.
Discussion: Althouse, Forbes, ABC News and The Root
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
GOP wants Trump in 2020, more popular than Obama, JFK, Reagan
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Time Warner unveils its new name: WarnerMedia
Philip T. Hackney / New York Times:
Why the I.R.S. Should Go After Trump
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Damon Winter / New York Times:
Adem Bunkeddeko in the Ninth District
President Donald J. Trump / The White House:
CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS' FAMILY SEPARATION POLICY …
Discussion: National Review
Julia Jacobs / New York Times:
Mammals Go Nocturnal in Bid to Avoid Humans
Discussion: Boing Boing
ProPublica:
Facebook's Screening for Political Ads Nabs News Sites Instead of Politicians
Discussion: The Week
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Steve King's Inflammatory Behavior Is Met With Silence From G.O.P.
Discussion: Arizona Republic
Erika Harwood / Vanity Fair:
Melania Trump Spent Her Husband's Birthday Away from Her Husband
CNN:
Emails show former Sheriff David Clarke's tense and protracted process to retain master's degree
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
 

 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

 
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