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9:50 AM ET, June 17, 2018

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Washington Post:
Trump associate Roger Stone reveals new contact with Russian national during 2016 campaign  —  MIAMI — One day in late May 2016, Roger Stone — the political dark sorcerer and longtime confidant of Donald Trump — slipped into his Jaguar and headed out to meet a man with a Make America Great Again hat and a viscous Russian accent.
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Trump Again Falsely Blames Democrats for His Separation Tactic  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump on Saturday repeated his false assertion that Democrats were responsible for his administration's policy of separating migrant families apprehended at the border, sticking to a weekslong refusal …
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New York Times:
How Trump Diverged From Other Presidents and Embraced a Policy of Separating Migrant Families  —  WASHINGTON — Almost immediately after President Trump took office, his administration began weighing what for years had been regarded as the nuclear option in the effort to discourage immigrants from unlawfully entering the United States.
Michael E. Miller / Washington Post:
Family separations could double, says Border Patrol chief in Rio Grande Valley  —  EDINBURG, TEX. — As outrage mounts over the Trump administration's separation of hundreds of migrant children from their parents, the person overseeing that zero-tolerance policy on the busiest stretch …
The Daily Beast:
Report: Trump Adviser Stephen Miller Pushed for Border Separation Policy
Discussion: Mediaite
Kristine Phillips / Washington Post:
‘America is better than this’: What a doctor saw in a Texas shelter for migrant children  —  The small shelter along the Texas border to Mexico held 60 beds and a little playground for children.  Rooms were equipped with toys, books and crayons.  To Colleen Kraft, this shelter looked …
Discussion: NPR, Splinter and BuzzFeed
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Brian Naylor / NPR:   DHS: Nearly 2,000 Children Separated From Adults At Border In 6 Weeks
Lomi Kriel / Houston Chronicle:
Immigrant children's shelter considered for downtown Houston
Katy Vine / Texas Monthly:   What's Really Happening When Asylum-Seeking Families Are Separated?
Salena Zito / New York Post:
These Harvard kids got the lesson of their life in the Heartland  —  On a blustery afternoon in April, I filed into a van along with 10 students from Harvard.  We had just spent the last two days in Chicopee, Mass., where we had chatted with the police chief and his force, the mayor and his staff …
John Kass / Chicago Tribune:
Column: Obama's silky lie and FBI bias in the Clinton investigation  —  According to the FBI inspector general's report, before former (and fired) FBI Director James Comey took it upon himself to publicly criticize Hillary Clinton over her private email server, a draft of his public address was heavily edited.
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JONATHAN TURLEY:
Why The IG Report Undermines Mueller's Obstruction Investigation  —  Below is my column on the implications of the IG report for the obstruction allegations being investigated by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.  I have previously written how the most likely explanation for actions taken …
Discussion: The Daily Caller, The Hill and TheBlaze
Washington Post:
‘Prepared for war’: As Mueller moves to finalize obstruction report, Trump's allies ready for political battle
Discussion: twitchy.com and Raw Story
Luis Sanchez / The Hill:
United Methodist Church urges Sessions to halt migrant family separations  —  The United Methodist Church this week criticized the Department of Justice for the Trump administration's immigration policies of separating migrant families and denying asylum to those fleeing domestic abuse and gang violence.
Discussion: Political Wire and GBCS
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Avery Anapol / The Hill:   Cardinal Dolan hits Sessions's use of the Bible to defend family separation: There's 'no Bible passage …
Gary Langer / ABC News:
Skepticism remains — but has eased — on North Korea's nuclear intentions (POLL)  —  Most Americans in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll are skeptical Donald Trump's sit-down with North Korea's Kim Jong Un will lead Pyongyang to relinquish its nuclear weapons.  But that doubt has lessened substantially from pre-summit levels.
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New York Times:
A Financier's Profit-Minded Mission to Open a Channel Between Kushner and North Korea  —  The American businessman, who lives in Singapore, took advantage of an unusual opening in an administration where matters of policy and business often seem to blur.  —  WASHINGTON — An American financier …
Discussion: Raw Story and Breitbart
Associated Press:   AP FACT CHECK: Trump on FBI, phantom law on migrant kids
The Guardian:
Leave.EU faces new questions over contacts with Russia  —  MPs say latest revelations show Arron Banks and Andy Wigmore may have misled parliament  —  A leader of the Leave.EU campaign suggested sending a “message of support” to the Russian ambassador after the then foreign secretary …
Discussion: The Daily Beast
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Carole Cadwalladr / The Guardian:   Arron Banks, Brexit and the Russia connection
Francis Wilkinson / Bloomberg:
New York's Case Against Trump May Be Prophetic  —  Why the complaint involving the president's foundation is a road map for Mueller.  —  The report released by the inspector general of the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Thursday painted a vivid picture of the past.
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Psychos on the Potomac  —  WASHINGTON — A new study from Southern Methodist University says the nation's capital has more psychopaths per person than anyplace else in the country.  —  No surprise there.  —  Psychopathy is defined in the study as a “Temperamental and Uninhibited Region.”
Discussion: Washington Press and CNN
Karol Markowicz / New York Post:
Beauty pageant contestants aren't #MeToo victims  —  Last week the 96-year-old Miss America competition decided to drop the swimsuit portion of their event.  The move is widely regarded as a consequence of the MeToo movement, a way to stop the degradation of women.
Nicole Winfield / Associated Press:
Pope: Abortion is ‘white glove’ equivalent to Nazi crimes  —  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis denounced abortion on Saturday as the “white glove” equivalent of the Nazi-era eugenics program and urged families to accept the children that God gives them.  —  Francis spoke off-the-cuff …
Discussion: twitchy.com
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USA Today:
Pope: Abortion is ‘white glove’ equivalent to Nazi crimes
Discussion: Conservative News Today and IJR
Washington Post:
For Pruitt, gaining Trump's favor — and keeping it — came through fierce allegiance  —  In the run-up to the decision to pull out of the Paris climate agreement last May, President Trump wanted the opinion of Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt.
Discussion: ABC News
 
 
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Marco Rubio / The Federalist:
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New York Times:
Just the Fear of a Trade War Is Straining the Global Economy
Discussion: Axios
Tara Palmeri / ABC News:
Rudy Giuliani differs with Donald Trump on IG report: 'I don't think it exonerates him'
Discussion: Raw Story
Yahoo! News:
UN envoy in Yemen for emergency talks on Hodeida
Politico:
Trump's little-known pick to lead consumer bureau sets up fight with Congress
Discussion: ABC News
Paul Moses / The Daily Beast:
ICE Is Bullying Iraqi Detainees Here To Sign On for ‘Voluntary Deportations,’ Says ACLU
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In nearly 500 pages of answers, Facebook stonewalls some senators' questions
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globalnews.ca:
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Fox News:
Two Kansas sheriff's deputies killed in shooting were both parents
Tess Bonn / The Hill:
Rob Reiner denounces Robert De Niro, celebrities for anti-Trump remarks
Discussion: Louder With Crowder
Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
Russian state TV touts Trump on Crimea: ‘Crimea is ours! Trump is ours!’
Josh Barro / Business Insider:
Trump's bully-and-threaten approach to dealmaking is not so artful
Jason Schwartz / Politico:
Breitbart traffic declines for seventh straight month
Discussion: Raw Story
Alessandra Scotto di Santolo / Daily Express:
‘We might have a new situation’ German MP predicts Merkel could be OUSTED end of NEXT WEEK
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Virginia Heffernan / Los Angeles Times:
Paul Manafort is in the klink. It's OK to be pleased
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
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