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4:25 PM ET, June 18, 2018

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Senator Ben Sasse:
Many Nebraskans this weekend asked me about the kids at the border.  Here's a short version of what I told them.  This is a bit over-simplified, but these are broad brushstrokes of how I understand the situation at present:  —  1) Family separation is wicked.
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Ginger Thompson / ProPublica:
Listen to Children Who've Just Been Separated From Their Parents at the Border  —  The desperate sobbing of 10 Central American children, separated from their parents one day last week by immigration authorities at the border, makes for excruciating listening.  Many of them sound like they're crying so hard, they can barely breathe.
Laura Bush / Washington Post:
Separating children from their parents at the border ‘breaks my heart’  —  Laura Bush is a former first lady of the United States.  —  On Sunday, a day we as a nation set aside to honor fathers and the bonds of family, I was among the millions of Americans who watched images of children who have been torn from their parents.
Jonathan Blitzer / New Yorker:
The Government Has No Plan for Reuniting the Immigrant Families It Is Tearing Apart  —  A few days ago, Emily Kephart, a program coördinator at an immigrant-rights group called Kids in Need of Defense, set out to try to find a six-year-old Guatemalan girl who had been separated from her father …
Discussion: First Draft
Jill Colvin / Associated Press:
Family separation policy starts dividing Republicans  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The emotional policy of separating children from their parents is also starting to divide Republicans and their allies as Democrats turn up the pressure.  —  Former first lady Laura Bush called the policy “cruel” …
Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Facing outcry over family separations, DHS chief says, ‘We will not apologize’  —  Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen pushed back Monday at the growing condemnation of her agency's practice of separating migrant families at the border, telling a gathering of law enforcement officers, “We will not apologize for the job we do.”
Amanda McGowan / wgbh.org:
Baker Cancels National Guard Deployment To Border, Citing ‘Inhumane’ Treatment Of Children And Families  —  Governor Charlie Baker is canceling the deployment of Massachusetts National Guard troops to the border in light of recent reports about the Trump Administration's practice of separating immigrant children from families.
Marc Fortier / NBC10 Boston:
Gov. Charlie Baker Won't Send National Guard to Border, Citing ‘Cruel and Inhumane’ Actions of Trump Administration  —  Fact Check: Dems Not Responsible for Families Separated at Border  —  Republican Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker said he will not send the Massachusetts National Guard …
Tal Kopan / CNN:
Exclusive: Trump admin thought family separations would deter immigrants.  They haven't.  —  Washington (CNN)The Trump administration's zero-tolerance policy that has resulted in thousands of family separations at the border hasn't deterred immigrants from trying to enter the country illegally …
Nick Cumming-Bruce / New York Times:
U.N. Rights Chief Tells U.S. to Stop Taking Migrant Children From Parents
Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
Kim Jong Un More Popular Than Pelosi Among Republicans: Exclusive Poll Results  —  Kim Jong Un More Popular Than Pelosi Among Republicans: Poll  —  Beijing Is Holding U.S. Citizens ‘Hostage’ in China  —  Exit bans are a new tool in China's global coercion campaign.  —  By BETHANY ALLEN-EBRAHIMIAN6.18.18 4:48 AM ET
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Jim Norman / Gallup:
Satisfaction With U.S. Direction Reaches 12-Year High  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Thirty-eight percent of Americans are satisfied with the way things are going in the United States today, similar to last month's 37% satisfaction rate but marking the numerical high since a 39% reading in September 2005.
Dan Alexander / Forbes:
Lies, China And Putin: Solving The Mystery Of Wilbur Ross' Missing Fortune  —  Amid President Trump's headaches confirming cabinet secretaries, from neophyte Rex Tillerson to conflict-prone Scott Pruitt to unprepared Betsy DeVos, all of whom squeezed through, Wilbur Ross was a tonic.
Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
Justice Kennedy Still Won't Rule on Gerrymandering  —  Justice Hamlet lives.  —  For years, those who'd like the Supreme Court to rein in partisan gerrymanders have been teeing up cases with various theories to try to get Justice Anthony Kennedy, the swing Justice, to agree that sometimes …
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court sidesteps decision on partisan gerrymandering in rulings on Wisconsin, Maryland cases
Discussion: ABC News and The Week
CNN:
Supreme Court sidesteps partisan gerrymandering cases, let maps stand for now
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
What do Republicans suspect really happened in the FBI Trump-Russia investigation?  —  The struggle to uncover the FBI's conduct in the Trump-Russia probe has made some congressional investigators deeply suspicious of the bureau.  But what do those investigators think the FBI actually …
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Republicans continue to play clueless on the Russia investigation
FiveThirtyEight:   The Russia Investigation Isn't Less Popular — It's Just More Polarizing
Quilliam:
Southern Poverty Law Center, Inc. Admits It Was Wrong, Apologizes to Quilliam and Maajid Nawaz for Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists, and Agrees to Pay $3.375 Million Settlement  —  MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA — The Southern Poverty Law Center, Inc. has apologized to Quilliam and its founder Maajid Nawaz …
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Dana Branham / Dallas Morning News:
Texas deputy accused of sexually assaulting 4-year-old threatened her mother with deportation, sheriff says  —  A Texas sheriff's deputy accused of repeatedly sexually assaulting a 4-year-old girl threatened the victim's mother into staying quiet about the assaults, authorities said Sunday.
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Erik Ortiz / NBC News:   Texas deputy sexually assaulted undocumented immigrant's child, sheriff says
Tim Arango / New York Times:
Norman Pearlstine Named Editor of The Los Angeles Times  —  LOS ANGELES — Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, the billionaire biotech executive who on Monday officially took ownership of The Los Angeles Times, named Norman Pearlstine as the newspaper's new executive editor as he seeks to restore the newspaper's morale.
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Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Veteran journalist Norman Pearlstine named executive editor of the Los Angeles Times
Justin Caruso / The Daily Caller:
BREAKING — Comey Under Investigation For Handling Of Classified Information  —  Former FBI director James Comey is under investigation for mishandling classified information, DOJ inspector general Michael Horowitz revealed Monday.  —  He is specifically under investigation for his handling …
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Stef W. Kight / Axios:
DOJ watchdog investigating Comey's memo leaks
Discussion: Politico
Vann R. Newkirk II / The Atlantic:
The End of Civil Rights  —  The fires on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, had barely stopped burning when the Department of Justice released an extraordinary report on the city's police department.  In the findings of the 2015 investigation of the Ferguson Police Department …
BuzzFeed:
A Top Trump Aide Worked In Libya With Key Backers Of An Alleged “Sex Cult”  —  Joe Hagin saw Libyan expatriate Basit Igtet as a golden goose.  Igtet was more than that.  —  Reporting From Washington, DC  —  Joseph Whitehouse Hagin, President Donald Trump's deputy chief of staff for operations …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Trump Job Approval at 45%, Tying Personal Best  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump's job approval rating averaged 45% in Gallup polling last week, tying his personal high.  His previous 45% rating occurred in the first week after he was inaugurated as president.
Discussion: Washington Post
Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post:
A high court ruling in favor of judicial brevity — and a win for Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein  —  The Supreme Court on Monday handed a victory to embattled Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein with its decision to allow federal judges to provide limited explanations for their sentencing decisions.
Discussion: Politico
Trent Baker / Breitbart:
Coulter Warns Trump on Immigration, Border: 'Don't Fall for the Actor Children'  —  Sunday on Fox News Channel's “The Next Revolution,” conservative commentator and author Ann Coulter advised President Donald Trump not to “fall for the actor children” at the border and cited …
Michael Hawthorne / Chicago Tribune:
Trump Tower, one of largest users of Chicago River water, has never met EPA rules for protecting fish, records show  —  A view of Trump International Hotel & Tower from across the Chicago River on June 6, 2018.  (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)  —  Fishing piers and floating gardens welcome anglers …
Discussion: Associated Press and Raw Story
 
 
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Axios:
Trump says he is directing Pentagon to create a “Space Force”
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Colin Kalmbacher / Law & Crime:
Obama's Immigration Agencies Separated Children From Their Families, Too
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
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