APNewsBreak: Youngest migrants held in ‘tender age’ shelters  —  Trump administration officials have been sending babies and other young children forcibly separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border to at least three “tender age” shelters in South Texas, The Associated Press has learned.

“Stephen Actually Enjoys Seeing Those Pictures at the Border”: The West Wing Is Fracturing Over Trump's Callous Migrant-Family Policy  —  Miller gloats and Sanders sulks as the president—oblivious to the moral problem and political consequences—bulls ahead.

Kirstjen Nielsen heckled by protesters at Mexican restaurant.  Other diners applauded them.  —  Protesters entered a Mexican restaurant in Washington, D.C., Tuesday evening to heckle Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen.  She appeared to sit quietly with her head …

White House considering executive action to prevent family separations at border  —  The White House is considering executive action to allow children to stay with parents caught crossing the border illegally, Fox News has learned — a step that could avoid the family separations that have triggered …

Germany's Largest Auto Makers Back Abolition of EU-U.S. Car Import Tariffs  —  The U.S. ambassador to Germany is expected to relay the industry offer in meetings with Trump administration  —  BERLIN—When the U.S. ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, returns to Washington for consultation …

Corey Lewandowski on undocumented child with Down syndrome separated from mother: ‘Womp womp’  —  Washington (CNN)Corey Lewandowski dismissed the story of a 10-year-old girl with Down syndrome who was reportedly separated from her mother after crossing the border illegally.

US lobbyist for Russian oligarch visited Julian Assange nine times last year  —  It is unclear whether Adam Waldman's 2017 visits had connection to Oleg Deripaska  —  A longtime US lobbyist for the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska visited Julian Assange nine times at the Ecuadorian embassy …

Michael Cohen Wants Trump to Pay His Legal Fees  —  Former personal lawyer for Trump hires New York attorney Guy Petrillo  —  Michael Cohen has hired New York lawyer Guy Petrillo to represent him in a federal investigation into his business dealings, and has told associates he wants President Donald Trump …

Exclusive: Pope criticizes Trump administration policy on migrant family separation  —  VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis has criticized the Trump administration's policy of separating migrant families at the Mexican border, saying populism is not the answer to the world's immigration problems.

What Trump supporters think of family separations at the border  —  Mesa, Arizona (CNN)As the Trump administration has ramped up the practice of separating children from their parents at the border with no clear plan for reuniting them, critics have been unsparing, calling it “government-sanctioned child abuse.”

Poll: McSally holds 14-point lead in Arizona GOP Senate primary  —  (R-Ariz.) surged into first place with a commanding 14-point lead in Arizona's closely watched GOP Senate primary, according to a new poll.  —  A poll conducted by Phoenix-based OH Predictive Insights (OHPI) …

Outside Trump Hotel, an Uproar.  Inside, a Calm Sea of Conservative Cash.  —  WASHINGTON — To anyone with even a cursory relationship to television or social media, a charged and emotional battle over the Trump administration's approach to immigration seems to have seeped into every dimension of American life.

Why Trump country is unfazed by the child separation crisis  —  The bishop of Tucson, Franklin Graham, and Michelle Obama agree about very few things, but the inhumanity of President Trump's “zero tolerance” border policy is one of them.  The New York Times and the New York Post, National Review …

F.B.I. Agents Gave Trump a Weapon Against Mueller.  Republicans Are Wielding It.  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's congressional allies trained their fire on the special counsel investigation on Tuesday, armed anew with a damaging report showing that the lead F.B.I. agent assigned …

In Trump's world, morality is for losers  —  “Virtue-signaling” is a snide little phrase that people vaguely of the “right” invented to tease people vaguely of the “left.”  Like “limousine liberal” or “champagne socialist,” it implies insincerity and self-righteousness.

‘Nasty guy’: Trump attacks critic, touts accomplishments in House GOP meeting on immigration  —  Rep. Mark Sanford was at the airport in Charleston, S.C., for four hours of “airplane hell” when President Trump veered from his speech on immigration to the South Carolina Republican.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott urges congressional action on separated immigrant families: “This disgraceful condition must end.”  —  “This disgraceful condition must end; and it can only end with action by Congress to reform the broken immigration system,” Abbott wrote in a letter to all members of the Texas delegation.

We don't want to separate parents from kids  —  What we want is a safe, lawful system of immigration.  We want to build a wall to prevent illegal entry.  Congress could make that happen quickly: Opposing view  —  CONNECT  —  Some years ago, it was decided that law enforcement might arrest adults …

Trump no longer ‘moral leader of free world’: top rights body  —  US President Donald Trump is “no longer the moral leader of his country or the world”, the human rights watchdog, the Council of Europe, said Wednesday amid global outrage over the White House's policy of separating migrant children from their parents.

Trump “boxed in,” won't back down on family separation  —  Speaking to House Republicans at the Capitol last evening, President Trump admitted the political pressure over family separations at the border is growing.  But a top aide said Trump “doesn't want to look weak” by backing down.

Alabama musician's shows cancelled after he ‘volunteers’ on Facebook to ‘shoot’ immigrants  —  Phillip McCain/Singer/Songwriter/Competition  —  This story was updated at 7:50 p.m. June 19, 2018 to include quotes from a telephone interview with Phillip McCain and new details about how the backlash …

Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, former archbishop of Washington, has been removed from ministry after a sex abuse allegation  —  The former archbishop of Washington, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, has been removed from ministry in response to allegations that he sexually abused a teen 50 years ago while he was a priest in New York.

Democratic candidates vow to dump Pelosi  —  A growing number of hopefuls say they won't back her for speaker if Democrats win the House.  Pelosi has little margin for error.  —  Clarke Tucker's first general election ad for an Arkansas-based House race tries to defuse one of the GOP's most potent attacks …