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2:15 PM ET, June 26, 2018

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New York Times:
Supreme Court Upholds Trump's Travel Ban, Delivering Endorsement of Presidential Power  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld President Trump's ban on travel from mostly-Muslim nations, delivering a robust endorsement of Mr. Trump's power to control the flow of immigration …
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Sam Baker / Axios:
Go deeper: Supreme Court upholds Trump's travel ban  —  The Supreme Court upheld President Trump's most recent travel ban today in a 5-4 decision, ruling that it falls within the president's traditional power to control immigration policy.  —  The big picture: This is the court's first major ruling on a Trump policy — and it showed.
Tucker Higgins / CNBC:
Supreme Court rules that Trump's travel ban is constitutional  — The ruling concerned the third version of President Donald Trump's immigration restriction, which was challenged on the grounds that it amounted to a “Muslim ban.”  — In the 5-4 opinion penned by Chief Justice John Roberts …
Sam Baker / Axios:
Supreme Court curtails mandatory abortion notices  —  California went too far when it required anti-abortion pregnancy clinics to notify women that abortion is an option, the Supreme Court said today.  —  The issue: Crisis pregnancy centers, often run by Christian organizations that oppose abortion …
Richard Wolf / USA Today:
Supreme Court rules against California law targeting anti-abortion pregnancy centers
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
Read: Sonia Sotomayor condemns Trump's “unrelenting attack on the Muslim religion and its follow­ers”
Discussion: HuffPost and The Root
Bloomberg:
Mueller Poised to Zero In on Trump-Russia Collusion Allegations  — Special counsel to focus once he resolves obstruction inquiry  — The meetings with Russians stretched as far back as 2015  —  Special Counsel Robert Mueller is preparing to accelerate his probe …
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Lee Smith / RealClearInvestigations:
The Mysterious Seven Preludes of the FBI's Trump-Russia Probe  —  The Federal Bureau of Investigation opened its probe of the Trump campaign after Western intelligence assets and Clinton-affiliated political operatives repeatedly approached the Trump team and evidently tried but failed to damage …
YouTube:
EMIN - Got Me Good (Official Video)
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
We Have a Crisis of Democracy, Not Manners  —  Last year, the white nationalist Richard Spencer was kicked out of his Virginia gym after another member confronted him and called him a Nazi.  This incident did not generate a national round of hand-wringing about the death of tolerance …
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Grabien News:   Montage: Media Turning Trump Voters into Public Enemy No. 1
Monmouth University Polling Institute:
GOP Trailing in CD10  —  Trump's unpopularity hurts House incumbent  —  West Long Branch, NJ - The race for Virginia's 10th Congressional District starts out with the GOP Republican incumbent trailing by ten points according to the Monmouth University Poll.
Discussion: Axios
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: A poll commissioned by Bush and Biden shows Americans losing confidence in democracy  —  THE BIG IDEA: Half of Americans think the United States is in “real danger of becoming a nondemocratic, authoritarian country.”  A majority, 55 percent, see democracy as “weak” - and 68 percent believe it is “getting weaker.”
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Henry J. Gomez / BuzzFeed:
Trump Supporters Boo A CNN Reporter, Then Ask Him For Selfies  —  Live from civility night in South Carolina.  —  Reporting From  —  West Columbia, South Carolina  —  Hundreds of President Trump's supporters marched into a high school gymnasium Monday and began blistering their new perceived enemy …
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Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
DHS warns threats against staff are rising amid anger over Trump immigration policies  —  Employees of the Department of Homeland Security have been targeted by escalating online threats and harassment in their neighborhoods during the past week, officials say, with rancor …
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Merdie Nzanga / USA Today:
Stephen Miller's D.C. home a target of immigration policy protest
Politico:
White House eyes Helsinki for Trump-Putin sitdown  —  The Finnish capital would give Trump and Putin a backdrop loaded with historical significance for U.S.-Russia relations.  —  The White House is blocking off three days on the back end of President Donald Trump's upcoming mid-July trip …
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Stephen Sestanovich / Axios:   Bolton tees up a Trump-Putin summit
Paul Sperry / RealClearInvestigations:
Here's One Unverified File the Feds Won't Leak: About Loretta Lynch  —  The FBI had little problem leaking “unverified” dirt from Russian sources on Donald Trump and his campaign aides - and even basing FISA wiretaps on it.  But according to the Justice Department's inspector general …
Discussion: Real Clear Politics
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CNN:
Conservatives grumble about House GOP's handling of investigation into FBI
Discussion: Salon
Politico:
GOP flails ahead of immigration vote  —  Despite furious horse-trading among moderate and conservative Republicans, the legislation appears likely to fail in the House.  —  A last-minute effort to salvage a House GOP immigration bill appeared to flounder Tuesday, amid unyielding opposition from the far right.
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Tara Golshan / Vox:   House Republicans' “compromise” immigration push is actually very conservative
Chad Pergram / Fox News:
Intern who cursed at Trump is identified, was suspended but not fired  —  The Congressional intern who hollered “Mr. President, f— you!” across the Capitol Rotunda last week during a presidential visit has been identified.  —  Sources tell Fox News the woman in question is 21-year-old Caitlin Marriott …
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Intern for Dem senator suspended for shouting ‘f— you’ at Trump
Discussion: Washington Post, HuffPost and The Root
Sarah Ferris / Politico:
U.S. cruises toward record-breaking debt on Trump's watch  —  The nation's fiscal outlook looks ever bleaker, thanks in part to deficit spending during President Donald Trump's first term, Congress' nonpartisan budget scorekeeper projected Tuesday.  —  Within 16 years, the federal deficit …
Discussion: Washington Post and Raw Story
Faye Penn / InStyle.com:
16 Espressos and a 5 a.m. Call Time: A Day In The Life of NBC's Andrea Mitchell  —  Badass Woman spotlights women who not only have a voice but defy the irrelevant preconceptions of gender.  —  A few minutes past 1 p.m., Andrea Mitchell enters an NBC green room fresh off a show that spanned …
Discussion: twitchy.com
Perry Bacon Jr / FiveThirtyEight:
Democrats Are Wrong About Republicans.  Republicans Are Wrong About Democrats.  —  Welcome to Secret Identity, our regular column on identity and its role in politics and policy.  —  The defining divide in American politics is probably between Republicans and Democrats.
Discussion: Breitbart
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
USA Today Network launches a conservative opinion newsletter for the heartland  —  Since its founding in 1982, USA Today has prided itself on a feel for all 50 states that eludes East Coast media.  Now its network is launching a new conservative opinion initiative aimed at Trump voters …
Brian Faler / Politico:
Republican tax law hits churches  —  Some nonprofits could start paying taxes for the first time.  —  Republicans have quietly imposed a new tax on churches, synagogues and other nonprofits, a little-noticed and surprising change that could cost some groups tens of thousands of dollars.
CBS News:
Experts say U.S. among 10 most dangerous nations for women  —  The United States has been ranked for the first time among the ten nations deemed to be the most dangerous for women by experts in the field.  A survey by the Thompson Reuters Foundation of about 550 experts in women's issues around …
Discussion: Townhall, CNN and twitchy.com
Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
Her son was killed — then came the Russian trolls  —  Videos produced by Samantha Guff, Julian Quinones and Margaret Dawson  —  (CNN)It was the height of presidential primary season, just a few weeks before the Republican and Democratic conventions, but on July 7, 2016 …
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Leinz Vales / CNN:
Woman cites Trump while calling man ‘rapist,’ ‘illegal’ in viral rant  —  Man berated in racist rant caught on camera  —  (CNN)A Latino man and his mother who were doing yard work in California were verbally attacked by a woman who called them “illegals” and “rapists,” and a video of the encounter has gone viral.
Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
Did Justice Anthony Kennedy Just Signal His Retirement?  —  For Anthony Kennedy, America's most powerful jurist, this term has brought unexpected and surprising expressions of powerlessness.  After Tuesday's ruling in the Trump travel ban case, it's starting to feel like the end of his time on the court is near.
Ronald Brownstein / CNN:
GOP increasingly opposes legal — not just illegal — immigration  —  Trump: GOP should stop wasting time on immigration  —  (CNN)The firestorm over the separation of children from their undocumented parents at the border has almost completely overshadowed another milestone …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
 
 
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Jeremy Redmon / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Reality Winner pleads guilty in NSA leak case
Just Security:
The Trump Administration Must Extend Temporary Protected Status for Yemenis
Washington Post:
Q&A: Do migrants who enter illegally get ‘due process’?
Discussion: Politico
Grant Stern / The Stern Facts:
Republicans helped set up Putin's lobbying operations in America
William Cummings / USA Today:
Iowa Rep. Steve King says America is heading toward another civil war
Discussion: Daily Wire
Eugene Volokh / Reason:
The “Travel Ban” Decision, in One (Non-Snarky) Sentence
Colum Lynch / Foreign Policy:
Russia and China See in Trump Era a Chance to Roll Back Human Rights Promotion at U.N.
Michael Boren / Philly.com:
Black parents say movie theater manager called police on them in West Philadelphia
Discussion: The Root and Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
National Enquirer Boss Is Building a Tabloid Death Star to Do Trump's Bidding
Washington Post:
Trump's VA pick, a longtime aide to polarizing politicians, has defended extreme views
Discussion: Vox
CBS Sacramento:
California Considers Creating A Fake News Advisory Group
Discussion: Front Page Magazine and Daily Wire
David Brooks / New York Times:
Republican or Conservative, You Have to Choose
Discussion: Daily Wire
Emily Dreyfuss / Wired:
‘ICE Is Everywhere’: Using Library Science to Map the Separation Crisis
Bethan McKernan / The Independent:
Iranians take to streets of Tehran in biggest protests since 2012
 

 
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Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal:
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Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide:
German royalty licensing group GEMA sues OpenAI and subsidiary OpenAI Ireland in Munich Regional Court, claiming ChatGPT violates copyrights of lyrics
 
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