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12:35 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:
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: The travel ban was the first big policy announcement …
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 …
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 …
Richard Wolf / USA Today:
Supreme Court rules against California law targeting anti-abortion pregnancy centers  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday dealt a major blow to a California law requiring anti-abortion pregnancy centers to inform women about publicly funded abortion and contraception services.
Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Supreme Court upholds travel ban  —  Washington (CNN)The Supreme Court has upheld President Donald Trump's travel ban.  —  The ruling was 5-4 along partisan lines, with Chief Justice John Roberts writing for the conservative majority.  —  This is the third version of the travel ban.
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court upholds Trump travel ban
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Supreme Court upholds Trump travel ban
Discussion: Raw Story
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
Merdie Nzanga / USA Today:
Stephen Miller's D.C. home a target of immigration policy protest
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 …
Bloomberg:
Trump Says Harley Move Abroad Would Be ‘Beginning of the End’  — Motorcycle maker said Monday it would move production overseas  — President says Harley is using new tariffs as an excuse  —  U.S. President Donald Trump accused Harley-Davidson Inc. of using new tariffs on trade …
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: A poll commissioned by Bush and Biden shows Americans losing confidence in democracy
Gabrielle Coppola / Bloomberg:
Trump Gets Harley Plans Wrong in Attack Over Trade War ‘Excuse’
Discussion: Shareblue Media
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.
Discussion: Friendly Atheist, MSNBC and The Week
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Sarah Ferris / Politico:
U.S. cruises toward record-breaking debt on Trump's watch
Discussion: Washington Post
Nick Hanauer / American Prospect:   Want to Expand the Economy? Tax the Rich!
Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
In South Carolina rally, Trump targets Sanford, McCain and TV comedians  —  WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. — President Trump flew here Monday night ostensibly to urge South Carolina Republicans to vote for Gov. Henry McMaster in the Republican primary Tuesday, repaying a political favor to one of his earliest supporters.
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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.
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.
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CNN:
Conservatives grumble about House GOP's handling of investigation into FBI  —  (CNN)Last October, two House Republican committee chairmen announced their plans to get to the bottom of the FBI's decision-making in 2016 — namely its handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Paul Sperry / RealClearInvestigations:
Here's One Unverified File the Feds Won't Leak: About Loretta Lynch
Discussion: Real Clear Politics
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
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
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, twitchy.com and CNN
Caitlin Owens / Axios:
HHS: “Several hundred” children have been reunited with parents  —  “Several hundred” of the more than 2,300 children that were separated from their parents have been placed with a parent or relative, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said today.
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 …
David Brooks / New York Times:
Republican or Conservative, You Have to Choose  —  The never-Trumpers are having an interesting debate over the question, Is it time to leave the Republican Party?  George Will and Steve Schmidt say yes: The Trumpian rot is all the way down.  Bill Kristol says not so fast: Once Donald Trump falls …
Discussion: Daily Wire
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 …
Bethan McKernan / The Independent:
Iranians take to streets of Tehran in biggest protests since 2012  —  President Hassan Rouhani promises citizens the country will withstand currency drop and new US sanctions after Donald Trump's withdrawal from nuclear deal  —  POPULAR VIDEOS  —  Huge protests have erupted in Iran …
New York Times:
Top Tech Companies Met With Intelligence Officials to Discuss Midterms  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Eight of the tech industry's most influential companies, in anticipation of a repeat of the Russian meddling that occurred during the 2016 presidential campaign, met with United States intelligence officials …
The Daily Beast:
Fox News Suspends Ex-Trump Aide David Bossie for ‘Cotton-Picking’ Remark … David Bossie, the former deputy campaign manager for Donald Trump and current outside adviser to the president, has been suspended from his contributor gig at Fox News, The Daily Beast has learned.  —  The suspension lasts two weeks.
John Solomon / The Hill:
How Comey intervened to kill WikiLeaks' immunity deal  —  One of the more devastating intelligence leaks in American history — the unmasking of the CIA's arsenal of cyber warfare weapons last year — has an untold prelude worthy of a spy novel.  —  Some of the characters are household names, thanks to the Russia scandal: James Comey
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
Washington Post:
Trump's VA pick, a longtime aide to polarizing politicians, has defended extreme views  —  Top Pentagon official Robert Wilkie has emerged as President Trump's safe pick to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs after the ugly firing of Trump's first VA secretary and the embarrassing withdrawal …
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 …
Emily Dreyfuss / Wired:
‘ICE Is Everywhere’: Using Library Science to Map the Separation Crisis  —  ON FATHER'S DAY, Alex Gil was IMing with his colleague Manan Ahmed when they decided they had to do something about children being separated from their parents at the US-Mexico border.
 
 
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David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Mitch McConnell's super PAC makes its initial fall ad buy
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Tara Golshan / Vox:
House Republicans' “compromise” immigration push is actually very conservative
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Piers Morgan / Daily Mail:
Dear liberals, you won't beat Trump by banning his staff from restaurants, threatening his son …
Suzanne O'Halloran / Fox Business:
American money flowing back into America
CBS Sacramento:
California Considers Creating A Fake News Advisory Group
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Danielle Rhoades Ha / The New York Times Company:
Jennifer Senior Joins Opinion As Columnist
Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:
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Juliegrace Brufke / The Hill:
Freedom Caucus to Trump: Lay off Sanford attacks
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and ABC News
Abigail Tracy / Vanity Fair:
“Be Careful What You Wish For”: How Mike Pompeo Trumpified the State Department
Discussion: Politico
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump's domestic gridlock
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
WATCH: CNN's Chris Cuomo call BS on Rick Santorum demanding ‘civility’ while refusing to require it of Trump
Nolan Finley / Detroit News:
Trump should forget second term
Jay Rosen / PressThink:
It's time for the press to suspend normal relations with the Trump presidency
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
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