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9:20 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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Noah Feldman / Bloomberg:
A Decision That Will Live in Infamy  —  It will take generations for the Supreme Court to live down its approval of Trump's travel ban.  —  In what may be the worst decision since the infamous Korematsu case, when the Supreme Court upheld the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II …
Leah Litman / New York Times:
Unchecked Power Is Still Dangerous No Matter What the Court Says  —  Government officials cannot discriminate on the basis of race or religion.  Except when they can, as the Supreme Court reminded us today.  The court's decision to uphold the entry ban illustrates how immigration has become a …
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Jonathan V. Last / Weekly Standard:
This Business Will Get Out of Control
Mark Murray / NBC News:
Polls: Dems lead in Arizona and Ohio Senate races, but Florida contest remains tight  —  The Arizona Republican primary contest is still “wide open.”  —  WASHINGTON — Democrats hold double-digit leads in the U.S. Senate contests in Arizona and Ohio, while it's much closer in Florida …
Discussion: CNBC and Political Wire
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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.
Discussion: Axios
Ryan Nicol / Florida Politics:   NBC News/Marist poll: Bill Nelson up four points over Rick Scott in Senate race
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Biden: European leaders reeling from Trump's hostile behavior  —  COPENHAGEN — European leaders see President Trump as increasingly unpredictable, antagonistic and disrespectful, both in public and private, and that is having a devastating effect on the U.S.-European relationship …
Discussion: Breitbart and Politico
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Washington Post:   After ‘diplomatic equivalent of a multiple-car pileup,’ U.S. allies brace for NATO summit
Davis Richardson / The New York Observer:
Milo Yiannopoulos Encourages Vigilantes to Start ‘Gunning Journalists Down’  —  Milo Yiannopoulos has started issuing reporters threatening messages when asked to comment for stories.  —  “I can't wait for the vigilante squads to start gunning journalists down on sight,” …
CBS New York:
Michael Bloomberg Considering 2020 Presidential Run, Sources Tell CBS2  —  NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - Maybe the fourth time is the charm.  —  Michael Bloomberg is revving up to run for president in 2020, making him both the oldest and richest person to seek the job.
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 …
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Jeff Stein / Washington Post:   The federal debt is headed for the highest levels since World War II, CBO says
Benjy Sarlin / NBC News:
CBO: Ballooning national debt could hurt U.S. economy, increase likelihood of crisis
Michael Hardy / The Daily Beast:
Border Agent Threatened to Put Immigrant's Daughter Up for Adoption, ACLU Says … HOUSTON—Maria and her 12-year-old daughter surrendered to Customs and Border Protection agents immediately after crossing the Rio Grande on a raft near McAllen, Texas, in the first week of June.
Liam Stack / New York Times:
Here Is One Way Trump Spreads False Information Online  —  The president tweeted something untrue about Representative Maxine Waters.  Outrage ensued online, but that only helped spread disinformation.  —  On Monday, President Trump tweeted that Representative Maxine Waters, Democrat of California …
Discussion: Bloomberg, The Hill, Fox News and Breitbart
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Laura Loomer / Big League Politics:
WATCH: Laura Loomer Confronts Maxine Waters
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Daily Wire
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Immigration Attorney Says ICE Broke Her Foot, Locked Her Up … An immigration attorney said an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer broke her foot and locked her in a room early Tuesday morning in Kansas City, Missouri.  —  Andrea Martinez told The Daily Beast she was dropping off …
Discussion: Shakesville and Splinter
Manu Raju / CNN:
Steve King says retweet of Nazi sympathizer's message was unintentional, won't delete tweet  —  (CNN)Rep. Steve King, the anti-immigration hardliner, said Tuesday he didn't realize he retweeted a message from a self-described Nazi sympathizer who has expressed admiration for Adolf Hitler.
Kashmir Hill / Gizmodo:
California Has 48 Hours to Pass This Privacy Bill or Else  —  Recent headlines have suggested that California lawmakers are considering a bill that would give Californians “unprecedented control over their data.”  This is true but that is not the whole story.
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Lee Fang / The Intercept:   Google and Facebook Are Quietly Fighting California's Privacy Rights Initiative, Emails Reveal
The Onion:
Tips For Staying Civil While Debating Child Prisons  —  Recent incidents of Trump officials being confronted in public for their role in the administration's separation and imprisonment of immigrant families have driven renewed concern about the lack of civility in U.S. politics.
Discussion: Balloon Juice
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 …
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.
Gene Johnson / Associated Press:
17 states sue to force Trump administration to reunite migrant families separated at border  —  Migrant children walk off a bus at the Catholic Charities' Msgr.  Bryan Walsh Children's Village in Cutler Bay, Fla., on June 21, 2018.  —  Seventeen states, including Washington, New York …
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Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed:   17 States And The District Of Columbia Are Suing Trump Over Family Separations And The Treatment Of Asylum-Seekers
38 North:
Infrastructure Improvements at North Korea's Yongbyon Nuclear Research Facility  —  A 38 North exclusive with analysis by Frank V. Pabian, Joseph S. Bermudez Jr. and Jack Liu.  —  Commercial satellite imagery from June 21 indicates that improvements to the infrastructure …
Eli Watkins / CNN:
Jeff Sessions: People on ‘the other side’ are immigration radicals  —  Sessions defends Trump on immigration policy  —  Washington (CNN)Attorney General Jeff Sessions accused the Trump administration's critics on immigration of being radicals and hypocrites as he railed against his opponents in pointed remarks on Tuesday.
Discussion: Axios and Little Green Footballs
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U.S. Department of Justice:
Attorney General Sessions Delivers Remarks to the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation
Discussion: Vox and ImmigrationProf Blog
HuffPost:
Republicans Keep Voting On Immigration Bills They Can't Pass  —  The House GOP's “compromise” immigration bill is probably about to go down in flames.  —  WASHINGTON With no deal in sight and President Donald Trump's support in question, House Republicans are preparing to have their second failure …
Discussion: The Atlantic
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
Pavel Polityuk / Reuters:
Exclusive: Ukraine says Russian hackers preparing massive strike  —  (Reuters) - Hackers from Russia are infecting Ukrainian companies with malicious software to create “back doors” for a large, coordinated attack, Ukraine's cyber police chief told Reuters on Tuesday.
William Cummings / USA Today:
Iowa Rep. Steve King says America is heading toward another civil war  —  The beginning of America's bloody Civil War is generally remembered as the opening shot on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor on April 12, 1861.  —  And Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, fears another Fort Sumter is in our near future.
Discussion: Daily Wire
Politico:
Trump to GOP: Dump the filibuster before Schumer does  —  The president shares some gossip during a meeting at the White House Tuesday.  —  President Donald Trump had a simple message for Senate Republicans during a meeting at the White House Tuesday: Kill the filibuster now, before Chuck Schumer and the Democrats do.
Chris Isidore / CNNMoney:
Largest US nail manufacturer ‘on the brink of extinction’ because of the steel tariffs  —  US nail company on ‘brink of extinction’ because of tariffs  —  Steel tariffs could force the nation's largest nail manufacturer to close or move to Mexico.  —  The Mid-Continent Nail plant in Poplar Bluff …
Washington Post:
Judge in Virginia lets case against Manafort move forward  —  WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Virginia has rejected President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman's move to throw out charges brought by the special counsel in the Russia investigation.  —  The decision Tuesday was a setback …
Emily Tamkin / BuzzFeed:
Usually, It's The US Pushing For The OAS To Investigate Human Rights Abuses.  This Time It's The Target.  —  Mexico will offer a resolution before the Organization of American States condemning Trump's immigration policy.  —  Reporting From Washington, DC
Aída Chávez / The Intercept:
“No One Will Believe Baboon Complaints” — Racist Abuse in Immigration Detention on the Rise in Trump Era, Report Says  —  A man detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was told by an officer at the Bristol County House of Corrections in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts, that he would …
Discussion: ThinkProgress
The Smoking Gun:
Cops: Woman Forced Ex To Have Sex At Machete-Point  —  Montanan, 19, facing assault, burglary raps for bizarre attack  —  A machete-wielding Montana woman broke into her ex-boyfriend's home, directed him to disrobe, and then forced him to have sex with her, according to police.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner / New York Times:
Jonathan Franzen Is Fine With All of It  —  The internet has turned on him, his book sales are down and the TV adaptation of his last novel has stalled.  But he wants you to know one thing: He's not even angry.  —  Jonathan Franzen now lives in a humble, perfectly nice two-story house in Santa Cruz …
Discussion: New Republic and Longreads
 
 
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Jack Heretik / Washington Free Beacon:
Comey Admits Having ‘Negative Opinion’ of Trump Before Ever Meeting Him
Discussion: IJR
NBC News:
Feds failing to put migrant parents in touch with separated kids
Lisa Gutierrez / Idaho Statesman:
North Dakota mayor: We must scrap city council to thwart white supremacist takeover
Discussion: Splinter
Politico:
Trump changes direction on China investment restrictions
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press:
Unclear math: HHS has 2,047 children; full US count lacking
Sarah Roberts / USA Today:
Our research on abortion laws shows they are not based on facts and can even harm women
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Michael Levenson / BostonGlobe.com:
Raises for Methuen officers are astronomical — and a surprise for the city
Alan Blinder / New York Times:
Found: Rosa Parks's Arrest Warrant, and More Traces of Civil Rights History
Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
Her son was killed — then came the Russian trolls
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Perry Bacon Jr / FiveThirtyEight:
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David Brooks / New York Times:
Republican or Conservative, You Have to Choose
Discussion: Daily Wire