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12:55 PM ET, June 29, 2018

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Jean Marbella / Baltimore Sun:
Capital Gazette shooting victim Rob Hiaasen: A joyful stylist, a generous mentor  —  Capital Gazette editor Rob Hiaasen has been identified as victim of a shooting at the newspaper.  —  Rob Hiaasen once wrote a description of his ideal job: “I would like to be paid for the occasional amusing remark …
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Baltimore Sun:
Sources identify suspect in Annapolis Capital shooting as Jarrod Ramos, who had long-running feud with paper  —  Police and federal agents gathered late Thursday outside the address of 38-year-old Jarrod W. Ramos, who is being held as the suspect in the deadly shooting at Capital Gazette, law enforcement sources said.
Wall Street Journal:   Newspaper Staff Warned Years Ago to Call 911 if They Saw Jarrod Ramos
Erin Cox / Baltimore Sun:
Capital Gazette shooting victim Gerald Fischman: Clever and quirky voice of a community newspaper
Yvonne Wenger / Baltimore Sun:
Capital Gazette shooting victim Wendi Winters: A prolific writer who chronicled her community
Jessica Anderson / Baltimore Sun:
Capital Gazette shooting victim Rebecca Smith: Recent hire loved spending time with family
Tonya Alanez / Sun-Sentinel:   South Florida's Rob Hiaasen, novelist Carl Hiaasen's brother, killed in newsroom shooting
Andrea K. McDaniels / Baltimore Sun:
Capital Gazette shooting victim John McNamara: Sports reporting was his dream job
capitalgazette.com:
Five dead in ‘targeted attack’ at Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, police say; Laurel man charged with murder
New York Times:
Annapolis Shooting Suspect Had Long-Running Dispute With Newspaper
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
New York Times:
Inside the White House's Quiet Campaign to Create a Supreme Court Opening  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump singled him out for praise even while attacking other members of the Supreme Court.  The White House nominated people close to him to important judicial posts.
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Megan McArdle / Washington Post:
Behold the priest-kings of the future Supreme Court  —  One can easily imagine a 24th-century American civics class in which the teaching bot is struggling to explain how the United States passed from having a roughly representative democracy into the more modern arrangement of having …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
‘Say Hello to Your Boy.  A Special Guy.’  —  The Times has a fascinating article tonight on the Trump White House's courtship of Justice Anthony Kennedy, building a relationship and rapport to make Kennedy comfortable retiring on Trump's watch and ahead of the 2018 midterm election.
Discussion: New Republic and Unfogged
Alexandra Glorioso / Politico:
Putnam and DeSantis vow to sign abortion-ban law if elected
Discussion: Breitbart and MSNBC
Eugene Kontorovich / USA Today:
Who should Donald Trump nominate to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court?
David Pitt / Associated Press:
Iowa court blocks 72-hour waiting period for abortion  —  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday blocked a law requiring a 72-hour waiting period before a woman can get an abortion.  —  The court ruled that the law violates the Iowa Constitution, siding with a lawsuit filed …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Washington Examiner:
Overturn Roe v. Wade  —  We write not to praise Anthony Kennedy's jurisprudence, but to bury it.  —  Across 31 years, Justice Kennedy issued many rulings, good and bad.  But his most lasting legacy was the travesty he released 26 years ago today, Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation:   Poll: Two-thirds of Americans Don't Want the Supreme Court to Overturn Roe v. Wade
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation:
Further Findings from Kaiser's June Health Tracking Poll: Women's Issues
Discussion: Vox
Colin Woodard / Press Herald:
Collins to judge Trump's Supreme Court pick without ‘litmus tests’ such as Roe v. Wade support
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Obama: ‘You are right to be concerned’  —  In his first public comments in months, the former president talks about anger, regrets — and what the Republicans are doing right.  —  LOS ANGELES — Barack Obama's message to Democrats: Stop dreaming of him.  —  Speaking at a Democratic National …
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Dan Merica / CNN:
Obama offers Democrats tough love ahead of midterms: ‘Enough moping’  —  Beverly Hills, California (CNN)Former President Barack Obama, re-emerging into the political fray for a Democratic National Committee fundraiser here on Thursday, had a message for troubled Democrats: Do more than just mope.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Trump's private threat to upend global trade  —  President Trump has repeatedly told top White House officials he wants to withdraw the United States from the World Trade Organization, a move that would throw global trade into wild disarray, people involved in the talks tell Axios.
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Trump is trying to destabilize the European Union  —  As President Trump heads to Europe next month for the NATO summit and then a historic meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, his personal attacks on the European Union and other pillars of the Western order are overshadowing …
Mark Landler / New York Times:   In Meeting With Putin, Experts Fear Trump Will Give More Than He Gets
Lam Thuy Vo / BuzzFeed:
They Played Dominoes Outside Their Apartment For Decades.  Then The White People Moved In And Police Started Showing Up.  —  “This used to be a bad neighborhood.”  Two areas of New York City that have recently gentrified have a corresponding high rate of quality-of-life complaints, which sometimes draw the police.
Nicholas St. Fleur / New York Times:
He Died at Pompeii, but His Head Wasn't Crushed by a Block  —  The skull of the “unluckiest man” at Mt. Vesuvius' eruption was found by archaeologists, intact and with a mouth full of teeth.  —  He was known across the internet as “Pompeii's Unluckiest Man.”
Matthew Acton / The Sun:
BLOWN TO SHREDS Kim Jong-un has top army officer blasted with 90 bullets for giving his troops extra rations of food and fuel  —  Lieutenant General Hyon Ju-song was put to death after being found guilty of charges of abusing authority, profiting the enemy and engaging in anti-Party acts
Elise Labott / CNN:
Trump's controversial pick for top UN migration job voted down in Geneva  —  (CNN)The UN migration agency on Friday voted down Ken Isaacs, the Trump administration's candidate to lead the International Organization for Migration, a US official told CNN, leaving it without an American at the helm since 1951.
Discussion: The Atlantic
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NBC News:
Trump admin ran ‘pilot program’ for separating migrant families in 2017  —  The numbers show the government was separating migrant kids from their parents back in 2016 and 2017.  —  EL PASO, Texas — The government was separating migrant parents from their kids for months prior …
Discussion: Hot Air, Daily Wire and twitchy.com
Dara Lind / Vox:
Exclusive: Trump administration plan would bar people who enter illegally from getting asylum  —  A sweeping regulation being considered by the Department of Justice would likely stop most Central Americans from winning asylum in the US.  —  The Department of Justice, under Attorney General Jeff Sessions …
Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:
“He Could Go Down in History as the Man That Saved This Country”: Freed from Trump, Michael Cohen Sees a New Identity: National Hero  —  As Cohen is further distanced from the president, friends have been encouraging him to change his narrative.  “Washington is actively pushing him away,” a person close to Cohen says.
Discussion: Raw Story
Ron Nixon / New York Times:
Agents Seek to Dissolve ICE in Immigration Policy Backlash  —  WASHINGTON — At least 19 Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigators are seeking to dissolve the agency, concerned that the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal migrants has limited their ability to pursue national security threats …
 
 
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Paul Szoldra / Task & Purpose:
Trump's Pentagon Quietly Made A Change To The Stated Mission It's Had For Two Decades
Aaron C. Davis / Washington Post:
Immigrant minor distraught over family separation is prescribed antidepressants in U.S. shelter, lawsuit alleges
Christopher Sign / WBMA-TV:
Did security set up secret Clinton, Lynch tarmac meeting?
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Tarini Parti / BuzzFeed:
The White House Is Becoming A Ghost Town. Trump Loyalists Worry It's Going To Get Worse.
Discussion: Brookings and Politico
Michael E. Miller / Washington Post:
Inside a U.S. immigration jail, mothers count the days since they've seen their children
Riham Alkousaa / Reuters:
German spy agency acknowledges employing Himmler's daughter
Discussion: The Daily Caller
New York Times:
Mother Is Reunited With Her Child After Family Separation Practice Ends
Ronald J. Hansen / Arizona Republic:
House ethics panel opens review of Rep. David Schweikert and his chief of staff
Discussion: Political Wire
 Earlier Items: 
Ian Kullgren / Politico:
Top Ivanka paid-leave staffer departs White House
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Michael Moore: We Have to ‘Put Our Bodies on the Line’ to Stop Trump
Discussion: Breitbart
Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on Abolishing ICE: ‘Get Rid of It, Start Over’
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
This must be another Bork moment
Discussion: National Review
Sohrab Ahmari / Commentary Magazine:
British Education Regulators Get Creepy With Jewish Girls
Discussion: Daily Wire
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Bloomberg:
A look at the challenges facing Crunchyroll, as current and ex-staffers say its management is out of touch, amid Disney and Netflix's expansion into anime

Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Trump may erode press protections but the ABC case is not evidence of that as the decision to settle appears reasonable given Stephanopoulos' imprecise remarks
 
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