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Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
How Trump's Supreme Court Pick Could Undo Kennedy's Legacy — Upon Justice Kennedy's retirement, the President is unlikely to nominate a moderate. What rulings would a brazen conservative majority produce? — There is no mystery about Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy's favorite word.
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Tara Palmeri / ABC News:
After eyeing the exits, White House officials will likely stay through Supreme Court confirmation: Sources — Top White House officials worn out from the chaos of the Trump administration and eyeing the exits in the coming weeks are now considering staying on through the confirmation …
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The Daily Beast and Raw Story
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Collins: White House has expanded its list of potential Supreme Court picks — The White House has expanded its list of potential Supreme Court nominees after Sen. Susan Collins — to broaden his search, the GOP senator said Sunday. — “The White House counsel told me there have been a few additional …
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Splinter, The Week and Washington Press
ABC News:
Supreme Court nominee who would overturn Roe v. Wade ‘would not be acceptable’: Sen. Collins — Republican Sen. Susan Collins, a critical vote on whomever President Trump nominates to replace Justice Kennedy on the Supreme Court, said any nominee who would overturn Roe v. Wade would “not be acceptable.”
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Joe.My.God. and Breitbart
New York Times:
Susan Collins, Pivotal Moderate, Says ‘Hostility’ to Roe Would Sway Her Vote
Susan Collins, Pivotal Moderate, Says ‘Hostility’ to Roe Would Sway Her Vote
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The Daily Caller and Fox News
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
The Left needs to face reality: Trump is winning
Idaho Statesman:
9 hurt, 4 critically, as man stabs refugee families at Boise low-income apartments — Refugee families at a low-income apartment complex were attacked Saturday night by a man who stabbed nine people — more than any other attack in Boise's history, police said. Four of them suffered injuries that police called life-threatening.
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Raw Story
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Boise Webmaster / Boise Police News:
Stabbing suspect identified, booked into Ada County Jail
Stabbing suspect identified, booked into Ada County Jail
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NPR, ABC News, ThinkProgress and Chicks On The Right
Susannah Cullinane / CNN:
Nine stabbed at Idaho apartment complex where refugee families live
Nine stabbed at Idaho apartment complex where refugee families live
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The Week
Christopher Carbone / Fox News:
19 ICE investigators call for agency to be disbanded in letter amid ‘abolish ICE’ protests — Nineteen senior investigators at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have called for the government agency to be disbanded in a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.
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Los Angeles Times and The Gateway Pundit
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Keith Griffith / Daily Mail:
‘Girl from the Bronx’ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who beat high-ranking Democrat Joe Crowley, faces questions over her ‘working class’ background after it's revealed she grew up in a wealthy suburb north of New York City — The hardscrabble biography of Democrat Congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez …
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Daily Wire
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
John Bolton: No one should have ‘a case of the vapors’ over Trump's summit with Putin — BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — National security adviser John Bolton on Sunday defended President Trump's decision to hold a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki this month as a way to get beyond the …
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Ericka Cruz Guevarra / OPB:
Man Killed By Armed PSU Officers Had Valid Concealed Carry Permit — Jason Erik Washington, the man killed by armed Portland State University officers early Friday morning, had a valid concealed carry permit at the time of his death. — Two of Washington's colleagues and at least one witness say Washington, 45, was black.
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Task & Purpose and Oregonian
New York Times:
As Trump Consolidates Power, Democrats Confront a Rebellion in Their Ranks — WASHINGTON — The pitched battle looming over the Supreme Court, along with a jolt to the Democratic leadership at the ballot box last Tuesday, is threatening to shatter the already fragile architecture of the Democratic Party …
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Power Line, NY State of Politics, Taylor Marsh and Althouse
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Daily Mail:
Illegal immigrant is arrested for ‘starting dozens of wildfires in Colorado that forced hundreds to evacuate and destroyed 38,000 acres of land’, as video shows blaze rapidly engulfing one of the many decimated homes — Jesper Joergensen, 52, was taken into custody last Saturday for the suspected arson that started the Springs Fire
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The Gateway Pundit
Sylvie Corbet / Associated Press:
Heavily armed men in helicopter free notorious French inmate — PARIS (AP) — A notorious French criminal serving 25 years for murder made an audacious escape from prison Sunday after several heavily armed men landed a helicopter in a courtyard, freed him from a visiting room and carried him away.
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NPR
Heather Long / Washington Post:
Trump says he won't sign any NAFTA deal until after midterms — President Trump said Sunday that he is “not happy” with the revised NAFTA deal that his administration has been hammering out with Canada and Mexico and that he doesn't want to sign any new agreement until after the midterm elections in November.
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Mother Jones and Political Wire
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Alanna Petroff / CNNMoney:
Canada hits $13 billion of US goods with new tariffs
Canada hits $13 billion of US goods with new tariffs
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POLITICUSUSA, The Daily Caller and Canada.ca
Vera Bergengruen / BuzzFeed:
Trump Created An Office To Highlight Immigrant Crime. A Year Later, The Results Are Underwhelming. — The widespread “victimization by criminal aliens,” one of Trump's favorite talking points, never materialized. — Reporting From Washington, DC — Since April of last year …
Matt Schudel / Washington Post:
Gudrun Burwitz, ever-loyal daughter of Nazi mastermind Heinrich Himmler, dies at 88 — Gudrun Burwitz, the true-believing daughter of Heinrich Himmler, the architect of the Holocaust and Nazi Germany's highest-ranking official after Adolf Hitler, died May 24 in or near Munich. She was 88.
Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
Sponsors of Migrant Children Face Steep Transport Fees and Red Tape — LOS ANGELES — Marlon Parada, a construction worker in Los Angeles, already was worried when he got an urgent call from his cousin in Honduras, asking if he would agree to take in the cousin's 14-year-old daughter.
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Mother Jones
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Emails reveal close rapport between top EPA officials, those they regulate — On the morning of April 1, 2017, Environmental Protection Agency appointee Mandy Gunasekara welcomed to her office a team of lobbyists representing the makers of portable generators.