Top Items:


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.
Discussion:
Maggie's Farm
RELATED:


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 …
Discussion:
Axios, The Daily Beast and Raw Story


Susan Collins, Pivotal Moderate, Says ‘Hostility’ to Roe Would Sway Her Vote — WASHINGTON — Senator Susan Collins, a moderate Maine Republican whose vote could prove decisive in filling the Supreme Court's vacant seat, said on Sunday that she would not vote for a nominee who showed …
Discussion:
Fox News and The Daily Caller

Supreme Court nominee who would overturn Roe v. Wade ‘would not be acceptable’: Sen. Collins
Discussion:
Joe.My.God. and Breitbart

Collins: White House has expanded its list of potential Supreme Court picks
Discussion:
Splinter, The Week and Washington Press


North Korea Expands Key Missile-Manufacturing Plant — New satellite imagery indicates Pyongyang is pushing ahead with weapons programs even as it pursues dialogue with Washington — SEOUL—North Korea is completing a major expansion of a key missile-manufacturing plant …
RELATED:


US and North Korean officials met Sunday to discuss implementing agreement between countries
Discussion:
Axios

John Bolton: No one should have ‘a case of the vapors’ over Trump's summit with Putin
Discussion:
Raw Story, HuffPost, CNN, Splinter, IndieWire, KTLA, CBS New York, AOL and The Guardian


Exclusive: A leaked Trump bill to blow up the WTO — Axios has obtained a leaked draft of a Trump administration bill — ordered by the president himself — that would declare America's abandonment of fundamental World Trade Organization rules. — Why it matters: The draft legislation is stunning.
Discussion:
CNBC


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.
Discussion:
Los Angeles Times and The Gateway Pundit
RELATED:


‘Girl from the Bronx’ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who beat high-ranking Democrat Joe Crowley …
Discussion:
Daily Wire

Local Girl Makes Good
Discussion:
Taylor Marsh and Conservative News Today


Make Way for Young Democratic Leaders — The editorial board represents the opinions of the board, its editor and the publisher. It is separate from the newsroom and the Op-Ed section. — Whatever its larger meaning or impact, Representative Joseph Crowley's stunning loss …
Discussion:
Politico, IJR and Political Wire
RELATED:


Man arrested after shouting ‘womp, womp’ and pulling a gun on immigration protesters … The gathering at a park gazebo in Huntsville, Ala., was by no means the largest of Saturday's nationwide protests against President Trump's “zero tolerance” border policies, though it was memorable for other reasons.
Discussion:
POLITICUSUSA, al.com, Daily Kos and WHNT-TV


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.
Discussion:
Task & Purpose and Oregonian


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.
Discussion:
NPR, Splinter, Boise Police News and Raw Story
RELATED:


Nine stabbed at Idaho apartment complex where refugee families live
Discussion:
The Week

Stabbing suspect identified, booked into Ada County Jail
Discussion:
ABC News, ThinkProgress and Chicks On The Right


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.
Discussion:
France 24, The Daily Caller and NPR


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.
Discussion:
Mother Jones


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
Discussion:
The Gateway Pundit


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 …


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.
Discussion:
Splinter


Canada hits $13 billion of US goods with new tariffs — This is what a trade war looks like — Canada has retaliated against US steel and aluminum tariffs by slapping its own penalties on American exports. — The Canadian government confirmed Sunday that it has imposed tariffs …
Discussion:
POLITICUSUSA, The Daily Caller and Canada.ca
RELATED:

Trump says he won't sign any NAFTA deal until after midterms
Discussion:
Mother Jones and Political Wire


The Trump administration says it's a ‘myth’ that families that ask for asylum at ports of entry are separated. It happens frequently, records show — A woman named Mirian and her 18-month-old son reached Brownsville, Texas, early this year after fleeing Honduras, where the military had teargassed their home.
Discussion:
Raw Story


The Great Russian Disinformation Campaign — When Westerners first began to hear of Vladimir Putin's troll army—now some five years ago—the project sounded absurd. President Obama in March 2014 had dismissed Russia as merely a weak “regional power.” And Putin's plan to strike …
RELATED: