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Joe Biden's climate plan appears to directly copy multiple lines from other organizations — but his campaign says it was a mistake … - Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden released a climate change proposal on Tuesday. — In at least three instances …

Discussion: New York Times, JustOneMinute, Gizmodo, VICE, Front Page Magazine, Splinter, Breitbart, HuffPost, twitchy.com and Common Dreams

Natasha Korecki / Politico:

Plagiarism charge hits Biden climate change plan — Former Vice President Joe Biden's campaign came under fire on Tuesday for putting out a $1.7 trillion climate change plan that appeared to copy a handful of passages from previously published documents. — The incident recalled …

Discussion: Bloomberg, YouTube, National Review, Fox News, The Daily Caller and Observer

Washington Post:
Joe Biden's campaign acknowledges lifting language from other groups for its policy plans

Discussion: Politico

Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:
Joe Biden's Climate Plan Uses Nearly Identical Language As Other Sources

Discussion: USA Today, Associated Press, Mother Jones, CNN, PJ Media Home, The Federalist, Mediaite, Fox News, IJR, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Axios

Alex Griswold / Washington Free Beacon:
Joe Biden's Climate Platform Appears to Plagiarize From Nonprofits

Discussion: IJR and Breitbart

Washington Post:

GOP lawmakers warn White House they'll try to block Trump's Mexico tariffs — Republican senators warned Trump administration officials Tuesday they were prepared to block the president's effort to impose tariffs on Mexican imports, promising what would be GOP lawmakers' most brazen defiance of the president since he took office.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Townhall, Breitbart, The Mahablog, OpenSecrets.org, Daily Kos, CNBC, The Daily Caller, Roll Call, ThinkProgress, Hullabaloo, Vanity Fair, VICE News, Talking Points Memo and Fox News

Eliana Johnson / Politico:

Republicans ready to quash Cuccinelli — Ken Cuccinelli has spent years attacking Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans. Now, it's time for payback. — President Donald Trump wants Cuccinelli, who most recently led the anti-establishment Senate Conservatives Fund, to be director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

Discussion: Mediaite

New York Times:

Senate Republicans Warn White House Against Mexico Tariffs — WASHINGTON — Republican senators sent the White House a sharp message on Tuesday, warning that they were opposed to President Trump's plans to impose tariffs on Mexican imports, just hours after the president said lawmakers would be “foolish” to try to stop him.

Discussion: Washington Press, Townhall, Politico and Mediaite

Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
Republicans' opposition to Trump's Mexico tariffs comes at great political risk

Discussion: Politico, Breitbart and The Week

CNN: Republicans signal to White House not to nominate Ken Cuccinelli for immigration post

Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:

“Marla Was Under Duress”: Revealed in His Marla Maples Prenup, Donald Trump's Draconian Art of the Marriage Deal — She only got $1 million. Trump called himself a billionaire, but likely wasn't. Child support would cease if Tiffany joined the Army or the Peace Corps. And other secrets of the Trump-Marla prenup.

Discussion: Mother Jones, Daily Kos, Mediaite, Jezebel and POLITICUSUSA

Susan Page / USA Today:

Harry Reid changes opinion, says Pelosi-led House should open Trump impeachment inquiry — Impeaching a U.S. president might not be the be all end all for their career. Not only can a president remain in office after impeachment, but even see higher approval ratings. We explain. — CONNECT

Discussion: Washington Post, CNN, NBC News, Talking Points Memo and The Guardian

Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:

DoJ: Key Mueller Witness Arrested For Transporting Child Pornography ... Again — Adam Schiff's plans to go after Erik Prince may have hit a dead end. After the release of the Mueller report, the House Intelligence chair referred Prince for prosecution on perjury, thank to testimony …

Discussion: RedState, CNBC, Balloon Juice, CNN and U.S. Department of Justice

BuzzFeed News: Justice Department Clarifies Redactions To Mueller Report

Erica Orden / CNN: Judge orders key Mueller witness arrested on child porn charges be driven by FBI to Virginia for court appearance

The Daily Beast:
George Nader, Witness in Mueller Probe, Denied Release on Child-Porn Charges

Discussion: Bloomberg

Camilo Montoya-Galvez / CBS News:

House passes latest DREAM Act, hoping to place millions of immigrants on path to citizenship — Washington — With a handful of Republican votes, House Democrats passed the latest version of the DREAM Act, an ambitious expansion of a nearly two-decades-long legislative effort that would place millions …

Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
House passes immigration bill to protect ‘dreamers,’ offer a path to citizenship

Discussion: Townhall, Breitbart, BostonGlobe.com, Splinter and The Week

Ted Hesson / Politico:
Democrat-led House passes Dreamers bill in rebuttal to Trump

Discussion: Politics K-12

New York Times:

For Trump, U.K. State Visit Is a (Royal) Family Affair — LONDON — When Queen Elizabeth II welcomed the president on Monday for his first state visit to Britain, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner watched from a Buckingham Palace balcony. Later, at a state banquet, Eric Trump posed for photographs.

Discussion: POLITICUSUSA, Shareblue Media, CNN, Fox News and The Sun

Lauren Chadwick / euronews:

Noa Pothoven: Raped girl, 17, dies by legal euthanasia in the Netherlands — A teenager who said she was raped by two men died by legal euthanasia in the Netherlands, it's emerged. — Noa Pothoven made a “sad last post” to social media last week in which she announced she would “die within 10 days”.

Discussion: twitchy.com

Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:

Talks Between Democrats and Justice Dept. in Doubt Over Barr Contempt Vote — WASHINGTON — House Democrats said on Tuesday that they were willing to renew negotiations with the Justice Department over access to the special counsel's full report and investigative files …

Discussion: Fox News

CNN:

First on CNN: White House directs Hicks, Donaldson to withhold White House documents from House panel — (CNN)The White House has directed former officials Hope Hicks and Annie Donaldson not to turn over any documents to the House Judiciary Committee relating to their time at the White House …

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Guillermo Contreras / ExpressNews.com:

Emails show Texas governor requested the voter purge that used flawed data — Electronic communications made public Tuesday show Gov. Greg Abbott's office was a driving force in the state's program to purge nearly 100,000 suspected non-U.S. citizens from Texas' voter rolls.

Discussion: Campaign Legal Center

Associated Press:

Trump administration bans educational and recreational travel to Cuba — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Tuesday imposed major new travel restrictions on visits to Cuba by U.S. citizens, including a ban on many forms of educational and recreational travel.

Discussion: Axios and The Week

CNN:
Trump admin imposes new travel restrictions on Cuba, banning cruise ships

Discussion: New York Times and New York Post

U.S. Department of the Treasury:
Treasury and Commerce Implement Changes to Cuba Sanctions Rules

Discussion: Associated Press, Breitbart, CBS Los Angeles, The Daily Signal and UPI

Washington Post:

Meet the GOP operatives who aim to smear the 2020 Democrats — but keep bungling it — Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl — a pair of boundlessly eager, profoundly unrepentant aspirants to the dankest depths of political chicanery — were watching television together the other day when something caught Burkman's eye.

William K. Rashbaum / New York Times:

Paul Manafort to Be Sent to Rikers, Where He Faces Solitary Confinement — Mr. Manafort was indicted on state charges, which prosecutors brought to ensure he would go to prison if pardoned by President Trump. High-profile inmates are often held in protective custody.

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Alex Horton / Washington Post:

A teacher asked Trump to round up ‘illegal students’ — in tweets she says she thought were private — Georgia Clark, a veteran high school English teacher in Fort Worth, had an urgent request for President Trump: She needed help pulling undocumented immigrants from her school.

Discussion: Townhall, The Root, Splinter, Fort Worth Star-Telegram and Mercury News

Jason Rezaian / Washington Post:

The State Department has been funding trolls. I'm one of their targets. — Even after spending a year and a half in prison in Tehran, I knew that if I wanted to go on writing about Iran, I would be a target for plenty of public attacks despite the abuse I had suffered at the hands of the Islamic Republic.

Discussion: The American Conservative

Los Angeles Times:

Homelessness jumps 12% in L.A. County and 16% in the city; officials ‘stunned’ — In a hard reality check for Los Angeles County's multimillion-dollar hope of ending homelessness, officials reported Tuesday that the number of people living on the streets, in vehicles and in shelters increased by about 12% over last year.

Discussion: PJ Media Home, UPI, The Week, Media Matters for America, Sean Hannity and Mediaite

Reuters:

Satellite data shows Amazon deforestation rising under Brazil's Bolsonaro — BRASILIA (Reuters) - Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil sped up in May to the fastest rate in a decade, according to data from an early-warning satellite system, as experts pointed to activity …

Adam Goldman / New York Times:

F.B.I., Pushing to Stop Domestic Terrorists, Grapples With Limits on Its Power — EVERETT, Wash. — Dakota Reed's mind brimmed with thoughts of mass murder. In November, he wrote on Facebook, “I am shooting for 30 Jews.” — The next month, he uploaded a video of himself in his bedroom …

Discussion: Daily Kos

Emily Todd VanDerWerff / Vox:

HBO's Chernobyl is a terrific miniseries. Its writer hopes you don't think it's the whole truth. — Craig Mazin on turning disaster into great TV and narrative poison. — HBO's terrific five-episode miniseries Chernobyl has two big surprises up its sleeve.

Tom Winter / NBC News:

Hate crimes surge in NYC, attacks on Jews almost double — The NYPD recorded 184 hate crimes through June 2 — up from 112 in 2018 — during a period when the city experienced a continued reduction in overall crimes. — The number of hate crimes in New York City jumped by 64 percent this year …

Discussion: The Week

Katherine Clarke / Wall Street Journal:

Jeff Bezos Buys Fifth Avenue Condo Spread for Around $80 Million — The Amazon CEO is finalizing the purchase of three units at 212 Fifth Avenue near Madison Square Park — Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos is set to finalize the purchase of three New York apartments Tuesday in a deal valued …

Discussion: Washington Post, Fortune and New York Post

Phil Williams / WTVF-TV:

Tennessee prosecutor: Gay people not entitled to domestic violence protections — NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A newly discovered video shows a Middle Tennessee prosecutor boasting that, if gay people in his district end up being victims of domestic violence, they should not expect him to use …

Nick Statt / The Verge:

YouTube decides that homophobic harassment does not violate its policies — The company sides with edgy commentator Steven Crowder — YouTube has at last formally responded to an explosive and controversial feud between Vox writer and video host Carlos Maza and conservative YouTuber Steven Crowder.

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Steve Benen / MSNBC:

Remember when Republicans were prepared to impeach Hillary Clinton? — On Nov. 8, 2016, Donald Trump unexpectedly won the U.S. presidential election. Just four days earlier, however, the Washington Post published this report on Republican plans to impeach Hillary Clinton, whom they expected to win.

Addy Baird / BuzzFeed News:

Bernie Sanders Is Endorsing Marie Newman Against One Of The Last Anti-Abortion Democrats In Congress — WASHINGTON — Sen. Bernie Sanders is set to endorse abortion rights advocate Marie Newman in her primary challenge against Illinois Rep. Dan Lipinski, one of the last remaining anti-abortion Democrats …

TMZ.com:

Central Park 5 Investigator Linda Fairstein Resigns from Nonprofit Org — LINDA FAIRSTEIN RESIGNS FROM NONPROFIT ORG — EXCLUSIVE — 5:19 PM PT — A rep for Safe Horizon tells us, “After careful consideration, Lina Fairstein has made the difficult decision to resign from the Safe Horizon Board of Directors.

Discussion: The Daily Beast, The FADER, theGrio, Mercury News, Decider and New York Post

Ross Douthat / New York Times:

What Are Conservatives Actually Debating? — What the strange war over “David French-ism” says about the right. — In March the religious journal First Things published a short manifesto, signed by a group of notable conservative writers and academics, titled “Against the Dead Consensus.”