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Joe Perticone / Business Insider:
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 …
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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 …
Andy Newman / New York Times:
If Seeing the World Helps Ruin It, Should We Stay Home?
Discussion: Power Line and Althouse
Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:
Joe Biden's Climate Plan Uses Nearly Identical Language As Other Sources
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.
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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
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.
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
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Sarah Ferris / Politico:   Dems won't impeach Trump but can't stop talking about it
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.
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 …
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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
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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Fox News:
Judge orders Paul Manafort to be transferred to New York City's notorious Rikers Island
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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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Justice Dept. Offers to Renew Talks With Democrats if Contempt Vote Is Deferred
Discussion: Fox News
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
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 …
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Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
House passes immigration bill to protect ‘dreamers,’ offer a path to citizenship
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.
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.
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
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CNN:
Trump admin imposes new travel restrictions on Cuba, banning cruise ships
Discussion: New York Times and New York Post
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.
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.
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
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 …
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
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
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 …
HuffPost:
Campaign Money Helping Make Up For Tenant Shortage At Trump Tower  —  As commercial renters flee, Trump keeps spending $37,500 a month in campaign funds at his own building — even though much of the Republican Party's leased space in Virginia is going unused.
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.
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.”
Matthew Schmitz / First Things:
Sohrab Ahmari Is Right  —  Judging by the number of articles they have written and the tweets they have sent, certain conservative writers view Sohrab Ahmari as a major threat to public decency.  Nothing outraged these writers more than Ahmari's observation that “civility and decency are secondary values.”
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.
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 …
Washington Post:
Amid London protests, Trump appears in denial over his standing abroad  —  It was an uncomfortable spectacle for an American president — thousands of protesters greeting his arrival in London for a state visit with the queen.  —  For President George W. Bush, the moment called for a direct response.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Joe.My.God.
Adam Forrest / Yahoo News:
Trump baby blimp ‘stabbed with sharp object’ by pro-Trump activist in London  —  Trump baby blimps flown at today's protests in London against the US president's visit was attacked by a pro-Trump supporter carrying a sharp object.  —  A woman approached a group anti-Trump activists outside …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Splinter
 
 
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David Brown / Politico:
Shanahan declines to punish senior officers in Niger ambush
Discussion: CNN and Task & Purpose
Jacob Magid / The Times of Israel:
In coalition talks, PM accepted Haredi demand for gender segregated public areas
Seth J. Frantzman / Jerusalem Post:
Qatar bans homosexuality as Al Jazeera in English marks LGBT Pride Month
Discussion: Daily Wire
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Thoughts on Impeachment
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Immigration, economy top list of voter concerns
David Israel / The Jewish Press:
Facing Criminal Hearings, Netanyahu Appoints Himself Justice Minister
Discussion: The Week
 Earlier Items: 
Dominick Mastrangelo / Washington Examiner:
Biden carries double-digit lead in state Trump won in 2016
James Griffiths / CNN:
World marks 30 years since Tiananmen massacre as China censors all mention
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Why Are Republican Small Donors So Easy to Swindle?
Ronald Brownstein / CNN:
Rumblings from Trump's base could shape Democrats' choice for 2020
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Sarah Weinman / The Cut:
Before, and After, the Jogger Survivors of the real ‘Central Park Five’ attacker speak for the first time.
Sean Trende / Real Clear Politics:
Is GOP's Senate Majority in More Peril Than We Think?
Will Ripley / CNN:
‘Executed’ North Korean diplomat is alive, sources say
 

 
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Amazon is shutting down Freevee, its free, ad-supported streaming service launched in 2019 under the IMDb brand, and plans to move the content to Prime Video

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Disney board members are exploring fresh candidates in their search for a successor to Bob Iger, including EA CEO Andrew Wilson

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