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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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Judge orders Paul Manafort to be transferred to New York City's notorious Rikers Island — Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman who was sentenced earlier this year to four years in prison for tax and bank fraud related to his work advising Ukrainian politicians …
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Jamie Ross / The Daily Beast:
Paul Manafort to Be Sent to Notoriously Harsh Rikers Island: Report
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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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The Daily Beast:
Pro-Impeachment Dems Are Privately Recruiting Other Members Despite Pelosi's Warnings — The effort is organic. But lawmakers say that, behind the scenes, the pro-impeachment faction is trying to talk other members into joining. — Unwilling to wait for Nancy Pelosi to embrace their cause …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
White House instructs Hicks, Donaldson to defy Dem subpoenas — The White House on Tuesday instructed two former aides to defy congressional subpoenas that sought documents related to allegations that President Donald Trump obstructed justice, in yet another act of defiance toward House Democrats' investigations.
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Washington Post:
GOP lawmakers discuss vote to block Trump's new tariffs on Mexico, in what would be a dramatic act of defiance — Congressional Republicans have begun discussing whether they may have to vote to block President Trump's planned new tariffs on Mexico, potentially igniting a second standoff …
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Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:
Trump's Two Crutches — Around 5:30 p.m. on May 30, Donald Trump announced via Twitter that the United States would impose a 5 percent tariff on Mexican goods beginning June 10, and that it would “gradually increase ... until such time as illegal migrants coming through Mexico, and into our Country, STOP.”
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Elizabeth Warren / Team Warren:
A Plan For Economic Patriotism — I come from a patriotic family. All three of my brothers joined the military. And I'm deeply grateful for the opportunities America has given me. But the giant “American” corporations who control our economy don't seem to feel the same way.
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Elizabeth Warren / Team Warren:
My Green Manufacturing Plan for America
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Ben Geman / Axios:
Joe Biden's 2020 climate plan vows to go “well beyond” Obama's policies — Joe Biden unveiled a wide-ranging climate and energy platform for his 2020 campaign Tuesday, vowing to go “well beyond” President Obama's policies at a time when he's facing skepticism on the left.
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Eric Wolff / Politico:
How Elizabeth Warren would create a clean energy economy
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Washington Post:
Joe Biden embraces Green New Deal as he releases climate plan
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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.
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CNN:
CNN Poll: Biden continues to lead crowded Democratic field — 2020 Democrats challenge Biden's message, electability — WASHINGTON (CNN)Former Vice President Joe Biden continues to be the top pick for the Democratic nomination for president among Democrats and Democratic-leaning registered voters …
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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.”
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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.
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Ceylan Yeginsu / New York Times:
Protesters Hit London Streets, With a Giant Trump Balloon in Tow — LONDON — Unleashing the giant Trump baby balloon once again, Britons protesting President Trump's state visit vowed to bring central London to a standstill on Tuesday, holding demonstrations that they hoped would draw large crowds throughout the day.
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Guy Davies / ABC News:
‘Trump baby’ blimp takes to the sky as mass protests of US president begin in London
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Sean Trende / Real Clear Politics:
Is GOP's Senate Majority in More Peril Than We Think? — The general thinking about the Republican Senate majority is that it has solidified to the point where Democrats are effectively shut out of gaining control of the upper chamber in 2020. But in truth, the GOP majority is in more danger than many analysts believe.
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.
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Matt Ford / New Republic:
A Better Way to Fix the Supreme Court — What should be done about the Supreme Court? Liberals, still seething after the Merrick Garland blockade and Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation, are bracing for imminent defeats from the Roberts Court on everything from partisan gerrymandering to abortion rights.
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Washington Post:
Trump said Russia was getting out of Venezuela. The Kremlin says that's not true. — MOSCOW — The Kremlin on Tuesday denied having told the United States that it was pulling personnel out of Venezuela, contradicting a Twitter posting a day earlier by President Trump.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Why Are Republican Small Donors So Easy to Swindle? — Republicans have long complained, usually in private, that their fundraising apparatus is overrun with fraudsters. National Review's Jim Geraghty has a column, “The Right's Grifter Problem,” saying what many of them have been whispering.
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump tries to upend the 2020 map — President Donald Trump is targeting a trio of states that he lost in 2016 — a move aimed at widening his path to reelection that comes as he's struggling in the Rust Belt states that propelled him to the White House. — Trump officials are zeroing …
NBC News:
Botched family reunifications left migrant children waiting in vans overnight — Not until 39 hours later — after two nights in a van — did the last child step out of a van to be reunited. Most spent at least 23 hours in the vehicles. — LOS ANGELES — Under the blistering Texas sun last July …
Ag Economy Barometer:
Farmer Sentiment Collapsing As Financial Conditions Continue to Decline … The Ag Economy Barometer, an agricultural producer sentiment measure based upon a nationwide mid-month survey of 400 U.S. agricultural producers, dropped again in May. The May barometer reading of 101 was 14 points lower …
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Will Ripley / CNN:
‘Executed’ North Korean diplomat is alive, sources say — (CNN)The North Korean diplomat who South Korea's largest newspaper said had been executed by firing squad is alive and in state custody, according to several sources familiar with the situation. — North Korea's special envoy …
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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Coming G.O.P. Apocalypse — Stumbling blind into the age of diversity. — For much of the 20th century, young and old people voted pretty similarly. The defining gaps in our recent politics have been the gender gap (women preferring Democrats) and the education gap.
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The American Conservative and Outside the Beltway
Chris Buckley / New York Times:
He Stayed at Tiananmen to the End. Now He Wonders What It Meant. — Zhou Duo helped evacuate Tiananmen Square in 1989. These days he defends the movement, but sees democracy in retreat in the West and far off in China. — 阅读.体中 文.閱讀.體 中文.
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Michael R. Pompeo / United States Department of State:
On the 30th Anniversary of Tiananmen Square
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Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
A White Man's Republic, If They Can Keep It — Seven years ago, as the Supreme Court considered a challenge to the Voting Rights Act, Justice Antonin Scalia said the quiet part loud. — The 2006 near-unanimous renewal of the landmark civil-rights bill was “attributable, very likely attributable …
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Sarah Weinman / The Cut:
Before, and After, the Jogger Survivors of the real ‘Central Park Five’ attacker speak for the first time. — Lourdes: June 13-14, 1989 — Lourdes Gonzalez couldn't wait to tell Antonio the news: She was pregnant with their second child. It was a surprise only because they hadn't been trying …
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