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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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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
White House instructs Hicks, Donaldson to defy Dem subpoenas
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Outside the Beltway, Joe.My.God. and Mediaite
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Hoyer: Democrats should subpoena Mueller if necessary
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Talking Points Memo and Common Dreams
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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Dominick Mastrangelo / Washington Examiner:
Biden carries double-digit lead in state Trump won in 2016 — Former Vice President Joe Biden's campaign is off to a good start in North Carolina. — Biden carried a double-digit lead in a new Emerson College poll released Tuesday. — Biden is ahead of President Trump 56% to 44% in the Tar Heel State …
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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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Politico, Washington Times, The Week, Splinter and Political Wire
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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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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Washington Post:
Joe Biden embraces Green New Deal as he releases climate plan
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Eric Wolff / Politico:
How Elizabeth Warren would create a clean energy economy
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Axios, BuzzFeed News and Sean Hannity
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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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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Liel Leibovitz / Tablet Magazine:
Why Jews Should Pay Attention to the Recent Debate Rocking American Conservatism
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National Review
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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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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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.
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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Politico, Shakesville, Breitbart, twitchy.com, Talking Points Memo and The Week
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed News:
These Reporters Lost Their Jobs. Now They're Fighting Back Against Big Tech. — Two prominent reporters who were recently laid off from digital media outlets are forming a new advocacy group to raise awareness about Big Tech's impact on the journalism industry.
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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NBC News, Above the Law and The Atlantic
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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Lawyers, Guns & Money, Patterico's Pontifications and National Review
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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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Bloomberg, The Grayzone and The Week
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 …
Alex Pappas / Fox News:
Dossier author Christopher Steele will be questioned by US investigators: report — Former British spy Christopher Steele, the author of the anti-Trump dossier of salacious and unverified claims about the president's ties to Russia, has agreed to be questioned by investigators from the United States, according to a report in Britain.
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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 …
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Kira Lerner / The Appeal:
Virginia Teen Was Detained and Prosecuted for Saying ‘Oink Oink’ to Cop — Critics say that Arlington County Commonwealth Attorney Theo Stamos, who is being challenged in a June primary, has a pattern of treating children too harshly. — In May 2016, James (not his real name), then 17 …
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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Tom Winter / NBC News:
Senator: Oligarch linked to Kremlin earned millions while fighting extradition to U.S. — Dmytro Firtash has been under indictment in Chicago since 2014. He was also involved in a failed business deal with ex-Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort. — A U.S. senator alleges that a Ukrainian oligarch …
William McGurn / Wall Street Journal:
About the FBI's Spying — What's the difference between surveillance of Carter Page and Martin Luther King? — When Carter Page learned in April 2017 that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had obtained a secret court order to listen in on his communications, the Washington Post asked him about it.
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Law & Crime, emptywheel and Mediaite
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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Law & Crime, Mother Jones, Vox and Roll Call
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Trump administration approved Saudi nuclear transfers after Khashoggi murder — The Department of Energy approved the transfer of nuclear information from U.S. companies to Saudi Arabia seven times under President Trump, including twice after the assassination of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi …
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