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12:25 PM ET, June 6, 2019

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Heather Caygle / Politico:
Pelosi tells Dems she wants to see Trump ‘in prison’  —  Speaker Nancy Pelosi told senior Democrats that she'd like to see President Donald Trump “in prison” as she clashed with House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler in a meeting on Tuesday night over whether to launch impeachment proceedings.
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Fox News Exclusive: Trump says Mueller made a ‘fool’ of himself  —  President Trump, in an exclusive interview with Fox News' Laura Ingraham, said former Special Counsel Robert Mueller made “such a fool” out of himself last week when he delivered his first and only public statement about the Russia investigation.
Mark Hosenball / Reuters:   Still no briefing for Senate intel panel on Mueller report: sources
Laurence H. Tribe / Washington Post:
Impeach Trump.  But don't necessarily try him in the Senate.  —  Laurence H. Tribe is the University Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard and the coauthor, most recently, of “To End a Presidency: The Power of Impeachment.”  —  It is possible to argue that impeaching President Trump …
Discussion: The Guardian and Balloon Juice
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
John James announces Senate bid in Michigan  —  Republican John James announced another campaign for Senate in Michigan Thursday, setting up a major clash with first-term Democratic Sen. Gary Peters.  —  James, a veteran and businessman, ran for Senate in 2018, losing by 7 percentage points to Sen. Debbie Stabenow.
Discussion: Fox News, Axios and Roll Call
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Malachi Barrett / MLive.com:
John James announces 2020 campaign for U.S. Senate
Discussion: The Resurgent and Michigan Advance
Washington Post:   Republican John James announces a second bid for a Senate seat from Michigan
Detroit News:
John James announces second run for U.S. Senate in Michigan
Discussion: Townhall, The Hill and Political Wire
Joe DePaolo / Mediaite:
Tucker Carlson Hails Elizabeth Warren's ‘Economic Patriotism’ Plan: ‘She Sounds Like Donald Trump at His Best’  —  Tucker Carlson is... Team Warren?  —  In a stunner of a monologue Wednesday night, the Fox News host praised Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) — yes, Elizabeth Warren — for her newly-released economic proposal.
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NBC News:
Warren wishes handcuffs for Trump, says Biden wrong on abortion  —  The Massachusetts Democrat and 2020 contender let loose at an MSNBC town hall in Indiana.  —  FORT WAYNE, Ind. — Sen. Elizabeth Warren said at an MSNBC town hall on Wednesday night that Joe Biden is wrong for supporting …
Associated Press:
D-Day 75: Nations honor veterans, memory of fallen troops  —  OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — With the silence of remembrance and respect, nations honored the memory of the fallen and the singular bravery of all Allied troops who sloshed through bloodied water to the landing beaches of Normandy …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Guess who else voted against federal funding for abortion?
Bret Baier / Fox News:   D-Day was a grand gamble
Robin Givhan / Washington Post:
Trump's catastrophic fashion choices in England were not just a sign of bad taste  —  The president and first lady have landed in Ireland.  They have left the pomp and pageantry of England.  Melania Trump has removed her Phillip Treacy hat.  The president is once again in a business suit and his too-long ties.
Robby Soave / Reason:
YouTube Punishes Steven Crowder for Homophobic Speech, a Confused Approach to an Unsolvable Problem  —  In the last 24 hours, YouTube declined to punish conservative content creator Steven Crowder for homophobic speech directed at a gay Vox journalist, then debuted a far-reaching ban on extremist videos …
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Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Who Cares About the Supreme Court's ‘Legitimacy’?  —  Conservatives seem to assume that only the chief justice is moved by fears that he and his colleagues will end up looking like politicians in robes.  —  In a rational world, the Supreme Court would hit the pause button on the pending census case …
David Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Trump to stay at Doonbeg, his money-losing golf course threatened by climate change  —  President Trump arrived at his golf course in Doonbeg, Ireland, on Wednesday for a two-night stay — pausing between official events in Europe to visit a business that has cost him $41 million and never reported turning a profit.
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Anita Kumar / Politico:   Trump resort revenue has gone up after presidential visits
Zach Montellaro / Politico:
Who's in — and out — of the first Democratic debates  —  Barring a last-minute change, Montana Gov. Steve Bullock will not make the stage.  —  A prominent governor running in the Democratic primary is at serious risk of getting shut out of the party's first presidential debates …
Discussion: ABC News
Andrew Witherspoon / Axios:
Trump's empty Cabinet positions have exceeded any recent president, and it's not even close  —  No president in recent history has started their tenure with as many extended Cabinet vacancies as President Trump.  —  Why it matters: Trump has been happy to fill many of the positions with …
Zach Goldberg / Tablet Magazine:
America's White Saviors  —  To understand the motivations behind the “great awokening” we must first review some of the basics of political psychology.  Social scientists use a model called “The Big Five personality traits” or “five-factor model” to describe how the relative prevalence …
Camilo Montoya-Galvez / CBS News:
Military to spend a month painting border barriers to “improve aesthetic appearance”  —  Washington — Members of the military deployed near the U.S.-Mexico border have been assigned to spend a month painting a mile-long stretch of barriers to improve their “aesthetic appearance.”
Washington Post:
A wealthy Iraqi sheikh who urges a hard-line U.S. approach to Iran spent 26 nights at Trump's D.C. hotel  —  In July, a wealthy Iraqi sheikh named Nahro al-Kasnazan wrote letters to national security adviser John Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urging them to forge closer ties …
Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Power Up: Charlamagne tha God has some questions for Joe Biden  —  Good morning and welcome back.  Happy almost Friday 😎 Thanks for all the recipes, and they will be coming tomorrow (if you manage to read to the bottom).  Thanks for waking up with us.
Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo News:
Trump admits his Cabinet had ‘some clinkers’  —  The Best People: Trump's Cabinet and the Siege on Washington" by Alexander Nazaryan.  Copyright © 2019.  Available from Hachette Books, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, Inc.  —  They were the best people, the finest in the land, tasked with returning the nation to greatness.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Kyle Kondik / Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball:
The Shadow of 1998  —  Revisiting and reassessing the GOP's poor showing and the role of impeachment in the result  —  KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE  — The 1998 election has invariably come up a lot as House Democrats consider whether to impeach President Donald Trump.
Discussion: Washington Post and Bloomberg
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
'Food Doesn't Grow Here Anymore.  That's Why I Would Send My Son North.'  —  A stark choice for some Guatemalans: watch crops wither, and maybe die with them, or migrate.  —  NENTÓN, Guatemala — To understand why President Trump's new sanctions and other flailing …
Anand Giridharadas / TIME:
Bernie Sanders Wants to Change America.  But He May Have to Change Himself First.  —  Bernie Sanders wants to make a joke.  Pretty good joke, he thinks.  He is slumped in a window seat in coach on a plane parked at Chicago O'Hare.  He has about an hour in transit to get the joke into his next speech.
Marc Tracy / New York Times:
Craig Newmark, New Friend to Journalism, Gives $6 Million to Consumer Reports  —  An entrepreneur who made a fortune thanks to his digital disruption of the newspaper industry has joined forces with a fearsome nonprofit watchdog publication that is expanding its coverage of the tech industry.
Politico:
Trump's method to the madness on trade  —  WASHINGTON — Donald Trump is not winging it.  —  Or at least he's not totally winging it.  —  However improvisational his daily machinations on trade — presented publicly as motivated by a random mix of mood and twitches of the news cycle …
Alan Cowell / New York Times:
Overlooked No More: Alan Turing, Condemned Code Breaker and Computer Visionary  —  His ideas led to early versions of modern computing and helped win World War II.  Yet he died as a criminal for his homosexuality. … LONDON — His genius embraced the first visions of modern computing …
Todd J. Gillman / Dallas Morning News:
Biden puts Texas in play, pulling ahead of Trump 48-44 in new poll and exposing 2020 peril for GOP  —  WASHINGTON — A new Texas poll shows President Donald Trump losing 48-44 to former Vice President Joe Biden.  —  The Quinnipiac University Poll, released Wednesday afternoon …
Discussion: The Week and Mediaite
Richard Fausset / New York Times:
North Carolina Legislature Fails to Overturn Governor's Veto of Anti-Abortion Bill  —  In a rare defeat for anti-abortion activists in the South, North Carolina Republicans failed on Wednesday to overturn a veto of a bill that would have made it a crime to not treat “any infant born alive after an abortion.”
Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
William Barr is asking questions the media don't want asked  —  “I'm amused,” Attorney General William Barr told CBS News' Jan Crawford, “by these people who make a living disclosing classified information, including the names of intelligence operatives, wringing their hands about whether …
Discussion: American Greatness
 
 
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Sebastian Castelier / Al-Monitor:
Can Kuwait's Silk City project overcome Islamist opposition in parliament?
Discussion: The National Interest
Brianne Pfannenstiel / Des Moines Register:
Kamala Harris ramps up staff, organizing in Iowa: 'It's game on.'
Discussion: Political Wire
Michael E. Ruane / Washington Post:
‘The boys of Pointe du Hoc’: The Reagan D-Day speech that moved a nation
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Ronit / AWiderBridge:
By Banning Jewish and Israeli Symbols, DC Dyke March Undermines Its Intended Purpose
Donald Trump / The Guardian:
Donald Trump, the one person more of a political basket case than Britain
Christopher Hume / Toronto Star:
Ford government's plan to allow more density in midtown is the right move — even if it's for the wrong reasons
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2020 Dems have widespread problem of lifting policy material
Andrew Kerr / The Daily Caller:
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New York Times:
Tech Giants Amass a Lobbying Army for an Epic Washington Battle
Wall Street Journal:
State Dept. Forces Out Official Who Worked on Plan That Led to Ex-Employer's Arms Deals
Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
Joe Biden Worked to Undermine the Affordable Care Act's Coverage of Contraception
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Lies? The news media is starting to describe Trump's ‘falsehoods’ that way.
 

 
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Apple reports Q4 revenue from Services, which includes the App Store, Apple TV+, and Apple Music, up 12% YoY to $24.97B, a new quarterly record, but below est.

Jennifer Maas / Variety:
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