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9:50 PM ET, June 30, 2019

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Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
‘Surreal’: Ivanka Trump plays a prominent role in her father's historic Korea trip  —  Few Americans alive today have set foot inside North Korea, the isolated, nuclear-armed dictatorship sometimes called the Hermit Kingdom.  —  On Sunday, Ivanka Trump became one of them …
Discussion: Balloon Juice, Mother Jones and YouTube
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Hannah Knowles / Washington Post:
Trump's press secretary bruised after jostling with North Korea security over media, report says  —  New White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham was bruised Sunday in a scuffle between North Korean security and members of the U.S. press pool covering President Trump's meeting …
Audrey McNamara / The Daily Beast:
Fox News Host Tucker Carlson Spotted at DMZ With Trump for Interview  —  Fox News host Tucker Carlson was spotted with Donald Trump at the Demilitarized Zone on Sunday during the president's historic meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jung Un.  The American contingent for the trip …
Jonathan Karl / ABC News:
Trump, ever the showman, delivers his greatest performance at DMZ: ANALYSIS  —  For Donald Trump the showman, this may have been the greatest performance of his presidency.  —  In one dramatic gesture, he became the first U.S. president to set foot in North Korea — and the first to arrange …
Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
'It's only fake news': Even on a historic day, Trump complains about media coverage
Audrey McNamara / The Daily Beast:   Tucker Carlson: Leading a Country ‘Means Killing People’
Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump says sanctions remain on NKorea
Discussion: Mediaite
The Independent:
Trump becomes first sitting US president to enter North Korea as he shakes hands with Kim Jong-un
Discussion: Daily Wire
Politico:
‘Big moment’: Trump waltzes into North Korea
Discussion: Washington Post, Law & Crime and NPR
NBC News:
Trump meets Kim Jong Un, becomes first sitting U.S. president to step into North Korea
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA, Mother Jones and Deadline
Carla Marinucci / Politico:
‘Her ambition got it wrong about Joe’: Harris faces debate backlash  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Kamala Harris might be reveling in her sudden burst of attention after roasting Joe Biden over racial issues on the debate stage last week, but a backlash is already brewing.
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Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Harris surges to third place in national poll after debate
Discussion: The Guardian and Washington Post
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Kamala Shotguns Joe Sixpack
Discussion: Althouse
Axios:
Cory Booker says Biden can't talk “honestly” about his past mistakes on race
Discussion: Politico and Breitbart
Cameron Easley / Morning Consult:
Harris Surges After First Democratic Debates
Discussion: Mediaite and Slate
Josh Kraushaar / National Journal:   Biden's Struggles Create an Opening for a Moderate Alternative
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Living In an Age of Hate [Updated]  —  Byron York takes a dispassionate look at today's political/cultural landscape, which is beginning to resemble the one that preceded the Civil War: … Advocacy of incivility and violence isn't coming only from the zany far left.
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Anti-Trump fever takes threatening turn  —  The toxicity of the resistance to President Trump has risen in recent days, with the nation's most respected newspapers publishing rationalizations for denying Trump supporters public accommodation and for doxxing career federal employees …
Stephen Kinzer / BostonGlobe.com:
Soros and Koch brothers team up to end US ‘forever war’ policy  —  BESIDES BEING BILLIONAIRES and spending much of their fortunes to promote pet causes, the leftist financier George Soros and the right-wing Koch brothers have little in common.  They could be seen as polar opposites.
Michelle Malkin / gofundme.com:
Protect Andy Ngo Fund  —  Lovers of liberty and supporters of independent media,  —  My friend, Portland, Oregon-based journalist Andy Ngo, was beaten and robbed today by Antifa while covering the latest paroxysms of left-wing violence.  Andy has been singled out, doxxed …
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Kristina Wong / Breitbart:
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler Under Fire for Not Stopping Antifa Protests
Will Bunch / Inquirer.com:
How the first U.S. city with no daily newspaper will help Trump in 2020  —  In the American Heartland, the white working class was riled up.  They were angry about immigrants — so many of whom didn't even bother to speak English — and the economic advancement of African Americans.
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Inside the Trump campaign's plan to re-energize evangelicals  —  President Trump's re-election campaign is developing an aggressive, state-by-state plan to mobilize even more evangelical voters than supported him last time, campaign officials tell Axios.  —  Why it matters …
Discussion: Political Wire
Axios:
Report: U.S. is underestimating Putin's “grand strategy” for Russian dominance  —  A new report prepared for the Pentagon suggests that the U.S. is underestimating the scale of Russian President Vladimir Putin's “grand strategy” for dominance on the world stage, and that inaction in the face …
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Bryan Bender / Politico:
Pentagon study: Russia outgunning U.S. in race for global influence
Washington Post:
‘The enigma of the entire Mueller probe’: Focus on origins of Russian investigation puts spotlight on Maltese professor  —  Shortly after Joseph Mifsud's efforts to help connect a Trump adviser with the Kremlin were detailed in court filings, an Italian reporter found him at a university in Rome …
Eliott C. McLaughlin / CNN:
Federal judge: Let doctors into child migrant detention centers, quickly  —  Binford: ‘Stop politicizing migrant children’  —  (CNN)A federal judge has ordered US Customs and Border Protection to permit health experts into detention facilities holding migrant children to ensure they're …
Matthew Rosenberg / New York Times:
Trump Consultant Is Trolling Democrats With Biden Site That Isn't Biden's  —  AUSTIN, Tex. — For much of the last three months, the most popular Joseph R. Biden Jr. website has been a slick little piece of disinformation that is designed to look like the former vice president's official campaign page …
David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:
Hey Dems, Take It From This Ex-Centrist: We Blew It  —  New Democrat ideas are past their sell-by date and old labels are meaningless.  Time to listen to voters.  —  As the first round of debates among Democratic candidates for president clearly showed, the intellectual vitality …
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Democratic candidates veer left, leaving behind successful midterm strategy  —  A defining moment in the first set of Democratic debates came when one of the candidates barely registering in early polls, Julián Castro, launched a blistering attack on fellow Texan Beto O'Rourke …
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Bianca Quilantan / Politico:
Undocumented immigrants should get health care, Julián Castro affirms
Discussion: Breitbart
Tim Alberta / Politico:
Unhappy With Their 2016 Coronation, the Democrats Start a 2020 Circus
Discussion: Washington Post
 
 
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Steven Overly / Politico:
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Detroit Free Press:
Former Gov. Rick Snyder named Harvard fellow
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Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Stop the Knee-Jerk Liberalism That Hurts Its Own Cause
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A China-U.S. Trade Truce Could Enshrine a Global Economic Shift
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