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2:10 PM ET, June 4, 2023

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Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
Chuck Todd to leave NBC's ‘Meet the Press’; Welker will become host  —  The transition will happen in September, a major change at one of broadcast television oldest institutions  —  Chuck Todd, who has served as moderator of NBC's Sunday-morning talk show “Meet the Press” since 2014 …
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David Bauder / Associated Press:
Chuck Todd leaving NBC political panel show ‘Meet the Press’ and being replaced by Kristen Welker  —  Chuck Todd said on Sunday that he'll be leaving “Meet the Press” after a tumultuous near-decade of moderating the NBC political panel show, to be replaced in the coming months by Kristen Welker.
Daniel Arkin / NBC News:
Chuck Todd will depart NBC's ‘Meet the Press’; Kristen Welker to become host  —  Chuck Todd, a mainstay in Washington as moderator of “Meet the Press,” will step down from the show in the coming months.  NBC News' co-chief White House correspondent Kristen Welker will take his place.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Biden has a theory of MAGA that just might be working  —  Now that Congress has passed the debt limit deal, explanations for President Biden's success in negotiating the outcome are abounding.  Among them: Biden drew on his long experience in Washington to achieve bipartisan compromise …
Discussion: Voice of America, CBS News and TASS
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New York Times:
Inside the Complicated Reality of Being America's Oldest President  —  President Biden is asking voters to keep him in the White House until age 86, renewing attention to an issue that polls show troubles most Americans.  —  There was the time last winter when President Biden was awakened …
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Kamala Harris is a Biden fall away from being in the Oval Office
Isabel Keane / New York Post:
Mystery private jet of migrants arrives in Sacramento, prompting investigation  —  California officials launched an investigation after more than a dozen migrants were flown to Sacramento on a mystery private jet on Saturday and “dumped on the doorstep of a local church without any advance warning.”
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CNN:
California is investigating after a private jet carrying migrants arrived in Sacramento, officials say  —  An investigation is underway after over a dozen migrants arrived in Sacramento, California, by private jet “with no prior arrangement or care in place,” Gov. Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta said Saturday.
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Could Jeff Zucker Fix CNN?  He Seems to Think So.  —  It's been more than a year since he was forced from the top job at the network.  Since then, he has made no secret of his frustrations with his exit — or his low regard for the man who replaced him, Chris Licht.
Miles Parks / NPR:
How the far right tore apart one of the best tools to fight voter fraud  —  On a night in January 2022, Louisiana Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin stepped on stage in a former airbase in Houma, La.  —  With American flags draped from the stage, the topic of the night was democracy.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
NBC News:
Grand jury in Trump classified documents case expected to meet this coming week after hiatus  —  A grand jury that has been hearing evidence in the case against former President Donald Trump is expected to meet this coming week in Washington after a lull.  —  The federal grand jury …
David Jackson / USA Today:
Donald Trump's GOP rivals pounce after he congratulated Kim Jong Un: ‘Not something to play with’  —  WASHINGTON − Republican presidential candidates and other GOP leaders shed their reluctance to criticize Donald Trump this weekend after the ex-president served up an unusual political issue: North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Pence readies for Trump showdown as 2024 launch approaches
Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
DeSantis suggests Trump doesn't understand the ‘woke’ threat to America
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Want a model on how to govern, Democrats?  Look to Minnesota's miracle.  —  You could be forgiven for imagining that state legislatures around the country are lurching rightward, thanks to the media spotlight given to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's culture warring in his state.  Other deep-red states are not far behind.
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
Craig Simpson / Telegraph:
Anglo-Saxons aren't real, Cambridge tells students in effort to fight ‘nationalism’  —  University aims to ‘dismantle the myths’ around British and English identities as it seeks to make its teaching more ‘anti-racist’  —  Cambridge is teaching students that Anglo-Saxons did not exist …
Discussion: Breitbart
Jason Willick / Washington Post:
What Republicans and Democrats are missing about threats to democracy  —  Political scientists are finally getting a better handle on how modern democratic systems can break down.  But the best research doesn't support the self-serving account the Western establishment has been offering since the Brexit and Donald Trump shocks of 2016.
Washington Post:
NATO-trained units will serve as tip of spear in Ukraine's counteroffensive  —  When Ukraine's long-awaited counteroffensive finally begins, the fight will be led by brigades armed not only with Western weapons but also Western know-how, gleaned from months of training aimed …
Discussion: Bloomberg
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Washington Post:   Use of NATO arms for attack in Russia raises doubts about Kyiv's controls
Reuters:
Exclusive: World's spy chiefs meet in secret conclave in Singapore  —  Senior officials from about two dozen of the world's major intelligence agencies held a secret meeting on the fringes of the Shangri-La Dialogue security meeting in Singapore this weekend, five people told Reuters.
Maya Yang / The Guardian:
Florida taxpayers pick up bill for Ron DeSantis's culture war lawsuits  —  Governor's Disney battle and extremist policies are met with costly lawsuits covered by ‘blank check’ from Republican legislature  —  Since Florida's governor Ron DeSantis took office in 2019 and embarked on his culture wars …
Benjamin Dodman / France 24:
Le Pen's far right served as mouthpiece for the Kremlin, says French parliamentary report  —  Dogged by accusations of proximity to the Kremlin, Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally party had hoped to clear its name by setting up a parliamentary inquiry to investigate foreign interference in French politics.
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
DeSantis Relied Heavily on Big Donors in Initial Money Haul  —  Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida made a splash when he announced that he had raised a record $8.2 million in his first 24 hours as a presidential candidate.  New figures disclosed by the campaign reveal that he relied heavily on larger contributors to set that record.
Jesus Jiménez / New York Times:
New Hampshire Man Is Arrested After Threatening to Kill U.S. Senator  —  In a voice mail message, the man told the senator was that he was “a dead man walking,” according to federal court documents.  He was angry about the blocking of military promotions, prosecutors said.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost:
As Ron DeSantis Barnstorms New Hampshire, Thousands Of Floridians Lose Health Insurance
Discussion: Tampa Bay Times
Washington Post:
Target gets caught in cultural crossfire over Pride Month items
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
Why Steve Bannon May Still Go Down for a Pardoned Crime
Discussion: Raw Story
Maura Zurick / Newsweek:
Trans Lawmaker Targets Ron DeSantis in His Own Backyard
Sydney Shuler / Daily Progress:
UVa Board of Visitors floats tracking student, faculty political ideology
Discussion: Blue Virginia
Pien Huang / NPR:
Vaccination and awareness could help keep mpox in check this summer
 Earlier Items: 
The Hill:
To address the migration crisis, state governments should hire the migrants
Nicholas Carlson / Insider:
'It's like watching a snuff film': Media elites shocked by The Atlantic's surgical dismantling of CNN boss Chris Licht
Tina Moore / New York Post:
Bragg detective Jeremy Rosenberg involved in Trump case suspended for Michael Cohen ties: officials
Kimberlee Kruesi / Associated Press:
Trump-appointed judge rejects Tennessee's anti-drag law as too broad, too vague
Akbar Shahid Ahmed / HuffPost:
Donald Trump Is Promising Peace In A Second Term. War With Iran Seems More Likely.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Messenger