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James Risen | The Case for Obstruction 
President Donald Trump, center, shakes hands with James Comey, then director of the FBI. President Donald Trump, center, shakes hands with James Comey, then director of the FBI.
James Risen, The Intercept
Risen writes: "Mueller is approaching his Trump-Russia investigation in the same way he and his fellow Justice Department prosecutors went after Gotti and other mobsters."
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Michael Cohen, a personal lawyer for President Trump, leaves federal court in New York City in April. His legal troubles may test his loyalty to Trump, which has been built over years of protecting his boss in part by using legal threats. (photo: Seth Wenig/AP)
Michael Cohen, a personal lawyer for President Trump, leaves federal court in New York City in April. His legal troubles may test his loyalty to Trump, which has been built over years of protecting his boss in part by using legal threats. (photo: Seth Wenig/AP)

Listen: How Michael Cohen Protects Trump By Making Legal Threats
Tim Mak, NPR News
Mak writes: "Donald Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen is facing legal peril, including an FBI raid of his home and office — and involvement in a civil lawsuit with adult film star Stormy Daniels." 

Vice President Mike Pence was the guest speaker at an event hosted by America First Policies in Manchester, New Hampshire in March, 2018. (photo: Jim Davis/Boston Globe)
Vice President Mike Pence was the guest speaker at an event hosted by America First Policies in Manchester, New Hampshire in March, 2018. (photo: Jim Davis/Boston Globe)
Corporate America Is Bankrolling Trump Dark Money Group Tied to Racist, Anti-Semitic Views
Andrew Perez, MapLight
Perez writes: "Three Fortune 500 companies have donated at least $1.6 million to a controversial pro-Trump 'dark money' organization that's been criticized for racist, sexist, homophobic, and anti-Muslim sentiments expressed by its staff."
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A woman at a Trump rally. (photo: Mike Segar/Reuters)
A woman at a Trump rally. (photo: Mike Segar/Reuters)

Seniors Are More Conservative Because America's Poor Don't Survive to Old Age, According to New Study
Ed Kilgore, New York Magazine
Kilgore writes: "One of the abiding realities of our political era is a major generational split anchored on the right by disproportionately conservative seniors and on the left by disproportionately progressive millennials and post-millennials."
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Mary Caceres (whose name has been changed to protect her privacy) appeared at a routine check-in with ICE when she was arrested and placed in a detention facility. (photo: Daniela Gaona/Diana Ofosu)
Mary Caceres (whose name has been changed to protect her privacy) appeared at a routine check-in with ICE when she was arrested and placed in a detention facility. (photo: Daniela Gaona/Diana Ofosu)

ICE Detains Mom With Valid Work Visa
Rebekah Entralgo, ThinkProgress
Entralgo writes: "On May 21, Mary Caceres (whose name has been changed to protect her privacy) appeared at a routine check-in with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Jacksonville, Florida. By the end of the day, the 56-year-old mother with no criminal record was wearing an orange jumpsuit and sitting in a detention facility."
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Graffiti in Yemen. (photo: Yahya Arhab/EPA)
Graffiti in Yemen. (photo: Yahya Arhab/EPA)

Grieving Dad: US Drone Killed My Son in Yemen, and Trump Has Yet to Offer an Apology
Al Haj Saleh Mohammed and Saleh Al-Manthari, New York Daily News
Excerpt: "An American drone killed my son Mohammed Saleh al-Manthari. One day in March, without warning, it appeared in the sky and killed him."
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A polar bear keeps close to her young along the Beaufort Sea in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska on March 6, 2007. (photo: Reuters)
A polar bear keeps close to her young along the Beaufort Sea in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska on March 6, 2007. (photo: Reuters)

Companies Take First Steps to Drill for Oil in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Steven Mufson and Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "Two Alaska Native corporations and a small oil services firm together have applied to do extensive seismic work next winter in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the first move toward development there since Congress voted late last year to open up the pristine wilderness to oil and gas drilling."
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