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04 June 18 AM It's Li ve on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News Even Roger Stone Can't Make Trump Look Innocent  Isobel Thompson, Vanity Fair Thompson writes: "The president's allies seem to be operating under the assumption that he's guilty as sin." READ MORE Rudy Giuliani, an attorney for President Donald Trump, waves to people during White House Sports and Fitness Day on the South Lawn of the White House, on Tuesday in Washington. (photo: Andrew Harnik/AP) Giuliani: President Trump Has Constitutional Authority to Pardon Himself Scott Neuman, NPR Neuman writes: "President Trump has the 'absolute' power to pardon himself, he argued on Monday morning, then asked rhetorically why he would use it because he hasn't done anything wrong." READ MORE Facebook's chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, at a Senate hearing in April. The company gave at least 60 phone and other device makers access to large amounts of user da...

Cops are called when a senator tries to see kids taken from their immigrant parents A 4-year-old boy weeps in the arms of a family member after they were apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol agents upon near ]sic] McAllen, Tex., last month. (Adrees Latif/Reuters) BY JAMES HOHMANN with Breanne Deppisch and Joanie Greve THE BIG IDEA: As the sun set on Sunday night, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) went to a shuttered Walmart in Brownsville, Texas, that has been converted into a detention center for immigrant children who have been separated from their parents. He asked for a tour. Instead, the government contractor that runs the converted store called the cops. An officer filled out a police report, and the senator was asked to leave. The half-hour incident at a strip mall near the southern border with Mexico underscores the lack of transparency from President Trump’s administration about its intensifying efforts to break up undocumented families caught crossing the bord...