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03 June 18 PM It's Live on the HomePage Now:   Reader Supported News Reality Winner Has Been in Jail for a Year, Her Prosecution Is Unfair and Unprecedented  Peter Maass, The Intercept Maass writes: "The U.S. government rarely acts kindly toward the leakers it chooses to prosecute - unless they happen to be popular figures like David Petraeus, the former general and CIA director who shared with his girlfriend several notebooks filled with top-secret information; he was allowed to plead guilty to just a misdemeanor charge." READ MORE Senator Bernie Sanders and his wife Jane O'Meara Sanders wave to supporters upon taking the stage on the Burlington VT waterfront during the Bernie 2016 presidential announcement, May 26th, 2015. (photo: Arun Chaudhary) Bernie Sanders: Disney Needs 'Moral Defense' for Having Hungry Workers While Making Billions Luis Sanchez, The Hill Sanchez writes: "Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) lambasted Walt Disney Co. on Sa...

Trump wins a battle in the culture war as NFL owners cave on national anthem protests President Trump sings along with the national anthem before the NCAA college football championship game in January. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)   BY JAMES HOHMANN with Breanne Deppisch and Joanie Greve THE BIG IDEA: President Trump said in an interview that aired on Fox News this morning that “the NFL owners did the right thing” by altering the league’s national anthem policy.  Football players will no longer be required to appear on the field when the anthem plays before games, but teams and the league will now be allowed to impose discipline for those who protest publicly during the song. “I don’t think people should be staying in the locker rooms, but still I think it’s good,” Trump said on “Fox & Friends.” “You have to stand proudly for the national anthem!” The president added that athletes who don’t stand “shouldn’t be playing.” “Maybe they shoul...