Trump Cabinet Members Compete for Best Compliment Giver

By Al Baker @ NYTimes.com, June 12

Across the country, police leaders are assigning themselves a big role in reversing a complex crisis, and not through mass arrests.

By Amy Qin @ NYTimes.com, June 9

By Manuel Roig-Franzia @ WashingtonPost.com, June 11

NORRISTOWN, Pa. — Bill Cosby’s attorneys raced through a startlingly brief, six-minute defense Monday, bringing to a close testimony in one of the most high-profile criminal cases in recent American history.

By Adam Edelman @ NYDailyNews.com, June 10

Home page headline: D.C., Maryland to sue Trump over foreign payments to his businesses

By Aaron C. Davis @ The Washington Post, 1 hr. ago

How Steve Case became Washington's tech whisperer

By Mike Donovan for The Agenda @ Politico.com, June 8

By Jacey Fortin @ NYTimes.com Business Day, June 10

Guest op-ed by Geoffrey Kabaservice @ NYTimes.com, June 9

Geoffrey Kabaservice is the author of “Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, From Eisenhower to the Tea Party.”

Republicans are predicting the beginning of the end of the tea party in Kansas

By Ana Swanson & Max Ehrenfreud from Overland Park, Kansas, for Wonkblog @ WashingtonPost.com, June 9

By Alexander Bolton @ TheHill.com, June 8

The Senate parliamentarian has warned Republicans that a provision in their healthcare reform bill related to abortion is unlikely to be allowed, raising a serious threat to the legislation.

The parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, has flagged language that would bar people from using new refundable tax credits for private insurance plans that cover abortion, according to Senate sources.  

@ BBC News, June 8

Despacito has become the longest-running foreign language number one in UK chart history. And it's been viewed more than a billion times on YouTube. What makes this song such a giant hit in places as far away as Arkansas and Berlin? Singer Luis Fonsi tells us why. Video by Paul Blake.

It's gone up to 1.85 billion views now. Who wrote that study about Millenials not being that interested in sex?

@ The Guardian.com

Exit poll suggests Tories neck-and-neck with "coalition of chaos"

By Shaun Walker in Moscow for TheGuardian.com, June 7

Claim made in interview with film-maker Oliver Stone, who was granted rare access to Russian president over two years

By Paul Farhi @ WashingtonPost.com, June 7

The clarion of the far right seems to be having second thoughts about how far right it wants to go.

Faced with an advertiser boycott and plummeting readership, Breitbart News has lately been trimming back some of its more extreme elements in what may be a bid for more mainstream respectability.

By Elise Viebeck and Ben Terris @ WashingtonPost.com, June 7

Amid a deluge of Trump-related drama and sensational hearings, reporters on Capitol Hill have gone from an endangered species to something more like an invasive one, covering the halls of power in greater numbers than seen in decades.

Former DOJ official led prosecution of Enron, fraud probe

By Elizabeth Titus, Arit John and David Voreacos @ Bloomberg.com, June 7

By Jeff Cox @ CNBC.com, 2 hours ago

12 Killed at Symbolic Sites, With Tensions High in Persian Gulf

By Thomas Erdbrink @ NYTimes.com, June 7

• In the assaults on the Iranian Parliament and on the mausoleum of the founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, 39 people were also injured.
• While the Islamic State immediately issued a claim of responsibility, suspicions in Tehran were also directed at Saudi Arabia.