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As of 9:24 PM EDT, Monday, June 18, 2018

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"The mind, once enlightened, cannot again become dark."

Pentagon suspends August military drills with South Korea

Children cry and plead for their parents at the border in audio released by ProPublica

Laze, vog and other volcano vocabulary inspired by Kilauea

How the toxic stress of family separation can harm a child

Elizabeth Brackett taught me that a good story begins with people

Donald Trump says US will not be a 'migrant camp'

Five people wounded in Malmö shooting

Sharp fall in number of people seeking asylum in EU

Civilians own 85% of world's 1bn firearms, survey reveals

Israel indicts former cabinet minister on Iran spying charges

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes gets angry and unloads on White House’s Stephen Miller

‘The president will pay’: Ex-CIA officer Phil Mudd blasts Trump for ‘hiding behind the law’ over migrant children policy

CNN panel goes off the rails when Women for Trump chair responds to separated families saying ‘I cried leaving my dog last night’

WATCH: Michael Hayden attacks Trump over immigrant children and compares it to Nazi concentration camps

‘Gaslighting racist d*ckstain’: Comics writer unleashes on conservatives ‘trying to capitalize off of hate and ignorance’

'I Know What You're Doing!' MSNBC's Chris Mattews Lays Into Ex-Trump Aide for Pushing Nixon-Style Cover-Up of Russian Contacts

Judge Literally Sends Trump Ally Back to School After Slapping Down His Voter Suppression Scheme

'I Find That Offensive': DHS Head Flails As Reporters Grill Her About Family Separation Policy

Sarah Sanders Refused to Lead Monday's Press Briefing to Avoid Questions on Family Separation Policy: Report

Gut-Wrenching Audio of Toddlers Ripped from Their Parents' Arms Includes Border Agents Mocking Them

"Half-Penis" Spotted In Sky Over Alaska Military Base

Fiat Currency Always Ends In Collapse

"How Do You Not Re-Elect This Guy?" CNBC's Jane Wells Reminds Americans: "It's The Economy, Stupid"

Monday Humor: Jeff Bezos Explains How Customers Can Delete Alexa's Secretly-Stored Audio

US Futures Plunge After Trump Calls For $200 Billion More Tariffs On China

‘Incredibles 2’ Animator Describes How He Missed The Birth Of His First Child So Mr. Incredible Could Have Consistently Sized Penis Bulge

Fuck Fuck Fuck: We Promised Waaay Too Much Integration To Pepperidge Farm In This Article About A Boy Dying Of Cancer Raising Money For Other Sick Children

Netflix Defends ‘Queer Eye’ Episode Where The Fab Five Forced To Euthanize Completely Hopeless Slob

Lionel Messi Pissed After Forgetting To Wear Fitbit During Last Game

Onion Social Becomes World’s Most Popular Social Media Site

DHS secretary says family separation isn’t child abuse because the children have access to TVs

Mississippi’s Republican governor is ensnared in post-Brexit lawsuit

Michigan’s sweeping new water regulations set new standard for states plagued by lead

The importance of teaching kids about LGBTQ history and culture

Trump officials keep lying about the family separation policy. Here’s the truth.

Protesting 'Morally Repugnant' Trump Policies, Poor People's Campaign Demands Action on Housing, Health, and Climate

Poverty Rampant, Puerto Rico Destroyed, Single Payer "Too Expensive," and Flint Still Doesn't Have Clean Water. But You Can Have Space Force!

New Video and Audio Captures 'Horrifying' Reality of Children Taken From Parents as GOP Pressed to 'Find Their Conscience'

Cruel Separation of Families 'Rooted in the Racism' of Bannon, Miller, and Trump's Xenophobic Base

'Toxic for Democracy': Voting Rights Advocates Vow to Fight After Supreme Court Punts on Gerrymandering

Now It’s Up to Voters to Stop Gerrymandering

At the University of Pittsburgh, Graduate Students Are Organizing to Survive

Congress Must Act to Stop US Involvement in the Yemen War

In One of the Richest Countries in the World, Extreme Poverty Is on the Rise

The Democrats’ Myopic Reaction to the Trump–Kim Summit

That's It For Today

The Intercept Discloses Top-Secret NSA Document on Russia Hacking Aimed at US Voting System

Lunchtime Photo

Chart of the Day: Health Care Spending as a Percentage of GDP

Trump's Tweets Threaten His Travel Ban's Chances in Court

Diversity efforts at Google continue to come up short

Pope Francis: Abortion is Nazi-style eugenics “with white gloves”

“Children belong with their mothers and fathers”: Emergency legislation to keep illegal immigrant families together introduced by … Ted Cruz

Chuck Grassley: I’d like to know more about James Comey’s use of private email

New York Times on latest Scott Pruitt “scandal”: Never mind

The New York Times

Migrants, World Cup, Apple: Your Monday Evening Briefing

Asia and Australia Edition: Japan, Immigration, World Cup: Your Tuesday Briefing

Trump Resisting a Growing Wrath for Separating Migrant Families

As Europe’s Liberal Order Splinters, Trump Wields an Ax

Fact Check: Trump’s False and Misleading Claims About Crime and Immigration in Germany

Washington Post

Instagrammers love this self-taught florist. Now the industry is finally catching on.

Supreme Court allows retaliatory-arrest lawsuit to move forward

Artificial trans fats, widely linked to heart disease, are officially banned

Gang fistfight escalated into a mass shooting at New Jersey arts festival, prosecutor says

DEA chief steps down, citing increasing challenges of temporary role

Chicago Tribune

Trump defiant as crisis grows over family separation at the border

What separation from parents does to children: 'The effect is catastrophic'

Hundreds of immigrant children are being held in fenced cages at border facility

Justice Department watchdog says probes ongoing into disclosure of Comey memos, FBI leaks

Pentagon suspends 'war game' with South Korea after Trump's meeting with Kim

Detroit Free Press

Athlete: Eastern Michigan dropping sport may force me to leave country

Some marijuana convictions could disappear if voters approve legal pot

Drone footage captures devastation in Houghton, Michigan

How to sign up for Freep's Woodward 248 email newsletter

Sign of the Beefcarver in Dearborn closes

San Jose Mercury News

Tesla flags over 500 job cuts at headquarters, plant

Senate approves defense bill, setting up clash over ZTE

San Francisco: Ex-IRS agent convicted of filing false tax returns

First Look: Tokyo’s Ramen Nagi opens in Palo Alto

Trump eyes $200B in additional tariffs on Chinese goods

Philadelphia Inquirer

Glouco officials release dramatic 911, police audio of fatal police shooting of Deptford shoplifter

Meek Mill hearing before Judge Genece Brinkley devolves into a laughing matter

Transgender woman sent to men's prison in Philadelphia: Experience was 'dehumanizing'

N.J. Assemblyman Arthur Barclay of Camden, facing assault charge, is resigning

Authorities: Rapper XXXTentacion shot dead in Florida

Los Angeles Times

Critics say CFPB nominee Kathy Kraninger lacks the experience to be the nation's top consumer financial watchdog

Supreme Court refuses to rule on partisan gerrymandering in a setback for reformers

Backlash builds against Trump's policy splitting families at border, as he falsely blames Democrats

Family separations at the border: How did we get here?

Texas Border Patrol center where immigrant families are separated draws lawmakers, protest

Associated Press

Military seeks to limit Congress on fixing child sex assault

Lava spewing from Hawaii volcano destroys dozens of homes

Giuliani's media blitz defending Trump is off to rough start

Syria's Kurds put IS on trial with focus on reconciliation

Iranians say uncertainty over nuclear deal is bringing fear

As outrage grows over children, White House defends immigration policy

Trump threatens to hit China with new tariffs on $200 billion in goods

Myanmar officer in Reuters case broke police code by copying statements: lawyer

Senate passes defense bill, battle looms with Trump over China's ZTE

Stocks extend slide, yen up as Sino-U.S. trade dispute escalates

CBS News poll: Two-thirds say separating families "unacceptable"

Horowitz, Wray pressed on political bias at FBI, next steps after IG report

How Trump's immigration policy is playing out along the Texas border

Nielsen defends family separation in heated White House briefing

Trump directs Pentagon to create military Space Force

Metal wire, mylar blankets: This is what a 'zero tolerance' border policy looks like

How some elite charter schools exclude minorities

'Jeopardy!' winner faces five years in prison for snooping emails

Suicide more common among veterans, VA finds

'Drop this case': Meek Mill's supporters rally for rapper at court

Strong quake near Osaka, Japan, kills 4, knocks over walls

Using Trump's term, Pentagon suspends plans for 'wargame' with South Korea

Underwear hung around politician's office after block on 'upskirting' ban

The Latest: Fourth death confirmed in Osaka-area earthquake

Over 30 killed after 2 suicide bombs hit end-of-Ramadan celebration

The White House says if China goes through with its promise to retaliate against the US tariffs announced last week, the President is raising the stakes

Trump announces tariffs on $50 billion worth of Chinese goods

China: 'The US has launched a trade war'

China is hitting the US where it hurts: Soybeans

America risks killing the global growth it needs

Financial Times

Trump turns fire on Germany over immigration

AIG: The long struggle to repair its reputation

US cancels military exercise with South Korea

China hopes countermoves will avert all-out US trade war

Fujifilm seeks $1bn over failed Xerox deal

Trump says US will not be a migrant camp

Israel charges ex-minister Gonen Segev with spying for Iran

XXXTentacion: Controversial rapper shot dead in Florida

Trump space force: US to set up sixth military branch

Stock markets fall amid trade fears

Summer Melt: Why Aren't Students Showing Up For College?

After An Overdose, Patients Aren't Getting Treatments That Could Prevent The Next One

How The Opioid Crisis Is Depressing America's Labor Force

The Science Behind South Korea's Race-Based World Cup Strategy

Trump Calls For 'Space Force' To Defend U.S. Interests Among The Stars

Haaretz - (Israel)

Shooting in Sweden: Four hurt in Malmo

Status of 'occupied' Jerusalem in royal itinerary angers Israeli minister

Row over players' picture with Erdogan still haunts German team after loss

Germany drops probe against rappers accused of anti-Semitism

Germany on the brink? Interior minister 'doesn't intend' to bring down Merkel over migrant crisis

Satellite lofted for first Arab country

WWII memorials solemn reminders of war tragedy

Chinese, Russian and Indian ministers meet

Nanjing massacre remembered on 80th anniversary

Young Chinese-Irish ballroom dancer goes international

WORLD CUP 2018 DAY 5 LIVE #FansEyeView #FootWall

Ex-CIA programmer charged with leaking classified national defense info

‘Only the paranoid survive’: Musk hints at sabotage as Tesla plant rattled by fire

N. Korea’s Kim reportedly set to visit Beijing

Trump raises stakes in trade war with China, targets further $200bn-worth of imports with tariff

Al-Jazeera - (Qatar)

Israel: Ex-minister Gonen Segev charged with spying for Iran

The wounded Palestinians 'punished' for protesting in Gaza

Who controls Libya's oil riches?

Sold as a 'slave', fleeing FGM, orphaned at 11: Lives of Aquarius

World Cup 2018: England beat Tunisia, Belgium thrash Panama

Trump threatens China with $200B in new tariffs

What's real, and what's not, about the U.S. border crisis

At least 4 dead, hundreds hurt after earthquake hits Japan

Republicans on defensive, but Trump digs in on separating parents and children at border

Indigenous protesters in Washington insist Trans Mountain won't be built

US, South Korea suspend upcoming military exercises

Spain: Pedro Sanchez promises to remove Franco's remains from Valley of the Fallen mausoleum

Yemen: Conflict in critical port city Hodeida endangers food aid delivery

Sweden: Several wounded in shooting in Malmo

US President Donald Trump announces 'Space Force' military wing

Trump says US will not be 'migrant camp' amid child separation crisis

Half of Aquarius migrants want to seek asylum in France

Harry Kane's double gives England victory over Tunisia in World Cup

Trump orders creation of military 'space force'

Merkel gets two-week deadline for talks with other European nations

ABC - (Australia)

40 per cent of Indonesian students targeted by radical religious ideology: intelligence report

Iran-Contra affair weapons trafficker Oliver North named as new NRA president

Footage of lava consuming car shows destructive power of Hawaii's Kilauea

Melania Trump launches 'Be Best' campaign targeting cyberbullying

Iran deal or no deal? Donald Trump facing serious pressure

Sydney Morning Herald

Ex-CIA worker charged with disclosing classified information

Audio of distressed children separated from parents emerges

Ferry sinks in Sumatra, dozens missing

Explainer: Immigrant children detained at US-border

US opened a huge new facility in Taiwan, and China isn't happy

Secret audio reveals the cries of children separated from their parents by U.S. border agents

Trump announces plans for Pentagon to create U.S. ‘Space Force’

Derailed train bursts into flames in southwest Indiana

Bosnian police block 100 migrants from reaching Croatia

Trump falsely blames Democrats as family separation policy starts dividing Republicans

Andrew Coyne: We know how much a carbon tax would cost. If only we could say the same about the Tories’ alternative

Northwest Territories braces for wild boar invasion — but some think epidemic is a fiction

Homicide investigation launched after man is hit by subway train at Toronto’s Bloor-Yonge station

‘Want an agent who fights for you, call me!’: St. John’s councillor attacked online over ‘offensive’ real estate ads

John Ivison: The carbon tax could be the ballot question in the 2019 federal election