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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Donald Trump Melts Down In Epic Whinefest — Donald Trump is pissed off again. Surprise! This morning he held a press conference to announce who was getting the money from his January veterans fundraiser, and immediately proceeded to tee off on the press for...lèse-majesté?
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Associated Press:
Where the money went: Trump details fundraising for vets — NEW YORK (AP) — Under pressure to account for money he claimed to raise for veterans, an irritated Donald Trump lambasted the news media Tuesday for pressing the issue and listed charities he said have now received millions of dollars from a fundraiser he held in January.
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CNNMoney:
Donald Trump's ‘sleaze’ attack on reporter hits new level of media animosity — Donald Trump's criticism of the media has reached Nixonian levels — only Trump isn't doing the name-calling in private. He's doing it right to reporters' faces. — On Tuesday, Trump pointed out ABC News reporter Tom Llamas and called him “a sleaze.”
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Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
First on CNN: Clinton campaign's plans to subvert Trump's veterans press conference — New York (CNN)Hillary Clinton's campaign on Tuesday will launch a multi-pronged communications effort to trash Donald Trump's record on veterans' issues and undermine the billionaire's news conference touting …
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Donald Trump is dead wrong about the ‘sleaze’ media
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump taunts media to its face
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Media Matters for America:
How Donald Trump Dodged A Media Discussion Over Trump University
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Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
Trump Interrupts Press Conference to Call ABC Reporter ‘Sleaze’
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Bloomberg:
Kristol Eyes Conservative Lawyer for Independent Presidential Run — Bill Kristol is considering recruiting David French to run against Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, two Republicans tell Bloomberg Politics. — MarkHalperin — jheil — Two Republicans intimately familiar …
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
The United States of Argentina?
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New York Times:
Former Trump University Workers Call the School a ‘Lie’ and a ‘Scheme’ in Testimony — In blunt testimony revealed on Tuesday, former managers of Trump University, the for-profit school started by Donald J. Trump, portray it as an unscrupulous business that relied on high-pressure sales tactics …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Chris Isidore / CNNMoney:
Trump University ‘playbooks’ to be revealed
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Over the Waterfall Into Trump's Racist Abyss
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Reporter asks Trump about Cincinnati gorilla, is shamed — Usually when reporters ask about the gorilla in the room, it's not an actual gorilla. — Not so Tuesday, when between reporter queries about his potential running mate and his policies on veterans' health care …
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David Edwards / Raw Story:
Confused Rush Limbaugh thinks evolution is a hoax because Cincinnati gorilla never became human
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Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Parents-of-four whose son fell into zoo enclosure sparking killing of Harambe …
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Ashley Killough / CNN:
Would Donald Trump have killed the gorilla?
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Thomas Erdbrink / New York Times:
Suspected Tattoo on Iranian Actress Creates a Commotion — TEHRAN — A popular Iranian actress whose latest movie won two awards at the recent Cannes Film Festival threw her native country into an uproar on Tuesday after images emerged suggesting that she had a feminist tattoo on her arm.
Hadas Gold / Politico:
SiriusXM suspends Glenn Beck over Trump conversation — Satellite radio company SiriusXM has suspended Glenn Beck's syndicated show this week and is “evaluating” the program's place over comments made last week by one of Beck's guests. — Last week, fiction writer Brad Thor appeared …
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Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Bernie Sanders Fights On: The Rolling Stone Interview — A defiant candidate on what he's trying to achieve — Not even “the math” can spoil a Bernie Sanders rally. The democratic-socialist senator from Vermont has outperformed any rational expectation, building an insurgent campaign …
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Shakesville and BNR
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Bob Owens / Bearing Arms:
BREAKING: EPIX Pulls Katie Couric's Fraudulent Documentary “Under The Gun” — Just two weeks after first airing and one week after director Stephanie Soechtig and executive producer/narrator Katie Couric were caught in a scandal where Soechtig replaced the answer to a question with footage shot …
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Jonathan Allen / Raw Story:
New York investigating Trump's closing of Trump Tower atrium for campaign events — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — New York City is investigating Donald Trump's practice of closing down the public atrium in Trump Tower for presidential campaign events that are off limits to the public.
Timothy Cama / The Hill:
Supreme Court rules against White House in water pollution case — The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled against the Obama administration in a case regarding water pollution permits. — The nation's highest court ruled unanimously that a landowner can appeal through the federal court system …
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Lawrence Hurley / Reuters:
Supreme Court rejects constitutional challenge to death penalty
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Jerry Brown:
An Open Letter to California Democrats and Independents — On Tuesday, June 7, I have decided to cast my vote for Hillary Clinton because I believe this is the only path forward to win the presidency and stop the dangerous candidacy of Donald Trump. — I have closely watched the primaries …
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EU Press Room:
European Commission and IT Companies announce Code of Conduct on illegal online hate speech — The Commission together with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft ("the IT companies") today unveil a code of conduct that includes a series of commitments to combat the spread of illegal hate speech online in Europe.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Lawyers clashed at Clinton aide's deposition — Lawyers for former Hillary Clinton aide Cheryl Mills, the State Department, and a conservative group tangled repeatedly on Friday as Mills testified at a contentious deposition in a lawsuit relating to Clinton's use of a private email account …
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Dan Bilefsky / New York Times:
Patrons of Vegan Cafe Are Pelted With Meat in Tbilisi, Georgia — Georgia, a proud nation in the Caucasus that went to war with Russia in 2008, is no stranger to conflict. But a weekend assault by sausage-wielding attackers at a vegan cafe in central Tbilisi is fanning concerns that a simmering culture war could be intensifying.
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Donald Trump Called Daryl Hannah “A Six” Who Needs A Bath During A 1993 Spat — “I see her a lot at Knicks games, and, I tell you, she doesn't even understand basketball,” Trump said of Hannah. — Donald Trump's response to women who criticize him is often to malign their physical appearance.
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