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Bucking Trump, These Cities, States and Companies Commit to Paris Accord — Representatives of American cities, states and companies are preparing to submit a plan to the United Nations pledging to meet the United States' greenhouse gas emissions targets under the Paris climate accord …
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Michael Grunwald / Politico:
Why Trump Actually Pulled Out Of Paris — Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement was not really about the climate. And despite his overheated rhetoric about the “tremendous” and “draconian” burdens the deal would impose on the U.S. economy, Trump's decision wasn't really about that, either.
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Emily Flitter / Reuters:
Trump misunderstood MIT climate research, university officials say — Massachusetts Institute of Technology officials said U.S. President Donald Trump badly misunderstood their research when he cited it on Thursday to justify withdrawing the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement.
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Amy Harder / Axios:
To Trump, Paris deal isn't about climate — The most revealing moment of President Trump's announcement that he is withdrawing from the Paris climate deal came in an off-hand response of a White House official after Trump's speech. Asked whether Trump thinks climate change is real, the official said: “Can we stay on topic?”
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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
White House Protesters Shame Donald Trump Over Paris Climate Deal
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Hannah Parry / Daily Mail:
Fox news host Kimberly Guilfoyle …
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Political Wire and Reuters
Nick Juliano / Politico:
Trump campaign plans ‘Pittsburgh, not Paris’ rally to cheer climate deal exit
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Washington Post, Daily Kos, CBS Pittsburgh, New York Magazine and Mediaite
Max Boot / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed Why did Trump withdraw from Paris? To appease his base
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Mother Jones and CNBC
Foreign Policy:
Why Abandoning Paris Is a Disaster for America
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Timothy Cama / The Hill:
Tillerson's first post-Paris remarks: US will reduce emissions
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Axios
Lauretta Brown / Townhall.com:
Rand Paul Blasts Climate Alarmism in Debate with Jake Tapper: ‘Mass Extinction, Really?’
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The Resurgent
Washington Post:
Inside Trump's climate decision: After fiery debate, he 'stayed where he's always been'
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New York Times:
Our Disgraceful Exit From the Paris Accord
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Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic:
Did Donald Trump Just Make the Planet Hotter?
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
White House orders agencies to ignore Democrats' oversight requests — The White House is telling federal agencies to blow off Democratic lawmakers' oversight requests, as Republicans fear the information could be weaponized against President Donald Trump. — At meetings with top officials …
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Susan Heavey / Reuters:
Trump to decide whether to block Comey testimony: White House adviser — U.S. President Donald Trump will decide whether to invoke his presidential powers to block former FBI Director James Comey from giving congressional testimony next week, White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway said on Friday.
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Lawmakers baffled that immigration getting short shrift in Washington
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Alexander Smith / NBC News:
Vladimir Putin to Megyn Kelly: Even Children Could Hack an Election — LONDON — Vladimir Putin again denied that Russia interfered in last year's U.S. election, joking to NBC News' Megyn Kelly on Friday that even her “underage daughter” could have been behind the hacking.
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Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Former Diplomats: Trump Team Sought to Lift Sanctions on Russia — The Trump administration was gearing up to lift sanctions on Russia when the president took office, but career diplomats ginned up pressure in Congress to block the move, two senior former State Department officials told NBC News Thursday.
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Business Insider and Talking Points Memo
Michael Isikoff / Yahoo:
How the Trump administration's secret efforts to ease Russia sanctions fell short
Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
Vladimir Putin: Accusations that we hacked US election are ‘like anti-Semitism’
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ThinkProgress, Hot Air, The Daily Caller and Joe.My.God.
New York Times:
Trump Administration Starts Returning Copies of C.I.A. Torture Report to Congress — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has begun returning copies of a voluminous 2014 Senate report about the Central Intelligence Agency's detention and interrogation program to Congress …
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Political Wire and Politicus USA
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
Scarborough fingers Bannon as leaker: He's been ‘bragging’ he would sideline Kushner on Russia — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough on Friday revealed that some of his sources within the White House have hinted that White House chief political …
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David Brooks / New York Times:
Donald Trump Poisons the World — This week, two of Donald Trump's top advisers, H. R. McMaster and Gary Cohn, wrote the following passage in The Wall Street Journal: “The president embarked on his first foreign trip with a cleareyed outlook that the world is not a ‘global community’ but an arena …
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MJ Lee / CNN:
God and the Don — Presidents often turn to faith in times of crisis. That seems unlikely for Trump. — Two days before his presidential inauguration, Donald Trump greeted a pair of visitors at his office in Trump Tower. — As a swarm of reporters waited in the gilded lobby …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
Reuters:
Exclusive: Special counsel Mueller to probe ex-Trump aide Flynn's Turkey ties — Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating possible ties between the Trump election campaign and Russia, is expanding his probe to include a grand jury investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn, three sources told Reuters.
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Siobhan Hughes / Wall Street Journal:
Republican Senator Says Deal on Health Care Unlikely This Year — Talking Taxes: What's Your Fair Share? — Opinion Journal: Did Obama's Team Illegally Spy on Trump?
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New York Times:
C.I.A. Names New Iran Chief in a Sign of Trump's Hard Line — WASHINGTON — He is known as the Dark Prince or Ayatollah Mike, nicknames he earned as the Central Intelligence Agency officer who oversaw the hunt for Osama bin Laden and the American drone strike campaign that killed thousands …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Franken backtracks, cancels event with comedian Griffin after Trump photo controversy — Sen. Al Franken has reversed himself and decided “it would be best” for Kathy Griffin not to attend an event that the Minnesota senator had scheduled with the comedian for July.
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Andrew Bahl / Yahoo:
Franken: Clinton should ‘move on’ from election loss
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Bloomberg:
Mnuchin and Mulvaney Are at Odds on Debt Ceiling Strategy — Mulvaney, Cohn counter Mnuchin's request for clean bill — Budget director has downplayed risks of U.S. default — President Donald Trump's chief economic adviser said Friday that Congress has no choice but to vote to raise …
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Joseph Lawler / Washington Examiner:
Mulvaney favors attaching spending reforms to increase in debt ceiling
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Jonathan Goldsmith / Politico:
How the World's Most Interesting Man Befriended the World's Most Powerful Man — “Damn,” he said in a half-hushed whisper. “This guy's good.” — I could hear President Obama as he walked up the path behind me and spied the multiple arrows I had placed, undetected, in the bull's-eye.
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Raw Story
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
May nonfarm payrolls total 138,000 vs 185,000 expected — Job creation fell sharply in May with just 138,000 new positions created, while the unemployment rate declined to 4.3 percent, according to Labor Department data released Friday. — Economists surveyed by Reuters expected nonfarm payrolls …
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Patricia Cohen / New York Times:
Jobs Report Leaves Fed Room to Raise Rates
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Liz Spayd / New York Times:
The Public Editor Signs Off — There probably hasn't been a time in recent American history when the role of the media was more important than now. The Trump administration is drowning in scandal, the country is calcified into two partisan halves. And large newsrooms are faced with a choice …
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
The News You Didn't Hear — Reporters only want to talk about Russia, instead of what Team Trump is getting done.
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