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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Cruella de Trump — WASHINGTON — So, with this latest toad jumping from our president's mouth, is Donald Trump acting like a sexist pig or simply a pig? — I proffer, a pig. — I have no doubt that he would attack a man's appearance in the same breathtakingly below-the-belt …
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New York Times:
President Trump, Melting Under Criticism — Maybe we should all take a moment to feel a little sorry for Donald Trump, who reacted to criticism on Thursday by tweeting a stream of coarse insults at the television journalist Mika Brzezinski. — After all, he so clearly lacks the toughness …
Penny Starr / Breitbart:
Mika in NYT Interview: Dina Powell Is in White House Because of Me
Mika in NYT Interview: Dina Powell Is in White House Because of Me
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Cory Bennett / Politico:
Trump voter-fraud panel's data request a gold mine for hackers, experts warn — Cybersecurity specialists are warning that President Donald Trump's voter-fraud commission may unintentionally expose voter data to even more hacking and digital manipulation. — Their concerns stem from a letter …
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Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
Trump says states are ‘trying to hide’ things from his voter fraud commission. Here's what they actually say.
Trump says states are ‘trying to hide’ things from his voter fraud commission. Here's what they actually say.
The Hill:
24 states refusing to provide voter data to Trump election panel
24 states refusing to provide voter data to Trump election panel
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Alicia Cohn / The Hill:
Trump goes after states on voter data: ‘What are they trying to hide?’
Trump goes after states on voter data: ‘What are they trying to hide?’
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ABC News, Althouse, Politicus USA, The Week, Talking Points Memo and NBC News
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Trump: Media working to convince GOP I should get off Twitter — President Trump continued to rip the news media on Saturday, saying the “fake and fraudulent news media” is trying to convince Republicans that he should not use social media. — The FAKE & FRAUDULENT NEWS MEDIA is working hard …
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Lewandowski: Trump is the ‘Hemingway of Twitter’
Lewandowski: Trump is the ‘Hemingway of Twitter’
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Abigail Tracy / Vanity Fair:
The Republican Plot to Kill Obamacare Isn't as Dead as It Seems — The Senate bill is in trouble, but insiders warn against underestimating Mitch McConnell. — With the July Fourth recess looming, Mitch McConnell and Republican leadership spent Thursday scrambling to cobble together …
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CNNMoney, TheBlaze, New York Magazine and Washington Monthly
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Trump proves to be an unreliable ally to Republicans in the health-care fight
Trump proves to be an unreliable ally to Republicans in the health-care fight
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Raw Story and Outside the Beltway
Patricia McCarthy / American Thinker:
Joe and Mika, wallowing in the mud … The ever-execrable Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezenski are basking in the glory of mud of their own making; they think they are heroes of a kind because Trump tweeted something crass about them. Indeed he did. But it was well-deserved.
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The Gateway Pundit and Mediaite
Tom Liddy / ABC News:
25 shot, 3 others injured at Little Rock nightclub; no apparent connection to terror — At least 25 people were shot in a nightclub in Little Rock, Arkansas, early Saturday morning and three others suffered unrelated injuries, police said. — One of the injured was initially listed in critical condition …
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John Binder / Breitbart:
Illegal Alien Allegedly Tazes, Scalds, Rapes Mom in Front of Children — An illegal alien is one of three teenagers who are accused of scalding a Georgia woman with hot water and raping her in her home near her children. — Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials confirmed …
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Anita Kumar / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
GOP's latest worry: White House turmoil dividing Trump, Pence staffs — WASHINGTON — Republicans are growing concerned that the staffs of Donald Trump and Mike Pence are starting to feud, the latest trouble to hit a White House that has spent months battling crisis after crisis.
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CBS News:
Science division of White House office left empty as last staffers depart — WASHINGTON — The science division of the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) was unstaffed as of Friday as the three remaining employees departed this week, sources tell CBS News.
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Washington Post, Gizmodo, Talking Points Memo and Friendly Atheist
Oli Coleman / Page Six:
CNN screws up — again … Let's call this one “'F***!' news.” — We're told CNN flew into a panic on Friday after it accidentally aired a fake National Enquirer cover during Jake Tapper's broadcast. — Tapper did a segment on his “The Lead” show about Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski's claim …
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Mediaite, IJR and The Last Tradition
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Now We Have a Road Map to the Trump Campaign's Collusion With Russia — Most of the commentary surrounding the Russia scandal has treated the possibility that Donald Trump's campaign deliberately colluded with Moscow as remote, unfounded speculation. The new reporting that has broken …
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Still No Collusion Evidence
Still No Collusion Evidence
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Daily Mail:
Wombs for men: Astonishing prospect as fertility doctors back operations on NHS so transgender women born as boys can have babies — Transgender women who were born male should be given womb transplants so that they can have children, leading NHS doctors have told The Mail on Sunday.
Julie Turkewitz / New York Times:
‘I Want This to Get Over’: After Congressional Shooting, Complex Grief for a Gunman's Widow — BELLEVILLE, Ill. — He flung dishes at his wife, roared at the television, erupted during an outing at a local brewery. Suzanne Hodgkinson became so concerned with her husband's growing anger that she wrote to his doctor asking for help.
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Business Insider and Mediaite
James Fanelli / New York Daily News:
Bronx hospital shooter sent chilling email rant to Daily News two hours before fatal rampage — Just twohours before his deadly rampage at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital, shooter Henry Bello ranted to the Daily News in an email — blaming the medical center for ruining his dreams of furthering his career.
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New York Times, CBS New York, Associated Press, New York's PIX11, The Daily Caller, Gothamist and The Week
Adam Wisnieski / City Limits:
Next 100 Days: In the Era of Trump, NYS is Out of Step and In the Crosshairs — During President Trump's first 100 days, the national conversation turned on big ideas: whether it was right to bar refugees, whether Obamacare was worth keeping, and more. Over the past several weeks …
Perry Stein / Washington Post:
The opioid crisis is straining the nation's foster-care systems — GREENBUSH, MAINE — Deb McLaughlin's 3-year-old grandson climbed all over her, pleading to play trucks, restless as always. Her 1-year-old foster daughter, who had just woken from a midday nap, sat in her lap, wearing a frilly dress and an irresistible smile.
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The Daily Caller
Naaman Zhou / The Guardian:
Volvo admits its self-driving cars are confused by kangaroos — Swedish company's animal detection system can identify and avoid deer, elk and caribou, but is yet to work against the marsupials' movements — Volvo's self-driving car is unable to detect kangaroos because hopping confounds its systems, the Swedish carmaker says.
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Tillerson argued with a second White House aide — The secretary of state, who blew up at Trump's personnel chief over the slow pace of filling political posts, also had a West Wing dispute with senior aide Stephen Miller. — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson argued with senior White House …
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Washington Post, The Week, Business Insider and Talking Points Memo
Nancy Coleman / CNN:
Escaped elephant takes a stroll through Wisconsin neighborhood — Jaime Lynn, a Baraboo, Wisconsin resident, saw this elephant outside her house Friday morning after it escaped from the nearby circus. Lynn said she heard a dog barking and a neighbor scream, so she looked outside to see what was going on.
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