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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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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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Daily Mail
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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AOL, Mediaite, Raw Story, IJR and New York Times, more at Mediagazer »
Brady Dennis / Washington Post:
EPA chief pushing governmentwide effort to question climate change science … The Trump administration is debating whether to launch a governmentwide effort to question the science of climate change, an effort that critics say is an attempt to undermine the long-established consensus human activity …
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News and IJR
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Coral Davenport / New York Times:
Counseled by Industry, Not Staff, E.P.A. Chief Is Off to a Blazing Start — WASHINGTON — In the four months since he took office as the Environmental Protection Agency's administrator, Scott Pruitt has moved to undo, delay or otherwise block more than 30 environmental rules …
Fox News:
Trump honors veterans at Celebrate Freedom Rally — President Donald Trump delivered an Independence Day address honoring American veterans — hundreds of whom came from the Washington, D.C. area to attend the “Celebrate Freedom Rally” at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
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Associated Press:
Trump vows to support and defend religious freedom in US — President Donald Trump vowed to support and defend religious liberty, telling a gathering of evangelical Christians that the threat of terrorism is “one of the most grave and dire threats to religious freedom in the world today.”
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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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
'I'm President and They're Not': Trump Attacks Media at Faith Rally — WASHINGTON — President Trump began his holiday weekend getaway with another denunciation of the news media, using a celebration of American veterans and freedom at an evening rally to thunder that he would not allow the “fake” media to stop his agenda.
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Washington Monthly, The Hill, The Week, Business Insider, KTLA, Associated Press, Mediaite, The Gateway Pundit, Talking Points Memo, KFOR-TV and Political Wire
D.A. / The Dustin Inman Society Blog:
The Dustin Inman Society has confirmed that at least one of the individuals recently arrested for a May, 2017 rape of a Gwinnett County mother is under an ICE hold — The Dustin Inman Society has confirmed that at least one of the individuals recently arrested for a May, 2017 attack on a Gwinnett County mother is under an ICE hold.
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John Binder / Breitbart:
Illegal Alien Allegedly Tazes, Scalds, Rapes Mom in Front of Children
Illegal Alien Allegedly Tazes, Scalds, Rapes Mom in Front of Children
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The Gateway Pundit
Mark Krikorian / National Review:
Kate, We Hardly Knew Ye — Today is Kate Steinle Day, the second anniversary of a woman's murder by a repeatedly deported illegal-alien felon nestled in the warm embrace of San Francisco's sanctuary policies. But she wasn't the first American to be killed by sanctuary-city ordinances, not even in San Francisco.
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IJR, Raw Story and twitchy.com
Abby Goodnough / New York Times:
For Millions, Life Without Medicaid Services Is No Option — TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Frances Isbell has spinal muscular atrophy, a genetic disorder that has left her unable to walk or even roll over in bed. But Ms. Isbell has a personal care assistant through Medicaid, and the help allowed …
Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Obama plays behind-the-scenes role in rebuilding Democratic Party — Former President Obama is involved in discussions about the future of the Democratic Party, sources close to the former president tell The Hill. — Since leaving office, he has held meetings—on a by-request basis …
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
How the Left Lost Its Mind — Last month, Democratic Senator Ed Markey delivered what seemed like an explosive bit of news during an interview with CNN: A grand jury had been impaneled in New York, he said, to investigate the Trump campaign's alleged collusion with Russia. — The only problem: It wasn't true.
Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
Trump says states are ‘trying to hide’ things from his voter fraud commission. Here's what they actually say. — More than two dozen states have refused to fully comply with a sweeping and unprecedented White House request to turn over voter registration data, including sensitive information …
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Cory Bennett / Politico:
Trump voter-fraud panel's data request a gold mine for hackers, experts warn
Trump voter-fraud panel's data request a gold mine for hackers, experts warn
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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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Mediaite and The Gateway Pundit
Monica Hesse / Washington Post:
When Dad's the president — a look inside Ivanka Trump's complicated world — Ivanka Trump's office: clean, white, quiet. A zone of punctual start times and promptly-offered water bottles, and a conference table at which she conducts meetings. A short, winding walk away from her father's Oval Office downstairs.
Jerome Hudson / Breitbart:
Phones for Dead People: GAO Report Uncovers Massive Fraud in ‘Obamaphone’ Program — A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reveals that the infamous “Obamaphone” program, meant to provide low-income Americans phone and internet service, is riddled with waste, fraud, and abuse.
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The Daily Signal
New York Times:
For Abused, Gay Iraqi in Turkey, U.S. Refugee Freeze is Cruelest Hit — ISTANBUL — For Mohammed, an Iraqi civil engineer, the cruelest experience of his life was not when his father tortured him for being gay. — It was not when Islamic State extremists took over the 26-year-old's hometown …
Motoko Rich / New York Times:
Crematory Is Booked? Japan Offers Corpse Hotels as New Way of Dealing With Death — OSAKA, Japan — The minimalist rooms at the Hotel Relation here in Japan's third-largest city are furnished with plain twin beds. Flat-screen televisions adorn the walls. Plastic-wrapped cups and toothbrushes are provided in the bathrooms.
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.
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National Review
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Lewandowski: Trump is the ‘Hemingway of Twitter’ — President Trump's former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski called Trump the “Hemingway of Twitter,” this week, following his tweets about MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski. — “He's the Ernest Hemingway of Twitter,” Lewandowski said discussing Trump's recent Twitter attacks on Fox News.
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Martin Matishak / Politico:
An inside view of the House Russia probe — It was late March, and Michael Bahar was being blocked from entering the White House, the latest in a series of surreal moments that month for the then-Democratic staff director of the House Intelligence Committee. — Bahar was not on the Secret Service's list of approved visitors.
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