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Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed:
How A Random GIF From Reddit Probably Ended Up On President Trump's Phone — Last Wednesday, a Reddit user named /u/HanAssholeSolo posted a GIF titled “Trump takes down fake news (Colorized, 2017)” to Reddit's largest pro-Trump subreddit, /r/The_Donald. — The post gained a few thousand upvotes and …
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Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:
CNN Is Standing By Its Controversial Reddit User Story — CNN executives thought they were showing restraint by not identifying Reddit user HanAssholeSolo. But a strange contingency line has set off the pro-Trump social internet. — When a CNN reporter tracked down the Reddit user …
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Greg P. / twitchy.com:
If BuzzFeed is correct, it appears CNN's Andrew Kaczynski outed the wrong guy … According to an analysis by BuzzFeed, the CNN-WWE GIF that President Donald Trump tweeted last week was not the same as the one created by HanAssholeSolo, which means CNN's Andrew Kaczynski outed the wrong guy:
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Keegan Hankes / Southern Poverty Law Center Hatewatch:
Daily Stormer Troll Army Threatens CNN Staffers Over Reddit User Behind Trump/CNN GIF — Andrew Auernheimer, the notorious hacker and Internet troll known as ‘Weev,’ rallied the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer's troll army for its latest campaign this morning, claiming that CNN was blackmailing a “teen shitposter.”
Ricochet:
Trump Has Driven CNN Stark, Raving Mad
Trump Has Driven CNN Stark, Raving Mad
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Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
What the hell were you thinking, CNN?
What the hell were you thinking, CNN?
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David Harsanyi / The Federalist:
What CNN's Threat To Dox A Redditor Tells Us About The State Of Journalism
What CNN's Threat To Dox A Redditor Tells Us About The State Of Journalism
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New York Times:
U.S. Vows Tougher Action on North Korea After Missile Test — SEOUL, South Korea — The United States responded Wednesday to North Korea's intercontinental ballistic missile test by conducting a rare joint missile exercise with South Korea and pushing to impose tougher United Nations sanctions …
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Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Haley warns China on North Korea, says Beijing risks U.S. trade
Haley warns China on North Korea, says Beijing risks U.S. trade
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Washington Post:
At G-20 summit, it looks more and more like Trump against the world
At G-20 summit, it looks more and more like Trump against the world
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CNN:
US: North Korea launched new kind of missile
US: North Korea launched new kind of missile
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United States Forces Korea:
Combined Statement on Alliance Response
Combined Statement on Alliance Response
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Alexi McCammond / Axios:
U.S. prepared to take action against North Korea
Ari Berman / The Nation:
The Trump Administration's Voter-Suppression Plans Are Backfiring Badly — In an unprecedented show of bipartisan resistance, 44 states are refusing to hand over private voter data to Kris Kobach. — On June 28, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, the vice chair of Donald Trump's presidential commission …
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Washington Post:
Why almost every state is partially or fully rebuffing Trump's voter fraud commission … In a rare display of bipartisanship, officials in nearly every state have said they will partially or fully refuse to comply with President Trump's voting commission, which has encountered criticism …
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Celeste Katz / Mic:
Trump election integrity commission member: “We should have predicted” the backlash
Trump election integrity commission member: “We should have predicted” the backlash
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NBC News:
Amelia Earhart May Have Survived Crash-Landing, Newly Discovered Photo Suggests — A newly discovered photograph suggests legendary aviator Amelia Earhart, who vanished 80 years ago on a round-the-world flight, survived a crash-landing in the Marshall Islands.
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Johnny Dodd / People.com:
Does This Photo Prove Amelia Earhart Survived Her Final Flight? — A recently-discovered photograph is turning the mystery surrounding Amelia Earhart's 1937 disappearance on its head, leading a handful of experts to believe the celebrated aviator and women's rights role model actually survived …
New York Times:
Aides' Biggest Worry on Trump's Europe Trip: A Meeting With Putin — WASHINGTON — President Trump has been briefed repeatedly. His advisers have alerted him to the web of potential risks, complex issues and diplomatic snags. — But even his top aides do not know precisely what Mr. Trump …
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Brian Bennett / Los Angeles Times:
Stakes are high for Trump's meeting with Putin. Here's what to expect.
Stakes are high for Trump's meeting with Putin. Here's what to expect.
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U.S. Department of Justice:
United States Files Civil Action To Forfeit Thousands Of Ancient Iraqi Artifacts Imported By Hobby Lobby — Cuneiform Tablets Were Falsely Labeled as Product “Samples” and Shipped to Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., and Two Corporate Affiliates — Earlier today, the United States filed …
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Julia Reinstein / BuzzFeed:
NPR Tweeted The Declaration Of Independence And Some Trump Supporters Were Offended — In celebration of the 4th of July, National Public Radio tweeted out the Declaration of Independence in a series of more than 100 tweets on Tuesday. … Many people responded with praise for the historic document, and thanked NPR for sharing it.
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Matt Novak / Gizmodo:
Trump Supporters Cry Bias After NPR Tweets the Declaration of Independence
Trump Supporters Cry Bias After NPR Tweets the Declaration of Independence
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Poland busing in pro-government activists to cheer Trump: report — The Polish government is planning to bus lawmakers from its conservative ruling party and pro-government activists to Warsaw for President Trump's speech to the Polish people, according to The Associated Press, which cites Polish media reports.
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Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:
Trump Warsaw Speech to Focus on Poland's National Example
Trump Warsaw Speech to Focus on Poland's National Example
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Fox News:
Cruz's ObamaCare fix gets support from Hill conservatives — A low-flying proposal from Sen. Ted Cruz to overhaul a major component of ObamaCare is attracting the kind of conservative enthusiasm that could prove critical in the broader GOP push to repeal and replace the 2010 law.
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Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
‘Repeal now, replace later’ will kill the GOP's health-care reform
Kimberly Dozier / The Daily Beast:
U.S. Commandos Running Out of ISIS Targets … U.S. special operations forces have removed roughly 50 top ISIS leaders off the battlefield since President Donald Trump took office, down from 80 killed in the last six months of the Obama administration, according to figures obtained by The Daily Beast.
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Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Chelsea Handler to Debate Tomi Lahren Live at Politicon — Comedian and TV host Chelsea Handler will take on controversial conservative pundit Tomi Lahren in a live conversation later this month at Politicon, The Daily Beast has learned. The third annual political convention …
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Jon Levine / Mediaite:
A GOP Congressman Made a Selfie Video From Inside Auschwitz — It's as Bad as You Think — There are few places more hallowed than the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau. More than a million people, mostly Jews, were killed there during the second world war, many in the camp's infamous gas chambers.
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Julian Borger / The Guardian:
Investigators explore if Russia colluded with pro-Trump sites during US election — Questions raised as to whether Trump supports coordinated with Moscow to spread bogus stories aimed at discrediting Hillary Clinton — The spread of Russian-made fake news stories aimed at discrediting Hillary Clinton …
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Heather Caygle / Politico:
Dems' new pitch to voters: A ‘Better Deal’ — Democratic leaders plan to roll out a new economic agenda and messaging strategy for the 2018 campaign after deciding that simply running against Trump won't cut it. — Democratic leaders are zeroing in on a new mantra for their long-promised economic agenda: the “Better Deal.”
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Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
CNN Just Published A Fake Quote From Abraham Lincoln — CNN tweeted out quotes from notable Americans for the Fourth of July. Here was one of the quotes they tweeted from Abraham Lincoln: — The quote, which is also displayed at the Newseum, was interpreted as yet another attack from the media giant against the president.
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Renae Merle / Los Angeles Times:
Judge tells Martin Shkreli: Keep your mouth shut — Martin Shkreli arrives for the first day of jury selection in his federal securities-fraud trial June 26 in Brooklyn, N.Y. (Timothy A. Clary / AFP/Getty Images) — The Washington Post — Martin Shkreli, the boisterous former hedge-fund manager …
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Bernie Sanders is the Democrats' real 2020 frontrunner — He's staffing up, touring the country, and still drawing record crowds. — Amid a swirl of speculation about Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Kirsten Gillibrand, Cory Booker, and practically everyone else under the sun …
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