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New York Times:
F.B.I. Used Informant to Investigate Russia Ties to Campaign, Not to Spy, as Trump Claims — WASHINGTON — President Trump accused the F.B.I. on Friday, without evidence, of sending a spy to secretly infiltrate his 2016 campaign “for political purposes” even before the bureau had any inkling of the “phony Russia hoax.”
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Washington Post:
Secret FBI source for Russia investigation met with three Trump advisers during campaign — A retired American professor in 2016 began working as a secret informant for the FBI as it investigated Russia's interference in the U.S. presidential campaign, and he contacted three Trump advisers …
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Talking Points Memo, twitchy.com and Raw Story
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Cambridge Professor Spied On Trump Campaign Advisers — A top-secret CIA and FBI source who spied on two Trump campaign advisers and initiated contact with a third was all but outed Friday night. — The New York Times and The Washington Post provided a detailed description of the source …
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The Intercept, The Gateway Pundit and Washington Post
Asha Rangappa / Washington Post:
The FBI didn't use an informant to go after Trump. They used one to protect him. — What the president doesn't get about counterintelligence. — President Trump and his allies are outraged at reports that the FBI used an “informant” to spy on Trump's 2016 campaign.
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CNN, Fox News Insider, NBC News, The Gateway Pundit, Consortiumnews.com, twitchy.com, RealClearPolitics, The Last Refuge, ABC News and The Atlantic
Washington Post:
The GOP's campaign against the FBI makes the nation less safe — IN THEIR paranoid partisan war on the Justice Department's Russia probe, President Trump's allies have been pushing for the dangerous disclosure of national security information, including information about a top-secret FBI and CIA informant.
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NPR and New Republic
Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
FBI forced to take emergency steps to protect informant — from Trump
FBI forced to take emergency steps to protect informant — from Trump
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Power Line, CNBC, Hullabaloo and Salon
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Warner: Identifying FBI source to undermine Russia probe could be a crime
Warner: Identifying FBI source to undermine Russia probe could be a crime
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RedState
Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:
Talk of unproven FBI ‘plant’ in Trump campaign circulates among Republicans
Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
BBC throws royal shade at Trump after wedding crowd dwarfs inauguration — Well played, BBC. Well played. — As well-wishers gathered outside Windsor Castle Saturday morning to celebrate the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, BBC took a moment to throw some royal shade at Trump.
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Mother Jones, Bustle and The Resurgent
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Katie Rogers / New York Times:
White House Keeps Details of Melania Trump's Health Under Wraps — WASHINGTON — This week, the first lady, Melania Trump, underwent a procedure for what the White House called a benign kidney condition. Four days into her recovery for the procedure, which experts say typically …
Brent D. Griffiths / Politico:
Melania Trump returns to the White House after hospital treatment — WASHINGTON — First lady Melania Trump returned to the White House on Saturday morning following hospital treatment for a kidney condition. — “She is resting comfortably and remains in high spirits.
New York Times:
Trump Jr. and Other Aides Met With Gulf Emissary Offering Help to Win Election — WASHINGTON — Three months before the 2016 election, a small group gathered at Trump Tower to meet with Donald Trump Jr., the president's eldest son. One was an Israeli specialist in social media manipulation.
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Fake Facebook accounts and online lies multiply in hours after Santa Fe school shooting … In the first hours after the Texas school shooting that left at least 10 dead Friday, online hoaxers moved quickly to spread a viral lie, creating fake Facebook accounts with the suspected shooter's name …
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The Guardian, Women in the World, Little Green Footballs and Common Dreams
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CBS News:
Royal wedding: Prince Harry, Meghan Markle marry at Windsor Castle — live updates — It's the most anticipated wedding of the year: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will tie the knot today at St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle. — Harry and his brother and Best Man Prince William greeted cheering fans …
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Vox, Bustle, Taylor Marsh, ABC News, New York Times, NPR, East Bay Times, twitchy.com and AOL
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Martin Belam / The Guardian:
Stars line up to attend royal wedding — Royal wedding watchers treated to a parade of A-list celebrities from both sides of the Atlantic — In a wedding that has broken royal tradition in many ways, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have also surprised with some of the choices for their guest list.
Naomi Martin / Dallas Morning News:
White, straight and Christian: Dallas County politician admits rewarding kids for marrying within race — Vickers “Vic” Cunningham, a former criminal district judge now in a runoff to be the sole Republican Dallas County commissioner, acknowledged Friday that in 2010 he set up a living trust …
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ThinkProgress, Law & Crime, Friendly Atheist, HuffPost and Raw Story
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
In Politicized Justice, Desperate Times Call for Disparate Measures — FBI director Comey and the Obama Justice Department applied a double standard in their handling of the Clinton-email and Trump-Russia investigations. — We wuz robbed. That's the theme Democrats and their media allies …
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Instapundit
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
House GOP limping to Election Day as farm bill implodes — DRIVING THE DAY — WHAT THE WORLD IS TALKING ABOUT — “Prince Harry and Meghan Markle marry and delight Windsor crowds,” by The Telegraph's Danny Boyle: “Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been proclaimed husband and wife …
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Alissa de Carbonnel / Reuters:
Europe reassures Iran of commitment to nuclear deal without U.S — TEHRAN (Reuters) - The European Union's energy chief sought to reassure Iran on Saturday that the bloc remained committed to salvaging a nuclear deal with Tehran despite U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to exit the accord and reimpose sanctions.
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Politico
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Roger L Simon / PJ Media Home:
The Inspector General's Report Will Expose the MSM as Treasonous — One of the more notable differences between Watergate and the metastasizing scandals involving the FBI, our intelligence agencies, and the Obama administration — subjects of the soon-to-be-released inspector general's report — is that the media exposed Watergate.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP lawmakers want Trump to stop bashing Congress — Senate Republicans want President Trump — to stop taking jabs at Congress over its inability to get things done. — Trump loves to tout results and bash lawmakers when they do not move fast enough on his priorities.
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Washington Post
Axios:
Shocking details emerge from China's re-education camps for Muslims — Researchers and reporters have been slowly uncovering the massive scale of political re-education camps housing members of the Muslim minority in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in Western China.
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Instapundit
The Daily Beast:
Dimitrios Pagourtzis, Texas Shooting Suspect, Posted Neo-Nazi Imagery Online … Dimitrios Pagourtzis, the suspected gunman who opened fire at a Texas high school on Friday morning, apparently posted photos of neo-Nazi iconography online, according to social media accounts flagged by classmates and reviewed by The Daily Beast.
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