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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.


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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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


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


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, The Gateway Pundit, NBC News, twitchy.com, RealClearPolitics, Consortiumnews.com, The Last Refuge and ABC News


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


Clapper: Spy in Trump Campaign Was a Good Thing
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The Gateway Pundit, Power Line, The Daily Caller and amp.dailycaller.com

FBI forced to take emergency steps to protect informant — from Trump
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CNBC, Hullabaloo, Salon and Daily Kos

Warner: Identifying FBI source to undermine Russia probe could be a crime
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RedState



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, Raw Story and Bustle
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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 …
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Raw Story, CNN, Bustle, CNBC, IJR, Political Wire, The Daily Caller and AOL

Melania Trump returns to the White House after hospital treatment
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Reuters, New York Magazine and ABC News


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, Raw Story and Little Green Footballs
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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, East Bay Times, NPR, twitchy.com and AOL
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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.

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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Hullabaloo, Raw Story, CNBC, Axios and Breitbart
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House rejects farm bill as conservatives revolt
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Breitbart, NPR, The Week, RedState, New York Magazine, Politico, Washington Press, Booman Tribune and Washington Post


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.
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The Mahablog


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


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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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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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