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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.
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Daniel Friedman / Mother Jones:
Report Suggests Blackwater Founder Erik Prince May Have Lied to Congress
Report Suggests Blackwater Founder Erik Prince May Have Lied to Congress
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Raw Story
Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
The FBI Informant Who Monitored the Trump Campaign, Stefan Halper, Oversaw a CIA Spying Operation in the 1980 Presidential Election — An extremely strange episode that has engulfed official Washington over the last two weeks came to a truly bizarre conclusion on Friday night.
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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 Gateway Pundit and The Last Refuge
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.”
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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Asha Rangappa / Washington Post:
The FBI didn't use an informant to go after Trump. They used one to protect him.
The FBI didn't use an informant to go after Trump. They used one to protect him.
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George Prayias / The Rush Limbaugh Show:
Clapper: Spy in Trump Campaign Was a Good Thing
Clapper: Spy in Trump Campaign Was a Good Thing
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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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Brent D. Griffiths / Politico:
Melania Trump returns to the White House after hospital treatment
Melania Trump returns to the White House after hospital treatment
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New York Magazine, Reuters and ABC News
Katie Rogers / New York Times:
White House Keeps Details of Melania Trump's Health Under Wraps
White House Keeps Details of Melania Trump's Health Under Wraps
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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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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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John Light / Talking Points Memo:
Aaron Schlossberg Is Our Duke Of The Week — Racist New York City attorney Aaron Schlossberg started the week threatening to call ICE on workers in a Midtown Manhattan sandwich shop because they were speaking Spanish. He ended the week hiding from throngs of reporters while protestors attended …
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New York Post and Splinter
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Art Acevedo:
To all my Facebook friends. Today I spent the day dealing with another mass shooting of children and a responding police officer who is clinging to life. I'm not ashamed to admit I've shed tears of sadness, pain and anger. — I know some have strong feelings about gun rights …
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Mother Jones, Shareblue Media, theGrio and AOL
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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Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
CA Rep. Devin Nunes launches desperate fundraising pitch — in Virginia — With no accomplishments to speak of, Devin Nunes is touting his role as a doormat for Trump and begging East Coast donors to save him from voters in his own district. — Since Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) …
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Hullabaloo and Salon
Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal:
Starbucks Creates Policy on Nonpaying Guests — Starbucks tells employees in a letter that everyone is “considered a customer” — Starbucks Corp. SBUX -0.07% said Saturday it is creating an official policy that allows all guests to use its cafes, including its restrooms, whether or not they make a purchase.
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Vox
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.
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.
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The Mahablog
Libby Schaaf / Washington Post:
No, Mr. President, I am not obstructing justice — Libby Schaaf is the mayor of Oakland, Calif. — When President Trump was admonishing Attorney General Jeff Sessions to charge me with obstruction of justice Wednesday, I was at Harvard University sharing how we intend to give every child from Oakland …
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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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