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Axios:
Exclusive: Peter Navarro pushed Stefan Halper for Trump job — President Trump's top trade adviser, Peter Navarro, recommended appointing Stefan Halper, an academic and suspected FBI informant on the Trump campaign, to a senior role in the Trump administration, Axios has learned.
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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Donald Trump Wants You to Hate Robert Mueller, Too — The president takes on the Justice Department. — Back in 2011, Donald Trump published “Midas Touch,” one of his many how-to books offering secrets for financial success. This is where Trump, a lifelong performance artist …
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New York Times, New Republic and Associated Press
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Team's Mueller Strategy: Limit the Investigation and Attack the Investigators — WASHINGTON — Frustrated and impatient, fed up with waiting and eager to fight back, President Trump has embarked on what amounts to a two-prong strategy to contain the threat and undercut the credibility …
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Washington Press, ThinkProgress, CNBC, infowars.com, Splinter, Hot Air and The Resurgent
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
The constitutional crisis is here — By Eugene Robinson Opinion writer …
The constitutional crisis is here — By Eugene Robinson Opinion writer …
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RedState, Daily Kos, Joe.My.God., American Greatness, Front Page Magazine and infowars.com
Washington Post:
Who is Stefan A. Halper, the FBI source who assisted the Russia investigation?
Who is Stefan A. Halper, the FBI source who assisted the Russia investigation?
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The American Spectator, HuffPost, New York Times, Splinter, CNN, Wall Street Journal, Axios, Sara A. Carter, RedState, Political Wire, BuzzFeed, The Hill and RealClearPolitics
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Former Trump Adviser Makes Claim About A Second Informant
Former Trump Adviser Makes Claim About A Second Informant
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LifeZette and emptywheel
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Meet Mueller's new spokesman: Rudy Giuliani
Meet Mueller's new spokesman: Rudy Giuliani
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Just Security, Washington Post and Daily Kos
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Mark Penn, Ex-Clinton Aide, Dismisses Mueller Inquiry, and the Clintons Along With It
Mark Penn, Ex-Clinton Aide, Dismisses Mueller Inquiry, and the Clintons Along With It
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Axios, Washington Times, Raw Story, infowars.com and Townhall
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
The media ignored the policy stakes in 2016 — don't make the same mistake again in the midterms
The media ignored the policy stakes in 2016 — don't make the same mistake again in the midterms
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Breitbart, CBS New York and The Gateway Pundit
New York Times:
Trump v. the Department of Justice
Trump v. the Department of Justice
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The Daily Beast:
Trump's Latest FBI Attack Stuns Justice Dept. Officials: 'We're in Venezuela'
Trump's Latest FBI Attack Stuns Justice Dept. Officials: 'We're in Venezuela'
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Washington Post and New York Times
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
By Demanding an Investigation, Trump Challenged a Constraint on His Power
By Demanding an Investigation, Trump Challenged a Constraint on His Power
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USA Today, CNN, Jamie Dupree - AJC, HuffPost and The Gateway Pundit
The Washington / Mercury News:
GOP lawmaker, intel officials will meet to discuss FBI source
Wall Street Journal:
U.S., China Agree on Outline to Settle ZTE Controversy — Deal would lift the sales ban on ZTE and require the Chinese telecom giant to make significant changes to its management and board — Lingling Wei in Beijing and Bob Davis in — The U.S. and China have agreed on the broad outline …
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New York Times:
Chances of China Trade Win Undercut by Trump Team Infighting — WASHINGTON — By the time American negotiators wrapped up high-level talks with a visiting Chinese delegation last week, President Trump's ambitions for a multibillion-dollar trade agreement had, for the time being …
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Washington Post, CNBC, The Week, Vox, MSNBC and The Daily Caller
Axios:
3 factors behind Trump's cave on his China trade war — Who knows how the chest-bumping over China ends. But for now, President Trump's anti-China advisers are right: The president is buckling on his threats to punish China with fundamental, lasting changes to trade tariffs and rules.
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ABC News, One America News Network, Political Wire and BloombergQuint
Associated Press:
Can the ‘dealmaker’ president deliver on North Korea? — Weeks before his planned North Korea summit, President Donald Trump is staring down a dealmaker's worst nightmare: overpromising and under-delivering. — As the Singapore meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un draws near …
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Just Security, One America News Network and Politico
Annie Linskey / BostonGlobe.com:
Trump's tweets include grammatical errors. And some are on purpose — WASHINGTON — The hallmark of President Trump's Twitter feed is that it sounds like him — grammatical miscues and all. — But it's not always Trump tapping out a Tweet, even when it sounds like his voice.
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Associated Press:
The princes, the president and the fortune seekers — WASHINGTON (AP) — After a year spent carefully cultivating two princes from the Arabian Peninsula, Elliott Broidy, a top fundraiser for President Donald Trump, thought he was finally close to nailing more than $1 billion in business.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
‘Too inconvenient’: Trump goes rogue on phone security — The president has kept features at risk for hacking and resisted efforts by staff to inspect the phones he uses for tweeting. — President Donald Trump uses a White House cell phone that isn't equipped with sophisticated security features designed …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Is Doing Same Thing He Demanded Clinton Be Locked Up For — While serving as secretary of State, Hillary Clinton disregarded an instruction from the Foreign Affairs Manual directing her to use State Department equipment for day-to-day operations. Clinton almost certainly …
Jamie Lovegrove / Post and Courier:
Top South Carolina candidate refuses to quit congressional race after abuse discovery — Archie Parnell, a Democratic congressional hopeful who earned national attention after nearly winning in deep red South Carolina last year, is resisting pleas to withdraw after his campaign staff discovered …
Sean Davis / The Federalist:
BREAKING: E-mails Show FBI Brass Discussed Dossier Briefing Details With CNN — New e-mails show former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe was surprisingly knowledgeable about CNN's understanding of and deliberation about a dossier briefing given to Donald Trump days before CNN ever reported on the matter.
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Fox News, Daily Wire, The Gateway Pundit, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and CANNONFIRE
Eugene Scott / Washington Post:
Will Stacey Abrams and other black women candidates finally make the ‘backbone of the Democratic party’ its face? — Anyone paying attention to politics knows that black women are the backbone of the Democratic Party electorate. — This was obvious in 2016 when 94 percent of black women voted …
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Dennis Baron / Washington Post:
Antonin Scalia was wrong about the meaning of ‘bear arms’ — Dennis Baron is a professor of English and linguistics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. — For most of its history, the Second Amendment protected a collective right to gun ownership connected to service in the militia.
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
The Hard Truth at Newspapers Across America: Hedge Funds Are in Charge — From Miami to Denver, financial firms are playing a bigger role at local papers struggling to adapt in digital age — A group of journalists protesting outside the offices of a New York City hedge fund recently shined …
Joe Jervis / Joe.My.God.:
Tony Perkins: School Shootings Happen Because Liberal Society Has Created A “Moral Vacuum” By Expelling God — Via press release from hate group leader Tony Perkins: — As the first bodies of those eight students and two teachers are laid to rest, America returns to the question burned on everyone's mind: why?
Tennessean.com:
U.S. Sen. Bob Corker turns down offer to become next U.S. ambassador to Australia — Michael Patrick/Knoxville News Sentinel — The Trump administration wanted U.S. Sen. Bob Corker to join its diplomatic ranks. — But the retiring Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman declined …
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Talking Points Memo, Breitbart, The Guardian, Financial Review, Mediaite, Roll Call and Washington Times
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Trump and McConnell, once adversaries, have realized they need each other — On a Friday evening last October, Mitch McConnell was at Nationals Park watching a playoff baseball game when he looked down at his iPhone and discovered a missed call. It was President Trump.
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The Daily Caller
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Alec Luhn / Telegraph:
Putin's ‘unlimited range’ nuclear missile crashed after 22 miles, US intelligence sources claim — The Kremlin has denied US claims that Russia's nuclear-powered cruise missile with “unlimited” range crashed after only 22 miles. — The weapon was one of a range of “invincible” …
Emily Stewart / Vox:
Harley-Davidson took its tax cut, closed a factory, and rewarded shareholders — The motorcycle maker in January told Kansas City workers it would close a plant there. Days later, it announced a nearly $700 million stock buyback plan. — In September 2017, House Speaker Paul Ryan traveled …
Travis Clark / Business Insider:
People are threatening to boycott Netflix after the Obamas signed a deal with the streaming service — Former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama have signed a multi-year deal with Netflix to produce original shows. — It's not the first time: In March …
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Jason Rezaian / Washington Post:
Mike Pompeo gives a silly speech on Iran — Mike Pompeo used his first speech as secretary of state Monday to send a message directly to the Iranian leadership and its people: “Do what we want, or else!” — Speaking at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative Washington think tank …
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Associated Press
Brian M. Rosenthal / New York Times:
From the E.R. to the Garden, M.T.A. Chief Holds Unusually Powerful Perch — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo was in a bind. — The New York City subway system was falling apart and taking the governor's approval rating down with it. Looming construction at Pennsylvania Station was sparking fears of a “summer of hell” for commuters.