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Washington Post:
After summit pullout, South Korea and China have little appetite for Trump's ‘maximum pressure’ — SEOUL — President Trump credited his “maximum pressure” campaign of sanctions and threats with bringing North Korea to the negotiating table to discuss its nuclear weapons program.
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Joe.My.God., Sky News and The Week
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
President Trump Is a Better Dealbreaker Than Dealmaker — His blown-up North Korea summit proves it. — At 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, I was speaking with a senior Administration official involved in the preparations for President Trump's summit with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un.
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American Thinker
NBC News:
Inside the summit collapse: Trump wanted to cancel before N. Korean leader could — WASHINGTON — Early Thursday morning, after a flurry of calls with a handful of senior advisers, an angry President Donald Trump personally dictated the three-paragraph letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un …
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Just Security, Talking Points Memo, CNN, BBC, VICE News, The American Conservative, The Week, The Daily Beast, Axios and MSNBC
Laura Rosenberger / Washington Post:
How the United States botched its North Korea strategy. — Laura Rosenberger is director of the Alliance for Securing Democracy and a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. She was director for China and North Korea at the National Security Council and a member of the …
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Reuters, CNN and Daily Caller News Foundation
Washington Post:
‘A lot of dial tones’: The inside story of how Trump's North Korea summit fell apart
‘A lot of dial tones’: The inside story of how Trump's North Korea summit fell apart
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Politico, The Week, RedState, Shareblue Media, VICE News, New York Magazine and Little Green Footballs
Axios:
White House officials: We were closer to war with North Korea than realized
White House officials: We were closer to war with North Korea than realized
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New York Times, One America News Network and The Daily Beast
Wall Street Journal:
Roger Stone Sought Information on Clinton from Assange, Emails Show — Ex-Trump adviser urged intermediary to ask WikiLeaks for specific dates of rival candidate's communications — Former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone privately sought information he considered damaging to Hillary Clinton …
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CNN:
Assange's refuge in Ecuadorian embassy ‘in jeopardy’ — Washington (CNN)Julian Assange's nearly six-year refuge at the Ecuadorian embassy in London is in danger, opening the WikiLeaks founder to arrest by British authorities and potential extradition to the US, multiple sources with knowledge tell CNN.
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Joe.My.God., New York Magazine, Daily Caller News Foundation, Raw Story and Mediaite
Sara Murray / CNN:
Roger Stone's finances examined by special counsel
Roger Stone's finances examined by special counsel
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The Gateway Pundit
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
The Real Constitutional Crisis — The FBI and Justice Department continue evading congressional oversight. — Democrats and their media allies are again shouting “constitutional crisis,” this time claiming President Trump has waded too far into the Russia investigation.
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Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
McConnell Says He Supports Mueller Investigation
McConnell Says He Supports Mueller Investigation
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Washington Post, Axios, Shareblue Media and Joe.My.God.
The Daily Beast:
White House Lawyer Crashes FBI Meeting on Trump-Russia Investigation
White House Lawyer Crashes FBI Meeting on Trump-Russia Investigation
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JONATHAN TURLEY, Hot Air, Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos, CNN and Shareblue Media
Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Concerned by Trump, Some Republicans Quietly Align With Democrats — WASHINGTON — Since Donald J. Trump began dominating American politics more than two years ago, Democrats concerned about his policies and behavior have taken solace in a group of influential Republicans who have consistently assailed …
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Talking Points Memo and Splinter
Ronan Farrow / New Yorker:
Behind the Scenes of Harvey Weinstein's Impending Arrest — After a seven-month investigation, the producer Harvey Weinstein is expected to turn himself in to the New York Police Department's First Precinct on Friday to face sexual-assault charges. According to law-enforcement officials …
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Mother Jones, New York Times, NPR, WPSD Local 6, KTLA, Gothamist, Vox and Law & Crime
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Jeff Collins / Orange County Register:
Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher says it's OK to not sell homes to gays; loses support of Realtors — U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher told a group of Realtors last week that homeowners should be able to refuse to sell their homes to gays and lesbians, a statement that cost him the support of a key national Realtor group.
Megan McArdle / Washington Post:
A defense of Roger Goodell — Whatever you think of Roger Goodell, commissioner of the National Football League, you should recognize that he's trying to solve a genuinely hard problem. Or rather two problems. On one hand, he's trying to maximize the audience for NFL games.
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Vox, Hot Air, New York Times, Q13 FOX News and Salt Lake Tribune
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KHQ-TV:
FIRST ON KHQ: Former Spokane NAACP president Rachel Dolezal facing felony theft charges for welfare fraud — Former Spokane Chapter NAACP President Rachel Dolezal is now facing legal trouble that could land her behind bars. KHQ has confirmed that Dolezal, who legally changed her name …
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New York Times:
Turf War Between Kushner and Sessions Drove Federal Prisons Director to Quit — WASHINGTON — When Jared Kushner hosted a high-profile summit meeting on federal prison reform at the White House last Friday, some in attendance noticed that the man who was ostensibly in charge of the federal prison system …
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Politico, The Week, Splinter, Joe.My.God. and Talking Points Memo
Ben White / Politico:
Trump's next economic threat: Surging gas prices — A huge jump in driving costs in recent months is likely to fuel a wave of economic anger across the nation — just in time for the midterm elections. — President Donald Trump is hoping a wave of tax-cut-fueled economic euphoria will boost …
Yashar Ali / New York Magazine:
The Reporter Who Took Down a Unicorn … In late September of 2015, Elizabeth Holmes, the CEO of the once-high-flying but now disgraced Silicon Valley health-care company Theranos, was in the News Corp. office of Rupert Murdoch. She had first met Murdoch in 2014 to pitch him on Theranos …
Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
'We're closed!': Trump vents his anger over immigration at Homeland Security secretary — President Trump began berating Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen in the Oval Office earlier this spring, according to administration officials, griping about her performance and blaming her for a surge in illegal border crossings.
Bloomberg:
Mick Mulvaney Is Having a Blast Running the Agency He Detests — One of the first things Mick Mulvaney did last year after President Trump asked him to be acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was to read the statute dictating the agency's powers.
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Axios
Ryan Saavedra / Daily Wire:
REPORT: Deputy Peterson Accused Of ‘Covering Up’ Alleged Sexual Assault By Broward Sheriff's Son — A local Miami news station released an explosive report on Thursday night about a “disturbing assault” that happened at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School four years to the day before the tragic shooting in February.
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Townhall and twitchy.com
Ryan Hutchins / Politico:
Poll: Menendez lead narrows to just 4 points over GOP foe Hugin — Sen. Bob Menendez holds a razor-thin four-point lead over his likely Republican rival in November's general election, according to a new poll, indicating the New Jersey Democrat is still suffering from a post-corruption-trial hangover.
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Political Wire
Matt Zoller Seitz / Vulture:
The Cultural Vandalism of Jeffrey Tambor — I interviewed Jeffrey Tambor on Tuesday, briefly, in a room with some of his fellow Arrested Development cast members, not including his co-star Jessica Walter. But it doesn't matter what he told me. — It doesn't matter because Tambor said almost …
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Outside the Beltway and Front Page Magazine
Molly Hennessy-Fiske / Los Angeles Times:
Border Patrol union calls Trump's National Guard deployment ‘colossal waste’ … A month after President Trump called for sending National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, the head of the national Border Patrol union called the deployment “a colossal waste of resources.”
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Politico, Talking Points Memo, The Week and Mother Jones
Will Rahn / CBS News:
Commentary: The plot against Donald Trump — It's easy to get the basic gist of the Deep State conspiracy theory, which posits that the FBI and CIA ginned up a devious plot to help Hillary Clinton and hurt Donald Trump. But there's an arch, coy, almost feline quality to the way these arguments are presented.
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The group least likely to think the U.S. has a responsibility to accept refugees? Evangelicals. — In February 2017, as debate raged nationally over President Trump's decision to curtail immigration to the United States, the conservative Christian Broadcasting Network dipped into the Bible …
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Pew Research Center, Friendly Atheist and Splinter
CBC News:
2 males wanted after improvised explosive device blast at Mississauga restaurant injures 15 — Peel police say it's early to say if explosion is terror-related — An improvised explosive device set off inside an Indian restaurant in Mississauga is responsible for a blast that injured 15 people on Thursday night, police say.
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The Daily Caller
Sara Carter / Sara A. Carter:
What Happened During the FBI Interview With Flynn? — Sources: Reports that FBI agent with Flynn info will bring down Comey are false — FBI Special Agent Joe Pientka, if subpoenaed, will provide testimony regarding the circumstances surrounding his interview with former National Security Advisor Army …
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The Gateway Pundit
Tom Perriello / Slate:
It's Time for Democrats to Turn the Tables on Health Care — I lost my seat in Congress after voting for the Affordable Care Act. Democrats should run hard on protecting it this fall. — Health care premiums are projected to skyrocket this year, after the Trump administration …
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LifeZette
Matthew Martinez / miamiherald:
Snapchat tried an X-rated story feature called Cosmo after Dark. It didn't go well — Well, that was fast. — After flying just one X-rated Friday night test balloon, Cosmopolitan has discontinued its controversial series of sex-themed stories called Cosmo After Dark on the Snapchat Discover platform.
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Breitbart
JONATHAN TURLEY:
Justice Delayed Is Justice: Mueller Fights To Delay Russian Collusion Trial — There is an old joke among criminal defense attorneys that “justice delayed is justice,” a twist of the old adage that “justice delayed is justice denied.” The joke reflects that fact that the defense almost always benefits …
Henry J. Gomez / BuzzFeed:
Don't Make Bill Kristol Run For President — The conservative commentator's 2020 do-over already has the look and feel of a real presidential campaign. Now all it needs is a real presidential candidate. — Reporting From — Goffstown, New Hampshire — Bill Kristol has not given up on defeating Donald Trump.