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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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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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CANNONFIRE and American Thinker
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Says North Korea Summit May Be Rescheduled
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Townhall, CNN, Washington Post, New Republic, BBC, Axios, Roll Call, The Intercept and Outside the Beltway
Axios:
White House officials: We were closer to war with North Korea than realized
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One America News Network, New York Times and RedState
Allyson Chiu / Washington Post:
White House gift shop ‘Deal of the Day’: Trump-Kim summit souvenirs
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Talking Points Memo, The Week, CNN and The Daily Caller
New York Times:
At Trump Tower, Michael Cohen and Oligarch Discussed Russian Relations — Eleven days before the presidential inauguration last year, a billionaire Russian businessman with ties to the Kremlin visited Trump Tower in Manhattan to meet with Donald J. Trump's personal lawyer and fixer …
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Talking Points Memo, Axios, Joe.My.God., KTLA, Political Wire, The Week, Raw Story and Mediaite
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Ex-aides say congressman and wife made them his servants — Rep. Tom Garrett and his wife made staffers pick up groceries, clothes — even dog poop, multiple former employees to the freshman Republican told POLITICO. — Freshman Rep. Tom Garrett (R-Va.) and his wife turned the congressman's staff …
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Talking Points Memo, Axios, Raw Story, Political Wire, Mediaite, The Daily Beast and The American Spectator
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.
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USA Today:
The feds lost — yes, lost — 1,475 migrant children
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Paste, Shakesville and Bossip
Indianapolis Star:
‘This is surreal,’ parent says of Indiana school shooting — Chad Lancaster, who has an eighth-grade daughter and sixth-grade son at the middle school, said he heard from his ex-wife in a phone call. — Their daughter, hiding under her desk, called the mother. She told her to run.
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WDTN-TV:
2 in critical condition, one in custody after shooting at Indiana school
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Daily Wire
WGN Web Desk / WGN-TV:
At least 2 injured in shooting at Indiana middle school; student in custody
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Mother Jones, Townhall, Breitbart and IJR
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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Aaron Katersky / ABC News:
Harvey Weinstein released on $1M bail after arrest on rape, sexual abuse charges
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Los Angeles Times:
Defiant Harvey Weinstein denies sex crimes charges. He ‘did not invent the casting couch,’ attorney says
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Mother Jones
Sara M Moniuszko / USA Today:
Rose McGowan, Asia Argento, President Trump react to Harvey Weinstein charges
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New Republic, CNN, The Daily Beast and Mediaite
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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Christina Capatides / CBS News:
Mussels off the coast of Seattle test positive for opioids — As more and more American communities grapple with opioid addiction, the human toll of the epidemic has grown in both scope and severity. And now, scientists at the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife have found evidence …
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BuzzFeed and Daily Caller News Foundation
CNN:
GOP House candidate in Illinois is a 9/11 truther, said Beyonce had ties to the Illuminati — (CNN)The Republican nominee for a US House seat in Illinois has said the September 11 terrorist attacks were an inside job and that singer Beyonce Knowles has ties to the Illuminati.
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The Slot, Raw Story and Daily Caller News Foundation
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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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, ThinkProgress, Shakesville, Mother Jones, MSNBC, The Week, IJR, Mediaite and Talking Points Memo
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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RedState, Talking Points Memo and Splinter
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.
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Bob Norman / WPLG-TV:
Parents call for investigation into Stoneman Douglas assault involving sheriff's son — Embattled former Deputy Scot Peterson handled case 4 years ago — PARKLAND, Fla. - Several parents of victims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre said that if former Broward Sheriff's …
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Daily Wire, Front Page Magazine and twitchy.com
Emily Heil / Washington Post:
Trump says the first lady is ‘doing great.’ She hasn't been seen in public for two weeks. — First lady Melania Trump, who spent five nights in the hospital following a kidney procedure, has been out of public view for 15 days running — an unusually long absence even for a first lady who relishes life outside the spotlight.
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Sputnik International, The Daily Caller and CNN
NBC News:
Black Cube: Inside the shadowy Israeli firm accused of trying to undermine the Iran deal — As Rebecca Kahl remembers it, something felt odd about the initial email. It came in May 2017 from a woman named Adriana Gavrilo, who claimed to work for a London-based private equity firm.
Joel Achenbach / Washington Post:
Did the news media, led by Walter Cronkite, lose the war in Vietnam? — Until 1968, Walter Cronkite believed what his government told him about the Vietnam War. He was an old-school journalist, a patriot, a man who came of age covering World War II as a wire-service reporter and then taking …
Josh Mitchell / Wall Street Journal:
Mike Meru Has $1 Million in Student Loans. How Did That Happen? — Escalating tuition and easy credit have yielded a class of student-loan borrowers with spectacular debt they may never pay back — DRAPER, Utah—Mike Meru, a 37-year-old orthodontist, made a big investment in his education.
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Daily Caller News Foundation
Sam Levin / The Guardian:
Stabbed at a neo-Nazi rally, called a criminal: how police targeted a black activist — Exclusive: records show police surveilled and tried to charge a citizen journalist attacked at a California rally. Does it fit a pattern of punishing black protesters?
USA Today:
Keith Olbermann takes an expanded role at ESPN, including a return to ‘SportsCenter’ — Keith Olbermann's most recent return to ESPN just became more prominent. — Olbermann, who has made appearances on various ESPN shows in recent months, will have an increased role on the network as part …
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Washington Free Beacon
Washington Post:
A son was killed in action and his parents ask why — Spec. Gabriel Conde, a kindergartner on 9/11, was the 2,264th member of the U.S. military to die in the Afghan war — BERTHOUD, Colo.— Ten days since Gabe was killed. Bob and Donna Conde were sitting on a couch in their basement …
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Jordan Peterson Does Not Support ‘Equality of Opportunity’ — In the United States today, the richest 0.1 percent of households command as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent combined; the average CEO collects 140 times as large a salary as his (or, very occasionally her) typical employee …
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Slate Star Codex
politics.myajc:
Georgia Democrats test a more liberal comeback strategy — Georgia Democrats took a dramatic turn toward progressive policies in last week's votes, part of a broader realignment that will reshape November's election by shifting the party's philosophy away from decades of centrist appeals.
Washington Post:
Invitations offer wealthy Chinese access to President Trump at fundraiser — The letter circulated to dozens of wealthy entrepreneurs in China last week looked official. Topped with the insignia of a real Republican committee raising money for the party and President Trump's reelection campaign …
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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Dana Kennedy / The Daily Beast:
John Travolta's Former Scientology Pals Speak Out: He's 'Got a Dark Side and He's Reckless' … CANNES, France - The gay rumors? — Try sitting five inches from John Travolta's wife, in the Carlton Hotel's Grace Kelly suite overlooking the shimmering Mediterranean without being overwhelmed by cognitive dissonance.
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