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Washington Post:
Trump imposes steel and aluminum tariffs on the European Union, Canada and Mexico — By Washington Post Staff May 31 at 9:43 AM — The move is certain to trigger retaliation by the E.U. against a range of American products, including Kentucky bourbon and Harley-Davidson motorcycles …
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Ana Swanson / New York Times:
White House to Impose Metal Tariffs on Europe, Canada and Mexico, Risking Retaliation — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration announced on Thursday that it would impose tariffs on metals imported from its closest allies, a measure that could provoke retaliation against American businesses.
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Axios and Daily Wire
Christian Oliver / Politico:
EU announces retaliation against Trump tariffs — The EU confirmed Thursday that it would retaliate against steel and aluminum tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump, in what many European officials fear could be the first salvos of a transatlantic trade war.
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New Republic and One America News Network
Associated Press:
The Latest: Trade dispute hits stock prices for US companies
The Latest: Trade dispute hits stock prices for US companies
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Politico and One America News Network
Doug Palmer / Politico:
‘Today is a bad day for world trade’: Trump slaps U.S. allies with tariffs
‘Today is a bad day for world trade’: Trump slaps U.S. allies with tariffs
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National Review, Associated Press, One America News Network, Politico and Sean Hannity
Saagar Enjeti / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Dinesh D'Souza Tells Backstory Of His Pardon — Republican Sen. Ted Cruz was the major impetus behind the Thursday pardon of Dinesh D'Souza, the conservative activist tells The Daily Caller. — D'Souza noted that he and his wife had dinner with Cruz approximately a month ago.
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Trump will pardon conservative pundit Dinesh D'Souza, who was convicted of campaign finance violation — D'Souza pleaded guilty in 2014 to reimbursing two of his associates after directing them to contribute $10,000 each to the 2012 Senate campaign of Wendy Long.
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Shakesville, New Republic, Media Matters for America, Paste, VICE News, The Week, Power Line and The Root
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump offers pardon to conservative pundit Dinesh D'Souza, suggests others could be coming — President Trump announced Thursday that he would offer a full pardon to conservative pundit Dinesh D'Souza, who pleaded guilty in 2014 to violating federal campaign finance laws but later said he was targeted for his conservative views.
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ThinkProgress, Axios, NBC News, Talking Points Memo, New York Times, ABC News, CBS News, MSNBC, Conservative News Today, Althouse and Common Dreams
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Trump Is Weaponizing the Pardon Power
Trump Is Weaponizing the Pardon Power
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CNN, twitchy.com and Law & Crime
Oliver Willis / Shareblue Media:
Trump to pardon despicable, hate-spewing fanboy felon who pleaded guilty
Trump to pardon despicable, hate-spewing fanboy felon who pleaded guilty
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HuffPost, The Guardian and Hullabaloo
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Trump to give ‘full pardon’ to Dinesh D'Souza
Trump to give ‘full pardon’ to Dinesh D'Souza
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ABC News, Vox, RedState, Wall Street Journal, The Gateway Pundit, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Right Wing Watch, IJR and Patterico's Pontifications
Axios:
Trump will pardon Dinesh D'Souza
Trump will pardon Dinesh D'Souza
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Politico, Joe.My.God., Washington Press and SGT Report
Jon Levine / The Wrap:
White House Condemns ‘Vile and Vicious’ Samantha Bee, Calls on Time Warner, TBS to Act — “Time Warner and TBS must demonstrate that such explicit profanity about female members of this administration will not be condoned,” White House press secretary tells TheWrap
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HuffPost, Mediaite, Conservative News Today, The Daily Caller, Raw Story, The Daily Beast and Washington Times
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Annie Karni / Politico:
Email snafu reveals White House outreach to Obama and Clinton alumni
Email snafu reveals White House outreach to Obama and Clinton alumni
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Talking Points Memo
Maegan Vazquez / CNN:
Comedian Samantha Bee calls Ivanka Trump a ‘feckless c***’
Comedian Samantha Bee calls Ivanka Trump a ‘feckless c***’
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CNNMoney, Townhall, Joe.My.God., Jewish Telegraphic Agency, twitchy.com and The Week
New York Times:
F.B.I. Official Wrote Secret Memo Fearing Trump Got a Cover Story for Comey Firing — WASHINGTON — The former acting F.B.I. director, Andrew G. McCabe, wrote a confidential memo last spring recounting a conversation that offered significant behind-the-scenes details on the firing …
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Playbook: Trump flubs endorsement of N.Y. congressman
Playbook: Trump flubs endorsement of N.Y. congressman
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Bloomberg and Washington Post
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump bends the truth as he tries to beat back Russia probe
Trump bends the truth as he tries to beat back Russia probe
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Washington Post, NBC News and The Week
Associated Press:
Saving Sessions: Inside the GOP effort to protect the AG — WASHINGTON (AP) — Days after President Donald Trump deemed Jeff Sessions “beleaguered” and threatened to fire him last July, members of the president's inner circle made a desperate case to save the attorney general's job.
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Washington Post and The Daily Caller
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Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump floats Martha Stewart pardon, Rod Blagojevich commutation
Trump floats Martha Stewart pardon, Rod Blagojevich commutation
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Vox, Talking Points Memo, FOX 61, New York Magazine and Political Wire
Ken Haddad / WDIV-TV:
John Boehner in Michigan: ‘Republican Party is taking a nap somewhere’ — Boehner sits down with Local 4's Devin Scillian — MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. - Former Speaker of the House John Boehner delivered a keynote address and was joined by Devin Scillian during the 2018 Mackinac Policy Conference on Thursday morning.
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New Republic, NBC News, Talking Points Memo and The Daily Beast
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Michael Sykes / Axios:
Boehner: “There is no Republican party. There's a Trump party”
Boehner: “There is no Republican party. There's a Trump party”
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Politico
Peter Baker / New York Times:
How Trump's Election Shook Obama: ‘What if We Were Wrong?’ — WASHINGTON — Riding in a motorcade in Lima, Peru, shortly after the 2016 election, President Barack Obama was struggling to understand Donald J. Trump's victory. — “What if we were wrong?” he asked aides riding with him in the armored presidential limousine.
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Gregg Re / Fox News:
Obama was shell-shocked by Trump win, asked ‘What if we were wrong?,’ new book says
Obama was shell-shocked by Trump win, asked ‘What if we were wrong?,’ new book says
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Townhall, Sean Hannity, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller and IJR
Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
This HBO footage of Ben Rhodes on election night is as bad as people said it was
This HBO footage of Ben Rhodes on election night is as bad as people said it was
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Daily Wire
Bradley Hope / Wall Street Journal:
British Expert on the Royal Family Is Actually Tommy From Upstate New York — As the royal wedding unfolded, Thomas J. Mace-Archer-Mills, Esq. was on screen to enlighten many on the monarchy; he's from north of Albany — When Britain's Prince Harry and American actress Meghan Markle walked …
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Right About Roseanne — Of course ABC and its parent company Disney were right to cancel the sitcom “Roseanne” after its eponymous star, Roseanne Barr, wrote a racist tweet. There are necessary taboos and essential decencies in every morally healthy society.
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Trump turns to victimhood politics after ABC fires Roseanne
Trump turns to victimhood politics after ABC fires Roseanne
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zerohedge.com, USA Today, CNN, Washington Post and twitchy.com
Hallie Jackson / MSNBC:
At least 8 white nationalists running for federal office — MSNBC's Morgan Radford spoke with white nationalists who are running for federal office this year on the Republican ticket. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, at least eight white nationalists are running, more than ever before.
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
FBI Spy Stefan Halper's Media Contacts Could Pose A Problem, Retired FBI Officials Say — FBI spy Stefan Halper interacted with the media multiple times, according to a Cambridge researcher — Former senior FBI officials said the interactions could be a cause for concern for the FBI, one calling them “highly irregular”
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The Intercept and Conservative News Today
Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
Trump to impose total ban on luxury German cars: report — wants to impose a total ban on the imports of German luxury cars, according to a new report from CNBC and German magazine WirtschaftsWoche. — Several U.S. and European diplomats told the news outlets that Trump told French President …
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Mother Jones, CNBC, Breitbart, New York Magazine, Joe.My.God. and Shakesville
Matt Stevens / New York Times:
Jury Leaves $4 to Family of Man Killed by Sheriff's Deputy, Along With Many Questions — For more than four years, questions swirled about the shooting death of Gregory Vaughn Hill Jr. at his home in Fort Pierce, Fla. After all, there were only three witnesses to how the entire episode unfolded …
Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
Trey Gowdy Didn't Even See Documents He Claims Exonerate FBI On Spygate: Reports — Gowdy claimed that the FBI's use of spies against the Trump campaign was perfectly proper, but multiple reports indicate he never even saw the full records Congress subpoenaed on the matter.
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Los Angeles Times, The Rush Limbaugh Show, Breitbart, Power Line, Associated Press, CNN and twitchy.com
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Yes, the FBI Was Investigating the Trump Campaign When It Spied
Yes, the FBI Was Investigating the Trump Campaign When It Spied
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Washington Monthly, The Intercept and Power Line
Steve Holland / Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump - nuclear deal may take more than one meeting with North Korea's Kim — ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday it may take more than one meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to seal a denuclearization deal and that he would like Pyongyang …
Dennis Romboy / Deseret News:
Mitt Romney reveals his 2016 presidential vote — SALT LAKE CITY — Mitt Romney revealed Wednesday who he voted for in the 2016 presidential election. — His wife, Ann Romney. — “I wrote in the name of a person who I admire deeply, who I think would be an excellent president,” …
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Talking Points Memo, New York Magazine, Washington Times, CNN, IJR, CBS Boston, NTK Network, HuffPost, The Hill, fox13now.com and Shakesville
Aram Roston / BuzzFeed:
Jerry Falwell Jr. And A Young Pool Attendant Are Embroiled In A Lawsuit Over A Miami Beach Hostel — Trump's fixer Michael Cohen helped arrange Falwell's pivotal endorsement of Donald Trump, the first by a major evangelical. — Influential evangelical leader and Donald Trump backer Jerry Falwell Jr. went …
Emily Nussbaum / New Yorker:
“The Americans” Finale Was Elegant, Potent, and Unforgettable — Were you craving a bit more bloodshed from the finale of FX's “The Americans”? Some tooth-pulling ultraviolence, or maybe another corpse crunched into a briefcase, on the long road to Moscow? If so, you were clearly watching the wrong show.