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Congressional Candidate In Virginia Admits He's A Pedophile — Nathan Larson also ran online forums for pedophiles and misogynists. — Nathan Larson, a 37-year-old accountant from Charlottesville, Virginia, is running for Congress as an independent candidate in his native state.
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Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
Trudeau says NAFTA talks broke down after Pence made ultimatum — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said months of intense negotiations between his country, the United States and Mexico imploded Tuesday when Vice President Pence demanded that any deal expire automatically in five years.
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Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Trump's trade policy is stuck in the '80s — the 1680s — President Trump often seems as though he's stuck in the '80s. But maybe the better comparison is to the 1680s, not the Reagan era. — Consider his announcement Thursday of new tariffs on steel and aluminum imported from the European Union, Canada and Mexico.
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Washington Post:
Trump imposes steel and aluminum tariffs on the E.U., Canada and Mexico
Trump imposes steel and aluminum tariffs on the E.U., Canada and Mexico
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Jennifer A. Hillman / New York Times:
Trump's ‘National Security’ Tariffs Hurt National Security
Trump's ‘National Security’ Tariffs Hurt National Security
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The Daily Caller, Outside the Beltway and Home Page Rotator
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Oh, What a Stupid Trade War (Very Slightly Wonkish)
Oh, What a Stupid Trade War (Very Slightly Wonkish)
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Anthony D'Alessandro / Deadline:
Television Academy Blocks Media From Tonight's Honors Ceremony Featuring Samantha Bee — In the wake of the Samantha Bee controversy whereby she called Ivanka Trump a “feckless c**t”, the Television Academy has put the kibosh on any press tonight attending its 11th Annual Television Academy Honors ceremony …
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White House Demands TBS Cancel Samantha Bee's Show — White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders slammed comedienne Samantha Bee's comments about Ivanka Trump on Thursday. “The language used by Samantha Bee last night is vile and vicious. The collective silence by the left …
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Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Chelsea Clinton resurfaces Trump meeting with Ted Nugent, who once called Hillary C-word
Chelsea Clinton resurfaces Trump meeting with Ted Nugent, who once called Hillary C-word
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
‘Feckless c—’: Samantha Bee apologizes for misogyny that delighted her audience
‘Feckless c—’: Samantha Bee apologizes for misogyny that delighted her audience
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NBC News, Conservative News Today and CBS Pittsburgh
Tim Mak / NPR:
LISTEN: How Michael Cohen Protects Trump By Making Legal Threats — Donald Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen is facing legal peril, including an FBI raid of his home and office — and involvement in a civil lawsuit with porn star Stormy Daniels. — But in the past, it was Cohen who has sought …
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Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Stormy Daniels's Lawyer Sought Help From Democrats in Fight With Trump — WASHINGTON — Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for Stephanie Clifford, the pornographic film actress who says she had a sexual encounter with President Trump, has sought help for his legal battle against Mr. Trump from leading Democratic operatives.
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New York Times:
Dinesh D'Souza? Really? — The editorial board represents the opinions of the board, its editor and the publisher. It is separate from the newsroom and the Op-Ed section. — The handful of pardons that President Trump has granted so far may appear to be scattershot …
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
A Worthy Pardon for Dinesh D'Souza
A Worthy Pardon for Dinesh D'Souza
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Slate:
Performative Pardons — Starting with the caveat that it is folly …
Performative Pardons — Starting with the caveat that it is folly …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
How Far Can Trump Go in Issuing Pardons?
How Far Can Trump Go in Issuing Pardons?
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Lawfare, RedState and Washington Post
CHRISTOPHER RUGABER / Associated Press:
US gains 223K jobs; unemployment at 18-year low of 3.8 pct. — Just now — WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers extended a streak of solid hiring in May, adding 223,000 jobs and helping lower the unemployment rate to an 18-year low of 3.8 percent. — The Labor Department …
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Sho Chandra / Bloomberg:
U.S. Payrolls Rise 223,000; Jobless Rate Matches 48-Year Low
U.S. Payrolls Rise 223,000; Jobless Rate Matches 48-Year Low
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Nathaniel Meyersohn / CNNMoney:
Unemployment rate matches lowest point in half a century
Unemployment rate matches lowest point in half a century
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Nelson D. Schwartz / New York Times:
Jobs Report for May: Here's What to Watch For
Jobs Report for May: Here's What to Watch For
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NBC News:
Jared Kushner close friend Rick Gerson now under scrutiny from Mueller — WASHINGTON — A close friend of Jared Kushner has come under scrutiny by Special Counsel Robert Mueller for his proximity to some key meetings between Trump associates and foreign officials, according to five people familiar with the matter.
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Talking Points Memo and Political Wire
Nicholas Nehamas / miamiherald:
Paramedics wanted to enter Parkland school where kids were dying. BSO said no. — During the chaos of the Parkland school shooting, paramedics from Coral Springs-Parkland Fire Department were desperate to go inside the building where students were wounded and dying.
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Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
Trump breaks protocol, sends markets a clear signal on jobs report before numbers are released — President Trump on Friday broke with decades of protocol and commented publicly about the highly anticipated jobs report data 69 minutes before they were released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
The Curious Case of Mr. Downer — His story about the Papadopoulos meeting calls the FBI's into question. — To hear the Federal Bureau of Investigation tell it, its decision to launch a counterintelligence probe into a major-party presidential campaign comes down to a foreign tip …
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Jess McIntosh / ELLE:
I Went on a Date With Eric Schneiderman. It Took Me Years to Process What Happened That Night. — Let's start at the beginning. — I'm 23, and the story I tell is called “The Time I Went Out with the (Relatively) Hot Older State Senator.” I deploy it as a nerdy leg-up on the social ladder among friends.
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Prosecutors interview Comey as they investigate whether McCabe should be charged — Investigators from the D.C. U.S. Attorney's Office recently interviewed former FBI director James B. Comey as part of a probe into whether his deputy, Andrew McCabe, broke the law by lying to federal agents …
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Trump repeatedly pressured Sessions on Mueller investigation — President Trump pressured Attorney General Jeff Sessions to reclaim control of the Russia investigation on at least four separate occasions, three times in person and once over the phone, according to sources familiar with the conversations.
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John Brennan / Washington Post:
I will speak out until integrity returns to the White House — John Brennan served as director of the Central Intelligence Agency from March 2013 to January 2017. — My first visit to the Oval Office came in October 1990, when I was a 35-year-old CIA officer.
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BuzzFeed:
Joy Reid's Blog Published A Photoshopped Image Of John McCain As The Virginia Tech Shooter — The MSNBC host's controversial old blog posts continue to surface, as Reid and the network stick to hacking claims. — MSNBC host Joy Reid's new-defunct blog published an image …
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Benny Johnson / The Daily Caller:
Meghan McCain Responds To MSNBC's Joy Reid Photoshopping John McCain's Face Onto A Mass Shooter
Meghan McCain Responds To MSNBC's Joy Reid Photoshopping John McCain's Face Onto A Mass Shooter
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Brian Contreras / Stanford Daily:
Leaked emails show Hoover academic conspiring with College Republicans to conduct ‘opposition research’ on student — Emails between the Hoover Institution's Niall Ferguson and well-known Republican student activists John Rice-Cameron '20 and Max Minshull '20 reveal coordination on …
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Craig Timberg / Washington Post:
Signs of sophisticated cellphone spying found near White House, U.S. officials say — A federal study found signs that surveillance devices for intercepting cellphone calls and texts were operating near the White House and other sensitive locations in the Washington area last year.
Luke O'Brien / HuffPost:
Trump's Loudest Anti-Muslim Twitter Troll Is A Shady Vegan Married To An (Ousted) WWE Exec — @AmyMek anonymously spread hate online for years. She can't hide anymore. — She was supposed to be a Russian bot. That seemed like the best explanation for @AmyMek. No normal person could be so prolific and prejudiced.
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Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
A Radical Pick for the National Security Council — On Wednesday, National-Security Adviser John Bolton chose Fred Fleitz—who for the last five years served as a senior vice president at the Center for Security Policy—to be the National Security Council's executive secretary and chief of staff.
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Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Obama Allies Scheme to Kneecap Trump's New National Security Team
Obama Allies Scheme to Kneecap Trump's New National Security Team
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JONATHAN LEMIRE / Associated Press:
Trump meets with families affected by Texas shooting — HOUSTON (AP) — President Donald Trump spent over an hour Thursday offering private condolences to some of the families affected by this month's deadly Texas school shooting, the latest spasm of mass violence in a year marred by assaults on the nation's schools.
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