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Scott Pruitt enlisted an EPA aide to help his wife find a job — at Chick-fil-A — Three months after Scott Pruitt was sworn in as head of the Environmental Protection Agency, his executive scheduler emailed Dan Cathy, chairman and president of the fast food company Chick-fil-A …
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Alexander C. Kaufman / HuffPost:
EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Has Racked Up At Least 10 New Scandals In Just The Past Month
EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Has Racked Up At Least 10 New Scandals In Just The Past Month
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Tina Moore / New York Post:
Dennis Rodman will be in Singapore for Trump-Kim summit — NBA star turned Kim Jong Un soulmate Dennis Rodman will be in Singapore during President Trump's summit with the North Korean dictator next week, The Post has learned. — “The Worm” will arrive in the country a day before the June 12 sitdown …
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Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Trump Wants Kim to Commit to Disarmament Timetable in Singapore — Mar-a-Lago summit possible if talks go well between leaders — White House hasn't described schedule beyond first meeting — The White House wants North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to commit to a timetable to surrender …
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New York Times:
Gavin Newsom Wins Spot in California Election for Governor — LOS ANGELES — Gavin Newsom, the Democratic lieutenant governor and former mayor of San Francisco, took a major step Tuesday in his bid to become California's next governor, capturing one of two spots on the November ballot …
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Bryan Lowry / Kansas City Star:
Democrat Arthur wins Missouri special election days after Greitens resigns — Democratic Rep. Lauren Arthur prevailed by a double-digit margin over Republican Rep. Kevin Corlew in a special election for a state Senate seat Tuesday night. — Republicans won't risk losing control …
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Matthew Chapman / Shareblue Media:
Former schoolteacher flips Missouri Senate seat blue in Trump country — Lauren Arthur is the 42nd Democrat this cycle to win a red seat in a special election. — On Tuesday night, as major primaries all across the nation were decided, yet another special election was held, this time for a vacant GOP-held seat in Missouri.
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Democrats win state Senate seat in Missouri, their 42nd red-to-blue flip of the cycle
Democrats win state Senate seat in Missouri, their 42nd red-to-blue flip of the cycle
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Axios and Political Wire
CNN:
Press aide who mocked McCain is out at the White House — White House still won't apologize for McCain joke — (CNN)Kelly Sadler, the White House communications aide who made a imprudent comment about Republican Sen. John McCain's health last month, no longer works in the administration …
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New York Times:
Kelly Sadler, Aide Who Mocked McCain, Leaves White House — WASHINGTON — A White House communications aide who made headlines in May for cracking a macabre joke about the health of Senator John McCain has left the White House. — The aide, Kelly Sadler, made off-the-cuff comments …
Eric Adler / Kansas City Star:
Kate Spade suffered years of mental illness, sister says. Suicide ‘not unexpected’ — Grieving deeply, Kate Spade's older sister told The Star on Tuesday that her famous designer sister suffered debilitating mental illness for the last three or four years and was self-medicating with alcohol.
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CBS News:
Secret Service arrests White House contractor with outstanding attempted murder warrant — The Secret Service arrested a contractor outside the White House on Tuesday for an outstanding warrant that includes an attempted murder charge, CBS News Washington correspondent Paula Reid reports.
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Andrew Desiderio / The Daily Beast:
National Security Council Contractor Arrested at White House for Attempted Murder
National Security Council Contractor Arrested at White House for Attempted Murder
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Washington Times and Daily Wire
New York Times:
Facebook Gave Data Access to Chinese Firm Flagged by U.S. Intelligence — Facebook has data-sharing partnerships with at least four Chinese electronics companies, including a manufacturing giant that has a close relationship with China's government, the social media company said on Tuesday.
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Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Facebook granted devices from Huawei, a Chinese telecom firm, special access to social data
Facebook granted devices from Huawei, a Chinese telecom firm, special access to social data
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Motherboard, Breitbart and Gizmodo
Tom Schad / USA Today:
Fox News apologizes after Eagles' Zach Ertz blasts national anthem ‘propaganda’ — Hours after Philadelphia Eagles tight end Zach Ertz and defensive lineman Chris Long criticized Fox News for showing footage of Eagles players praying before games — during a segment about protests during …
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Laura Jarrett / CNN:
McCabe seeks immunity for testimony in congressional hearing over FBI handling of Clinton email probe — Justice IG submits criminal referral on McCabe — (CNN)Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe has requested the Senate Judiciary Committee provide him with immunity from prosecution …
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Sara Carter / Sara A. Carter:
Lawmakers Warn IG Being Pressured to Slow Roll Clinton FBI Report
Lawmakers Warn IG Being Pressured to Slow Roll Clinton FBI Report
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Fox News, Politico, The Post & Email, New York Times, The Gateway Pundit and Sean Hannity
Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
The Enlightenment's Dark Side — The Enlightenment is having a renaissance, of sorts. A handful of centrist and conservative writers have reclaimed the 17th- and 18th-century intellectual movement as a response to nationalism and ethnic prejudice on the right and relativism and “identity politics” on the left.
Wall Street Journal:
European Officials Say U.S. Threat of Sanctions Imperils Bid to Save Iran Deal — Letter to Trump administration says secondary sanctions undercuts their push to preserve trade and investment with Tehran — Senior European officials conceded in a letter to the Trump administration …
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John Cassidy / New Yorker:
More Legal Trouble for Paul Manafort—and Donald Trump — Coincidences do happen, but this seems to be an unlikely one. On Sunday morning, seemingly apropos of nothing, Donald Trump posted a message on Twitter that stated the following: “As only one of two people left who could become President …
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Weekly Standard, Daily Kos and Washington Post
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Nick Baumann / HuffPost:
A HuffPost Reporter Was Bombarded With Threats. Twitter Suspended Him. — When Twitter outsources policing its platform to victims of harassment, it empowers brigades of trolls and extremists. — Last week HuffPost reporter Luke O'Brien published a story identifying the woman behind @AmyMek …
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Washington Post:
GOP Rep. Martha Roby, who criticized Trump, forced into runoff — Rep. Martha Roby, who angered constituents by un-endorsing then-candidate Donald Trump in 2016, was forced into a runoff in Alabama's conservative-leaning 2nd Congressional District. — With 59 percent of the precincts reporting …
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Politico and Daily Caller News Foundation
Tara Palmeri / ABC News:
Treasury Secretary urged Trump to exempt Canada from steel and aluminum tariffs: Sources — At a White House trade meeting on Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin urged President Donald Trump to exempt Canada from steep steel and aluminum tariffs, two senior administration officials …
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Ana Swanson / New York Times:
Mexico Hits U.S. With Tariffs, Escalating Global Trade Tensions
Mexico Hits U.S. With Tariffs, Escalating Global Trade Tensions
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The Texas Observer
OHCHR:
Subject: (1) Egypt, (2) United States and (3) Ethiopia — (1) Egypt — A spate of arrests, interrogations and detentions of activists, bloggers and journalists in Egypt over the last few weeks appears to indicate a significant escalation in the crackdown against the rights to freedom of expression …
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Nick Cumming-Bruce / New York Times:
Taking Migrant Children From Parents Is Illegal, U.N. Tells U.S.
Taking Migrant Children From Parents Is Illegal, U.N. Tells U.S.
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The Guardian, Breitbart, Shareblue Media, Daily Caller News Foundation and Axios
Washington Post:
Trump fixates on pardons, could soon give reprieve to 63-year-old woman after meeting with Kim Kardashian — President Trump is privately telling aides that he is strongly considering pardoning Alice Marie Johnson, a 63-year-old woman serving a life sentence, after meeting with Kim Kardashian …
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Raw Story, Vox, New Republic, Washington Times and Bloomberg
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
SD state lawmaker: Businesses should be allowed to ‘turn away people of color’ — A South Dakota state lawmaker argued in a Facebook comment that businesses should be allowed to turn down people based on the color of their skin. — The comment from state Rep. Michael Clark (R) …
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Jeff Tavss / WPLG-TV:
Family of Stoneman Douglas student advocate David Hogg ‘swatted’ at home — Hogg was not home at time of incident — CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. - The family of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student David Hogg was “swatted” Tuesday morning, causing police to respond to their Parkland home.
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Washington Post:
In the Army and the Klan, he hated Muslims. — Chris Buckley walks out to his porch, where the doormat once greeted customers at a Subway, and looks up and down the empty street. — “I admit it, I'm nervous,” he says, lighting a cigarette with heavily tattooed hands.
Connor Sheets / al.com:
Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin loses GOP primary, concedes to opponent — Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin has conceded to his Republican challenger, Rainbow City Police Chief Jonathon Horton. — Horton will become the county's next sheriff as there are no Democrats on the ballot.
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Tim Hains / RealClearPolitics:
Hugh Hewitt to Jeff Sessions: Why Is It Necessary To Separate Parents From Children When Detained At Border? — Attorney General Jeff Sessions tells syndicated radio host Hugh Hewitt why parents and children are separated when they are detained or arrested at the border.
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Sean Patrick Maloney Jumps Into New York Attorney General's Race — Representative Sean Patrick Maloney, a Hudson Valley Democrat and New York's first openly gay member of Congress, will run for New York attorney general, shaking up the field in what will be a 100-day sprint for one of the state's most powerful posts.
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
It Looks Like America Is Finally Going To Have A Native American Congresswoman — Deb Haaland won her Democratic primary in New Mexico's congressional race. She's likely to win in November, too. — Deb Haaland won the Democratic nomination for a New Mexico congressional seat on Tuesday …
Bob Egelko / San Francisco Chronicle:
Bid to recall Judge Aaron Persky appears successful in Santa Clara County — Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky was on his way to being voted out of office Tuesday, two years after he set off national outrage by sentencing a Stanford athlete to six months in jail …
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Julia Marsh / New York Post:
Trump must sit for deposition in Zervos defamation case: judge — President Trump must sit for a seven-hour deposition by Jan. 31, 2019, in a defamation case brought by former “Apprentice” contestant Summer Zervos, a Manhattan judge ruled Tuesday. — Trump's attorney Marc Kasowitz …
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