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Another mess for Pruitt: Overstaying his White House welcome at lunch — Too many visits for lunch at the Mess earned a rebuke from the White House. — EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt loves eating at the White House mess, an exclusive U.S. Navy-run restaurant open only to White House officials, Cabinet members and other dignitaries.
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Pruitt Aide Resigns Amid Scandals — A top aide to Scott Pruitt, Millan Hupp, resigned from the Environmental Protection Agency, according to a source briefed on the matter and correspondence reviewed by The Atlantic. Her last day will be Friday. — Hupp, who worked as the director …
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Joseph Hagin, point person on Korea summit, plans to leave White House soon — White House deputy chief of staff Joseph Hagin, President Trump's point person arranging the North Korean nuclear summit, is preparing to leave his West Wing post soon, according to four people familiar with White House planning.
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Eagles' Pederson on cancelled White House visit: 'I'm not discussing, it's over'
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Meridith McGraw / ABC News:
Trump holds first Iftar amid tense relations with Muslim American community
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Special counsel Robert Mueller's team is requesting that witnesses turn in their personal phones to inspect their encrypted messaging programs — Special counsel Robert Mueller's team is asking witnesses to turn in their phones in order to access encrypted messaging applications, sources tell CNBC.
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Aris Folley / The Hill:
Former US attorney says Manafort will likely go to prison Friday — Former U.S. attorney Harry Litman said he expects President Trump — 's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort — , to be sent to federal prison by the end of the week. — “Prosecutors hate this, judges hate this …
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Reuters:
Lawyer to ex-Trump campaign aide Manafort taps ethics adviser — WASHINGTON/MORRISTOWN, N.J. (Reuters) - A lawyer involved in several real estate deals that U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating in his criminal case against President Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort has hired his own ethics adviser.
Paul Rosenzweig / Lawfare:
The Manafort Tampering Allegations — Special Counsel Robert Mueller has accused Paul Manafort of attempted witness tampering. If the allegations are true, Manafort will have violated the conditions of his release and might have his bail revoked. Judge Amy Berman Jackson has scheduled a hearing on the matter for late next week.
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Franklin Foer / The Atlantic:
The Astonishing Tale of the Man Mueller Calls ‘Person A’ — In the early years of the century, as Paul Manafort made his way across Moscow and Kiev, he was followed by a diminutive man. With a generous slackening of the tape, the man measured just above 5 feet.
CNN:
Exclusive: Trump invokes War of 1812 in testy call with Trudeau over tariffs — Trudeau: No sign of US common sense prevailing — (CNN)President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had a testy phone call on May 25 over new tariffs imposed by the Trump administration targeting steel …
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Ivanka Trump Was In Contact With A Russian Who Offered A Trump-Putin Meeting — Her contact, a Russian Olympic weightlifter, said a meeting between Trump and Putin could expedite a Trump tower in Moscow. — Amid intense scrutiny of contacts between Donald Trump's inner circle and representatives …
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John Conyers's Medicare for All bill gains steam in the wake of Trumpcare's failure.
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Stormy Daniels suit: My old lawyer was a ‘puppet’ for Trump, Cohen — Suit claims the attorneys tried to arrange for her to appear on Sean Hannity's show and deny affair — Stormy Daniels says in a new lawsuit that her former attorney betrayed her and became a “puppet” …
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Giuliani: Melania Trump ‘believes her husband’ over Stormy Daniels
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Giuliani on Stormy Daniels: Melania Trump ‘believes her husband’
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The Daily Beast:
Trump Has Weighed Golfing With Kim Jong Un if Singapore Summit Goes Well … A high-stakes round of nuclear diplomacy set to take place next week in Singapore between President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un may lead the way to a much lower-stakes round of golf between the two.
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Tracy Wilkinson / Los Angeles Times:
With rival camps in his inner circle, Trump's ideas on North Korea have evolved
Felicia Schwartz / Wall Street Journal:
Kim Jong Un Begged for Summit ‘on His Hands and Knees,’ Giuliani Says
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
GOP congressman blasts Trump's spy conspiracy — Rep. Tom Rooney, a top Republican lawmaker on the House Intelligence Committee, is ripping President Donald Trump's unsupported claim that the FBI inserted a spy inside his campaign. — “What is the point of saying that there was a spy in the campaign when there was none?”
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Ryan undercuts Trump on Russia at fraught moment
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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Paul Ryan Dismisses Trump's Charges of a Spy in His Campaign
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Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Lou Dobbs and Rep. Gaetz Trash ‘Disaster’ Paul Ryan: ‘Get the Hell Out of the Office’ — If you thought SpyGate on Fox News primetime was lit, take a gander over at what's happening on Fox Business Network, where host Lou Dobbs is truly wilding on a nightly basis.
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Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
In private FEMA remarks, Trump's focus strays from hurricanes — The meeting was supposed to be about hurricane preparedness, as disaster officials gathered at Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters days after the start of the 2018 season. — But President Trump had a lot else on his mind …
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New York Times:
A Medical Mystery Grows as U.S. Consulate Workers in China Fall Ill — GUANGZHOU, China — A crisis over a mysterious ailment sickening American diplomats and their families — which began in Cuba and recently appeared in China — widened on Wednesday. The State Department evacuated at least …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Trump has commuted Alice Johnson's life sentence — President Trump has signed a commutation for Alice Johnson, currently serving a life sentence for a nonviolent drug offense, according to a source with direct knowledge. CNN reported earlier today that the White House had prepped …
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President Donald Trump grants clemency to Alice Johnson after Kim Kardashian West involvement
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John Fund / Fox News:
Odds of Democrats seizing the House just got worse — California's primary Tuesday was important because it could determine who wins control of the House of Representatives in November - along with the power to impeach President Trump. — With the caveat that many absentee ballots …
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Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Democrats strengthen hand in seeking control of House, even if odds of a blue wave are diminishing
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Manchin goes full MAGA
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Erik Larson / Bloomberg:
Judge Calls Trump's Border Separations of Children ‘Brutal’ — ACLU lawsuit is allowed to proceed in San Diego federal court — Administration says policy helps prosecute undocumented adults — The Trump administration failed to kill a legal challenge to its practice …
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Alex Hern / The Guardian:
Alexander Nix blames ‘global liberal media’ for Cambridge Analytica collapse - as it happened — Former CEO of Cambridge Analytica, at centre of Facebook data-mining scandal, appears before Commons fake news inquiry — Former Cambridge Analytica chief executive Alexander Nix used his return …
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Carole Cadwalladr / The Guardian:
Cambridge Analytica director ‘met Assange to discuss US election’
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Mike Levine / ABC News:
DOJ watchdog finds James Comey defied authority as FBI director, sources say — The Justice Department's internal watchdog has concluded that James Comey defied authority at times during his tenure as FBI director, according to sources familiar with a draft report on the matter.
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Ken Klippenstein / TYT Network:
You'll Never Believe What Israel Gave to Donald Trump — In TYT Investigates by TYT Investigates, June 6, 20180 Comments … During President Trump's visit last year to Israel, its government provided the White House with several gifts, one of which was a portrait. — Of whom? President Trump, of course.
Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Border arrests exceed 50,000 for third month in a row — U.S. border agents made more than 50,000 arrests in May for the third month in a row, the Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday, an indication that escalating enforcement tactics by the Trump administration …
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Pedro Nicolaci da Costa / Business Insider:
Elizabeth Warren says there's a dirty little secret behind the Republicans' push for broad deregulation — Senator Elizabeth Warren sharply criticizes the Trump administration's wide-ranging deregulatory efforts, pushing hard against the notion that rules of the road restrict economic freedom.
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Sen. McConnell Opposes Corker's Tariff Proposal: Let's Not Rein in the President — SiriusXM's Chief Washington Correspondent Olivier Knox sits down with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell about the potential economic impact of tariffs o...
Samantha Schmidt / Washington Post:
‘Utter chaos’: ICE arrests 114 workers in immigration raid at Ohio gardening company — A swarm of immigration agents arrested more than 100 workers at an Ohio gardening and landscaping company Tuesday morning, one of the largest of several recent workplace raids carried out as part …
Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
Meet the New York architect who was a key figure in Donald Trump's deals and connections in Eastern Europe — As Robert Mueller looks ever more closely at President Donald Trump's foreign business ties, one former associate has remained outside the spotlight despite playing a key role …
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