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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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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.
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.
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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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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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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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Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Lou Dobbs and Rep. Gaetz Trash ‘Disaster’ Paul Ryan: ‘Get the Hell Out of the Office’
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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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Ryan backs Gowdy on FBI's use of informant to contact Trump associates
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Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump and Kim could meet for second day in Singapore — Bolton sidelined as Trump readies for N. Korea — Washington (CNN)US officials have laid the groundwork for President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to hold a second day of meetings in Singapore if the two men decide …
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Felicia Schwartz / Wall Street Journal:
Kim Jong Un Begged for Summit ‘on His Hands and Knees,’ Giuliani Says — With the summit plans back in place, the U.S. has the upper hand, President Trump's lawyer said — TEL AVIV—President Donald Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, said North Korean leader Kim Jong Un got …
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Washington Post:
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.
BuzzFeed:
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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NBC News:
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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Eli Watkins / CNN:
Giuliani on Stormy Daniels: Melania Trump ‘believes her husband’
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Beth Reinhard / Washington Post:
Stormy Daniels sues her former attorney, accusing him of being a ‘puppet’ for Trump
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Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:
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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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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Mic:
President Donald Trump grants clemency to Alice Johnson after Kim Kardashian West involvement — President Donald Trump has granted clemency on Wednesday to Alice Marie Johnson, a first-time nonviolent drug offender who was given a life sentence without parole, Mic has learned.
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Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Exclusive: Trump considers dozens of new pardons
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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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Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
No, Democrats haven't shown they're going to win the House
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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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Carole Cadwalladr / The Guardian:
Cambridge Analytica director ‘met Assange to discuss US election’ — Brittany Kaiser also claims to have channelled payments and donations to WikiLeaks — A Cambridge Analytica director apparently visited Julian Assange in February last year and told friends it was to discuss what happened during …
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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.
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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Meridith McGraw / ABC News:
Trump holds first Iftar amid tense relations with Muslim American community — The Trump White House on Wednesday will host its first iftar, a meal shared by Muslims during Ramadan, after failing to host the dinner last year. — “Iftar is one of the religious observances of Ramadan …
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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 …
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.
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Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: Secret Obama-era license let Iran tap dollars — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration secretly sought to give Iran access — albeit briefly — to the U.S. financial system by sidestepping sanctions kept in place after the 2015 nuclear deal, despite repeatedly telling Congress and the public it had no plans to do so.
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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Politico:
‘You must understand how fast shootings happen’ — A school shooting survivor and several students urged a White House school safety commission on Wednesday to include guns in its discussions, a day after Education Secretary Betsy DeVos told Congress that potential changes to gun laws won't be on the agenda.
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Linda Qiu / New York Times:
Trump Falsely Claims 'We're Now Exporting Energy for the First Time' — The United States has been exporting energy for decades, and is not projected to become a net exporter until 2022. — WHAT WAS SAID … THE FACTS — False. — The United States has exported energy sources like coal …
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Mike Sielski / Philly.com:
Eagles' Pederson on cancelled White House visit: 'I'm not discussing, it's over' — “Is this all about the national anthem thing?” — “Probably a lot of people came for it, and now they're slumming.” — What we came for, of course, was the White House Visit That Wasn't.
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