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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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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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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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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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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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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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Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Exclusive: Trump considers dozens of new pardons — Washington (CNN)The White House has assembled the paperwork to pardon dozens of people, two sources with knowledge of the developments tell CNN, signaling that President Donald Trump is poised to exert his constitutional power and intervene …
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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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Rebecca R. Ruiz / New York Times:
Stormy Daniels Sues, Saying Michael Cohen Colluded With Her Former Lawyer
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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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Eli Watkins / CNN:
Giuliani on Stormy Daniels: Melania Trump ‘believes her husband’
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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.
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.
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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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Paul Ryan Dismisses Trump's Charges of a Spy in His Campaign — WASHINGTON — Speaker Paul D. Ryan agreed on Wednesday that the F.B.I. did nothing wrong by using a confidential informant to contact members of the Trump campaign as it investigated its ties to Russia, contradicting President Trump's assertions …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Ryan backs Gowdy on FBI's use of informant to contact Trump associates
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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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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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After Steel and Aluminum Tariffs, U.S. Allies Move to Coordinate Retaliation Efforts — Canada, Japan and the European Union look to step up pressure on Trump administration — U.S. allies Canada, Japan and the European Union are banding together to increase pressure on Washington following …
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Chris Isidore / CNNMoney:
Mexico imposes tariffs on $3 billion worth of US exports
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Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
Mrs. Trump back in public eye after ‘little rough patch’ — WASHINGTON (AP) — There she was, outside the White House walls. — First lady Melania Trump re-emerged Wednesday shoulder-to-shoulder with her husband, President Donald Trump, at the head of a conference table …
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Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Trump Defends Melania Trump and Spreads Conspiracies About Her in the Process
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David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Republicans think Trump's culture war is the answer to winning in November — President Trump's instinct for exploiting America's deep cultural divisions could help Republicans nullify the Democratic resistance in the midterm elections, saving the party's vulnerable congressional majorities.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Get ready for a brutal election about Trump's racism and authoritarianism
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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:
Trump seeks to reorganize the federal government — A soon-to-be released report will recommend combining safety-net programs under HHS while also recommending big changes at other agencies. — The Trump administration is preparing to release a sweeping plan for reorganizing the federal government …
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Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
At FEMA, Trump remained mum on new Puerto Rico death toll — Questions surround Hurricane Maria death toll — (CNN)President Donald Trump visited the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Wednesday, just over a week after a new Harvard study estimated more than 4,600 people in Puerto Rico died in Hurricane Maria and its aftermath.
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Cynthia Nixon / Refinery29:
Cynthia Nixon On “Being A Miranda” 20 Years After Sex And The City Premiered — When Sex and the City first aired, twenty years ago today, one thing quickly became clear - no one wanted to be a Miranda. — My character, Miranda Hobbes, was decidedly un-glamorous.
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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 …
Eli Watkins / CNN:
State Department spokeswoman notes D-Day in answer on ‘strong relationship’ with Germany — Nauert invokes D-Day while praising US-Germany relations — Washington (CNN)State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert on Tuesday cited the D-Day invasion during an answer about the current state of US-German relations.
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BuzzFeed:
A Pizza Delivery Man Brought Pies To A Military Base. Then He Was Arrested And Turned Over For Deportation. — Pablo Villavicencio delivered pies to Fort Hamilton base in Brooklyn, where he was asked for ID and arrested. — A pizza delivery man was arrested and turned over to Immigration …
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Trump Transition Team Goes to War Over Rogue FBI Agent … At the time, it was one of the more controversial moments of Robert Mueller's probe: Late last year, news broke that a federal agency turned over tens of thousands of private emails of Trump transition team officials to the special counsel's team …
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Justin Glawe / The Daily Beast:
Steve Mnuchin Blacked Out Schedule on Days of Controversial Trips … Before stepping off a military jet in Kentucky last summer where he viewed a solar eclipse at Fort Knox, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin was doing something else in secret. — Mnuchin and his wife's trip on August 21 …
Chris Perez / New York Post:
Former college student who claimed rape admits it was all lies — A young Long Island woman who spent over a year insisting that she was raped by two Sacred Heart University football players officially admitted in court Tuesday that she's been lying the entire time.
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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 …
David Von Drehle / Washington Post:
There will be no Trump collapse — I've tried everything to avoid thinking about the next election — family travel, yard work, crossword puzzles. But now it's only five months away, barely longer than the gestation period of a North American beaver, or the Stanley Cup playoffs.
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