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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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Exclusive: Trump invokes War of 1812 in testy call with Trudeau over tariffs — (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 and aluminum imports coming from Canada …
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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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NBC News:
Stormy Daniels suit: My old lawyer was a ‘puppet’ for Trump, Cohen — Stormy Daniels says in a new lawsuit that her former attorney betrayed her and became a “puppet” for President Donald Trump and his personal lawyer while still representing her. — The filing Wednesday alleges …
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Giuliani: Melania Trump ‘believes her husband’ over Stormy Daniels
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Beth Reinhard / Washington Post:
Stormy Daniels sues her former attorney, accusing him of being a ‘puppet’ for Trump
Eli Watkins / CNN:
Giuliani on Stormy Daniels: Melania Trump ‘believes her husband’
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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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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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Sarah Jones / New Republic:
John Conyers's Medicare for All bill gains steam in the wake of Trumpcare's failure.
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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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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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Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Democrats strengthen hand in seeking control of House, even if odds of a blue wave are diminishing — Halfway through the primary season, election results across the country have strengthened the Democrats' hand in their quest for control of the House, even as shifts in the national mood raise …
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John Fund / Fox News:
Odds of Democrats seizing the House just got worse
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Manchin goes full MAGA
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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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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.
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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YouTube:
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...
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.
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Papadopoulos Was Approached By ‘Highly Suspicous’ Businessmen, His Wife Claims — A dossier source allegedly offered Papadopoulos $30,000 a month to work from inside Trump administration — In the wake of the revelation that an FBI informant lured George Papadopoulos to London during the 2016 campaign …
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Bethany Mandel / New York Post:
After Kate Spade's death, think of the survivors — Thirteen years ago, late in the evening of Sept. 18, my cousin called with news that would forever change my life. — Her words are etched in my brain, and years later I can hit play and hear them as if they are being uttered live …
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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 …
Bjarke Smith-Meyer / Politico:
Merkel, Macron and the euro — In an email forum, three experts chime in on the German chancellor's proposal for the eurozone. — German Chancellor Angela Merkel last weekend showed her hand on eurozone reform, and the EU policy world has been digesting her intervention ever since.
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Tracy Wilkinson / Los Angeles Times:
With rival camps in his inner circle, Trump's ideas on North Korea have evolved … Nine months after he threatened to unleash “fire and fury ... like the world has never seen,” President Trump has sharply moderated his goals for next week's nuclear summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un …
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