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Trump at G-7 floats end to all tariffs, threatens major penalties for countries that don't agree — QUEBEC CITY - President Trump told foreign leaders at the Group of Seven summit that they must dramatically reduce trade barriers with the United States or they would risk losing access …
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Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Trump hits the world stage, Day 1: Come late, leave early, offend host, alienate allies — The president made quite an impression at the G-7 meeting in Canada on Friday. Saturday he departs to Singapore for his summit with Kim Jong Un. — QUEBEC CITY — The world is getting a good look …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Why Trump lit the fire — The biggest key to understanding Trump's dogmatism on trade is that even as he switched political parties and changed his views on issue after issue, his one consistent stance over 40 years is that other countries are “ripping off the United States” in trade deals, as he put it in 1987.
David M. Herszenhorn / Politico:
Trump's surprise G-7 pitch: ‘We should at least consider no tariffs’ — LA MALBAIE, Quebec — President Donald Trump on Friday floated the idea of ending all tariffs and trade barriers between the U.S. and its G-7 allies — an unexpected pitch that comes amid a tit-for-tat trade war Trump recently launched.
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Trump Says U.S. Will No Longer Be 'Piggy Bank That Everybody's Robbing' — LA MALBAIE, Quebec — President Trump said on Saturday that he had brought up with America's closest allies the dramatic prospect of completely eliminating tariffs on goods and services, even as he threatened to end …
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New York Magazine, Political Wire and Politico
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
In Trump, some fear the end of the world order — When does a feud become a separation? A separation a divorce? When do arguments, sharp-tongued put-downs and perceived betrayal among allies become the collapse of the Western-dominated order that has ruled the world, under U.S. leadership, for the past seven decades?
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Raw Story
Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
A family was separated at the border, and this distraught father took his own life — A Honduran father separated from his wife and child suffered a breakdown at a Texas jail and killed himself in a padded cell last month, according to Border Patrol agents and an incident report filed by sheriff's deputies.
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Avery Anapol / The Hill:
Honduran man in US custody kills himself after being separated from wife and child at border: report — A Honduran immigrant reportedly took his own life while in custody after his wife and child were separated from him at the U.S.-Mexico border. — Marco Antonio Muñoz, 29 …
Victoria Kim / Los Angeles Times:
Singapore preps for Trump-Kim summit with fresh paint and arrests … Throw on a fresh coat of paint and refresh the tile grout. Install security cameras, start closing streets and putting up security checkpoints. And by all means, keep hordes of pesky reporters away.
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Kathryn Watson / CBS News:
Trump calls summit a “one-time shot” for Kim Jong Un, warns ally nations on trade — As tensions with U.S. allies over trade flare, President Trump kicked off the second day of the G-7 summit in Canada in a similar fashion to how he arrived the day before: late.
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Talking Points Memo
Gi-Wook Shin / Axios:
A denuclearization deal will not end the North Korea problem
A denuclearization deal will not end the North Korea problem
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Politico, Yonhap News Agency, Breitbart and One America News Network
Evan Osnos / New Yorker:
Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un's Nuclear Summit and the Bid for History
Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un's Nuclear Summit and the Bid for History
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Wall Street Journal
Dick Thornburgh / Washington Post:
We Republicans must all speak out to protect the Mueller investigation — Dick Thornburgh was U.S. attorney general from 1988 to 1991. — As a lifelong Republican, I am proud that my party has consistently revered the rule of law as a central tenet of our country's values.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Mueller's ‘witch hunt’ snags another witch
Mueller's ‘witch hunt’ snags another witch
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Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
DNC panel adopts rule requiring candidates to run, serve as a Democrat — The Democratic National Committee (DNC) adopted a new rule on Friday aimed at keeping outsider candidates like Sen. Bernie Sanders — (I-Vt.) from trying to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020.
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Hunter Walker / Yahoo:
With an eye on Bernie Sanders, the Democratic National Committee adopts new restrictions …
With an eye on Bernie Sanders, the Democratic National Committee adopts new restrictions …
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Common Dreams
Julia Reinstein / BuzzFeed:
The Critic Whose Olive Garden Review Went Viral Remembers How Anthony Bourdain Spoke Up For Her — In 2012, then-88-year-old Marilyn Hagerty of Grand Forks, North Dakota, wrote arguably the most viral restaurant review ever written. It was for Olive Garden.
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Press Groups Criticize the Seizing of a Times Reporter's Records — The revelation that federal prosecutors seized years' worth of email and phone records from a New York Times reporter drew criticism on Friday from news organizations and press rights groups, which expressed outrage …
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Washington Post:
Shocked by Trump aggression against reporters and sources? The blueprint was drawn by Obama.
Shocked by Trump aggression against reporters and sources? The blueprint was drawn by Obama.
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Chicago Tribune, Politico, Breitbart and Townhall, more at Mediagazer »
Alex Pappas / Fox News:
Ali Watkins' past tweets come back to haunt NYT reporter amid leak case
Ali Watkins' past tweets come back to haunt NYT reporter amid leak case
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Power Line, Conservative News Today, LifeZette and twitchy.com
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Iran Admits To Facilitating 9/11 Terror Attacks — Top Iranian official admits for first time Iran aided al Qaeda terrorists — Iranian officials, in a first, have admitted to facilitating the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the U.S. by secretly aiding the free travel of al Qaeda operatives …
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Joshua Keating / Slate:
The Unlikely Ambassador — Anthony Bourdain very nearly ate his first meal in Japan at a Starbucks. As he recounts in Kitchen Confidential, the 2000 memoir that made him a celebrity, he had been dispatched in 1998 by the owners of Les Halles, the New York restaurant where he was executive chef, to open a Tokyo branch.
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Jackie Wattles / CNNMoney:
Anthony Bourdain's ‘Kitchen Confidential’ becomes Amazon top seller
Anthony Bourdain's ‘Kitchen Confidential’ becomes Amazon top seller
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Helen Rosner / New Yorker:
Anthony Bourdain and the Power of Telling the Truth
Anthony Bourdain and the Power of Telling the Truth
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Shilpa Jamkhandikar / Reuters:
ABC apologizes for Hindu terror plot in Quantico after online backlash — MUMBAI (Reuters) - U.S. television studio ABC has apologies to Indian fans of its crime drama “Quantico” after an episode featuring Indian nationalists trying to frame Pakistan in a terrorist plot sparked online outrage …
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Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
‘I must be doing something right’: Billionaire George Soros faces renewed attacks with defiance — ZURICH — George Soros, the billionaire investor and liberal donor, sat in his hotel suite by Lake Zurich this week, lamenting the turn much of the world has taken in recent years: “Everything that could go wrong, has gone wrong.”
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Chuck Goudie / abc7chicago.com:
Ex-Trump aide George Papadopoulos, wife: from “paradise to hell” — The wife of Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty to lying about his Russian contacts, has offered a detailed accounting of her intriguing relationship with the Chicagoan now at the core of a political firestorm.
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Raw Story
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Republicans deny evidence Russia meddled while Trump invites Putin to rejoin G-7
Republicans deny evidence Russia meddled while Trump invites Putin to rejoin G-7
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Washington Press and Shakesville
John Harwood / CNBC:
Trump is helping Putin with a key goal when he spurns US allies
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Forget Rudy: Here are Trump's fiercest defenders — Trump chose not to hire lawyers Joseph diGenova and Victoria Toensing, but they are ‘playing the role of lawyers’ on TV, diGenova says. — Joseph diGenova and Victoria Toensing didn't quite make the cut to become President Donald Trump's attorneys in late March.
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Raw Story
Lauretta Brown / Townhall:
Bill Clinton Defends Franken: It Was a ‘Difficult Case’ and the SNL Women Defended Him — PBS's Judy Woodruff asked former president Bill Clinton Thursday whether he thought it was a “good thing” that norms have changed when it comes to sexual harassment. Woodruff's example …
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Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Bill Clinton's Me Too Reckoning
Bill Clinton's Me Too Reckoning
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