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Washington Post:
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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Reuters, Splinter, BuzzFeed and The Gateway Pundit
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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.
Jennifer Hansler / CNN:
Trump again calls for readmitting Russia to G7, blames Obama for Crimea's annexation — (CNN)President Donald Trump on Saturday doubled down on his call for Russia to be readmitted into the G7 and blamed his predecessor for Russia's aggression in Crimea. — “I think it would be an asset …
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mccain.senate.gov, KTLA, Raw Story and Washington Press
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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ThinkProgress, Mother Jones, New York Magazine, Politico and Washington Post
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
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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IJR, NBC News, HuffPost, Sputnik International, RedState, CBS News and Sean Hannity
Washington Post:
An open letter on trade: The facts speak for themselves
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Washington Monthly and Politico
John Paul Tasker / CBC News:
Trump arrives late and leaves early as G7 leaders talk gender, oceans and climate
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Washington Press
David M. Herszenhorn / Politico:
Trump's surprise G-7 pitch: ‘We should at least consider no tariffs’
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Politico, Breitbart, The Mahablog, No More Mister Nice Blog, AOL and NBC News
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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Shareblue Media, Mother Jones, New York Magazine, ThinkProgress, Hullabaloo, Reuters and One America News Network
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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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Washington Press
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Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
Reagan's attorney general comes out swinging in defense of Mueller — Dick Thornburgh, attorney general under presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, called out his fellow Republicans for attacking special counsel Mueller and undermining the rule of law.
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Forget Rudy: Here are Trump's fiercest defenders
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Raw Story
The Times & The Sunday Times:
Exclusive: Emails reveal Russian links of millionaire Brexit backer Arron Banks — Arron Banks, the millionaire businessman who helped fund Brexit, had three meetings with the Russian ambassador to Britain — raising explosive questions about attempts by Moscow to influence the referendum result.
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The Guardian:
Arron Banks ‘met Russian officials multiple times before Brexit vote’ — Arron Banks, the millionaire businessman who bankrolled Nigel Farage's campaign to quit the EU, had multiple meetings with Russian embassy officials in the run-up to the Brexit referendum, documents seen by the Observer suggest.
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Trump says he'll size up Kim Jong Un ‘within the first minute’ of Singapore summit — SINGAPORE — President Trump predicted Saturday that he will know almost immediately when meeting Kim Jong Un whether the North Korean dictator is serious about negotiating a nuclear deal …
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Little Green Footballs
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Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
For Kim Jong Un, meeting Trump is about cementing power at home
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Mother Jones
Gi-Wook Shin / Axios:
A denuclearization deal will not end the North Korea problem
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ABC News, Breitbart, Yonhap News Agency and One America News Network
Kathryn Watson / CBS News:
Trump calls summit a “one-time shot” for Kim Jong Un, warns ally nations on trade
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CBS Chicago, The Week and Talking Points Memo
Kirsten Powers / USA Today:
Americans are depressed and suicidal because something is wrong with our culture — On average, there are 123 suicides per day in the United States. If you or someone you know needs help, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK. — Don't pathologize the despair …
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neo-neocon and New York Times
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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The Daily Caller, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Mediaite
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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twitchy.com, The Week and Politico
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Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
Joe Crowley Complains His Primary Opponent, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Making This Race “About Race” — On a warm Sunday evening in Queens, New York, Joe Crowley stood before a group of about two dozen Democratic activists and made his case for why he should be returned to Congress for a 10th term.
The Smoking Gun:
Man And His Monkey Are Caged By Cops — Capuchin named Monk was clinging to auto theft arrestee — A man arrested this morning for auto theft had a small diaper-clad monkey clinging to his chest when Florida cops apprehended him after he drove the hot wheels into a ditch.
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CBS Pittsburgh
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Leak Investigations, Journalists, and Double Standards — It is an interesting contrast. — The media are in a lather over the Justice Department's grand-jury investigation of contacts between several reporters and a government source — the former Senate Intelligence Committee security director …
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NewsBusters, The First Street Journal, American Greatness, Vox, The Daily Signal and Power Line
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