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Sean Hannity scores Trump's North Korea interview — President Trump's first sit-down television interview after his historic summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is expected to be with his friend and confidant, Fox News host Sean Hannity, Axios has learned.
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U.S. won't bring up North Korea's human rights issues at Singapore summit — WASHINGTON — Wounded from torture and starving, Grace Jo's father died on a train heading to a North Korean prison camp, a fellow inmate told his family. His crime: illegally possessing a bag of rice during the 1990s famine.
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Politico:
Ivanka Trump made $3.9 million from D.C. hotel in 2017 — President Donald Trump's daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump made $3.9 million in profit last year off her stake in the Trump International Hotel, while taking in at least $5 million from businesses connected to her personal brand, a newly released financial disclosure shows.
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Digital Chosunilbo:
Kim Jong-un's Flight to Singapore a Precision Maneuver
Kim Jong-un's Flight to Singapore a Precision Maneuver
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Dave Lawler / Axios:
What to watch: Trump's crucial minute draws near
What to watch: Trump's crucial minute draws near
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Wall Street Journal:
Minimum Size of Jared Kushner's Wealth Rose in First Year in White House, Disclosure Shows
S.V. Date / HuffPost:
Murderous Dictator Meets Dishonest President Behind Closed Doors
Murderous Dictator Meets Dishonest President Behind Closed Doors
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Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Trump turns up the heat on Kim while lowering expectations for a deal
Trump turns up the heat on Kim while lowering expectations for a deal
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George Conway / Lawfare:
The Terrible Arguments Against the Constitutionality of the Mueller Investigation — In an early-morning tweet last week, President Trump took aim once again at Special Counsel Robert Mueller, but with a brand new argument: “The appointment of the Special Councel,” the president typed, “is totally UNCONSTITUTIONAL!”
Washington Post:
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump made at least $82 million in outside income last year while serving in the White House, filings show — Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, the president's daughter and son-in-law, brought in at least $82 million in outside income while they served …
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Political Wire
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic:
A Senior White House Official Defines the Trump Doctrine: 'We're America, Bitch' — Many of Donald Trump's critics find it difficult to ascribe to a president they consider to be both subliterate and historically insensate a foreign-policy doctrine that approaches coherence.
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Benjamin Hart / New York Magazine:
Trump Official: 'We're America, Bitch' Is Administration's Doctrine
Trump Official: 'We're America, Bitch' Is Administration's Doctrine
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Elise Foley / HuffPost:
Jeff Sessions Is Unilaterally Using Immigration Courts To Crack Down On Asylum Applicants — The attorney general said he is “confident” his moves will reduce the number of unauthorized immigrants who come to the U.S. — Untold numbers of victims of violence, including women abused by their partners …
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Katie Benner / New York Times:
Sessions Says Domestic Violence Is Not Grounds for Asylum
Sessions Says Domestic Violence Is Not Grounds for Asylum
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Evan Halper / Los Angeles Times:
Trump administration moves to block victims of gang violence, domestic abuse from claiming asylum
Trump administration moves to block victims of gang violence, domestic abuse from claiming asylum
Maria Sacchetti / Washington Post:
Sessions: Victims of domestic, gang violence ‘generally’ won't qualify for asylum
Sessions: Victims of domestic, gang violence ‘generally’ won't qualify for asylum
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McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Web of elite Russians met with NRA execs during 2016 campaign — WASHINGTON — Several prominent Russians, some in President Vladimir Putin's inner circle or high in the Russian Orthodox Church, now have been identified as having contact with National Rifle Association officials during …
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J.J. McCullough / Washington Post:
Why Trudeau doesn't have the high ground on trade — One of President Trump's darkest talents is his ability to identify an opponent's delicate spot and stab it remorselessly. From his knack for condescending nicknames (Low Energy Jeb, Little Rocket Man) to inviting Bill Clinton's various accusers …
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Tonda MacCharles / Toronto Star:
What led to Trump's outburst against Trudeau: Behind the scenes at the G7
What led to Trump's outburst against Trudeau: Behind the scenes at the G7
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Megan Cassella / Politico:
Trump officials kick into damage-control mode with Canada
Trump officials kick into damage-control mode with Canada
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Ex-US ambassador to Canada: Navarro's attack on Trudeau ‘unconscionable’
Ex-US ambassador to Canada: Navarro's attack on Trudeau ‘unconscionable’
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CNN
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Inside Obama's secret meetings with 2020 contenders — Still the reluctant leader of the Democratic Party, Obama has been providing counsel to Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and other presidential hopefuls. — Barack Obama has in recent months met with at least nine prospective 2020 …
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David Siders / Politico:
Democrats turn to Hollywood for messaging help — LOS ANGELES — The Democratic National Committee and members of Congress are turning to Hollywood for help with voter turnout and messaging ahead of the midterm elections and 2020 presidential campaign, quietly consulting with a group of actors, writers and producers here.
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Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
'It's obscene': GOP candidate seethes as Trump embraces Democratic senator — President Trump is aggressively campaigning for Republican Senate candidates around the country and belittling their Democratic rivals, with one notable exception — North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp.
Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
Sonia Sotomayor's Dissent in the Big Voter Purge Case Points to How the Law Might Still Be Struck Down — The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a controversial Ohio voter purge law which allows the state to begin the process of removing voters from the rolls based upon their failure to vote in a single election.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Upholds Ohio's Purge of Voting Rolls
Supreme Court Upholds Ohio's Purge of Voting Rolls
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Dan McLaughlin / National Review:
The Supreme Court's Narrow Decision on Purging Voter Rolls
The Supreme Court's Narrow Decision on Purging Voter Rolls
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Daily Wire and twitchy.com
Anna Merlan / Jezebel:
The Reporter Who Exposed New York Times Star Glenn Thrush's Sexual Misconduct Says She Was the Victim of a Smear Campaign — Last November, Vox published a story by politics editor Laura McGann about New York Times politics reporter Glenn Thrush and what she called his “history of bad judgment” around young women journalists.
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Lawyers Plot Joint Defenses With Others Caught In Mueller Probe … The president's personal lawyers have teamed up with attorneys for other individuals embroiled in Special Counsel Bob Mueller's probe, multiple sources tell The Daily Beast. For a while, the president's lawyers …
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Mediaite
Adam Entous / New Yorker:
Donald Trump's New World Order — How the President, Israel, and the Gulf states plan to fight Iran—and leave the Palestinians and the Obama years behind. — On the afternoon of December 14, 2016, Ron Dermer, Israel's Ambassador to the United States, rode from his Embassy to the White House to attend a Hanukkah party.
Joyce Karam / The National:
Qatar hires former US attorney general for $1,600 per hour — With no end in sight to the Qatar crisis, the Gulf state has expanded its army of consultants and legal hires in the United States, adding Michael Mukasey, a former attorney general for president George W Bush …
Aarthi Swaminathan / Yahoo! Finance:
Domino's Pizza unveils U.S. infrastructure project filling potholes — $DPZ) is filling in potholes in towns across the U.S. with a new '"Paving for Pizza" initiative. The American pizza chain announced on Monday that it will help “smooth the ride home” for deliveries by making pothole repairs in towns nominated by their customers.
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New York Magazine:
A Company Built on a Bluff … It was sunny in Williamsburg on the last Wednesday in May, which also happened to be the second day of a new era at Vice Media. Visitors were still required to sign in on a tablet that featured an image of a woman's red lips opened wide to reveal a tab of acid …
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
There's actually lots of evidence of Trump-Russia collusion — The untenability of the “no collusion” talking point. — “In all of this, in any of this, there's been no evidence that there's been any collusion between the Trump campaign and President Trump and Russia,” …
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Amy S. Rosenberg / Philly.com:
‘Diversity is a bunch of crap and un-American,’ South Jersey congressional candidate Seth Grossman says — Seth Grossman's surprise victory in the Republican primary in New Jersey's Second Congressional District has brought immediate national scrutiny of the Trump purist from Democrats …
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Andrew Lautz / NTK Network:
Bill Clinton: Norms of ‘What You Can Do to Someone Against Their Will’ Have Changed — President Bill Clinton's new interview with PBS NewsHour, which aired last week, featured some shocking, and strikingly tone-deaf, comments from the former president about sexual harassment and assault …
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Sharon LaFraniere / New York Times:
Judge in Emoluments Case Questions Defense of Trump's Hotel Profits — GREENBELT, Md. — A federal judge on Monday sharply criticized the Justice Department's argument that President Trump's financial interest in his company's hotel in downtown Washington is constitutional …
Kate Gibson / CBS News:
Jack Dorsey, Twitter's CEO, blasted for patronizing Chick-fil-A — Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey found himself back pedaling after tweeting about using Chick-fil-A's mobile app, saying he'd forgotten about the fast-food chain's history of opposing gay marriage. — Dorsey found himself the subject …
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Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
ICE Came for a Tennessee Town's Immigrants. The Town Fought Back. — Agents conducted one of the biggest workplace raids since President Trump announced a crackdown on illegal immigration, detaining 97 workers in Morristown. But for residents, these workers were their neighbors.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
New York Times:
Even a Whiff of Disloyalty to Trump Can Imperil a G.O.P. Incumbent — DOTHAN, Ala. — Heading into the midterm elections, President Trump has become a one-man litmus test in some of his party's primaries, imperiling incumbents in races where policy issues seem to matter less to voters than personal loyalty to the president.
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Political Wire
Michael E. Miller / Washington Post:
‘A ticking time bomb’: MS-13 threatens a middle school, warn teachers, parents, students — The boys had once been friends before MS-13 began recruiting one of them. Now, as other students streamed to class one April morning at William Wirt Middle School in Riverdale, Md. …
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American Renaissance