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10:55 AM ET, June 16, 2018

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Molly Hennessy-Fiske / Los Angeles Times:
Was a breastfeeding infant really taken from an immigrant mother?  The answer to this and other questions about families separated at the border  —  Last month, U.S. Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions announced the Trump administration's “zero tolerance” policy of charging migrants in federal criminal court …
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Joel Rose / NPR:
Doctors Concerned About ‘Irreparable Harm’ To Separated Migrant Children  —  In South Texas, pediatricians started sounding the alarm weeks ago as migrant shelters began filling up with younger children separated from their parents after they crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally.
Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
PHOTOS: Inside Shelter for Illegal Alien Children Separated from Parents  —  The Department of Health and Human Services hosted Breitbart News and other media on a tour of a facility in El Cajon, California, on Friday where migrant children are being sheltered after being separated from their parents.
Washington Post:
Trump cites as a negotiating tool his policy of separating immigrant children from their parents  —  President Trump has calculated that he will gain political leverage in congressional negotiations by continuing to enforce a policy he claims to hate — separating immigrant parents …
Discussion: The Week and Associated Press
President Donald J. Trump / The White House:
CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS' FAMILY SEPARATION POLICY …
Discussion: National Review
BBC:   US child migrants: 2,000 separated from families in six weeks
Rob Rogers / New York Times:
I Was Fired for Making Fun of Trump  —  Mr. Rogers joined The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette as an editorial cartoonist in 1993.  He worked there until this week.  In 1999, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.  —  After 25 years as the editorial cartoonist for The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, I was fired on Thursday.
Chris Sommerfeldt / New York Daily News:
Rudy Giuliani says Mueller probe ‘might get cleaned up’ with ‘presidential pardons’ in light of Paul Manafort going to jail  —  In one of his most forceful attacks on the special counsel yet, Rudy Giuliani on Friday claimed the Russia investigation could get “cleaned up” …
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Aris Folley / The Hill:
Watergate prosecutor says Manafort may never again ‘see the outside of a jail cell’  —  Former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman said on Friday that Paul Manafort  —  may never again “see the outside of a jail cell” after his house arrest arrangement was revoked on Friday.  —  President Trump
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Washington Post:
Ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort ordered to jail over witness-tampering charges …
Discussion: The Week, Raw Story, CNBC and Mediaite
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Viva le resistance: How political bias infected FBI Trump, Clinton probes  —  It didn't take long for defenders of the FBI's Trump-Russia investigation to claim that the Justice Department inspector general's report found no bias in the bureau's conduct of the Hillary Clinton email investigation …
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New York Times:   Trump Has a Few Things He'd Like to Get Off His Chest
Ruby Samuels / pluralist:
Canada Might Sanction Trump By Going After His Administration Rather Than the American People  —  “I fear President Trump has put us in that position.”  —  Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said Tuesday that she is open to using a law normally reserved for leaders responsible …
Discussion: The Hill
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John Carreyrou / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Files Criminal Charges Against Theranos's Elizabeth Holmes, Ramesh Balwani  —  Indictments allege leaders of blood-testing company defrauded investors, doctors and patients  —  Federal prosecutors filed criminal charges against Theranos Inc. founder Elizabeth Holmes …
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Ottawa Citizen:
How quickly could Canada build an atomic bomb?  —  We've got the uranium, the know-how and a sudden desire to be respected by our nearest neighbour  —  NOTE: Just to be clear, all sources quoted in this story think a Canadian nuclear bomb is an unbelievably terrible idea that is bad for everyone in almost every way.
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Problems at the Justice Department and FBI Are Serious  —  And they won't be solved by whining about criticism.  —  What do you do with an FBI agent, sworn to uphold the law, who flagrantly violates the law in a rogue investigation aimed at making a name for himself by bringing down some high-profile targets?
Discussion: Chicago Boyz
Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:
FBI recovers WhatsApp, Signal data stored on Michael Cohen's BlackBerry  —  Letter to judge reveals 731 pages of messages, call logs uncovered on one of two phones.  —  In a letter to the presiding judge in the case against Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's long-time personal attorney …
Discussion: Gizmodo and Law & Crime
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Frances Stead Sellers / Washington Post:
Cohen looks to force Michael Avenatti to stop talking about Stormy Daniels case
Discussion: ABC News, Politico, Daily Kos and Mediaite
Johnny Oleksinski / New York Post:
‘Gotti’ flick is the worst mob movie of all-time … I'd rather wake up next to a severed horse head than ever watch “Gotti” again.  —  The worst movie of the year so far, the long-awaited biopic about the Gambino crime boss' rise from made man to top dog took four directors, 44 producers and eight years to make.
Washington Post:
After forging new ties with North Korea, Trump administration turns to Russia  —  Days after a historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the Trump administration is forging ahead with new engagements with another longtime adversary: Russia.  —  President Trump is expected to meet …
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Nora Gámez Torres / miamiherald:   Trump is willing to negotiate with North Korea — but not Cuba
Michael Wines / New York Times:
North Carolina Republicans Are Back With a New Plan for Strict Voter Laws  —  WASHINGTON — The last time Republicans in the North Carolina Legislature enacted a law making it harder for some of the state's residents to vote, a federal court said the statute targeted African-American voters …
Philip T. Hackney / New York Times:
Why the I.R.S. Should Go After Trump  —  The New York State attorney general yesterday filed a lawsuit against the Donald J. Trump Foundation and its directors, accusing the charity and the Trump family of violating campaign finance laws, self-dealing and illegal coordination with the presidential campaign.
Discussion: Al Jazeera English
Danny Lawhon / Des Moines Register:
Experts: Trump's latest tariffs put increased risk into already uncertain Iowa economy  —  Neumann Bro.  Construction has to meet a final cost for their projects but flexing material costs make it hard to do.  —  CONNECT  —  The latest signs of the U.S.' escalating global trade conflict …
Discussion: New York Times
Julia Jacobs / New York Times:
Mammals Go Nocturnal in Bid to Avoid Humans  —  Humans, it turns out, can annoy more than just one another.  In fact, some animal populations are escaping their Homo sapien cohabitants by sleeping more during the day, a new study finds.  —  Mammals across the globe are becoming increasingly nocturnal …
Discussion: Boing Boing
CNN:
DHS: 2,000 kids separated from parents at border over 6 week period  —  The president is blaming Democrats for his administration's policy.  CNN's Jake Tapper reports.  Source: CNN
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Donald dreams of dictators  —  In the three years since he first descended his golden escalator to announce his presidential bid, Trump has made clear he yearns for fealty along with authority.  —  President Donald Trump reliably tells the truth on one thing: He likes the way dictators do business.
Kyle Swenson / Washington Post:
Sessions says the Bible justifies separating immigrant families.  The verses he cited are infamous.  —  When British subjects in the original 13 colonies started rolling up their sleeves for the fight for independence in the 1770s, loyalist preachers hammered on a particular Bible verse from their pulpits.
Discussion: Althouse, Forbes, ABC News and The Root
 
 
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