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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Trump sounds off on FBI report: “Doesn't get any lower than that!” — President Trump is sounding off on the Justice Department's inspector general report, released Thursday, about the FBI's conduct in the lead up to the 2016 presidential election. — FBI Agent Peter Strzok …
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Report's Real Message: Trump Is Lying — The new report from the Justice Department's watchdog covers a lot of ground. It runs more than 500 pages and evaluates investigations that touch both President Trump and Hillary Clinton. As a result, some of the initial news coverage …
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James Comey / New York Times:
This Report Says I Was Wrong. But That's Good for the F.B.I. — The Department of Justice's independent watchdog, the inspector general, has released a report that is critical of my decisions as F.B.I. director during the investigation of Hillary Clinton's email account.
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Trump allies seize on DOJ report as they seek to undercut Mueller probe — Thursday's report from the Justice Department's inspector general gave new and potent ammunition to President Trump and his allies in their ongoing efforts to undermine special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's investigation …
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Eric Felten / Weekly Standard:
Meet the Other Amorous FBI Staffers Who Texted About the Clinton Email Investigation — Parsing the Inspector General's report. — Criticism of James Comey is nothing new—it's one of the few things that both Republicans and Democrats can agree on. Which made the headline takeaway …
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Lawfare:
Nine Takeaways From the Inspector General's Report on the Clinton Email Investigation
Nine Takeaways From the Inspector General's Report on the Clinton Email Investigation
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
IG refers five FBI employees for investigation, as more anti-Trump messages revealed
IG refers five FBI employees for investigation, as more anti-Trump messages revealed
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Report Gives Trump an Opening, but Undercuts His Narrative
Report Gives Trump an Opening, but Undercuts His Narrative
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Josh Campbell / CNN:
The FBI got swamped by a 500-year flood
The FBI got swamped by a 500-year flood
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John Harwood / CNBC:
Inspector general's report on FBI's Clinton email investigation discredits yet another Deep State conspiracy theory
Madeline Osburn / The Federalist:
The Inspector General Put Together An Insane FBI Leak Chart Upon Finding Rules ‘Widely Ignored’
The Inspector General Put Together An Insane FBI Leak Chart Upon Finding Rules ‘Widely Ignored’
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Washington Post:
'Why can't we just do it?': Trump nearly upended summit with abrupt changes — Some of the most intense drama surrounding President Trump's summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un came not across the negotiating table, but in the days and hours leading up to Tuesday's historic meeting …
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
“There's No Stopping Him”: Trump Insists on a Putin Summit — After Singapore, the President is pressing ahead with the meeting that he's always wanted. — Fresh off his closely watched Singapore summit with the North Korean dictator, Kim Jong Un, President Trump is pushing his team …
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Associated Press:
Tough US tariffs on China could begin as early as Friday
Tough US tariffs on China could begin as early as Friday
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McCain: Trump halting Korean military exercises a ‘bad negotiating tactic’
McCain: Trump halting Korean military exercises a ‘bad negotiating tactic’
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Washington Post:
In defense of separating immigrant families, Sessions cites same Bible passage used to defend slavery — Attorney General Jeff Sessions used a Bible verse on Thursday to defend his department's policy of prosecuting everyone who crosses the border from Mexico, suggesting that God supports …
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Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Sessions cites Bible in defense of breaking up families, blames migrant parents
Sessions cites Bible in defense of breaking up families, blames migrant parents
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Trump admin will house migrant kids in tents in Tornillo, Texas
Trump admin will house migrant kids in tents in Tornillo, Texas
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Anna Giaritelli / Washington Examiner:
Jeff Sessions uses Bible to defend zero-tolerance border policy to church leaders
Jeff Sessions uses Bible to defend zero-tolerance border policy to church leaders
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Cohen lawyer seeks gag order against Avenatti — The judge is asked to block the ‘media circus.’ — Attorney Michael Avenatti's months-long publicity tour attacking President Donald Trump and Trump attorney Michael Cohen could be brought to an abrupt end soon if a federal judge agrees …
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Wall Street Journal:
Prosecutors Investigating Michael Cohen for Possible Illegal Lobbying
Prosecutors Investigating Michael Cohen for Possible Illegal Lobbying
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Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Trump's tariffs are already backfiring — Before steel and aluminum tariffs alienated our allies, before President Trump suggested car imports threatened our “national security,” before that 1,000-plus-item list of Chinese goods targeted for new tariffs, there were washing machines.
Robert Kagan / Washington Post:
Trump's America does not care — Robert Kagan is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He writes a monthly foreign affairs column for The Post. He is the author of the forthcoming book “The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World.” — Since the end of the Cold War …
The Daily Beast:
Defense Contractors Cashing In On Immigrant Kids' Detention … Separating refugee and immigrant children from their parents isn't just an emotionally wrenching policy. It's an enterprise that is benefitting intelligence and defense contractors. — Those contractors—including …
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Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
Top White House communications aide has history of rhetoric strongly critical of Trump — Mercedes Schlapp, the White House's director of strategic communications, posted a number of tweets in 2015 strongly critical of Donald Trump and his agenda, assailing the then-presidential candidate …
Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Trump Assistant Spokeswoman Latest to Leave White House — Kelly Love will be moving to the Department of Energy — Latest departure from the White House Communications Team — White House senior assistant press secretary Kelly Love plans to leave her job for a position …
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Washington Post:
Pence turns VP's office into gateway for lobbyists to influence the Trump administration — Vice President Pence has transformed his office into a new entry point for lobbyists seeking to influence the Trump administration across federal agencies, according to federal records and interviews.
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Ana Swanson / New York Times:
U.S. to Put Tariffs on $50 Billion in Chinese Goods as Trade Fight Widens — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration said on Friday that it would move ahead with imposing a 25 percent tariff on $50 billion of Chinese products that are imported into the United States, threatening to escalate …
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John Bresnahan / Politico:
Grimm lobs grenade into GOP primary with Trump pardon claim — Incumbent GOP Rep. Dan Donovan calls the ex-convict trying to retake his seat ‘a confessed liar.’ — During a debate on Monday, former Rep. Michael Grimm leveled a stunning charge against his primary opponent and successor in office …
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Jesse Drucker / New York Times:
How the I.R.S. Could Punish Trump and His Foundation — The New York attorney general sued President Trump and his foundation on Thursday. But his bigger problem might be with the Internal Revenue Service. — The lawsuit accused Mr. Trump and three of his children of using …
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Wall Street Journal:
'What's He Doing Here?': Inside Trump's Turbulent Relationship With Michael Cohen — At the Trump Organization, the future president appreciated lawyer's loyalty but doubted his professional abilities and judgment; a big pay cut — Donald Trump summoned senior aides to his 26th floor office …
Tim Alberta / Politico:
‘This Is a Place That Just Sucks Your Soul’ — Tea Partier Raúl Labrador swept into Congress ready to dismantle Washington. Now he's going home, more disillusioned than ever. — It was the opening week of the 112th Congress, in January 2011, when Raúl Labrador …
Brianna Sacks / BuzzFeed:
The Parkland School Guard Who Didn't Stop The Shooter Was Accused Of Sexually Harassing One Of The Victims — Two female students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas reported a 39-year-old campus guard for sexual harassment. One of the girls later died in the massacre.
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Lili Loofbourow / Slate:
We Are in a Linguistic Emergency When It Comes to Trump — In the wake of the horrors currently being done to children in America's name, here's one thing we can do: Recognize we're in a linguistic emergency. We have a president whose single-minded praise for macho might is wearing …