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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
Doctors Concerned About ‘Irreparable Harm’ To Separated Migrant Children
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Washington Monthly and The American Conservative
Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
PHOTOS: Inside Shelter for Illegal Alien Children Separated from Parents
Washington Post:
Trump cites as a negotiating tool his policy of separating immigrant children from their parents
Trump cites as a negotiating tool his policy of separating immigrant children from their parents
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The Daily Caller and The Week
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Separated at the Border From Their Parents: In Six Weeks, 1,995 Children
Separated at the Border From Their Parents: In Six Weeks, 1,995 Children
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USA Today, Outside the Beltway, No More Mister Nice Blog, Washington Times, twitchy.com, The Root and Breitbart
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.
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Mother Jones, Axios, Washington Post, AAEC News, The Root and city of pittsburgh
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.
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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Scared Monkeys, Weasel Zippers, Wall Street Journal and Townhall
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Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
11 Quick Things To Know About The Inspector General's Report
11 Quick Things To Know About The Inspector General's Report
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Breitbart
Jia Tolentino / New Yorker:
“Coco,” a Story About Borders and Love, Is a Definitive Movie for This Moment — One weekend last fall, my boyfriend, Andrew, whose favorite movies include “Deliverance” and the original “Texas Chain Saw Massacre,” went off to go see the Pixar movie “Coco,” by himself, and came back in a delirium of happy, wistful tears.
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?
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RedState and Chicago Boyz
Des Moines Register:
China tariffs on U.S. soybeans could cost Iowa farmers up to $624 million — Perhaps Iowa farmers' biggest fear is becoming a harsh reality: The escalating U.S.-China trade dispute erupted Friday, with each country vowing to levy 25 percent tariffs on $50 billion in goods.
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Daily Caller News Foundation, The Daily Caller and New York Times
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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.
Toni Airaksinen / Campus Reform:
Harvard Medical School ashamed of white male department heads — Harvard Medical School has removed 31 portraits of its former department heads from a lecture hall because all of the individuals are men, and 30 of them are white. — Dr. Betsy Nabel, the hospital's president …
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IJR, BostonGlobe.com and The College Fix
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 …
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Bob Fredericks / New York Post:
Trump told Shinzo Abe he'd ship 25 million Mexicans to Japan
Trump told Shinzo Abe he'd ship 25 million Mexicans to Japan
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Raw Story, Mediaite, AOL, Washington Press and The Daily Caller
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 …
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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
Cohen looks to force Michael Avenatti to stop talking about Stormy Daniels case
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
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Virginia Heffernan / Los Angeles Times:
Paul Manafort is in the klink. It's OK to be pleased — Paul Manafort, the former campaign manager of Donald Trump, is in the klink. It's OK to be pleased. — Oh, Manafort. — As one of the early casualties of the Trump-Russia inquiry, he was first indicted in October 2017 …
Washington Post:
For the biggest group of American workers, wages aren't just flat. They're falling. — The average hourly wage paid to a key group of American workers has fallen from last year when accounting for inflation, as an economy that appears strong by several measures continues to fail to create bigger paychecks …
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Washington Press
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 …
Laura McGann / Vox:
Are Democrats brave enough to run a woman against Donald Trump? — Liberals can't decide how to deal with Trump in the era of #MeToo. — Democrats agree that Donald Trump's history of bragging about groping and assaulting women is unacceptable, but they don't agree about how to deal with it in 2020.
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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.
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Informed Comment, The Week, CBS Sacramento, CNN, Axios, The Guardian and National Review
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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Politico, The Crime Report, The Verge, Vox, BloombergQuint and Instapundit
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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