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2:35 PM 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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New York Times:
How Trump Diverged From Other Presidents and Embraced a Policy of Separating Migrant Families  —  WASHINGTON — Almost immediately after President Trump took office, his administration began weighing what for years had been regarded as the nuclear option in the effort to discourage immigrants from unlawfully entering the United States.
Julián Aguilar / The Texas Tribune:
Trump administration opens tent city near El Paso to house separated immigrant children
BBC:
US child migrants: 2,000 separated from families in six weeks
Discussion: Florida Politics
Bloomberg:
Canadian Officials Rush to Support U.S. Envoy After Death Threat  — Suspicious package was mailed to U.S. ambassador Kelly Craft  — Incident comes as trade tensions run high between old allies  —  Top Canadian officials, led by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, rushed to express support …
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Ruby Samuels / pluralist:
Canada Might Sanction Trump By Going After His Administration Rather Than the American People
Discussion: The Hill
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.
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.
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: RedState and Chicago Boyz
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.
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President Donald J. Trump / The White House:
CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS' FAMILY SEPARATION POLICY …
Discussion: National Review
Alessandra Scotto di Santolo / Daily Express:
‘We might have a new situation’ German MP predicts Merkel could be OUSTED end of NEXT WEEK  —  GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel could lose her powerful seat in the heart of Europe as soon as next week amid clashes within her coalition Government over EU migration policies, claimed German MP Kai Whittaker.
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.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Danny Lawhon / Des Moines Register:   Experts: Trump's latest tariffs put increased risk into already uncertain Iowa economy
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.
Washington Post:
‘Prepared for war’: As Mueller moves to finalize obstruction report, Trump's allies ready for political battle  —  President Trump's lawyers and special counsel Robert S. Mueller III are hurtling toward a showdown over a year-long investigation into the president's conduct …
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 …
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 …
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.
Discussion: Jacobin
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.
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 …
Discussion: Scared Monkeys and Weasel Zippers
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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 …
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 …
NBC News:
This man is running Russia's newest propaganda effort in the U.S. — or at least he's trying to  —  Alexander Malkevich tried to throw a rally at the White House, but nobody showed up.  —  Alexander Malkevich stood outside the White House on Thursday, braving the 85-degree heat …
 
 
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Jason Schwartz / Politico:
Breitbart traffic declines for seventh straight month
Discussion: Raw Story
Associated Press:
When, not if: US poised to quit UN's human rights council
Discussion: Shareblue Media
Washington Post:
For the biggest group of American workers, wages aren't just flat. They're falling.
Discussion: Washington Press
CNN:
DHS: 2,000 kids separated from parents at border over 6 week period
Aris Folley / The Hill:
Watergate prosecutor says Manafort may never again ‘see the outside of a jail cell’
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Kyle Swenson / Washington Post:
Sessions says the Bible justifies separating immigrant families. The verses he cited are infamous.
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
GOP wants Trump in 2020, more popular than Obama, JFK, Reagan
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Time Warner unveils its new name: WarnerMedia
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Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:
FBI recovers WhatsApp, Signal data stored on Michael Cohen's BlackBerry
Discussion: Gizmodo and Law & Crime
Philip T. Hackney / New York Times:
Why the I.R.S. Should Go After Trump
Damon Winter / New York Times:
Adem Bunkeddeko in the Ninth District
Nora Gámez Torres / miamiherald:
Trump is willing to negotiate with North Korea — but not Cuba
Julia Jacobs / New York Times:
Mammals Go Nocturnal in Bid to Avoid Humans
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Steve King's Inflammatory Behavior Is Met With Silence From G.O.P.
Discussion: Arizona Republic
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

 
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