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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.
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Trump Again Falsely Blames Democrats for His Separation Tactic — WASHINGTON — President Trump on Saturday repeated his false assertion that Democrats were responsible for his administration's policy of separating migrant families apprehended at the border, sticking to a weekslong refusal …
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Shareblue Media, CNN, Law & Crime, Daily Kos, The Resurgent, IJR and CBS Los Angeles
Jennifer Hansler / CNN:
Cardinal Dolan: There is no Bible passage to justify family separation
Cardinal Dolan: There is no Bible passage to justify family separation
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Los Angeles Times, New York Times and AOL
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 …
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twitchy.com and Raw Story
globalnews.ca:
More Americans side with Justin Trudeau than Donald Trump in trade spat: Ipsos poll — Most Canadians and Americans approve of how Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is handling the situation on tariffs, trade and U.S. President Donald Trump. — That's according to two Ipsos polls, for Global News and Reuters.
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The Guardian:
Leave.EU faces new questions over contacts with Russia — MPs say latest revelations show Arron Banks and Andy Wigmore may have misled parliament — A leader of the Leave.EU campaign suggested sending a “message of support” to the Russian ambassador after the then foreign secretary …
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The Daily Beast
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Carole Cadwalladr / The Guardian:
Arron Banks, Brexit and the Russia connection — An 18-month investigation leads to a trail of new evidence showing the ‘bad boys of Brexit’ had closer links to Russia and its ambassador than they have disclosed — On 11 March 2016, three months before the European referendum …
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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Julián Aguilar / The Texas Tribune:
Trump administration opens tent city near El Paso to house separated immigrant children
Trump administration opens tent city near El Paso to house separated immigrant children
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Houston Chronicle and ThinkProgress
Tess Bonn / The Hill:
Rob Reiner denounces Robert De Niro, celebrities for anti-Trump remarks — Director Rob Reiner denounced Robert De Niro and other celebrities for their remarks against President Trump — , saying it only helps the president. — During an exclusive interview with The Hill's new TV show …
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Louder With Crowder
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.
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The Gateway Pundit
Julia Reinstein / BuzzFeed:
This Video Showing A Border Patrol SUV Hitting A Native American Man And Speeding Away Is Going Viral — In a video that's been going viral, a US Border Patrol SUV is seen hitting a Native American man in Arizona and speeding away. — Indivisible Tohono — U.S Border Patrol ran …
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Raw Story
Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
Russian state TV touts Trump on Crimea: ‘Crimea is ours! Trump is ours!’ — Russian state media is celebrating after Trump told G7 leaders that Crimea belongs to Russia because everyone who lives there speaks Russian. — Russian state TV is celebrating after seeing the recent report …
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CNN
Washington Post:
For Pruitt, gaining Trump's favor — and keeping it — came through fierce allegiance — In the run-up to the decision to pull out of the Paris climate agreement last May, President Trump wanted the opinion of Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt.
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ABC News, Mother Jones and The Daily Caller
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.
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 …
Jason Schwartz / Politico:
Breitbart traffic declines for seventh straight month — The once-dominant site is suffering after the departure of founder Steve Bannon, but retains a core of MAGA-aligned readers. — Breitbart's traffic declined in May for the seventh straight month, according to comScore metrics …
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Raw Story
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
Associated Press:
AP FACT CHECK: Trump on FBI, phantom law on migrant kids — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is claiming exoneration in the Russia matter from a Justice Department report that actually offers him none. He's also branding fired FBI chief James Comey a criminal, though the report in question makes no such accusation.
Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:
In nearly 500 pages of answers, Facebook stonewalls some senators' questions — Written answers follow CEO Mark Zuckerberg's testimony before two Senate committees. — Earlier this week, Facebook submitted nearly 500 pages worth of written responses to dozens of US senators' questions stemming …
USA Today:
Pope: Abortion is ‘white glove’ equivalent to Nazi crimes — VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis on Saturday said that the use of abortion to terminate pregnancies likely to produce disabled or chronically ill children was the product of a Nazi mentality. — “It is fashionable, or at least usual …
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Daily Caller News Foundation and IJR