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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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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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Mother Jones, CBS Los Angeles, Splinter, The Daily Caller and The Week
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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ThinkProgress, Houston Chronicle and Jezebel
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 and The Root
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
Canada Might Sanction Trump By Going After His Administration Rather Than the American People
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The Hill
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
Discussion:
Raw Story, Mediaite, AOL and Washington Press
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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Joel Rose / NPR:
Doctors Concerned About ‘Irreparable Harm’ To Separated Migrant Children
Doctors Concerned About ‘Irreparable Harm’ To Separated Migrant Children
Discussion:
Washington Monthly and The American Conservative
President Donald J. Trump / The White House:
CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS' FAMILY SEPARATION POLICY …
CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS' FAMILY SEPARATION POLICY …
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National Review
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
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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The Daily Caller
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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.
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 …
Discussion:
IJR, BostonGlobe.com and The College Fix
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, 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
Discussion:
Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Breitbart
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 …
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.
Discussion:
Outside the Beltway, Raw Story and Washington Post
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.
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
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
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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 …
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
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
Nora Gámez Torres / miamiherald:
Trump is willing to negotiate with North Korea — but not Cuba — One year after President Donald Trump came to Miami and signed a presidential directive outlining his new Cuba policy, the White House shows little appetite for negotiations of a “better deal” with Havana, one of his campaign promises.
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