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9:25 PM ET, June 16, 2018

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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 …
Michael E. Miller / Washington Post:
Family separations could double, says Border Patrol chief in Rio Grande Valley  —  EDINBURG, TEX. — As outrage mounts over the Trump administration's separation of hundreds of migrant children from their parents, the person overseeing that zero-tolerance policy on the busiest stretch …
Molly Hennessy-Fiske / Los Angeles Times:   Was a breastfeeding infant really taken from an immigrant mother? …
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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Bloomberg:   Canadian Officials Rush to Support U.S. Envoy After Death Threat
Josh Barro / Business Insider:   Trump's bully-and-threaten approach to dealmaking is not so artful
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 …
Discussion: The Daily Beast
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Carole Cadwalladr / The Guardian:   Arron Banks, Brexit and the Russia connection
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 …
Discussion: twitchy.com and Raw Story
Lomi Kriel / Houston Chronicle:
Immigrant children's shelter considered for downtown Houston  —  The large vacant warehouse in downtown Houston has housed women and families who were once homeless and adults displaced by Hurricane Harvey.  —  Until now, however, it has never sheltered small children who are on their own …
Discussion: ThinkProgress
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El Paso Times:
Trump administration picks Tornillo as tent city site for immigrant children
Discussion: Jezebel
Julián Aguilar / The Texas Tribune:   Trump administration opens tent city near El Paso to house separated immigrant children
Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:   PHOTOS: Inside Shelter for Illegal Alien Children Separated from Parents
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.
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 …
Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story
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 …
Discussion: Louder With Crowder
Politico:
Trump's little-known pick to lead consumer bureau sets up fight with Congress  —  President Donald Trump selected Kathy Kraninger, a little-known White House budget official, as the next director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, setting up what is likely to be a bruising battle …
Discussion: ABC News
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 …
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.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
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.
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 …
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.
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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BBC:
US child migrants: 2,000 separated from families in six weeks
Discussion: Florida Politics
 
 
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Aris Folley / The Hill:
Watergate prosecutor says Manafort may never again ‘see the outside of a jail cell’
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