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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
Trump Again Falsely Blames Democrats for His Separation Tactic
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Shareblue Media, CNN, Law & Crime, Daily Kos and The Resurgent
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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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, Raw Story and Political Wire
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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Josh Barro / Business Insider:
Trump's bully-and-threaten approach to dealmaking is not so artful — There will be occasions where Trump's tactic of hostage-taking and threatening and generally being too much of a pain to be worth fighting against will work. — Donald Trump has a negotiating tactic he really likes …
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
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
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
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
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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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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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.
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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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
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.
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.
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
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
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 …
BBC:
US child migrants: 2,000 separated from families in six weeks — Almost 2,000 migrant children were separated from their families at the US border over six weeks, officials say. — Following a Trump administration crackdown on illegal border crossings from Mexico, adults are being detained …
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