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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 …
Discussion:
Raw Story and Political Wire
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:
Talking Points Memo, Mother Jones, Raw Story, USA Today, Outside the Beltway, The Week and Washington Post
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
Discussion:
ThinkProgress and Houston Chronicle
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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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 …
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.
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.
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 …
Discussion:
CNN and Washington Post
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
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.
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 …
Discussion:
Raw Story
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 …
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, The College Fix and BostonGlobe.com
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.
Discussion:
Mother Jones, Axios, Mediaite, Washington Post, AAEC News and The Root
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
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
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.
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
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 …
CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS' FAMILY SEPARATION POLICY …
Discussion:
National Review