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Washington Post:
Trump associate Roger Stone reveals new contact with Russian national during 2016 campaign — MIAMI — One day in late May 2016, Roger Stone — the political dark sorcerer and longtime confidant of Donald Trump — slipped into his Jaguar and headed out to meet a man with a Make America Great Again hat and a viscous Russian accent.
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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.
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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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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 …
Kristine Phillips / Washington Post:
‘America is better than this’: What a doctor saw in a Texas shelter for migrant children — The small shelter along the Texas border to Mexico held 60 beds and a little playground for children. Rooms were equipped with toys, books and crayons. To Colleen Kraft, this shelter looked …
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Lomi Kriel / Houston Chronicle:
Immigrant children's shelter considered for downtown Houston
Immigrant children's shelter considered for downtown Houston
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Off the Kuff, The Texas Tribune, NPR and ThinkProgress
Salena Zito / New York Post:
These Harvard kids got the lesson of their life in the Heartland — On a blustery afternoon in April, I filed into a van along with 10 students from Harvard. We had just spent the last two days in Chicopee, Mass., where we had chatted with the police chief and his force, the mayor and his staff …
John Kass / Chicago Tribune:
Column: Obama's silky lie and FBI bias in the Clinton investigation — According to the FBI inspector general's report, before former (and fired) FBI Director James Comey took it upon himself to publicly criticize Hillary Clinton over her private email server, a draft of his public address was heavily edited.
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Luis Sanchez / The Hill:
United Methodist Church urges Sessions to halt migrant family separations — The United Methodist Church this week criticized the Department of Justice for the Trump administration's immigration policies of separating migrant families and denying asylum to those fleeing domestic abuse and gang violence.
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Political Wire and GBCS
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Avery Anapol / The Hill:
Cardinal Dolan hits Sessions's use of the Bible to defend family separation: There's 'no Bible passage …
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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The Moderate Voice, Los Angeles Times and New York Times
Gary Langer / ABC News:
Skepticism remains — but has eased — on North Korea's nuclear intentions (POLL) — Most Americans in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll are skeptical Donald Trump's sit-down with North Korea's Kim Jong Un will lead Pyongyang to relinquish its nuclear weapons. But that doubt has lessened substantially from pre-summit levels.
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New York Times:
A Financier's Profit-Minded Mission to Open a Channel Between Kushner and North Korea — The American businessman, who lives in Singapore, took advantage of an unusual opening in an administration where matters of policy and business often seem to blur. — WASHINGTON — An American financier …
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
Francis Wilkinson / Bloomberg:
New York's Case Against Trump May Be Prophetic — Why the complaint involving the president's foundation is a road map for Mueller. — The report released by the inspector general of the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Thursday painted a vivid picture of the past.
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Psychos on the Potomac — WASHINGTON — A new study from Southern Methodist University says the nation's capital has more psychopaths per person than anyplace else in the country. — No surprise there. — Psychopathy is defined in the study as a “Temperamental and Uninhibited Region.”
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Karol Markowicz / New York Post:
Beauty pageant contestants aren't #MeToo victims — Last week the 96-year-old Miss America competition decided to drop the swimsuit portion of their event. The move is widely regarded as a consequence of the MeToo movement, a way to stop the degradation of women.
Nicole Winfield / Associated Press:
Pope: Abortion is ‘white glove’ equivalent to Nazi crimes — VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis denounced abortion on Saturday as the “white glove” equivalent of the Nazi-era eugenics program and urged families to accept the children that God gives them. — Francis spoke off-the-cuff …
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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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ABC News