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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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Jim Mannion / Yahoo:
Trump lawyer calls for inquiry on Mueller's Russia probe
Trump lawyer calls for inquiry on Mueller's Russia probe
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Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Roger Stone: Russian wanted Trump to pay $2M for dirt on Clinton during the campaign
Roger Stone: Russian wanted Trump to pay $2M for dirt on Clinton during the campaign
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Daniella Silva / NBC News:
First lady Melania Trump makes statement on family separations as protests grow — The first lady “hopes both sides of the aisle can finally come together to achieve successful immigration reform,” according to the statement. — First lady Melania Trump uncharacteristically waded …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Melania Trump Calls on ‘Both Sides’ to End Family Separation — WASHINGTON — Melania Trump urged “both sides of the aisle” on Sunday to come together to stop federal authorities from separating children from their parents when apprehended at the border, a rare public intervention in an issue …
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Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
FBI agent removed from Russia probe for anti-Trump texts says he's willing to testify before Congress — The FBI agent who was removed from the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election for sending anti-Trump texts intends to testify before the House Judiciary Committee …
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Axios:
Trump tweets defense of his North Korea summit — President Trump tweeted a defense of his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Sunday morning, claiming that he received “so much for peace in the world” and teasing that “more is being added in finals.”
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Instead of Trump's propaganda, how about a nice ‘truth sandwich’? — Last week was a particularly rough one for journalists and truth-seeking citizens. — President Trump declared the news media the nation's worst enemy. And time after shocking time, his acolytes demeaned or threatened reporters …
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Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
'I Can't Go Without My Son,' a Mother Pleaded as She Was Deported to Guatemala — As a growing number of families are being separated as part of the Trump administration's attempt to control illegal immigration, some parents are being deported before recovering their children.
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Dem lawmakers make surprise visit to ICE detention center
Dem lawmakers make surprise visit to ICE detention center
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Nomaan Merchant / Associated Press:
Hundreds of children wait in Border Patrol facility in Texas — McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Inside an old warehouse in South Texas, hundreds of children wait away from their parents in a series of cages created by metal fencing. One cage had 20 children inside.
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Kristine Phillips / Washington Post:
‘America is better than this’: What a doctor saw in a Texas shelter for migrant children
‘America is better than this’: What a doctor saw in a Texas shelter for migrant children
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Caleb Howe / Mediaite:
Steve Bannon: Donald Trump Doesn't Lie, and Never Has ‘To My Knowledge’ — President Donald Trump doesn't lie and hasn't lied to the American people, said former White House Chief Strategist and Trump campaign manager Steve Bannon Sunday on This Week. — Guest host Jon Karl played clips …
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Quinn Scanlan / ABC News:
Not necessary to justify separating kids, parents at border, 'it's zero tolerance': Bannon
Not necessary to justify separating kids, parents at border, 'it's zero tolerance': Bannon
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Politico
George Packer / New Yorker:
Donald Trump Goes Rogue — In half a week, between Quebec and Singapore, Trump showed that the liberal order is hateful to him, and that he wants out. — When President Trump walked out early from the meeting of the Group of Seven in Charlevoix, Quebec, on June 9th, he left …
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New York Times:
Ashley Parker, Michael Bender — Ashley Rebecca Parker and Michael Charles Bender were married June 16 at their home in Washington. Justine Parker, the bride's sister who became a Universal Life minister for the event, officiated. — The bride, 35, and groom, 40, are Washington-based reporters covering …
Fox News:
New Jersey arts festival shooting leaves 22 injured, 1 suspect dead, officials say — Nearly two dozen people were injured after gunfire broke out early Sunday during a fight at an all-night art event in New Jersey's capital city, leaving one suspect dead and authorities investigating if any others were involved.
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Albert R. Hunt / Bloomberg:
Paul Ryan Has Sacrificed the Rest of His Principles — To keep his job for the next 200 days, the speaker caves in to Trump's cruelty on immigration. — Paul Ryan, departing ingloriously from Congress in six months, has capitulated to Donald Trump and House right-wingers at the expense of the …
National Journal:
The GOP's Rapid Retreat in the Midwest — Republicans have abandoned Senate races in states Trump carried, and could lose several key governorships as well. Trump's boasting of crashing the blue wall is rapidly becoming ancient history. — One of the biggest red flags …
New York Times:
Safety Concerns Grow as Inmates Are Guarded by Teachers and Secretaries — BIG SPRING, Tex. — On a recent rainy day, more than 400 sex offenders, gang members and other inmates at the federal prison in this West Texas town weathered the storm by crowding into a three-story building.
Cary Darling / Houston Chronicle:
Cruz edges out Kimmel in charity basketball game in Houston — It was the Thunderdome from “Mad Max” or the coliseum from “Spartacus,” if either Max or Sparty were two, middle-aged American men playing a slow-motion car-crash of half-court basketball for charity and political one upsmanship.
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New York Times:
Corey Stewart, Virginia Senate Nominee, Evokes Trump on Racial Issues — Mr. Stewart, a Minnesota transplant who has defended the Confederacy and praised white nationalists, has seized opportunities to gain media attention, especially with harsh remarks about immigrants.