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Ginger Thompson / ProPublica:
Listen to Children Who've Just Been Separated From Their Parents at the Border — The desperate sobbing of 10 Central American children, separated from their parents one day last week by immigration authorities at the border, makes for excruciating listening. Many of them sound like they're crying so hard, they can barely breathe.
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Senator Ben Sasse:
Many Nebraskans this weekend asked me about the kids at the border. Here's a short version of what I told them. This is a bit over-simplified, but these are broad brushstrokes of how I understand the situation at present: — 1) Family separation is wicked.
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Laura Bush / Washington Post:
Separating children from their parents at the border ‘breaks my heart’ — Laura Bush is a former first lady of the United States. — On Sunday, a day we as a nation set aside to honor fathers and the bonds of family, I was among the millions of Americans who watched images of children who have been torn from their parents.
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Jonathan Blitzer / New Yorker:
The Government Has No Plan for Reuniting the Immigrant Families It Is Tearing Apart — A few days ago, Emily Kephart, a program coördinator at an immigrant-rights group called Kids in Need of Defense, set out to try to find a six-year-old Guatemalan girl who had been separated from her father …
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Jill Colvin / Associated Press:
Family separation policy starts dividing Republicans
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Adolfo Flores / BuzzFeed:
US Isn't Just Separating Children From Their Parents. It Also Has No Plan For Reuniting Them.
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Anna Giaritelli / Washington Examiner:
US could be holding 30,000 border kids by August: Officials
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Trump: U.S. ‘will not be a migrant camp ... not on my watch’
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Nick Cumming-Bruce / New York Times:
U.N. Rights Chief Tells U.S. to Stop Taking Migrant Children From Parents
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Marc Fortier / NBC10 Boston:
Gov. Charlie Baker Won't Send National Guard to Border, Citing ‘Cruel and Inhumane’ Actions of Trump Administration — Fact Check: Dems Not Responsible for Families Separated at Border — Republican Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker said he will not send the Massachusetts National Guard …
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Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Facing outcry over family separations, DHS chief says, ‘We will not apologize’ — Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen pushed back Monday at the growing condemnation of her agency's practice of separating migrant families at the border, telling a gathering of law enforcement officers, “We will not apologize for the job we do.”
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Amanda McGowan / wgbh.org:
Baker Cancels National Guard Deployment To Border, Citing ‘Inhumane’ Treatment Of Children And Families — Governor Charlie Baker is canceling the deployment of Massachusetts National Guard troops to the border in light of recent reports about the Trump Administration's practice of separating immigrant children from families.
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Trump Repeats Falsehood That Democrats Are to Blame for Separating Migrant Families — WASHINGTON — President Trump remained resistant on Monday in the face of growing public outcry over his administration's policy of separating children from their parents at the border …
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Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
Trump admin discussed separating moms, kids to deter asylum-seekers in Feb. 2017
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Nick Visser / HuffPost:
DHS Secretary Claims There's No Family Separation Policy, ‘Period’
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Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
Kim Jong Un More Popular Than Pelosi Among Republicans: Exclusive Poll Results — Kim Jong Un More Popular Than Pelosi Among Republicans: Poll — Beijing Is Holding U.S. Citizens ‘Hostage’ in China — Exit bans are a new tool in China's global coercion campaign. — By BETHANY ALLEN-EBRAHIMIAN6.18.18 4:48 AM ET
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Jim Norman / Gallup:
Satisfaction With U.S. Direction Reaches 12-Year High — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Thirty-eight percent of Americans are satisfied with the way things are going in the United States today, similar to last month's 37% satisfaction rate but marking the numerical high since a 39% reading in September 2005.
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Dan Alexander / Forbes:
Lies, China And Putin: Solving The Mystery Of Wilbur Ross' Missing Fortune — Amid President Trump's headaches confirming cabinet secretaries, from neophyte Rex Tillerson to conflict-prone Scott Pruitt to unprepared Betsy DeVos, all of whom squeezed through, Wilbur Ross was a tonic.
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Nancy Cook / Politico:
Trump aides plan fresh immigration crackdowns before midterms — White House policy adviser Stephen Miller wants to make sure the president can show he's doing something about immigration. — Top aides to President Donald Trump are planning additional crackdowns on immigration …
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Tal Kopan / CNN:
Exclusive: Trump admin thought family separations would deter immigrants. They haven't.
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Benjamin Fearnow / Newsweek:
MICHAEL AVENATTI OFFERS LEGAL SERVICES TO PARENTS OF CHILDREN TAKEN AT BORDER
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Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
Justice Kennedy Still Won't Rule on Gerrymandering — Justice Hamlet lives. — For years, those who'd like the Supreme Court to rein in partisan gerrymanders have been teeing up cases with various theories to try to get Justice Anthony Kennedy, the swing Justice, to agree that sometimes …
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court sidesteps decision on partisan gerrymandering in rulings on Wisconsin, Maryland cases
David Siders / Politico:
Shell-shocked Democrats regroup in Wisconsin
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Stef W. Kight / Axios:
DOJ watchdog investigating Comey's memo leaks — DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz confirmed on Monday that the watchdog is looking at potential mishandling of confidential information by former FBI director James Comey in his leaking of memos and that the OIG will …
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Justin Caruso / The Daily Caller:
BREAKING — Comey Under Investigation For Handling Of Classified Information
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Brian Beutler / Crooked Media:
Donald Trump's Deep State
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Dana Branham / Dallas Morning News:
Texas deputy accused of sexually assaulting 4-year-old threatened her mother with deportation, sheriff says — A Texas sheriff's deputy accused of repeatedly sexually assaulting a 4-year-old girl threatened the victim's mother into staying quiet about the assaults, authorities said Sunday.
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Southern Poverty Law Center, Inc. Admits It Was Wrong, Apologizes to Quilliam and Maajid Nawaz for Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists, and Agrees to Pay $3.375 Million Settlement — MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA — The Southern Poverty Law Center, Inc. has apologized to Quilliam and its founder Maajid Nawaz …
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
What do Republicans suspect really happened in the FBI Trump-Russia investigation? — The struggle to uncover the FBI's conduct in the Trump-Russia probe has made some congressional investigators deeply suspicious of the bureau. But what do those investigators think the FBI actually …
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Republicans continue to play clueless on the Russia investigation
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Grace Sparks / CNN:
Majority oppose policy that causes family separation, but Republicans approve — (CNN)Two-thirds of Americans disapprove of the Trump administration's practice of taking undocumented immigrant children from their families and putting them in government facilities on US borders, according to a CNN poll conducted by SSRS.
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Ella Nilsen / Vox:
Trump keeps blaming Democrats for his own policy of family separation
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Vann R. Newkirk II / The Atlantic:
The End of Civil Rights — The fires on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, had barely stopped burning when the Department of Justice released an extraordinary report on the city's police department. In the findings of the 2015 investigation of the Ferguson Police Department …
Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
New York's Health Department Plans to Recommend Legalizing Marijuana — ALBANY — A study commissioned by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo will recommend that “a regulated, legal marijuana program be available to adults in the state,” the New York State health commissioner said on Monday.
Matthew Diebel / USA Today:
Giant Hogweed, a plant that can cause burns and blindness, found in Virginia — Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the location of the Staunton district. — A huge weed that can cause third-degree burns and even blindness has been found in Virginia.
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Trump Job Approval at 45%, Tying Personal Best — WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump's job approval rating averaged 45% in Gallup polling last week, tying his personal high. His previous 45% rating occurred in the first week after he was inaugurated as president.
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