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Associated Press:
Youngest migrants held in ‘tender age’ shelters — Trump administration officials have been sending babies and other young children forcibly separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border to at least three “tender age” shelters in South Texas, The Associated Press has learned.
HuffPost:
Rudy Giuliani Says FBI Questioned Him On Leaks That Hurt Clinton Campaign — Trump's lawyer says he talked with two FBI agents in his suite at the Trump International Hotel in D.C. — WASHINGTON Rudy Giuliani says FBI agents interviewed him in his room at the Trump International Hotel earlier …
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Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Trump Lawyer Rudy Giuliani to Trump 2020 Campaign Manager Brad Parscale: ‘Keep Quiet’ … Rudy Giuliani would prefer it if his client Donald Trump's political team would stop demanding the president fire his attorney general. — “I wish they'd sit back and keep quiet for a while,” Giuliani …
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Laura Jarrett / CNN:
FBI agent Strzok escorted from FBI building Friday — Washington (CNN)FBI agent Peter Strzok was escorted from the FBI building Friday as part of the ongoing internal proceedings at the bureau on his conduct, according to a source familiar with the matter. — As of Tuesday, the source said, Strzok is still an FBI employee.
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USA Today:
Donald Trump is wrong. My client Peter Strzok is a patriot, not a ‘sick loser.’
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Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
FBI agent Peter Strzok escorted from building amid internal review
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Elizabeth Zwirz / Fox News:
FBI agent Peter Strzok ‘escorted’ from FBI building, lawyer confirms
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Associated Press:
With eyes on midterms, Trump embraces immigration fight — WASHINGTON (AP) — Calling the shots as his West Wing clears out, President Donald Trump sees his hard-line immigration stance as a winning issue heading into a midterm election he views as a referendum on his protectionist policies.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Trump loses temper over border wall funding
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BuzzFeed:
One Of Trump's Top Aides Is Leaving The White House
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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Meghan McCain Calls Out First Daughter's Silence on Child Separation: ‘Where Is Ivanka?’ — On The View this morning, Meghan McCain brought up Ivanka Trump to ask where she's been on this issue of family separation at the border. — The outrage over separating children from their parents …
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Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
President Trump seems to be saying more and more things that aren't true — He's done it on Twitter. He's done it in the White House driveway. And he's done it in a speech to a business group. — President Trump — a man already known for trafficking in mistruths and even outright lies …
New York Times:
Republicans Move to Defuse Family Separation Crisis Through Legislation
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David Remnick / New Yorker:
Trump's Cruelty and the Crying Children at the Border
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Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
Two charts demolish the notion that immigrants here illegally commit more crime
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Wall Street Journal:
Michael Cohen Wants Trump to Pay His Legal Fees — Former personal lawyer for Trump hires New York attorney Guy Petrillo — Michael Cohen has hired New York lawyer Guy Petrillo to represent him in a federal investigation into his business dealings, and has told associates he wants President Donald Trump …
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CNN:
Trump's personal attorney is ‘willing to give info’ about the President — Washington (CNN)Donald Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen has signaled to friends that he is “willing to give” investigators information on the President if that's what they are looking for …
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Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:
Breaking: Michael Cohen, Holding His Cards Close to the Vest, Has Hired a New Lawyer — The president's former attorney, who parted with his lawyers last week, has now hired Guy Petrillo, who served as the chief of the criminal division in the S.D.N.Y. from 2008 to 2009. — BY - EMILY JANE FOXJune 19, 2018,
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McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Exclusive: US officials likely lost track of nearly 6,000 unaccompanied migrant kids — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has likely lost track of nearly 6,000 unaccompanied migrant children, thousands more than lawmakers were alerted to last month, according to a McClatchy review of federal data.
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Nick Wadhams / Bloomberg:
U.S. Plans to Withdraw From UN Human Rights Council Today — Haley has said panel wages ‘pathological’ anti-Israel campaign — U.K.'s Johnson has said council is flawed but has value — The Trump administration plans to announce its withdrawal from the United Nations Human Rights Council …
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CBS News:
Members of Sessions' church accuse him of child abuse for border policies — Hundreds of United Methodists have brought church law charges against Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who is a member of the denomination. In a June 18 statement, more than 600 members of the denomination …
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Eric Boehlert / Shareblue Media:
Jeff Sessions' own church charges him with child abuse
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Daniel Arkin / NBC News:
Over 600 United Methodist clergy, laity file church complaint against Sessions, a Methodist
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Mike McIntire / New York Times:
Commerce Secretary Shorted Stock as Negative Coverage Loomed — Commerce Secretary Wilbur L. Ross Jr. shorted stock in a shipping firm — an investment tactic for profiting if share prices fall — days after learning that reporters were preparing a potentially negative story about his dealings with the Kremlin-linked company.
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Shawn Donnan / Financial Times:
Wilbur Ross sale of Putin-linked shipping group shares revealed
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Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
Former ICE Director: Some migrant family separations are permanent — “You could be creating thousands of immigrant orphans in the U.S.,” said ex-Acting Director John Sandweg. — WASHINGTON — The former head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement told NBC News that migrant parents separated …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Schumer rejects GOP proposal to address border crisis — Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer — (N.Y.) on Tuesday dismissed a legislative proposal backed by Republican leaders to keep immigrant families together at the border, arguing that President Trump — could fix the problem more easily with a flick of his pen.
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Sharyl Attkisson / The Hill:
All the times Horowitz contradicted Wray — but nobody seemed to notice — Nine times during their joint testimony before a Senate committee on Monday, Department of Justice Inspector General (IG) Michael Horowitz contradicted FBI Director Christopher Wray ... ... but nobody appeared to notice.
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Hunter Walker / Yahoo:
Businesses have made millions off Trump's child separation policy — WASHINGTON — President Trump's controversial child separation policy is being carried out with the help of private businesses who have received millions of dollars in government contracts to help run the shelters …
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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Rise of the Amnesty Thugs — Ripping children away from their parents is the most cinematically cruel part of the Trump immigration policy, but it is not the most telling part. The most telling part is what happened to Ludvin Franco. — Franco was an unauthorized immigrant …
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No More Mister Nice Blog
Esther Fung / Wall Street Journal:
Florida Officials Approve Plan to Build Largest U.S. Mall — Residents, other mall owners raise concerns about traffic, environmental impact and possible subsidies — At a time when store closures are accelerating and struggling malls pockmark the country, county commissioners in Florida …
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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
‘Pro-Life,’ Pro-Family Groups Are MIA On Family Separations At The Border — “We refrain from public comment on immigration,” said the president of SBA List, whose mission is to “encircle the vulnerable ones who need us.” — WASHINGTON Conservative groups that promote themselves as …
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Michael Harriot / The Root:
Watch This White Woman Explain to a Black Woman Why Slavery Wasn't So Bad — After using census reports and cherry-picked facts, a resident of Cobb County, Ga., recently surpassed the record held by Roseanne Barr and Rachel Dolezal on the Becky-ometer, a scientific tool used to measure the caucasity of white women.
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Casey Michel / ThinkProgress:
Russians and the American right started plotting in 1995. We have the notes from the first meeting. — New documents obtained by ThinkProgress show how Russian and American fundamentalists first began their collaboration. — In a congressional hearing last fall, Glenn Simpson …
Fox News:
Manafort in ‘solitary confinement’ to avoid attack by someone intent on ‘street cred,’ Trump ex-lawyer says — Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort is being held in “solitary confinement” after his bail was revoked, in an “outrageous violation” of his civil liberties, former Trump lawyer John Dowd told Fox News on Tuesday.
Bloomberg:
Trump's Immigrant Child Detentions Mean $458 Million for Nonprofit — Southwest Key paid to house immigrant children on U.S. behalf — Group runs former WalMart Inc. store turned detention center — The Trump administration plans to pay a Texas nonprofit nearly half a billion dollars …
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Houston Chronicle
BuzzFeed:
The Federal Agent Behind A Mysterious Leak Investigation Railed Against “Hyphenated-Americans” — Craft beer, a business partner in the FBI, and “Dear Failure.” — The Customs and Border Protection officer who reportedly tried to pressure a former BuzzFeed News journalist into talking about her sources …
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