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Ginger Thompson / ProPublica:
Listen to Children Who've Just Been Separated From Their Parents at the Border  —  Leer en Español.  —  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.
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Politico:
Nielsen becomes face of Trump's border separations  —  The Homeland Security secretary has been seen as weak on enforcement, but on Monday she defended decisions that have left kids warehoused on the border.  —  Kirstjen Nielsen, President Donald Trump's secretary of Homeland Security …
Washington Post:
Trump defiant as crisis grows over family separation at the border  —  The Trump administration's move to separate immigrant families at the border and detain children apart from their parents spiraled into a humanitarian and political crisis Monday as the White House struggled to contain the growing public outcry.
Salvador Rizzo / Washington Post:
The facts about Trump's policy of separating families at the border  —  “I hate the children being taken away.  The Democrats have to change their law.  That's their law.”  —  “We have the worst immigration laws in the entire world.  Nobody has such sad, such bad and actually, in many cases …
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Republicans fret about what family separations will cost them  —  Senior Republicans on Monday warned President Trump that forcibly separating migrant children from their illegal-immigrant parents was a political loser that could cost the party control of Congress in the midterm elections.
Discussion: CNN, Bloomberg and New York Times
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
From ‘I Alone Can Fix It’ to ‘Change the Laws!’
Avi Selk / Washington Post:
‘I wanted to stop her crying’: The image of a migrant child that broke a photographer's heart
Discussion: Macleans.ca, HuffPost and NPR
New York Times:
When Did Caging Kids Become the Art of the Deal?
Discussion: The Hill, Roll Call and RedState
U.S. Department of Justice:
Joshua Adam Schulte Charged With The Unauthorized Disclosure Of Classified Information And Other Offenses Relating To The Theft Of Classified Material From The Central Intelligence Agency  —  Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, John C. Demers …
Discussion: The Daily Beast, Law & Crime and Axios
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Ex-CIA engineer charged with massive leak to WikiLeaks  —  A former CIA computer engineer has been indicted on charges he masterminded what appears to be the largest leak of classified information in the spy agency's history.  —  Joshua Schulte, 29, was charged in a new grand jury indictment …
Discussion: CNN
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Ex-CIA employee charged in major leak of agency hacking tools
Adam Goldman / New York Times:   New Charges in Huge C.I.A. Breach Known as Vault 7
New York Times:
Forget Tax Cuts.  Trump Wants to Rally G.O.P. Base Over Immigration  —  WASHINGTON — As Republicans try to keep their midterm election strategy focused on the economy, tax cuts and falling unemployment, President Trump sent his clearest signal yet on Monday that he intends to make divisive …
Discussion: New Republic
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Wall Street Journal:
The GOP's Immigration Meltdown
Discussion: The Week
Harry Enten / CNN:   Moderate GOP voices on immigration are at risk of a November wipeout in the House
John Hendel / Politico:
Senate rejects Trump's rescue of Chinese firm ZTE  —  The Senate voted Monday to reimpose the U.S. ban on Chinese telecom giant ZTE, in a rebuke to President Donald Trump and his efforts to keep the company in business.  —  The provision targeting ZTE was part of the National Defense Authorization Act …
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Huileng Tan / CNBC:
China says the US ‘has initiated a trade war,’ and Beijing isn't afraid to fight back
Discussion: Reuters and HuffPost
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Trump threatens additional tariffs on $200b worth of Chinese goods
Former U.S. Attorneys:
Bipartisan Group of Former United States Attorneys Call on Sessions to End Family Separation  —  Dear Attorney General Jefferson B. Sessions:  —  We write as former United States Attorneys who have served under both Republican and Democratic Presidents.  Like the majority of Americans …
Discussion: Politico and Talking Points Memo
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Jonathan Blitzer / New Yorker:
The Government Has No Plan for Reuniting the Immigrant Families It Is Tearing Apart
Discussion: Daily Kos, HuffPost and First Draft
Wichita Eagle:
Judge strikes down Kansas voter law, orders Kobach to take classes  —  TOPEKA  —  A federal judge has struck down a Kansas voter citizenship law that Secretary of State Kris Kobach had personally defended.  —  Judge Julie Robinson also ordered Kobach, who is seeking the Republican nomination for governor …
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Sam Levine / HuffPost:
Federal Judge Strikes Down Kansas Proof Of Citizenship Law
Discussion: Splinter and Mother Jones
New York Times:
How Anti-Immigration Passion Was Inflamed From the Fringe  —  WASHINGTON — Jeff Sessions and Stephen Miller spent years on the political fringe in the nation's capital as high-decibel immigration hard-liners, always warning about the dangers of open borders but rarely in a position to affect law or policy.
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Wall Street Journal:
U.S., South Korea Cancel Major War Game Planned for August  —  Move comes after President Trump's promise at Singapore summit to halt maneuvers on Korean Peninsula  —  WASHINGTON—The Pentagon said Monday that it had agreed with South Korea to cancel an important military exercise …
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Erik Prince: I ‘Cooperated’ With Mueller … Erik Prince, the founder of private security company Blackwater, has found himself embroiled in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of potential coordination between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.  —  During the campaign …
William Wan / Washington Post:
What separation from parents does to children: ‘The effect is catastrophic’  —  This is what happens inside children when they are forcibly separated from their parents.  —  Their heart rate goes up.  Their body releases a flood of stress hormones such as cortisol and adrenaline.
Mike Morken / valleynewslive.com:
New poll shows close race for U.S. Senate Race in North Dakota  —  (Valley News Live) Fargo An exclusive statewide poll by Valley News Live and Mason-Dixon Polling shows, that not even a week after North Dakota's primary, the race for the U.S. Senate is tightening.
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Call to suspend Mueller probe was just posturing, Giuliani says  —  President Donald Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani said on Monday that he was actually just bluffing last week when he called for Justice Department leaders to suspend special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation within 24 hours.
Discussion: HuffPost
Lora Kolodny / CNBC:
Elon Musk emails employees about ‘extensive and damaging sabotage’ by employee  — Tesla CEO Elon Musk sent an e-mail to all employees on Sunday night alleging there was a saboteur within the company's ranks.  — Musk alleged this employee tweaked code on internal products and sent company data out without authorization.
Steve Hendrix / Washington Post:
Bob Dole's final mission  —  Each Saturday, before Bob Dole sets off on his latest vocation, he has cornflakes, a little sugar on top, and a bottle of chocolate Boost.  —  It takes less time to get dressed now that the 94-year-old finally allows a nurse to help him, but it remains a rough half-hour on a body racked by injury and age.
 
 
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Mathieu Gorse / Yahoo:
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Tyler Durden / Zero Hedge:
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Discussion: Instapundit and American Greatness
TheDenverChannel.com:
Gov. Hickenlooper signs order barring use of state resources to separate immigrant kids from parents
Discussion: Denver Post and Breitbart
Pew Research Center:
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Quilliam:
Southern Poverty Law Center, Inc. Admits It Was Wrong, Apologizes to Quilliam and Maajid Nawaz …