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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Trump loses temper over border wall funding — The president complained in a private meeting that Senate Republicans won't fully fund his wall — and threatened a shutdown in September. — President Donald Trump is getting frustrated with his administration's own demands for border wall funding.
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McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
The Outrage Over Family Separation Is Exactly What Stephen Miller Wants — When the news stories began to surface last month of sobbing young migrant children being forcibly removed from their parents at the border, many close White House watchers instantly suspected Stephen Miller was behind it.
Wall Street Journal:
The GOP's Immigration Meltdown — Restrictionists may cost Republicans their majorities in Congress. — Are Republicans trying to lose their majorities in Congress this November? We assume not, but you can't tell from the party's internal feuding over immigration that is fast becoming …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
John Kruzel / @politifact:
No, Donald Trump's separation of immigrant families was not Barack Obama's policy
No, Donald Trump's separation of immigrant families was not Barack Obama's policy
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David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Republicans fret about what family separations will cost them
Republicans fret about what family separations will cost them
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Anita Kumar / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Buyers tied to Russia, former Soviet republics paid $109 million cash for Trump properties — WASHINGTON — Aleksandr Burman, a Ukrainian who engaged in a health care scheme that cost the federal government $26 million and was sentenced to a decade in prison, paid $725,000 cash for a condo …
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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Carol Morello / Washington Post:
U.S. expected to back away from U.N. Human Rights Council
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 …
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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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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
A reporter at the White House decided to play the audio of children sobbing. Somebody had to. — Olivia Nuzzi had no plans of playing the heart-rending audio of Central American children crying for their parents when she arrived in the White House briefing room Monday.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
How to mislead with statistics, DHS Secretary Nielsen edition
How to mislead with statistics, DHS Secretary Nielsen edition
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CNBC:
Dow tumbles 400 points, wiping out gain for year, as Trump directs more tariffs at China — Stocks fell sharply on Tuesday after President Donald Trump's latest threat to China increased fears of an impending trade war between the world's largest economies.
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Shannon Vavra / Axios:
The big picture: Trump's latest Chinese tariffs announcement
The big picture: Trump's latest Chinese tariffs announcement
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Huileng Tan / CNBC:
China says the US ‘has initiated a trade war,’ and Beijing isn't afraid to fight back
China says the US ‘has initiated a trade war,’ and Beijing isn't afraid to fight back
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Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times:
How the Koch Brothers Are Killing Public Transit Projects Around the Country — NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A team of political activists huddled at a Hardee's one rainy Saturday, wolfing down a breakfast of biscuits and gravy. Then they descended on Antioch, a quiet Nashville suburb, armed with iPads full of voter data and a fiery script.
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Thomas J. Donohue / U.S. Chamber of Commerce:
Separating Children from Families Must End Now — President and CEO, U.S. Chamber of Commerce — Thousands of children are being forcibly removed from their parents by our government. There is no other way to say it, this is not who we are and it must end now.
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William Wan / Washington Post:
What separation from parents does to children: ‘The effect is catastrophic’
What separation from parents does to children: ‘The effect is catastrophic’
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Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
In Trump's efficient U.S. family separation system, reunions take far longer
In Trump's efficient U.S. family separation system, reunions take far longer
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Axios:
Don Junior cancels fundraiser with Bush son — Donald Trump Jr. and George P. Bush had formed an unlikely alliance despite their fathers, Donald Trump and Jeb Bush, loathing each other — with Don Jr. backing George P. in his re-election campaign for Texas land commissioner …
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George Takei / Foreign Policy:
‘At Least During the Internment ...’ Are Words I Thought I'd Never Utter — I was sent to a camp at just five years old — but even then, they didn't separate children from families — Imagine this scene: Tens of thousands of people, mostly families with children, are labeled by the government …
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Bill D'Agostino / NewsBusters:
Cable News: 22 Comparisons of Immigration Policy to the Holocaust, Slavery
Cable News: 22 Comparisons of Immigration Policy to the Holocaust, Slavery
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Lia Eustachewich / New York Post:
New Yorker fact-checker under fire after mistaking ICE worker's tattoo for Nazi symbol — A Harvard-educated fact-checker for the New Yorker is being excoriated by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency for “baselessly slandering” a Marine veteran — by falsely accusing him of having a Nazi tattoo, according to reports.
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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 …
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Isaac Chotiner / Slate:
“Just Me. The President of the United States, Facing a Mob of Accusers” — “It's a role like any other, a coat she puts on when necessary and sheds as soon as she's done, but she can see it's working: the men trying for eye contact, checking the cleavage she's made sure to reveal …
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
QAnon, the Crazy Pro-Trump Conspiracy, Melts Down Over OIG Report … A man armed with a rifle and a handgun drove an armored truck to the Hoover Dam last Friday and started blocking traffic. He brought a homemade sign with him that said, “Release the OIG report.” — Except the report was already out.
Gabriel Malor / The Federalist:
Democrats' Border Separation Bill Would Let Nearly All Parents Who Commit Federal Crimes Get Off Scot-Free — Every Senate Democrat has signed on to cosponsor a bill written so carelessly that it does not distinguish between foreign children at the border and U.S. citizen children.
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USA Today:
Donald Trump is wrong. My client Peter Strzok is a patriot, not a ‘sick loser.’ — Donald Trump is attacking Peter Strzok, the FBI and the Justice Department in order to pre-emptively discredit the results of Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. — CONNECT
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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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Erik Wasson / Bloomberg:
House GOP Unveils Budget to Fast-Track Tax Cuts, End Obamacare — Republicans aim to energize base with $8 trillion spending cut — Democrats see Obamacare defense as key to winning back House — House Republicans unveiled a 2019 budget proposal Tuesday to send a message …
Associated Press:
Army officially splits with West Point ‘commie cadet’ — WATERTOWN, N.Y. — The images Spenser Rapone posted on Twitter from his West Point graduation were intentionally shocking: In one, the smirking cadet opens his dress uniform to expose a T-shirt with a blood-red image of socialist icon Che Guevara.
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Joseph Cox / Motherboard:
FOIA: DHS Did Not Investigate Hundreds of Civil Rights Abuse Complaints — DHS's Office of the Inspector General says it has ‘limited resources’ to investigate hundreds of civil liberties and detainee abuse complaints, but one expert said the figures “demand a closer look.”
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Jochen Bittner / New York Times:
What Trump Gets Right About Europe — HAMBURG, Germany — Most people can agree that international affairs should not be conducted by tweet — especially when the tweeter in question is Donald Trump. Among other reasons, it's easy to dismiss the president's mercurial rage and flagrant insults as little more than temper tantrums.
Aviya Kushner / The Forward:
‘INFEST’ — The Ugly Nazi History of Trump's Chosen Verb About Immigrants — When President Trump characterized immigrants as “animals,” some people waved it away, claiming he was only referring to gang members. But today's use of “infest” in connection to human beings is impossible to ignore.
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Geoffrey Dickens / NewsBusters:
Six Days in June: Nets Flood Broadcasts With 176 Minutes of Separated Kids Coverage — Outraged anchors and correspondents at ABC, CBS and NBC attacked the Trump administration for separating children from parents at the border as they overwhelmed their Monday morning and evening news programs …