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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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New York Times, Law & Crime, Washington Press, The Week, The Mahablog and Crooked Media
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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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Axios, The Guardian, Vox and CNN
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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Talking Points Memo, National Review, Hot Air, The Right Scoop, The Gateway Pundit and Daily Wire
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
FBI agent Peter Strzok escorted from building amid internal review
FBI agent Peter Strzok escorted from building amid internal review
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Washington Times, The Gateway Pundit and TheBlaze
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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Hullabaloo
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CNN:
Michael Cohen is hiring an experienced criminal lawyer in New York — Source: Cohen signals willingness to cooperate — Washington (CNN)President Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen is hiring Guy Petrillo, a former chief of the criminal division of the US attorney's office in Manhattan …
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Shareblue Media, Law & Crime and Washington Press
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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Talking Points Memo and CNBC
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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The Atlantic, New York Times and The Forward
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Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
Two charts demolish the notion that immigrants here illegally commit more crime
Two charts demolish the notion that immigrants here illegally commit more crime
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The Hill, The Daily Caller, New Republic and AOL
David Remnick / New Yorker:
Trump's Cruelty and the Crying Children at the Border
Trump's Cruelty and the Crying Children at the Border
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HuffPost, Washington Post and Bloomberg
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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RedState, Townhall, twitchy.com, National Review, Vox, TheBlaze, The Week, The Right Scoop, The Daily Caller, Daily Wire, Washington Free Beacon and Ted Cruz
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The Hill:
Trump vows to stand with House GOP ‘1,000 percent’ on immigration — urged House Republicans to get an immigration bill to his desk during a closed-door meeting Tuesday evening, vowing to stand with them “1,000 percent” as they attempt to pass legislation meeting his demands. — “I am behind you so much.
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Trump loses temper over border wall funding
Trump loses temper over border wall funding
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Vox, Daily Kos, Townhall, Outside the Beltway, National Review and Raw Story
Mariam Khan / ABC News:
Senate Republicans buck Trump and back bill to halt immigrant family separations
Senate Republicans buck Trump and back bill to halt immigrant family separations
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Politico
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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BuzzFeed:
One Of Trump's Top Aides Is Leaving The White House
One Of Trump's Top Aides Is Leaving The White House
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Talking Points Memo, Washington Press, The Daily Caller and Balloon Juice
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
White House deputy chief of staff Hagin to leave
White House deputy chief of staff Hagin to leave
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Vox, Washington Post, Breitbart and TheBlaze
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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NBC News, Globe and Mail, TalkLeft, POLITICUSUSA, The Week, The Intercept, Raw Story, TheBlaze and Axios
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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al.com, Mother Jones, Vox and HuffPost
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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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ABC News, The Atlantic, Mashable, Religion News Service, twitchy.com, CNN, Real Clear Politics, Vox, ThinkProgress, Deadline, The Daily Caller and KTLA
Bill Goodykoontz / USA Today:
News media finally calls out Trump on his lies. It took children in cages to make it happen.
News media finally calls out Trump on his lies. It took children in cages to make it happen.
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RedState, CNN, Fox News and Washington Post
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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Politico, IJR, CNBC, Daily Wire, Breitbart, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Townhall, Axios, Pacific Standard, MSNBC and Talking Points Memo
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Conor Finnegan / ABC News:
US withdraws from UN Human Rights Council
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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Forbes
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Shawn Donnan / Financial Times:
Wilbur Ross sale of Putin-linked shipping group shares revealed
Wilbur Ross sale of Putin-linked shipping group shares revealed
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BloombergQuint and Forbes
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 …
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Daily Kos
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Daniel Arkin / NBC News:
Over 600 United Methodist clergy, laity file church complaint against Sessions, a Methodist — “Dig deeply into Mr. Sessions' advocacy and actions that have led to harm against thousands of vulnerable humans.” — A group of more than 600 United Methodist clergy and church members …
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The United Methodist Church, AOL and Talking Points Memo
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Eric Boehlert / Shareblue Media:
Jeff Sessions' own church charges him with child abuse
Jeff Sessions' own church charges him with child abuse
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ThinkProgress and New York Magazine
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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Washington Post, The Atlantic, Talking Points Memo and Balloon Juice
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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Raw Story
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.
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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New Republic, Econlib and Hit & Run
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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Breitbart, Rewire.News and New York Daily News
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 …
Elizabeth Chuck / NBC News:
Couple raises more than $5 million on Facebook to reunite immigrant families — It's Facebook's largest ever single fundraiser, and at one point, it was raising $4,000 a minute. — A campaign to help reunite immigrant families separated at the border has raised more than $5 million on Facebook …
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Washington Post, New York Times and Refinery29
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
Katy Vine / Texas Monthly:
A Pediatrician's View Into a Border Patrol Processing Center — Dr. Marsha Griffin, co-chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics special interest group on immigrant health, tells us what she's seen and what separation traumas could mean in the long term for immigrant children.
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 …
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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Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, The Daily Caller, Townhall, RedState, Washington Free Beacon, twitchy.com, Daily Wire, The Week, Fox News, USA Today, HuffPost and Mother Jones