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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.
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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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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 …
Former U.S. Attorneys:
Bipartisan Group of Former United States Attorneys Call on Sessions to End Family Separation
Bipartisan Group of Former United States Attorneys Call on Sessions to End Family Separation
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Sessions responds to Nazi comparisons: ‘They were keeping the Jews from leaving’
Sessions responds to Nazi comparisons: ‘They were keeping the Jews from leaving’
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Politico:
Nielsen becomes face of Trump's border separations
Nielsen becomes face of Trump's border separations
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New York Times:
How Anti-Immigration Passion Was Inflamed From the Fringe
How Anti-Immigration Passion Was Inflamed From the Fringe
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Wall Street Journal:
The GOP's Immigration Meltdown
The GOP's Immigration Meltdown
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Thomas J. Donohue / U.S. Chamber of Commerce:
Separating Children from Families Must End Now
Separating Children from Families Must End Now
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David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
From ‘I Alone Can Fix It’ to ‘Change the Laws!’
From ‘I Alone Can Fix It’ to ‘Change the Laws!’
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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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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
‘Pro-Life,’ Pro-Family Groups Are MIA On Family Separations At The Border
‘Pro-Life,’ Pro-Family Groups Are MIA On Family Separations At The Border
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Dara Lind / Vox:
New statistics: the government is separating 65 children a day from parents at the border
New statistics: the government is separating 65 children a day from parents at the border
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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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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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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 …
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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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 …
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Trump treks to Capitol Hill as immigration firestorm rages
Trump treks to Capitol Hill as immigration firestorm rages
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Eric Boehlert / Shareblue Media:
Jeff Sessions' own church charges him with child abuse — Hundreds of United Methodists are demanding accountability from Attorney General Jeff Sessions. — Denouncing the “damage he is currently causing to immigrants, particularly children and families,” 640 members of Attorney General …
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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 …
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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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,
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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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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Avery Anapol / The Hill:
Laura Ingraham: Migrant child detention centers ‘essentially summer camps’ — Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Monday described the child detention facilities housing immigrant youth as “essentially summer camps.” — Ingraham's comments come amid growing outcry over the Trump administration's policy …
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Clinton Emails: What the IG Report Refuses to Admit — The fix was in. — Despite the sprawl of Justice Department inspector general Michael Horowitz's 568-page report on the Clinton-emails investigation, there is precious little discussion of the most important issue …
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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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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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Wall Street Journal:
Michael Cohen Called In Loan While Seeking Funds to Pay Stormy Daniels — Trump's former personal lawyer filed to foreclose on $3.8 million loan to French investor in October 2016 — Michael Cohen took aggressive steps to collect on a multimillion-dollar debt in October 2016 …
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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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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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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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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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