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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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Bill Goodykoontz / USA Today:
News media finally calls out Trump on his lies. It took children in cages to make it happen. … An audio recording that appears to capture the heartbreaking cries of children being processed by officials took center stage Monday in the growing uproar over the Trump administration's policy …
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RedState, Fox News, CNN and Washington Post
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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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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Vox, ThinkProgress and Washington Post
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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New Republic, ThinkProgress and Washington Times
New York Times:
Republicans Move to Defuse Family Separation Crisis Through Legislation
Republicans Move to Defuse Family Separation Crisis Through Legislation
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Washington Post, The Daily Caller, Boston Magazine and Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Ramesh Ponnuru / Bloomberg:
How to Get Tough on Immigration Without Separating Families
How to Get Tough on Immigration Without Separating Families
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Washington Post, IJR, Vox and National Review
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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Axios, The Week, POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
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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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Breitbart, New York Daily News and Rewire.News
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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Washington Post, Washington Monthly, Lawfare, Mother Jones and NPR
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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Josh Lederman / Associated Press:
Sens. McCain, Coons urge Trump to withdraw migration nominee — WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. John McCain and Democratic Sen. Chris Coons called on President Donald Trump's administration Tuesday to withdraw its nominee for a key State Department position over his “lack of empathy” for immigrants.
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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Washington Post, CNN, The Hill, IJR, Vox, America's Voice, Law & Crime, Cincinnati.com and Talking Points Memo
Carol Morello / Washington Post:
U.S. expected to back away from U.N. Human Rights Council
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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CBS News:
Members of Sessions' church accuse him of child abuse for border policies
Members of Sessions' church accuse him of child abuse for border policies
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al.com, The United Methodist Church and Vox
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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Talking Points Memo
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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National Review, Vox, Townhall, Outside the Beltway, Raw Story and Wall Street Journal
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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CNN, Talking Points Memo and CNBC
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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The Nation, Media Matters for America, Portland Mercury, Media Matters for America, The Root and MSNBC
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The Onion / politics.theonion.com:
Stephen Miller Furious At ProPublica For Only Releasing 7-Minute Recording Of Immigrant Children Sobbing
Stephen Miller Furious At ProPublica For Only Releasing 7-Minute Recording Of Immigrant Children Sobbing
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The Onion
Salvador Rizzo / Washington Post:
The facts about Trump's policy of separating families at the border
The facts about Trump's policy of separating families at the border
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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 …
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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The Right Scoop, The Daily Caller and Ted Cruz
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell backs bill to keep immigrant families together
McConnell backs bill to keep immigrant families together
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National Review, NPR and Washington Free Beacon
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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Law & Crime, The Week, The Mahablog and Crooked Media
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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Raw Story
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 and Hit & Run
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
FBI agent Peter Strzok escorted from building amid internal review — FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok was escorted from the building amid an internal review of his conduct, his lawyer confirmed Tuesday. — Strzok, who had a central role in the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton
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CNN, Washington Times, The Right Scoop and The Gateway Pundit
Daniel Dale / Toronto Star:
Donald Trump accuses Canadians of smuggling shoes home from U.S. — WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump has called Canada “brutal,” accused Canada's prime minister of being “weak,” and taken aim at Canada's supply management system for dairy. — Now he is calling Canadians shoe smugglers.
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New York Post and Breitbart
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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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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.
Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Guatemalan asylum-seeker sues Trump administration for taking her 7-year-old son and REFUSING to say where he is - and he screamed ‘Mama! Mama!’ in her only phone call from immigration jail — Beata Mariana de Jesus Mejia-Mejia, a Guatemalan national seeking asylum in the U.S. …
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Jonathan Blitzer / New Yorker:
In ICE Detention, a Honduran Woman Fears Deportation Without Her Son
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 …
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, BloombergQuint, Washington Press and CNBC
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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CNN, Bloomberg, Mediaite, ACS Blog and Fox News Insider
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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Fox News, Hot Air, The Right Scoop and Breitbart
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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Townhall, Hot Air, RedState, USA Today, Washington Free Beacon, twitchy.com, Daily Wire, Axios, The Week, Mother Jones and HuffPost