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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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Washington Post, Vox and Mother Jones
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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
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, Religion News Service and The United Methodist Church
George Takei / Foreign Policy:
‘At Least During the Internment ...’ Are Words I Thought I'd Never Utter
‘At Least During the Internment ...’ Are Words I Thought I'd Never Utter
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ABC News, The Atlantic, Mashable, CNN, twitchy.com, Real Clear Politics, Vox, ThinkProgress, IJR, Deadline, The Daily Caller and KTLA
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
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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Vox, National Review, Townhall, Outside the Beltway and Raw Story
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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
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
The Outrage Over Family Separation Is Exactly What Stephen Miller Wants
The Outrage Over Family Separation Is Exactly What Stephen Miller Wants
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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 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
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, Washington Press, Law & Crime, The Week, The Mahablog and Crooked Media
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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, The Right Scoop and Daily Wire
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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Bloomberg, Law & Crime, CNN, Mediaite, ACS Blog and Fox News Insider
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, TheBlaze and The Gateway Pundit
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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Globe and Mail, TalkLeft, The Intercept, TheBlaze, Axios, POLITICUSUSA, The Week and Raw Story
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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IJR, Politico, CNBC, Breitbart, Daily Wire, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Townhall, MSNBC, Axios, Pacific Standard and Talking Points Memo
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Abigail Williams / NBC News:
U.S. withdraws from U.N. Human Rights Council
U.S. withdraws from U.N. Human Rights Council
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Weekly Standard, The Right Scoop and NPR
Carol Morello / Washington Post:
U.S. expected to back away from U.N. Human Rights Council
U.S. expected to back away from U.N. Human Rights Council
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Vox
New York Times:
Bush Veteran Joseph Hagin to Leave Trump White House Post — WASHINGTON — Joseph W. Hagin, a deputy chief of staff to President Trump and one of the most seasoned government veterans on a team populated mainly by newcomers with little if any prior experience in the White House, plans to step down next month.
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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 Post and The Daily Caller
Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
White House deputy chief of staff to leave in July
White House deputy chief of staff to leave in July
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The Atlantic, CNBC and Hit & Run
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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Townhall, Vox, Daily Wire, The Week, The Right Scoop, The Daily Caller, twitchy.com, Washington Free Beacon and Ted Cruz
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, Talking Points Memo, Balloon Juice and The Atlantic
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
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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ThinkProgress and New York Magazine
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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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Forbes, New Republic, BloombergQuint and Washington Press
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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Econlib, Hit & Run and New Republic
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
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
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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Politico, Breitbart, CNN, Raw Story, Mediaite, Splinter, Washington Times, Washington Post, The Daily Caller, twitchy.com, Political Wire and RedState
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, Washington Press and Breitbart
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
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.
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
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 …