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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
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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New Republic, New York Times, Weekly Standard, @politifact, Townhall, VICE, Vox, Refinery29, ThinkProgress, The Guardian, No More Mister Nice Blog, America's Voice, Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Verge, CNN, Shakesville, Mediaite, Washington Free Beacon, Washington Monthly and Washington Post
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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The Atlantic, CNN, Vox, twitchy.com, Real Clear Politics, ThinkProgress, Deadline, KTLA and The Daily Caller
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, Religion News Service and The United Methodist Church
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
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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Washington Post, Bloomberg and ThinkProgress
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, The Right Scoop, The Daily Caller, twitchy.com and Ted Cruz
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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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National Review, Vox, Townhall, Outside the Beltway 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
Washington Post:
Trump urges House GOP to fix immigration system, expresses no strong preference on rival bills …
Trump urges House GOP to fix immigration system, expresses no strong preference on rival bills …
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Weekly Standard, Motherboard, The Crime Report and Mother Jones
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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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
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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Washington Times, TheBlaze and The Gateway Pundit
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, Townhall, CNBC, Breitbart, Daily Wire, IJR, Lawyers, Guns & Money, MSNBC, Axios, Pacific Standard and Talking Points Memo
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Frank Miles / Fox News:
US withdraws from UN Human Rights Council as Haley decries ‘cesspool of political bias’
US withdraws from UN Human Rights Council as Haley decries ‘cesspool of political bias’
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Front Page Magazine and LifeNews.com
Conor Finnegan / ABC News:
US withdraws from UN Human Rights Council
Carol Morello / Washington Post:
U.S. expected to back away from U.N. Human Rights Council
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
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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 …
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, Axios, The Intercept, TheBlaze, The Week, POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
White House deputy chief of staff to leave in July — WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House aide who led the planning for President Donald Trump's meeting last week with North Korea's Kim Jong Un has decided to leave the Trump administration to return to the private sector.
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The Atlantic, CNBC and Hit & Run
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MSN:
White House deputy chief of staff to leave in July
White House deputy chief of staff to leave in July
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Political Wire, The Week and CNN
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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Washington Post and TheBlaze
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 …
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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Econlib, Hit & Run and New Republic
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, The Root, Portland Mercury, Media Matters for America and Splinter
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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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New Republic, Forbes, BloombergQuint and Washington Press
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
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.
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 Post, Washington Times, The Daily Caller, twitchy.com, Political Wire and RedState
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