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Donald J. Trump / The White House:
Affording Congress an Opportunity to Address Family Separation — By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), 8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq., it is hereby ordered as follows: — Section 1.
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New York Times:
Trump Plans Executive Order to End Family Separation — President Trump is preparing to issue an executive order as soon as Wednesday that ends the separation of families at the border by indefinitely detaining parents and children together, according to a person familiar with the White House plans.
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Tresa Baldas / Detroit Free Press:
Torn from immigrant parents, 8-month-old baby lands in Michigan — The president of the American Academy of Pediatrics says migrant children being separated from their parents at the border are suffering from child abuse. Veuer's Elizabeth Keatinge has more. Buzz60 — CONNECT
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Associated Press:
Homeland Security drafts plan to end family separation — WASHINGTON (AP) — Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is drafting an executive action for President Donald Trump that would direct her department to keep families together in detention after they are detained crossing the border illegally …
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Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
Trump admin's ‘tent cities’ cost more than keeping migrant kids with parents
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Washington Post:
Trump reverses course, signs order ending his policy of separating families at the border
Dara Lind / Vox:
The executive order Trump claims will end family separation, explained
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The Daily Beast:
Trump Stops Separating Immigrant Families After Claiming He Couldn't
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Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Michael Bloomberg Will Spend $80 Million on the Midterms. His Goal: Flip the House — Michael R. Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York City, has decided to throw his political clout and personal fortune behind the Democratic campaign to take control of the House of Representatives this year …
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Erica Werner / Washington Post:
Senate rejects billions in Trump spending cuts as two Republicans vote ‘no’ — The Senate on Wednesday rejected billions in spending cuts proposed by the Trump administration as two Republicans joined all Democrats in voting no. — The 48-50 vote rebuffed a White House plan to claw …
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Pew Research Center:
Voters More Focused on Control of Congress - and the President - Than in Past Midterms — GOP leads on economy, Democrats on health care, immigration — The congressional elections are more than four months away, but voter engagement is high when compared with comparable points in previous midterm cycles.
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Joe Simonson / The Daily Caller:
Socialist Activist Who Harassed Homeland Security Secretary Works For The Department Of Justice — One of the activists who chased Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen out of a Mexican restaurant Tuesday night over the Trump administration's immigration policies is an employee of the Department of Justice …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump and Kirstjen Nielsen's embarrassing surrender on separating families at the border — The Trump administration insisted it didn't have a policy of separating children from their parents at the border. It said that it was merely following the law. And it said “Congress alone can fix” the mess.
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Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
Kirstjen Nielsen heckled by protesters at Mexican restaurant. Other diners applauded them.
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Benjy Sarlin / NBC News:
White House can't get its story straight on family separation. There could be legal consequences.
Steven Nelson / Washington Examiner:
Who are the protesters who crashed Kirstjen Nielsen's dinner and what are they planning next?
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Reveal:
Immigrant children forcibly injected with drugs, lawsuit claims — President Donald Trump's zero tolerance policy is creating a zombie army of children forcibly injected with medications that make them dizzy, listless, obese and even incapacitated, according to legal filings that show immigrant children …
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Roque Planas / HuffPost:
Migrant Children Drugged Without Consent At Government Centers, Court Documents Show — The allegations center on a mental health facility in Texas that has had problems in the past. — Staff working on the behalf of the Office of Refugee Resettlement are routinely drugging detained child migrants …
The Texas Tribune:
Separated migrant children are headed toward shelters with a history of abuse and neglect — Taxpayers have paid more than $1.5 billion to private companies operating shelters accused of serious lapses in care, including neglect and abuse. — Taxpayers have paid more than $1.5 billion …
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Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“Stephen Actually Enjoys Seeing Those Pictures at the Border”: The West Wing Is Fracturing Over Trump's Callous Migrant-Family Policy — Miller gloats and Sanders sulks as the president—oblivious to the moral problem and political consequences—bulls ahead.
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Splinter:
Here's Stephen Miller's Cell Phone Number, If You Need It
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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Twitter Is Locking Accounts For Tweeting Stephen Miller's Phone Number
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
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Wall Street Journal:
Publisher of National Enquirer Subpoenaed in Michael Cohen Probe — Prosecutors eye whether company coordinated with ex-Trump lawyer on payment to bury affair allegation — Federal authorities have subpoenaed the publisher of the National Enquirer for records related to its $150,000 payment …
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Eliana Larramendia / ABC News:
Michael Cohen resigns from RNC committee post, sources say — Michael Cohen, President Trump's longtime confidant and former personal attorney, has resigned from his post as deputy finance chair of the Republican National Committee's Finance Committee, sources close to the RNC told ABC News.
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Gray Matters / Houston Chronicle:
Flight attendant: I won't work flights that separate immigrant kids from families — For the past 29 years I have been a flight attendant for a major U.S. airline. Several weeks ago, I worked two flights (one to San Antonio and the other to McAllen) which proved to be two of the most …
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Bart Jansen / USA Today:
American, Frontier, Southwest and United airlines refuse to transport immigrant children separated …
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Benny Johnson / The Daily Caller:
Melania Calls Secret Service After Actor Peter Fonda Calls For Barron Trump To Be Kidnapped — The Office of the First Lady has notified the Secret Service after actor Peter Fonda called for kidnapping Melania and Donald Trump's son, Barron, The Daily Caller has learned exclusively.
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Daily Mail:
Peter Fonda apologizes to Trumps for ‘highly inappropriate and vulgar’ tweet calling for Barron to be 'ripped from his mother's arms and put in a cage with pedophiles' - AFTER Melania talks with Secret Service — He tweeted that 'we should rip Barron Trump from his mother's arms and put him in a cage with pedophiles'
Sherman Smith / Topeka Capital-Journal:
Kobach's office tells counties to keep enforcing proof of citizenship law — Sherman Smith sherman_news — The elections director for Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach told county clerks in a conference call Tuesday to continue enforcing a proof of citizenship law that a federal judge ruled unconstitutional.
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Giuliani's act of love sets off GOP furor — The bizarre tale of the ex-New York mayor's support for an obscure House candidate in Louisiana. — Rudy Giuliani's love life is causing trouble for the White House. — In a move that blindsided the West Wing and sent Hill Republicans into a tizzy …
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Philip Pullella / Reuters:
Exclusive: Pope criticizes Trump administration policy on migrant family separation — VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis has criticized the Trump administration's policy of separating migrant families at the Mexican border, saying populism is not the answer to the world's immigration problems.
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
REVEALED: Christopher Steele Visited State Department Shortly Before 2016 Election — Former British spy Christopher Steele visited the State Department in October 2016 and briefed officials there about his work on the infamous anti-Trump dossier, it was revealed on Wednesday.
Michael Quander / WUSA:
‘White Civil Rights Rally’ application approved for DC — The demonstration will happen on the one-year anniversary of the ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. — Hundreds of people are expected in Washington, D.C. to protest, what they call, white civil rights.
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
Fewer Births Than Deaths Among Whites in Majority of U.S. States — WASHINGTON — Deaths now outnumber births among white people in more than half the states in the country, demographers have found, signaling what could be a faster-than-expected transition to a future in which whites are no longer a majority of the American population.
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Bruce Springsteen:
Bruce's Remarks before “The Ghost Of Tom Joad” — In response to requests for the text of Bruce's remarks before he performed “The Ghost of Tom Joad” last night, here is a rough transcript: — I never believed that people come to my shows, or rock shows to be told anything.
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Cameron Joseph / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Senate Nominee Cramer Compares Cages For Migrant Kids To Playgrounds — Rep. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) pushed back hard on the idea that keeping border-crossing children in chain-link cages was inhumane, defending the practice in two local radio shows on Wednesday.
Christopher Brennan / New York Daily News:
American senators to visit Russia at end of month: report — A group of American senators will travel to Russia at the end of the month and celebrate Independence Day in Moscow, according to a report. — The delegation will arrive in St. Petersburg on June 30 and spend time there before heading …
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