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Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: Youngest migrants held in ‘tender age’ shelters — Trump administration officials have been sending babies and other young children forcibly separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border to at least three “tender age” shelters in South Texas, The Associated Press has learned.
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Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
Trump admin's ‘tent cities’ cost more than keeping migrant kids with parents — Separating migrant kids from their parents will cost the administration more than placing them in permanent structures or keeping them with their parents. — WASHINGTON — The cost of holding migrant children …
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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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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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Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Trump Lawyer Rudy Giuliani to Trump 2020 Campaign Manager Brad Parscale: ‘Keep Quiet’
Trump Lawyer Rudy Giuliani to Trump 2020 Campaign Manager Brad Parscale: ‘Keep Quiet’
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Laura Jarrett / CNN:
FBI agent Strzok escorted from FBI building Friday
FBI agent Strzok escorted from FBI building Friday
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Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Strzok escorted from FBI building
Strzok escorted from FBI building
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Jeff Mordock / Washington Times:
Peter Strzok escorted out of FBI building
Peter Strzok escorted out of FBI building
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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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CNN:
Trump's personal attorney is ‘willing to give info’ about the President — Washington (CNN)Donald Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen has signaled to friends that he is “willing to give” investigators information on the President if that's what they are looking for …
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Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
Kirstjen Nielsen heckled by protesters at Mexican restaurant. Other diners applauded them. — Protesters entered a Mexican restaurant in Washington, D.C., Tuesday evening to heckle Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen. She appeared to sit quietly with her head …
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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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SOM - State of Michigan:
MDCR Statement on President Trump's Zero Tolerance Policy and its Impact on Michigan — Contact: Vicki Levengood - levengoodv@michigan.gov, 517-241-7978 — Lansing, MI-The Michigan Department of Civil Rights today announced that the Department is actively engaged in assessing the impact …
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Sophie Tatum / CNN:
Corey Lewandowski on undocumented child with Down syndrome separated from mother: ‘Womp womp’ — Washington (CNN)Corey Lewandowski dismissed the story of a 10-year-old girl with Down syndrome who was reportedly separated from her mother after crossing the border illegally.
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Laignee Barron / TIME:
Corey Lewandowski Mocks Story About 10-Year-Old With Down Syndrome Separated From Her Mother at the Border
Corey Lewandowski Mocks Story About 10-Year-Old With Down Syndrome Separated From Her Mother at the Border
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Salvador Hernandez / BuzzFeed:
A 10-Year-Old Girl With Down Syndrome Was Separated From Her Mother At The Border
Hunter Walker / Yahoo:
Businesses have made millions off Trump's child separation policy — WASHINGTON — President Trump's controversial child separation policy is being carried out with the help of private businesses who have received millions of dollars in government contracts to help run the shelters …
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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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Associated Press:
With eyes on midterms, Trump embraces immigration fight — WASHINGTON (AP) — Calling the shots as his West Wing clears out, President Donald Trump sees his hard-line immigration stance as a winning issue heading into a midterm election he views as a referendum on his protectionist policies.
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Benny Johnson / The Daily Caller:
Here Are Horrifying Photos Of Obama's Illegal Alien Facilities The Media Refuses To Show You — The media and political class become more and more outraged over the Trump administration's decision to detain and prosecute immigrants illegally crossing the border.
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Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
President Trump seems to be saying more and more things that aren't true — He's done it on Twitter. He's done it in the White House driveway. And he's done it in a speech to a business group. — President Trump — a man already known for trafficking in mistruths and even outright lies …
Politico:
House GOP: Trump's immigration plea may fall short — In a freewheeling address behind closed doors, the president promised Republicans he'd support legislation that he panned just days ago. — President Donald Trump told House Republicans to send him an immigration bill dealing with Dreamers …
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Douglas Hanks / miamiherald:
Eileen Higgins wins Miami-Dade commission seat in upset over Zoraida Barreiro — Political newcomer Eileen Higgins won a seat on the Miami-Dade County Commission on Tuesday, defeating the better-funded campaign of the former commissioner's wife to scramble the conventional wisdom …
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Gardiner Harris / New York Times:
Trump Administration Withdraws U.S. From U.N. Human Rights Council — WASHINGTON — The United States withdrew on Tuesday from the world's most important human rights body in protest of its frequent criticism of Israel's treatment of Palestinians. It was the latest effort by the Trump administration …
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Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
U.S. withdraws from farcical U.N. Human Rights Council
U.S. withdraws from farcical U.N. Human Rights Council
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CNN:
What Trump supporters think of family separations at the border — Mesa, Arizona (CNN)As the Trump administration has ramped up the practice of separating children from their parents at the border with no clear plan for reuniting them, critics have been unsparing, calling it “government-sanctioned child abuse.”
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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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New York Times:
Criticism of Fox News Comes From Within Murdoch Empire — For years, the Murdoch family has been able to maintain a separation between its Fox News network and its sprawling entertainment empire. — But that corporate buffer seems to be disintegrating, with several prominent creators …
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Wall Street Journal:
Germany's Largest Auto Makers Back Abolition of EU-U.S. Car Import Tariffs — The U.S. ambassador to Germany is expected to relay the industry offer in meetings with Trump administration — BERLIN—When the U.S. ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, returns to Washington for consultation …
New York Times:
Merkel and Macron Try to Save European Union, and Themselves — BERLIN — It was supposed to be the day when President Emmanuel Macron of France received a long-awaited response from Germany on his big ideas on how to rekindle Europe as a force for liberalism in the world. — And he did, sort of.
The Guardian:
US lobbyist for Russian oligarch visited Julian Assange nine times last year — It is unclear whether Adam Waldman's 2017 visits had connection to Oleg Deripaska — A longtime US lobbyist for the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska visited Julian Assange nine times at the Ecuadorian embassy …
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.
miamiherald:
Nelson, Wasserman Schultz blocked from entering immigrant children shelter in Homestead — Amid uproar over the federal government's break-up of families caught illegally crossing the U.S. border, state and federal lawmakers were denied entry Tuesday to a shelter in Homestead …
Gus Bova / The Texas Observer:
Texas Officials Allow 15 Immigrant Shelters to Hold More Kids than Licenses Permit — To accommodate Trump's “zero tolerance” immigration policy, Texas officials have allowed at least 15 shelters to hold more than 700 additional kids, records show. — In recent months, Texas officials …
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Philip Wegmann / Washington Examiner:
Turning Point USA struggles with allegations of student sexual assault, harassment — By all accounts, the 2017 Student Action Summit hosted last December by conservative college organization Turning Point USA was boisterous. During the day, more than 1,200 high school and college kids listened …
Karla Zabludovsky / BuzzFeed:
Migrants Hesitate At Border, Fearing For Their Children — “If they take my son from me, I would die,” one woman, who was seeking asylum when she was turned away from the border, told BuzzFeed News. — Reporting From Reynosa, Mexico — REYNOSA, Mexico — Families waiting inside Mexico …
Leslie Patton / Bloomberg:
Starbucks Pumps the Brakes in Its Home Market — Americans' long-running joke about a Starbucks on every corner may be nearing its end. — The coffee behemoth is retrenching in its home market as it contends with sales growth that Chief Executive Officer Kevin Johnson acknowledges isn't fast enough.
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