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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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Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
Trump admin's ‘tent cities’ cost more than keeping migrant kids with parents
Trump admin's ‘tent cities’ cost more than keeping migrant kids with parents
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Dara Lind / Vox:
The executive order Trump claims will end family separation, explained
The executive order Trump claims will end family separation, explained
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Associated Press:
Homeland Security drafts plan to end family separation
Homeland Security drafts plan to end family separation
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The Daily Beast:
Trump Stops Separating Immigrant Families After Claiming He Couldn't
Trump Stops Separating Immigrant Families After Claiming He Couldn't
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Washington Post:
Trump reverses course, signs order ending his policy of separating families at the border
Trump reverses course, signs order ending his policy of separating families at the border
Sean Hannity:
TRUMP STEPS IN: The President Will Sign Executive Order to ‘Keep Families Together’
TRUMP STEPS IN: The President Will Sign Executive Order to ‘Keep Families Together’
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Emily Stewart / Vox:
Obama finally speaks out on Trump's family separation
Obama finally speaks out on Trump's family separation
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Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Trump signs order stopping his policy of separating families at border
Trump signs order stopping his policy of separating families at border
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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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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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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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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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Benjy Sarlin / NBC News:
White House can't get its story straight on family separation. There could be legal consequences.
Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
Kirstjen Nielsen heckled by protesters at Mexican restaurant. Other diners applauded them.
Kirstjen Nielsen heckled by protesters at Mexican restaurant. Other diners applauded them.
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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 …
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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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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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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
The Debrief: An occasional series offering a reporter's insights
The Debrief: An occasional series offering a reporter's insights
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
A GOP strategist abandons his party and calls for the election of Democrats
A GOP strategist abandons his party and calls for the election of Democrats
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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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The Intercept:
Scott Pruitt Has Spent a Total of $4.6 Million on Security, New Disclosures Show — Including $1,500 on “Tactical Pants” — Scandal-plagued Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has now spent more than $4.6 million from public coffers on security, according to documents obtained …
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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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Michelle Hackman / Wall Street Journal:
White House to Propose Merging Education, Labor Departments — Plan seen as part of a broader government reorganization effort. — The White House plans to propose merging the Departments of Labor and Education as part of a broader reorganization of the federal government, according to a person with knowledge of the proposal.
Joe Heim / Washington Post:
‘Unite the Right’ organizer gets approval for rally anniversary event in D.C. — An organizer of last year's deadly white supremacist gathering in Charlottesville has received initial approval from the National Park Service to hold a rally across from the White House on Aug. 12, the anniversary of last year's event.
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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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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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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Twitter Is Locking Accounts For Tweeting Stephen Miller's Phone Number — Merely linking to a story published by a mainstream media outlet is enough to get your Twitter account locked. … Another day, another test of the limits of Twitter's harassment rules.
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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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New York Daily News:
De Blasio: 239 immigrant children separated at border are in East Harlem — There are 239 immigrant children separated from their parents at the Mexican border who are now in the custody of a social service organization in East Harlem, Mayor de Blasio said Wednesday — and the youngest is just 9 months old.
Ali Schmitz / TCPalm.com:
Stuart man charged with threatening Rep. Brian Mast's children over Trump policy — A Stuart man was arrested Tuesday after a federal complaint states he threatened U.S. Rep. Brian Mast's children over the Trump administration's child-separation immigration policy.
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