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Washington Post:
Trump administration will stop prosecuting migrant parents who cross the border illegally with children, official says — The dramatic about-face comes just one day after President Trump signed an executive order ending his administration's widely denounced practice of separating families apprehended at the Mexico border.
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Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Border Patrol will stop referring migrant parents who cross into the U.S. illegally with children for prosecution, official says — This story has been updated to clarify how migrant parents will be processed going forward. An earlier verision incorrectly stated the Trump administration …
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Kevin Sieff / Washington Post:
The chaotic effort to reunite immigrant parents with their separated kids — BROWNSVILLE, Tex. — Each of the mothers had a different memory of the moment she was separated from her child. — For some, it was outside a Border Patrol station just north of the Rio Grande, shortly after being apprehended.
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Washington Post:
Pentagon asked to make room for 20,000 migrant children on military bases — The Trump administration is considering housing up to 20,000 unaccompanied migrant children on military bases in coming months, according to lawmakers and a Defense Department memo obtained by The Washington Post.
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Matthew Fleischer / Los Angeles Times:
Crisis actor spotted at Texas child migrant detention center — First Lady Melania Trump paid a visit to McAllen, Texas, on Thursday to make an “unannounced” visit to the migrant children detained at Upbring New Hope Children's Center. — In a short speech, the first lady thanked staff for their “compassion and ... kindness.”
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Brad Heath / USA Today:
Trump administration's ‘zero tolerance’ border prosecutions led to time served, $10 fees
Trump administration's ‘zero tolerance’ border prosecutions led to time served, $10 fees
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Law & Crime
Adam Bernstein / Washington Post:
Charles Krauthammer, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and intellectual provocateur, dies at 68 — Charles Krauthammer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post columnist and intellectual provocateur who championed the muscular foreign policy of neoconservatism that helped lay the ideological groundwork …
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Elizabeth Llorente / Fox News:
Charles Krauthammer, conservative commentator and Pulitzer Prize winner, dead at 68 — Charles Krauthammer, a longtime Fox News contributor, Pulitzer Prize winner, Harvard-trained psychiatrist and best-selling author who came to be known as the dean of conservative commentators, has died. He was 68.
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
The Charles Krauthammer I knew
The Charles Krauthammer I knew
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Politico:
Charles Krauthammer, prominent conservative voice, has died
Charles Krauthammer, prominent conservative voice, has died
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Jane Coaston / Vox:
Charles Krauthammer was the anti-Breitbart conservative writer
Charles Krauthammer was the anti-Breitbart conservative writer
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Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
National Enquirer sent stories about Trump to his attorney Michael Cohen before publication, people familiar with the practice say — During the presidential campaign, National Enquirer executives sent digital copies of the tabloid's articles and cover images related to Donald Trump …
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Daily Mail:
Denis Javier Varela Hernandez (far right) spoke out about his wife Sandra and daughter, Yanela — Two-year-old Yanela, a Honduran asylum seeker, has become the face of the child separation crisis after she was photographed crying in McAllen, Texas, as Border Control agents searched her mother
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Daniel Bates / Daily Mail:
Latest From MailOnline … - Denis Javier Varela Hernandez spoke …
Latest From MailOnline … - Denis Javier Varela Hernandez spoke …
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Daily Mail:
Melania Trump wears $39 jacket with 'I REALLY DON'T CARE, DO U?' scrawled across the back as she boards a plane to visit immigrant children being held at the Texas border — The first lady wore the khaki green Zara jacket upon arrival at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland but changed before she disembarked the plane in Texas
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Betsy Klein / CNN:
Melania dons jacket saying 'I really don't care. Do U?' ahead of border visit
Melania dons jacket saying 'I really don't care. Do U?' ahead of border visit
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Callie Ferguson / Bangor Daily News:
Border patrol agents arrest 1 at I-95 checkpoint about citizenship — A checkpoint set up by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents Wednesday on Interstate 95 led to the arrest of a fugitive Haitian immigrant who previously was ordered to be deported. — The random checkpoint …
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Tara Golshan / Vox:
Trump undermined House Republicans' entire immigration debate in one tweet — Trump on GOP “compromise” immigration bill: “What is the purpose”? — Just hours before the House is scheduled to vote on two sweeping Republican-led immigration bills, President Donald Trump managed …
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Catherine Boudreau / Politico:
House farm bill passes with controversial food stamp changes
House farm bill passes with controversial food stamp changes
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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Corey Lewandowski dropped by speakers bureau — Corey Lewandowski: I was mocking Democrat, not girl — Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski has been dropped by his speakers bureau after dismissing the story of a 10-year-old girl with Down syndrome who was reportedly separated …
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Peter Strzok Has Lost His Security Clearance, Says Jeff Sessions — Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Thursday that former FBI official Peter Strzok has lost his security clearance amid an internal disciplinary review. — “Mr. Strzok, as I understand, has lost his security clearance,” Sessions told radio host Howie Carr.
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Jenna Browder / CBN News:
'I Don't Think It Was an Extreme Position I Took': Jeff Sessions on the Bible, Immigration and His Critics
'I Don't Think It Was an Extreme Position I Took': Jeff Sessions on the Bible, Immigration and His Critics
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John Koblin / New York Times:
ABC Plans a ‘Roseanne’ Spinoff, Without Roseanne Barr — Roseanne Barr may be finished, but the Conners are not. — Less than a month after ABC canceled the hit revival of “Roseanne” because of a racist tweet by Ms. Barr, the network has decided to go forward with a spinoff that will not include her.
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Paul Wood / Spectator:
What does the British government know about Trump and Russia? … When the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu visited London in 1978, the British government did some serious sucking up. Ceausescu was an egomaniac and possibly crazy. When he went hunting outside Bucharest …
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Julia Ioffe / GQ:
The Real Story of Donald Trump Jr. — All he ever wanted was to make his dad proud, but things have never turned out quite right for Donald Trump Jr. Even now, despite finding his purpose as a bombastic star of the far right, Junior's personal life is in shambles and the specter of Robert Mueller looms large.
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Nikki Schwab / New York Post:
Protester yells ‘fascist’ at Stephen Miller dining in Mexican restaurant — SEE ALSO — Maybe grab a burger next time. — White House adviser Stephen Miller was accosted at a Mexican restaurant by a patron calling him a “fascist” — two nights before Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen …
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Ginger Thompson / ProPublica:
For a 6-Year-Old Snared in the Immigration Maze, a Memorized Phone Number Proves a Lifeline — As the U.S. attempts to reunite migrant families, children will bear the burden of helping to identify who and where their parents are. The 6-year-old girl heard asking to call her aunt …
Bruce Schlesman / Judicial Watch:
Judicial Watch Obtains IRS Documents Revealing McCain's Subcommittee Staff Director Urged IRS to Engage in “Financially Ruinous” Targeting — McCain minority staff director Henry Kerner to IRS official Lois Lerner and other IRS — officials: “the solution is to audit so many that it becomes financially ruinous”
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Media Matters for America:
Sinclair “must-run” segment on family separation policy and child detention attacks the media — Sinclair's Boris Epshteyn: Media have “seized on this issue to make it seem as if those who are tough on immigration are somehow monsters” — Audiences across the country are watching a segment …
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Michael Anton / Washington Post:
Why do we need more people in this country, anyway? — Michael Anton is a lecturer and research fellow at Hillsdale College and a former national security official in the Trump administration. — As Capitol Hill Republicans attempt for — what, the eighth? ninth? — time in the past …
Kate Conger / Gizmodo:
Amazon Workers Demand Jeff Bezos Cancel Face Recognition Contracts With Law Enforcement — Following employee protests at Google and Microsoft over government contracts, workers at Amazon are circulating an internal letter to CEO Jeff Bezos, asking him to stop selling the company's Rekognition …
Washington Post:
Where are the migrant child facilities? Scattered across America — This is a developing story. This page will be updated. — President Trump has signed an executive order to halt the family separation process he created, but at least 2,500 children have already been taken from their parents …
Gregg Kilday / Hollywood Reporter:
Sony Pictures Classics Condemns Peter Fonda, But Will Still Release His New Film — YOUTUBE — The distributor is moving forward with plans to open ‘Boundaries’ even as it calls the actor's remarks “abhorrent, reckless and dangerous.” — In the wake of Peter Fonda's incendiary tweet …
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Rasmussen Reports:
Voters Blame Parents, Not Feds, For Border Children Crisis — Most voters blame the parents of the separated children at the border for the latest illegal immigration crisis, not the federal government. — When families are arrested and separated after attempting to enter the United States illegally …
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker says evidence might have been tampered with in Flynn case — (R-N.C.) suggested Thursday in an interview wth Hill.TV's “Rising” that evidence may have been tampered with in the case against former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn. — Meadows, the leader …
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Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
Good News for Republicans, It's Not 2006 — For much of 2017 and early 2018, GOP consultants of a certain age would tell us that this election had the same look, feel and smell of 2006; the last time Republicans had a terrible midterm election. The President was unpopular …
Amber Jamieson / BuzzFeed:
The Heartbreaking Case Of The Three-Year-Old Boy In Immigration Court — “What is your name?” the judge asked. “Es un avion!” — it's a plane, Roger responded, pointing to a picture book. — Reporting From — EL PASO — The two little boys squeezed next to each other on the studded leather chair …
Chris Smith / Vanity Fair:
“Coincidence Number 395”: The N.R.A. Spent $30 Million to Elect Trump. Was It Russian Money? — Congressional Democrats, the F.B.I. and Robert Mueller want to know why Putin-tied oligarchs took such an interest in American gun ownership. — Saint Basil the Great clearly earned his nickname.
Robby Soave / Hit & Run:
Leaked Internal Memo Reveals the ACLU Is Wavering on Free Speech — The American Civil Liberties Union will weigh its interest in protecting the First Amendment against its other commitments to social justice, racial equality, and women's rights, given the possibility that offensive speech might undermine ACLU goals.
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The White House:
Remarks by President Trump at Cabinet Meeting — THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody. Thank you very much for being here. It's a Cabinet meeting, and we have plenty of things to discuss and plenty of success. We've had a tremendous amount of success. — We're working, however …
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NBC4 Washington:
About 1,000 DC Public Schools Teachers Are Unlicensed — About a Quarter of DCPS Teachers Unlicensed in 2017-2018 — Approximately 1,000 D.C. Public Schools teachers do not have a D.C. teaching license, according to a yearlong investigation by the News4 I-Team.
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