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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.
Washington Post:
Things that matter, in the words of Charles Krauthammer — Over the course of his 34 years at The Washington Post, Charles Krauthammer wrote some 1,600 columns on subjects that ranged from his passion for chess, his frustrated love of the Nationals, his affection for dogs to, above all, politics.
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Callum Borchers / Washington Post:
Charles Krauthammer inspired journalists with disabilities, including me
George F. Will / Washington Post:
The Charles Krauthammer I knew
The Charles Krauthammer I knew
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John Podhoretz / Commentary Magazine:
Charles Krauthammer, 1950-2018 — A life well lived.
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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Amanda Schaffer / New Yorker:
A Physician in South Texas on an Unnerving Encounter with an Eight-Year-Old Boy in Immigration Detention — Alicia Hart has worked as an emergency physician in South Texas for ten years, and has seen a stream of migrant children from Guatemala and Honduras come to the U.S. fleeing gang violence.
Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Border Patrol will stop referring migrant parents who cross into the U.S. illegally with children …
Border Patrol will stop referring migrant parents who cross into the U.S. illegally with children …
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Matthew Fleischer / Los Angeles Times:
Crisis actor spotted at Texas child migrant detention center
Crisis actor spotted at Texas child migrant detention center
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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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Gustavo Palencia / Reuters:
Father says little Honduran girl on Time cover was not taken from mother
Father says little Honduran girl on Time cover was not taken from 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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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Trump to GOP: Wait until after midterms to pass immigration bill — As House Republicans scramble for votes on its comprehensive immigration bill, President Trump tweeted Friday that Republicans should “stop wasting their time” and punt the immigration fight to after the midterms.
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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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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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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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Richard Marosi / Los Angeles Times:
What family separation looks like: Guatemalan man is deported, while his 6-year-old daughter …
What family separation looks like: Guatemalan man is deported, while his 6-year-old daughter …
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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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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 …
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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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New York Times:
Behind Trump's Plan to Overhaul the Government: Scaling Back the Safety Net — WASHINGTON — President Trump, spurred on by conservatives who want him to slash safety net programs, unveiled on Thursday a plan to overhaul the federal government that could have a profound effect on millions of poor and working-class Americans.
Joe Scarborough / Washington Post:
The most damning element of this tragic American tale — There was a time when conservatives supported limited government, balanced budgets and less debt. Not so long ago, conservatives also championed free trade, lower tariffs and the spread of democratic institutions across Europe and the world.
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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 …
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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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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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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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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Alex Silverman / WCBS Newsradio 880:
EXCLUSIVE: Emails Reveal Effort to Disown Stonewall Pride Flag By Trump Administration Official — As they march through America's national monument to LGBT rights near the end of this weekend's Pride parade, tens of thousands will pass a flag that, at a glance, is just like countless others.
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 …
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Emily Holden / Politico:
New Pruitt question: Where are his emails? — The EPA administrator wrote only one email in 10 months to anyone outside the agency, if the official paper trail is to be believed. Watchdog groups don't believe it. — An examination of Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt's …
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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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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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Tina Moore / New York Post:
Alyssa Milano offers to foster migrant children brought to NYC — Actress Alyssa Milano wants to take in one of the hundreds of immigrant children housed in foster care facilities in Harlem, who were torn from their parents under President Trump's “zero tolerance” immigration policy.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Return of the Blood Libel — The speed of America's moral descent under Donald Trump is breathtaking. In a matter of months we've gone from a nation that stood for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness to a nation that tears children from their parents and puts them in cages.
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New York Times:
The Natural Gas Industry Has a Leak Problem — The American oil and gas industry is leaking more methane than the government thinks — much more, a new study says. Since methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, that is bad news for climate change. — The new study, published Thursday …
Jack Healy / New York Times:
No Relief in Sight for Parents of Thousands of Migrant Children Still in Custody — AURORA, Colo. — Micaela Samol Gonzalez, dressed in blue detention scrubs, made her way to the front of a windowless courtroom in Colorado on Thursday and faced the judge. After she gave her name and arranged …
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
We Owe Central American Migrants Much More Than This — There is now a broad, bipartisan consensus that ripping infants from their mothers — and then putting both in (separate) cages — is not a morally acceptable way of treating families who cross our southern border.
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