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Samantha Schmidt / Washington Post:
The crying Honduran girl on the cover of Time was not separated from her mother, father says — The photo of the little girl crying as a U.S. Border Patrol agent patted down her mother became a symbol of the families pulled apart by the Trump administration's “zero tolerance” policy at the border …
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CBS News:
Viral photo of crying girl: Border Patrol agent involved says there's more to the story — The picture of a Honduran girl crying as she and her mother are detained in Texas has grabbed worldwide attention and come to symbolize the intense debate about separating children from their parents.
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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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Shannon Van Sant / NPR:
Watch: 6-Year-Old Girl, Alone, Breaks Through Immigration Noise With A Phone Number
Watch: 6-Year-Old Girl, Alone, Breaks Through Immigration Noise With A Phone Number
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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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NBC News:
Tom Arnold tweets picture with Michael Cohen, says he ‘has all the tapes’ — Arnold is hunting for ‘incriminating’ tapes of Trump as part of a show for Vice. — President Donald Trump's embattled personal attorney, Michael Cohen, retweeted a photo of himself with comedian Tom Arnold …
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The Daily Beast:
Tom Arnold Meets Michael Cohen: ‘This Dude Has All the Tapes’ — Tom Arnold—the actor and comedian who's said he's on a mission to find incriminating video of President Trump—tweeted a photo of himself with Michael Cohen late Thursday, saying “this dude has all the tapes.”
Politico:
Young Trumpies Hit D.C. — ... And D.C. hits them right back. — When Matt Mowers moved to Washington in November 2016, he wasn't expecting a hero's welcome. The young political operative had worked for Donald Trump's campaign in New York, where you can hardly walk down the block …
TIME:
Exclusive: Navy Document Shows Plan to Erect ‘Austere’ Detention Camps — The U.S. Navy is preparing plans to construct sprawling detention centers for tens of thousands of immigrants on remote bases in California, Alabama and Arizona, escalating the military's task in implementing President Donald Trump's …
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Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
If We Want to End the Border Crisis, It's Time to Give Trump His Wall — You could think of the last week as a solid victory for the Democrats and for basic human decency. An utterly indefensible and morally foul policy of separating children from their parents is over for now.
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Jon Hernandez / CBC News:
Jogger accidentally crosses U.S. border from B.C., gets detained for 2 weeks by authorities — Cedella Roman, visiting mom from France, says border patrol held her for crossing into Blaine, Wash. — Cedella Roman says she was jogging along the beach in White Rock, B.C., when she crossed the U.S. border without realizing it.
Sam Baker / Axios:
Supreme Court limits cell phone searches — Police officers cannot retrace the location of your cell phone without a warrant, the Supreme Court ruled today — a narrow but critically important victory for privacy advocates as well as giant tech companies. — Why it matters …
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Washington Post:
Trump threatens Europe with 20 percent tariffs on auto imports, escalating trade showdown with U.S. allies — President Trump on Friday threatened to unilaterally impose a 20 percent tariff on all automobile imports from Europe, further breaking from Republicans in Congress and front-running …
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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Trump threatens 20% tariff on all car imports from the EU
Trump threatens 20% tariff on all car imports from the EU
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Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
After Nevada GOP push, Treasury quietly changed lucrative policy benefiting one county — The Treasury Department last week quietly reversed itself after lobbying by Nevada Republicans and agreed to let a previously ineligible county reap huge benefits from the new tax law.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Steve King singles out Somali Muslims over pork — The Iowa congressman says they shouldn't work in his district's meat-packing plants because they won't eat pig products. — Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said Friday that he doesn't want Somali Muslims working at meat-packing plants in his district …
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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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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Trump's Cynical Immigration Strategy Might Work for Him—Again — The lesson Trump learned was not that saying shocking, untrue, and arguably racist things about immigrants was politically dangerous but that doing so helped him become President. — On Sunday, June 3rd, Senator Jeff Merkley …
Media Matters for America:
Fox & Friends host: “These aren't our kids. ... It's not like [Trump] is doing this to the people of Idaho or Texas” — Brian Kilmeade: “Like it or not, these aren't our kids” — From the June 22 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends: — Loading the player reg...
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Tim Reid / Reuters:
In age of Trump, evangelicals back self-styled top U.S. pimp — PAHRUMP, Nev. (Reuters) - He styles himself as America's best-known pimp, a strip-club owner who runs multiple brothels and looks set to win a seat as a Republican in the Nevada legislature with the blessing of many conservative Christian voters.
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Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
Elena Kagan Is Up to Something — What is Justice Elena Kagan doing? So far this term, the liberal justice has crossed ideological lines at least three times to join the Supreme Court's conservatives. Most recently, on Thursday, Kagan authored the majority opinion in Lucia v. SEC …
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Peter Hamby / Vanity Fair:
“The Images Are Out of His Control”: How Trump Lost His Grip on the Child-Detention Narrative — Trump has done plenty of ugly things. In the past, he's outrun the narrative—this time, he can't get past the imagery. — BY - PETER HAMBYJune 22, 2018, — Rarely has Donald Trump been on his heels as he has over the past week.
Associated Press:
AP-NORC Poll: Americans say no to presidential self-pardons — NEW YORK (AP) — Even in an era of deep political division, Democrats and Republicans agree presidents should not pardon themselves. And if the nation's chief executive ever does so, majorities of Americans in both parties believe Congress should impeach that president.
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Tom Embury-Dennis / The Independent:
Italy's deputy PM Salvini called for ‘mass cleansing, street by street, quarter by quarter’, newly resurfaced footage reveals — Minister's comments recirculate after leader of far-right League party announces ‘census’ of Roma community — POPULAR VIDEOS
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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.
Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
Democratic Senate Candidate Arrested at Texas Detention Center While Trying to Deliver Toys and Food … Zak Ringelstein, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine, was arrested Friday morning outside a U.S. Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas. — Ringelstein, who is challenging …
VICE News:
A Michigan Republican keeps falsely accusing his Democrat opponent of ties to the Muslim Brotherhood — DETROIT — A Republican candidate for Michigan governor isn't backing down from unfounded claims one of his Democratic opponents has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood …
Sarah Rumpf / RedState:
WaPo Begins Krauthammer's Obituary By Blaming Him for the Iraq War — Charles Krauthammer was a Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist, best-selling novelist, and Fox News commentator, and that was in addition to an admirable medical career, graduating from Harvard Medical School after a 14 month break …
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Julia Marsh / New York Post:
NYPD sued for not disclosing info on Trump family gun permits — The NYPD is refusing to disclose information about handgun licenses held by Donald Trump and his two eldest sons, citing privacy and safety concerns, according to a new lawsuit. — A news and opinion website called …
Philip Lewis / HuffPost:
Protesters Outside Kirstjen Nielsen's House Play Audio Of Detained Migrant Children — The DHS secretary had to walk by protesters shouting “Shame!” as she left her house. — ALEXANDRIA, Va. Protesters gathered outside Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen's townhouse Friday morning …
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Sam Biddle / The Intercept:
Trump Insider Wanted to Sell Social Media Surveillance Tools to Abusive Governments, Leaked Documents Suggest — Earlier this year, it was reported that Elliott Broidy, a convicted felon in a 2009 bribery case and a top Donald Trump fundraiser, proffered meetings with the president …
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Laura McGann / Vox:
Study: male political reporters retweet other dudes 3 times more than their female colleagues — A new study reveals why female journalists are so much less influential on Twitter than men. — Anyone that follows Beltway Twitter knows it's a deeply insular and self-involved world dominated …
John F. Muller / Politico:
I Sat on the Other Side of Stephen Miller's First Wall — It was third grade. And things got messy. — Each time a new outrage emerges in the saga of Stephen Miller—author of the Muslim ban and chief architect of the child separation policy—I think of the year I spent with him.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Senator Jeff Merkley, a Quiet Stalwart of the Left, Has a Breakout Moment at the Border — WASHINGTON — It did not exactly make for riveting video this month when Senator Jeff Merkley, Democrat of Oregon, was turned away from a converted Walmart at the Texas border that is housing hundreds …
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Under Trump, Americans are becoming more supportive of immigration — THE BIG IDEA: President Trump said Friday that Republicans should put off addressing immigration until after the midterm elections. He suggested that the GOP can use the issue to pick up Senate seats …
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Jordan Libowitz / CREW:
CREW FILES CRIMINAL, ETHICS COMPLAINTS AGAINST WILBUR ROSS — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — Washington—Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross should be investigated for possible violations of the STOCK Act or other insider trading laws and false statements to the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) …
Ana Marie Cox / Rolling Stone:
A Night Among the Trump Believers Way Up North — The president's Wednesday night rally in Duluth proved the more things change, the more they stay the same — Minnesota's lonely island of electoral blue in the midst of Donald Trump's upper Midwest Republican bloodbath was on the minds …
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