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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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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.
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VICE
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Vote against the GOP this November — Amid the carnage of Republican misrule in Washington, there is this glimmer of good news: The family-shredding policy along the southern border, the most telegenic recent example of misrule, clarified something. Occurring less than 140 days before elections …
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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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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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Towleroad, AOL, Above the Law, The Right Scoop, Law & Crime, Mediaite, Daily Wire, Talking Points Memo, Taylor Marsh and The Week
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Peter Stone / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Inside the Ukraine peace plan in Mueller probe: More authors, earlier drafting than believed — A controversial peace plan for Ukraine and Russia that has drawn headlines and scrutiny from Special Counsel Robert Mueller was initially devised in early 2016 with significant input from an ex-congressman …
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 …
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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The Federalist, Breitbart, neo-neocon, The Week, Splinter, Washington Post and The Daily Caller
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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Lawyers, Guns & Money, Washington Monthly, The Atlantic, The Federalist and The Other McCain
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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Wall Street Journal and ThinkProgress
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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 …
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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
Senator Jeff Merkley, a Quiet Stalwart of the Left, Has a Breakout Moment at the Border
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CNN
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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Brianne Pfannenstiel / Des Moines Register:
Steve King said Muslims shouldn't work in pork plants in his Iowa district
Steve King said Muslims shouldn't work in pork plants in his Iowa district
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CNN
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Mueller seeks to bar Manafort from tying charges to Trump campaign role — Special counsel Robert Mueller's team is seeking to prevent the defense for Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman, from arguing to jurors that he was targeted for prosecution because of his role in Donald Trump's presidential bid.
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Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
Trump autographed photos of deceased crime victims for White House ‘Angel Families’ event — President Donald Trump appears to have autographed photos of deceased young people that were featured at a White House event Friday highlighting victims of crimes committed by undocumented immigrants.
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The original source for Trump's claim of 63,000 immigrant murders? Bad data from Steve King in 2005. — All right. Settle in for a bit and maybe swipe over to the calculator app on your phone. We're about to go on quite a numeric roller coaster ride. — President Trump shifted …
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HuffPost, NTK Network and New York Times
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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Raw Story
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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Matthew Walther / The Week:
What pro-lifers can learn from the Democratic Socialists of America
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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New Republic and The Daily Caller
Vanessa Friedman / New York Times:
Melania Trump, Agent of Coat Chaos — Melania Trump's excursion in her “I Really Don't Care” jacket did not send a hidden message. It was there for all to see. — “I REALLY DON'T CARE, DO U?” — When the first lady, Melania Trump, on an unannounced humanitarian visit to a children's shelter in Texas …
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Washington Post, New Republic, Outside the Beltway, Gothamist and CNN
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Under Trump, Americans are becoming more supportive of immigration
The Daily 202: Under Trump, Americans are becoming more supportive of immigration
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Outside the Beltway, HuffPost, Washington Press and Gallup
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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Washington Post, Raw Story, The Daily Beast, The Ring of Fire Network, Conservative News Today, Shareblue Media, Axios and Splinter
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 …
Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix Fires PR Chief After Use of N-Word in Meeting (Exclusive) — The streaming giant is letting its top spokesperson go after six years in the role. — Netflix is letting go of its top communications spokesman. — Jonathan Friedland, who's served as the streaming giant's chief communications officer …
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Law & Crime
Marianna Sotomayor / NBC News:
House passes massive package to address opioids crisis — The vote represents the most ambitious congressional effort yet to combat the current epidemic. — WASHINGTON — The House on Friday passed the most ambitious congressional push yet to address the growing opioid epidemic …
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CNN, Energy and Commerce Committee and The Week
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Brianna Ehley / Politico:
House overwhelmingly passes final opioid package
House overwhelmingly passes final opioid package
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ABC News, Energy and Commerce Committee, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Pacific Standard
Michael Wear / TIME:
Don't Quit the Republican Party. Stay and Fight — Blend Images - Hill Street Studios—Getty Images — What is an anti-Donald Trump Republican to do? For Steve Schmidt — a top campaign aide to President George W. Bush's re-election campaign, Sen. John McCain's 2008 presidential run …
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Slate, Washingtonian and Bloomberg
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.
Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
Facebook Built A New Team To Spot Problems Before They Arise — Silicon Valley's giants are looking for future crises before they happen. — In an attempt to spot vulnerabilities in its system before bad actors exploit them, Facebook has hired a team of ex-intelligence officers, researchers …
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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CNN:
GOP nominee who railed against diversity also called Kwanzaa ‘phony,’ made anti-Muslim comments — (CNN)The Republican nominee for a US House seat in New Jersey has said diversity leads to Muslims killing Christians and that Kwanzaa is a fake holiday made by black racists to divide America.
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Raw Story
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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The Atlantic, The Nation and New York Times
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Democrats see most news outlets as unbiased. Republicans think they're almost all biased. — Plus: Facebook expands its fact-checking program; for one thing, it now covers photos and video. — The growing stream of reporting on and data about fake news, misinformation, partisan content, and news literacy is hard to keep up with.
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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.
Greg Norman / Fox News:
MS-13 gang members, including 10 illegal immigrants, charged in deaths of Virginia teens — Eleven MS-13 gang members - all of whom are illegal immigrants except one - are facing life in prison after being charged in the kidnappings and deaths of two teens whose bodies were dug up in a Virginia park last year.
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NBC4 Washington, The Gateway Pundit and The Daily Caller
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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The Guardian