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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 …
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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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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CNN, New York Times, RedState, CBS News and Politico
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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Peter Stone / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Inside the Ukraine peace plan in Mueller probe: More authors, earlier drafting than believed
The Daily Beast:
Tom Arnold Meets Michael Cohen: ‘This Dude Has All the Tapes’
Tom Arnold Meets Michael Cohen: ‘This Dude Has All the Tapes’
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The Daily Beast, Hullabaloo and Mediaite
Avery Anapol / The Hill:
Tom Arnold says he's teaming up with Michael Cohen and ‘taking Trump down’
Tom Arnold says he's teaming up with Michael Cohen and ‘taking Trump down’
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Breitbart, The Right Scoop and HuffPost
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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Ariel Edwards-Levy / HuffPost:
More Americans Blame Undocumented Parents Than Trump For Family Separations — The White House has managed to dodge a lot of blame for a deeply unpopular policy. — The Trump administration's contradictory responses to the outrage over its family separation policy may have clouded public opinion …
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The Week
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Mueller signals outside prosecutors may eventually take over Russian trolls case — A handful of new federal prosecutors have joined one of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's cases — an indication that he is preparing to hand off at least one prosecution to others when his office completes …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Mention of Trump campaign may be off the table at Manafort trial — The former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and special counsel Robert Mueller have finally found something they can agree on. — Mueller's prosecutors and Manafort's defense team filed separate motions with a federal court …
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The Gateway Pundit
David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
The four times Trump signed tax returns for his foundation that contained incorrect information — For years, President Trump personally signed the tax returns for his charitable foundation, scrawling his signature just below a stern warning from the IRS: Providing false information could lead to “penalties of perjury.”
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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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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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 …
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Eric Russell / Press Herald:
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate from Maine arrested at Texas child detention center — Zak Ringelstein, who is challenging U.S. Sen. Angus King, had traveled to McAllen, Texas, with supplies he said he wanted to deliver to children separated from their parents.
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Law & Crime and Daily Wire
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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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Mark Sanford / Washington Post:
I lost because I wasn't Trump enough. All Republicans should worry. — Mark Sanford, a Republican, represents South Carolina's 1st Congressional District in the House of Representatives. — They say elections have consequences, and if this is so, we should all be concerned over the recent primary along the coast of South Carolina.
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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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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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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
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.
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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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The Guardian
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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Hullabaloo
Dan Diamond / Politico:
HHS creates task force to reunify migrant families — HHS on Friday created an “unaccompanied children reunification task force,” a first step toward reunifying thousands of migrant children in the agency's custody with their families, according to an internal document obtained by POLITICO.
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Axios
Elizabeth Hewitt / VTDigger:
For second year, Sanders earns more than $1M — WASHINGTON — For the second year in a row, Sen. Bernie Sanders' income topped seven figures. — A recent financial disclosure report shows the junior Vermont senator made nearly $1.06 million in 2017. Most of his income — $885,767 …
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The Gateway Pundit and The Daily Caller
New York Times:
Why Are Parents Bringing Their Children on Treacherous Treks to the U.S. Border? — President Trump hopes to deter the flow of migrants into the United States, but near the busy border crossing in Arizona, some said that the threat of separation from their children would not deter them.
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Mashable and The Guardian
Orin Kerr / Reason:
First Thoughts on Carpenter v. United States — A big case. Here's an ongoing Q&A, which I will add to through the day. — The Supreme Court has handed down its long-awaited decision in Carpenter v. United States. The opinion is only an hour old as I start to write this …
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USA Today, New York Times, Washington Post, New Republic and SCOTUSblog, more at Techmeme »
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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The Daily Caller and New Republic
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.
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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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
Emily Alpert Reyes / Los Angeles Times:
Garcetti says L.A. can resume disputed ban on overnight sidewalk sleeping — Eleven years ago, Los Angeles officials agreed to stop arresting people who bed down for the night on streets and sidewalks until the city built more homeless housing. — The deal ended a legal battle …
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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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 …
Raina Lipsitz / The Nation:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Fights the Power — The insurgent candidate from the Bronx is challenging Democrat Joseph Crowley with a scrappy grassroots campaign and a platform based on economic justice. — In the Democratic primary on June 26, voters in New York's 14th congressional district …
Clark Mindock / The Independent:
UN says Trump separation of migrant children with parents ‘may amount to torture’, in damning condemnation — The US president recently signed an executive order aimed at stopping family separation, but human rights groups say that the measure doesn't go far enough — POPULAR VIDEOS
Ryan Park / New York Times:
The Last of the Tiger Parents — In first grade, I arrived at my suburban elementary school as a sort of academic vaudeville trickster. My classmates stood speechless as I absorbed thick tomes on medieval history, wrote and presented research reports, and breezed through fifth-grade math problems like a bored teenager.