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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.
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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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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Samantha Schmidt / Washington Post:
The crying Honduran girl on the cover of Time was not separated from her mother, father says
The crying Honduran girl on the cover of Time was not separated from her mother, father says
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Axios, National Review, The Crime Report, Washington Free Beacon, Breitbart, JustOneMinute, Mediaite and CNN
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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Daniel Bates / Daily Mail:
Latest From MailOnline … - Denis Javier Varela Hernandez spoke …
Latest From MailOnline … - Denis Javier Varela Hernandez spoke …
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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
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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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.
Sarah Stillman / New Yorker:
Trump's Executive Order Creates a New Border Crisis
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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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.
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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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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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 …
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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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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Daily Kos
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 …
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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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 Week
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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Lomi Kriel / Houston Chronicle:
Fate of immigrant children separated from parents at Texas border is unclear — The immediate fate of more than 2,300 immigrant children remains unclear as government officials and advocates scrambled Thursday to determine their next steps after President Donald Trump suddenly ended his policy …
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.
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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Tim Arango / New York Times:
Who Is Dolly Gee, the Judge Deciding the Fate of Trump's Executive Order? — LOS ANGELES — Judge Dolly M. Gee has called the treatment of immigrant children in detention “deplorable” in a legal opinion. She has castigated the federal government for “fear mongering” when it argued …
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Diana Stancy Correll / Washington Examiner:
Consumer bureau setup defies Constitution, federal judge rules — The structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is unconstitutional, according to federal district Judge Loretta Preska of the Southern District of New York. — Preska ruled Thursday that having the agency's setup …
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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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 …
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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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.
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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Crooked Media
New York Times:
For Democrats Challenging Party Incumbents, Insurgency Has Its Limits — For Suraj Patel, running for Congress against an entrenched incumbent has led to some awkward and unexpected moments. — Elected officials have asked him to delete their pictures from his campaign's Facebook page.
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The Daily Caller
Dan Merica / CNN:
How soybeans — yes, soybeans — could impact the midterm elections — China is hitting the US where it hurts: Soybeans — Easton, Minnesota (CNN)President Donald Trump touted his aggressive approach to trade policy Wednesday at a rally miles from Minnesota's famed Iron Range …
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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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Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
All Politics Is Trump — Column: The only issue on the ballot this November? The president. — What's your favorite political cliché? Mine is the quip of former Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill: “All politics is local.” Might be true for congressmen, whose longevity …
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