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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 …
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Schuyler Kropf / Post and Courier:
Katie Arrington alert, talking after surgery following two-car fatal accident Friday night — Katie Arrington, who two weeks ago won the Republican 1st Congressional District nomination over Mark Sanford, was in a fatal car accident late Friday, sustaining serious injuries but was alert …
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Drew Tripp / WCIV:
Katie Arrington seriously injured in deadly wrong-way wreck in Charleston County — Lowcountry elected official Katie Arrington is in a local hospital after she and a friend were seriously injured in a deadly wreck in Charleston County late Friday night, authorities say.
David Travis Bland / The State:
Katie Arrington, Lowcountry lawmaker, seriously injured in wreck — CHARLESTON, SC — Katie Arrington, a representative in the State House for the Lowcountry and a U.S. congressional candidate, was seriously injured in a fatal car wreck Friday night. — Arrington, who upset U.S …
Washington Post:
Arguments, confusion, second-guessing: Inside Trump's reversal on separating migrant families — The White House's hastily crafted executive order to end child separations spurred confusion and fights within the federal government, and second-guessing from the president who had demanded the order in the first place.
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Brad Heath / USA Today:
DOJ: Trump's immigration crackdown ‘diverting’ resources from drug cases — Federal prosecutors warned they were diverting resources from drug-smuggling cases in southern California to handle the flood of immigration charges brought on by the Trump administration's border crackdown, records obtained by USA TODAY show.
Peter Baker / New York Times:
President Trump, Deal Maker? Not So Fast — WASHINGTON — President Trump likes nothing more than presenting himself as the ultimate deal maker, the master negotiator who can translate his success in business into the worlds of politics, policy and diplomacy. “That's what I do, is deals,” he said one day last month.
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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
An utterly disastrous week for Donald Trump
An utterly disastrous week for Donald Trump
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Eliza Relman / Business Insider:
Young Trump staffers are complaining they can't date in DC because everyone hates them
Young Trump staffers are complaining they can't date in DC because everyone hates them
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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
More Americans Blame Undocumented Parents Than Trump For Family Separations
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Abigail Tracy / Vanity Fair:
Is Mueller's Team Worried that Trump's Strategy Is Working? — The special counsel believes polarized media coverage has poisoned the well of potential jurors. — Never one to pass up an opportunity to attack the media, Donald Trump excoriated ABC News on Wednesday after the network aired …
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Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Mueller signals outside prosecutors may eventually take over Russian trolls case
Mueller signals outside prosecutors may eventually take over Russian trolls case
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John Harwood / CNBC:
Trump, again and again, describes a world detached from reality — Over and over, he painted fundamentally false portraits of people and events to flatter himself, discredit predecessors and rivals, and promote his political objectives. — Some highlights from Trump's week include …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Britain Has a Russia Collusion Scandal Now. It Looks Exactly Like Trump's. — The most important thing to understand about the Russia scandal is that it perfectly fits a clear pattern of behavior. What Vladimir Putin is accused of doing to help Donald Trump win the presidency …
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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Adam Cox / Just Security:
Detention of Migrant Families as “Deterrence”: Ethical Flaws and Empirical Doubts
Dominic Mancini / The Daily Caller:
'It's A Human Right': Mexican Presidential Candidate On Mass Exodus To America
'It's A Human Right': Mexican Presidential Candidate On Mass Exodus To America
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Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Donald Trump and the 1930s playbook: liberal democracy comes unstuck — “I really don't care. Do u?” said graffiti on the back of Melania Trump's coat as she boarded the plane for Texas to visit encaged child migrants. No one, except Donald Trump, who tweeted that her garb was meant as a criticism of the …
Maggie Astor / New York Times:
Seven Ways Alabama Has Made It Harder to Vote — Five years ago, the Supreme Court struck down a key part of the landmark Voting Rights Act. Since then, Alabama has enacted a slew of restrictive voting laws and policies. — Five years after the Supreme Court invalidated …
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Political Wire
Mark Hilliard / The Irish Times:
James Comey: 'I am disgusted, I am horrified, I am embarrassed, I'm ashamed' — Former FBI director in Dublin criticises separation of children and parents at US/Mexico border — Former FBI director James Comey has said he was so ashamed by his country's separation of children and parents …
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Fox News, Axios and The Gateway Pundit
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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Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Lobsters, Small-Batch Whiskey and Trump's Trade War — WASHINGTON — The effects of President Trump's trade war are beginning to ripple through the United States economy as steel tariffs disrupt domestic supply chains and global trading partners retaliate against a wide variety of American products …
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Derek Robertson / Politico:
Washington, D.C.: the Psychopath Capital of America — A new study ranks each state, plus D.C., by their psychopathic tendencies. The race for first? It isn't even close. — As Washington's shock over winning the Stanley Cup demonstrates, the nation's capital isn't used to being first in anything.
Jonathan O'Connell / Washington Post:
Trump business dealings raise ‘serious concerns,’ ethics office says — The government's top ethics official said some of President Trump's business dealings “raise serious concerns” but that the office lacks the authority to launch an investigation requested last month by congressional Democrats.
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The Daily Beast:
Trump Reaffirms North Korean Nuclear Threat After Saying It Was Gone — President Donald Trump told Congress in a letter on Friday that North Korea's “provocative, destabilizing, and repressive actions...continue to constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat” to the United States.
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ABC Columbia:
Officer fired for “abusing his authority” by pulling over daughter's boyfriend — Lorain, OH (WOLO) — A 26 year veteran of the police Lorain Police Department is without a job tonight. According to his superior officer the officer “abused his authority” when he pulled his daughter's boyfriend …
Wall Street Journal:
Mueller's Fruit of the Poisonous Tree — It makes no difference how honorable he is. His investigation is tainted by the bias that attended its origin in 2016. — Special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation may face a serious legal obstacle: It is tainted by antecedent political bias.
Heather Mac Donald / City Journal:
Who's Really to Blame at the Border? — The current distress and hysteria is the fault of illegal aliens and their enablers in the courts. — Politics and law — The Social Order — So it was a ruse. The hysteria over the separation of illegal-alien asylum-seekers from their children …
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Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Dick Leitsch, Whose ‘Sip-In’ Was a Gay Rights Milestone, Dies at 83 — Dick Leitsch, who in 1966 led a pioneering act of civil disobedience to secure the right of gay patrons to be served in a licensed bar, helping to clear the way for gay bars to operate openly in New York State, died on Friday at a hospice center in Manhattan.
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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.”
VICE:
The ‘New York Times’ Invites You to Fight Fake News with This $300 T-Shirt — The Gray Lady teamed up with a Japanese streetwear company to sell you woke merch. — Screenshot via Sacai/Saks Fifth Avenue — In the post-truth era, many are wondering how to fight the epidemic of fake news.
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Steve Reilly / USA Today:
USA TODAY tracking where separated children sent — Since the Trump Administration established a “zero tolerance” policy over illegal border crossings, more than 2,000 children have been separated from their families after crossing the country's Southwest border.