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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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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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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
An utterly disastrous week for Donald Trump — Washington (CNN)Fresh off one of the best — or, at the very least, most consequential — weeks of his presidency, Donald Trump just experienced one of his worst weeks in the White House. — The week was totally defined by the botched handling …
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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 administration staffers are having a hard time dating in Washington, one of the most Democratic cities in the country. — Even after leaving their administration jobs …
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Splinter, Politico, Lawyers, Guns & Money and VICE
Alex Parker / RedState:
Trump to GOP: Forget it — Immigration Reform Requires the Coming Red Wave
Trump to GOP: Forget it — Immigration Reform Requires the Coming Red Wave
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Power Line, Washington Post and CBS New York
Peter Baker / New York Times:
President Trump, Deal Maker? Not So Fast
President Trump, Deal Maker? Not So Fast
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Wall Street Journal, CNN and CBS New York
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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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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Politico, New York Magazine, Breitbart, The Atlantic, The Crime Report and Lawfare
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.
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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New York Times
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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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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The Gateway Pundit, RedState, Fox News Insider, Weasel Zippers and Daily Wire
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
Mention of Trump campaign may be off the table at Manafort trial
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Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
Trump's false portrayal of his Sanford insult goes largely unchallenged by House Republicans: 'It wasn't a big deal' — After President Trump insulted one of their own as a “nasty guy,” many House Republicans dodged and weaved when questioned this week about the president's takedown of South Carolina Rep. Mark Sanford.
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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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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Can the Border Patrol ask for your papers? This tool shows if you're in the ‘border zone.’ — The government's crackdown on illegal immigration came to an unexpected place on Wednesday: central Maine — about as far from the border with Mexico as it is possible to get.
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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.”
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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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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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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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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Erin Banco / New Jersey Online:
Trump Organization and Kushner Companies sever ties on N.J. business deals — Kushner Companies and the Trump Organization are calling it quits on two hotel business deals in New Jersey, according to a source familiar with the matter and a recently published story by The New York Times.
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The Real Deal New York, The Daily Caller and New York Times
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Americans' Certainty About Voting This Year Starting Off Low — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Fifty-six percent of U.S. adults are currently “absolutely certain” they will vote in the November elections for Congress. That's on the low side in Gallup's trend of final pre-election midterm polls since 1954 …
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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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
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 …
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
Larry Neumeister / Associated Press:
Man charged in bike path killings speaks in court of ‘Allah’ — NEW YORK (AP) — The man charged with murdering eight people on a New York City bike path and injuring many more spoke out in court Friday over a prosecutor's objection, invoking “Allah” and defending the Islamic State.
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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, The Atlantic and Washington Monthly
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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Associated Press:
Trump pushes back against border separation uproar — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump tried to cast doubt Friday on wrenching tales of migrant children separated from their families at the border, dismissing “phony stories of sadness and grief” while asserting the real victims …
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 …
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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