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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
As Critics Assail Trump, His Supporters Dig In Deeper — LEESBURG, Va. — Gina Anders knows the feeling well by now. President Trump says or does something that triggers a spasm of outrage. She doesn't necessarily agree with how he handled the situation. She gets why people are upset.
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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
Katie Arrington, Lowcountry lawmaker, seriously injured in wreck
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TMZ.com:
Sarah Huckabee Sanders Kicked Out of Restaurant on Moral Grounds — A restaurant owner in Lexington, Virginia kicked Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her party out of his restaurant ... on moral grounds. — The waiter at The Red Hen said, “I just served Sarah Huckabee Sanders for a total …
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Avery Anapol / The Hill:
Reviewers pounce on online report Virginia restaurant refused to serve Sarah Sanders — Reviewers from both sides of the aisle flooded a Virginia restaurant's Facebook and Yelp pages with one- and five-star reviews after a server at the restaurant claimed his boss kicked out White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
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Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
Sarah Sanders Was Asked to Leave Restaurant Over White House Work — WASHINGTON — Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, said she was asked to leave a Virginia restaurant Friday night because of her work in the Trump administration, becoming the latest official to be singled …
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Washington Post, Washingtonian and Mother Jones
Rory Tingle / Daily Mail:
'I always do my best to treat people respectfully, including those I disagree with': Sarah Sanders slams owner of restaurant who kicked out her and seven members of her family because she ‘works for the president’ — Sarah Sanders has slammed the manager of a Virginia restaurant who refused …
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Louder With Crowder
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
DOJ: Trump's immigration crackdown ‘diverting’ resources from drug cases
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Jennifer Epstein / Bloomberg:
Harris Says Trump Guilty of ‘Crimes Against Humanity’ on Border
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.
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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 …
Scott Simon / NPR:
Children's Cries Brought Down Walls Of Indifference — The cries of children pierce our hearts. Scientists say they're meant to. They move us to love and protect children. This response is healthy; it's human; and it keeps humanity going. — As Dr. Marc Bornstein …
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Steve Reilly / USA Today:
USA TODAY tracking where separated children sent
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 …
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 …
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 …
Washington Post:
Two powerful forces collide at the U.S.-Mexico border, as immigration policy meets desperation — TIJUANA, Mexico — To Carmen Palma, a Salvadoran migrant waiting at a shelter just south of the border, her 6-year-old daughter's life depends on getting asylum in the United States.
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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 …
Maya Salam / New York Times:
Thousands of Bourbon Barrels Come Crashing Down in Kentucky — Bourbon is flowing in Kentucky, but don't grab a glass. — Thousands of full barrels of bourbon, and possibly other spirits, came crashing down when a storage warehouse in Bardstown, Ky., partly collapsed on Friday.
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Courier-Journal, Associated Press, The Daily Caller and Mashable
Military Times:
Desert Storm memorial to be built on National Mall near Vietnam Wall — WASHINGTON — The National Desert Storm War Memorial will be located on the National Mall just steps away from the Lincoln Memorial and Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall, after a federal commission approved the site on Thursday.
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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 …
Rebecca Hersher / NPR:
3 Charts That Show What's Actually Happening Along The Southern Border — The total number of people apprehended for illegally crossing the southern U.S. border has been steadily falling for almost two decades. It's a long-term trend that sociologists, economists and federal officials have been tracking for years.
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Reuters:
Trump-Putin meeting will follow Bolton trip to Moscow, says Pompeo — Mike Pompeo, the US secretary of state, expects a planned visit to Moscow by national security adviser John Bolton will lead to a meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. — Paul Manafort lawyers want mention of Trump banned in Virginia trial
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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Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
Seth Rogen Reveals How He Dissed Paul Ryan in Front of His Kids … Earlier this month, Mitt Romney hosted his annual summit in Park City, Utah, for “top Republicans, wealthy donors and powerful business leaders.” — And Seth Rogen. — Yes, the director/star of The Interview …
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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.
Bangor Daily News:
New LePage threat to stall bonds imperils road repairs, thousands of jobs — Governor Paul LePage speaks at a campaign event in a gravel pit in Gray where he received the re-endorsement of the Maine chapter of the Associated Builders and Contractors in 2014.
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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Raw Story
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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