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CBS News Battleground Tracker: Arizona, Florida, Texas - immigration and key Senate races — The latest CBS News Battleground Tracker dives into how the issue of immigration and the separation of families at the border is playing in the key states of Arizona, Texas and Florida.
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Political Wire and twitchy.com
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CBS News Battleground Tracker: Sharp divides over immigration, separation — The issue of family separation reveals deep divisions over not just immigration as an issue, but over views of immigrants, themselves - and over what their treatment signals about America.
Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Trump Leaves His Mark on a Presidential Keepsake — Under President Trump, once stately medallions have gotten glitzier, and at least one featured a Trump property. Ethics watchdogs are worried. — WASHINGTON — Since Bill Clinton occupied the White House, the commemorative medallions known …
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Elizabeth Warren Condemned Trump in Reno. He Answered in Las Vegas With a Slur. — HENDERSON, Nev. — The clash began Saturday morning with a populist denunciation of President Trump's policies, delivered in Reno, Nev., by a Democratic senator who is one of his most ferocious critics.
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Overheard at the DSCC retreat on Martha's Vineyard — SEN. MARK WARNER (D-Va.) hosted a dinner Friday night for more than 100 guests at his house on Martha's Vineyard as part of the DSCC'S annual Majority Trust retreat. OVERHEARD: Warner, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee …
Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Trump Appeals to Republicans in Las Vegas, Leaving Behind Washington's Legislative Chaos
Trump Appeals to Republicans in Las Vegas, Leaving Behind Washington's Legislative Chaos
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Talking Points Memo
Brent D. Griffiths / Politico:
In Nevada, Trump goes after ‘Wacky Jacky’
In Nevada, Trump goes after ‘Wacky Jacky’
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Fox News, The Week, Nevada - FOX5 Vegas and HuffPost
Washington Post:
Trump advocates depriving undocumented immigrants of due-process rights — President Trump on Sunday explicitly advocated depriving undocumented immigrants of their due-process rights, arguing that people who cross the border into the United States illegally must immediately be deported without trial …
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Political Wire and The Week
Mike Godwin / Los Angeles Times:
Do we need to update Godwin's Law about the probability of comparison to Nazis? — Does Godwin's Law need to be updated? Suspended? Repealed? I get asked this question from time to time because I'm the guy who came up with it more than a quarter century ago.
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Hullabaloo
Ilan Ben Zion / Associated Press:
Kushner rips Abbas, says Mideast peace plan due ‘soon’ — JERUSALEM (AP) — President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser said in an interview published Sunday that the administration will soon present its Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, with or without input from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Business Insider:
America's closest allies are furious about Trump's tariffs, and now an unorthodox idea to go after him is gaining steam — President Donald Trump's headlong push toward a trade war is prompting unprecedented responses from countries around the world and blowback from top US allies.
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Patterico's Pontifications
Rick Wilson / The Daily Beast:
This Was the Week That Finally Broke Trump's Spell … Donald Trump can't define or pronounce the word Manichaean, but he knows it when he sees it. For Trump, there are two types of people; Donald Trump, and losers, and the one thing Donald Trump can't abide is a loser.
Heather Knight / San Francisco Chronicle:
Poop. Needles. Rats. Homeless camp pushes SF neighborhood to the edge — One awful experience on one unremarkable city block represent the hellscape that has infuriated many San Francisco residents — The Chronicle receives a deluge of email every day, but one message sent …
Axios:
What we're watching: How Trump's Democrat-blaming plays with the GOP — As pressure builds for Congress to pass legislation that would keep migrant families together at the border, President Trump continues to tweet, blaming Democrats for lawmakers' failure to act and forcing fellow Republicans to contend with his statements.
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ABC News, The Daily Beast, Raw Story and The Week
Department of Homeland Security:
Fact Sheet: Zero-Tolerance Prosecution and Family Reunification — The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Health and Human Services (HHS) have a process established to ensure that family members know the location of their children and have regular communication after separation to ensure …
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Mother Jones, The Guardian, Washington Post, Refinery29, Axios and Daily Caller News Foundation
CNN:
DHS employees warned about safety amid backlash over family separations — Tapper fact-checks DHS on family separations — Washington (CNN)Amid the furor over the policy that resulted in thousands of families separated at the border, Department of Homeland Security employees have been warned …
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TheBlaze, ABC News, Daily Wire, Politico and The Gateway Pundit
Thomas Lifson / American Thinker:
Facing humiliation, Mueller backs away from prosecution of Russian entities — The Mueller special counsel investigation purportedly was instigated to discover possible illicit Russian influence on the 2016 presidential election but now is backing away from the only indictments aimed at Russian entities …
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Power Line, The American Spectator and emptywheel
Tokyosand / PoliticalCharge:
BlueWave Interview: Rachel Murphy Azzara — This week, our interview is with Rachel Murphy Azzara, the Director of Democrats Work for America, a PAC designed to harness grassroots energy and turn that into wins on election day. As someone who has followed their work since their inception one year ago …
Paul Demko / Politico:
Reversal of fortune: Obamacare rate hikes pose headache for Republicans — Unlike recent campaign cycles, when Republicans capitalized on Obamacare sticker shock, they're now likely to be the ones feeling the wrath of voters. — Obamacare premiums are once again poised to spike by double digits in 2019 …
Dan Spinelli / Mother Jones:
She Spoke out About Climate Change—and They Tried to Make Her Pay for It — Oceanographer Sarah Myhre believes “science has never been apolitical.” — In 2015, a University of California, Davis researcher named Sarah Moffit appeared in a four-and-a-half-minute video detailing her work studying ancient ocean ecosystems.
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Sarah Huckabee Sanders and the lost art of shunning — White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders — whose lies are piling up at a furious rate and whose defense of the child-separation policy prompted a reporter to exclaim, “Come on, Sarah, you're a parent” — was reportedly asked …
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CBS Philly, Shareblue Media, Mediaite, Washington Times, Althouse and Raw Story
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Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
Red Hen owner reveals she allowed employees to vote on booting Huckabee Sanders out of restaurant — and Sarah lost
Red Hen owner reveals she allowed employees to vote on booting Huckabee Sanders out of restaurant — and Sarah lost
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The Gateway Pundit, Washington Monthly, Fox News and The Guardian
Tamar Auber / Mediaite:
Red Hen Owner Who Booted Sarah Sanders Speaks Out: Would ‘Absolutely’ Do it Again
Red Hen Owner Who Booted Sarah Sanders Speaks Out: Would ‘Absolutely’ Do it Again
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Politico, The Hill and Mother Jones
Sebastian Murdock / HuffPost:
White Woman Threatened To Call Cops On 8-Year-Old Girl Selling Water — Alison Ettel told HuffPost she was only “pretending” to call the police. — An apparent competition over who can threaten to call the police on people of color for no good reason is really ramping up.
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ThinkProgress, Mashable, KTVU-TV, Raw Story, CBS Los Angeles, cupbord and The American Mirror
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