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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 …
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Hullabaloo, Raw Story and The Gateway Pundit
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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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Politico
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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Washington Post and 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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The Week, Fox News, Nevada - FOX5 Vegas and HuffPost
CBS News:
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, Florida Politics and twitchy.com
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CBS News:
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.
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
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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 …
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.
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The Times of Israel, Jerusalem Post, Breitbart and Reuters
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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
New York Times:
New Emails Suggest Scott Pruitt Discussed Hiring a Friend of Lobbyist Landlord — Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, discussed hiring a friend of a lobbyist family that owned a condominium he was renting for $50 a night, newly released emails suggest.
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CNN and Political Wire
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, POLITICUSUSA, The Daily Beast, The Week and Raw Story
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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The Guardian, Mother Jones, Law & Crime, Washington Post, Refinery29, Daily Caller News Foundation and Axios
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, Daily Wire, ABC News, Politico and The Gateway Pundit
Mitt Romney / Salt Lake Tribune:
Where I stand on the Trump agenda — I appreciate the argument made by those who believe we should stay silent, but I cannot subscribe to it. — One of the questions I am asked frequently on the campaign trail is whether as Senator I will support the Trump agenda.
Kayla Brantley / Daily Mail:
‘No way, man!’ Seth Rogen reveals he REFUSED to take a photo with Paul Ryan while the Speaker of the House's teenage sons watched on — Seth Rogen said he had an encounter with the Speaker of the House last month at an event in Park City, Utah, to promote brain health
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IJR, Conservative News Today, YouTube and The Daily Beast
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 …
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 and The American Spectator
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.
Tampa Bay Times:
Pam Bondi confronted by protesters outside Mister Rogers movie — When asked whether Mister Rogers would have approached the situation the same way the activists did, one of the protesters said, “I'm not Mister Rogers.” — A group of protesters accosted Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi outside …