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NBC News:
Mattis is out of the loop and Trump doesn't listen to him, say officials — On Iran, North Korea and other major issues, the defense secretary has been out of the loop — WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary James Mattis learned in May from a colleague that President Donald Trump had made the decision …
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Associated Press:
Harley, stung by tariffs, shifts some production overseas — MILWAUKEE (AP) — Harley-Davidson, up against spiraling costs from tariffs, will begin shifting the production of motorcycles headed for Europe from the U.S. to factories overseas. — The European Union on Friday began rolling …
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Amie Tsang / New York Times:
Harley-Davidson to Move Some Production From U.S. Because of E.U. Tariffs — Harley-Davidson, the American motorcycle manufacturer, said on Monday that it was shifting some of the production of its bikes outside the United States to avoid European Union tariffs imposed as part of a widening trade dispute.
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Steven Erlanger / New York Times:
Javier Solana, Ex-Chief of NATO, Is Denied Permission to Travel to U.S.
Javier Solana, Ex-Chief of NATO, Is Denied Permission to Travel to U.S.
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Washington Post
Ana Swanson / New York Times:
Trump's Trade War Could Shut Cheesemakers Out of Foreign Markets
Trump's Trade War Could Shut Cheesemakers Out of Foreign Markets
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Raw Story
Brian Beutler / Crooked Media:
Shame the Trumpers — If you spend too much time online, you probably know about the white woman in San Francisco who called the police on a young girl of color last week for selling bottled water on the street without a permit. Video footage of that woman trying to hide from a cell phone camera …
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Nicole Lafond / Talking Points Memo:
Restaurant That Trump Called ‘Filthy’ Actually Has A Glowing Health Record
Restaurant That Trump Called ‘Filthy’ Actually Has A Glowing Health Record
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The Federalist, Vox, The Daily Beast, Shakesville and POLITICUSUSA
Mary Jordan / Washington Post:
The latest sign of political divide: Shaming and shunning public officials
The latest sign of political divide: Shaming and shunning public officials
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Washington Monthly, Associated Press, JustOneMinute, Newsweek, The Daily Beast and Politico
Rebecca Everett / New Jersey Online:
N.J. restaurant harassed after Va. eatery with same name boots Sarah Huckabee Sanders
N.J. restaurant harassed after Va. eatery with same name boots Sarah Huckabee Sanders
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Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, Vox and Raw Story
James Gordon Meek / ABC News:
Special counsel obtains Trump ally Erik Prince's phones, computer — Special Counsel Robert Mueller is digging deeper into Trump ally and Blackwater founder Erik Prince, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the matter. — Prince, America's most famous private military contractor …
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New York Times:
How an Affair Between a Reporter and a Security Aide Has Rattled Washington Media — The pearl bracelet arrived in May 2014, in the spring of Ali Watkins's senior year in college, a graduation gift from a man many years her senior. It was the sort of bauble that might imply something …
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Associated Press:
Colleague cracks Sen. McCaskill's rib with Heimlich maneuver — WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin has cracked a rib of U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill while performing the Heimlich maneuver on the fellow Democrat when she began choking. — A spokesman for Manchin tells the St. Louis Post-Dispatch …
Matt Phillips / New York Times:
What's the Yield Curve? ‘A Powerful Signal of Recessions’ Has Wall Street's Attention — You can try and play down a trade war with China. You can brush off the impact of rising oil prices on corporate earnings. — But if you're in the business of making economic predictions …
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Hannah Dreier / ProPublica:
I've Been Reporting on MS-13 for a Year. Here Are the 5 Things Trump Gets Most Wrong. — The gang is not invading the country. They're not posing as fake families. They're not growing. To stop them, the government needs to understand them. — There's one thing everyone can agree …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Supreme Court sends back N.C. gerrymandering case, mostly rejects Texas map challenge — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a challenge to Texas' congressional districts and said it is declining, for now, to wade into a dispute over a North Carolina redistricting plan that a lower court …
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court sends case on North Carolina gerrymandering back to lower court
Supreme Court sends case on North Carolina gerrymandering back to lower court
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
White Extinction Anxiety — Last week Pat Buchanan was on “The Laura Ingraham Show” to discuss the humanitarian crisis Donald Trump has created at the border by ripping children away from their parents. — He was not particularly sympathetic to these families' plights …
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Politico:
The left loses its cool — 'When you're violent and cursing and screaming and blocking me from walking into a movie, there's something wrong,' said one top GOP official. — Two senior Trump administration officials were heckled at restaurants. A third was denied service.
David Voreacos / Bloomberg:
Manafort Appeals Washington Judge's Order Revoking His Bail — Judge sent Manafort to jail for alleged witness tampering — Trump's ex-chairman preparing for two trials behind bars — Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort is appealing a judge's order revoking …
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Law & Crime
New York Times:
Why We Are Leaving the G.O.P. — When the obituary for the Republican Party is written, the year 1980 will be cited as the beginning of the end. Reaganism was in full flower, but the big tent was already folding. Republican leaders endorsed a constitutional ban on abortion at the convention that summer …
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The Daily Caller
Dara Lind / Vox:
Trump will reunite separated families — but only if they agree to deportation — Families are being offered an impossibly cruel choice: fight to stay in the US apart, or give up and get sent back together. — On Saturday night, the Trump administration finally announced its plan for reuniting …
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Franco Ordoñez / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Exclusive: Trump plan gives immigrants choice of detention, with or without child
Exclusive: Trump plan gives immigrants choice of detention, with or without child
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The Week
Hamilton Nolan / Splinter:
This Is Just the Beginning — Do you think that being asked to leave a restaurant, or having your meal interrupted, or being called by the public is bad? My fascism-enabling friends, this is only the beginning. — One thing that people who wield great power often fail to viscerally understand …
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Mediaite
Steve Vockrodt / Kansas City Star:
Kander confirms bid for Kansas City mayor in a move already shaking up the ballot — Jason Kander, the former Missouri secretary of state whose growing nationwide profile as a Democrat led to speculation about his presidential ambitions, confirmed on Sunday his unexpected decision to run for mayor of Kansas City.
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Politico and The Daily Beast
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
The Power of Nancy Pelosi — Can the Democrats' polarizing leader chart a path to victory in the 2018 midterm elections? — Nancy Pelosi sits in a black-leather booth at Americana, a burger bistro in downtown Des Moines, radiating optimism. “We're in a very good place,” she says of Democrats' odds in November.
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Political Wire
The Intercept:
The NSA's Hidden Spy Hubs in Eight U.S. Cities — The secrets are hidden behind fortified walls in cities across the United States, inside towering, windowless skyscrapers and fortress-like concrete structures that were built to withstand earthquakes and even nuclear attack.
Associated Press:
In sign of detente, North Korea skips annual anti-US rally — PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — In another sign of detente following the summit between leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump, North Korea has decided to skip one of the most symbolic and politically charged events of its calendar …
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National Review, Yonhap News Agency, Daily Caller News Foundation and VICE News
Ross Ramsey / The Texas Tribune:
Ted Cruz leads Beto O'Rourke by 5 points in Texas Senate race, UT/TT poll finds — Texas Republicans in top races, led by U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and Gov. Greg Abbott, are running ahead of their Democratic challengers, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
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The Week and Off the Kuff
Gabriel Debenedetti / New York Magazine:
Where Is Barack Obama? — Barack Obama was six months into his post-White House life when Donald Trump found a new way to grab his attention. It was a Tuesday morning deep in the mid-Atlantic summer, and, feeling a world away from the Pennsylvania Avenue grind, the former president was reading the New York Times on his iPad.
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Breitbart, Althouse, Washington Free Beacon, The Week and Mediaite
Drew Van Voorhis / The College Fix:
Professor asks men to send her pictures of their penises to help measure self esteem — Does a larger penis mean more self esteem? One Missouri State University sociology professor is working to find that out and more, and in the name of science is asking men across America to send her pictures of their genitalia.
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Daily Caller News Foundation
Jamie Ehrlich / CNN:
Democratic congresswoman encourages supporters to harass Trump administration officials — Rep. Waters: Confront White House officials — Washington (CNN)Rep. Maxine Waters called on her supporters to publicly confront and harass members of the Trump administration in response to the …
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Bridget Read / Vogue:
28-Year-Old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Might Just Be the Future of the Democratic Party — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has already made history with her campaign to challenge Democratic Rep. Joe Crowley for his seat in congress: the 28-year-old Bronx-born woman is the first person to face off …
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Roll Call
Kyle Swenson / Washington Post:
'They're lucky we aren't executing them': National Guardsman faces punishment for Facebook post on migrants — With a steady pipeline of unsettling images and reports coming from the border related to the Trump administration's child separation policy, more than half a million Facebook users have opened their digital wallets to help.
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Talking Points Memo
Lori Hinnant / Associated Press:
Women were lying dead, men... Migrants expelled in Sahara — ASSAMAKA, Niger (AP) — From this isolated frontier post deep in the sands of the Sahara, the expelled migrants can be seen coming over the horizon by the hundreds. They look like specks in the distance, trudging miserably across …
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ThinkProgress, The Week and Trevor Loudon's New Zeal Blog
Jon Caramanica / New York Times:
With Kanye West — Three days in Wyoming as the hip-hop firebrand tends to his scars. — JACKSON, Wyo. — One afternoon early last year, Kanye West walked into the living room of his California home and found Tony Robbins — the Hulk-sized, concrete-grinned motivational speaker — waiting for him.
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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Trump's Race-Baiting Has Infested the GOP — Mike Huckabee's MS-13 tweet shows how the Republican Party has remade itself in the president's image. — Early Saturday morning, Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas and the father of President Donald Trump's press secretary …
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Washington Times, Arizona Republic, Washington Post and Mediaite
Steve Liesman / CNBC:
Majority of Americans approve of Trump's handling of the economy for the first time: CNBC survey — Trump's economic approval rating surged 6 points to 51 percent, according to the latest CNBC All-America Economic Survey. — Fifty-four percent say the economy is good or excellent …
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Axios, Breitbart, Political Wire, Conservative News Today, Scared Monkeys, The Daily Caller and twitchy.com
Rolf Mowatt-Larssen / Just Security:
Trump as a Russian Target - Through the Eyes of a former CIA Russian Expert — Donald Trump would have been an active target of Russian intelligence since the moment they laid eyes on him for two reasons that come straight from the classical espionage textbook: He has influence …
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Raw Story
Julie Bykowicz / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Associates Facing Mounting Legal Bills Turn to Financial Backers for Help — Michael Caputo's GoFundMe.com page and the Patriot Legal Expense Fund Trust are just two pools of money easing the burden as probes continue — Michael Caputo was facing $130,000 in legal bills with no clear …
Nicole Darrah / Fox News:
Laura Ingalls Wilder's name pulled from library award over ‘stereotypical attitudes’ in her popular books — Laura Ingalls Wilder's name is set to be removed from a major children's book award after concerns were raised about the “Little House on the Prairie” author's depiction of certain races in the early-to-mid 20th century.
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