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New York Times:
Supreme Court Upholds Trump's Travel Ban, Delivering Endorsement of Presidential Power — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld President Trump's ban on travel from mostly-Muslim nations, delivering a robust endorsement of Mr. Trump's power to control the flow of immigration …
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Sam Baker / Axios:
Supreme Court upholds Trump's travel ban — The Supreme Court upheld President Trump's most recent travel ban today in a 5-4 decision, ruling that it falls within the president's traditional power to control immigration policy. — The big picture: The travel ban was the first big policy announcement …
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Sam Baker / Axios:
Supreme Court curtails mandatory abortion notices — California went too far when it required anti-abortion pregnancy clinics to notify women that abortion is an option, the Supreme Court said today. — The issue: Crisis pregnancy centers, often run by Christian organizations that oppose abortion …
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Tucker Higgins / CNBC:
Supreme Court rules that Trump's travel ban is constitutional — The ruling concerned the third version of President Donald Trump's immigration restriction, which was challenged on the grounds that it amounted to a “Muslim ban.” — In the 5-4 opinion penned by Chief Justice John Roberts …
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Richard Wolf / USA Today:
Supreme Court rules against California law targeting anti-abortion pregnancy centers — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday dealt a major blow to a California law requiring anti-abortion pregnancy centers to inform women about publicly funded abortion and contraception services.
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Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Supreme Court upholds travel ban — Washington (CNN)The Supreme Court has upheld President Donald Trump's travel ban. — The ruling was 5-4 along partisan lines, with Chief Justice John Roberts writing for the conservative majority. — This is the third version of the travel ban.
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court upholds Trump travel ban
Supreme Court upholds Trump travel ban
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Washington Post:
Court upholds Trump travel ban, rejects discrimination claim
Court upholds Trump travel ban, rejects discrimination claim
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
The Supreme Court Upholds Trump's Travel Ban
The Supreme Court Upholds Trump's Travel Ban
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
We Have a Crisis of Democracy, Not Manners — Last year, the white nationalist Richard Spencer was kicked out of his Virginia gym after another member confronted him and called him a Nazi. This incident did not generate a national round of hand-wringing about the death of tolerance …
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Merdie Nzanga / USA Today:
Stephen Miller's D.C. home a target of immigration policy protest
Stephen Miller's D.C. home a target of immigration policy protest
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Adam Gopnik / New Yorker:
Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Who Deserves a Place at the Table
Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Who Deserves a Place at the Table
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Bloomberg:
Mueller Poised to Zero In on Trump-Russia Collusion Allegations — Special counsel to focus once he resolves obstruction inquiry — The meetings with Russians stretched as far back as 2015 — Special Counsel Robert Mueller is preparing to accelerate his probe …
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Lee Smith / RealClearInvestigations:
The Mysterious Seven Preludes of the FBI's Trump-Russia Probe — The Federal Bureau of Investigation opened its probe of the Trump campaign after Western intelligence assets and Clinton-affiliated political operatives repeatedly approached the Trump team and evidently tried but failed to damage …
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Bloomberg:
Trump Says Harley Move Abroad Would Be ‘Beginning of the End’ — Motorcycle maker said Monday it would move production overseas — President says Harley is using new tariffs as an excuse — U.S. President Donald Trump accused Harley-Davidson Inc. of using new tariffs on trade …
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: A poll commissioned by Bush and Biden shows Americans losing confidence in democracy — THE BIG IDEA: Half of Americans think the United States is in “real danger of becoming a nondemocratic, authoritarian country.” A majority, 55 percent, see democracy as “weak” - and 68 percent believe it is “getting weaker.”
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Gabrielle Coppola / Bloomberg:
Trump Gets Harley Plans Wrong in Attack Over Trade War ‘Excuse’
Trump Gets Harley Plans Wrong in Attack Over Trade War ‘Excuse’
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Erica Pandey / Axios:
Trump turns on Harley-Davidson over offshoring
Trump turns on Harley-Davidson over offshoring
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Brian Faler / Politico:
Republican tax law hits churches — Some nonprofits could start paying taxes for the first time. — Republicans have quietly imposed a new tax on churches, synagogues and other nonprofits, a little-noticed and surprising change that could cost some groups tens of thousands of dollars.
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Sarah Ferris / Politico:
U.S. cruises toward record-breaking debt on Trump's watch
U.S. cruises toward record-breaking debt on Trump's watch
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Nick Hanauer / American Prospect:
Want to Expand the Economy? Tax the Rich!
Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
In South Carolina rally, Trump targets Sanford, McCain and TV comedians — WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. — President Trump flew here Monday night ostensibly to urge South Carolina Republicans to vote for Gov. Henry McMaster in the Republican primary Tuesday, repaying a political favor to one of his earliest supporters.
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Henry J. Gomez / BuzzFeed:
Trump Supporters Boo A CNN Reporter, Then Ask Him For Selfies
Trump Supporters Boo A CNN Reporter, Then Ask Him For Selfies
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The tax bill as a political football
POLITICO Playbook: The tax bill as a political football
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Monmouth University Polling Institute:
GOP Trailing in CD10 — Trump's unpopularity hurts House incumbent — West Long Branch, NJ - The race for Virginia's 10th Congressional District starts out with the GOP Republican incumbent trailing by ten points according to the Monmouth University Poll.
Leinz Vales / CNN:
Woman cites Trump while calling man ‘rapist,’ ‘illegal’ in viral rant — Man berated in racist rant caught on camera — (CNN)A Latino man and his mother who were doing yard work in California were verbally attacked by a woman who called them “illegals” and “rapists,” and a video of the encounter has gone viral.
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Chad Pergram / Fox News:
Intern who cursed at Trump is identified, was suspended but not fired — The Congressional intern who hollered “Mr. President, f— you!” across the Capitol Rotunda last week during a presidential visit has been identified. — Sources tell Fox News the woman in question is 21-year-old Caitlin Marriott …
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Intern for Dem senator suspended for shouting ‘f— you’ at Trump
Intern for Dem senator suspended for shouting ‘f— you’ at Trump
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CNN:
Conservatives grumble about House GOP's handling of investigation into FBI — (CNN)Last October, two House Republican committee chairmen announced their plans to get to the bottom of the FBI's decision-making in 2016 — namely its handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation.
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Paul Sperry / RealClearInvestigations:
Here's One Unverified File the Feds Won't Leak: About Loretta Lynch
Here's One Unverified File the Feds Won't Leak: About Loretta Lynch
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Perry Bacon Jr / FiveThirtyEight:
Democrats Are Wrong About Republicans. Republicans Are Wrong About Democrats. — Welcome to Secret Identity, our regular column on identity and its role in politics and policy. — The defining divide in American politics is probably between Republicans and Democrats.
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Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
Her son was killed — then came the Russian trolls — Videos produced by Samantha Guff, Julian Quinones and Margaret Dawson — (CNN)It was the height of presidential primary season, just a few weeks before the Republican and Democratic conventions, but on July 7, 2016 …
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CBS News:
Experts say U.S. among 10 most dangerous nations for women — The United States has been ranked for the first time among the ten nations deemed to be the most dangerous for women by experts in the field. A survey by the Thompson Reuters Foundation of about 550 experts in women's issues around …
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Caitlin Owens / Axios:
HHS: “Several hundred” children have been reunited with parents — “Several hundred” of the more than 2,300 children that were separated from their parents have been placed with a parent or relative, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said today.
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
USA Today Network launches a conservative opinion newsletter for the heartland — Since its founding in 1982, USA Today has prided itself on a feel for all 50 states that eludes East Coast media. Now its network is launching a new conservative opinion initiative aimed at Trump voters …
Michael Boren / Philly.com:
Black parents say movie theater manager called police on them in West Philadelphia — A black family who attended a screening of Jurassic World at a West Philadelphia theater Friday says a manager called police on them following a verbal dispute about being able to retrieve their kids in the theater.
David Brooks / New York Times:
Republican or Conservative, You Have to Choose — The never-Trumpers are having an interesting debate over the question, Is it time to leave the Republican Party? George Will and Steve Schmidt say yes: The Trumpian rot is all the way down. Bill Kristol says not so fast: Once Donald Trump falls …
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Bethan McKernan / The Independent:
Iranians take to streets of Tehran in biggest protests since 2012 — President Hassan Rouhani promises citizens the country will withstand currency drop and new US sanctions after Donald Trump's withdrawal from nuclear deal — POPULAR VIDEOS — Huge protests have erupted in Iran …
New York Times:
Top Tech Companies Met With Intelligence Officials to Discuss Midterms — SAN FRANCISCO — Eight of the tech industry's most influential companies, in anticipation of a repeat of the Russian meddling that occurred during the 2016 presidential campaign, met with United States intelligence officials …
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Ronald Brownstein / CNN:
GOP increasingly opposes legal — not just illegal — immigration — Trump: GOP should stop wasting time on immigration — (CNN)The firestorm over the separation of children from their undocumented parents at the border has almost completely overshadowed another milestone …
Faye Penn / InStyle.com:
16 Espressos and a 5 a.m. Call Time: A Day In The Life of NBC's Andrea Mitchell — Badass Woman spotlights women who not only have a voice but defy the irrelevant preconceptions of gender. — A few minutes past 1 p.m., Andrea Mitchell enters an NBC green room fresh off a show that spanned …
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