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Ali Winston / FRONTLINE:
He is a Member of a Violent White Supremacist Group; So Why is He Working for a Defense Contractor with a Security Clearance? — In partnership with: … There likely isn't such a thing as a “typical” violent white extremist in America in 2018. Still, Michael Miselis — a University of California …
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Mike Allen / Axios:
How Trump will make his Supreme Court pick — It'll be more about personality than pedigree. — What we're hearing: A White House official involved in the vetting process tells me that President Trump's Supreme Court pick will come down to “who he feels most comfortable with in a personal setting.”
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Sen. Ted Cruz / Fox News:
Mike Lee is the best choice for the Supreme Court — President Trump is scheduled to announce one of the most important decisions of his presidency on Monday: the name of his second nominee to the Supreme Court, to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy. — This will be a defining moment for President Trump's legacy.
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Bethany Minelle / Sky News:
Trump ‘angry baby’ blimp gets green light to fly over London during president's visit — A giant balloon dubbed “Trump baby” has been given the green light to fly near parliament during the president's UK visit. — London mayor Sadiq Khan's Greater London Authority has approved a request …
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John Bowden / The Hill:
London mayor approves baby Trump blimp to fly over city during visit
London mayor approves baby Trump blimp to fly over city during visit
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Chris Strohm / BloombergQuint:
Mueller Taps More Prosecutors to Help With Growing Trump Probe — (Bloomberg) — Special Counsel Robert Mueller is tapping additional Justice Department resources for help with new legal battles as his year-old investigation of Russian interference with the 2016 election continues to expand.
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Jonathan Zimmerman / New Republic:
Overturning Roe v. Wade Could Remake American Politics — In his satirical 2004 American history textbook, comedian Jon Stewart joked that the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade ruling had settled the abortion issue once and for all. “The Court rules that the right to privacy protects …
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Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Far-Right Twitter Keeps Falling for the Same Liberal Troll … The tweet was an obvious troll, by a fake doctor with a profane name. — “When Trump supporters come to my office at the Mayo Clinic, I love misdiagnosing their healthy pregnancies as ectopic so they have to abort their white fetuses …
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Washington Post:
Trump's trade war with China is finally here — and it won't be pretty, analysts say — BEIJING — Some said the day would never come, that it was all a bluff. But as the Independence Day fireworks cool in Washington, the eve of the trade war has arrived in China's capital …
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Tara Francis Chan / Business Insider:
As Trump targets trade, a Chinese factory says it's been hired to make flags for Trump's 2020 campaign
As Trump targets trade, a Chinese factory says it's been hired to make flags for Trump's 2020 campaign
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Joe Galli / WOAI:
Viral video: Teen says he was attacked for wearing ‘Make American Great Again’ hat — Police are investigating after a teen says he was verbally attacked and assaulted at a Whataburger for wearing a Make America Great Again hat. — In the video, you can see a man throw a drink …
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Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
White Fight — Under the Trump administration, even naturalized citizens are now a target. The government agency that oversees immigration applications is hiring lawyers and immigration officers to review cases of immigrants suspected of obtaining citizenship through fake identities or other false information on their applications.
John Merline / Investor's Business Daily:
The Left Can't Come To Grips With The Loss Of Power — Key Trump administration officials have been confronted at restaurants. Rep. Maxine Waters urged protesters to hound Trump officials at restaurants, gas stations or department stores. — Progressive pundits and the liberal media almost daily …
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Amanda Terkel / HuffPost:
For The First Time, Democrats Are Outspending Republicans On Obamacare Ads
For The First Time, Democrats Are Outspending Republicans On Obamacare Ads
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BBC:
Amesbury poisoning: Russia using UK as ‘dumping ground’ — The home secretary has accused Russia of using Britain as a “dumping ground for poison” after a second incident involving the nerve agent Novichok. — Charlie Rowley, 45, and Dawn Sturgess, 44, collapsed at a house in Amesbury …
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BBC:
Wiltshire pair ‘poisoned by nerve agent’
Wiltshire pair ‘poisoned by nerve agent’
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Josh Kraushaar / National Journal:
Democrats Underperforming With Hispanic Voters — Despite the president's hard-line immigration policies, Republican candidates are running competitively in many Hispanic-heavy states and congressional districts. — Democrats counting on President Trump's hard-line immigration policies …
Jeff Daniels / CNBC:
‘We are the casualty:’ US pig farmers brace for second round of pork tariffs from China, Mexico — U.S. pork producers are about to be hit by a second batch of hefty retaliatory tariffs from China and Mexico that has some large producers predicting they will lose big money.
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New York Daily News:
Who is Therese Patricia Okoumou, the woman who tried to scale the Statue of Liberty to protest immigration policy? — The woman arrested for scaling the base of the Statue of Liberty on Wednesday as part of a protest against U.S. immigration policy is an immigrant herself and an active participant …
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Victor Morton / Washington Times:
Facebook flags Declaration of Independence as hate speech — In the week of America's Independence Day, the algorithms of Facebook decided that the Declaration of Independence was hate speech. — The Liberty County Vindicator, a community newspaper between Houston and Beaumont …
Washington Post:
Senate, House GOP at odds over rare rebuke of Trump on national security — GOP lawmakers went to the White House last month to hear President Trump's case for lifting U.S. sanctions on the Chinese telecommunications giant ZTE. But even as Trump tried to convince his skeptical listeners …
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Roger Meyers / National Review:
Judge Kethledge Faithfully Applies Immigration Laws — Judge Raymond Kethledge is a committed originalist and textualist, which means he shows no favoritism to either side in any case, and instead applies the law as it is written. Judge Kethledge uses this sound approach to judging …
Ezra Klein / Vox:
The messy reality of Donald Trump's poll numbers — He's playing a strong hand, poorly. — On June 25, Axios's Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei took readers inside Donald Trump's “winning, cynical plan.” They argued that “the more President Trump does, says and tweets outrageous things …
Canadian Press:
U.S. Border Patrol questions crews of at least 10 fishing vessels in Canadian waters — GRAND MANAN, N.B.—A little-known cross-border dispute that has simmered between Canada and the United States since the late 1700s is now approaching the boiling point. — In the past two weeks …
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Goldman Sachs:
Drew Faust Joins Goldman Sachs Board of Directors — The Board of Directors of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS) today announced that Drew G. Faust has joined the Board as an independent director of the firm, effective July 2. Dr. Faust retired as President of Harvard University on June 30 …
Washington Post:
Is it great to be a worker in the U.S.? Not compared with the rest of the developed world. — By Andrew Van Dam July 4 Email the author — The U.S. labor market is hot. Unemployment is at 3.8 percent, a level it's hit only once since the 1960s, and many industries report deep labor shortages.
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Ari Neeman / People's Policy Project:
We Must Take Disability and Aging Support Work Seriously — Early in my career in disability rights advocacy, a friend approached me to talk about her son, Charlie. Charlie had a disability, like me - but unlike me, his disability came with impairments that prevented him from talking and sometimes caused him to hurt himself.
Dan Bilefsky / New York Times:
Protests Shutter a Show That Cast White Singers as Black Slaves — MONTREAL — It was, the critics roared, an insulting and insensitive performance: White women playing black slaves picking cotton. — When the show “Slav,” by the acclaimed Quebec theater director Robert Lepage …
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