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Trump upends NATO summit, demanding immediate spending increases or he will ‘do his own thing’ — BRUSSELS — President Trump upended the NATO summit here Thursday by calling an emergency meeting of leaders and threatening that if all member countries do not immediately increase …
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Trump threatens to pull out of NATO — U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Thursday to break with NATO and conduct American security unilaterally — if allies do not rapidly meet higher military spending targets, NATO officials and diplomats said. — Officials inside the room …
Fox News:
Trump dubs himself ‘stable genius,’ calls NATO summit a success — President Trump pronounced the NATO summit a success and himself a “stable genius” in a freewheeling press conference that followed a sometimes tense meeting of the western alliance. — Trump spoke to international reporters …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump creates a big, self-contradictory spectacle at NATO — President Trump is a man who contains multitudes, and sometimes those multitudes seem to all come out at once. — On Thursday, it happened with the whole Western world watching. — During his closing news conference …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump leaves European allies spinning after NATO summit
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Rebecca Tan / Washington Post:
When Trump attacked Germany in Brussels, his aides pursed their lips and glanced away
CNN:
Trump's barrage of attacks ‘beyond belief,’ reeling NATO diplomats say
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Bloomberg:
Macron and Merkel Play Down Trump's Spending Claims: NATO Update
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CBS News:
Trump declares victory at NATO, says U.S. now “treated fairly”
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New York Times:
As President Trump Bashes NATO, Republicans Are Largely Silent
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Gregory Korte / USA Today:
Power breakfast: How Trump lambasted Germany over eggs and fruit salad
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Sam Meredith / CNBC:
Trump says NATO allies have agreed to increase their defense spending after crisis meeting
Washington Post:
Trump is poisoning NATO. Why?
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Tom McTague / Politico:
Why Trump has few friends in Europe
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Amy Brittain / Washington Post:
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh piled up credit card debt by purchasing Nationals tickets, White House says — Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh incurred tens of thousands of dollars of credit card debt buying baseball tickets over the past decade and at times reported liabilities …
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Kevin Daley / The Daily Caller:
What Kavanaugh Was Secretly Caught Doing Hours After Trump's Nomination Will Silence The Critics — President Donald Trump nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh for the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday night. — His nomination has set off a generational fight over the future of the high court.
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Hailey Fuchs / Yale Daily News:
A sports junkie who ate pasta with ketchup: Law school friends reflect on Kavanaugh's time at YLS — In the days following the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh '87 LAW '90 to the U.S. Supreme Court, Democrats have condemned President Donald Trump's pick as an enemy of the left.
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Megan Brenan / Gallup:
Nearly Two-Thirds of Americans Want Roe v. Wade to Stand — WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the U.S. Senate prepares to hold confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, the public is strongly opposed to any attempts to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that made abortion legal nationwide.
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David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times:
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh lauded late Chief Justice Rehnquist for dissenting …
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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
F.B.I. Agent at Center of Russia Probe Turns Tables on G.O.P. — WASHINGTON — The embattled F.B.I. agent who oversaw the opening of the Russia investigation mounted an aggressive personal defense on Thursday, rejecting accusations that he let his private political views bias his official actions …
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Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
FBI agent: My work has never been tainted by political bias — WASHINGTON (AP) — An FBI agent whose anti-Trump text messages fueled suspicions of partisan bias will tell lawmakers Thursday that his work has never been tainted by politics and that the intense scrutiny he is facing represents …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
FBI agent Strzok slams hearing as 'victory notch in Putin's belt'
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CNN:
Stormy Daniels arrested at Ohio strip club. Her attorney calls it a setup. — (CNN)Adult film actress Stormy Daniels was arrested early Thursday at an Ohio strip club for allegedly touching patrons on stage in violation of state law. — Daniels, who gained notoriety …
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CBS News:
Stormy Daniels arrested while performing at Ohio strip club — Porn actress Stormy Daniels was arrested at an Ohio strip club and is accused of letting patrons touch her in violation of a state law, her attorney said early Thursday. While Daniels was performing Wednesday night at Sirens …
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Everett Rosenfeld / CNBC:
Stormy Daniels arrested in Ohio while performing, her attorney says
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Bloomberg:
North Koreans Are No Show at U.S. War Dead Talks, Yonhap Reports — American officials kept waiting on militarized border — Latest sign of tension after Pompeo's visit last weekend — North Korean officials didn't show up for a planned meeting with U.S. counterparts to discuss returning …
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Adam Taylor / Washington Post:
North Korean officials no-show for meeting about U.S. troop remains
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Trump wants tough new Air Force One paint job — President Trump wants to update the paint job on the next version of Air Force One, ditching the iconic robin's-egg blue (which he calls a “Jackie Kennedy color") for a bolder, “more American” look. — The big picture …
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Tom Burgis / Financial Times:
Tower of secrets: the Russian money behind a Donald Trump skyscraper — One October day in 2007, a celebrity real estate developer in a greatcoat and powder-blue tie alighted from a stretch limousine in Toronto's financial district. Before a bank of photographers, he took hold of a golden shovel.
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Thomas Wright / Politico:
Trump Backed Brexit. Then He Used It As Leverage. — Under this president, the ‘special relationship’ isn't so special anymore. — When President Trump visits the United Kingdom on Friday, he will find the special relationship in its worst shape since the Suez Crisis of 1956.
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David Lammy / TIME:
I'm a British Lawmaker. Here's Why I'm Protesting Trump's Visit to the U.K.
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Libby Brooks / The Guardian:
Petition asks for Trump baby balloon to be flown over Scottish golf course
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Lisa W. Foderaro / New York Times:
Ocasio-Cortez Highlights How Third-Party Quirks Can Muddle Elections — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's political star has risen so high, she can win a primary election without trying — or apparently even knowing. — Last month, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, 28, unleashed a political tsunami of sorts …
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Tom McCarthy / The Guardian:
Sean Spicer contradicts Trump's Manafort claims in new book — Exclusive: Trump's former press secretary describes Manafort as impactful and describes the president as ‘a unicorn, riding a unicorn over a rainbow’ — Dreamily envisioning Donald Trump as “a unicorn, riding a unicorn over a rainbow” …
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Trump's top Hill aide leaving White House amid Supreme Court battle — Marc Short, Trump's director of legislative affairs, is leaving later this month to join a D.C. consulting firm and teach at UVA. — President Donald Trump's legislative affairs director is heading for the exits …
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Jay Reeves / Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: Government reopens probe of Emmett Till slaying — BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The federal government has reopened its investigation into the slaying of Emmett Till, the black teenager whose brutal killing in Mississippi shocked the world and helped inspire the civil rights movement more than 60 years ago.
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CNN:
Wife of top Trump aide had radio show where she said women in military should expect sexual harassment — (CNN)Darla Shine, the wife of new White House deputy chief of staff for communications Bill Shine, hosted a radio show in the late 2000s where she once mocked victims of sexual harassment …
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