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David Enrich / New York Times:
Deutsche Bank Staff Saw Suspicious Activity in Trump and Kushner Accounts — JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Anti-money laundering specialists at Deutsche Bank recommended in 2016 and 2017 that multiple transactions involving legal entities controlled by Donald J. Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner …
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Talking Points Memo, Slate, CNBC, Splinter, The Guardian, Hullabaloo and Raw Story
Brian M. Rosenthal / New York Times:
‘They Were Conned’: How Reckless Loans Devastated a Generation of Taxi Drivers — The phone call that ruined Mohammed Hoque's life came in April 2014 as he began another long day driving a New York City taxi, a job he had held since emigrating from Bangladesh nine years earlier.
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Mother Jones and New York Post
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Bo Emerson / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
JUST IN: Morehouse commencement speaker to pay off Class of 2019's student loans — Billionaire Robert F. Smith, who received an honorary doctorate at Morehouse College's Sunday morning graduation exercises, had already announced a $1.5 million gift to the school.
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NBC News, Associated Press, New York Times, Mother Jones, CNN, The Root, Slate, The Guardian, YouTube, Mediaite and WGN-TV
David Beavers / Politico:
Romney: GOP congressman's call for impeachment ‘a courageous statement’ — Sen. Mitt Romney on Sunday called a GOP congressman's call for impeaching President Donald Trump “a courageous statement” while maintaining that impeachment is not warranted based on the special counsel's report.
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ThinkProgress and Breitbart
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Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Breaking With Party, G.O.P. Lawmaker Says Trump's Conduct Reaches ‘Threshold of Impeachment’
Breaking With Party, G.O.P. Lawmaker Says Trump's Conduct Reaches ‘Threshold of Impeachment’
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Reason, Big League Politics, Breitbart, Vox, Outside the Beltway, New York Post, The Week, ABC News and Raw Story
Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Michigan GOP congressman says Trump's conduct impeachable
Michigan GOP congressman says Trump's conduct impeachable
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Washington Post, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, UPI, Power Line, Joe.My.God., Slate, Splinter, Vanity Fair, The Last Refuge, Raw Story and Breitbart
Jenny Jarvie / Los Angeles Times:
He voted for Trump. Now he and his wife raise their son from opposite sides of the border — She is there when he wakes up, telling him she loves him and helping him coax their son, Ashton, to finish his Honey Nut Cheerios before the school bus whisks him to kindergarten.
Haaretz:
Al Jazeera Pulls Video Claiming Holocaust Was ‘Different From How the Jews Tell It’ — Video posted to AJ+ Arabic's social media pages says Jews skewed Holocaust facts and statistics to get reparations from Germany, and that the establishment of Israel was derived from Nazi ideology
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Human Events and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
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Al Jazeera Media Network:
Al Jazeera takes disciplinary action and suspends two of its journalists over violation of its editorial guidelines — Al Jazeera stated today, that it has taken disciplinary action and suspended two of its journalists over video content produced on the Holocaust.
Mary Kay Linge / New York Post:
Pete Buttigieg wants Thomas Jefferson events and buildings renamed — Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg called for everything honoring Thomas Jefferson to be renamed. — “Yeah, we're doing that in Indiana. I think it's the right thing to do,” Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend …
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, twitchy.com and Fox News
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Tamara Keith / NPR:
Pete Buttigieg Dismisses President Trump's Acceptance Of His Marriage
Pete Buttigieg Dismisses President Trump's Acceptance Of His Marriage
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Bloomberg, The Gateway Pundit, Breitbart, BostonGlobe.com and ABC News
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Mitch McConnell embraces his dark side — Call him “Cocaine Mitch,” “Nuclear Mitch,” or the steward of the “legislative graveyard.” Mitch McConnell says he's the “Grim Reaper” anyway, so he's loving every minute of it. — While his critics have tried to make the Kentucky Republican public enemy No. 1 …
New York Times:
Abortion Fight or Strong Economy? For G.O.P., Cultural Issues Undercut 2020 Message — WASHINGTON — The unemployment rate is at a 50-year low, companies are adding jobs and the gross domestic product grew by 3.2 percent in the first quarter, undercutting predictions of a coming recession.
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New York Post, The Daily Caller, Scroll.in, ABC News, Slate and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
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Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Louisiana Democratic governor signals support for bill that would ban abortion after 6 weeks
Louisiana Democratic governor signals support for bill that would ban abortion after 6 weeks
Will Bunch / Philly.com:
At Philly campaign kickoff, Joe Biden and fans - young and old - party like it's 2015 — Christian Perez is a young man who's clearly capable of embracing change — as evidenced by his bright red Phillies T-shirt with the name and No. 3 of the team's newest slugger, Bryce Harper.
Gillian Edevane / Newsweek:
Students and Faculty Walk Out of Vice President Mike Pence's Commencement Address at Taylor University — As Vice President Mike Pence gave the Saturday morning commencement address at Taylor University — a Christian school in Pence's home state of Indiana — dozens of graduating seniors and faculty walked out in protest.
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Friendly Atheist, Fox News and Breitbart
Anna Giaritelli / Washington Examiner:
DNA tests reveal 30% of suspected fraudulent migrant families were unrelated — Some of the migrant families arrested at the southern border weren't actually families. — In a pilot program, approximately 30% of rapid DNA tests of immigrant adults who were suspected of arriving …
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Daily Mail, The Gateway Pundit, Power Line and Clayton Cramer
Karoli Kuns / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Marcy Wheeler: Trump Tried To Shut Down The Russia Investigation — During a discussion on All In with Chris Hayes, Marcy Wheeler explains just now determined Trump was to shut down the entire investigation into the 2016 election. What is he afraid of, exactly? — Views:
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Hullabaloo
Josh Kraushaar / National Journal:
Why the Crowded Primary Field Boosts Biden — If fewer Democrats were running, the former vice president would be a precarious front-runner. But with 23 candidates running, it will be hard for any opponent to unseat him. — In his landmark book The Paradox of Choice …
Travis Waldron / HuffPost:
When The Far Right Took Over Brazil, Its Only LGBTQ Congressman Fled For His Life — Jean Wyllys left Brazil amid death threats from backers of authoritarian President Jair Bolsonaro. Now, he's a “living representative” of Bolsonaro's oppression. — For Jean Wyllys, peace comes only at night …
Bill Barrow / Associated Press:
Jimmy Carter finds a renaissance in 2020 Democratic scramble — ATLANTA (AP) — Former President Jimmy Carter carved an unlikely path to the White House in 1976 and endured humbling defeat after one term. Now, six administrations later, the longest-living chief executive in American history …
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Axios
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Nos. 44 and 45 broke the mold. What does that mean for the future of the presidency? — For more than two centuries, until the election of 2008, American presidents all looked alike. They were white and male and every one of them came to office with experience in the government, military or both.
Angela Moon / Reuters:
Exclusive: Google suspends some business with Huawei after Trump blacklist - source — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google has suspended business with Huawei that requires the transfer of hardware and software products except those covered by open source licenses …
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TechCrunch and The Daily Caller, more at Techmeme »
Eliza Mackintosh / CNN:
Finland is winning the war on fake news. What it's learned may be crucial to Western democracy — Helsinki, Finland (CNN) - On a recent afternoon in Helsinki, a group of students gathered to hear a lecture on a subject that is far from a staple in most community college curriculums.
Jerry Dunleavy / Washington Examiner:
Trey Gowdy: FBI withheld ‘game changer’ transcript material from FISA Court — Former Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., says there are unreleased transcripts of recorded conversations between FBI informants and former Trump campaign associate George Papadopoulos that “has the potential to be a game changer.”
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twitchy.com and The Gateway Pundit