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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge partially blocks Trump border wall plan — A federal judge has partially blocked President Donald Trump's plan to fund construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. — The preliminary injunction issued Friday immediately halts a $1 billion transfer of Pentagon counterdrug funding …
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ThinkProgress, Slate, TheBlaze and The New Civil Rights Movement
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Jose A. Del Real / New York Times:
Judge Blocks Part of Trump's Plan to Build Border Wall — President Trump's efforts to build a wall along the southwest border hit a roadblock Friday evening when a federal judge in California granted a preliminary injunction against the administration that prevents it from redirecting funds from other agencies toward the barrier.
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Mother Jones, Washington Post and Outside the Beltway
The Hill:
Federal judge partially blocks Trump's $1 billion border wall plan — A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction on Friday, partially blocking President Trump's plan to fund a border wall with Mexico using money from the Defense Department. — California U.S. District Court Judge Haywood Gilliam …
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The Daily Caller
Joel Rose / NPR:
Judge Blocks Trump Use Of Emergency Power To Build Border Barrier With Military Funds — A federal judge in California has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from transferring funds from military accounts to begin building additional border fencing.
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The Root
Shane Harris / Washington Post:
Barr could expose secrets, politicize intelligence with review of Russia probe, current and former officials fear — President Trump's new executive order giving the attorney general broad authority to declassify government secrets threatens to expose U.S. intelligence sources and could distort …
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Outside the Beltway, Washington Monthly, Raw Story, Breitbart, Hot Air and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Sonam Sheth / Business Insider:
Spy agency veterans are horrified at Trump's decision to grant AG Barr sweeping power to declassify Russia intelligence: ‘Lives are on the line’ — President Donald Trump's decision to grant Attorney General William Barr sweeping authority to declassify intelligence related to the Russia investigation …
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Raw Story, Crooked Media and New York Times
David R. Lurie / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Public Enemies List Is an Impeachable Offense — What he and William Barr are doing is potentially worse than anything in the Mueller Report. — Long before becoming president, Donald Trump called for the jailing of his adversaries. Aided by Attorney General William Barr …
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Raw Story
Natasha Bertrand / Politico:
Trump puts DOJ on crash course with intelligence agencies
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RedState
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Facebook acknowledges Pelosi video is faked but declines to delete it — No requirement that posts be true, the social media company says — When an edited video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) began spreading across the Web this week, researchers quickly identified it as a distortion …
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John Harwood / CNBC:
Nancy Pelosi frustrates Democratic activists on impeachment but party strategists like what she's doing
Rebecca Morin / USA Today:
‘It is sexist trash’: Hillary Clinton slams Trump after he tweets edited Pelosi video
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Althouse, The Gateway Pundit, Conservative News Today, ThinkProgress, Shareblue Media, Mashable and The Wrap
Devan Cole / CNN:
Ex-GOP congressman calls for impeachment, says Trump an ‘illegitimate president’
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twitchy.com, Raw Story and Mediaite
New York Times:
In Shift, Trump Will Pick Kenneth Cuccinelli to Oversee Legal Immigration — Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, the immigration hard-liner who was expected to be President Trump's pick to coordinate immigration policy, will instead be chosen to take over for the embattled official who has overseen …
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Raw Story
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Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services director asked to resign
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Bipartisan Report, CNN and ImmigrationProf Blog
Trent England / USA Today:
Rural Americans would be serfs if we abolished the Electoral College — Elections are confusing. Learn what the Electoral College is in under a minute. — If the National Popular Vote drive kills the Electoral College, rural and small town Americans who supply our food and energy will lose their voice.
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Outside the Beltway, Breitbart and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
How YouTube comments are the best way to understand Donald Trump — Does Trump use Twitter for ‘telling the truth?’ (2018) … Cillizza: You've been doing this show off-Broadway. Why did you turn to this overtly political material? And how did the crowd respond? — Quinn: Politics is everything.
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Raw Story
Dan De Luce / NBC News:
Trump bypasses Congress to push through arms sales to Saudis, UAE — Lawmakers from both parties criticized the move, with Democrats calling it an abuse of presidential power. — The Trump administration on Friday cited a national security “emergency” allegedly caused by Iran to bypass Congress …
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Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
Trump to sidestep Congress to clear arms deals benefiting Saudi Arabia, UAE
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ThinkProgress, Bipartisan Report, United States Senate Committee …, The Week, UPI and Axios
RFE / Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
UN Maritime Tribunal Rules Russia Must ‘Immediately’ Release Ukrainian Sailors, Ships — A UN maritime tribunal has ruled that Russia must “immediately” release 24 Ukrainian sailors and three Ukrainian naval vessels captured by Russia in November. — The Hamburg-based International Tribunal …
CNN:
Inside Trump's Air Force One: 'It's like being held captive' — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's departure for Tokyo on Friday kicks off a summer of global jet-setting that takes him to five separate countries — and confines him to the presidential aircraft for more than 80 hours flying overseas.
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Bipartisan Report, The Guardian, Mediaite, Raw Story and Joe.My.God.
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
DNC boss says candidates to be involved in debate lottery — Democratic candidates for president or their representatives will be involved when the Democratic National Committee (DNC) does a lottery to determine who stands on stage during the party's initial two-day debate …
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The Daily Caller
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Washington Post:
20 questions Mueller will actually be able to answer — Robert Litt is a former general counsel for the director of national intelligence. Benjamin Wittes is editor in chief of Lawfare and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. — Republicans and Democrats alike have called …
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Raw Story
Wade Heath / Mediaite:
Exclusive: Former CNN Pro-Trump Contributors Allege Network ‘Openly Despises Conservatives’ — Finding a pro-Trump voice on CNN got more difficult this week as it was reported that the president has called upon former Virginia Attorney General and CNN contributor Ken Cuccinelli to fill a Homeland Security post.
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The Daily Caller, Conservative News Today, Fox News and Daily Wire
Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
Trump administration to pull out of rural Job Corps program, laying off 1,100 federal workers — The Trump administration announced Friday that it will kill a Forest Service program that trains disadvantaged young people for wildland fire fighting and other jobs in rural communities …
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Axios
Washington Post:
On Julian Assange, the administration throws smart and careful out the window — FOR ONCE, the Trump administration seemed to be taking the smart, careful route. Instead of indicting WikiLeaks provocateur Julian Assange for journalistic activities, such as publishing government secrets …
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