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Axios:
Trump asserts executive privilege over Census citizenship documents — On the advice of the Justice Department, President Trump has asserted executive privilege over subpoenaed documents related to the House Oversight Committee's investigation of the Census citizenship question.
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Washington Post:
Trump asserts executive privilege to shield documents on census citizenship question — President Trump asserted executive privilege Wednesday to shield documents about the administration's decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, a move meant to try to undercut an expected vote …
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RedState, Outside the Beltway, ABC News, Daily Kos, Mother Jones, Newser, The Guardian and The Daily Beast
New York Times:
Trump Asserts Executive Privilege on Census Documents Ahead of House Committee Contempt Vote — WASHINGTON — President Trump invoked executive privilege to block access by Congress to documents about how a citizenship question was added to the 2020 census ahead of a House committee vote …
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Washington Post, Mother Jones and Outside the Beltway
Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Trump asserts executive privilege to block access to census documents
Trump asserts executive privilege to block access to census documents
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Bloomberg, New York Times, UPI, Splinter and Axios
Steven Graboski / Polls:
Biden, Warren, Sanders Lead 2020 Field — Immigration joins healthcare and environment as top issues for Nevada Dems — West Long Branch, NJ - Former Vice President Joe Biden is the front-runner among likely Democratic caucusgoers in Nevada while Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren takes second place …
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Politico, Political Wire and Washington Times
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Zach Montellaro / Politico:
Debate deadline: Prominent governor still out on final day to qualify
Debate deadline: Prominent governor still out on final day to qualify
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New York Times, Fox News and Political Wire
NPR:
Harris: Justice Dept. ‘Would Have No Choice’ But To Prosecute Trump After Presidency — California Sen. Kamala Harris says that if she's elected president, her administration's Department of Justice would likely pursue criminal obstruction of justice charges against a former President Donald Trump.
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump looks to squash Amash — The president has discussed with aides backing a primary challenge against the lone Republican impeachment supporter. — Donald Trump and his top allies are moving to make Justin Amash pay for becoming the sole Republican congressman to call for the president's impeachment.
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Big League Politics, The Gateway Pundit, Axios, Mediaite, Daily Kos, Joe.My.God. and Talking Points Memo
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Freedom Caucus Expels Amash for Being Too Pro-Freedom
Freedom Caucus Expels Amash for Being Too Pro-Freedom
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Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and Reason
Daily Mail:
Don Jr. IGNORES his own lawyers who objected to senators' questions in tense three-hour grilling about Michael Cohen's testimony - and answers them all so Democrats couldn't say he was slippery — Donald Trump Jr. gave Senate Intelligence Committee members a three-hour interview on Wednesday …
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Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Don Jr. ‘not at all’ worried about perjury charges
Don Jr. ‘not at all’ worried about perjury charges
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Talking Points Memo
Star Tribune:
Ilhan Omar's credibility takes another hit — Tax return irregularities are just the latest misstep by the first-term congresswoman. — By Editorial Board Star Tribune — TEXT SIZE — U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar is back in the news again, and not in a good way.
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Hot Air, Power Line, National Review, Front Page Magazine, IJR, Washington Free Beacon and The Daily Caller
Jeff McDonald / San Diego Union-Tribune:
Margaret Hunter to plead out in case against congressman husband — Details of deal not clear, Rep. Duncan Hunter's attorney declined to discuss whether she might be cooperating with the prosecution — Margaret Hunter, the wife of longtime East County Congressman Duncan Hunter who was co-indicted …
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Political Wire
Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Worries Emails Could Show Zuckerberg Knew of Questionable Privacy Practices — Internal exchanges uncovered in response to FTC probe could cast doubt on founder's commitment to user privacy, people familiar with the matter say — Facebook Inc. uncovered emails that appear …
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W.J. Hennigan / TIME:
Trump Administration to Hold Migrant Children at Base That Served as WWII Japanese Internment Camp — The Trump Administration has opted to use an Army base in Oklahoma to hold growing numbers of immigrant children in its custody after running out of room at government shelters.
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Military Times, Wonkette, twitchy.com, Fortune, Splinter, Talking Points Memo, Shakesville, The Daily Caller and Balloon Juice
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Rebecca Klar / The Hill:
Trump administration to send migrant children to Army base once used as Japanese internment camp
Trump administration to send migrant children to Army base once used as Japanese internment camp
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RedState, twitchy.com, Big League Politics and Instapundit
QU Poll:
Release Detail — June 12, 2019 - A Sitting President Should Face Charges, U.S. Voters Say, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; But Voters Still Say Don't Impeach Trump — Any sitting president should be subject to criminal charges, 69 percent of American voters …
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Axios, Political Wire and twitchy.com
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Biden leads Trump by ‘landslide proportions’ in new national poll
Biden leads Trump by ‘landslide proportions’ in new national poll
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Breitbart, Big League Politics, The Rush Limbaugh Show and Fox News
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Fear of a blue Texas: New GOP group to spend millions registering Republicans — Wealthy Republican donors are preparing a multimillion-dollar effort to register more than 1 million new GOP voters in Texas for 2020 amid anxiety that President Trump could be in more trouble in this reliably red state than some in the party realize.
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Washington Monthly, The Week and Splinter
Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Congress raises questions Mueller left unanswered about Trump, Russia — House Intel Committee Chair Schiff said Wednesday's hearing is meant to address unanswered questions from the Mueller report about Russian influence. — WASHINGTON — Special counsel Robert Mueller's report failed …
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Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Schiff threatens to subpoena FBI
Schiff threatens to subpoena FBI
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Politico, Talking Points Memo and CBS News
Elizabeth McLaughlin / ABC News:
Marine Corps F-35 stealth fighter conducts flyover of White House during Polish president's visit — A F-35 Marine Corps fighter conducted a flyover of the White House on Wednesday to mark Polish president Andrzej Duda's visit and Poland's agreement to purchase the advanced aircraft from the United States.
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Breitbart and One America News Network
Saagar Enjeti / The Hill:
Michael Flynn hires Sidney Powell as new counsel — Former national security advisor Mike Flynn has hired attorney Sidney Powell as his new counsel, Hill.TV has learned. — “I'm honored to be representing General Flynn, who i've long considered an American hero.
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Politico, CNN, Talking Points Memo, Axios, The Daily Caller and Patterico's Pontifications
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Elizabeth Warren's plan to pass her plans — The 2020 candidate on how she'd get rid of the filibuster, curb political corruption, and persuade Americans that government can work for them. — Oligarchic capitalism? Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has a plan for that. Opioid deaths?
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Axios and Washington Post
Kevin Sieff / Washington Post:
‘The migration problem is a coffee problem’ — In western Guatemala, cultivating coffee was once a way out of poverty. As prices fall, growers are abandoning their farms for the United States. — HOJA BLANCA, Guatemala — From his wooden hut in the foothills of the Sierra Madre …
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Front Page Magazine and Breitbart
Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
As Bernie Sanders Leans Into Socialism, His Rivals Laugh — WATERLOO, Iowa—Making Elizabeth Warren laugh can be tricky. Throwing her off her talking points is almost impossible. Both happened when she heard that her 2020 opponent Bernie Sanders is scheduled to deliver a “major address” …
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Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News:
This Picture Featuring 15 Tech Men And 2 Women Looked Doctored. The Women Were Photoshopped In. — Last week, men's lifestyle magazine GQ published this photo of Silicon Valley executives including LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and Dropbox CEO Drew Houston from their pilgrimage to a small village …
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The Daily Dot
USA Today:
Seniors were sold a risk-free retirement with reverse mortgages. Now they face foreclosure. — Urban African American neighborhoods are hardest hit as nearly 100,000 loans have failed. — Show caption Hide caption — Patricia Blair looks over the items left in the basement as she prepares …
NBC News:
Reps of 22 foreign governments have spent money at Trump properties — The number of foreign governments hints at a significant foreign cash flow to the U.S. president that critics say violates the Constitution. — WASHINGTON — Representatives of at least 22 foreign governments appear …
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Joe.My.God.
Connor Sheets / ProPublica:
Wasted Funds, Destroyed Property: How Sheriffs Undermined Their Successors After Losing Reelection — Alabama sheriffs who lost reelection in 2018 personally pocketed funds and deleted public records, an investigation by AL.com and ProPublica found. Holes were drilled through government-issued smartphones …
RealClearInvestigations:
It Started With a Lie: Bruce Ohr's Linchpin Role in Russiagate — Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr was perfectly positioned to advance the Russia collusion narrative. He had a rare set of relationships — ties to opposition researchers and the FBI — and would use his links …
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Althouse, Real Clear Politics and The New Neo
Sarah McGregor / Bloomberg:
U.S. Budget Gap Balloons to $739 Billion Despite Tariff Revenue — The U.S. budget deficit widened to $738.6 billion in the first eight months of the fiscal year, a $206 billion increase from a year earlier, despite a revenue boost from President Donald Trump's tariffs on imported merchandise.
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Axios
Rick Noack / Washington Post:
With the help of his boyfriend, a German reporter asked Iran's foreign minister why the country executes people for being gay — BERLIN — When Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif faced questions from foreign journalists on Monday in Tehran after a meeting with his German counterpart …
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Daily Beast Contributor Wins $4.1 Million From Neo-Nazi for ISIS Smear — Dean Obeidallah was falsely accused of being behind a terrorist attack by The Daily Stormer, whose on-the-run founder just lost big in court. — After Dean Obeidallah wrote a Daily Beast article condemning President Trump's approach …
Douglas Murray / National Review:
The Reality of Sweden's Migration Problem — Readers may recall a kerfuffle in February 2017, which now seems like the long, distant past. It revolved around President Trump riffing on the question of migration in front of a rally of his supporters:
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Quillette and Mother Jones
CNN:
Chief Justice John Roberts is about to show his cards — Chief Justice Roberts has a tough dilemma — Washington (CNN)With a deadline for nearly 30 cases looming and weighty issues of religion, gerrymandering and the 2020 census pending, Chief Justice John Roberts took his black leather chair …
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Washington Monthly
Chad P. Bown / PIIE:
Trump Has Gotten China to Lower Its Tariffs. Just Toward Everyone Else. — China increased its retaliatory tariffs hitting US exports on June 1 in response to President Donald Trump's latest escalation of his trade war. Yet, this action is only half of the bad news for US exporters.
Kyle Swenson / Washington Post:
A Democrat read a letter calling Trump supporters ‘racist’ and ‘dumb’ on the House floor. The GOP wasn't happy. — With the political thunderheads darkening more and more over the Capitol as words like “subpoena,” “contempt” and “impeachment” spin through the national conversation with new velocity …
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National Review, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Free Beacon, Daily Wire and The Hill