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Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
See a Design of the Harriet Tubman $20 Bill That Mnuchin Delayed — WASHINGTON — Extensive work was well underway on a new $20 bill bearing the image of Harriet Tubman when Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced last month that the design of the note would be delayed for technical reasons …
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Gwynedd Stuart / Los Angeles Magazine:
Louise Linton, aka Mrs. Steven Mnuchin, Is Sorry — Swaddled in a white terry cloth robe and perched on a director's chair in the marble-floored powder room of her massive Bel Air mansion (a stone's throw from Salma Hayek's), Louise Linton is being administered to by a makeup artist …
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Talking Points Memo, The Daily Beast, Splinter, New York Post, The Week and Politico
Ben Dooley / New York Times:
‘Flying Object’ Struck Tanker in Gulf of Oman, Operator Says, Not a Mine — TOKYO — One of the tankers that were attacked in the Gulf of Oman was struck by a flying object, the ship's Japanese operator said on Friday, disputing at least part of the account of United States officials who had blamed Iran for the attack.
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Chris Riotta / The Independent:
Trump administration providing ‘false’ information about Gulf of Oman attack, says Japanese tanker owner — Chief executive of Japanese company operating Kokuka Courageous says ‘flying objects’ were cause of damage to vessel — The owner of the Japanese tanker attacked on Thursday …
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CBS News:
Tanker owner seems to dispute U.S. account of Gulf of Oman attack — The Japanese owner of the Kokuka Courageous, one of two oil tankers targeted near the Strait of Hormuz, said Friday that sailors on board saw “flying objects” just before it was hit, suggesting the vessel wasn't damaged by mines.
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Political Wire, Fox News, Clayton Cramer and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Barbie Latza Nadeau / The Daily Beast:
Japanese Tanker Owner Says U.S. Is Wrong About Gulf Attack
Japanese Tanker Owner Says U.S. Is Wrong About Gulf Attack
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Washington Press, Shakesville, The Daily Beast, Bloomberg, American Military News and Patterico's Pontifications
Jon Gambrell / Associated Press:
US says Iran took mine off tanker; Iran denies involvement
US says Iran took mine off tanker; Iran denies involvement
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Defense One, The Intercept, CNN, PJ Media Home, Slate, Roll Call, The Week and Washington Post
Bill Allison / Bloomberg:
Ivanka Trump Made $4 Million From President's Washington Hotel — Husband Jared Kushner had at least $27 million in debt — Filing shows closed fashion brand earnings of $1 million — Ivanka Trump made $4 million from her investment in her father's Washington hotel last year …
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Maureen Groppe / Indianapolis Star:
Exclusive: Indiana Republican Susan Brooks will not seek re-election to Congress — WASHINGTON — Indiana Rep. Susan Brooks, one of only 13 Republican women in the House as well as the head of GOP recruitment for 2020, found someone she could not convince to run: herself.
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Politico, UPI and Joe.My.God.
Justin Fishel / ABC News:
EXCLUSIVE: Trump disputes account of White House counsel's testimony to Mueller — President Donald Trump is directly disputing the account of a key witness in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into possible obstruction of justice during the course of the Russia probe saying that it …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: Elizabeth Warren's lucky debate draw — BREAKING — DEMOCRATIC DEBATE LINEUPS ... Orange group: Cory Booker, Julián Castro, Bill de Blasio, John Delaney, Tulsi Gabbard, Jay Inslee, Amy Klobuchar, Beto O'Rourke, Tim Ryan and Elizabeth Warren. ...
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Washington Post, Political Wire and Politico
Maureen Groppe / USA Today:
Exclusive: GOP lawmaker who sought to recruit more women to run in 2020 is herself retiring
Exclusive: GOP lawmaker who sought to recruit more women to run in 2020 is herself retiring
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Sarah Sanders was the disdainful Queen of Gaslighting — When Sarah Sanders said Thursday that she hopes to be remembered for her transparency and honesty, the first impulse was to laugh. — But lying to citizens while being paid by them really isn't all that funny.
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Orion Rummler / Axios:
The highlights from Trump's 50-minute birthday “Fox & Friends” call
The highlights from Trump's 50-minute birthday “Fox & Friends” call
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Politico, Washington Post, Newser and Breitbart
Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
Trump won't promise to endorse Pence for president in 2024
Trump won't promise to endorse Pence for president in 2024
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Politico, Joe.My.God. and Political Wire
Politico:
Trump declines to give Pence his endorsement for a 2024 presidential run
Trump declines to give Pence his endorsement for a 2024 presidential run
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Steven Nelson / Washington Examiner:
Dozen contenders: Sarah Sanders departure triggers scramble for new press secretary
Dozen contenders: Sarah Sanders departure triggers scramble for new press secretary
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CNN, The Week and The Daily Caller
Megan Garber / The Atlantic:
Sarah Sanders Broke the News
Sarah Sanders Broke the News
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Dartunorro Clark / NBC News:
NBC announces lineup of Democrats for each of the two nights for first 2020 debate — To decide the match-ups, candidates' names were drawn manually at NBC News' headquarters in New York. — NBC News on Friday announced the lineups of Democratic presidential candidates who are appearing …
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New York Times:
Here's How the Candidates Will Be Divided for the First Democratic Debates — The presidential candidates participating in the debates, on June 26 and 27 in Miami, will be split into two groups of 10. — Elizabeth Warren will share the stage with Beto O'Rourke on one night …
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MinnPost, Outside the Beltway, Daily Kos and KTVQ-TV
Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
Here's Who Will and Won't Get to Face Joe Biden in the First 2020 Democratic Debate
Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed News:
These Are The Lineups For The First Democratic Presidential Debates
These Are The Lineups For The First Democratic Presidential Debates
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Detroit Free Press, Joe.My.God., Fox News and LGBTQ Nation
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
The Illiberal Right Throws a Tantrum — By the tail end of the Obama administration, the culture war seemed lost. The religious right sued for détente, having been swept up in one of the most rapid cultural shifts in generations. Gone were the decades of being able to count …
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Reason, Eschaton and Acton Institute PowerBlog
New York Times:
The Youngest Known Child Separated From His Family by the Trump Administration — Caitlin Dickerson is a Peabody award-winning national immigration reporter, who profiles the lives of immigrants, including those without legal status. Last year, Caitlin reported that the Trump administration …
Peter Jamison / Washington Post:
Trump still owes D.C. $7 million in inauguration costs as he plans July Fourth gala — President Trump's speech at the Lincoln Memorial on the Fourth of July is expected to drive up security costs for an annual event that draws hundreds of thousands of visitors to the nation's capital.
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Joe.My.God. and The Guardian
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
ABC Stations Help Trump Build a Campaign Email List on His Birthday — Some of the network's largest affiliates promoted on their websites a ‘birthday card’ for President Trump that is really just a list-building campaign. — ABC's digital news operation is helping the Trump re-election campaign build its email list.
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John Solomon / The Hill:
Delirious Democrats are now accusing Team Obama of treason — If you read the newspapers, tuned into the cable TV pundits or received an email from one of the Democrats running for president, you'd swear Donald Trump was back to his treasonous ways. — All that was missing …
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twitchy.com and Politico
Elizabeth Warren / Team Warren:
Leveling the Playing Field for Entrepreneurs — Every American should have a fair shot at starting a small business. The only things that should determine whether a new business succeeds are the strength of the idea and the hard work of the owners and employees.
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Phoebe Neidl / Rolling Stone:
Elizabeth Warren's New Plan to Close the Racial Wealth Gap
Elizabeth Warren's New Plan to Close the Racial Wealth Gap
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Zack Budryk / The Hill:
Federal employees turn their backs on Agriculture secretary after relocation plans announced — Members of the American Federation of Government Employees turned their backs on Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue on Thursday, apparently over plans to relocate them from Washington to the Kansas City area.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The Trump camp's latest lies cannot obscure what's now been exposed — The large outlines of the Russiagate scandal have long been hiding in plain sight: President Trump and his campaign encouraged, eagerly sought to benefit from and worked to conspire with a foreign power's sweeping effort …
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Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed News:
The Trump Administration Can't Block Undocumented Teens From Getting Abortions, A Federal Appeals Court Ruled — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration cannot block pregnant, undocumented teenagers held in government custody from getting abortions, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
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Talking Points Memo and The Week
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Elizabeth Warren isn't Hillary Clinton — How Warren is using many policies to reinforce one message, and a few other notes from our conversation. — My old American Prospect editor Mark Schmitt had a maxim I always liked: “It's not what you say about the issues; it's what the issues say about you.”
Wall Street Journal:
Trump's 2020 Re-Election Campaign Wants Order and Discipline, Down to Font Sizes — Four years after the president flouted electioneering tradition, his re-election team is taking a more conventional approach — ARLINGTON, Va.—President Trump's path to a second term starts not in Florida …
Alexandra Hutzler / Newsweek:
Happy Birthday Mr. President? Trump Turns 73, Gets Trolled on Twitter as #JohnMcCainDay Goes Viral — In celebration of Donald Trump's 73rd birthday on Friday, thousands of Twitter users made the hashtag #JohnMcCainDay go viral in order to honor the late Republican senator and rival of the president.
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Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Lindsey Graham wants to invade Venezuela to put ‘points on the board’ — “We need points on the board.” — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) wants the United States to use military forces to intervene in Venezuela to depose the country's contested president, Nicolás Maduro.
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Hullabaloo and The American Conservative
Anne Flaherty / ABC News:
EXCLUSIVE: Trump says of Fed Reserve chairman 'I've waited long enough' — President Donald Trump slammed Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell again this week, insisting that Powell's actions have prevented the economy from soaring even higher and declaring he's out of patience with the man …
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Political Wire
Allyson Chiu / Washington Post:
‘They are worthy of death’: A cop preached that the government should execute LGBTQ people — Standing at the front of the All Scripture Baptist Church in Knoxville, Tenn., Pastor Grayson Fritts had the rapt attention of his congregation. It was June 2, the first Sunday of Pride Month, and Fritts had planned a timely sermon.
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Newser, Knoxville News-Sentinel, Queerty and ThinkProgress
Thomas Gibbons-Neff / New York Times:
U.S. Special Forces Battle Against ISIS Turns to Containment, and Concern — DEH BALA, Afghanistan — Two years ago, Pentagon officials said that American forces in the remote reaches of Afghanistan could defeat the Islamic State's offshoot here by the end of 2017.
Michael Kruse / Politico:
The Escalator Ride That Changed America — Four years ago, Donald Trump stepped onto an escalator in the atrium of Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in New York and began descending into a lobby packed with cameras. It's safe to say the 10 or so seconds that followed are the most consequential escalator ride in American history.