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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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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 — Yutaka Katada, the owner of one of the stricken fuel tankers crippled in explosions in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday, says the U.S. is wrong about the way the attack was carried out. Speaking at a press conference in Tokyo on Friday …
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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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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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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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Axios and Vanity Fair
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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Political Wire, Washington Post, Mediaite 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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Annie Karni / New York Times:
White House Considers Restoring the Daily Briefing for the Next Press Secretary
White House Considers Restoring the Daily Briefing for the Next Press Secretary
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Wonkette, Outside the Beltway, Progress Pond and ArkansasTimes
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, Wonkette, Washington Post, Newser and Breitbart
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
Here's How the Candidates Will Be Divided for the First Democratic Debates
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MinnPost, Outside the Beltway, twitchy.com, Daily Kos and KTVQ-TV
Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed News:
Here's Who Will Be Debating Each Night Of The First 2020 Democratic Debate
Here's Who Will Be Debating Each Night Of The First 2020 Democratic Debate
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Detroit Free Press, Slate, Joe.My.God., LGBTQ Nation, Fox News and Washington Free Beacon
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
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
ABC Stations Helped 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. It's since been removed. — On Friday morning …
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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 …
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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Pia Deshpande / Politico:
Trump says Melania T is the new Jackie O — President Donald Trump on Friday likened his wife to the beloved former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, saying, “We have our own Jackie O, it's called Melania, Melania T.” — Trump has often talked up his wife as a strong asset in the White House …
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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
Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
President Trump's internal polling data from March showed him far behind Joe Biden in key battleground states — Data from President Donald Trump's first internal reelection campaign poll conducted in March, obtained exclusively by ABC News, showed him losing a matchup by wide margins …
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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National Review, Wall Street Journal, Daily Kos and Mother Jones
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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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Townhall, Washington Post, CNN, Conservative News Today, Shareblue Media, Daily Wire, RedState, USDA, Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler and Politico
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
HuffPost:
Sara Gideon, Maine's Democratic House Speaker, To Run Against Senator Susan Collins — The GOP senator faces intense backlash from state Democrats and abortion rights activists over her vote for Brett Kavanaugh. — Maine House Speaker Sara Gideon, a Democrat, is expected to formally announce …
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 …
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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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.”
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 …
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.
Issues & Insights:
Question For Bernie: What Happens To Those Who Don't Want To Join Your Commune? — Much like Hillary Clinton feeling the need to reintroduce herself to voters multiple times, Bernie Sanders has decided to tell us again exactly what democratic socialism is. Maybe the need for so much …