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The Hill:
EXCLUSIVE: Trump vehemently denies E. Jean Carroll allegation, says 'she's not my type' — President Trump said Monday that writer E. Jean Carroll was “totally lying” when she recently accused him of raping her during an encounter in a New York department store in the mid-1990s.
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Lara Takenaga / New York Times:
Our Top Editor Revisits How We Handled E. Jean Carroll's Allegations Against Trump — Dean Baquet, our executive editor, says “we were overly cautious” in our handling of a prominent writer's allegations against the president. — After an article last week reported the advice columnist E …
CNN:
Murdoch lieutenant ordered removal of New York Post story on Trump sexual assault allegation, sources say — New York (CNN)The New York Post's former top editor, a supporter of President Trump and an old lieutenant of Rupert Murdoch who returned to the conservative tabloid as an adviser in early 2019 …
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Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Trump accused of rape, major media yawns: Why was E. Jean Carroll's story not front page news?
Trump accused of rape, major media yawns: Why was E. Jean Carroll's story not front page news?
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The Atlantic, CNN and No More Mister Nice Blog
Zack Budryk / The Hill:
E. Jean Carroll says she's received death threats since making allegations against Trump
E. Jean Carroll says she's received death threats since making allegations against Trump
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Daily Wire, twitchy.com and The Week
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump says latest accuser, E. Jean Carroll, is ‘totally lying’ and ‘not my type’
Trump says latest accuser, E. Jean Carroll, is ‘totally lying’ and ‘not my type’
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and The Gateway Pundit
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
Is the Media Ignoring What E. Jean Carroll Says About Trump?
Is the Media Ignoring What E. Jean Carroll Says About Trump?
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The Daily Caller and Mediaite
Associated Press:
Government moves migrant kids after poor conditions exposed — The U.S. government has removed most of the children from a remote Border Patrol station in Texas following reports that more than 300 children were detained there, caring for each other with inadequate food, water and sanitation.
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Caitlin Dickerson / New York Times:
Hundreds of Migrant Children Are Moved Out of an Overcrowded Border Station — Following a public outcry, hundreds of migrant children have been transferred out of a filthy Border Patrol station in Texas where they were detained for weeks without access to soap, clean clothes or adequate food, the authorities confirmed on Monday.
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Washington Post, Pacific Standard and Reason
CNN:
We went to a border detention center for children. What we saw was awful
We went to a border detention center for children. What we saw was awful
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ACLU, KTLA, Hullabaloo, The Week, RedState and Michigan Advance
Alex Samuels / The Texas Tribune:
People want to donate diapers and toys to children at Border Patrol facilities in Texas.
People want to donate diapers and toys to children at Border Patrol facilities in Texas.
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Off the Kuff
A. G. Hamilton / National Review:
What the Viral Border-Patrol Video Leaves Out
What the Viral Border-Patrol Video Leaves Out
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Above the Law, Instapundit, TheBlaze and twitchy.com
Washington Post:
White House moves to bar counselor Kellyanne Conway from testifying to Congress about alleged violations of Hatch Act — The White House will block counselor Kellyanne Conway from testifying before a House panel about allegations by a government watchdog that she violated the Hatch Act …
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Politico, Political Wire and The Gateway Pundit
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Just Security:
Annie Donaldson is Not the President's “Alter Ego”
Annie Donaldson is Not the President's “Alter Ego”
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New York Times and Politico
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Kellyanne Conway Just ‘Disregarded’ The Law, Trump-Appointed Watchdog to Testify
Kellyanne Conway Just ‘Disregarded’ The Law, Trump-Appointed Watchdog to Testify
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NBC News:
Star-studded cast to perform live reading of the Mueller report — The cast includes Justin Long, Piper Perabo, Michael Shannon and Zachary Quinto, among others. Sigourney Weaver, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Mark Hamill will also make appearances. — LOS ANGELES — Haven't perused the Mueller report yet?
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Katie Campione / Associated Press:
Lithgow, Bening and more stars to perform Mueller report
Lithgow, Bening and more stars to perform Mueller report
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New York Post and emptywheel
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Star-studded cast to perform play based on Mueller report
Star-studded cast to perform play based on Mueller report
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The Investigation, Breitbart, CNN, Hullabaloo, Deadline and twitchy.com
The Hill:
EXCLUSIVE: Trump: I do not need congressional approval to strike Iran — President Trump told Hill.TV in an exclusive interview Monday that he does not need congressional approval to strike Iran. — When asked if he believes he has the authority to initiate military action against Iran without …
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The Hill:
EXCLUSIVE — Trump: I would fill Supreme Court vacancy before 2020 election — President Trump on Monday said he would make a nomination to the Supreme Court if there's a vacancy anytime before the 2020 presidential election. — “Would I do that? Of course,” Trump said in an exclusive interview …
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The Daily Caller, Political Wire and Washington Free Beacon
Andrew Hollinger / ushmm.org:
Statement Regarding the Museum's Position on Holocaust Analogies — Press Contacts — WASHINGTON, DC - The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum unequivocally rejects efforts to create analogies between the Holocaust and other events, whether historical or contemporary.
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Yaron Steinbuch / New York Post:
US Holocaust museum denounces AOC's ‘concentration camp’ remarks
US Holocaust museum denounces AOC's ‘concentration camp’ remarks
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PJ Media Home
Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Michael Flynn's New Lawyer Seeks Security Clearance, Citing Unknown Evidence — WASHINGTON — A lawyer Michael T. Flynn recently hired said on Monday that she would most likely need a security clearance to review classified materials that were separate from the documents that prosecutors …
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Political Wire and Bloomberg
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Sara Gideon for Maine:
Sara Gideon for Maine — Sara Gideon is running against Susan Collins for U.S. Senate in Maine. Get updates from the team here. Let's do this!
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The Hill:
EXCLUSIVE: Trump declines to say he has confidence in FBI director — President Trump on Monday declined to say he has confidence in Christopher Wray and stressed that he disagrees with the FBI director, who has said he does not believe there was spying on the president's 2016 campaign.
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CNN and Political Wire
Yasser Okbi / Jerusalem Post:
Iran attempted attack in Paris, half a ton of explosives found - report — The British newspaper “Independent in Arabic” quoted an intelligence source as saying that in 2018 Iran had delivered half a ton of TATP explosives in diplomatic packages to a civilian plane.
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Jewish Journal
Rob Hotakainen / E&E News:
Emails show scramble to dump Stonewall pride flag: ‘Oy vey’ — After spending $66 to buy a new 3-by-5-foot nylon rainbow flag, the National Park Service flew it high at one of the agency's newest monuments: the historic Stonewall Inn in New York's Greenwich Village, where a riot on June 28 …
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Splinter
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Joe Biden Doesn't Look So Electable in Person — He may be a likable white man, but his performance on the trail doesn't inspire confidence. — On Saturday, Joe Biden was one of 20 presidential candidates to speak at a Planned Parenthood forum in Columbia, S.C., held right next door to the state's Democratic convention.
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Shakesville
Tawnell D. Hobbs / Wall Street Journal:
Don't Want Your School to Be Named for a Confederate General? Find Someone Else Named Lee — Schools honor others with surname to avoid costs of repainting or new signs — The North East Independent School District in Texas was facing pressure to change the name of Robert E. Lee High School …
Mike Schneider / Associated Press:
Florida woman charged after giving husband's guns to police — ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A Florida woman's effort to protect herself from domestic violence has become a flashpoint in the debate over gun rights and victims' safety. — Courtney Irby gave her estranged husband's guns to police …
Premier:
Doctors must not abort mentally-ill woman's baby, appeal judges rule — A judge on Friday concluded that a pregnancy termination was in the woman's best interests. — Mrs Justice Lieven had analysed evidence at a hearing in the Court of Protection, where issues relating to people who lack …
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LifeNews.com, National Review, New York Times, Reason, The Daily Caller, Townhall, The Federalist and Patterico's Pontifications
David Goldstein / Vox:
I paid off all my student loans. I still support student loan forgiveness. — Boomers like me who paid off all of our student loans need to give millennials a break. — I paid off my student loans in full without assistance. Yet when editorialists decry Bernie Sanders' student debt forgiveness plan as …
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Michael Stratford / Politico:
How Bernie Sanders would cancel all student loan debt
How Bernie Sanders would cancel all student loan debt
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Project Veritas:
Insider Blows Whistle & Exec Reveals Google Plan to Prevent “Trump situation” in 2020 on Hidden Cam — Insider: Google “is bent on never letting somebody like Donald Trump come to power again.” — Google Head of Responsible Innovation Says Elizabeth Warren “misguided” on “breaking up Google”
Max Hastings / The Guardian:
I was Boris Johnson's boss: he is utterly unfit to be prime minister — The Tory party is about to foist a tasteless joke upon the British people. He cares for nothing but his own fame and gratification — Six years ago, the Cambridge historian Christopher Clark published a study …
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Ex-Trump Aide Jason Miller Leaves High-Powered Firm After Jerry Nadler ‘Fat F*ck’ Tweets — The departure, Miller tells The Daily Beast, was “by mutual consent.” — Jason Miller, a former top campaign aide and close adviser to Donald Trump, has left his job as a managing director at Teneo …
Brent Scher / Washington Free Beacon:
Just-Promoted DCCC Official Has History of Homophobic, Racist Comments — Top committee staffer Tayhlor Coleman deletes tweets after Free Beacon inquiry — A Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee official tapped last week to lead a new multimillion-dollar initiative to connect with …
Michael Tackett / New York Times:
Trump Promised a Manufacturing Renaissance. What Happens in 2020 in Places That Lost Those Jobs? — Donald J. Trump carried Michigan on a vow to end manufacturing job losses. That has not happened. — DIMONDALE, Mich. — In August 2016, Donald J. Trump was full of promises when he spoke …
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POLITICUSUSA
Anthony Faiola / Washington Post:
Maduro's ex-spy chief lands in U.S. armed with allegations against Venezuelan government — BOGOTA, Colombia — In a palace said to be filled with plotters, turncoats and thieves, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro could count on the loyalty of at least one man: Gen. Manuel Ricardo Cristopher Figuera.