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Hamed Aleaziz / BuzzFeed News:
Investigators Revealed Disgusting Conditions For Migrant Children And Families Locked In Border Camps — When Department of Homeland Security inspectors visited several border facilities in the Rio Grande Valley earlier this month, they found adults and minors with no access to showers …
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Washington Post:
The father and daughter who drowned at the border dove into the river in desperation — Valeria was a cheery child. Not even 2 years old, she loved to dance, play with her stuffed animals and brush her family members' hair. Her father, Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez, was stalwart.
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CNN:
A shocking image of a drowned man and his daughter underscores the crisis at the US-Mexico border
A shocking image of a drowned man and his daughter underscores the crisis at the US-Mexico border
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Danny Hakim / New York Times:
N.R.A. Shuts Down Production of NRATV — The National Rifle Association has shut down production at NRATV. — The N.R.A. on Tuesday also severed all business with its estranged advertising firm, Ackerman McQueen, which operates NRATV, the N.R.A.'s live broadcasting media arm …
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Washington Post:
Trump lashes out at Mueller, accusing him of a crime ahead of planned congressional testimony — President Trump lashed out Wednesday at former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, accusing him without evidence of committing a crime by deleting text messages exchanged by two former FBI officials …
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Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Brian Kilmeade: I Don't Think Robert Mueller Knows the Details of the Mueller Report
Rachael Bade / Washington Post:
Mueller to testify to Congress in open session about his investigation
Mueller to testify to Congress in open session about his investigation
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CNN:
Mueller to testify publicly on July 17 following a subpoena
Mueller to testify publicly on July 17 following a subpoena
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Mueller's team may think it is done. Democrats have other ideas.
Mueller's team may think it is done. Democrats have other ideas.
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Rachael Bade / Washington Post:
House panel votes to authorize subpoena for White House's Conway after she fails to show for hearing — A House committee voted Wednesday to authorize a subpoena for White House counselor Kellyanne Conway after she failed to show for a hearing on a government watchdog's findings that she broke the law dozens of times.
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
House panel votes to subpoena Kellyanne Conway over Hatch Act testimony
House panel votes to subpoena Kellyanne Conway over Hatch Act testimony
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Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
House Oversight panel authorizes subpoena for Kellyanne Conway
House Oversight panel authorizes subpoena for Kellyanne Conway
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Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Secret Service Take Chicago Restaurant Employee into Custody After She Spits on Eric Trump — U.S. Secret Service took an employee of a Chicago restaurant into custody Tuesday evening after she spit on President Donald Trump's son Eric Trump, the president's son told Breitbart News.
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Anna Kaplan / The Daily Beast:
Eric Trump Says He Was Spit on by Restaurant Employee in Chicago — “It was purely a disgusting act by somebody who clearly has emotional problems,” he said. — President Donald Trump's son Eric says he was spit on by an employee at the Aviary, a cocktail bar in Chicago, on Tuesday night.
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Trump raises eye-popping $36 million in the week buildup to first 2020 Democratic debates — KEY POINTS — President Donald Trump raised a mammoth $36 million since officially announcing his 2020 reelection campaign last week. — Trump raised $6 million alone at a fundraiser …
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Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Why 2020 Democrats should ignore Twitter at the first debate
Why 2020 Democrats should ignore Twitter at the first debate
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NBC News:
What to watch for at tonight's first Democratic presidential debate
What to watch for at tonight's first Democratic presidential debate
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Gabby Orr / Politico:
Team Trump plans debate night offensive
Team Trump plans debate night offensive
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Antonia Noori Farzan / Washington Post:
New White House press secretary yanked Arizona reporters' access after critical coverage — On April 5, 2016, Hank Stephenson checked his email and saw that he had a new message from Stephanie Grisham. “Attached please find the form that you requested for the cursory background check we have discussed …
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Heather Caygle / Politico:
McConnell jams Pelosi on border spending package — Senate Republicans are looking to jam House Democrats on a much-needed cash infusion for the southern border, arguing the Senate's bill is the only thing that can become law and win President Donald Trump's signature.
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Martha McSally moves to head off GOP primary challenge
Martha McSally moves to head off GOP primary challenge
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Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Howard Dean says Democrats will lose if they have ‘two old white guys’ on 2020 presidential ticket — Former Vermont governor Howard Dean said Wednesday that Democrats won't win the White House if they nominate two older white men to be president and vice president in 2020 …
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Caleb Parke / Fox News:
Rise of the religious left? DNC hires faith outreach director to address party's ‘God problem’
Rise of the religious left? DNC hires faith outreach director to address party's ‘God problem’
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Daily Wire and Religion News Service
Ellen Cushing / The Atlantic:
Wayfair Should Have Seen This Coming — In leaked audio, the home-goods retailer's co-founder seemed surprised that his company was being forced to take a political stance. — Last week, as Americans reacted to news reports that children being held at the border were being denied food …
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Janelle Nanos / BostonGlobe.com:
Wayfair employees plan walkout to oppose furniture sales to migrant detention facilities
Wayfair employees plan walkout to oppose furniture sales to migrant detention facilities
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Bloomberg:
Trump's Protocol Chief Is Quitting Just Before the G-20 Summit — Sean Lawler faces a probe into claims of verbal altercations — Protocol official assists president on overseas trips — The Trump administration official in charge of diplomatic protocol plans to resign …
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Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
Google Workers Petition SF Pride to Exclude Company From Parade — Almost 100 Google employees are urging the organizer of this weekend's San Francisco Pride parade to kick the company out of the celebration, escalating pressure on the internet giant to overhaul its handling of hate speech online.
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Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
Activists get permit to fly ‘Baby Trump’ blimp over July 4 ‘Salute to Trump’ celebration — The “Baby Trump” blimp that has followed President Trump around the world will fly just blocks from the White House in Washington, D.C., hours before his Fourth of July address.
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Lachlan Cartwright / The Daily Beast:
New York Times' Trump Tax Team Imploded When Star Reporter David Barstow Went Rogue — David Barstow tried to ghostwrite a book with a top-secret source on the Pulitzer-winning story. — On April 15, the New York Times staff gathered in the newsroom, looking up at Executive Editor Dean Baquet …
Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
Joe Biden Won't Say If He Backs the Trade Deal He Helped Sell — Toward the end of his vice presidency, Joe Biden was a prime player in the administration's bid to win support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the failed trade deal that was supposed to be the crowning achievement of Barack Obama's presidency-long “pivot to Asia.”
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Tim Alberta / Politico:
‘Complete This Sentence: Donald Trump Wins Reelection If ... ’ — Never has there been a presidential race as sprawling and wide-open as the 2020 Democratic primary. It would be a landscape entirely without a map, except that a small handful of battle-hardened veterans have navigated similar terrain before.
Lili Loofbourow / Slate:
The Devastating Oddness of E. Jean Carroll's Trump Accusation — Reading E. Jean Carroll's account in the Cut of her 21 “Hideous Men”—packed as it is with details about Girl Scout knives and cheerleading and jokes and echoes of David Foster Wallace's story collection of a similar name …
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John Koblin / New York Times:
What Happened at the Democratic Debate? Jimmy Fallon Will Let You Know — On Wednesday and Thursday nights, as the first two Democratic debates wind down around 11 p.m. Eastern, viewers seeking postgame reaction can watch supersize panels on cable news or scroll through Twitter.
Joseph Cox / VICE:
Black Market T-Mobile Location Data Tied to Spot of a Triple Murder — In 2017, two bounty hunters and a fugitive died in a chaotic shoot-out. Shortly after their deaths, someone started tracking one of the bounty hunter's phones. — On a hot May evening, two plain-clothed federal agents walked …
Jonathan Turley / The Hill:
Washington owes Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch an apology — “In our constitutional order, a vague law is no law at all.” Those are the words that opened one of the most important decisions of this Supreme Court term, in United States versus Quartavious Davis.
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David Harsanyi / New York Post:
It's our elites who are driving America's divisions — In his new book, “Fall,” the celebrated sci-fi author Neal Stephenson envisions a future United States split between the violent, gun-toting, uneducated, cross-burning religious fanatics of bullet-ridden “Ameristan” and the peaceful …
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