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New York Times:
Trump Says Tanks Will Be on Display in Washington for July 4 — WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Monday that the Pentagon would put military tanks on display on Thursday in Washington as part of his plans to turn the annual Fourth of July celebration in the nation's capital into a salute to the country's military prowess.
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HuffPost:
RNC Giving Out Tickets To Trump's Hijacked Fourth Of July Celebration — What had been a nonpolitical, nonpartisan celebration on the National Mall will now likely be a multimillion-dollar, taxpayer-financed political rally, critics worry. — WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump …
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Washington Post:
Trump's Fourth of July plans just keep getting worse — THIS PAGE in recent weeks has been graced with letters from readers recounting their memories of gathering on the Mall and watching the fireworks on the Fourth of July. Claire O'Dwyer Randall remembered her father driving her family …
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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Vets To Give Out Thousands Of USS John McCain Shirts At Trump's July 4 Event — “It's really a way to honor a family that ... has shown that the country is bigger than any one individual,” said Peter Kauffmann of VoteVets. — WASHINGTON ― Irked by President Donald Trump's plan to hold …
Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
‘It Feels Like a Jail’: Lawmakers Criticize Migrant Holding Sites on Border — CLINT, Tex. — Women held in rooms without running water, sleeping bags set up on concrete and children left apart from their families: That was what Democratic lawmakers said they heard about on Monday as they toured two Texas border facilities.
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Anna Giaritelli / Washington Examiner:
AOC screamed at Border Patrol agents in ‘threatening manner’ during tour: Witnesses — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., screamed at federal law enforcement agents “in a threatening manner” during a visit to a Border Patrol facility in El Paso, Texas, and refused to tour the facility …
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Adolfo Flores / BuzzFeed News:
Immigrant Women Held In Border Patrol Custody Say They Were Told To Drink Water From Toilets
Immigrant Women Held In Border Patrol Custody Say They Were Told To Drink Water From Toilets
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Jason Lemon / Newsweek:
More Than 140 Holocaust, Genocide Experts Think Ocasio-Cortez Should Be Allowed to Call Migrant …
More Than 140 Holocaust, Genocide Experts Think Ocasio-Cortez Should Be Allowed to Call Migrant …
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Lukas Mikelionis / Fox News:
Holocaust survivor says Ocasio-Cortez should be ‘removed’ …
Holocaust survivor says Ocasio-Cortez should be ‘removed’ …
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Karoli Kuns / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Reps Say Border Patrol Ordered Migrants To Drink Out Of Toilets
Reps Say Border Patrol Ordered Migrants To Drink Out Of Toilets
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Wall Street Journal:
Nike Nixes ‘Betsy Ross Flag’ Sneaker After Colin Kaepernick Intervenes — Sneaker maker pulls Independence Day-themed shoe after NFL star raised concerns about its symbolism — Nike Inc. is yanking a U.S.A.-themed sneaker featuring an early American flag after former NFL star-turned …
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The Daily Beast:
Ivanka's North Korea Photobombs Perplex White House Officials — Multiple officials in Washington were caught off guard by the news that Ivanka Trump had found her way into a conversation about nuclear weapons between her father and Kim Jong Un. — When Donald Trump and his advisors crossed …
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Eliana Johnson / Politico:
The Fox News general who ‘spooked’ Trump out of attacking Iran — As President Donald Trump wrestled on the evening of June 20 with how to respond to Iran's downing of a U.S. drone, Jack Keane was making his second appearance of the day on the Fox News Channel.
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
The Welcome Humiliation of John Bolton — A warmonger is the latest to lose his dignity to Donald Trump. — Say this for Donald Trump. He may be transforming American politics into a kleptocratic fascist reality show and turning our once-great country into a global laughingstock …
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Edward Wong / New York Times:
Trump Officials Are Split Over Approach to North Korea Talks
Trump Officials Are Split Over Approach to North Korea Talks
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New York Times:
Trump and R.N.C. Raised $105 Million in 2nd Quarter, Outdoing Obama — WASHINGTON — President Trump's re-election campaign and the Republican National Committee on Tuesday said they had raised $105 million in the second quarter of this year, dwarfing what President Barack Obama raised …
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Megan Brenan / Gallup:
American Pride Hits New Low; Few Proud of Political System — WASHINGTON, D.C. — As Americans prepare to celebrate the Fourth of July holiday, their pride in the U.S. has hit its lowest point since Gallup's first measurement in 2001. While 70% of U.S. adults overall say they are proud to be Americans …
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CNN:
CNN Poll: Harris and Warren rise and Biden slides after first Democratic debates — Harris confronts Biden over busing, school desegregation — WASHINGTON (CNN)Sens. Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren have made steep gains after the first Democratic presidential debate …
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Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Harris allies see sexism and desperation in Biden camp backlash
Harris allies see sexism and desperation in Biden camp backlash
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Jessica Campisi / The Hill:
Booker vows to ‘virtually eliminate immigration detention’ if elected president — Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), a 2020 White House hopeful, on Tuesday unveiled a plan that would “virtually eliminate” immigration detention if he is elected in 2020, his campaign said.
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Paul LeBlanc / CNN:
Booker introduces immigration plan aimed to ‘virtually eliminate’ immigration detention
Booker introduces immigration plan aimed to ‘virtually eliminate’ immigration detention
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Emma Kinery / Bloomberg:
Cory Booker Says He Would Shut ‘Inhumane’ Migrant Detention Centers
Cory Booker Says He Would Shut ‘Inhumane’ Migrant Detention Centers
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Punit Renjen / Popular Information:
Children are suffering. These companies are profiting. — Thousands of children have been separated from their families, and many more have been subject to inhuman conditions as part of the Trump administration's anti-immigrant crackdown at the southern border.
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Chantal Da Silva / Newsweek:
Lawyers Who Visited Detained Migrant Children Say Border Officials Barred Them From Seeing …
Lawyers Who Visited Detained Migrant Children Say Border Officials Barred Them From Seeing …
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Spies fear a consulting firm helped hobble U.S. intelligence — America's vast spying apparatus was built around a Cold War world of dead drops and double agents. Today, that world has fractured and migrated online, with hackers and rogue terrorist cells, leaving intelligence operatives scrambling to keep up.
Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
New study shows Russian propaganda may really have helped Trump — WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and his allies have long insisted that Russian's 2016 propaganda campaign on social media had no impact on the presidential election. — A new statistical analysis says it may well have.
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Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
Center for American Progress Puts ThinkProgress Up for Sale — News site launched during the Bush years is running millions of dollars short. Its parent think tank says it will consider the editorial leanings of prospective owners. — ThinkProgress, the flagship news site of the Democratic …
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New York Times:
To Evade Sanctions on Iran, Ships Vanish in Plain Sight — A week ago, a small tanker ship approached the Persian Gulf after a 19-day voyage from China. The captain, as required by international rules, reported the ship's position, course, speed and another key detail: It was riding high in the water, meaning it was probably empty.
YouTube:
Exclusive Interview: Trump sits down with Tucker Carlson in Japan … President Donald Trump discusses trade negotiations with China, tensions in the Middle East on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.’ — FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio …
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Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian:
‘We all suffer’: why San Francisco techies hate the city they transformed — San Franciscans have long complained that tech workers ruined their city, driving up rents and homelessness and eliminating diversity. Now even the tech workers agree — Cities is supported by — About this content
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Michelle Kosinski / CNN:
Exclusive: Democrats investigating whistleblower claims Pompeo's security picked up Chinese food and his dog — Washington (CNN)Democrats on a key House congressional committee are investigating allegations from a whistleblower within the State Department about Secretary of State Mike Pompeo …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump looking ‘very strongly’ at delaying census — President Trump said Monday he's looking “very strongly” at delaying the 2020 census if the administration is not allowed to add a citizenship question, an unprecedented move that would surely trigger new legal challenges.
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Democrats are learning the wrong lesson from Donald Trump — He ran as a moderate — and it worked. — Many progressives have what they believe to be a knock-down answer to nervous Nellies who fret that talking about desegregation busing, decriminalizing illegal entry into the United States …
Human Rights Watch:
US: Asylum Seekers Returned to Uncertainty, Danger in Mexico — Little Safety, Shelter, Due Process While Awaiting Immigration Hearings — (El Paso, TX) - The United States government should cease returning asylum seekers to wait in Mexico during their US immigration court proceedings …