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The Daily Beast:
Jeffrey Epstein Arrested for Sex Trafficking of Minors — Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on Saturday and will appear in New York court on Monday to be charged with sex trafficking, according to multiple law enforcement sources. — Billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was arrested …
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New York Times:
Jeffrey Epstein, Billionaire Long Accused of Molesting Minors, Is Charged — Mr. Epstein, who was charged with sex trafficking, had avoided federal charges a decade ago in a widely criticized plea deal. — Jeffrey E. Epstein, a billionaire New York financier long accused of molesting dozens …
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Townhall, The Guardian, Mediaite and The Reality-Based Community
Julie K. Brown / Miami Herald:
Jeffrey Epstein arrested on sex trafficking charges — More than a decade after receiving one of the most lenient sentences for a serial sex offender in U.S history, multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein has been arrested outside of New York, sources confirmed to the Miami Herald Saturday night.
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New York Post and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Washington Post:
Jeffrey Epstein taken into custody in New York on new charges related to sex crimes involving minors — Jeffrey Epstein, the well-connected multimillionaire who was sentenced to just more than a year in jail to resolve allegations that he molested dozens of young girls …
Christina Zhao / Newsweek:
Trump's longtime friend Jeffrey Epstein arrested for sex trafficking minors in Florida, New York
Trump's longtime friend Jeffrey Epstein arrested for sex trafficking minors in Florida, New York
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Big League Politics
Jonathan Dienst / NBC New York:
Jeffrey Epstein Arrested in NYC on Sex Trafficking Charges: Sources
Jeffrey Epstein Arrested in NYC on Sex Trafficking Charges: Sources
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Breitbart
Daily Mail:
Britain's man in the the US says Trump is ‘inept’: Leaked secret cables from ambassador say the President is ‘uniquely dysfunctional and his career could end in disgrace’ — Britain's Ambassador to Washington has described Donald Trump as ‘inept’, ‘insecure’ and ‘incompetent’ in a series of explosive memos to Downing Street.
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Outside the Beltway, Agence France-Presse, Informed Comment, Politico, POLITICUSUSA, KTLA, New York Post, Axios and Mother Jones
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CNN:
Cables from UK's ambassador to the US blast Trump as ‘inept,’ ‘incompetent’ — (CNN)Diplomatic cables sent from the United Kingdom's ambassador to the United States back to London describe President Donald Trump as “inept,” “insecure” and “incompetent,” a UK government official confirmed Saturday to CNN.
Ellen Barry / New York Times:
In Leaks, U.K. Ambassador Casts Trump as Ineffective and Erratic — LONDON — In a series of leaked diplomatic cables, Britain's ambassador to the United States describes President Trump as “radiating insecurity” and his administration as diplomatically “clumsy and inept,” …
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
It's Nancy Pelosi's Parade — “If the left doesn't think I'm left enough, so be it,” she told me. — SAN FRANCISCO — Nancy Pelosi and Donald Trump have a lot in common. — Neither one drinks, yet they have family vineyards. They both love big bowls of ice cream.
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Washington Monthly, Fox News, Mediaite, Hullabaloo, The Daily Caller and Washington Post
Gary Langer / ABC News:
Trump reaches career-high approval, yet faces a range of reelection risks: Poll — Bolstered by a strong economy, Donald Trump reached the highest job approval rating of his career in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll and runs competitively for reelection against four of five possible Democratic contenders.
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Political Wire, Fox News and Axios
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Andrew Marra / Palm Beach Post:
Spanish River High's principal refused to call the Holocaust a fact — A mother pushed for a year to address what she described as a school leader's failure to separate truth from myth. — She sent off the email with few expectations — a routine question seeking a routine answer.
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Townhall, Yahoo and twitchy.com
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Susan Collins, a Fixture in Maine, Has Twin Troubles: Trump and Kavanaugh — EASTPORT, Me. — Senator Susan Collins jogged her way through the Fourth of July parade in this picturesque little port city, handing out American flag stickers to cheers and shouts of “Thank you!”
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The Hill, Talking Points Memo, The Daily Caller, Washington Times and IJR
Politico:
‘Members are looking over their shoulders’: Democrats spooked by new primary threats — Liberals angry over the party's response to the border crisis are making renewed threats to primary longtime incumbents. — Just when it looked like the threat of widespread primary challenges …
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Political Wire
Politico:
Threat of budget disaster rises amid discord in both parties — The consequences are dire if Trump and congressional leaders fail to reach a deal this fall. — Washington is deadlocked ahead of a series of fiscal deadlines, time is growing scarce and it's only going to get harder to avoid a debacle.
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Political Wire
Associated Press:
Biden says he was wrong in comments about segregationists — SUMTER, S.C. (AP) — Former Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday apologized for recent comments about working with segregationist senators in his early days in the U.S. Senate, saying he understands now his remarks could have been offensive to some.
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Mark Hemingway / New York Post:
Joe Biden keeps making things worse for himself
Joe Biden keeps making things worse for himself
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Power Line
New York Times:
Hungry, Scared and Sick: Inside the Migrant Detention Center in Clint, Tex. — An out-of-the-way border station in the desert outside of El Paso has become the epicenter of outrage over the Trump administration's policies on the southwest border. — CLINT, Tex. — Since the Border Patrol opened …
Fording the River Styx:
On MAGA hats... Would you choose a hat over a friend? — If you're feeling like you need a laugh as we descend further into dystopia, check out all the #RevolutionaryWarAirportStories folks have come up with to make fun of President Trump's Fourth of July gaffe.
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Daily Kos
Los Angeles Times:
Damage to homes, but no deaths reported, in 7.1 magnitude California earthquake … The 7.1 magnitude earthquake that rocked Southern California on Friday night tipped buildings off their foundations and left residents on edge but did not cause any fatalities or major injuries, officials said.
Washington Post:
Ilhan Omar's American story: It's complicated — MINNEAPOLIS — Rep. Ilhan Omar stepped to the edge of the stage in front of about 400 Richfield High School students and squinted into the lights. — More than two decades had passed since she and her family fled civil war in Somalia, first for a Kenyan refugee camp and then America.
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twitchy.com
Jeh Charles Johnson / Washington Post:
Trump-era politics are drowning out consensus on immigration. It's time for some straight talk. — Jeh Charles Johnson was homeland security secretary from 2013 to 2017. — Americans are and should be outraged at reports of migrants detained in dirty, overcrowded conditions near the Southern border.
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Mother Jones and Vox