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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Trump's Photo-Op With the Orphaned El Paso Baby Was the Smallest Moment of His Presidency  —  It took a tiny baby to reveal how small Donald Trump really is.  —  The president's trip to Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, this week, ostensibly undertaken to comfort the mourners and the injured …
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Edward Helmore / The Guardian:
Anger as grinning Trump gives thumbs-up while Melania holds El Paso orphan  —  A backlash is building over a picture posted by Melania Trump on Twitter that showed her and Donald Trump smiling broadly while holding a baby who was orphaned in the mass shooting in El Paso.
Associated Press:
Police: El Paso shooting suspect said he targeted Mexicans  —  EL PASO, Texas (AP) — The man accused of carrying out last weekend's deadly mass shooting at a Walmart in the Texas border city of El Paso confessed to officers while he was surrendering and later explained that he had been targeting Mexicans, authorities say.
Washington Post:
Why one family mourning El Paso victims chose to meet with Trump  —  Tito Anchondo wishes people would stop politicizing his family's tragedy.  —  Anchondo, who lost his beloved brother and sister-in-law in the rampage by an El Paso Walmart on Saturday, said he wanted to take his orphaned nephew …
Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News:
Armed Trump supporter detained and released at El Paso immigrant center
Discussion: KTSM-TV and Washington Examiner
Lomi Kriel / Houston Chronicle:   ‘Love, support and courage:’
Graeme Wood / The Atlantic:
Trump's El Paso Photo Is Obscene
Discussion: El Paso Times
Kelly Tyko / USA Today:
Walmart removing violent video game displays, signs from stores but still selling guns
The Daily Beast:
Jeffrey Epstein Accuser Names Powerful Men in Alleged Sex Ring  —  In newly unsealed documents, Virginia Giuffre claims that Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell trafficked her to politicians, princes, and a high-flying financier, among others.  —  A young woman who says financier Jeffrey Epstein …
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Julie K. Brown / Miami Herald:
Huge record cache details how Jeffrey Epstein, madam lured girls into depraved world  —  A chilling picture of how hundreds of girls and young women from around the world were trafficked for sex by Jeffrey Epstein, his alleged madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, and a number of other powerful business …
New York Daily News:
Names are named as court documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein are unsealed  —  Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, Britain's Prince Andrew and former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson were among those whose names surfaced Friday after a trove of documents were released in a case …
Bloomberg:   Jeffrey Epstein Sent Girl to Governor and Senator for Sex, She Testified
Zachary Cohen / CNN:
Top intel official interrupted meeting to urge his deputy to resign  —  Washington (CNN)The country's No. 2 intelligence official, Sue Gordon, knew it was likely she would have to eventually step down from her post, but the timing of that decision became more urgent on Thursday after her boss …
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Washington Post:
Trump's pick for intelligence director is a respected Special Operations veteran  —  Sue Gordon, a career intelligence officer who became the second-highest-ranking official in the U.S. intelligence community, quietly went to the White House on Thursday evening to give President Trump her resignation …
Discussion: Mediaite, Talking Points Memo and CNN
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Stephen Ross expressed qualms about Trump bash after liberal backlash  —  Billionaire New York real estate developer Stephen Ross privately expressed qualms about going ahead with his Hamptons fundraiser for President Trump today.  —  The state of play: Liberal customers had threatened …
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Benjamin Fearnow / Newsweek:
FBI Ranks ‘Black Identity Extremists’ Bigger Threat Than Al Qaeda, White Supremacists: Leaked Documents  —  Leaked FBI documents indicate “black identity extremists” and animal rights activists are among the agency's top counterterrorism priorities under President Donald Trump.
Discussion: theGrio and TYT Network
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Yahoo News:
Here's the data on white supremacist terrorism the Trump administration has been 'unable …
Discussion: NBC News and Politico
KYTV-TV:
Former firefighter stops man armed with 100 rounds of ammunition at south Springfield Walmart  —  SPRINGFIELD, Mo. The Springfield Police Department says it responded to a call of an active shooter at the Walmart Neighborhood Market at Republic Rd., near Golden Ave., Thursday evening.
Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Fury grows over delayed probe of Trump aides' alleged political retaliation  —  Democrats and many in the State Department are increasingly exasperated that they have yet to see the results of an investigation into whether President Donald Trump's political appointees mistreated career staffers.
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Robbie Gramer / Foreign Policy:   Hiring Freeze Put U.S. Diplomats Under Threat Worldwide, Report Says
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
White House questions tech giants on ways to predict shootings from social media  —  Top officials in the Trump administration expressed interest in tools that might anticipate mass shootings or predict attackers by scanning social media posts, photos and videos during a meeting Friday …
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Associated Press:
S.Korea says N.Korea has fired 2 more projectiles into sea  —  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Saturday fired two more projectiles into the sea, according to South Korea's military.  It is likely another protest at the United States and South Korea continuing joint military exercises …
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Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:
Trump heads for golf club holiday - but summer storms loom
Discussion: The Week
The Daily Beast:
Trump Freaks Out Over ‘The Hunt,’ a Satirical Film He Doesn't Understand, as U.S. Reels From Mass Shootings  —  As the country grapples with two deadly mass shootings in one weekend, the president took time out of his busy Friday to rant about a movie that Fox News has also obsessed over.
Naomi Lim / Washington Examiner:
Kamala Harris moves toward nixing the Senate filibuster  —  SIOUX CITY, Iowa — Kamala Harris is open to doing away with the filibuster if Democrats recapture control of the Senate next year.  —  “I want to find common ground on legislation, but if there's gonna be the obstructionist kind …
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Washington Post:
'If you're a good worker, papers don't matter': How a Trump construction crew has relied on immigrants without legal status  —  OSSINING, N.Y. — For nearly two decades, the Trump Organization has relied on a roving crew of Latin American employees to build fountains and waterfalls …
Jerry Iannelli / Miami New Times:
Publix Heirs Are Maxing Out Donations to Donald Trump's 2020 Campaign … Progressives, critics, and basically all people with moral backbones and souls this week are furious at Stephen Ross — the multibillionaire owner of the Miami Dolphins and the gym chains Equinox and SoulCycle …
Timothy Bella / Washington Post:
A black man was about to buy a cop's house.  Then, he found a KKK application in a bedroom.  —  The Confederate flag place mat on the dining room table was Rob Mathis's first hint that something was off inside the home he was thinking of buying.  —  “I thought to myself …
Discussion: VICE and New York Post
Chris Sommerfeldt / New York Daily News:
Ohio man charged with threatening to shoot Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, illegally stockpiling ammunition  —  An Ohio man was slammed with criminal charges Friday for threatening New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and stockpiling illegal ammunition in his home, according to prosecutors.
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Europe Poised to Put Warning Labels on Jewish-Made Products  —  Legal decision reminiscent of Holocaust-era boycotts of Jews  —  The European Union is poised to mandate that Israeli products made in contested territories carry consumer warning labels, a decision that could trigger American anti-boycott laws …
CNN:
White House tells ICE to conduct dozens more workplace enforcement operations, source says  —  Child makes tearful plea to ICE: I need my dad  —  (CNN)The White House has told ICE officials to conduct dozens more workplace enforcement operations this year, a senior immigration official with knowledge of the conversations told CNN.
Discussion: KTLA, The Guardian and The Root
Jaclyn Cosgrove / Los Angeles Times:
Heavily redacted texts show Mayor Garcetti's request for home to be checked during Woolsey fire  —  On a November afternoon, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti texted the city's fire chief to ask how much destruction the Woolsey fire had caused in a wealthy gated Ventura County neighborhood.
 
 
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Rachel Dodes / Vanity Fair:
Ivanka Trump Is Uniquely Unqualified to Condemn Donald Trump's Racism
James LaPorta / Newsweek:
Exclusive: As more troops head to the U.S.-Mexico border, drones designed for war could be going too
David Perry / CNN:
Bulletproof backpacks will not save my son during a school shooting
Niraj Warikoo / Detroit Free Press:
Michigan man with diabetes dies in Iraq after ICE deported him
Discussion: The Intercept
Sarah Taylor / TheBlaze:
School reportedly punishes sixth-grade boy for saying trans-curious boy is not a girl, but a boy
Discussion: The College Fix
Ellen Ioanes / Business Insider:
A scathing new Pentagon report blames Trump for the return of ISIS in Syria and Iraq
Discussion: CNBC
Tim Fitzsimons / NBC News:
'We're a totally peaceful racist group,' says ‘Straight Pride’ organizer to a California city council
Discussion: Splinter
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Psychologist: Google generated at least 2.6 million votes for Hillary
 Earlier Items: 
Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
The Iowa Caucus Is a Frontrunners' Nightmare
David Byler / Washington Post:
Blue Texas is a Democratic dream. Shifting left is a reality.
Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Arizona senator thinks mass shootings really aren't the federal government's problem
Joyce White Vance / Washington Post:
Prosecutors pick their battles. I chose not to pursue an ICE raid in Alabama.
Discussion: Salon
Sudarsan Raghavan / Washington Post:
Egypt jails American traveler, saying she criticized the government on Facebook
Discussion: National Review
Kevin Poulsen / The Daily Beast:
8Chan Refugees Blow Their Anonymity
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
For Trump and his cronies, draining the swamp means ousting experts
 

 
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Richard Deitsch / New York Times:
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BBC:
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
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