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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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New York Times:
Trump's Trip to Dayton and El Paso: The Back Story — WASHINGTON — By the time President Trump arrived in El Paso on Wednesday, on the second leg of a trip to meet with people affected by mass shootings in two cities, he was frustrated that his attacks on his political adversaries had resulted …
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Graeme Wood / The Atlantic:
Trump's El Paso Photo Is Obscene — The president's callousness has reached a new low: smiling, flashing a thumbs-up next to an orphaned infant. — Staff writer at The Atlantic — A really exceptional work of obscenity, like a really exceptional work of beauty, exceeds the ability of its viewers to fathom what they just saw.
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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.
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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.
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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 …
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Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News:
Armed Trump supporter detained and released at El Paso immigrant center
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Charles Sykes / The Bulwark:
The Denialists — It takes a lot of work to try to exonerate …
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Kelly Tyko / USA Today:
Walmart removing violent video game displays, signs from stores but still selling guns
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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 …
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Bloomberg:
Jeffrey Epstein Sent Girl to Governor and Senator for Sex, She Testified — Bill Richardson, George Mitchell, Glenn Dubin deny allegations — Virginia Giuffre's 2016 testimony made public by court Friday — Jeffrey Epstein and a friend sent an underage girl to have sex with former …
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 …
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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NBC News:
FBI arrests Las Vegas man who allegedly wanted to shoot Jews, LGBTQ bar patrons — Conor Climo, 23, communicated with organized white supremacists through encrypted messages, federal authorities said. — A 23-year-old Las Vegas man who allegedly wanted to attack Jews and patrons of an LGBTQ bar …
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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.
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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.
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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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Brian Fung / CNN:
White House proposal would have FCC and FTC police alleged social media censorship — Washington (CNN Business)A draft executive order from the White House could put the Federal Communications Commission in charge of shaping how Facebook (FB), Twitter (TWTR) and other large tech companies curate …
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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.
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MSNBC Contributor: Why Aren't People Boycotting Pro-Trump Businesses Like They Boycotted Pro-Apartheid Businesses? — Via the Free Beacon, what is this network going to be like a year from now, in the thick of the general election campaign, if they're already at this level of hysteria?
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Olivia Messer / The Daily Beast:
SoulCycle Revolts Against Billionaire Owner's Trump Fundraising
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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.
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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 …
Janene Pieters / NL Times:
“Russians” threatening Dutch F-16 pilots' family — The partners of Dutch fighter pilots who were active in Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania in 2017, were harassed at home during this period. They received repeated, unpleasant phone calls from people with a Russian accent who asked whether …
Michael Edison Hayden / Southern Poverty Law Center:
White Nationalist State Department Official Surfaces in Photographs — Hatewatch has obtained images of Matthew Q. Gebert, a State Department official who is involved in the white nationalist movement. — Gebert oversaw the Washington, D.C.-area chapter of a white nationalist organization …
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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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Daniel Chaitin / Washington Examiner:
Twitter unlocks Mitch McConnell campaign account after two-day standoff
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John DiStaso / WMUR:
Sununu vetoes 3 gun bills, citing NH's ‘culture of responsible gun ownership, individual freedom’ — Governor says bills would not solve ‘national issues’ or prevent violence by ‘evil’ people — HIDE TRANSCRIPT SHOW TRANSCRIPT — CONCORD, N.H. — Gov. Chris Sununu …
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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 …
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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 …
Rachel Dodes / Vanity Fair:
Ivanka Trump Is Uniquely Unqualified to Condemn Donald Trump's Racism — It must be tough to be Ivanka Trump. As the favored daughter of an openly racist president, and as a woman with a nebulous, nepotistic, and unpaid job as a senior adviser to that man, she is uniquely ill-equipped …
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