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New York Times:
Trump Asserts He Can Force U.S. Companies to Leave China — BIARRITZ, France — President Trump asserted on Saturday that he has the authority to make good on his threat to force all American businesses to leave China, citing a national security law that has been used mainly to target terrorists …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
A Gyrating Economy, and Trump's Volatile Approach to It, Raise Alarms — BIARRITZ, France — President Trump has again tossed out the economic and political playbook that guided other occupants of the Oval Office for generations as the United States dominated the flow of goods and services across the world.
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Neil Irwin / New York Times:
One Crazy Day Showed How Political Chaos Threatens the World Economy — An escalating trade war and unpredictable policy shifts. Also, tweets. — The series of economic and financial developments on Friday was a strange, bewildering, exhausting microcosm of why the global economy is at risk of a meltdown.
National Review:
Out of Order — A question in the spirit of Donald Trump's tweets this morning might be: Who's trying harder to crash U.S. markets, the president of the United States or the president of China? — After Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell didn't forecast the loosening of monetary policy …
Matthew Choi / Politico:
Trump: ‘Chosen one’ remark was sarcasm
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Associated Press:
At global summit, Trump facing limits of go-it-alone stance — BIARRITZ, France (AP) — President Donald Trump arrived Saturday in France for an international summit with the leaders of the globe's economic powers as he confronts the consequences of his preference for going it alone …
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Washington Post:
With the global economy slowing and the U.S.-China trade war escalating, Trump arrives at G-7 with a list of grievances
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Washington Post:
Trump ‘hereby’ orders U.S. business out of China. Can he do that?
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Daily Wire and The Mahablog
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Trump has questioned why he must attend G7
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Don Surber, Washington Post and Hot Air
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Haley-Pence rivalry heats up as GOP weighs post-Trump future — When top Republicans convened at the St. Regis resort in Aspen, Colo. last month for an exclusive donor retreat, several attendees said there was palpable tension in the room as the gathering's two headliners prepared to speak …
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New York Times:
Joe Biden, Recalling '68, Asks Audience to Imagine Obama's Assassination — “Imagine what would have happened if, God forbid, Barack Obama had been assassinated after becoming the de facto nominee,” Mr. Biden said, evoking the tumult of 1968. — HANOVER, N.H. — Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr …
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Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
Biden evokes 1968, asks voters to imagine if Obama had been assassinated
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The Daily Caller
Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Evoking 1968 at town hall, Biden asks: What would have happened if Obama had been assassinated?
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Politico, BizPac Review and Mediaite
Mike Baker / New York Times:
How a Bitter Divorce Battle on Earth Led to Claims of a Crime in Space — Summer Worden, a former Air Force intelligence officer living in Kansas, has been in the midst of a bitter separation and parenting dispute for much of the past year. So she was surprised when she noticed …
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Washington Post:
Trump's company could save millions if interest rates fall as he demands — President Trump stands to save millions of dollars annually in interest on outstanding loans on his hotels and resorts if the Federal Reserve lowers rates as he has been demanding, according to public filings and financial experts.
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Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Trump increases tariffs on Chinese goods hours after slamming Fed chief
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Heather Long / Washington Post:
Trump calls the Fed chair an ‘enemy’ after Powell said trade war is ‘turbulent’
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Outside the Beltway, ZeroHedge News and New York Magazine
BuzzFeed News:
Federal Agencies Have Been Sending Employees Links To White Nationalist And Conspiracy Websites For Months — An arm of the Justice Department regularly sent summaries and links to articles from an online white nationalist publication over the last year, a BuzzFeed News investigation has found.
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New York Times:
As Amazon Fires Become Global Crisis, Brazil's President Reverses Course — RIO DE JANEIRO — As an ecological disaster in the Amazon escalated into a global political crisis, Brazil's president, Jair Bolsonaro, took the rare step on Friday of mobilizing the armed forces to help contain blazes of a scale not seen in nearly a decade.
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MSNBC:
Chris Hayes on the inception of white terrorism in America — Chris Hayes explains how white supremacist terrorism is an existential threat to equal and open democracy.
Claire Goforth / The Daily Dot:
Far-right troll Jacob Wohl scammed a Trump fan out of $25,000 (updated) — ‘We got cheated by some 20-year-old kid.’ — Jacob Wohl scarcely goes a month without being implicated in a scam. And his latest is a doozy. — Two men say that his latest target was the Telugu Association of North America …
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Liberty and Slavery Have Always Been Wrapped Up With Each Other — The question of how to work out the relationship between them is fundamental to understanding American history. — I am just one of many contributors to The New York Times Magazine's 1619 Project and can't claim to speak for it.
Associated Press:
This means trade war: Is Trump's economic team up for it? — WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing a trade war against China that has shaken the global economy, President Donald Trump gathered his most trusted economic aides in the Oval Office. — The assembled brain trust for Friday's urgent consultations included …
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Raw Story
New York Times:
Tainted Water, Ignored Warnings and a Boss With a Criminal Past — How a long line of questionable decisions led to the crisis over lead contamination in Newark. — NEWARK — In the year after receiving test results showing alarming levels of lead in this city's drinking water …
Nabih Bulos / Los Angeles Times:
Iraqis, bristling over Israeli airstrike, renew call for U.S. troops to get out — News that Israel was behind airstrikes in Iraq has reinvigorated calls to oust U.S. forces from the country. — A U.S. official confirmed Friday that Israel had struck a base for the Hashd al Shaabi …
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Informed Comment
Megan Greenwell / The Concourse:
The Adults In The Room — There is a version of the story of this company in which idealistic journalists, unconcerned with profit, are posed against ruthless business-doers, concerned about profit above all else. That would be a convenient story, pitching me and my colleagues and friends …
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Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
Harry Enten / CNN:
Six polls and more than 6,000 interviews show Trump's approval dropping — (CNN)First things first: The theme song of the week is the ESPN's SportsCentury. — Poll of the week: A new national CNN/SSRS poll finds that President Donald Trump's approval rating stands at 40%. His disapproval rating is 54%.
Associated Press:
Candidate: Michigan city should be as white ‘as possible’ — MARYSVILLE, Mich. (AP) — A city council candidate in Michigan said Friday she has no plans to end her campaign after shocking a public forum when she said she wants to keep her community white “as much as possible.”
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
How David Koch and His Brother Shaped American Politics — The billionaire, who died Friday, understood the power of changing ‘hearts and minds.’ He spent almost unlimited money on behalf of limited government. — In 1980, David H. Koch, one of the two billionaire industrialist brothers …
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