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The Guardian:
Arron Banks ‘met Russian officials multiple times before Brexit vote’ — Arron Banks, the millionaire businessman who bankrolled Nigel Farage's campaign to quit the EU, had multiple meetings with Russian embassy officials in the run-up to the Brexit referendum, documents seen by the Observer suggest.
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Email trail shows how Arron Banks and Andy Wigmore were cultivated — September 2015 Ukip holds its annual conference at Doncaster racecourse. Alexander Udod, a Russian diplomat, is there. — Udod contacts Arron Banks and says Alexander Yakovenko, the Russian ambassador, “would be happy to invite you for lunch at his residence”.
BBC:
Leave.EU ‘downplayed Russian links’ — The founder of Leave.EU, Arron Banks, has confirmed he will appear before MPs this week to answer new allegations about his links with Russia. — It has been reported that Mr Banks, who bankrolled the unofficial leave campaign, had more contact …
Ashish Kumar Sen / Atlantic Council:
Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats: Russia is Attempting to Influence US Midterms, Divide Transatlantic Alliance — Russia is attempting to influence the midterm elections in the United States in November as well as divide the transatlantic alliance, US Director …
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New York Times:
Trump's Blasts Upend G-7, Alienating Oldest Allies — WASHINGTON — Shortly before leaving the annual meeting of major world powers on Saturday, President Trump boasted that it had been “tremendously successful” and that on a scale of 0 to 10, “the relationship is a 10.”
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Jennifer Hansler / CNN:
Trump again calls for readmitting Russia to G7, blames Obama for Crimea's annexation
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RedState, Axios, Washington Monthly, AOL and Quartz
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Trump Says U.S. Will No Longer Be 'Piggy Bank That Everybody's Robbing'
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Axios:
Scoop: Trump open to U.S. embassy in Pyongyang, North Korea — President Trump is willing to consider establishing official relations with North Korea and even eventually putting an embassy in Pyongyang, according to two sources familiar with preparations for the Singapore summit.
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Washington Post, ThinkProgress, Politico, Political Wire, Reuters, One America News Network and Raw Story
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Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
North Korea's Kim Jong Un arrives in Singapore for historic summit with Trump
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The Daily Caller, One America News Network and TheDrive
Mark Landler / New York Times:
Meeting With Kim Tests Trump's Dealmaking Swagger
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FiveThirtyEight, Lawyers, Guns & Money and France 24
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Trump says he'll size up Kim Jong Un ‘within the first minute’ of Singapore summit
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Politico, Breitbart and One America News Network
David Frum / The Atlantic:
Trump Goes to War Against the Democracies — “He's like Heath Ledger's Joker—but without the operational excellence.” That was the grim after-action assessment of one senior G7 official with whom I spoke in the shocked aftermath of President Donald Trump's savage post-summit tweets.
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Eliza Collins / USA Today:
German Chancellor Merkel's stare down photo sums up Trump's time at G-7
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BuzzFeed, Splinter and Washington Post
New York Times:
Turning Affluent Suburbs Blue Isn't Worth the Cost — Ms. Geismer is the author of “Don't Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party.” Mr. Lassiter is the author of “The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South.”
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Washington Monthly and Outside the Beltway
John Paul Tasker / CBC News:
Trump demands Canada dismantle supply management or risk trading relationship — 'We don't want to pay anything, why should we pay anything?' Trump says of Canadian tariffs on dairy products — U.S. President Donald Trump says Canada will have to dismantle its supply-managed dairy system …
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Power Line, BuzzFeed, The White House, The Daily Caller and Mother Jones
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Washington Post:
Why can't we hate men? — Suzanna Danuta Walters, a professor of sociology and director of the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Northeastern University, is the editor of the gender studies journal Signs. — It's not that Eric Schneiderman (the now-former …
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Washington Post:
‘They just took them?’ Frantic parents separated from their kids fill courts on the border — By Michael E. Miller June 9 at 6:44 PM Email the author — MCALLEN, Texas — The words “all rise” were still ringing in the brightly lit South Texas courtroom last week when Peter E. Ormsby slipped unceremoniously into his seat.
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Liz Robbins / New York Times:
Judge Stops Deportation of a New York Pizza Delivery Man — A federal judge in Manhattan on Saturday temporarily halted the deportation of a New York pizza delivery man at least until a court hearing on July 20. — The judge, Alison J. Nathan, of Federal District Court in New York …
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Sean Rossman / USA Today:
USA TODAY foreign affairs reporter Oren Dorell killed in hit-and-run — Oren Dorell, a former construction contractor who became a globe-trotting foreign affairs reporter for USA TODAY, died Friday evening in Washington D.C. He was 53. — Dorell was hit by a suspected impaired driver while riding his motorcycle.
Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal:
Jayapal Goes Inside Federal Detention Center to Meet With Asylum-Seeking Women: “The mothers could not stop crying” — SEATTLE, WA - Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, member of the House Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement after demanding and being given access to the Federal Detention Center …
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