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Ginger Thompson / ProPublica:
Listen to Children Who've Just Been Separated From Their Parents at the Border  —  Leer en Español.  —  The desperate sobbing of 10 Central American children, separated from their parents one day last week by immigration authorities at the border, makes for excruciating listening.
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Politico:
Nielsen becomes face of Trump's border separations  —  The Homeland Security secretary has been seen as weak on enforcement, but on Monday she defended decisions that have left kids warehoused on the border.  —  Kirstjen Nielsen, President Donald Trump's secretary of Homeland Security …
Washington Post:
Trump defiant as crisis grows over family separation at the border  —  The Trump administration's move to separate immigrant families at the border and detain children apart from their parents spiraled into a humanitarian and political crisis Monday as the White House struggled to contain the growing public outcry.
Salvador Rizzo / Washington Post:
The facts about Trump's policy of separating families at the border  —  “I hate the children being taken away.  The Democrats have to change their law.  That's their law.”  —  “We have the worst immigration laws in the entire world.  Nobody has such sad, such bad and actually, in many cases …
NBC News:
All four living former first ladies condemn Trump border policy  —  Hillary Clinton denounced the administration for citing the Bible, saying, “Jesus Christ said, ‘Suffer the little children unto me’ not ‘let the little children suffer.’”  —  All four living former first ladies …
Avi Selk / Washington Post:
‘I wanted to stop her crying’: The image of a migrant child that broke a photographer's heart  —  By now, millions of people have seen a photo of a 2-year-old girl screaming while a U.S. border agent pats down her mother.  Taken last Tuesday, the image has become a symbol of the Trump administration's new …
Discussion: Macleans.ca, HuffPost and NPR
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Ex-CIA engineer charged with massive leak to WikiLeaks  —  A former CIA computer engineer has been indicted on charges he masterminded what appears to be the largest leak of classified information in the spy agency's history.  —  Joshua Schulte, 29, was charged in a new grand jury indictment …
Discussion: CNN
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U.S. Department of Justice:
Joshua Adam Schulte Charged With The Unauthorized Disclosure Of Classified Information And Other Offenses Relating To The Theft Of Classified Material From The Central Intelligence Agency  —  Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, John C. Demers …
Discussion: Law & Crime, The Daily Beast and Axios
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Ex-CIA employee charged in major leak of agency hacking tools
Adam Goldman / New York Times:   New Charges in Huge C.I.A. Breach Known as Vault 7
New York Times:
Forget Tax Cuts.  Trump Wants to Rally G.O.P. Base Over Immigration  —  WASHINGTON — As Republicans try to keep their midterm election strategy focused on the economy, tax cuts and falling unemployment, President Trump sent his clearest signal yet on Monday that he intends to make divisive …
Discussion: New Republic
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John Hendel / Politico:
Senate rejects Trump's rescue of Chinese firm ZTE  —  The Senate voted Monday to reimpose the U.S. ban on Chinese telecom giant ZTE, in a rebuke to President Donald Trump and his efforts to keep the company in business.  —  The provision targeting ZTE was part of the National Defense Authorization Act …
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Trump threatens additional tariffs on $200b worth of Chinese goods
Huileng Tan / CNBC:
China says the US ‘has initiated a trade war,’ and Beijing isn't afraid to fight back
Discussion: Reuters, HuffPost and Associated Press
William Wan / Washington Post:
What separation from parents does to children: ‘The effect is catastrophic’  —  This is what happens inside children when they are forcibly separated from their parents.  —  Their heart rate goes up.  Their body releases a flood of stress hormones such as cortisol and adrenaline.
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Linda Qiu / New York Times:   Kirstjen Nielsen Justifies Family Separation by Pointing to Increase in Fraud.  But the Data Is Very Limited.
Adolfo Flores / BuzzFeed:
US Isn't Just Separating Children From Their Parents.  It Also Has No Plan For Reuniting Them.  —  Even after a parent has completed their sentence for illegal entry, the US has no way to ensure that they are reunited with their children while they wait for an immigration judge to rule in their case.
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Wall Street Journal:
U.S., South Korea Cancel Major War Game Planned for August  —  Move comes after President Trump's promise at Singapore summit to halt maneuvers on Korean Peninsula  —  WASHINGTON—The Pentagon said Monday that it had agreed with South Korea to cancel an important military exercise …
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Wichita Eagle:
Judge strikes down Kansas voter law, orders Kobach to take classes  —  TOPEKA  —  A federal judge has struck down a Kansas voter citizenship law that Secretary of State Kris Kobach had personally defended.  —  Judge Julie Robinson also ordered Kobach, who is seeking the Republican nomination for governor …
Mike Morken / valleynewslive.com:
New poll shows close race for U.S. Senate Race in North Dakota  —  (Valley News Live) Fargo An exclusive statewide poll by Valley News Live and Mason-Dixon Polling shows, that not even a week after North Dakota's primary, the race for the U.S. Senate is tightening.
Lora Kolodny / CNBC:
Elon Musk emails employees about ‘extensive and damaging sabotage’ by employee  — Tesla CEO Elon Musk sent an e-mail to all employees on Sunday night alleging there was a saboteur within the company's ranks.  — Musk alleged this employee tweaked code on internal products and sent company data out without authorization.
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Call to suspend Mueller probe was just posturing, Giuliani says  —  President Donald Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani said on Monday that he was actually just bluffing last week when he called for Justice Department leaders to suspend special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation within 24 hours.
Discussion: HuffPost
Steve Hendrix / Washington Post:
Bob Dole's final mission  —  Each Saturday, before Bob Dole sets off on his latest vocation, he has cornflakes, a little sugar on top, and a bottle of chocolate Boost.  —  It takes less time to get dressed now that the 94-year-old finally allows a nurse to help him, but it remains a rough half-hour on a body racked by injury and age.
Victor Balta / The Guardian:
‘Homophobic and not very clever’: why puto chants haunt Mexican football  —  El Tri's victory over Germany on Sunday was marred by alleged homophobic chanting.  It's a common trend across stadiums in the Americas  —  You can say this for Mexican soccer fans: they've managed to turn …
Discussion: NPR, Daily Wire and Reuters
Justin Mattingly / www.richmond.com:
Richmond's J.E.B. Stuart Elementary School — honoring a Confederate — will be renamed for Barack Obama  —  Richmond City Schools Superintendent Jason Kamras (left) and School Board Chair Dawn Page attended the Richmond School Board meeting Monday.  Kamras advised the 2008 Obama campaign on education issues.
Financial Times:
US Senate blocks F-35 sales to Turkey  —  The US Senate has voted to block transfers of the F-35 fighter jet to Turkey, reflecting increasing tension with a key Nato ally, in a move that could ultimately hold up the sale of 100 planes worth close to $10bn.  —  A bipartisan clause added …
 
 
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George Prayias / The Rush Limbaugh Show:
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Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Comey refuses to testify to Congress, Grassley says McCabe pleads Fifth Amendment
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Russia cuts Treasury holdings in half as foreigners start losing appetite for US debt
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Jeremy Raff / The Atlantic:
Watch the U.S. Turn Away Asylum Seekers at the Border
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Spain's new government to remove Franco's remains from mausoleum
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Daniel Horowitz / Conservative Review:
The immorality of the open-borders Left
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Vann R. Newkirk II / The Atlantic:
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Southern Poverty Law Center, Inc. Admits It Was Wrong, Apologizes to Quilliam and Maajid Nawaz …
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