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11:35 AM ET, June 20, 2018

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Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: Youngest migrants held in ‘tender age’ shelters  —  Trump administration officials have been sending babies and other young children forcibly separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border to at least three “tender age” shelters in South Texas, The Associated Press has learned.
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Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
Trump admin's ‘tent cities’ cost more than keeping migrant kids with parents  —  Separating migrant kids from their parents will cost the administration more than placing them in permanent structures or keeping them with their parents.  —  WASHINGTON — The cost of holding migrant children …
The Texas Tribune:
Separated migrant children are headed toward shelters with a history of abuse and neglect  —  Taxpayers have paid more than $1.5 billion to private companies operating shelters accused of serious lapses in care, including neglect and abuse.  —  Taxpayers have paid more than $1.5 billion …
Discussion: The Week
SOM - State of Michigan:
MDCR Statement on President Trump's Zero Tolerance Policy and its Impact on Michigan  —  Contact: Vicki Levengood - levengoodv@michigan.gov, 517-241-7978  —  Lansing, MI-The Michigan Department of Civil Rights today announced that the Department is actively engaged in assessing the impact …
Discussion: Daily Kos, Raw Story and New Republic
Tresa Baldas / Detroit Free Press:
Torn from immigrant parents, 8-month-old baby lands in Michigan  —  The president of the American Academy of Pediatrics says migrant children being separated from their parents at the border are suffering from child abuse.  Veuer's Elizabeth Keatinge has more.  Buzz60  —  CONNECT
Reveal:
Migrant children sent to shelters with histories of abuse allegations  —  Taxpayers have paid more than $1.5 billion in the past four years to private companies operating immigrant youth shelters accused of serious lapses in care, including neglect and sexual and physical abuse, a Reveal investigation has found.
Discussion: The Crime Report
Gus Bova / The Texas Observer:
Texas Officials Allow 15 Immigrant Shelters to Hold More Kids than Licenses Permit
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Off the Kuff
Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
Kirstjen Nielsen heckled by protesters at Mexican restaurant.  Other diners applauded them.  —  Protesters entered a Mexican restaurant in Washington, D.C., Tuesday evening to heckle Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen.  She appeared to sit quietly with her head …
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Sarah Mervosh / New York Times:
Protesters Confront Kirstjen Nielsen at Mexican Restaurant: ‘Shame!’  —  Kirstjen Nielsen, the secretary of homeland security, got an earful while she was eating dinner at a Mexican restaurant in Washington on Tuesday night.  —  With tensions continuing to escalate over the Trump administration's …
Donald Trump / The Guardian:
Trump's family separation policy is as damaging to America as Abu Ghraib
Avery Anapol / The Hill:
Chanting activists confront DHS secretary during dinner at Mexican restaurant
Discussion: TMZ.com, Splinter and MarketWatch
Metro D.C. Democratic Socialists of America:
#abolishice
Philip Pullella / Reuters:
Exclusive: Pope criticizes Trump administration policy on migrant family separation  —  VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis has criticized the Trump administration's policy of separating migrant families at the Mexican border, saying populism is not the answer to the world's immigration problems.
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Judith Vonberg / CNN:
Pope criticizes Trump administration over migrant family separations
Discussion: KTLA
Wall Street Journal:
Michael Cohen Wants Trump to Pay His Legal Fees  —  Former personal lawyer for Trump hires New York attorney Guy Petrillo  —  Michael Cohen has hired New York lawyer Guy Petrillo to represent him in a federal investigation into his business dealings, and has told associates he wants President Donald Trump …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and HuffPost
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Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
‘Nasty guy’: Trump attacks critic, touts accomplishments in House GOP meeting on immigration  —  Rep. Mark Sanford was at the airport in Charleston, S.C., for four hours of “airplane hell” when President Trump veered from his speech on immigration to the South Carolina Republican.
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The Guardian:
US lobbyist for Russian oligarch visited Julian Assange nine times last year  —  It is unclear whether Adam Waldman's 2017 visits had connection to Oleg Deripaska  —  A longtime US lobbyist for the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska visited Julian Assange nine times at the Ecuadorian embassy …
CNN:
What Trump supporters think of family separations at the border  —  Mesa, Arizona (CNN)As the Trump administration has ramped up the practice of separating children from their parents at the border with no clear plan for reuniting them, critics have been unsparing, calling it “government-sanctioned child abuse.”
Lisa Hagen / The Hill:
Poll: McSally holds 14-point lead in Arizona GOP Senate primary  —  (R-Ariz.) surged into first place with a commanding 14-point lead in Arizona's closely watched GOP Senate primary, according to a new poll.  —  A poll conducted by Phoenix-based OH Predictive Insights (OHPI) …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Sophie Tatum / CNN:
Corey Lewandowski on undocumented child with Down syndrome separated from mother: ‘Womp womp’  —  Washington (CNN)Corey Lewandowski dismissed the story of a 10-year-old girl with Down syndrome who was reportedly separated from her mother after crossing the border illegally.
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New York Times:
F.B.I. Agents Gave Trump a Weapon Against Mueller.  Republicans Are Wielding It.  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's congressional allies trained their fire on the special counsel investigation on Tuesday, armed anew with a damaging report showing that the lead F.B.I. agent assigned …
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
‘Kangaroo court’: Giuliani says he would be crazy to let Trump be interviewed by Mueller's team
Discussion: Althouse
Washington Post:
Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, former archbishop of Washington, has been removed from ministry after a sex abuse allegation  —  The former archbishop of Washington, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, has been removed from ministry in response to allegations that he sexually abused a teen 50 years ago while he was a priest in New York.
Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
In Trump's world, morality is for losers  —  “Virtue-signaling” is a snide little phrase that people vaguely of the “right” invented to tease people vaguely of the “left.”  Like “limousine liberal” or “champagne socialist,” it implies insincerity and self-righteousness.
Discussion: AOL and America's Voice
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
President Trump seems to be saying more and more things that aren't true  —  He's done it on Twitter.  He's done it in the White House driveway.  And he's done it in a speech to a business group.  —  President Trump — a man already known for trafficking in mistruths and even outright lies …
Discussion: Washington Monthly, Raw Story and Vox
New York Times:
Outside Trump Hotel, an Uproar.  Inside, a Calm Sea of Conservative Cash.  —  WASHINGTON — To anyone with even a cursory relationship to television or social media, a charged and emotional battle over the Trump administration's approach to immigration seems to have seeped into every dimension of American life.
Discussion: Breitbart
Axios:
Trump “boxed in,” won't back down on family separation  —  Speaking to House Republicans at the Capitol last evening, President Trump admitted the political pressure over family separations at the border is growing.  But a top aide said Trump “doesn't want to look weak” by backing down.
Discussion: AOL
Jeff Sessions / USA Today:
We don't want to separate parents from kids  —  What we want is a safe, lawful system of immigration.  We want to build a wall to prevent illegal entry.  Congress could make that happen quickly: Opposing view  —  CONNECT  —  Some years ago, it was decided that law enforcement might arrest adults …
Discussion: CNN
Hunter Walker / Yahoo:
Businesses have made millions off Trump's child separation policy  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's controversial child separation policy is being carried out with the help of private businesses who have received millions of dollars in government contracts to help run the shelters …
Discussion: Splinter and miamiherald
Douglas Hanks / miamiherald:
Eileen Higgins wins Miami-Dade commission seat in upset over Zoraida Barreiro  —  Political newcomer Eileen Higgins won a seat on the Miami-Dade County Commission on Tuesday, defeating the better-funded campaign of the former commissioner's wife to scramble the conventional wisdom …
Discussion: Washington Press
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Schumer rejects GOP proposal to address border crisis  —  Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer  —  (N.Y.) on Tuesday dismissed a legislative proposal backed by Republican leaders to keep immigrant families together at the border, arguing that President Trump  —  could fix the problem more easily with a flick of his pen.
Politico:
Democratic candidates vow to dump Pelosi  —  A growing number of hopefuls say they won't back her for speaker if Democrats win the House.  Pelosi has little margin for error.  —  Clarke Tucker's first general election ad for an Arkansas-based House race tries to defuse one of the GOP's most potent attacks …
John Schwartz / New York Times:
New Group, With Conservative Credentials, Plans Push for a Carbon Tax  —  Proponents of a market-oriented plan to fight climate change by taxing greenhouse gas emissions and giving the revenue to American taxpayers are starting a campaign to run advertisements as early as this fall …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Instapundit
Jacob Magid / The Times of Israel:
Jewish extremists taunt 'Ali's on the grill' at slain toddler's relatives  —  Two dozen far-right protesters shout outside courtroom in support of Duma terror attack perpetrators; relatives slam police for letting abusive chorus continue unabated  —  Far-right activists chanted slogans cheering …
Discussion: middleeastmonitor.com
Wall Street Journal:
Germany's Largest Auto Makers Back Abolition of EU-U.S. Car Import Tariffs  —  The U.S. ambassador to Germany is expected to relay the industry offer in meetings with Trump administration  —  BERLIN—When the U.S. ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, returns to Washington for consultation …
New York Times:
Merkel and Macron Try to Save European Union, and Themselves  —  BERLIN — It was supposed to be the day when President Emmanuel Macron of France received a long-awaited response from Germany on his big ideas on how to rekindle Europe as a force for liberalism in the world.  —  And he did, sort of.
 
 
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Matthew Walther / The Week:
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Connor Sheets / al.com:
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Discussion: Raw Story
Alex Emmons / The Intercept:
Democratic Megadonor Haim Saban Attacks Senators for Urging Humanitarian Aid to Gaza Strip
Ruth Graham / Slate:
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Discussion: The Atlantic
Jonathan Stearns / Bloomberg:
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Emily Crane / Associated Press:
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Discussion: Daily Wire
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