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Daily Mail:
Denis Javier Varela Hernandez (far right) spoke out about his wife Sandra and daughter, Yanela  —  Two-year-old Yanela, a Honduran asylum seeker, has become the face of the child separation crisis after she was photographed crying in McAllen, Texas, as Border Control agents searched her mother
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Gustavo Palencia / Reuters:
Father says little Honduran girl on Time cover was not taken from mother  —  TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - The Honduran toddler pictured sobbing in a pink jacket before U.S. President Donald Trump on an upcoming cover of Time magazine was not separated from her mother at the U.S. border, according to a man who says he is the girl's father.
Discussion: Washington Post
Daniel Bates / Daily Mail:
Latest From MailOnline … - Denis Javier Varela Hernandez spoke …
Brad Heath / USA Today:
Trump administration's ‘zero tolerance’ border prosecutions led to time served, $10 fees
Discussion: Law & Crime
Richard Marosi / Los Angeles Times:
What family separation looks like: Guatemalan man is deported, while his 6-year-old daughter …
Discussion: The Guardian
Adam Bernstein / Washington Post:
Charles Krauthammer, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and intellectual provocateur, dies at 68  —  Charles Krauthammer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post columnist and intellectual provocateur who championed the muscular foreign policy of neoconservatism that helped lay the ideological groundwork …
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Elizabeth Llorente / Fox News:
Charles Krauthammer, conservative commentator and Pulitzer Prize winner, dead at 68  —  Charles Krauthammer, a longtime Fox News contributor, Pulitzer Prize winner, Harvard-trained psychiatrist and best-selling author who came to be known as the dean of conservative commentators, has died.  He was 68.
Washington Post:
Things that matter, in the words of Charles Krauthammer
Discussion: KTLA
George F. Will / Washington Post:
The Charles Krauthammer I knew
Ben Shapiro / Daily Wire:
IN MEMORIAM: Charles Krauthammer
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Trump to GOP: Wait until after midterms to pass immigration bill  —  As House Republicans scramble for votes on its comprehensive immigration bill, President Trump tweeted Friday that Republicans should “stop wasting their time” and punt the immigration fight to after the midterms.
Kevin Sieff / Washington Post:
The chaotic effort to reunite immigrant parents with their separated kids  —  BROWNSVILLE, Tex. — Each of the mothers had a different memory of the moment she was separated from her child.  —  For some, it was outside a Border Patrol station just north of the Rio Grande, shortly after being apprehended.
Discussion: New Yorker, Shareblue Media and Vox
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Amanda Schaffer / New Yorker:
A Physician in South Texas on an Unnerving Encounter with an Eight-Year-Old Boy in Immigration Detention  —  Alicia Hart has worked as an emergency physician in South Texas for ten years, and has seen a stream of migrant children from Guatemala and Honduras come to the U.S. fleeing gang violence.
Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Border Patrol will stop referring migrant parents who cross into the U.S. illegally with children …
Matthew Fleischer / Los Angeles Times:
Crisis actor spotted at Texas child migrant detention center
Washington Post:
Pentagon asked to make room for 20,000 migrant children on military bases
Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
National Enquirer sent stories about Trump to his attorney Michael Cohen before publication, people familiar with the practice say  —  During the presidential campaign, National Enquirer executives sent digital copies of the tabloid's articles and cover images related to Donald Trump …
Paul Wood / Spectator:
What does the British government know about Trump and Russia? … When the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu visited London in 1978, the British government did some serious sucking up.  Ceausescu was an egomaniac and possibly crazy.  When he went hunting outside Bucharest …
Discussion: Raw Story and Coffee House
New York Times:
Behind Trump's Plan to Overhaul the Government: Scaling Back the Safety Net  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump, spurred on by conservatives who want him to slash safety net programs, unveiled on Thursday a plan to overhaul the federal government that could have a profound effect on millions of poor and working-class Americans.
Ginger Thompson / ProPublica:
For a 6-Year-Old Snared in the Immigration Maze, a Memorized Phone Number Proves a Lifeline  —  As the U.S. attempts to reunite migrant families, children will bear the burden of helping to identify who and where their parents are.  The 6-year-old girl heard asking to call her aunt …
Discussion: NPR
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Peter Strzok Has Lost His Security Clearance, Says Jeff Sessions  —  Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Thursday that former FBI official Peter Strzok has lost his security clearance amid an internal disciplinary review.  —  “Mr. Strzok, as I understand, has lost his security clearance,” Sessions told radio host Howie Carr.
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Joe Scarborough / Washington Post:
The most damning element of this tragic American tale  —  There was a time when conservatives supported limited government, balanced budgets and less debt.  Not so long ago, conservatives also championed free trade, lower tariffs and the spread of democratic institutions across Europe and the world.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Politico:
Young Trumpies Hit D.C.  —  ... And D.C. hits them right back.  —  When Matt Mowers moved to Washington in November 2016, he wasn't expecting a hero's welcome.  The young political operative had worked for Donald Trump's campaign in New York, where you can hardly walk down the block …
Amber Jamieson / BuzzFeed:
The Heartbreaking Case Of The Three-Year-Old Boy In Immigration Court  —  “What is your name?” the judge asked.  “Es un avion!”  — it's a plane, Roger responded, pointing to a picture book.  —  Reporting From  —  EL PASO — The two little boys squeezed next to each other on the studded leather chair …
Callie Ferguson / Bangor Daily News:
Border patrol agents arrest 1 at I-95 checkpoint about citizenship  —  A checkpoint set up by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents Wednesday on Interstate 95 led to the arrest of a fugitive Haitian immigrant who previously was ordered to be deported.  —  The random checkpoint …
Discussion: Vox, Raw Story and Hullabaloo
Bruce Schlesman / Judicial Watch:
Judicial Watch Obtains IRS Documents Revealing McCain's Subcommittee Staff Director Urged IRS to Engage in “Financially Ruinous” Targeting  —  McCain minority staff director Henry Kerner to IRS official Lois Lerner and other IRS  —  officials: “the solution is to audit so many that it becomes financially ruinous”
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Trump's Cynical Immigration Strategy Might Work for Him—Again  —  The lesson Trump learned was not that saying shocking, untrue, and arguably racist things about immigrants was politically dangerous but that doing so helped him become President.  —  On Sunday, June 3rd, Senator Jeff Merkley …
Tim Arango / New York Times:
Who Is Dolly Gee, the Judge Deciding the Fate of Trump's Executive Order?  —  LOS ANGELES — Judge Dolly M. Gee has called the treatment of immigrant children in detention “deplorable” in a legal opinion.  She has castigated the federal government for “fear mongering” when it argued …
Discussion: The Daily Signal and Reuters
Diana Stancy Correll / Washington Examiner:
Consumer bureau setup defies Constitution, federal judge rules  —  The structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is unconstitutional, according to federal district Judge Loretta Preska of the Southern District of New York.  —  Preska ruled Thursday that having the agency's setup …
Emily Holden / Politico:
New Pruitt question: Where are his emails?  —  The EPA administrator wrote only one email in 10 months to anyone outside the agency, if the official paper trail is to be believed.  Watchdog groups don't believe it.  —  An examination of Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt's …
Daily Mail:
Melania Trump wears $39 jacket with 'I REALLY DON'T CARE, DO U?' scrawled across the back as she boards a plane to visit immigrant children being held at the Texas border  — The first lady wore the khaki green Zara jacket upon arrival at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland but changed before she disembarked the plane in Texas
The White House:
Remarks by President Trump at Cabinet Meeting  —  THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody.  Thank you very much for being here.  It's a Cabinet meeting, and we have plenty of things to discuss and plenty of success.  We've had a tremendous amount of success.  —  We're working, however …
Alex Silverman / WCBS Newsradio 880:
EXCLUSIVE: Emails Reveal Effort to Disown Stonewall Pride Flag By Trump Administration Official  —  As they march through America's national monument to LGBT rights near the end of this weekend's Pride parade, tens of thousands will pass a flag that, at a glance, is just like countless others.
Washington Post:
Where are the migrant child facilities?  Scattered across America  —  This is a developing story.  This page will be updated.  —  President Trump has signed an executive order to halt the family separation process he created, but at least 2,500 children have already been taken from their parents …
Discussion: Axios
New York Times:
For Democrats Challenging Party Incumbents, Insurgency Has Its Limits  —  For Suraj Patel, running for Congress against an entrenched incumbent has led to some awkward and unexpected moments.  —  Elected officials have asked him to delete their pictures from his campaign's Facebook page.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Callum Borchers / Washington Post:
Charles Krauthammer inspired journalists with disabilities, including me  —  Charles Krauthammer's physical disability is “far from the first thing that comes to mind” when Wall Street Journal education reporter Michelle Hackman thinks of him.  Then again, Hackman told me recently …
Ana Marie Cox / Rolling Stone:
A Night Among the Trump Believers Way Up North  —  The president's Wednesday night rally in Duluth proved the more things change, the more they stay the same  —  Minnesota's lonely island of electoral blue in the midst of Donald Trump's upper Midwest Republican bloodbath was on the minds …
Discussion: Crooked Media
Alex Shephard / New Republic:
From City Hall to the White House  —  It's invisible primary season— the time when candidates begin launching book tours, jockeying for endorsements, and locking down political strategists—and the mayors of some of America's most liberal cities have begun making pilgrimages to Iowa.
Tina Moore / New York Post:
Alyssa Milano offers to foster migrant children brought to NYC  —  Actress Alyssa Milano wants to take in one of the hundreds of immigrant children housed in foster care facilities in Harlem, who were torn from their parents under President Trump's “zero tolerance” immigration policy.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Gabriela Galindo / Politico:
Salvini: Malta must take in ‘outlaw’ migrant vessel  —  Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini on Friday called on Malta to take in a rescue vessel carrying more than 200 migrants, and insisted the NGO-operated ship be impounded and its crew detained.  —  “For the safety of the crew …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Return of the Blood Libel  —  The speed of America's moral descent under Donald Trump is breathtaking.  In a matter of months we've gone from a nation that stood for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness to a nation that tears children from their parents and puts them in cages.
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
All Politics Is Trump  —  Column: The only issue on the ballot this November?
Discussion: Daily Wire
John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Lindsey Graham, team player.
James Hill / ABC News:
Hundreds of separated migrant families reunited
Gabriela Galindo / Politico:
Rage in Spain after ‘wolf pack’ set free
Sarah Stillman / New Yorker:
Trump's Executive Order Creates a New Border Crisis
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
We Owe Central American Migrants Much More Than This
Discussion: The Daily Beast and AOL
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Jack Healy / New York Times:
No Relief in Sight for Parents of Thousands of Migrant Children Still in Custody
Discussion: Houston Chronicle and HuffPost
Clay Travis / Outkick the Coverage:
Kevin McHale Under Fire For Attending Donald Trump Rally
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Our Real Immigration Problem
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The Natural Gas Industry Has a Leak Problem
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