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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
We Have a Crisis of Democracy, Not Manners  —  Last year, the white nationalist Richard Spencer was kicked out of his Virginia gym after another member confronted him and called him a Nazi.  This incident did not generate a national round of hand-wringing about the death of tolerance …
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Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Roach-Infested Restaurants Are Vile Compared to the Red Hen … President Donald Trump on Monday attacked a rural Virginia restaurant that refused to serve his press secretary over the weekend by criticizing its supposed lack of cleanliness.  —  “The Red Hen Restaurant should focus …
CNN:
Sanders opens briefing with statement about being 86'd from the Red Hen
Tucker Higgins / CNBC:   Trump slams Red Hen for being ‘filthy.’ Inspectors found no violations but Mar-a-Lago was cited 78 times in three years
Henry J. Gomez / BuzzFeed:
Trump Supporters Boo A CNN Reporter, Then Ask Him For Selfies  —  Live from civility night in South Carolina.  —  Reporting From  —  West Columbia, South Carolina  —  Hundreds of President Trump's supporters marched into a high school gymnasium Monday and began blistering their new perceived enemy …
Discussion: The Week and Mediaite
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Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
In South Carolina rally, Trump targets Sanford, McCain and TV comedians  —  WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. — President Trump flew here Monday night ostensibly to urge South Carolina Republicans to vote for Gov. Henry McMaster in the Republican primary Tuesday, repaying a political favor to one of his earliest supporters.
Discussion: Political Wire, Breitbart and ABC News
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The tax bill as a political football  —  ATTN.  PRESIDENT TRUMP ... EVENING STANDARD (U.K.): “TfL Tube strike: Piccadilly Line drivers to strike across FOUR days including during Donald Trump's visit to U.K.”: “London Underground drivers are set to strike across four days …
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Trump Implores Voters to Back South Carolina Governor on Eve of Runoff  —  WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. — President Trump pleaded Monday night with South Carolina Republicans to vote for Gov. Henry McMaster in a runoff election on Tuesday, warning conservatives that if the governor lost …
Bloomberg:
Mueller Poised to Zero In on Trump-Russia Collusion Allegations  — Special counsel to focus once he resolves obstruction inquiry  — The meetings with Russians stretched as far back as 2015  —  Special Counsel Robert Mueller is preparing to accelerate his probe …
Discussion: Political Wire and BloombergQuint
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Lee Smith / RealClearInvestigations:
The Mysterious Seven Preludes of the FBI's Trump-Russia Probe  —  The Federal Bureau of Investigation opened its probe of the Trump campaign after Western intelligence assets and Clinton-affiliated political operatives repeatedly approached the Trump team and evidently tried but failed to damage …
Discussion: The Atlantic
John Solomon / The Hill:
How Comey intervened to kill WikiLeaks' immunity deal  —  One of the more devastating intelligence leaks in American history — the unmasking of the CIA's arsenal of cyber warfare weapons last year — has an untold prelude worthy of a spy novel.  —  Some of the characters are household names, thanks to the Russia scandal: James Comey
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and emptywheel
The Daily Beast:
Fox News Suspends Ex-Trump Aide David Bossie for ‘Cotton-Picking’ Remark … David Bossie, the former deputy campaign manager for Donald Trump and current outside adviser to the president, has been suspended from his contributor gig at Fox News, The Daily Beast has learned.  —  The suspension lasts two weeks.
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Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
With prosecutions of parents suspended, status quo returns at the border
Discussion: Reuters
David Boroff / New York Daily News:
SEE IT: Trump supporter berates landscapers because they're ‘Mexican,’ calls them ‘rapists and animals’  —  A 27-year-old California man and his mother were called “rapists” and “animals” by a Trump supporter while trying to do landscaping work — and video of the exchange has been viewed millions of times online.
Chad Pergram / Fox News:
Intern who cursed at Trump is identified, was suspended but not fired  —  The Congressional intern who hollered “Mr. President, f— you!” across the Capitol Rotunda last week during a presidential visit has been identified.  —  Sources tell Fox News the woman in question is 21-year-old Caitlin Marriott …
New York Times:
Top Tech Companies Met With Intelligence Officials to Discuss Midterms  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Eight of the tech industry's most influential companies, in anticipation of a repeat of the Russian meddling that occurred during the 2016 presidential campaign, met with United States intelligence officials …
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Sometimes it's the crime you didn't commit that nails you  —  That's the theme, or at least the punchline, of Preston Sturges' classic movie “The Great McGinty,” among other works of art.  It may also end up being the kicker in the class action lawsuit against Harvard for discriminating …
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Wesley Yang / New York Times:
Harvard Is Wrong That Asians Have Terrible Personalities
Discussion: National Review
Morgan Lee / Associated Press:
Immigrant parents await word about children's fate  —  EL PASO, Texas (AP) — They came from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, with children in tow.  Some were fleeing violence.  Others were looking for a better life.  —  They didn't know they would be separated from their children …
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New York Times:
What My 6-Year-Old Son and I Endured in Family Detention
Discussion: Daily Kos
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
A Parlor Game at Rebekah Mercer's Has No Get Out of Jail Free Card  —  Members of the right-wing family that helped put Trump in the White House can relive the campaign in an elaborate dinner-party game.  —  Robert Mercer, the New York hedge-fund magnate whose huge donations to pro-Trump groups …
Discussion: Gizmodo and Splinter
Tim Johnson / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Trump foes move toward public shaming even of low-level officials  —  WASHINGTON  —  The public shaming of high-level, widely known Trump administration officials has expanded to the divulging of personal information about rank-and-file government employees who are carrying out President Donald Trump's least popular policies.
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Nolan Finley / Detroit News:
Trump should forget second term  —  President Donald Trump was back on the campaign trail last week, doing what he most loves — tossing red meat to his base.  —  The president was full of himself and bravado, predicting to his Minnesota audience that he'll roar to re-election in 2020.
Jay Rosen / PressThink:
It's time for the press to suspend normal relations with the Trump presidency  —  That is my recommendation.  —  It sometimes happens in diplomacy that one country has to say to another: “This is extreme.  We cannot accept this.  You have gone too far.”  And so it suspends diplomatic relations.
CNN:
Conservatives grumble about House GOP's handling of investigation into FBI  —  (CNN)Last October, two House Republican committee chairmen announced their plans to get to the bottom of the FBI's decision-making in 2016 — namely its handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation.
New York Times:
Democrats Are Turning Out to Vote in the Most Competitive Primary Races  —  In more than 20 of the most competitive House races of 2018, the share of Democrats voting in primaries notably increased, compared with 2014, the last midterm election cycle.  —  Democrats have appeared …
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump's domestic gridlock  —  For President Trump's first term, the domestic agenda appears to be all but over.  Congress has little chance of doing anything notable before the election, beyond confirming judges.  —  Why it matters: Whichever party ekes out a House win in November, the margin will likely be narrow.
Aura Bogado / Reveal:
Doctor giving migrant kids psychotropic drugs lost certification years ago  —  The psychiatrist who has been prescribing powerful psychotropic medications to immigrant children at a federally funded residential treatment center in Texas has practiced without board certification to treat children …
Discussion: Law & Crime
Justin Story / Daily News:
Sen. Paul files civil suit against Boucher  —  U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Bowling Green has filed a lawsuit against the neighbor who admitted to assaulting him in front of his house.  —  In the civil complaint, filed Friday in Warren Circuit Court, the Republican senator seeks an unspecified amount …
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Loyalty to Trump demands a lack of character  —  President Trump's mentor, the colorful controversialist Roy Cohn, once said: “I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves.”  —  If this is Trump's strategy, those who jeered Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
ABC News:
Trump attacks late-night comedians during campaign rally  —  Coming up in the next {{countdown}} {{countdownlbl}}  —  Coming up next:  —  {{nextVideo.title}}  —  {{nextVideo.description}}  —  Skip to this video now  —  Related Extras Related Videos Video Transcript
Discussion: Politico and Breitbart
Jesse J. Holland / Associated Press:
Migrant kids could end up in already strained foster system  —  Foster care advocates say the government won't likely be able to reunite thousands of children separated from parents who crossed the border illegally, and some will end up in an American foster care system that is stacked against Latinos and other minorities.
Melissa Hipolit / WTVR-TV:
Goochland mom shoots man who flew around the world to see her teenage daughter … GOOCHLAND COUNTY, Va. — The FBI is now investigating after a woman shot a New Zealand man outside her Goochland County home Friday afternoon.  —  Troy Skinner, 25, flew to Virginia to meet the woman's teenage daughter …
Discussion: Daily Wire and Breitbart
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
WATCH: CNN's Chris Cuomo call BS on Rick Santorum demanding ‘civility’ while refusing to require it of Trump  —  President Donald Trump's supporters are demanding civility after years of attacking Muslims, Latinos, women, LGBT people, Democrats, people who live in states that didn't vote for him …
Maria Abi-Habib / New York Times:
How China Got Sri Lanka to Cough Up a Port  —  HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka — Every time Sri Lanka's president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, turned to his Chinese allies for loans and assistance with an ambitious port project, the answer was yes.  —  Yes, though feasibility studies said the port wouldn't work.
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
UK democracy under threat and need for reform is urgent, says regulator  —  Electoral Commission asks government to change law after series of online political campaign scandals  —  The Electoral Commission has called for urgent reforms to electoral law after a series of online political campaign scandals …
New York Times:
Sean Spicer Is Testing Out a New Job: TV Talk Show Host  —  Ellen.  Oprah.  —  ... Sean?  —  Sean Spicer, arguably the world's most famous White House press secretary, is developing a talk show with the tentative title of “Sean Spicer's Common Ground,” in which the former spokesman …
Politico:
Grimm's comeback and other big storylines in Tuesday's primaries  —  President Donald Trump backed incumbents over outsiders claiming his mantle, like ex-Rep. Michael Grimm and a South Carolina governor hopeful.  —  Two of Donald Trump's biggest cheerleaders are on the ballot in Tuesday night's marquee primary elections.
Discussion: ABC News and BloombergQuint
New York Times:
The Law Did Not Create This Crisis, but Lawyers Will Help End It  —  Mr. Karp is chairman of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.  Mr. Wingens is chairman and managing partner of Lowenstein Sandler.  —  President Trump's recent executive order ending the unlawful and immoral policy …
 
 
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The Daily Beast:
Detention Camps on Military Bases ‘Smacks of Totalitarianism,’ Troops Say
Discussion: TIME and NPR
Julie Turkewitz / New York Times:
Sleeping on America's Doorstep: A Dispatch From the Border
Emily Rauhala / Washington Post:
‘Hold in your belly . . . legs together’: Chinese college teaches female students to be ‘perfect’
Jen Kirby / Vox:
Trump supporters celebrated the president by paying tribute to North Korea
Andrew Marantz / New Yorker:
How Social-Media Trolls Turned U.C. Berkeley Into a Free-Speech Circus
Discussion: Althouse
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Tehran's Grand Bazaar shuts down as protests mount
 Earlier Items: 
Baltimore Sun:
Maryland voter registration snafu affects 80,000, four times as many as initially announced
Discussion: Axios
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
The U.N. says 18.5 million Americans are in ‘extreme poverty.’ Trump's team says just 250,000 are.
Discussion: Axios
Abby Livingston / The Texas Tribune:
Can a viral video flip a Texas Congressional district? MJ Hegar aims to find out
miamiherald:
A ‘tender age’ shelter for separated children exposes a ‘gut-wrenching’ reality in Miami
Lisa Hagen / The Hill:
GOP candidate: Civil war wasn't about slavery
Discussion: Splinter
Elizabeth Williamson / New York Times:
At a Toast to Trump, the North Korean Anthem Has a Starring Role
 

 
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