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Trump is removing US Secret Service director — (CNN)United States Secret Service director Randolph “Tex” Alles is being removed from his position, multiple administration officials tell CNN. — President Donald Trump instructed his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, to fire Alles.
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Trump pushed to close El Paso border, told admin officials to resume family separations and agents not to admit migrants — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump has been pushing to reinstate broader family separation policies and sought to close the US-Mexico border at El Paso, Texas …
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Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
Grassley warns White House not to oust any more top immigration officials — The most senior Senate Republican is warning the White House not to oust another top immigration official, making appeals to the administration against dismissing Lee Francis Cissna, the director of U.S. Citizenship …
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New York Times:
Trump Purge Set to Force Out More Top Homeland Security Officials — WASHINGTON — President Trump moved to clear out the senior ranks of the Department of Homeland Security on Monday, a day after forcing the resignation of its secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, as he accelerated a purge of the nation's immigration and security leadership.
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Cancel Kirstjen Nielsen — Her role in terrorizing children should make her a permanent pariah. — On Sunday evening, news broke that Kirstjen Nielsen was leaving her job as head of the Department of Homeland Security. The New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman tweeted that according …
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Melanie Zanona / Politico:
Trump's DHS purge floors Republicans — President Donald Trump's congressional allies are alarmed by his purge at the Department of Homeland Security — urging him not to fire more top officials and warning him how hard it will be to solve twin crises at the border and the federal agencies overseeing immigration policy.
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‘She lies to everyone’: Feds say Mar-a-Lago intruder had hidden-camera detector in hotel — Trump Tourism: Access for Sale — The Miami Herald is investigating how U.S. President Donald J. Trump has become a favorite target of a little-known Chinese industry peddling access to the rich and powerful.
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New York Times:
Trump Signals Even Fiercer Immigration Agenda, With a Possible Return of Family Separations — WASHINGTON — President Trump's purge of the nation's top homeland security officials is a sign that he is preparing to unleash an even fiercer assault on immigration, including a possible return …
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Maria Sacchetti / Washington Post:
Federal judge blocks Trump administration program forcing asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while awaiting court hearings — A federal judge on Monday blocked an experimental Trump administration policy that requires asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their cases make their way through …
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Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Who Is Left to Say No to Trump? — Kirstjen Nielsen is the latest one out of the president's spiraling cabinet who expressed his cruelty but wouldn't go as far as he wanted. — There's no reason to mourn Kirstjen Nielsen's departure from the Department of Homeland Security.
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New York Times:
More Top Homeland Security Officials Set to Leave in Trump Purge
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Emily Singer / Shareblue Media:
Trump puts Muslim ban author Stephen Miller ‘in charge’ of immigration
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Sudhin Thanawala / Associated Press:
Judge blocks Trump's asylum policy but delays enforcement
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Kirstjen Nielsen's legacy of cruelty and incompetence is sealed
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Los Angeles Times:
Trump aide Stephen Miller ‘going to clean house’ as immigration policy hardens
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Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
Push to Obtain Trump's N.Y. Tax Returns Wins Cuomo's Support — [What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] — For more than two years, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has railed against President Trump, attacking his policies on everything from immigration …
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Lawrence H. Summers / Washington Post:
The IRS chief must release Trump's tax returns — and Mnuchin must not stop him — Lawrence H. Summers is a professor at and past president of Harvard University. He was treasury secretary from 1999 to 2001 and an economic adviser to President Barack Obama from 2009 through 2010.
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Trump's tax return scam has taken yet another turn — While the best con is one in which the victim never even realizes they got scammed, that can seldom be guaranteed. So the con artist needs a final argument to make to their mark if they get confronted, and the one they often use goes as follows: Sure, I conned you.
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Fox News:
Nunes files $150M lawsuit against McClatchy, alleging conspiracy to derail Clinton, Russia probes — House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes filed a $150 million lawsuit in Virginia state court against The McClatchy Company and others on Monday, alleging that one of the news …
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Frances Robles / New York Times:
Chinese Woman Arrested at Mar-a-Lago Had a Hidden Camera Detector, Prosecutors Say — WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The Chinese woman who was arrested after gaining entry to President Trump's private club had a device used to detect hidden cameras and a large amount of cash in her Palm Beach hotel room …
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At Trump's Florida Resort Empire, a Quiet Effort to Eliminate an Undocumented Work Force
Paul McLeod / BuzzFeed News:
Republicans Are Warning Drug Companies Not To Cooperate With A Congressional Investigation — WASHINGTON — In an unusual move, House Republicans are warning drug companies against complying with a House investigation into drug prices. — Republicans on the House Oversight Committee sent letters …
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Victoria Guida / Politico:
Trump's Fed threats meet a firewall: GOP lawmakers — GOP lawmakers have given in to President Donald Trump on almost every contentious issue, but they're quietly breaking from him on one front that has drawn the president's repeated ire: the Federal Reserve.
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Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Herman Cain and Stephen Moore follow Trump's lazy conspiracy theorizing
Roll Call:
Only 15 Mainers gave $200 or more to Susan Collins — Maine Sen. Susan Collins, one of the most vulnerable Republican senators in 2020, raised more than $1.1 million in itemized contributions during the first three months of the year. But less than 1 percent of that money came from her home state.
Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Biden support stays solid in early states — Sam Lieberman, former chairman of the Nevada Democratic Party, has a framed picture in his office of Joe Biden. In the photo, taken sometime during Biden's short-lived 2008 presidential campaign, Biden is standing behind Lieberman and kissing his scalp.
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Tara Golshan / Vox:
Rep. Eric Swalwell, a California Democrat, is running for president — He joins a crowded presidential primary, potentially bolstered by his role on the House Intelligence Committee investigating Trump. — Avid followers of cable news Trump-Russia coverage are probably at least acquainted …
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New York Times:
Sanctions Deal With Russian Oligarch Included Transfer of Shares to Benefit His Children — WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department allowed the influential Russian oligarch Oleg V. Deripaska to satisfy the terms of his divorce by transferring tens of millions of dollars in stock to benefit …
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Private-equity firm Great Hill Partners has agreed to acquire Gizmodo Media Group from Univision Communications Inc., the companies said, ending the Spanish-language broadcaster's foray into English-language digital media. — James Spanfeller, the former chief executive of Forbes.com …
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CNN:
House Intelligence chair throws cold water on Cohen's bid for help delaying prison term — Washington (CNN)House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff is signaling he has no intention of helping Michael Cohen's quest to delay his upcoming three-year prison sentence after attorneys …
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Beth Van Schaack / Just Security:
BREAKING: Sri Lankan Presidential Hopeful Sued in Federal Court for Human Rights Violations — Human rights lawyers have sued Sri Lankan presidential hopeful Gotabaya Rajapaksa in federal court in the Central District of California. Rajapaksa, who is a joint Sri Lankan-U.S. citizen …
Washington Post:
'I've been battling Nadler for years': Feud between Trump, Democrat rooted in decades-old New York real estate project — Assembling a group of House Republicans at the White House to talk trade last month, President Trump suddenly launched into a tirade about the congressman leading …
Dell Cameron / Gizmodo:
Chelsea Manning's FBI Files Are Central to Ongoing Criminal Proceedings, Bureau Claims — The Federal Bureau of Investigation is refusing to make public any records it has amassed on whistleblower Chelsea Manning, even though the former U.S. Army intelligence analyst waived her rights under …
Clare Malone / FiveThirtyEight:
A Tale Of Two Suburbs — I grew up at the top of a hill on the east bank of a river that burned.16 That determined so much. — My maternal grandparents bought the house where I grew up in 1949. They were the rare Catholics in Shaker Heights, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland …
Zack Budryk / The Hill:
Sanders calls for ban on state right-to-work laws — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who's vying for the Democratic nomination for president, called for a federal ban on so-called right-to-work laws in a Monday speech. — Speaking to the International Association of Machinists at the union's conference …
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Chantal Da Silva / Newsweek:
Barack Obama Says Not ‘Everyone Who Is Disturbed by Migration’ Can Be Branded ‘Racist’ — As President Donald Trump doubled down on his threats to close the southern border off to asylum seekers over the weekend, his predecessor, Barack Obama, was thousands of miles across the Atlantic …
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