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Molly Hennessy-Fiske / Los Angeles Times:
Was a breastfeeding infant really taken from an immigrant mother?  The answer to this and other questions about families separated at the border  —  Last month, U.S. Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions announced the Trump administration's “zero tolerance” policy of charging migrants in federal criminal court …
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Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
PHOTOS: Inside Shelter for Illegal Alien Children Separated from Parents  —  The Department of Health and Human Services hosted Breitbart News and other media on a tour of a facility in El Cajon, California, on Friday where migrant children are being sheltered after being separated from their parents.
Joel Rose / NPR:
Doctors Concerned About ‘Irreparable Harm’ To Separated Migrant Children  —  In South Texas, pediatricians started sounding the alarm weeks ago as migrant shelters began filling up with younger children separated from their parents after they crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally.
Washington Post:
Trump cites as a negotiating tool his policy of separating immigrant children from their parents
Discussion: The Week and Associated Press
CNN:   DHS: 2,000 kids separated from parents at border over 6 week period
BBC:   US child migrants: 2,000 separated from families in six weeks
Rob Rogers / New York Times:
I Was Fired for Making Fun of Trump  —  Mr. Rogers joined The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette as an editorial cartoonist in 1993.  He worked there until this week.  In 1999, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.  —  After 25 years as the editorial cartoonist for The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, I was fired on Thursday.
Chris Sommerfeldt / New York Daily News:
Rudy Giuliani says Mueller probe ‘might get cleaned up’ with ‘presidential pardons’ in light of Paul Manafort going to jail  —  In one of his most forceful attacks on the special counsel yet, Rudy Giuliani on Friday claimed the Russia investigation could get “cleaned up” …
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Aris Folley / The Hill:
Watergate prosecutor says Manafort may never again ‘see the outside of a jail cell’  —  Former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman said on Friday that Paul Manafort  —  may never again “see the outside of a jail cell” after his house arrest arrangement was revoked on Friday.  —  President Trump
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Washington Post:
Ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort ordered to jail over witness-tampering charges …
Discussion: The Week, Raw Story, CNBC and Mediaite
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Viva le resistance: How political bias infected FBI Trump, Clinton probes  —  It didn't take long for defenders of the FBI's Trump-Russia investigation to claim that the Justice Department inspector general's report found no bias in the bureau's conduct of the Hillary Clinton email investigation …
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New York Times:   Trump Has a Few Things He'd Like to Get Off His Chest
Ruby Samuels / pluralist:
Canada Might Sanction Trump By Going After His Administration Rather Than the American People  —  “I fear President Trump has put us in that position.”  —  Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said Tuesday that she is open to using a law normally reserved for leaders responsible …
Discussion: The Hill
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Bob Fredericks / New York Post:
Trump told Shinzo Abe he'd ship 25 million Mexicans to Japan  —  President Donald Trump stunned his fellow world leaders at the G7 meeting when he said he would ship “25 million” Mexicans to Japan, which would result in Prime Minister Shinzo Abe losing his next election.
John Carreyrou / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Files Criminal Charges Against Theranos's Elizabeth Holmes, Ramesh Balwani  —  Indictments allege leaders of blood-testing company defrauded investors, doctors and patients  —  Federal prosecutors filed criminal charges against Theranos Inc. founder Elizabeth Holmes …
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Problems at the Justice Department and FBI Are Serious  —  And they won't be solved by whining about criticism.  —  What do you do with an FBI agent, sworn to uphold the law, who flagrantly violates the law in a rogue investigation aimed at making a name for himself by bringing down some high-profile targets?
Discussion: Chicago Boyz
Washington Post:
After forging new ties with North Korea, Trump administration turns to Russia  —  Days after a historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the Trump administration is forging ahead with new engagements with another longtime adversary: Russia.  —  President Trump is expected to meet …
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Nora Gámez Torres / miamiherald:   Trump is willing to negotiate with North Korea — but not Cuba
Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:
FBI recovers WhatsApp, Signal data stored on Michael Cohen's BlackBerry  —  Letter to judge reveals 731 pages of messages, call logs uncovered on one of two phones.  —  In a letter to the presiding judge in the case against Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's long-time personal attorney …
Discussion: Gizmodo and Law & Crime
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Frances Stead Sellers / Washington Post:
Cohen looks to force Michael Avenatti to stop talking about Stormy Daniels case
Discussion: ABC News, Politico, Daily Kos and Mediaite
Johnny Oleksinski / New York Post:
‘Gotti’ flick is the worst mob movie of all-time … I'd rather wake up next to a severed horse head than ever watch “Gotti” again.  —  The worst movie of the year so far, the long-awaited biopic about the Gambino crime boss' rise from made man to top dog took four directors, 44 producers and eight years to make.
Ottawa Citizen:
How quickly could Canada build an atomic bomb?  —  We've got the uranium, the know-how and a sudden desire to be respected by our nearest neighbour  —  NOTE: Just to be clear, all sources quoted in this story think a Canadian nuclear bomb is an unbelievably terrible idea that is bad for everyone in almost every way.
Philip T. Hackney / New York Times:
Why the I.R.S. Should Go After Trump  —  The New York State attorney general yesterday filed a lawsuit against the Donald J. Trump Foundation and its directors, accusing the charity and the Trump family of violating campaign finance laws, self-dealing and illegal coordination with the presidential campaign.
Discussion: Al Jazeera English
Michael Wines / New York Times:
North Carolina Republicans Are Back With a New Plan for Strict Voter Laws  —  WASHINGTON — The last time Republicans in the North Carolina Legislature enacted a law making it harder for some of the state's residents to vote, a federal court said the statute targeted African-American voters …
Danny Lawhon / Des Moines Register:
Experts: Trump's latest tariffs put increased risk into already uncertain Iowa economy  —  Neumann Bro.  Construction has to meet a final cost for their projects but flexing material costs make it hard to do.  —  CONNECT  —  The latest signs of the U.S.' escalating global trade conflict …
Discussion: New York Times
Erika Harwood / Vanity Fair:
Melania Trump Spent Her Husband's Birthday Away from Her Husband  —  The First Lady was in New York for a series of “meetings.”  —  We know that Donald Trump did not give his wife a gift for her birthday back in April.  So, what was Melania's plan for Trump's 72nd birthday on Thursday?
Julia Jacobs / New York Times:
Mammals Go Nocturnal in Bid to Avoid Humans  —  Humans, it turns out, can annoy more than just one another.  In fact, some animal populations are escaping their Homo sapien cohabitants by sleeping more during the day, a new study finds.  —  Mammals across the globe are becoming increasingly nocturnal …
Discussion: Boing Boing
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Donald dreams of dictators  —  In the three years since he first descended his golden escalator to announce his presidential bid, Trump has made clear he yearns for fealty along with authority.  —  President Donald Trump reliably tells the truth on one thing: He likes the way dictators do business.
Kyle Swenson / Washington Post:
Sessions says the Bible justifies separating immigrant families.  The verses he cited are infamous.  —  When British subjects in the original 13 colonies started rolling up their sleeves for the fight for independence in the 1770s, loyalist preachers hammered on a particular Bible verse from their pulpits.
Discussion: Althouse, Forbes, ABC News and The Root
 
 
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