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Immigration / Border / Family Separation
- Trump migrant separation policy: Children ‘in cages’ in Texas (BBC)
- Hundreds Protest on Father’s Day Against a Tent City for Immigrant Children Near Texas Border by Laignee Barron (TIME)
- Here Are All the Republicans Who Criticized the Trump Administration’s Family Separation Policy This Weekend by Billy Perrigo (TIME)
- Republicans Are 99% Behind Trump’s Family Separation Policy by Kevin Drum (Mother Jones)
- Trump’s Immigration Policy Gets Its Moral Reckoning by Krishnadev Calamur (The Atlantic)
- Trump’s policy of breaking up migrant families is ‘unconscionable’, says UN human rights chief by Andrew Buncombe (Independent)
- We don’t apologise for splitting up families, says Trump’s top immigration officials by Andrew Buncombe (Independent)
- Laura Bush Calls Family Separations Cruel And Immoral by Nick Visser (Huffington Post)
- Trump and allies defiant as family separation furor grows by Louis Nelson (Politico)
- John Oliver blasts Trump for claiming his border separation policy is a law by Justin Wise (The Hill)
- US could end up holding 30,000 migrant children by August: report by Luis Sanchez (The Hill)
- DHS secretary: Children are being taken care of, don’t believe the press by Rafael Bernal (The Hill)
- Trump admin releases video of detention center in Texas by Justin Wise (The Hill)
- ‘We Will Not Apologize.’ Head of Homeland Security Defends Controversial Immigration Policy by AP (TIME)
- Trump aides plan fresh immigration crackdowns before midterms by Nancy Cook (Politico)
- Secret Audio Recording of Immigration Detention Center Reveals Inconsolable Children Calling Out for Their Parents by Elliot Hannon (Slate)
- The Trump Administration Is Lying About Its Family-Separation Policy by Abigail Tracy (Vanity Fair)
- House GOP Immigration Bill Would Modify — But Not End — Child Detentions by Jessica Taylor (NPR)
- Trump says he will not let U.S. become ‘migrant camp’ by Lisa Lambert, Makini Brice (Reuters)
- The image of a migrant child that broke a photographer’s heart by Avi Selk (The Washington Post)
- Listen: Children sob at US border facility after being separated from their families by Dylan Scott (Vox)
- The past 72 hours in outrage over Trump’s immigrant family separation policy, explained by Emily Stewart (Vox)
- As Republicans flee Trump border policy, Democrats see a November benefit by Michael Scherer and Sean Sullivan (The Washington Post)
- Opinion: When did caging kids become the art of the deal? (The NY Times)
- Kirstjen Nielsen justifies family separation by pointing to increase in fraud. But the data is very limited by Linda Qiu (The NY Times)
- Immigrant children cry out in audio recorded at detention center by Richard Fausset (The NY Times)
- Opinion: Nazis separated me from my parents as a child. The trauma lasts a lifetime by Yoka Verdoner (Guardian)
- DHS Secretary Nielsen denies separation amounts to ‘child abuse’ by Kevin Liptak and Kaitlan Collins (CNN)
- Amid Mounting Criticism, Administration Digs In Over Migrant Separation Policy by John T. Bennett (Roll Call)
- Family separations at the border: How did we get here? by David Lauter, Jazmine Ulloa (LA Times)
- The Trump Administration’s Shifting Story on Family Separations by Rosie Gray (The Atlantic)
- The Most Audacious Moment From Kirstjen Nielsen’s Child-Separation Press Conference by Jeremy Stahl (Slate)
- Who’s Defending Family Separation at the Border and Who’s Condemning It by Molly Olmstead, Sofie Werthan (Slate)
- Kirstjen Nielsen says it’s “offensive” to suggest the Trump administration is purposely separating families by Jen Kirby (Vox)
- Opinion: In America, Naturalized Citizens No Longer Have an Assumption of Permanence by Masha Gessen (New Yorker)
Russia Investigation / Mueller
- The Russia Investigation Isn’t Less Popular — It’s Just More Polarizing by Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux, Julia Wolfe (FiveThirtyEight)
- Robert Mueller won’t save us by Sean Illing (Vox)
- Call to suspend Mueller probe was just posturing, Giuliani says by Darren Samuelsohn (Politico)
Trump on Immigrants in Germany
- Trump attacks Angela Merkel for giving sanctuary to refugees by Jon Stone (Independent)
- Facing heat for border separations, Trump blasts Germany by Lisa Lambert (Reuters)
- Trump says Germans ‘turning against their leadership’ over immigration by Philip Oltermann, Julian Borger (The Guardian)
- Trump just tweeted that “crime in Germany is way up.” It’s actually at its lowest level since 1992. by Matthew Yglesias (Vox)
FBI / IG Report
- DOJ Inspector General, FBI Director To Testify Monday About IG Report by Miles Parks (NPR)
- Here’s what’s buried beneath that FBI report: How rogue agents sabotaged the Clinton campaign by Heather Digby Parton (Salon)
Space Force
- Trump to sign directive on managing traffic, debris in space by Jacqueline Klimas (Politico)
- ‘Space force’: Donald Trump orders new branch of US military by David Smith (The Guardian)
- Trump Calls For ‘Space Force’ To Defend U.S. Interests Among The Stars by Geoff Brumfiel, David Welna (NPR)
- Trump orders creation of space-focused U.S. military branch by Makini Brice, Steve Holland (Reuters)
China / Tariffs / ZTE
- Trump threatens China with $200 billion in additional tariffs if Beijing doesn’t bend to U.S. demands (The Washington Post)
- Trump threatens new round of $200bn tariffs on Chinese goods (Al Jazeera)
- Trump Threatens Tariffs On $200 Billion Of Chinese Goods by Christopher Dean Hopkins (NPR)
- Senate rejects Trump’s rescue of Chinese firm ZTE by John Hendel (Politico)
- Senate votes to block Trump’s ZTE deal by Jordain Carney (The Hill)
Other News
- Trump administration asks US Supreme Court to let them withhold money from sanctuary cities by Emily Shugerman (Independent)
- The Supreme Court still won’t crackdown on partisan gerrymandering– yet, at least by Andrew Prokop (Vox)
- China’s Xi praises North Korea’s Kim for Trump summit, promises support by Ben Blanchard (Reuters)