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Jun 20, 2018
Ex-CIA employee charged in major leak of agency hacking tools - The Washington Post
Ex-CIA employee charged in major leak of agency hacking tools - The Washington Post: Joshua Adam Schulte was charged under the Espionage Act in connection with the leak of tools that were posted online by WikiLeaks.
The U.S. stood with Soviet dissidents. It should stand with North Korean ones, too. - The Washington Post
The U.S. stood with Soviet dissidents. It should stand with North Korean ones, too. - The Washington Post: Support will help, not hinder, America’s objectives.
On affirmative action, Harvard can't have it all - The Washington Post
On affirmative action, Harvard can't have it all - The Washington Post: The Ivy League university’s problem in this case is that its strongest argument is also its weakest one.
Paul Ryan has been living in a cave - The Washington Post
Paul Ryan has been living in a cave - The Washington Post: Incuriosity is a perfect excuse for the House speaker.
It was a Trump favorite. Now lawyers want the famously discreet Beverly Hills Hotel to share its secrets. - The Washington Post
It was a Trump favorite. Now lawyers want the famously discreet Beverly Hills Hotel to share its secrets. - The Washington Post: Records of his stays at its bungalows have been subpoenaed in a defamation lawsuit brought by former “Apprentice” contestant Summer Zervos — the first legal action to open the president’s private life to discovery.
Yes, family separation is bad. But what about Hillary Clinton’s emails? - The Washington Post
Yes, family separation is bad. But what about Hillary Clinton’s emails? - The Washington Post: As children are separated from their parents, GOP congressmen run an old play.
Palestinians trapped in Gaza face mounting mental health crisis - The Washington Post
Palestinians trapped in Gaza face mounting mental health crisis - The Washington Post: Mental health experts say they have seen a rise in symptoms of psychological distress, such as anxiety, abuse and suicide.
U.S. withdraws from U.N. Human Rights Council over perceived bias against Israel - The Washington Post
U.S. withdraws from U.N. Human Rights Council over perceived bias against Israel - The Washington Post: U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley had repeatedly urged changes to remove a disproportionate amount of criticism toward Israel and to boot human rights abusers.
The only people who can fix gerrymandering now are voters - The Washington Post
The only people who can fix gerrymandering now are voters - The Washington Post: The consequences of the Supreme Court's abdication.
Melania Trump urged her husband to end the border separation policy - The Washington Post
Melania Trump urged her husband to end the border separation policy - The Washington Post: The first lady’s immigration attorney blasts the administration’s immigration policy.
Trump postpones congressional picnic amid immigration furor - The Washington Post
Trump postpones congressional picnic amid immigration furor - The Washington Post: “It didn’t feel exactly right to me,” the president said in remarks at the White House
Key nuclear expert departs White House as North Korea negotiations loom - The Washington Post
Key nuclear expert departs White House as North Korea negotiations loom - The Washington Post: The top official on weapons of mass destruction is leaving her job.
Republicans, Trump official square off in heated hearing over tariffs - The Washington Post
Republicans, Trump official square off in heated hearing over tariffs - The Washington Post: “Know that you are taxing American families, you are putting American jobs at risk,” one senator told Ross.
Senate rejects billions in Trump spending cuts as two Republicans vote ‘no’ - The Washington Post
Senate rejects billions in Trump spending cuts as two Republicans vote ‘no’ - The Washington Post: GOP Sens. Susan Collins and Richard Burr joined Democrats in rebuffing the package of cuts.
In Trump’s world, morality is for losers - The Washington Post
In Trump’s world, morality is for losers - The Washington Post: So Trump's family separation policy looks mean and heartless? That's precisely the point.
Amid immigration uncertainties, Latinos turn to prayer and candles - The Washington Post
Amid immigration uncertainties, Latinos turn to prayer and candles - The Washington Post: One of the religious candles they are buying carries a promise of protection.
Jealous-Baker fight in Maryland exposes divisions over how Democrats can win - The Washington Post
Jealous-Baker fight in Maryland exposes divisions over how Democrats can win - The Washington Post: Gubernatorial primary pits Sanders-backed political novice against veteran officeholder backed by party establishment.
RAICES fundraiser on Facebook raises $9 million to reunite migrant families - The Washington Post
RAICES fundraiser on Facebook raises $9 million to reunite migrant families - The Washington Post: The money will be used to bond parents out of immigration jails and to provide lawyers to parents and children as they fight in court to stay together and in the U.S.
Pope Francis, Theresa May, Ayatollah Khamenei join international condemnation of Trump's family-separation policy - The Washington Post
Pope Francis, Theresa May, Ayatollah Khamenei join international condemnation of Trump's family-separation policy - The Washington Post: The criticism, on moral grounds, resembled the global reaction to the administration’s travel ban.
Rachel Maddow breaks down in tears on air while reading report on ‘tender age’ shelters - The Washington Post
Rachel Maddow breaks down in tears on air while reading report on ‘tender age’ shelters - The Washington Post: The MSNBC host apologized for “losing it there,” but many of her viewers said she conveyed what scores of Americans have been feeling.
On immigration, Trump keeps making life absolutely miserable for Republicans in Congress - The Washington Post
On immigration, Trump keeps making life absolutely miserable for Republicans in Congress - The Washington Post: He's put them in yet another no-win situation, then left them hanging on whether to vote on immigration.
Near the border, different buses take migrants on starkly different paths - The Washington Post
Near the border, different buses take migrants on starkly different paths - The Washington Post: Trump’s “zero-tolerance” policy is filling the federal courthouse and separating parents from children, but others are still released.
President Trump seems to be saying more and more things that aren’t true - The Washington Post
President Trump seems to be saying more and more things that aren’t true - The Washington Post: The untruths have multiplied in recent days as Trump seeks to create an alternate reality around immigration and other issues.
‘Today I renounce my membership’: Longtime GOP strategist Steve Schmidt announces he’s leaving the party - The Washington Post
‘Today I renounce my membership’: Longtime GOP strategist Steve Schmidt announces he’s leaving the party - The Washington Post: The former senior adviser to John McCain’s presidential campaign said it has become “fully the party of Trump.”
The facts about Trump’s policy of separating families at the border - The Washington Post
The facts about Trump’s policy of separating families at the border - The Washington Post: In Orwellian fashion, the Trump administration repeatedly claims its own policy doesn't exist or was written by others.
Trump and Kirstjen Nielsen’s embarrassing surrender on separating families at the border - The Washington Post
Trump and Kirstjen Nielsen’s embarrassing surrender on separating families at the border - The Washington Post: Make no mistake: The administration just admitted its arguments were bogus and that it overplayed its hand.
Trump reverses course, says he will put an end to family separations on southern border - The Washington Post
Trump reverses course, says he will put an end to family separations on southern border - The Washington Post: Move comes after images of young children in tears, housed in metal cages, set off an international outcry.
Jun 19, 2018
Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie warns that Facebook targeting threatens free speech - The Washington Post
Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie warns that Facebook targeting threatens free speech - The Washington Post: Christopher Wylie warned that unchecked data collection and targeting on social media threaten Web users’ privacy — and the healthy functioning of democracy.
Senate Republicans just rebuked Trump on family separations - The Washington Post
Senate Republicans just rebuked Trump on family separations - The Washington Post: All Senate Republicans support a plan to end Trump's policy of separating families at the border.
Trump urges House GOP to fix immigration system, expresses no strong preference on rival bills amid uproar over family separations - The Washington Post
Trump urges House GOP to fix immigration system, expresses no strong preference on rival bills amid uproar over family separations - The Washington Post: In the closed-door session at the Capitol on Tuesday, President Trump told Republicans that building a border wall and finding a solution for the hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants would poll “very, very highly.”
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