RSN: Jill Abramson | Now We Know the Outrageous Scale of the Trumps' White House Dividend




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Jill Abramson | Now We Know the Outrageous Scale of the Trumps' White House Dividend 
Jared Kushner and his wife Ivanka Trump. 'This week, Kushner's new financial disclosure records were released ... Their value ranged between $179m and $735m.' (photo: Ludovic Marin/AFP/Getty Images)
Jill Abramson, Guardian UK
Abramson writes: "I'm feeling nostalgic for Hillary's Goldman Sachs speaking fees. Remember when we got our ethical knickers in a twist over Clinton's $225,000 (£170,000) Wall Street speeches?"
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Roger Stone. (photo: Bridget Mulcahy/Politico)
Roger Stone. (photo: Bridget Mulcahy/Politico)

EXCERPT:
The meeting took place two months earlier than federal officials have said a counterintelligence operation was officially opened and before WikiLeaks began releasing hacked Democratic emails.
It came in the same time period as other episodes in which Russian interests approached the Trump campaign. A few weeks earlier, Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos was told in London that the Russians had dirt on Clinton. And it was two weeks before the sit-down between Donald Trump Jr. at Trump Tower with a Russian lawyer who he had been told could offer information that would hurt Clinton as part of a Russian government effort to help his father.


Roger Stone Met With Russian National Who Offered to Sell Dirt on Clinton
Manuel Roig-Franzia and Rosalind S. Helderman, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "The man, who called himself Henry Greenberg, offered damaging information about Hillary Clinton, Trump's presumptive Democratic opponent in the upcoming presidential election, according to Stone who spoke about the previously unreported incident in interviews with The Washington Post."
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Jared Kushner and Donald Trump. (photo: Jabin Botsford/WP)
Jared Kushner and Donald Trump. (photo: Jabin Botsford/WP)

North Korea Sought Backchannel With Jared Kushner
Mark Mazzetti and Mark Landler, The New York Times
Excerpt: "An American financier approached the Trump administration last summer with an unusual proposition: The North Korean government wanted to talk to Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and senior adviser."
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Central American asylum seekers wait as U.S. Border Patrol agents take them into custody on June 12, 2018, near McAllen, Texas. The families were then sent to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing center for possible separation. (photo: John Moore/Getty Images)
Central American asylum seekers wait as U.S. Border Patrol agents take them into custody on June 12, 2018, near McAllen, Texas. The families were then sent to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing center for possible separation. (photo: John Moore/Getty Images)

What's Really Happening When Asylum-Seeking Families Are Separated?
Katy Vine, Texas Monthly
Vine writes: "As executive director of the Houston office of the nonprofit Tahirih Justice Center, which focuses on helping immigrant women and children, she has been traveling to the border and to detention centers, listening to the parents' stories. We asked her to talk with us about what she has been hearing in recent weeks."
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In this Nov. 15, 2016 file photo, Brad Parscale, who was the Trump campaign's digital director, waits for an elevator at Trump Tower in New York. Trump has named Parscale as campaign manager of his 2020 re-election campaign. (photo: Carolyn Kaster/AP)
In this Nov. 15, 2016 file photo, Brad Parscale, who was the Trump campaign's digital director, waits for an elevator at Trump Tower in New York. Trump has named Parscale as campaign manager of his 2020 re-election campaign. (photo: Carolyn Kaster/AP)

Ex-Cambridge Analytica Employees Are Working on Trump's 2020 Campaign
Terrell Jermaine Starr, The Root
Starr writes: "Former employees who worked at Cambridge Analytica, the political firm that went down over how it acquired Facebook users' data, is now working for Donald Trump's 2020 campaign, according to the Associated Press."
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The Italian Navy vessel the Dattilo docked shortly before 7 a.m. local time in Valencia, Spain, with about 270 migrants aboard. (photo: Heino Kalis/Reuters)
The Italian Navy vessel the Dattilo docked shortly before 7 a.m. local time in Valencia, Spain, with about 270 migrants aboard. (photo: Heino Kalis/Reuters)

Migrants Rejected by Italy Receive 'Welcome Home' in Spain
teleSUR
Excerpt: "The first of three vessels transporting migrants, who were rescued from the Mediterranean Sea last weekend, has arrived in Valencia."
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What do you know about the chicken you eat? (photo: Alamy)
What do you know about the chicken you eat? (photo: Alamy)


'Eating Animals' Drives Home Where Our Food Really Comes From
Sierra Magazine
Excerpt: "Narrated by [Natalie] Portman, Eating Animals begins with the simple question about how much we really know about the food on our plates."
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