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Trump doubles down on ‘treason’ accusation after New York Times op-ed

Does not understand difference between free speech, being Putin’s BFF, lying about everything, and accepting money from Russians for favors.

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At Montana rally, president hails Republican who assaulted Guardian reporter as fighter ‘in more ways than one’

Donald Trump on Thursday accused the New York Times of committing “treason” after the paper published an opinion piece by an anonymous senior administration official who detailed a “quiet resistance” working to rein in the president.

During a campaign appearance in Billings, Montana, Trump also praised Greg Gianforte, the Republican congressman who physically attacked the Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs last year, as “a fighter and a winner”.

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Outrage over Trump’s ‘sickening’ plans to detain migrant children indefinitely

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New rules would enable the government to circumvent court limits on detaining minors during their immigration proceedings

Opponents of Donald Trump’s approach to immigration have lined up to condemn as “inhumane” and “sickening” proposals to facilitate indefinite detention of migrant children and their families.

The administration has announced it plans to withdraw from a federal court agreement that strictly limits the conditions under which authorities can detain migrant children. And the government proposed new rules it said would enable it to detain minors during their immigration proceedings.

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JD Salinger’s teenage lover challenges her ‘predator’ reputation

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Joyce Maynard, now 65, has published a new essay that asks if the movement will allow her to tell her side of the story

Joyce Maynard, who was wooed as a teenager by the late JD Salinger, has spoken out about how the literary world condemned her as “a predator”.

Maynard was 18 when an essay of hers was published in the New York Times, along with a photograph. The piece led the then 53-year-old Salinger to contact her and, as Maynard writes in the New York Times, urged her to “to leave college, come live with him (have babies, collaborate on plays we would perform together in London’s West End) and be (I truly believed this) his partner forever”.

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