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New York Times:
Supreme Court Rules Nearly Half of Oklahoma Is Indian Reservation — The 5-4 decision could reshape criminal justice in eastern Oklahoma by preventing state authorities from prosecuting Native Americans — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled by a 5-4 margin that nearly half …
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Common Dreams, Axios, Refinery29 and Indian Country Today
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court says Manhattan prosecutor may pursue Trump's financial records, denies Congress access for now — The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected President Trump's assertion that he enjoys absolute immunity from investigation while in office, allowing a New York prosecutor to pursue …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Rules Trump Cannot Block Release of Financial Records — Two rulings clear the way for prosecutors in New York to see President Trump's financial records, but the justices stopped Congress for now. — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for prosecutors …
USA Today:
Supreme Court gives Native Americans jurisdiction over eastern half of Oklahoma — WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the eastern half of Oklahoma can be considered Native American territory, a decision the state previously warned could create “civil, criminal and regulatory turmoil.”
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Axios:
Supreme Court says Manhattan prosecutors can obtain Trump's financial records — President Trump's banks and accounting firms must turn over his financial records to Manhattan prosecutors, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday. — Why it matters: The ruling is a stinging loss for Trump …
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Washington Post:
Supreme Court says much of eastern Oklahoma remains Indian land
Supreme Court says much of eastern Oklahoma remains Indian land
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Associated Press and Indian Country Today
Devin Dwyer / ABC News:
Supreme Court rejects Trump claim of ‘absolute immunity’ from NY grand jury subpoena
Supreme Court rejects Trump claim of ‘absolute immunity’ from NY grand jury subpoena
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Raw Story, Twitchy and Blue Virginia
CNN:
SCOTUS rules broad swath of Oklahoma is Native American land for purposes of federal criminal law
Tucker Higgins / CNBC:
Supreme Court says Manhattan DA can get Trump's tax records, but rejects bid by House Democrats
Supreme Court says Manhattan DA can get Trump's tax records, but rejects bid by House Democrats
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The Root and The Gateway Pundit
New York Times:
DeSantis Is Said to Quietly Hinder Fund-Raising for Trump Convention — A personal dispute has prompted Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor, to discourage donors from contributing, people familiar with the discussions said. His top fund-raiser denies any attempt to undercut the convention.
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Raw Story and Florida Politics
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Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Republicans look into holding their convention outdoors — The Republican convention in Jacksonville, Fla., next month could be moved to an outdoor stadium as cases of the novel coronavirus in the state increase, according to several officials with knowledge of the plans.
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Talking Points Memo, The Hill, VICE, One America News Network, Republican Party of Texas, The Guardian and The Week
CNN:
Michael Cohen taken into custody for violating terms of his early release from prison — Here's what prosecutors want to know from Cohen — (CNN)President Donald Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen has been taken into custody for violating terms of his early release from prison …
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Deadline and The Intellectualist
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Joy Reid Takes Nightly Anchor Slot at MSNBC — She becomes one of the few Black women to anchor a major American evening news program. The move was made by new leadership at NBC News, which runs the liberal-leaning cable network. — Joy Reid, who rose to television fame as a sharp critic …
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Judge asks full appeals court to review panel's dismissal of Flynn case — D.C. District Judge Emmet Sullivan on Thursday petitioned for the full D.C. Court of Appeals to rehear a three-judge panel's decision to order the dismissal of the Justice Department's case against former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Inside Geoffrey Berman's closed-door testimony — Geoffrey Berman, the former top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, was expected to say in closed-door testimony today that Attorney General Bill Barr repeatedly urged him to take another job, warned him that getting fired would not be good for his resume …
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Fox News, New York Post, ABC News and The Hill
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
U.S. Broadcasting Agency Will Not Extend Visas For Its Foreign Journalists — Dozens of foreign nationals working as journalists in the U.S. for Voice of America, the federal government's international broadcaster, will not have their visas extended once they expire, according to three people with knowledge of the decision.
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Washington Post, The Wrap, New York Post, The Hill and Political Wire, more at Mediagazer »
Associated Press:
Missing Seoul mayor's body found after massive search — SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Police say the body of the missing mayor of South Korea's capital, Seoul, has been found. They say Park Won-soon's body was located in hills in northern Seoul early Friday, more than seven hours after they launched a massive search for him.
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Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
Seoul Mayor Is Found Dead After Harassment Complaint Is Filed
Seoul Mayor Is Found Dead After Harassment Complaint Is Filed
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The Korea Times, Yonhap News Agency, koreajoongangdaily.joins.com and The Week
NBC New York:
Street in Front of Trump Tower Closes for Black Lives Matter Mural — Work on what President Trump called a “symbol of hate” was supposed to start last week before being postponed abruptly — New York City will start painting “Black Lives Matter” on Fifth Avenue directly in front …
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Redstate, Talking Points Memo, Breitbart, 6abc, CBS New York, Fox News and The Hill
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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson / TIME:
We Can't Solve the Climate Crisis Unless Black Lives Matter
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Durham, under pressure to wrap up investigation, could ‘punt’ to after Election Day: source — Durham is working expeditiously to try to finish the probe by the end of summer — EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Attorney John Durham is under pressure to wrap up his investigation into the origins …
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American Greatness and The Gateway Pundit
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Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Trump's America Is Slipping Away — Donald Trump is running for the presidency of an America that no longer exists. — Trump in recent weeks has repeatedly reprised two of Richard Nixon's most memorable rallying cries, promising to deliver “law and order” for the “silent majority.”
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Raw Story
Michael Balsamo / Associated Press:
AP source: Feds feared Epstein confidante might kill herself — LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Federal officials were so worried Jeffrey Epstein's longtime confidante Ghislaine Maxwell might take her own life after her arrest that they took away her clothes and sheets and made her wear paper attire …
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Disrn and Law & Crime
Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
I've Seen a Future Without Cars, and It's Amazing — Why do American cities waste so much space on cars? — As coronavirus lockdowns crept across the globe this winter and spring, an unusual sound fell over the world's metropolises: the hush of streets that were suddenly, blessedly free of cars.
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: NEW: The swamp is coming from inside the (White) House! — WEST WING EYEBROW RAISER ... THE SWAMP CREEPS CLOSE TO THE PRESIDENT! ... On two occasions over the last few days, CHRIS COX — who runs House outreach for the White House legislative affairs office …
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The Hill, POLITICUSUSA and Politico
Dan Bongino / Media Matters for America:
Fox News contributor: “You can take your mask mandate, and shove it right up your ass” — Corporate TV news needs to break its cycle of shallow coverage of extreme weather — The most notorious anti-vax groups use Facebook to lay the groundwork against the novel coronavirus vaccine
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The Daily Beast
jsonline:
Wisconsin Supreme Court upholds most lame-duck laws, throws out provisions on government documents — MADISON - The state Supreme Court upheld many of the lame-duck laws that limited the power of the governor and attorney general Thursday, but the justices tossed out provisions that dictated how government documents had to be written.
Molly Jong-Fast / The Daily Beast:
Mary Trump's Book Gives ‘Crazy Uncle’ a Whole New Meaning — FOUR MONTHS AND COUNTING... With the president's niece, we meet a species we never thought we'd encounter on this Earth: a sane Trump with values and a conscience like the rest of us. — BEAST INSIDE
New York Times:
Where's Trump's Financial Disclosure? The White House Blames the Pandemic — The annual report was due last week under federal ethics rules, but the White House says it needs more time. The president was already given a 45-day extension. — President Trump's annual financial disclosure report …
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Wall Street Journal:
Tyson Turns to Robot Butchers, Spurred by Coronavirus Outbreaks — The pandemic is speeding meatpackers' shift from human meat cutters to automated ones, but machines can't yet match people's ability — SPRINGDALE, Ark.—Deboning livestock and slicing up chickens has long been hands-on labor.
Steven Nelson / New York Post:
White House reporter tests positive for COVID-19 after attending briefings — A White House reporter has tested positive for the coronavirus after attending two press briefings this week. — The news follows a national surge in COVID-19 diagnoses, though new cases in Washington, DC, remain low.
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
Trumpists use distortion, outright fabrication to lie that Biden called police “the enemy” — President Donald Trump's media allies are distorting a quote from presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden in order to falsely claim that Biden called police “the enemy.”
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Townhall, Breitbart, Washington Examiner and NowThis News
NBC News:
Gen. Milley tells Congress U.S. ‘perhaps’ not doing enough to stop Russia in Afghanistan — WASHINGTON — Army Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Congress Thursday that the Trump administration was “perhaps not” doing “as much as we could or should” …
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Associated Press
Detroit Free Press:
Ford employees ask if company should stop building police vehicles — An estimated 100 employees of Ford Motor Co. have asked the automaker to reconsider building and selling police vehicles in light of controversy related to police brutality and social justice, the Free Press confirmed late Wednesday.
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