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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Ocasio-Cortez accosted by GOP lawmaker over remarks: 'That kind of confrontation hasn't ever happened to me' — Tensions flared on Capitol Hill this week when a Republican lawmaker challenged Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on issues of crime and policing in an unusual …
Laura A. Bischoff / dayton-daily-news:
BREAKING NEWS: FBI agents are at Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder's farm — Police activity is being reported at Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder's farm in Perry County and the U.S. Attorney's office said it is holding a 2:30 p.m. press conference today related to $60 million in bribes paid to a state official and associates.
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Cincinnati.com:
Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder arrested in $60 million bribery case — Federal officials arrested Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and four others on Tuesday morning in connection with a $60 million bribery case. — U.S. Attorney David DeVillers' office would not discuss details of the case …
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Rick Rouan / The Columbus Dispatch:
Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder arrested in $60 million bribery case — Rick Rouan The Columbus Dispatch Randy Ludlow The Columbus Dispatch — Federal officials arrested Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and several others on Tuesday in connection with a $60 million bribery case.
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Jeremy Pelzer / Plain Dealer:
Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder arrested in $60M bribery case related to HB6 nuclear bailout
Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder arrested in $60M bribery case related to HB6 nuclear bailout
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The Daily Beast
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
America Gets an Interior Ministry — For decades, conservative activists and leaders have warned that “jackbooted thugs” from the federal government were going to come to take away Americans' civil rights with no due process and no recourse. Now they're here—but they're deployed …
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The Daily Beast:
Who Actually Wants Trump to Send in the Feds? Police Unions. — Protesters say local cops and the feds are clearly colluding on the spooky crackdown that began in Portland and could soon spread to Chicago and other cities. — PORTLAND—Leaders of cities like Portland and Chicago publicly …
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Trump's Occupation of American Cities Has Begun — Protesters are being snatched from the streets without warrants. Can we call it fascism yet? — The month after Donald Trump's inauguration, the Yale historian Timothy Snyder published the best-selling book “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century.”
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
The Border War in Portland — How can this be a job for Homeland Security? — Something dangerous is taking shape within the Department of Homeland Security. — We got our first glimpse of it last week in Oregon, when unidentified federal agents clad in camouflage and tactical gear descended …
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Darragh Roche / POLITICUSUSA:
Republican Senator Tom Cotton Compares Portland Protesters to Confederate Traitors
Republican Senator Tom Cotton Compares Portland Protesters to Confederate Traitors
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Quinta Jurecic / The Atlantic:
Nothing Can Justify the Attack on Portland
Nothing Can Justify the Attack on Portland
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Washington Examiner, New York Times and Daily Kos
Joe Concha / The Hill:
MSNBC's Heilemann: Trump deploying feds to Portland as ‘trial run’ to ‘steal this election’
MSNBC's Heilemann: Trump deploying feds to Portland as ‘trial run’ to ‘steal this election’
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POLITICUSUSA, Raw Story and Business Insider
Allyson Chiu / Washington Post:
Tucker Carlson claimed the New York Times planned to expose his address. Then his fans doxed the reporter. — On Monday night, Fox News host Tucker Carlson made a surprising accusation: the New York Times, he said, was trying to endanger him and his family by revealing where they live in an upcoming story.
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Justin Curto / Vulture:
Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity Accused of Sexual Misconduct in New Lawsuit
Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity Accused of Sexual Misconduct in New Lawsuit
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CNN:
No White House coronavirus task force members currently expected at Trump's briefing — (CNN)No White House coronavirus task force members are currently expected to join President Donald Trump at his Tuesday evening briefing on the administration's response to the virus …
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NBC News:
Trump's coronavirus briefings are back, but the trust isn't — WASHINGTON — On Tuesday afternoon, President Donald Trump will resume those daily coronavirus press briefings he held in March and April. — The decision to fire up those briefings again comes after slipping poll numbers for the president …
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ABC News:
Senate GOP supports another round of relief checks to Americans: McConnell
Senate GOP supports another round of relief checks to Americans: McConnell
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David Morgan / Reuters:
Congress, White House talk coronavirus aid as U.S. infections surge
Congress, White House talk coronavirus aid as U.S. infections surge
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Associated Press, The Hill and NBC News
Josh Boswell / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Ghislaine Maxwell paid $25K to fake news purveyor Jacob Wohl to ‘smear Epstein victims and to get SDNY prosecutor Geoffrey Berman fired in attempt to stall sex trafficking investigation against her’ — Ghislaine Maxwell hired Jacob Wohl to smear alleged victims of Jeffrey Epstein and her …
Shayna Jacobs / Washington Post:
Michael Cohen's book to allege Trump made racist comments about Obama and Nelson Mandela, lawsuit says — NEW YORK — The book manuscript being drafted by President Trump's ex-lawyer Michael Cohen alleges that Trump has made racist comments about his predecessor Barack Obama …
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Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
ACLU sues Trump administration over Michael Cohen's imprisonment
ACLU sues Trump administration over Michael Cohen's imprisonment
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Sabrina Siddiqui / Wall Street Journal:
Majority of Voters Say U.S. Society Is Racist as Support Grows for Black Lives Matter — Perceptions that minorities face racial discrimination hit new highs, WSJ/NBC News poll finds — Voters in growing numbers believe that Black and Hispanic Americans are discriminated against …
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Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
US accuses Chinese hackers in targeting of COVID-19 research — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Tuesday accused two Chinese hackers of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars of trade secrets from companies across the world and more recently targeting firms developing a vaccine for the coronavirus.
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CNN:
Republican leaders vow to fill a potential Supreme Court vacancy this year, despite some apprehension — (CNN)Senate Republican leaders, undeterred by the scathing criticism leveled against them for blocking President Barack Obama's election-year Supreme Court nominee in 2016 …
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Vox and Political Wire
Nikita Stewart / New York Times:
Planned Parenthood in N.Y. Disavows Margaret Sanger Over Eugenics — The group will remove the reproductive-rights pioneer's name from a Manhattan clinic as it reconsiders her views. — Planned Parenthood of Greater New York will remove the name of Margaret Sanger, a founder of the national organization …
ProPublica:
At This Trump-Favored Charity, Financial Reporting Is Questionable and Insiders Are Cashing In — Charlie Kirk's nonprofit Turning Point USA has made misleading financial claims and gets its “independent” audits from its co-founder Bill Montgomery's former business associate.
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Washington Post
Joshua Benton / The Atlantic:
The New Jersey Shooting Suspect Left a Pro-Trump Paper Trail — Roy Den Hollander, the self-described “anti-feminist” attorney who authorities say is the chief suspect in the shootings of the son and the husband of a federal judge in New Jersey, attacked that judge by name in misogynistic …
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David Catron / The American Spectator:
Will Teachers' Unions Reelect Trump? — The science says it's safe to reopen PK-12 yet the unions insist on holding the children hostage. — AFT President Randi Weingarten (YouTube screenshot) — During the next six weeks the nation's 51 million public school students …
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Daniel Arkin / NBC News:
Florida's largest teachers union sues state over reopening schools
Florida's largest teachers union sues state over reopening schools
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National Review, The Week and Politico
Agnes Callard / New York Times:
Should We Cancel Aristotle? — He defended slavery and opposed the notion of human equality. But he is not our enemy. — Ms. Callard is a philosopher and professor. — The Greek philosopher Aristotle did not merely condone slavery, he defended it; he did not merely defend it, but defended it as beneficial to the slave.
Lahav Harkov / Jerusalem Post:
Netherlands admits to paying terrorists who killed 17-year-old Israeli — The killers of Rina Shnerb are members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a designated terrorist group in the EU. — The Netherlands paid part of the salaries of two terrorists involved …
Ebony Bowden / New York Post:
Lincoln Project founders have ties to Russia and tax troubles, docs reveal — WASHINGTON — The founders of the Lincoln Project, a headline-grabbing new anti-Trump political action committee formed by GOP operatives who describe the president as “crook” and “huckster,” have their own checkered dealings …
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National Review
Nico Hines / The Daily Beast:
Official Russia Report: U.K. ‘Actively Avoided’ Probing Kremlin's Role in Brexit Referendum — Britain's Intelligence and Security Committee “outraged” that the Conservative government failed to investigate the Kremlin's interference or protect the 2016 Brexit referendum.
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James Poniewozik / New York Times:
Trump's Briefings, ‘The Apprentice’ and the Perils of the Second Season — President Trump seems to think there's no such thing as too much of him on TV. He's been wrong about that before. — The pinnacle of Donald J. Trump's TV career lasted one night, and he has never stopped trying to relive it.
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Washington Post:
Trump's reelection effort has spent more than $983 million, a record sum at this point in the campaign — The president maintains a cash lead over Joe Biden, who is gradually closing the money gap. — President Trump's campaign, the Republican Party and two affiliated committees have spent …
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The Week
Andrew C. McCarthy / New York Post:
FBI knew ‘collusion’ was a nothing-burger, but kept fake scandal alive anyway — 'We have not seen evidence of any individuals affiliated with the Trump team in contact with [Russian intelligence officers]. How much wasted time on pointless investigations could have been prevented had Peter Strzok …
Brian M. Rosenthal / New York Times:
This Hospital Cost $52 Million. It Treated 79 Virus Patients. — Red tape and turf battles marked the race to create temporary hospitals for the coronavirus onslaught in New York. — The Queens Hospital Center emergency department has a capacity of 60, but on its worst night of the coronavirus pandemic …
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The Hill
Melanie Zanona / Politico:
House conservatives pile on Cheney at GOP conference meeting — Members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus tore into Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) during a heated GOP conference meeting on Tuesday, lobbing attacks at her for breaking with President Donald Trump, supporting Dr. Anthony Fauci …
Marshall Cohen / CNN:
‘Things could get very ugly’: Experts fear post-election crisis as Trump sets the stage to dispute the results in November — Washington (CNN)Voting experts and political strategists from across the political spectrum are increasingly alarmed about the potential for a disputed presidential election …
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