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Kate Bennett / CNN:
Biden German Shepherd has aggressive incident and is sent back to Delaware — Washington (CNN)The two German Shepherds belonging to President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden were returned to the Biden family home in Delaware last week after aggressive behavior at the White House involving Major Biden …
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New York Times:
Inside the Lincoln Project's Secrets, Side Deals and Scandals — A civil war broke out in the group as it antagonized Donald Trump, with leaders splintering over financial arrangements and revelations of online harassment by a top official. — A few days before the presidential election …
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
RNC brushes back Trump team on ‘cease-and-desist’ demand — The Republican National Committee is denying a cease-and-desist demand from Donald Trump's attorneys, who asked the party organization to stop using the former president's name and likeness in fundraising appeals.
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Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
RNC moves portion of its spring donor retreat to Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club
RNC moves portion of its spring donor retreat to Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club
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Justine Coleman / The Hill:
Trump vows ‘No more money for RINOS,’ instead encouraging donations to his PAC
Trump vows ‘No more money for RINOS,’ instead encouraging donations to his PAC
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Washington Times, TheBlaze and Political Wire
Karen Attiah / Washington Post:
How two Black women took down whatever fantasies remained about the British monarchy — There was a lot of anticipation ahead of Oprah Winfrey's interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Even Buckingham Palace tried to play offense before it aired on Sunday when it announced …
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Brendan O'Neill / spiked:
The unbearable victim complex of Meghan Markle — The Oprah interview was an emotionally manipulative performance designed to consolidate Harry and Meghan's power. — Well that was explosive. Even more than had been expected. In their two-hour sit-down with Oprah Winfrey, Harry and Meghan drove a long knife into the monarchy.
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Todd Starnes, The Daily Beast, TheGrio, spectator.us and The Times of Israel
Piers Morgan / Daily Mail:
Meghan and Harry's nauseating two-hour Oprah whine-athon was a disgraceful diatribe of cynical race-baiting propaganda designed to damage the Queen …
Meghan and Harry's nauseating two-hour Oprah whine-athon was a disgraceful diatribe of cynical race-baiting propaganda designed to damage the Queen …
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The Intercept:
Entire Staff of Nevada Democratic Party Quits After Democratic Socialist Slate Won Every Seat … Not long after Judith Whitmer won her election on Saturday to become chair of the Nevada Democratic Party, she got an email from the party's executive director, Alana Mounce.
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Stephen Gruber-Miller / Des Moines Register:
Gov. Kim Reynolds signs law shortening Iowa's early and Election Day voting — Four months after Iowans voted in record numbers, Gov. Kim Reynolds has signed legislation cutting the state's early voting period and closing the polls an hour earlier on Election Day.
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Associated Press:
Iowa governor signs Republican bill restricting voting access into law
Iowa governor signs Republican bill restricting voting access into law
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Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Georgia Senate votes to eliminate no-excuse absentee voting
Georgia Senate votes to eliminate no-excuse absentee voting
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Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
Rare trial of U.S. journalist arrested on the job begins in Iowa — Prosecutors in Iowa began their case Monday against a Des Moines Register reporter arrested during racial justice protests last summer, in a rare trial of a U.S. journalist charged with a crime while reporting.
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Tax Policy Center:
T21-0039 - Major Individual Income Tax Provisions in H.R.1319, The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 as Passed by the Senate, by Expanded Cash Income Percentile, 2021 — Table shows the effect on the distribution of federal taxes, by expanded cash income percentile, relative to current law …
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Insider and POLITICUSUSA
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Howard Gleckman / TaxVox:
Pandemic Bill Would Cut Taxes by An Average of $3,000, With Most Relief Going to Low- And Middle-Income Households
Pandemic Bill Would Cut Taxes by An Average of $3,000, With Most Relief Going to Low- And Middle-Income Households
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The Week and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Team Biden offers alternative reality on border crisis with no plan to fix it — Crisis at the border? What crisis? — That's the communications strategy of the Biden administration in somehow denying the existence an out-of-control surge at the border it is responsible for creating.
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ProPublica:
REPUBLISH — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published. — Everything looks the same on either side of the Texas-New Mexico border in the great oil patch of the Permian Basin.
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: How Blunt's retirement will reverberate in 2022 — Sen. ROY BLUNT'S (R-Mo.) announcement this morning that he won't seek a third term next year marks yet another blow to the governing wing of the GOP. — Blunt joins four other Republican incumbents heading for the exits …
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Kara Scannell / CNN:
NYC prosecutors' probe into Trump finances expands to include millions loaned for Chicago skyscraper — Five elected investigators are turning their attention to Trump — (CNN)The Manhattan district attorney's office subpoenaed documents from an investment company that loaned …
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Anthony D'Alessandro / Deadline:
Pepe Le Pew Won't Be Appearing In Warner Bros' ‘Space Jam’ Sequel — EXCLUSIVE: He starred in the first Warner Bros. Space Jam movie back in 1996, however, Pepe Le Pew will not be showing up at all in the upcoming theatrical sequel Space Jam: A New Legacy on July 16.
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Tejal Rao / New York Times:
The Best Bagels Are in California (Sorry, New York) — West Coast bakers are driving a great bagel boom, producing some of the most delicious versions around and finding ways to expand during the pandemic. — BERKELEY, Calif. — The bagels at Boichik Bagels have the look of Labrador puppies curled …
Hannah Morse / Palm Beach Post:
After 2020 fraud claims, Donald Trump requests mail ballot — Former President Donald Trump is set to fulfill his civic duty as a private citizen and vote in the town of Palm Beach's municipal election. — Despite his false claims about mail voting during the 2020 election cycle …
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National Review:
H.R. 1 Is a Partisan Assault on American Democracy — Late Wednesday night, the House passed H.R. 1, the “For the People Act.” It passed by ten votes, with every Republican voting against it, as well as Mississippi Democrat Bennie Thompson, who fears that the bill will abolish majority-black districts like his in the Deep South.
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Christopher Mathias / HuffPost:
Rep. Paul Gosar Tweets White Nationalist Group's Motto — After speaking at a white nationalist “America First” conference recently, the Arizona congressman appears to be doubling down on his support of the group. — Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) posted on Twitter the motto of a white nationalist group …
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Mediaite, DFRLab, The New Civil Rights Movement and Raw Story
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Will Stagnation Follow the Biden Boom? — The relief bill is done; infrastructure may be harder. — It's morning in America! People are getting vaccinated at the rate of two million a day and rising, suggesting that the pandemic may be largely behind us in a few months …
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Liz Peek / Fox News:
Biden's monster ‘rescue’ bill destroys campaign vows and endangers recovery
Biden's monster ‘rescue’ bill destroys campaign vows and endangers recovery
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Responsible Statecraft, CounterPunch and Politico
Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
Rep. Dan Crenshaw Decided Pandemic Was Perfect Time to Buy and Not Disclose Stocks — “Members of Congress should not be actively trading securities in the middle of a crisis,” said Ben Edwards, a securities law expert at the University of Las Vegas, Nevada.
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ABC News:
Authorities arrest Oath Keeper seen with Trump adviser Roger Stone on morning of insurrection — Roberto Minuta was seen flanking Roger Stone in D.C. on the morning of Jan. 6. — Video shows Roger Stone flanked by Oath Keepers on morning of Jan. 6 — Video surfaces showing longtime …
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Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Teen Vogue Staff Rail Against New Editor-in-Chief's Past Tweets Mocking Asians — The digital outlet's editorial staffers on Monday said they sent a letter to Condé Nast bosses expressing multiple concerns with their newly hired editor. — Staffers at Teen Vogue on Monday publicly blasted …
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Thomas Catenacci / The Daily Caller:
Supreme Court Sides With Christian Student In College Free Speech Case — The Supreme Court ruled in an 8-1 decision Monday that a Georgia college's speech code policy violated the First Amendment and that a student who was harmed by the policy can seek damages.
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David Litt / The Atlantic:
We Already Got Rid of the Filibuster Once Before — Last week the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1, a bill that would make voter registration automatic, end partisan gerrymandering, strengthen campaign-finance law, and bolster oversight of lobbyists. It's the most sweeping package of democracy reforms in generations.
Josefa Velasquez / THE CITY:
Cuomo Called Lawmakers in Scramble for Support After Resignation Demands — Gov. Andrew Cuomo spent Sunday calling lawmakers to dissuade them from issuing statements calling for his resignation, even as more allegations of sexual harassment surfaced, several who heard from him told THE CITY.
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Helen Warrell / Financial Times:
Johnson set to unnerve allies with ‘Global Britain’ defence review — Fears that cuts to army and shift from Europe to Asia risk spreading defence capabilities too thinly — Boris Johnson's eagerly awaited new security strategy risks creating tensions with the UK's closest allies if it spreads …
Neil Vigdor / New York Times:
Man Threatened to Lynch 2 Congressmen, U.S. Says — A judge on Monday ordered Kenneth R. Hubert of Missouri held in jail, saying his words rose to the level of posing danger. — A Missouri man who prosecutors say threatened to lynch a Black congressman the day after the Jan. 6 siege …
Jacob Kornbluh / The Forward:
Maggie Haberman on life after Trump and the one question she regrets not asking — Maggie Haberman had perhaps the hardest, and definitely the most scrutinized, job in journalism for the past four years. She owned the Trump beat for The New York Times. Haberman came to cover the White House …
New York Times:
Publisher Halts Promotion of Cuomo Book, Citing Nursing Homes Inquiry — “American Crisis” was supposed to be a triumphant account of New York's coronavirus fight. But as scandals swirl, sales have dramatically slowed. — The publisher of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's book on his leadership during …
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Dan Diamond / Washington Post:
Meet the GOP voters who could decide whether the U.S. reaches herd immunity — Almost one-third of Republicans tell pollsters they 'definitely won't' get vaccinated. — Margaret, an 80-year-old retiree who lives outside Tulsa, has spent the past year living in fear of the coronavirus.
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Raw Story, Digby's Hullabaloo, Daily Kos, Mock Paper Scissors and Politico