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Lauren Easton / The Definitive Source:
AP statement on destruction of Gaza bureau — UPDATED 3:40 P.M. ET: AP President and CEO Gary Pruitt issued this statement Saturday after AP's Gaza bureau was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike: — Director of Media Relations — We are shocked and horrified that the Israeli military …
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Lahav Harkov / Jerusalem Post:
Israel showed US ‘smoking gun’ on Hamas in AP office tower, officials say — “We showed them the smoking gun proving Hamas worked out of that building,” a source close to Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi said. “I understand they found the explanation satisfactory.”
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Patrick Kingsley / New York Times:
What Is Happening in Israel and Gaza? Here's What to Know. — A little-noticed police action in Jerusalem last month was one of several incidents that led to the current crisis. — JERUSALEM — Twenty-seven days before the first rocket was fired from Gaza this week …
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United States Department of State:
Secretary Blinken's Call with Gary Pruitt, President and CEO of the Associated Press — The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: — Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke this evening with Gary Pruitt, the President and CEO of the Associated Press.
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Fares Akram / Associated Press:
DIARY: In Gaza, bombs drop and the conflict again hits home
DIARY: In Gaza, bombs drop and the conflict again hits home
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Associated Press:
Israel strikes Gaza home of Hamas leader, destroys AP office
Israel strikes Gaza home of Hamas leader, destroys AP office
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Committee to Protect Journalists:
Israel bombs building in Gaza City housing AP, Al-Jazeera offices
Israel bombs building in Gaza City housing AP, Al-Jazeera offices
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Barbara Plett Usher / BBC:
Israeli-Palestinian conflict gives Biden foreign policy headache
Israeli-Palestinian conflict gives Biden foreign policy headache
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Jeff McDonald / San Diego Union-Tribune:
Manchester's political contributions, ambassador nod are subject of criminal probe — Records obtained by the Union-Tribune show subpoena being issued, witness summoned to testify in secret proceeding — A federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., has begun issuing subpoenas in a criminal investigation …
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Tom Brune / Newsday:
Rep. Zeldin: Biden won and I won't call election ‘illegitimate’ — WASHINGTON — Rep. Lee Zeldin, the front-runner to be the Republican nominee for New York governor, acknowledged in a Newsday interview last week that Joe Biden won the presidency and said he won't call the election “illegitimate,” even though he sought to overturn it.
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
The purging of Liz Cheney is about much more than the future of the GOP
The purging of Liz Cheney is about much more than the future of the GOP
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Lexi Lonas / The Hill:
McCarthy dings Biden after meeting: Doesn't have ‘energy of Donald Trump’
McCarthy dings Biden after meeting: Doesn't have ‘energy of Donald Trump’
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Jonathan Tamari / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Today's Paper — On Tuesday, Republican Sean Parnell launched his campaign for U.S. Senate …
Today's Paper — On Tuesday, Republican Sean Parnell launched his campaign for U.S. Senate …
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Washington Post:
‘The right decision wrongly handled’: Inside the Biden administration's abrupt reversal on masks — During her opening statement before a Senate health committee Tuesday, Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was adamant that the Biden administration's masking …
Jon Street / Fox News:
Jimmy Carter 2.0: Biden's bundle of crises look increasingly like 1970s — During the Carter years, American consumers were forced to pay more for the price of basic goods — Biden's America faces growing inflation — “Joe Biden is the new Jimmy Carter.”
New York Times:
University of California Will No Longer Consider SAT and ACT Scores — The university system has reached a settlement with students to scrap even optional testing from admissions and scholarship decisions. — The University of California will not take SAT and ACT scores into account …
David Frost / Daily Mail:
Brexit Minister LORD FROST: The EU must stop point scoring and work with us to protect the peace — Just two weeks ago the European Parliament finally ratified our agreement with the EU. Now we can start to make it work. — This agreement gives us full control over our own laws, courts, borders and money.
Andrew R. Arthur / CIS.org:
More than 40,000 ‘Got-Aways’ at the Border in April — And we can't stop most of the drugs entering illegally, but Mayorkas offers no suggestions for policy change — DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas appeared before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee on Thursday to discuss unaccompanied migrant children.
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Pilar Melendez / The Daily Beast:
Neo-Nazi Dumps 3 Dead Bodies at Albuquerque Hospital Then Flees: FBI — Richard Kuykendall drove to hospital, removed his shirt and told a security officer “that there were three dead guys in the Chevy,” according to a criminal complaint. — A suspected white supremacist is facing charges …
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Nick Burns / New Statesman:
Where have all the intellectuals gone? — Who among today's literary figures has any chance of being recognised as a thinker on par with a Dostoevsky or a Marx? — “Ibram X. Kendi, Robin DiAngelo, Jordan Peterson, Peter Thiel, Yuval Noah Harari, Steven Pinker, Tyler Cowen, Ta-Nehisi Coates …
Oriana Pawlyk / Military.com:
Space Force CO Who Got Holiday Call from Trump Fired Over Comments Decrying Marxism in the Military — A commander of a U.S. Space Force unit tasked with detecting ballistic missile launches has been fired for comments made during a podcast promoting his new book, which claims Marxist ideologies …
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New York Daily News:
Make it Mayor Garcia: New Yorkers should choose Kathryn Garcia in the Democratic primary — The next mayor of New York will assume leadership of America's largest city at a hinge in its history, and not only because the five boroughs are still reeling from the loss of more than 30,000 lives …