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Associated Press:
Israel strike in Gaza destroys building with AP, other media — GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli airstrike destroyed a high-rise building in Gaza City that housed offices of The Associated Press and other media outlets hours after another Israeli air raid on a densely populated refugee camp killed …
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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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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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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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Associated Press:
AP statement on Israeli attack on building housing AP office
AP statement on Israeli attack on building housing AP office
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Erick-Woods Erickson / Erick Erickson's Confessions …:
Associated Press CEO Gary Pruitt Confirms the AP Works in a Hamas Operated Facility
Associated Press CEO Gary Pruitt Confirms the AP Works in a Hamas Operated Facility
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Washington Free Beacon, Variety, The New Arab and Instapundit
Adam Taylor / Washington Post:
With strikes targeting rockets and tunnels, the Israeli tactic of ‘mowing the grass’ returns to Gaza
With strikes targeting rockets and tunnels, the Israeli tactic of ‘mowing the grass’ returns to Gaza
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Virginia Pietromarchi / Al Jazeera:
Israeli air raid flattens Gaza building housing Al Jazeera
Israeli air raid flattens Gaza building housing Al Jazeera
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
The purging of Liz Cheney is about much more than the future of the GOP — It was just another week in Donald Trump's Republican Party, and once again, truth was a casualty. — House Republicans replaced a 2020 election truth-teller with a 2020 election truth-denier as the third-ranking member of their leadership.
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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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James Arkin / Politico:
Arizona audit divides wobbling state GOP
Arizona audit divides wobbling state GOP
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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 …
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Bloomberg
Marc Caputo / Politico:
McKissick whips Wood in South Carolina GOP race — Pro-Trump lawyer Lin Wood's bid to bring “chaos” to South Carolina's GOP was halted on Saturday when he failed to unseat the party's chairman after baselessly accusing the incumbent of voter fraud and a host of other slurs.
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Marc Caputo / Politico:
Stolen election myth rattles key GOP race
Stolen election myth rattles key GOP race
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Gay Officers Action League / goalny:
GOAL Reaction to the Decision of Heritage of Pride to Kick #CopsOutOfPride — New York, NY - May 14, 2021. The Gay Officers Action League ("GOAL") is disheartened by the decision to ban our group from participating in New York City Pride. Heritage of Pride (NYC Pride) …
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Michael Gold / New York Times:
N.Y.C. Pride Taking Steps to Reduce N.Y.P.D. Presence
N.Y.C. Pride Taking Steps to Reduce N.Y.P.D. Presence
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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 …
Madeleine Ngo / New York Times:
Covid Live Updates: Major U.S. Retailers Drop Mask Requirements — Walmart, Costco, Publix and Starbucks are among the retail giants effectively moving to an honor system. The union of registered nurses calls on the C.D.C. to revise its mask guidance, saying that “lives are in the balance.”.
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Joe Walsh / Forbes:
Marjorie Taylor Greene Allegedly Broke Georgia Law By Taking Tax Exemptions On Two Homes — Controversial freshman Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R) may have violated property tax laws in her home state of Georgia by listing two different houses as her primary residence, an Atlanta television station alleged Friday.
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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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Raw Story
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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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 …
Barry Meier / New York Times:
Secret Sharers: The Hidden Ties Between Private Spies and Journalists — A booming, renegade private intelligence industry is increasingly shaping (and misshaping) the news. — Some journalists are happy to knock on the doors of strangers. I was never one of them, but Christopher Steele …
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Washington Post
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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Katherine Rosman / New York Times:
Paulina Porizkova on Instagram, Aaron Sorkin and Aging — The veteran supermodel is contesting the will of her late husband, Ric Ocasek — and writing herself a splashy new chapter. — When the writer and model Paulina Porizkova was asked by Aaron Sorkin to join him at the Oscars …