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Victoria Eavis / Casper Star-Tribune:
US House candidate Bouchard says he impregnated 14-year-old when he was 18 — U.S. House candidate Anthony Bouchard had a relationship with and impregnated a 14-year-old girl when he was 18, he told the Star-Tribune late Thursday, hours after he disclosed the relationship in a Facebook Live video to his supporters.
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Cheney primary challenger impregnated 14-year-old when he was 18 — Wyoming state Sen. Anthony Bouchard, who's challenging Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) for her House seat, acknowledged in an interview with Casper Star-Tribune that he impregnated a 14-year-old girl when he was 18.
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Eric Ting / SFGATE:
An interview with Emily Wilder, recent Stanford grad fired from AP job over criticisms of Israel — Emily Wilder, a journalist and 2020 graduate of Stanford University, started a new job as an Associated Press news associate based in Maricopa County, Arizona, on May 3.
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Haley Byrd Wilt / Uphill:
GOP Senators Dig In Against January 6 Commission — Many say they still haven't read the legislation. But they have problems with it. — Good morning. I know some of you are tired of January 6 coverage. But we think this is a critical moment for congressional Republicans.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Republicans Won't Investigate Trump's Coup Because It's Partisan Which is exactly why it's such a threat.
Republicans Won't Investigate Trump's Coup Because It's Partisan Which is exactly why it's such a threat.
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CNN:
Trump administration secretly obtained CNN reporter's phone and email records — Washington (CNN)The Trump administration secretly sought and obtained the 2017 phone and email records of a CNN correspondent, the latest instance where federal prosecutors have taken aggressive steps targeting journalists in leak investigations.
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Insider:
From Mueller to McGahn, a multitude of Trump-era mysteries are poised to come roaring back into the headlines. Everyone involved is bracing for what happens after that. — Federal judges and Democrats have been unraveling several high-profile Trump-era mysteries.
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NBC News:
Inside Biden's ‘quiet,’ ‘relentless’ diplomatic scramble on Gaza … WASHINGTON — As the first rocket fire was exchanged between Israel and Hamas, President Joe Biden settled on a strategy. And as he had throughout the 2020 campaign, Biden adhered to it despite mounting criticism from Republicans and even his own Democratic Party.
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Biden scores a foreign policy victory in the Middle East. What's next?
Biden scores a foreign policy victory in the Middle East. What's next?
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Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
The Revolution Comes for Israel
The Revolution Comes for Israel
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Glenn Greenwald may have quit the Intercept, but he can't quit the feud — It all ended badly last October when Glenn Greenwald, the pugnacious, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, quit the investigative news site he had co-founded six years earlier. Greenwald left the Intercept with a parting shot …
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Harry Reid / New York Times:
What We Believe About U.F.O.s — We still don't know what they are — but we may be close to finding out. — Mr. Reid is a former senator. — This personal reflection is part of a series called The Big Ideas, in which writers respond to a single question: What do we believe?
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Washington Post:
Since leaving office, Trump has charged the Secret Service more than $40,000 to use space at Mar-a-Lago — Former president Donald Trump charged the Secret Service more than $40,000 this spring for rooms that Trump's own protective detail used while guarding him at his Mar-a-Lago Club, according to federal spending records.
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Katie Shepherd / Washington Post:
Sen. Ted Cruz insulted a ‘woke, emasculated’ U.S. Army ad. Angry veterans fired back. — The first half of the TikTok video shows a muscular Russian man with a shaved head doing push-ups, jumping out of a plane, and staring down the scope of a rifle. The second half shows …
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Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
Duckworth, veterans fire back at Cruz after ‘emasculated military’ comments
Duckworth, veterans fire back at Cruz after ‘emasculated military’ comments
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Joseph Cox / VICE:
Crime App Citizen is Driving a Security Car Around L.A. and Won't Say Why — The vehicle is linked to a private security company which describes itself as a “subscription law enforcement service.” — Joseph Cox — Citizen, a widely popular app that sends alerts to local residents …
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Ruth Graham / New York Times:
Los Angeles Mayor Calls Attack on Diners ‘Anti-Semitic’ — The attack came amid escalating violence in Israel and Gaza that has sparked protests in the United States. — Local officials and Jewish leaders in Los Angeles on Thursday condemned an attack against Jewish diners outside …
Jake Dima / Washington Examiner:
Tulsi Gabbard demands Lori Lightfoot's resignation after she granted interviews only to journalists of color — Former Hawaii congresswoman and 2020 presidential hopeful Tulsi Gabbard slammed Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Friday and demanded her resignation after she instituted …
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Shia Kapos / Politico:
ILLINOIS GOES IT ALONE (FOR NOW) — A LIGHTFOOT INTERVIEW — PAUL RYAN HEADLINES FOR KINZINGER
ILLINOIS GOES IT ALONE (FOR NOW) — A LIGHTFOOT INTERVIEW — PAUL RYAN HEADLINES FOR KINZINGER
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Hannah Knowles / Washington Post:
Kindergartners' questions helped get them off hijacked school bus, driver says: ‘Enough already’ — The hijacker forced his way onto the school bus with a rifle and commands to “Get out of town, now!” It was “one of the scariest” scenarios possible, law enforcement said later …
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Covid on the Run — The pandemic may now be in permanent retreat in the U.S. — I want to end this week by showing you two Covid-19 charts. They contain the same message: The pandemic is in retreat. — In the United States, there is now an excellent chance that the retreat is permanent.
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Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
The Texas Mask Mystery — In early March, Texas became the first state to abolish its mask mandate and lift capacity constraints for all businesses. Conservatives hailed Governor Greg Abbott's decision, while liberals predicted doom and death and President Joe Biden disparaged it as “Neanderthal thinking.”
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
The threat of violence now infuses GOP politics. We should all be afraid. — American politics is being conducted under the threat of violence. — Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), who has a talent for constructive bluntness, describes a political atmosphere within the GOP heavy with fear.
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Grant Stern / Grant's Newsletter:
Florida investigating Sidney Powell's Defending The Republic fundraising campaign — Nobody knows how many millions the former Trump lawyer has raised or where the money has gone. — 1 hr ago — Investigators for the state of Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services …
David Folkenflik / NPR:
‘Vulture’ Fund Alden Global, Known For Slashing Newsrooms, Buys Tribune Papers — The New York-based hedge fund Alden Global Capital - known for slashing its newspapers' budgets to extract escalated profits - won shareholder approval Friday for its $633 million bid to acquire the Tribune Publishing newspaper chain.
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Wall Street Journal:
Boko Haram Leader, Responsible for Chibok Schoolgirl Kidnappings, Dies — Death of Abubakar Shekau removes one the world's most brutal and effective terrorists — Abubakar Shekau, the fundamentalist warlord who turned Boko Haram from an obscure radical sect into a jihadist army whose war …
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David Brooks / New York Times:
David Brooks Interviews Joe Biden — What happened to Joe Biden? Many people thought he was a moderate incrementalist, but now he's promoting whopping big legislative packages that make many on the progressive left extremely happy. — I asked him that when I spoke on the phone with him this week.
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Wall Street Journal:
Bitcoin Miners Are Giving New Life to Old Fossil-Fuel Power Plants — The lofty prices of cryptocurrencies have investors sinking money into electricity generation, risking a backlash — Across America, older fossil-fuel power plants are shutting down in favor of renewable energy.
Elinor Aspegren / USA Today:
‘Not tolerating this nonsense’: Seventh noose found at Amazon construction site in Connecticut — Amazon is shutting down a construction site in Windsor, Connecticut, after a seventh noose was found there, the Connecticut NAACP and the company said Thursday.
Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
Few plea bargains in U.S. Capitol riot cases as prosecutors stand firm — Nearly four months after the U.S. Capitol attack, just one of more than 440 people charged has pleaded guilty, a sign of tough conditions set by prosecutors for plea deals and resistance by defense lawyers to their demands.
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Neil Vigdor / New York Times:
Alabama Lifts Its Ban on Yoga in Schools — For the first time in three decades, yoga can be taught, but the law will still bar teachers from using Sanskrit names for poses. — For the first time in nearly three decades, Alabama will allow yoga to be taught in its public schools …
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Mike Cason / al.com:
Gov. Kay Ivey signs bill allowing yoga in Alabama public schools
Gov. Kay Ivey signs bill allowing yoga in Alabama public schools
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Frank Figliuzzi / MSNBC:
The Trump criminal probe's heating up. Here's why the Trump children might want to lawyer up. — This week, New York Attorney General Letitia James revealed that her civil law inquiry into the corporate entity known as the Trump Organization has become a criminal investigation.
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Washington Post:
After more than a year of separation and isolation, Americans are reuniting. — We are hugging, laughing, dancing and crying. — We are mourning — the lost time, the lost people. And many of us are still feeling anxious. — But we are doing it together — over champagne and sonatas …
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White House budget plan set to leave out some health care proposals from campaign — A public option for health care will not be included in the budget that will be proposed next week. — White House officials have left key Biden campaign promises on health care out of their coming budget proposal …
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