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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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John Stoehr / The Editorial Board:
Nearly everyone missed Chuck Schumer implying this week that the filibuster's death is coming — The conventional wisdom is coming around to the Democrats' side. — 1 hr ago — The Editorial Board, as I hope you have noticed, is not in the business of making arguments for the sake of argumentation.
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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.
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Filibuster brawl amps up with GOP opposition to Jan. 6 panel — The filibuster has been on hiatus since Joe Biden took over. Senate Republicans are about to change that — over a bipartisan commission to probe the Capitol riot. — After more than four months of letting their power …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Joe Manchin, please listen carefully to what Mitch McConnell just told you
Joe Manchin, please listen carefully to what Mitch McConnell just told you
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New York Times, HotAir and Raw Story
Ben Chapman / Wall Street Journal:
New York Police Investigate Beating of Jewish Man During Pro-Palestinian March — NYPD officials have opened a hate-crime probe of the assault — The New York Police Department has opened a hate-crime investigation into the beating of a Jewish man during a pro-Palestinian demonstration …
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Ruth Graham / New York Times:
Los Angeles Mayor Calls Attack on Diners ‘Anti-Semitic’
Los Angeles Mayor Calls Attack on Diners ‘Anti-Semitic’
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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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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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The Verge and The Daily Dot
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Joseph Cox / VICE:
Leaked Emails Show Crime App Citizen Is Testing On-Demand Security Force
Leaked Emails Show Crime App Citizen Is Testing On-Demand Security Force
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Jan Wolfe / Reuters:
U.S. Attorney General Garland weighs release of Trump-era obstruction memo — U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland faces a Monday deadline to decide whether to appeal a court order criticizing his predecessor William Barr, an early test of his willingness to defend the Justice Department's acts during Donald Trump's presidency.
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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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Henry J. Gomez / NBC News:
Republican Rep. Gonzalez, who voted to impeach Trump, warns of a GOP ‘recipe for disaster’
Republican Rep. Gonzalez, who voted to impeach Trump, warns of a GOP ‘recipe for disaster’
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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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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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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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Dean Obeidallah / MSNBC:
Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't think white people can be terrorists — In the weeks after the 9/11 terrorist attack, former President George W. Bush famously declared in a joint address to Congress: “Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists.” Apparently to today's Republicans …
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The American Independent, Associated Press and The Hill
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.
Shia Kapos / Politico:
ILLINOIS GOES IT ALONE (FOR NOW) — A LIGHTFOOT INTERVIEW — PAUL RYAN HEADLINES FOR KINZINGER — TGIF, Illinois. Thanks for hanging in there this week. It's been a doozy. — TOP TALKER — With less than 10 days before the legislative session wraps up, Gov. J.B. Pritzker …
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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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RedState, Mediaite, CNN, The Daily Caller, IJR, Balloon Juice, Insider and HuffPost
Washington Post:
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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NBC News, Wall Street Journal, Insider, National Review and HotAir
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Biden scores a foreign policy victory in the Middle East. What's next? — President Biden showed he is neither Barack Obama nor Donald Trump when it comes to Israel. He avoided any public contentiousness with the nation, yet he managed to help halt violence there in the span of 11 days …
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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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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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CBS News, TheBlaze and Law & Crime
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 …
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.”
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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Dan Zak / Washington Post:
The mess in Maricopa — Votes are still being counted in Arizona. It won't change the winner. But it might change America. — PHOENIX — Something spooky has been happening here in Maricopa County. Weird spooky, crazy spooky, this-has-never-happened-before-in- America spooky.
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VICE, The Dispatch, Raw Story, Arizona Republic and Talking Points Memo
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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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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Washington Post:
The unseen covid-19 risk for unvaccinated people — The country's declining covid-19 case rates present an unrealistically optimistic perspective for half of the nation — the half that is still not vaccinated. — As more people receive vaccines, covid-19 cases are occurring mostly …