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Washington Post:
Prosecutor in Trump criminal probe convenes grand jury to hear evidence, weigh potential charges — NEW YORK — Manhattan's district attorney has convened the grand jury that is expected to decide whether to indict former president Donald Trump, other executives at his company or the business itself …
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Leader McCarthy Condemns Comparisons to the Holocaust — Washington, D.C. - House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (CA-23) released the following statement:
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Strange Anti-Semitism of the Pro-Jewish Right Marjorie Taylor-Greene loves the Jews to death. — Representative Marjorie Taylor-Greene is perhaps best known for having shared her belief that California wildfires were deliberately started by space lasers controlled by the Rothschild family …
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
The Crisis of Anti-Semitic Violence — Violence between Jews and Muslims in the Middle East is often accompanied by spikes in anti-Semitic activity in the United States, but what's happened over the last week or so has been different. — As Jonathan Greenblatt, the national director …
MSN:
Democrats consider the possibility of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seeking a restraining order against Marjorie Taylor Greene — Senior Democrats have discussed whether AOC could seek a restraining order against Marjorie Taylor Greene. — Greene has repeatedly targeted AOC, recently chasing her down a hallway in the Capitol.
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Politico:
House GOP leaders rebuke Greene's Holocaust rhetoric as ‘appalling’ — Top House Republicans on Tuesday condemned freshman Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene after she spent days comparing vaccine and mask requirements to the Holocaust. — But GOP leaders stopped short of calling for any disciplinary action …
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Ben Leonard / Politico:
Kinzinger calls for Marjorie Taylor Greene to be kicked out of GOP conference over Holocaust remark
Kinzinger calls for Marjorie Taylor Greene to be kicked out of GOP conference over Holocaust remark
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Arizona Republic:
Tech company running Arizona ballot audit backs out: ‘They were done’ — Jen Fifield Andrew OxfordArizona Republic — The Pennsylvania-based IT company that was in charge of running the hand recount of Maricopa County ballots is no longer involved in the audit.
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Yvonne Wingett Sanchez / Arizona Republic:
Trump lashes out against possible U.S. Senate candidate Mark Brnovich over election audit
Washington Post:
Bipartisan group of senators prepares new infrastructure plan as talks stall between White House and GOP — Romney and several others are trying to craft a deal that they hope can win support from lawmakers in both parties — A small bipartisan group of senators is privately sketching …
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Marc Thiessen / Washington Post:
Biden wants bipartisanship to fail and for the GOP to be blamed for it
Biden wants bipartisanship to fail and for the GOP to be blamed for it
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Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:
As deadlines slip, Biden agenda faces crucial assessment
As deadlines slip, Biden agenda faces crucial assessment
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Mark Phillips / KNXV:
Secretary of State Katie Hobbs stripped of roles by Appropriations Committee — PHOENIX — Political score-settling is not supposed to be part of the budgeting process, but you will have a hard time convincing Democratic members of the House Appropriations Committee of that.
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Sally Goldenberg / Politico:
Kathryn Garcia leads field in new poll, 4 weeks ahead of Election Day — Former city sanitation commissioner Kathryn Garcia is leading the Democratic field of mayoral contenders, with Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams hot on her trail, according to a new poll four weeks ahead of Election Day.
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Michael Gartland / New York Daily News:
Eric Adams gets NYC mayoral endorsement from famed civil rights lawyer
Eric Adams gets NYC mayoral endorsement from famed civil rights lawyer
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CNN:
Faulty redactions in court document show federal investigators seized more info in case against Rudy Giuliani than previously disclosed — New details emerge about investigation into Giuliani — (CNN)New York federal prosecutors investigating Rudy Giuliani have seized material from a wider array …
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Morgan Phillips / Fox News:
Senate confirms DOJ nominee Kristen Clarke with just one Republican vote — Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, voted yes with all Democrats, and Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., did not vote — Fox News Flash top headlines for May 25 — The Senate confirmed Kristen Clarke as the first Black woman …
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Marty Johnson / The Hill:
Senate confirms Clarke as first Black woman to lead DOJ civil rights
Senate confirms Clarke as first Black woman to lead DOJ civil rights
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Keith E. Whittington / Chronicle of Higher Education:
We Are Critics of Nikole Hannah-Jones. Her Tenure Denial Is a Travesty. — Political intervention in hiring will badly damage higher ed. — Today's rampant political polarization has led to alarming interference in academic affairs, threatening basic principles of openness and faculty authority …
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
What Biden Didn't Realize About His Presidency — Joe Biden had been president for less than two weeks when he told me something he'd heard from a friend after the election. Biden was like the dog that caught the car, the friend told him—after a lifetime of dreaming of becoming president, he'd finally done it.
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Should Republican voters be taken literally, or seriously?
Should Republican voters be taken literally, or seriously?
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Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Nevada GOP thrown into turmoil after avowed Proud Boys member said he participated in censure vote of state official — The leaders of the Nevada Republican Party are facing an internal revolt after an avowed Proud Boys member said he was invited with friends to attend a state party meeting …
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Trump responds to insurrection lawsuit by claiming immunity while he was President — ‘Storm the Capitol!’: Rioters react to Trump speech — Washington (CNN)Donald Trump's attorney defended the ex-President's incendiary speech on January 6, saying he is protected under the First Amendment and had …
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Shayna Jacobs / Washington Post:
Steve Bannon's fraud case dismissed after months of haggling over Trump pardon — NEW YORK — A federal judge on Monday formally dismissed the fraud case against Stephen K. Bannon, the conservative provocateur and ex-adviser to President Donald Trump, ending months of litigation …
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Timeline: How the Wuhan lab-leak theory suddenly became credible — The source of the coronavirus that has left more than 3 million people dead around the world remains a mystery. But in recent months the idea that it emerged from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) …
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Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Justice Dept. releases part of internal memo on not charging Trump in Russia probe — The Justice Department late Monday night released part of a key internal document used in 2019 to justify not charging President Donald Trump with obstruction, but also signaled it would fight a judge's effort to make the entire document public.
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Donald G. McNeil Jr / Medium:
The End IS Near. No, Seriously. — The tone of some recent writing about this pandemic has seemed — to me, anyway — strangely defeatist. — Friends keep asking me questions like: “Is what I'm hearing true? We'll never reach herd immunity?” — The subtext is we'll never really be safe …
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Matthew Dalton / Wall Street Journal:
France Suspects Russian Role in Campaign to Discredit Pfizer Vaccine — Several French bloggers said they received emails offering to pay for social-media videos criticizing the Covid-19 vaccine — PARIS—French counterintelligence authorities are investigating whether the Russian government …
Ally Mutnick / Politico:
Dems fight off ‘defund the police’ attack in New Mexico special election — ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Melanie Stansbury, the Democratic candidate in next week's special congressional election here, spent last weekend touting Joe Biden's agenda, vowing to strengthen infrastructure and fight climate change, drought and hunger.
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Emily Brooks / Washington Examiner:
Democrats nervous and GOP hopeful that New Mexico election is 2022 bellwether
Democrats nervous and GOP hopeful that New Mexico election is 2022 bellwether
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David M. Herszenhorn / Politico:
After Trump, EU feels a more familiar US arrogance — European leaders are thrilled to have Joe Biden and a return to the friendly American exceptionalism they know so well. — With Joe Biden preparing for his first trip abroad as president, European leaders are noticing a change in the transatlantic air.
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Margaret Talev / Axios:
Axios-Ipsos poll: Re-emerging without trust — Americans are taking off their masks and re-engaging publicly at levels not seen since the start of the pandemic, with the most dramatic shifts in people over 50 and those who've been vaccinated, according to the latest installment of the Axios/Ipsos Coronavirus Index.
Meridith McGraw / Politico:
Trump is starting to put together his own Contract with America. And he's teaming up with Newt. — The 45th president has sat down with the former speaker, as well as Mark Meadows and Lindsey Graham in recent weeks to begin crafting a policy document. — Acid wash jeans, scrunchies, and... Newt Gingrich.
Cdcmmwr / Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
COVID-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Infections Reported to CDC — United States, January 1-April 30, 2021 — CDC COVID-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Case Investigations Team (View author affiliations) — COVID-19 vaccines are a critical tool for controlling the ongoing global pandemic.
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Michael Anton / The American Mind:
Red Lines — The Constitution invites us—and politics compels us—to consider redrawing state and local borders. — The following essay is the first in a new feature from The American Mind on the possibilities—and necessity—of rearranging our political map. — In September of 2020, I published a book entitled The Stakes.
South China Morning Post:
WWE's Cena apologises to China after Taiwan country reference — John Cena says on Taiwanese TV that it would be ‘the first country to watch the film’ American quickly backtracked on Weibo, saying he made ‘one mistake’ after doing ‘a lot of interviews’ John Cena backtracks comments …
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Emma G. Fitzsimmons / New York Times:
How the G.O.P. Primary for Mayor Turned 2 Friends Into Bitter Rivals — Two long-shots, Curtis Sliwa, the founder of the Guardian Angels, and Fernando Mateo, a restaurateur, are in a heated fight to be their party's nominee. — The two Republicans running for mayor of New York City used to be friends.