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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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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Biden Justice Department fights release of legal memo on prosecuting Trump — The Justice Department on Monday released more of a key legal memo concluding that former President Donald Trump did not commit obstruction of justice through his alleged attempts to thwart federal investigations …
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Washington Examiner, Talking Points Memo, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Bloomberg and Crooks and Liars
Linnaea Honl-Stuenkel / CREW:
CREW statement on DOJ blocking release of Trump obstruction memo — In a scathing decision earlier this month, Judge Amy Berman Jackson found that the Department of Justice misled the court and Attorney General Bill Barr misled the country and ordered the Department to disclose a memo Barr used …
Marshall Cohen / CNN:
Biden's DOJ appeals order to release full memo on why Trump wasn't charged with obstruction
Biden's DOJ appeals order to release full memo on why Trump wasn't charged with obstruction
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BuzzFeed News
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
McGahn Is Likely to Testify Next Week on Trump's Efforts to Obstruct Russia Inquiry
McGahn Is Likely to Testify Next Week on Trump's Efforts to Obstruct Russia Inquiry
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Politico, Daily Kos, CNN, Insider, NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth and Political Wire
House Republican Leader:
Leader McCarthy Condemns Comparisons to the Holocaust — Washington, D.C. - House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (CA-23) released the following statement:
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Should Republican voters be taken literally, or seriously? — The latest Ipsos poll finds that 75 percent of Americans think President Biden is the “true” president while 55 percent think he is the “legitimate and accurate” president; 25 percent disagree with each. That's the good news.
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Insider, Washington Examiner, Lawyers, Guns & Money and PolitiZoom
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Michael Steele / MSNBC:
Trump's stranglehold on the GOP is a death trap for American democracy — Addressing a reunion of Civil War soldiers in 1875, President Ulysses S. Grant predicted that the dividing line in the nation's next great conflict “will not be Mason's or Dixon's, but between patriotism and intelligence on one side …
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Raw Story and Real Clear Politics
Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
What Biden Didn't Realize About His Presidency
What Biden Didn't Realize About His Presidency
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Bloomberg, CNN, Breitbart, The American Independent, Raw Story, POLITICUSUSA and Washington Times
Jason Sattler / USA Today:
Senators swore to support America, not the filibuster. Kill it to save the January 6 commission.
Senators swore to support America, not the filibuster. Kill it to save the January 6 commission.
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Forbes, IJR, Wisconsin Examiner, BizPac Review and Raw Story
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
If the GOP is now home to ‘evil lunacy,’ it's time to leave
If the GOP is now home to ‘evil lunacy,’ it's time to leave
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Progressive Eruptions, The Intellectualist and HuffPost
ABC News:
Biden to meet Putin in Geneva, White House says, with goal of restoring ‘stability’ — Their first summit is planned for June 16. — Catch up on the developing stories making headlines. — President Joe Biden will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva, Switzerland …
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Politico, The Hill and Radio Free Europe/Radio …
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The Dispatch:
How the West Must Handle Lukashenko's Threat to the International Order
How the West Must Handle Lukashenko's Threat to the International Order
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DW.COM, Washington Post, NPR, Columbia Journalism Review and Raw Story, more at Mediagazer »
Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Biden, Putin to meet next month in Geneva, the first face-to-face session between the two leaders
Biden, Putin to meet next month in Geneva, the first face-to-face session between the two leaders
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New York Times, CBS News, Fox News, ABC News, IJR, TASS, Forbes, Associated Press, KEYT-TV, The Intellectualist and Radio Free Europe/Radio …
MSN:
U.S. backs sanctions over Belarus' “outrageous” flight diversion
U.S. backs sanctions over Belarus' “outrageous” flight diversion
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Washington Post, HotAir, TK News and New York Post
CNN:
Biden and Putin summit to take place next month in Switzerland
Biden and Putin summit to take place next month in Switzerland
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USA Today, Associated Press, Insider, NBC News, Bloomberg, NPR, Al Jazeera, New York Post, Raw Story, The Daily Caller, POLITICUSUSA, Mediaite and Politico
Holly Ellyatt / CNBC:
Russia's power over Belarus is in the spotlight after plane ‘hijacking’ incident
Russia's power over Belarus is in the spotlight after plane ‘hijacking’ incident
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Washington Free Beacon, Insider, spectator.us, Responsible Statecraft, EURACTIV.com and Politico
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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pjmedia.com, NOQ Report, Summit News, Fox News, RedState, New York Magazine, Twitchy, Outside the Beltway, Patterico's Pontifications and spectator.us
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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 …
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Blake Flayton / The Bulwark:
Inconvenient Anti-Semitism Is Still Anti-Semitism — Liberals must oppose leftwing anti-Semitism as stridently as rightwing anti-Semitism. — Every Jewish American remembers the evening of August 11th, 2017. During the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, we found ourselves glued …
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Forbes, New York Post, Axios and Fox News
Ayaan Hirsi Ali / UnHerd:
How influencers have legitimised anti-Semitism
How influencers have legitimised anti-Semitism
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Politico, New York Times, Jewish Journal, TheBlaze and Commentary Magazine
Barak Ravid / Axios:
U.S. wants to reopen Jerusalem consulate, Blinken tells Netanyahu — Secretary of State Tony Blinken told Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu in their meeting on Tuesday that the Biden administration wants to reopen the U.S. Consulate General in Jerusalem as soon as possible, Israeli officials tell me.
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Washington Post:
Infrastructure talks hit a wall as Senate GOP and White House exchange blame — Republicans allege that Biden's aides reversed course — The prospects for a bipartisan infrastructure deal dimmed even further Monday, as Senate Republicans alleged that the White House had agreed to narrow …
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Outside the Beltway, Fox News, RedState, Roll Call, New York Post, Common Dreams and Insider
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Scmp / 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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National Review, HotAir, RedState, The Wrap, TheBlaze, CNN, Crooks and Liars, The National Pulse and Hong Kong Free Press HKFP
Jon Gambrell / Associated Press:
Mysterious air base being built on volcanic island off Yemen — DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A mysterious air base is being built on a volcanic island off Yemen that sits in one of the world's crucial maritime chokepoints for both energy shipments and commercial cargo.
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HotAir
Dan Pfeiffer / The Message Box:
How Libs Can Stop Owning Themselves Online — The Right has mastered trolling as a political communications strategy and Dems have to stop falling for it — In the last few weeks, Senator Ted Cruz, no stranger to Twitter controversy, has — Retweeted a Russian propaganda video while calling the U.S. military “emasculated.”
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Vanity Fair
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.
Scott Bauer / Associated Press:
Wisconsin Republicans to quickly kill Medicaid expansion — MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature planned Tuesday to convene then immediately end a special session called by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers to expand Medicaid. — Rejecting expansion means Wisconsin …
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Wisconsin Public Radio and Wisconsin Examiner
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Scoop: New York Times in talks to buy The Athletic — The New York Times is looking into a potential acquisition of The Athletic, three sources familiar with the matter tell Axios. — Driving the news: Sources say The Times approached The Athletic following a report about a potential deal between The Athletic and Axios in March.
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The Hill, more at Mediagazer »
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 …
Emily Brooks / Washington Examiner:
Democrats nervous and GOP hopeful that New Mexico election is 2022 bellwether — ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — New Mexico's 1st Congressional District special election will test whether warnings over a left-wing approach to policing and crime work without former President Donald Trump topping the ballot.
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Fox News, New Mexico Politics … and RRH Elections
Matt Dixon / Politico:
How Matt Gaetz helped make Ron DeSantis — TALLAHASSEE — Just weeks after he took office as governor, Ron DeSantis held a press conference with Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) that left Florida's political class befuddled. — Standing with Republicans DeSantis and Gaetz was a major Democratic donor …
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Raw Story
Jacob Magid / The Times of Israel:
Support for Israel among young US evangelical Christians drops sharply — survey — Since 2018, backing for Israel down from 75% to 33% now; nearly half of evangelicals aged 18-29 say they favor establishment of Palestinian state, voted for Biden over Trump
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TheBlaze
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
How Michel Foucault Lost the Left and Won the Right — One of the strange things about the last year in Western political debate is how rarely the name of the departed philosopher Michel Foucault came up — and not for want of opportunity. One of Foucault's key concepts, “biopolitics,” …
Perry Bacon / Washington Post:
The progressives are right about foreign policy, too — On economic issues, the Democratic Party has moved from “the era of big government is over” to a more populist agenda. On racial issues, the party has eschewed “Sister Souljah” policies and rhetoric designed to woo White swing voters …
Yvonne Wingett Sanchez / Arizona Republic:
Trump lashes out against possible U.S. Senate candidate Mark Brnovich over election audit — Former President Donald Trump lashed out against state Attorney General Mark Brnovich over his tepid support of the ongoing review of ballots in Maricopa County, a blow to the potential Republican contender in Arizona's 2022 U.S. Senate race.
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Associated Press
Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
‘The final straw’: How the pandemic pushed restaurant workers over the edge — Jim Conway started working in restaurants in 1982, making $2.13 an hour, plus tips. — And though the world has changed significantly in the nearly 40 years since then, his hourly wage has not.