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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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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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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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House Republican Leader:
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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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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Wall Street Journal:
The Wuhan Lab Leak Question: A Disused Chinese Mine Takes Center Stage
The Wuhan Lab Leak Question: A Disused Chinese Mine Takes Center Stage
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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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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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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Should Republican voters be taken literally, or seriously?
Should Republican voters be taken literally, or seriously?
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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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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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Ayaan Hirsi Ali / UnHerd:
How influencers have legitimised anti-Semitism
How influencers have legitimised anti-Semitism
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Jason Easley / POLITICUSUSA:
Jen Psaki Smashes Peter Doocy As He Tries To Blame Biden For COVID Deaths — Video: … Doocy asked, “On the origins of covid, there is a new Wall Street Journal story that three researchers at the Wuhan Institute of urology were hospitalized with symptoms consistent with covid-19 and common seasonal illness of November 2019.
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Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Biden to meet with Putin next month
Biden to meet with Putin next month
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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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In the post-Trump era, Virginia's GOP gubernatorial nominee tries to thread the needle — WASHINGTON — Two weeks before Democrats pick his opponent, Republican nominee Glenn Youngkin is hitting Virginia's airwaves with his first TV ad of the general election in the state's race for governor.
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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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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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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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The Dispatch:
How the West Must Handle Lukashenko's Threat to the International Order — Designating the Belarusian dictator as a terrorist would be one step. But leaders must also pressure Vladimir Putin. — 2 hr ago — Alexander Lukashenko's 27 years in power in Belarus have been marked by murder, brutality, and repression.
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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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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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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.
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
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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Reuters:
Exclusive: Biden looks abroad for electric vehicle metals, in blow to U.S. miners — U.S. President Joe Biden will rely on ally countries to supply the bulk of the metals needed to build electric vehicles and focus on processing them domestically into battery parts, part of a strategy designed …
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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.
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 …
Gromer Jeffers Jr / Dallas Morning News:
George P. Bush consults with Donald Trump before his expected challenge against Texas AG Ken Paxton — Bush says he'll launch a campaign after the Texas legislative session, though he hasn't confirmed it will be against Attorney General Ken Paxton. — Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush …
Del Quentin Wilber / Los Angeles Times:
Kristen Clarke poised to become first woman of color to lead Justice Department's Civil Rights Division — Kristen Clarke was looking for a new athletic challenge during her junior year in high school. Girls' basketball didn't interest her because she couldn't dribble. Girls' ice hockey?
April Ryan / TheGrio:
What is really holding up the George Floyd policing act from Biden's desk? — EXCLUSIVE: A high-ranking Democrat tells theGrio that Republicans are holding up the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act because they're seeking buy-in from law enforcement organizations — Loading the player...
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