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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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Talking Points Memo, Washington Examiner, Law & Crime, Insider, 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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MSNBC, Wall Street Journal and 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:
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Emily Bohatch / The State:
SC's Mace calls Marjorie Taylor Greene's vaccine ID Holocaust comparison ‘appalling’
SC's Mace calls Marjorie Taylor Greene's vaccine ID Holocaust comparison ‘appalling’
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HuffPost, CBS News, The Hill, Washington Post, Washington Examiner, National Review, The Daily Caller, Raw Story, Forbes, Joe.My.God. and Mediaite
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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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, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, 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
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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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 …
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
Inconvenient Anti-Semitism Is Still Anti-Semitism
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HotAir, UnHerd, New York Times and New York Post
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
Trump lashes out against possible U.S. Senate candidate Mark Brnovich over election audit
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Associated Press
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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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
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Ally Mutnick / Politico:
Dems fight off ‘defund the police’ attack in New Mexico special election
Dems fight off ‘defund the police’ attack in New Mexico special election
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Political Wire
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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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
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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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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Politico and The Hill, more at Mediagazer »
NBC News:
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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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.
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,” …
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Byron York's Daily Memo: What one year has brought — Welcome to Byron York's Daily Memo newsletter. — Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here to receive the newsletter. — WHAT ONE YEAR HAS BROUGHT. Today President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will meet …
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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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Wisconsin Public Radio and Wisconsin Examiner
Sami Sparber / The Texas Tribune:
Texans could carry handguns without a permit under bill headed to Gov. Greg Abbott's desk — Abbott has said he would sign the permitless carry proposal into law. — Copy link — A measure long sought by conservative activists allowing Texans to carry handguns without a license …
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Jim Vertuno / Associated Press:
Texas set to allow unlicensed handgun carry despite outcry
Texas set to allow unlicensed handgun carry despite outcry
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CBS Dallas / Fort Worth and BizPac Review
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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