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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 …
Blake Flayton / The Bulwark:
Inconvenient Anti-Semitism Is Still Anti-Semitism
Inconvenient Anti-Semitism Is Still Anti-Semitism
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Politico:
House GOP leaders rebuke Greene's Holocaust rhetoric as ‘appalling’
House GOP leaders rebuke Greene's Holocaust rhetoric as ‘appalling’
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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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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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Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
Coons, Biden's Eyes and Ears in the Senate, Reaches for Bipartisanship
Coons, Biden's Eyes and Ears in the Senate, Reaches for Bipartisanship
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Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
Republicans plan to send Biden nearly $1 trillion infrastructure counteroffer this week
Republicans plan to send Biden nearly $1 trillion infrastructure counteroffer this week
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Erik Wasson / Bloomberg:
GOP to Offer Biden Nearly $1 Trillion for Infrastructure Plan
GOP to Offer Biden Nearly $1 Trillion for Infrastructure Plan
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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
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
Biden Justice Department fights release of legal memo on prosecuting Trump
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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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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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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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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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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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Del Quentin Wilber / Los Angeles Times:
From wrestling mat to Justice Department, Kristen Clarke known for breaking barriers
From wrestling mat to Justice Department, Kristen Clarke known for breaking barriers
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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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John Kruzel / The Hill:
Trump claims ‘absolute immunity’ from Swalwell lawsuit over Jan. 6 riot
Trump claims ‘absolute immunity’ from Swalwell lawsuit over Jan. 6 riot
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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Andrew Gutmann / The Hill:
One father's stand against critical race theory: We're indoctrinating our children — A month ago, I mailed a letter to all the parents of my daughter's New York City private school, Brearley, asking them to speak up against the school administration's illiberal and indoctrinating antiracism initiatives …
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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Tara Copp / Defense One:
US Air Force Will Cut Turkey from F-35 Production, Kendall Says — The service secretary nominee also signals he's not in favor of reducing U.S. F-35 purchases. — The United States will press forward with ending Turkey's role in producing parts for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter …
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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,” …