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New York Times:
Biden Justice Department Seeks to Defend Trump in Suit Over Rape Denial — Donald Trump is facing a defamation lawsuit brought by E. Jean Carroll, who has accused Mr. Trump of raping her. — During the presidential campaign, Joseph R. Biden Jr., then the Democratic candidate …
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The Daily Beast, Washington Post, Townhall, Media Matters for America, CNN and Raw Story
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Erica Orden / CNN:
DOJ argues it should substitute for Trump as defendant in E. Jean Carroll lawsuit — New York (CNN)The Justice Department argued in a brief filed Monday that it should be permitted to substitute itself for former President Donald Trump as defendant in a defamation lawsuit brought …
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CBS News, Wall Street Journal and New York Magazine
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Biden Justice Department defends Trump in suit over rape denial — The Biden administration is pressing on with a controversial Justice Department defense of President Donald Trump in a defamation lawsuit brought by a writer who accused him of raping her at a New York City department store in the 1990s.
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Insider
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
Biden DOJ Will Keep Defending Trump on Rape Defamation Case — Donald Trump used the Justice Department to defend him in a defamation case that accuses him of rape, and the Biden administration will continue defending him. — Donald Trump can continue to lean on the executive power he once …
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Just The News
Justin Haskins / The Hill:
By rejecting Democrats' election overhaul bill, Joe Manchin may have saved America — On Sunday, the Charleston Gazette-Mail published an op-ed by Sen. Joe Manchin in which the West Virginia Democrat announced his opposition of the For the People Act, a bill that aims to impose a variety …
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Alternet.org, The American Spectator and The New Neo
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Some Democrats wonder when Schumer will get tough with Manchin
Some Democrats wonder when Schumer will get tough with Manchin
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Political Wire
HuffPost:
Democrats May Need To Change Their Voting Rights Bill If They Want It To Pass
Democrats May Need To Change Their Voting Rights Bill If They Want It To Pass
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New York Magazine, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today, Associated Press, The Week and Deseret News
Hanna Trudo / The Hill:
Democrats reach turning point with Manchin
Democrats reach turning point with Manchin
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New York Times, Raw Story, The Guardian, Alpha News and JONATHAN TURLEY
Michelangelo Signorile / The Signorile Report:
Are we going to let Joe Manchin sink democracy?
Are we going to let Joe Manchin sink democracy?
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New York Times
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
John Lewis voting rights bill faces steep uphill climb in Senate
John Lewis voting rights bill faces steep uphill climb in Senate
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Popular Information, American Prospect, New Republic and Washington Post
Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
Capitol Police had intelligence indicating an armed invasion weeks before Jan. 6 riot, Senate probe finds — The U.S. Capitol Police had specific intelligence that supporters of President Donald Trump planned to mount an armed invasion of the Capitol at least two weeks before the Jan. 6 riot …
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Associated Press
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CNN:
Senate report reveals new details about security failures ahead of January 6 attack but omits Trump's role
Senate report reveals new details about security failures ahead of January 6 attack but omits Trump's role
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ABC News, The Hill and Associated Press
NBC News:
Capitol Police didn't act on warnings Trump backers would breach Capitol, target Democrats, report says
Capitol Police didn't act on warnings Trump backers would breach Capitol, target Democrats, report says
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New York Times, NPR, CNN and MSNBC
Nicholas Wu / Politico:
Senators reveal further Capitol riot security failures in bipartisan report
Senators reveal further Capitol riot security failures in bipartisan report
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Political Wire
Evan Perez / CNN:
First on CNN: US recovers millions in cryptocurrency paid to Colonial Pipeline ransomware hackers — Washington (CNN)US investigators have recovered millions of dollars in cryptocurrency paid in ransom to hackers whose attack prompted the shutdown of the key East Coast pipeline last month, according to people briefed on the matter.
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USA Today, NBC News, HotAir, Breitbart, CBS News, The Daily Caller, Metro.co.uk, Insider, Joe.My.God., Mediaite and Forbes
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New York Times:
Justice Dept. says it recovered most of the ransom paid after the Colonial Pipeline cyber attack.
Justice Dept. says it recovered most of the ransom paid after the Colonial Pipeline cyber attack.
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TechCrunch, The US Sun, The Gateway Pundit, Twitchy, HotAir, New York Post and Just The News
U.S. Department of Justice:
Department of Justice Seizes $2.3 Million in Cryptocurrency Paid to the Ransomware Extortionists Darkside
Department of Justice Seizes $2.3 Million in Cryptocurrency Paid to the Ransomware Extortionists Darkside
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Register, Ace of Spades HQ, France 24, Elliptic Blog, Bloomberg, Denver Post, Gizmodo, TheBlaze, National Review and Los Angeles Times
CNN:
Exclusive: New audio of 2019 phone call reveals how Giuliani pressured Ukraine to investigate baseless Biden conspiracies — (CNN)Never-before-heard audio, obtained exclusively by CNN, shows how former President Donald Trump's longtime adviser Rudy Giuliani relentlessly pressured and coaxed …
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Raw Story, HuffPost, The Guardian, The Daily Caller, Alternet.org, Crooks and Liars, Occupy Democrats, USA Today, The Hill, Joe.My.God., POLITICUSUSA, Mediaite and NPR
Amanda Coletta / Washington Post:
Muslim family in Canada killed in ‘targeted’ attack, police say — TORONTO — A man accused of mowing down five members of the same family with a black pickup truck in an Ontario city on Sunday, killing four and seriously injuring a 9-year-old boy, targeted them because they were Muslim …
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New York Post, Metro.co.uk, Associated Press, Bangor Daily News and Raw Story
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CBC News:
Muslim family members targeted in fatal hit and run, police say, driver charged with murder — 3 adults and 1 teen dead, child in London, Ont., hospital with serious injuries from Sunday incident — A 20-year-old man was charged Monday with four counts of murder and one count of attempted murder …
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globalnews.ca, Snopes.com and Insider
Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
Newsmax turned down embattled Republican Matt Gaetz for a job -spokesperson — Conservative media outlet Newsmax, a favorite of former President Donald Trump's, rejected embattled Republican U.S. Representative Matt Gaetz's request for a job, a spokesperson for the website said on Monday.
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Report Concluded Covid-19 May Have Leaked From Wuhan Lab — The 2020 lab report was used by the State Department in its own inquiry during Trump administration — WASHINGTON—A report on the origins of Covid-19 by a U.S. government national laboratory concluded that the hypothesis claiming …
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The Times of Israel, New York Post, Raw Story and The Daily Caller
Caleb Ecarma / Vanity Fair:
Trump's Deranged Theory That Democrats Would Replace Biden Might Have Helped Him Lose 2020 — The president was obsessed with the idea that Democrats would strip the primary win from Joe Biden and nominate Hillary Clinton or Michelle Obama instead, reporter Michael Bender writes in an upcoming book.
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Slate, Alternet.org, Washington Post, Insider, The Daily Caller, No More Mister Nice Blog, Forbes, The Hill, The US Sun, Mediaite, Fox News, Zogby Analytics and Washington Examiner
ProPublica:
The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax — The Secret IRS Files — In 2007, Jeff Bezos, then a multibillionaire and now the world's richest man, did not pay a penny in federal income taxes. He achieved the feat again in 2011.
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Bloomberg and Alternet.org
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Wall Street Journal:
Federal Prosecutors Subpoena Material Related to Andrew Cuomo's Book — State officials who edited early versions of New York governor's memoir were among those receiving requests for information — Federal prosecutors have subpoenaed material related to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's recent memoir …
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CNN, Insider, Fox News, New York Post, Washington Examiner, National Review and The Daily Caller
New York Times:
Gripped by ‘Dinner Party-gate,’ Yale Law Confronts a Venomous Divide — A dispute centering on the celebrity professor Amy Chua exposes a culture pitting student against student, professor against professor. — NEW HAVEN, Conn. — On March 26, a group of students at Yale Law School approached …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, New York Magazine and Althouse
David Harsanyi / National Review:
The 1619 Project Comes for the Second Amendment — If the right to bear arms was intended to preserve slavery, why did civil-rights leaders insist that black Americans should be armed to protect themselves? — Left-wing academic Carol Anderson's new book, The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America, is all over the news.
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The Bulwark
Steven Nelson / New York Post:
Guatemala's prez blames Biden for border crisis as protesters tell Kamala Harris ‘Trump won’ — Vice President Kamala Harris was greeted Monday by protesters in Guatemala telling her “Trump won” and “go home” — as the country's president blamed President Biden for this year's migrant crisis.
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Peter Wehner / The Atlantic:
The Scandal Rocking the Evangelical World — “This is an earthquake,” a prominent Christian writer told me. — The publication of an extraordinary February 24, 2020, letter by Russell Moore, one of the most influential and respected evangelicals in America (and a friend), has shaken the Christian world.
Dan Merica / CNN:
Obama criticizes Republicans for embracing 2020 falsehoods — (CNN)Former President Barack Obama said Republicans have been “cowed into accepting” a series of positions that “would be unrecognizable and unacceptable even five years ago or a decade ago,” telling CNN's Anderson Cooper he is worried …
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Raw Story, New York Post, The Hill, Washington Times and Breitbart
Theo Stein / NOAA Research:
Carbon dioxide peaks near 420 parts per million at Mauna Loa observatory — Atmospheric carbon dioxide measured at NOAA's Mauna Loa Atmospheric Baseline Observatory peaked for 2021 in May at a monthly average of 419 parts per million (ppm), the highest level since accurate measurements began 63 years ago …
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The Guardian, Washington Post, NPR, USA Today, Gizmodo, Times of San Diego, UPI, The Verge, Washington Examiner, Common Dreams and Discourse.net
Taylor Goldenstein / Houston Chronicle:
Texas Supreme Court Justice Eva Guzman resigns, fueling 2022 speculation — Republican Texas Supreme Court Justice Eva Guzman has announced her resignation from her seat on the bench without stating a reason, fueling speculation she may have her sights set on running for a different office in 2022.
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Off the Kuff and The Texas Tribune
Fox News:
Biden White House powered by family connections — For some Biden administration members, it's all in the family — Fox News Flash top headlines for June 7 — It's all in the family for some well-known members of the Biden administration. — White House press secretary Jen Psaki …
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