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Apple Is Said to Have Turned Over Data on Trump's White House Counsel in 2018 — The company notified Donald F. McGahn II last month that it had been subpoenaed for his account information three years ago. — WASHINGTON — Apple told Donald F. McGahn II, the White House counsel …
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CNN:
Former Deputy AG Rosenstein has said he was not aware of subpoena for lawmakers' data, source says — (CNN)Ex-top Trump Justice Department official Rod Rosenstein has told people in recent days he was not aware of a subpoena that targeted the data of Democratic members of Congress …
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Jonathan Turley / The Hill:
Supreme Court confounding its partisan critics — The Supreme Court this week continued to disappoint congressional Democrats and activists with a long line of embarrassingly unanimous, non-ideological rulings. After all, the court is supposedly (to use President Biden's words) “out of whack” …
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Joseph Krauss / Associated Press:
Israel to swear in government, ending Netanyahu's long rule — JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel is set to swear in a new government on Sunday that will send Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into the opposition after a record 12 years in office and a political crisis that sparked four elections in two years.
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Patrick Kingsley / New York Times:
A history-making vote, but with a perilously thin margin. — The political fate of Israel's longest serving leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, is set to be decided on Sunday afternoon, when Parliament will hold a vote of confidence in a new government that would topple Mr. Netanyahu from power for the first time in 12 years.
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Jackie Calmes / Yahoo News:
Op-Ed: My front row seat to the radicalization of the Republican Party — Since before he became president, Joe Biden has told crowds, “Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party.” As a political reporter, I'd been hearing that lament since the late 1990s, from far better sources …
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David Heath / USA Today:
In first federal ruling on vaccine mandates, judge sides with Houston hospital, dismissing claims from staff resisters — HOUSTON - In the first federal ruling on vaccine mandates, a Houston judge Saturday dismissed a lawsuit by hospital employees who declined the COVID-19 shot …
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Carol Robinson / al.com:
Christopher Sign, Birmingham TV anchor and former Alabama football player, dead in apparent suicide — Veteran TV newsman and former University of Alabama football player Christopher Sign died Saturday morning in an apparent suicide, according to police. — At 8:13 a.m. Saturday …
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Lauren Weber / Wall Street Journal:
Forget Going Back to the Office—People Are Just Quitting Instead — As the pandemic clouds lift, the percentage of Americans leaving employers for new opportunities is at its highest level in more than two decades — More Americans are quitting their jobs than at any other time in at least two decades …
Reuters:
G7 chides China on rights, demands COVID origins investigation — Group of Seven leaders on Sunday scolded China over human rights in its Xinjiang region, called for Hong Kong to keep a high degree of autonomy and demanded a full and thorough investigation of the origins of the coronavirus in China.
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Olivia Reingold / Politico:
Pompeo insists Covid-19 leaked from a Chinese lab — Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo insisted on Sunday that Covid-19 originated from a Chinese lab. — “There's a pile of evidence a hundred feet high,” Pompeo said on “Fox News Sunday,” without offering specifics.
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Washington Post:
Trump's shadow still looms over cloudy skies at G-7 summit — CARBIS BAY, England — Addressing U.S. troops shortly after his arrival in England this past week, President Biden took pains to stress the importance of working with allied nations, emphasizing a partnership “grounded on democratic ideals and a shared vision of the future.”
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Quinn Scanlan / ABC News:
Majority of Americans trust Joe Biden to negotiate on US behalf with foreign counterparts: POLL — With Russia's Vladimir Putin specifically, 49% trust Biden to negotiate. — In the midst of his first foreign trip since taking office, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds a majority …
The White House:
CARBIS BAY G7 SUMMIT COMMUNIQUÉ — We, the leaders of the Group of Seven, met in Cornwall on 11-13 June 2021 determined to beat COVID-19 and build back better. We remembered everyone who has been lost to the pandemic and paid tribute to those still striving to overcome it.
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Heath Druzin / The Daily Beast:
This Militia-Fighting GOP Sheriff Thinks Jan. 6 Was Just the Start — The man who oversees law enforcement in the heart of militia country sees plenty of reason to be worried. — SPOKANE, Washington—Ozzie Knezovich seems to revel in pissing people off. — “The fact that the extreme left …
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New York Post:
Bidenomics is proving a total disaster that could send America back to stagnant '70s — Bidenomics is proving an utter disaster for American workers and consumers, and don't bet on it to end soon. — With the pandemic all but over — more than half of American adults are fully vaccinated …
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