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New York Times:
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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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 …
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Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:
Biden says ‘America is back at the table’ as 1st foreign trip continues
Biden says ‘America is back at the table’ as 1st foreign trip continues
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NBC News, KVIA-TV, The Guardian, Crooks and Liars and WTOP
Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Biden explains decision to avoid joint press conference with Putin
Biden explains decision to avoid joint press conference with Putin
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Insider, CNN, TASS, Bloomberg, New York Post, Deadline, The Gateway Pundit, Mediaite and One America News Network
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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NBC News, Vox, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Washington Post and Bloomberg
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Axios:
Netanyahu is out as new Israeli government survives confidence vote — Israel has a new prime minister for the first time since 2009 after a power-sharing government led by Naftali Bennett survived a confidence vote on Sunday. Bennett was sworn in as prime minister.
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Fox News, middleeastmonitor.com, The Times of Israel and Breitbart
Joseph Krauss / Associated Press:
Israel to swear in government, ending Netanyahu's long rule
Israel to swear in government, ending Netanyahu's long rule
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NBC10 Philadelphia, New York Post, Associated Press and One America News Network
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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Associated Press:
U.K. churchgoers stunned as Bidens join them at Sunday service … Churchgoers in a seaside resort in England say they have been left “gobsmacked” when U.S. President Joe Biden and the first lady Jill Biden dropped in for a Sunday service. — The Bidens are in Cornwall, southwest England …
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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 …
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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CNN, NBC News, Real Clear Politics and DCReport.org
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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Washington Examiner, The Wrap, Townhall, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Deadline, The Daily Caller, TheBlaze, RedState, The Gateway Pundit, WBRC-TV and WBMA-TV
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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Joe.My.God.
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
‘Exploited the crazies’: How the GOP used Trump's election lies to hide the fact that they're losing power — According to a report from the Guardian's Sam Levine, Republicans who have always dabbled in playing to the red meat crowd are now ramping up their efforts to use that voting bloc …
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The Guardian
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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Insider, CNN, Politico and The US Sun
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Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
‘Arm up and get guns’: Lara Trump warns people may have to ‘start taking matters into their own hands’ — Despite violent rhetoric from her family inciting the January 6th insurrection, Lara Trump suggested vigilante violence against people perceived to be from south of the southern border during …
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Slate, Joe.My.God. and Crooks and Liars
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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The Daily Beast, ABC News, Raw Story and Crooks and Liars
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cnalysis:
Poll: Democrats Hold Slight Leads in 2021 Virginia Elections — With the 2021 Virginia elections a mere 141 days away, the elections for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, and House of Delegates are all single-digit races; the elections for Governor and House of Delegates are also currently within the margin of error.
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Blue Virginia
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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Politico, Mother Jones, Roll Call and Common Dreams
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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Raw Story