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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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Reuters:
Putin says Russia would accept conditional handover of cyber criminals to U.S. — President Vladimir Putin has said Russia would be ready to hand over cyber criminals to the United States if Washington did the same for Moscow and the two powers reached an agreement to that effect.
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, Bloomberg, TASS, New York Post, Deadline, The Gateway Pundit, Mediaite and One America News Network
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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New York Post, Associated Press and One America News Network
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Patrick Kingsley / New York Times:
A history-making vote, but with a perilously thin margin.
A history-making vote, but with a perilously thin margin.
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Fox News, Washington Post, Breitbart and Bloomberg
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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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 …
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, Townhall, Deadline, The Daily Caller, TheBlaze, RedState, The Gateway Pundit, WBRC-TV and WBMA-TV
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
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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NBC News
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.
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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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, Crooks and Liars and Raw Story
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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
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
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
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
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