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10:40 PM ET, June 13, 2021

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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 — The Justice Department subpoenaed Apple for information in February 2018 …
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Washington Post:
Trump's Justice Department secretly sought data from Apple on former White House counsel McGahn  —  The tech company Apple recently notified former White House counsel Donald McGahn and his wife that the Justice Department had secretly requested their information in 2018, an individual familiar with the request said Sunday.
Discussion: ABC News, Bloomberg and Politico
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Apple informed former White House counsel Don McGahn and wife that their records were sought by DOJ in 2018  —  (CNN)Former Trump White House counsel Don McGahn and his wife received disclosures from Apple last month that their account records were sought by the Justice Department in February 2018 …
Haaretz:
Pics: Noam Moskowitz/Knesset, Gil COHEN-MAGEN, Ariel Zandberg  — Benny Gantz bashes Netanyahu: No political move justifies the conflict you create with the U.S.  — Joint List's Odeh: This is a bad government  — Netanyahu: We must prevent a Palestinian state
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and New York Times
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Axios:
Netanyahu is out as new Israeli government survives confidence vote
The White House:
Readout of President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Call with Prime Minister Bennett of Israel
Discussion: JNS.org
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
The fall of “King Bibi”
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Israel Approves Coalition Government, Ending Netanyahu's 12-Year Reign
Ryan Heath / Politico:
Biden heads to Brussels after global win  —  Queen Elizabeth II received her 13th American president this afternoon — Joe from Scranton — her first in-person bilateral meeting with a head of state since the death of Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh.  Ahead of the visit …
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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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John Harwood / CNN:
Washington Republicans have just one move  —  What's the question?  Just about anything important a Democratic president is asking.  —  Last week the issue was infrastructure.  President Joe Biden asked a few Republican senators to compromise within shouting distance of his plan …
Ned Beatty Dead / TMZ.com:
‘Network’ & ‘Superman’ Actor Ned Beatty Dead at 83  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  REMEMBERING NED BEATTY  —  3:28 PM PT — Ned's manager tells us ... his client died around 7:30 AM this morning of natural causes, surrounded by friends and loved ones.  —  Ned Beatty — a veteran character actor …
Kaelan Deese / Washington Examiner:
McEnany claims ‘I never lied’ as Trump's press secretary, citing religious faith  —  Former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany claimed Sunday her faith in God barred her from ever telling a lie during her time working under former President Donald Trump.
Discussion: Mediaite and Political Wire
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Eric Deggans / NPR:
Tom Hanks Is A Non-Racist.  It's Time For Him To Be Anti-Racist  —  First, I must note how much I love Tom Hanks as a performer, Hollywood citizen and all-around stand-up guy.  —  Of course, he's a consummate actor, with two Oscars and starring roles in landmark films such as Philadelphia and Forrest Gump.
Matthew Neale / NME:
Watch Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and John Mulaney open for The Strokes at Maya Wiley fundraiser  —  Check out the setlist, photos, fan footage, and all the reaction from a huge night in New York  —  The Strokes were joined by some very big names for their fundraising concert in support …
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Insider
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Hunter Walker / The Atlantic:
The NYC Mayor's Race Is a Warning for Progressives
Fred Hiatt / Washington Post:
This is the Republicans' back-up plan in case they can't suppress enough votes  —  Like termites, destructive but largely unseen, anti-democracy forces around the country are gnawing at the foundations of America's free and fair elections.  —  State by state, the termites are trying to change …
Discussion: Vanity Fair
Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Police union PACs launch text attacks on The Squad  —  A national police union is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars attacking The Squad, records show.  —  Why it matters: The $510,000 in spending by two PACs associated with the International Union of Police Associations …
Discussion: Insider and Raw Story
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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Sam Levine / The Guardian:
How Republicans came to embrace the big lie of a stolen election
David Wallace-Wells / New York Magazine:
The Implications of the Lab-Leak Hypothesis  —  Nothing has changed but the narrative.  A majority of Americans now believe that the coronavirus emerged from a lab, not nature, and in recent weeks a new openness to the lab-leak theory has taken over “nearly all mainstream media,” as my colleague Jonathan Chait put it.
Marianna Sotomayor / Washington Post:
'I didn't take an oath to defend Donald Trump': Rep. Tom Rice tests whether Republican voters will support a conservative who crossed Trump  —  MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — Republican Rep. Tom Rice of South Carolina has been a reliable conservative during his five terms in Congress …
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
Discussion: NBC News
Jay Mathews / Washington Post:
Big hole in popular view that China beats U.S. in education  —  First thing every morning I eat my breakfast and read the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal spread before me.  It is a great newspaper, and not just because it has employed three family members.
New York Times:
Why the Mexico City Metro Collapsed  —  A Times investigation shows the serious construction flaws and political pressure behind a tragedy that threatens two of Mexico's most prominent figures.  —  On a balmy night in May, Tania Lezama Salgado hopped on the metro with her sister Nancy …
 
 
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Eric Lach / New Yorker:
The Big Stakes and Deep Weirdness of the Last Days of New York City's Mayoral Race
Discussion: KVIA-TV
The Atlantic:
The Myth of a Majority-Minority America
Christina Zhao / Newsweek:
Calls for Alex Jones' Arrest Grow Louder After His $500K Donation to January 6 Rally Resurfaces
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Ezra Klein / New York Times:
What the Rich Don't Want to Admit About the Poor
Anthony Izaguirre / Associated Press:
Exodus of election officials raises concerns of partisanship
Discussion: Political Wire
Travis Andrews / Washington Post:
Can astrology make sense of cryptocurrency? Maren Altman and a million TikTok followers think so.
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Mark Grabowski / Washington Examiner:
Most of the media will sleep through the Biden years
Discussion: KVIA-TV and The Gateway Pundit
Albert Hunt / The Hill:
Time will tell: Kamala Harris's presidential prospects
Discussion: New York Post and Townhall
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Long underrepresented in film and TV, Latinos are falling further behind
cnalysis:
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Discussion: Blue Virginia and Breitbart
Carol Robinson / al.com:
Christopher Sign, Birmingham TV anchor and former Alabama football player, dead in apparent suicide
Lauren Weber / Wall Street Journal:
Forget Going Back to the Office—People Are Just Quitting Instead
David Heath / USA Today:
In first federal ruling on vaccine mandates, judge sides with Houston hospital, dismissing claims from staff resisters
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