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Washington Post:
Leader of companies that pushed ‘Italygate’ election conspiracy theory falsely claimed $30 million mansion was her home — Late last December, as President Donald Trump pressed senior officials to find proof of election fraud, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows emailed acting attorney …
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Josh Kovensky / Talking Points Memo:
ItalyGate Is The Crown Jewel Of Big Lie Conspiracies. And It Just Got A Lot Wilder. — For those ready to believe that President Trump really won re-election, there's one particularly fantastical conspiracy theory to hang your hat on. — It's called ItalyGate, and it offers a simple …
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Sun-Sentinel:
One dead after pickup truck drives into crowd attending Wilton Manors LGBTQ Pride parade — A pickup truck drove into a crowd of spectators at the start of the Wilton Manors Stonewall Parade and Festival in what appeared to be an intentional act, witnesses said.
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Rubén Rosario / WSVN-TV:
Mayor: 1 dead, 1 hospitalized after truck hits pedestrians at Stonewall Pride Parade; driver in custody — One person has died and another has been taken to the hospital after they were run over by a truck in Fort Lauderdale at the beginning of Stonewall Pride Parade, according to the city's mayor.
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WPLG-TV:
2 hit by truck, 1 killed at Pride parade in Wilton Manors — Man behind the wheel was wearing Fort Lauderdale Gay Men's Chorus t-shirt — WILTON MANORS, Fla. - One man was killed and another injured when they were run over by a pickup truck as the Stonewall Pride Parade in Wilton Manors was just getting started Saturday night.
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Devoun Cetoute / Miami Herald:
One killed, two injured by pickup truck at Broward Stonewall Pride Parade, reports say
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Hunter Walker / New York Magazine:
A Very Late Night With the Yangs The former frontrunner and his wife vent about Eric Adams, the media, and much more. — “I have a pet peeve I want to share with you,” Andrew Yang declared immediately after we were introduced on Zoom late Thursday night. — The emotional toll of a series …
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New York Times:
Yang and Garcia Form Late Alliance in Mayor's Race, Drawing Adams's Ire — Andrew Yang and Kathryn Garcia campaigned together on Saturday in a show of unity that their top rival, Eric Adams, sought to portray as racially motivated. — Andrew Yang and Kathryn Garcia, two leading candidates …
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Brianne Pfannenstiel / Des Moines Register:
Is U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley now ‘vincible’? In new Iowa Poll, nearly two-thirds say it's time for someone new — Fewer than a third of Iowa's likely voters say they would vote to reelect Republican Chuck Grassley if the U.S. Senate elections were held today, a new Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll shows.
NBC News:
Charges dropped for hundreds of alleged looters in New York City — In late May and early June 2020, looters smashed storefronts in the Bronx and Manhattan boroughs of New York City. — Many were caught on tape, some with their faces visible. Others even posted their own videos of their actions those nights on social media.
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New York Times:
How Republican States Are Expanding Their Power Over Elections — In Georgia, Republicans are removing Democrats of color from local boards. In Arkansas, they have stripped election control from county authorities. And they are expanding their election power in many other states.
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Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
Georgia Republicans purging Black election officials as they eye 2022 midterms: report
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Jonathan D. Salant / New Jersey Online:
How much did you pay to cover Trump visits to his N.J. golf club as president? We added it up. — Donald Trump's trips to his Bedminster golf club as president cost U.S. taxpayers more than $2.4 million, according to U.S. Secret Service records obtained by NJ Advance Media.
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Lizzie Widdicombe / New Yorker:
What Is Going On at Yale Law School? — The prestigious institution has tied itself in knots over a dispute involving one of its most popular—and controversial—professors, Amy Chua. — A decade ago, back when we talked about things besides new coronavirus strains and vaccination rates …
Jon Levine / New York Post:
Manhattan City Council candidate caught with dominatrix in leaked video … It's a late-breaking case of electoral bondage. — Zack Weiner, 26, a City Council candidate running in Manhattan, has found his campaign tied up after video of him enjoying a sadomasochism session found its way onto Twitter.
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Taffy Brodesser-Akner / New York Times:
The One About Bibi Netanyahu's Father and the Perils of Diaspora … When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. — THE NETANYAHUS — An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family
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Foreign Policy
Jon Levine / New York Post:
AOC skips out on congressional voting to campaign for Maya Wiley — AOC is MIA. — Queens Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been skipping out on congressional votes citing pandemic hardship — but has found time to campaign for progressive mayoral candidate Maya Wiley.
Danielle Echeverria / San Francisco Chronicle:
Only one U.S. city saw a bigger pandemic exodus than San Francisco — Seattle was the fastest-growing city in 2020, while San Francisco and San Jose shrank — San Francisco saw the second largest population decline of all major cities in the U.S. in 2020, according to census data.
Wall Street Journal:
The World Relies on One Chip Maker in Taiwan, Leaving Everyone Vulnerable — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.'s dominance poses risks to the global economy, amid geopolitical tensions and a major chip shortage — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. 's chips are everywhere, though most consumers don't know it.
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Washington Monthly
Amnesty International:
Iran: Ebrahim Raisi must be investigated for crimes against humanity — Responding to today's announcement declaring Ebrahim Raisi as Iran's next president, Amnesty International's Secretary General Agnès Callamard said: — “That Ebrahim Raisi has risen to the presidency instead …
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Michael Hauser Tov / Haaretz:
Prime Minister's Office to Investigate Whether Netanyahu Shredded Documents Before Bennett Took Office — On Thursday, Haaretz reported that documents stored in safes in the Prime Minister's Office were shredded in violation of the law, shortly before Bennett took office
Natalie Winters / The National Pulse:
REVEALED: Google & USAID Funded Wuhan Collaborator Peter Daszak's Virus Experiments For Over A Decade. — Google funded research conducted by Peter Daszak's EcoHealth Alliance - a controversial group which has openly collaborated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology on “killer” …
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Olivia Solon / NBC News:
Drought-stricken communities push back against data centers — On May 17, the City Council of Mesa, Arizona, approved the $800 million development of an enormous data center — a warehouse filled with computers storing all of the photos, documents and other information we store “in the cloud” …
Leonard Pitts Jr / Miami Herald:
That ‘well-regulated militia?’ It was originally created to quell rebellions of the enslaved, prof says — Conservatives have a special purgatory for uppity black women who dare question America's founding myths. — New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones — her Pulitzer Prize-winning …
Washington Post:
Severe heat and drought the hallmarks of a changing west — Farmers, regulators and politicians facing the consequences of historic water shortages — LAKE OROVILLE, Calif. - The work had to be done quickly as water vanished to vapor in the early summer heat.
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Cassandra Pollock / The Texas Tribune:
Gov. Greg Abbott vetoes funding for Texas Legislature and its staff as punishment for Democrats' walkout on elections bill — The governor's move comes after House Democrats led a walkout in the final days of the regular legislative session to block passage of Senate Bill 7 …
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