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Ben Smith / New York Times:
Tucker Carlson Calls Journalists ‘Animals.’ He's Also Their Best Source. — His platform on Fox News made him a big player in Donald Trump's circle. Off camera, he shapes the coverage of Trump's world and Fox's own internal politics. — Last month, I texted Tucker Carlson to ask …
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Dan Diamond / Washington Post:
New book offers fresh details about chaos, conflicts inside Trump's pandemic response — At one point, the president mused about transferring infected American citizens in Asia to Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. — In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic …
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The Guardian, Insider, Raw Story and Mediaite
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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Progressives crank up filibuster pressure on Sinema with million-dollar ad buy in Arizona … WASHINGTON — A progressive group is launching a seven-figure ad campaign aiming to pressure Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., to support abolition of the filibuster, as the Senate eyes a vote to advance major voting rights legislation.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
D.C. Statehood Is the Democrats' Only Option
D.C. Statehood Is the Democrats' Only Option
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Real Clear Politics
Washington Post:
Trump and his CFO Allen Weisselberg stay close as prosecutors advance their case — The former president and his trusted lieutenant head to Trump Tower as prosecutors press Weisselberg to turn on his boss — NEW YORK — If Donald Trump was looking for some good news on his 75th birthday on last Monday …
Wall Street Journal:
Supreme Court Rejects NCAA's Tight Limits on Athlete Benefits, Compensation — The court rules the NCAA violated antitrust law by limiting schools from competing for player talent by offering better benefits—to the detriment of college athletes — WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court on Monday ruled …
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Devin Dwyer / ABC News:
Supreme Court rules against NCAA caps on student athlete education-related gifts and benefits
Supreme Court rules against NCAA caps on student athlete education-related gifts and benefits
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NBC News, CNN, Politico, Washington Post, Associated Press, TheGrio, NBC Chicago, abc7NY and FOX 2
Politico:
Chaotic N.C. Senate primary tests Trump's sway over the GOP — Donald Trump has endorsed conservative Rep. Ted Budd in North Carolina's critical Senate race, the former president's first foray into an open primary in a battleground. That state's retiring Republican senator has other ideas.
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POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
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Graham Rayman / New York Daily News:
‘What threat did I pose?’: Heartbroken dad blames NY State Police trooper for ramming his SUV and causing crash that killed his 11-year-old Brooklyn daughter — Handcuffed in the back seat of a New York State Trooper's car, Tristin Goods could only seethe quietly and watch helplessly …
Christian Datoc / Washington Examiner:
EXCLUSIVE: Meadows says DeSantis won't run against Trump in 2024 — Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows thinks you can add Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to the list of Republican presidential hopefuls who won't run against former President Donald Trump in 2024 should he enter the race.
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HotAir, National Review, Colorado Politics, Townhall and TheBlaze
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Caleb Howe / Mediaite:
Conservative Conference 2024 Straw Poll Winner: Donald Tr — No Wait, Ron DeSantis!
Conservative Conference 2024 Straw Poll Winner: Donald Tr — No Wait, Ron DeSantis!
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Washington Times, Raw Story, The Western Journal and BizPac Review
Ally Mutnick / Politico:
How Democrats are ‘unilaterally disarming’ in the redistricting wars — Oregon Democrats had finally secured total control of redistricting for the first time in decades. — Then, just months before they were set to draw new maps, they gave it away. — In a surprise that left Democrats …
American Greatness:
The Biden No-Go Zones — The Democratic Party won the long march through journalism, but this Pyrrhic victory has meant the destruction of every principle of journalistic integrity liberals ever claimed to champion. — In American journalism, there are supposed to be some clear, nonnegotiable third-rails.
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David Rothkopf / USA Today:
Joe Biden is better on the world stage than any president since George H.W. Bush
Joe Biden is better on the world stage than any president since George H.W. Bush
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Daily Kos
Adam McCann / WalletHub:
2021's Most Patriotic States in America — Americans may feel their patriotism dampened this year amid the recent surge in racial injustice, including police brutality and a rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans. Many people may find it hard to celebrate a country in which racist incidents persist.
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POLITICUSUSA and The Daily Caller
Sophie Lewis / CBS News:
New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard to become first openly transgender athlete to compete at Olympics — Laurel Hubbard lifted a whopping 628 pounds in two lifts to qualify for her first Olympic Games. And when she competes in Tokyo next month, she will make history as the first openly transgender athlete ever to do so.
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Washington Examiner, New Zealand Olympic Team, Daily Mail, KVIA-TV, The Daily Caller, Insider and Forbes
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Praveen Menon / Reuters:
NZ weightlifter Hubbard to become first transgender athlete to compete at Games
NZ weightlifter Hubbard to become first transgender athlete to compete at Games
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RedState, Fox News, TMZ.com, The US Sun, Al Jazeera and Japan Times
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: This week in Washington: Biden takes on rising crime — DRIVING THE DAY — FOR YOUR RADAR: Violent crime has been spiking across America for more than a year. The issue has been at the top of the GOP agenda and constitutes a major portion of Fox News programming.
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Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
The Race to Replace Liz Cheney Is a Trump Sideshow
The Race to Replace Liz Cheney Is a Trump Sideshow
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New York Times and Raw Story
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
A World of High Wages and Cheap Burrito Bowls Is Possible — The Democratic Party's policies have delivered large wage increases to blue-collar workers, and at only a negligible cost to middle-class consumers. — This is, apparently, the GOP's new message about the Biden economy.
U.S. Department of Justice:
Endeavor Executives Resign from Live Nation Board of Directors after Justice Department Expresses Antitrust Concerns — The Department of Justice announced today that two executives of Endeavor Group Holdings Inc. - Chief Executive Officer and Director Ariel Emanuel, and President Mark Shapiro …
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The Wrap
Evan Osnos / New Yorker:
The Man Who Controls the Senate — Will Joe Manchin's search for common ground wreck the Democrats' agenda? — On a frosty night in February, Joe Manchin III, the senior senator from West Virginia, invited a few colleagues over for dinner aboard the houseboat he docks on the Potomac.
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CNN, The Hill and Washington Post
Robert Klemko / Washington Post:
Unmasking the far right: An extremist paid a price when his identity was exposed online after a violent clash in Washington — In a flash, Laura Jedeed was surrounded by screaming men. The freelance journalist was filming a group of Trump supporters walking the streets of the District after the …
New York Times:
Taliban Enter Key Cities in Afghanistan's North After Swift Offensive — The setbacks come at a harrowing moment for Afghanistan, just as American and international troops are set to leave the country in coming weeks. — KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban entered two provincial capitals …
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Wall Street Journal, The Daily Beast and Associated Press
CNN:
Trump World's latest crazy idea could be good for Democrats — Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is the host of SiriusXM radio's daily program “The Dean Obeidallah Show” and a columnist for The Daily Beast. Follow him @DeanObeidallah. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own.
Daniel Greenfield / Front Page Magazine:
A Racist Training Program for the U.S. Navy — Forget fighting China, confess your white privilege. — Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Scoop: White House eyes ending migrant family expulsion by July 31 — The White House is considering ending — as early as July 31 — the use of a Trump-era public health order that's let U.S. border officials quickly turn back migrant families to Mexico, Axios has learned.
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New York Post, The Hill and National Review
THE CITY:
New Evidence Eric Adams Retained Brooklyn Co-op Long After He Says Gave It to His ‘Good Friend’ — Mayoral frontrunner Eric Adams intervened in the potential sale of a Brooklyn co-op in 2017 that he insists he gave up his co-ownership of a decade earlier, according to a real estate agent who tried to broker the deal.
Heather Long / Washington Post:
The economy isn't going back to February 2020. Fundamental shifts have occurred. — A new era has arrived of greater worker power, higher housing costs and very different ways of doing business — The U.S. economy is emerging from the coronavirus pandemic with considerable speed …
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Eschaton
Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
St. Louis Lawyer Buys New AR-15 Days After Being Forced to Give Up Gun He Pointed at Protesters — COULDN'T RESIST — Days after St. Louis gun fanatic Mark McCloskey was forced to give up the guns he waved at protestors last year, he seems to have already found a replacement.
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Crooks and Liars