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New York Times:
The Most Detailed Map of New York City Mayoral Primary Results — New York City voters cast their ballots for mayor on Tuesday, and it became clear that the competitive Democratic race would be decided by the city's new ranked-choice system. It is likely to be weeks before a winner is known.
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New York Primary Election Results — The race to become New York City's next mayor is one of the most consequential political contests in a generation, with the recovery of the nation's largest city at stake. The winner of the Democratic primary is likely to win the general election in November.
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Mediaite and Washington Examiner
Max Gowins / Decision Desk HQ:
Election Results: NYC Municipal Primaries and More
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The Daily Caller
New York Times:
Saudi Operatives Who Killed Khashoggi Received Paramilitary Training in U.S. — The training, approved by the State Department, underscores the perils of military partnerships with repressive governments. — WASHINGTON — Four Saudis who participated in the 2018 killing …
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
A Bill Destined to Fail May Now Spawn More Plausible Options — The For the People Act had little chance of testing the limits of what if anything is still possible in Washington. Oddly, it was so far from passage that it may provide some hope, because so many avenues remain to be pursued.
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Washington Post:
Democrats signal a shift toward accepting voter ID laws
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
‘Killibuster’: Democratic angst grows as filibuster threatens agenda
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Washington Examiner:
Democrats lie about lying about voter ID
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HotAir, Daily Kos and The US Sun
Jonathan Oosting / Bridge Michigan:
GOP investigation finds no Michigan vote fraud, deems many claims ‘ludicrous’ … LANSING —A months-long Republican investigation into Michigan's 2020 election uncovered no evidence of widespread fraud and concluded Wednesday with a recommendation the attorney general investigate those who made false claims for “personal gain.”
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Raw Story, Detroit News and Washington Examiner
Luis Ferré-Sadurní / New York Times:
India Walton, a socialist candidate, stuns longtime incumbent in Buffalo mayor's race. — A progressive challenger running her first campaign was poised on Tuesday to beat Buffalo's four-term Democratic mayor in a primary upset that would upend the political landscape in New York's second-biggest city …
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Crooks and Liars, Washington Post, NBC News and Forbes
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Robert J. McCarthy / Buffalo News:
India Walton claims upset in Buffalo mayoral race; Byron Brown pins hopes on absentees — India B. Walton, the community activist barely known to many Buffalo voters just months ago, shocked four-term incumbent Byron W. Brown in Tuesday's Democratic primary for mayor in what may rank …
Jon Campbell / Democrat and Chronicle:
India Walton, a socialist, poised to become Buffalo's first woman mayor
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Mother Jones
Ana Ceballos / Tampa Bay Times:
State university faculty, students to be surveyed on beliefs — Gov. Ron DeSantis suggested that budget cuts could be looming if universities and colleges are found to be “indoctrinating” students. — TALLAHASSEE — In his continued push against the “indoctrination” of students …
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Travis Gibson / WJXT-TV:
Gov. DeSantis signs civic literacy bills, takes aim at socialism, communism
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Politico:
‘Staggering’: Biden breaks from agenda to grapple with bloodshed plaguing big cities — CHICAGO — It was 6 a.m. last week when news broke of a mass shooting in Chicago. Eight people were shot, five of whom died. By 7:30 a.m. a White House official was on the phone with Mayor Lori Lightfoot's office.
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Associated Press:
Biden anti-crime effort takes on law-breaking gun dealers
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Politico, Fox News and New York Times
CNN:
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner distance themselves from the former President and his constant complaints — (CNN)With each passing day away from Washington, former President Donald Trump's grievances continue unabated. And those complaints appear to be driving away two of the people …
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Insider
Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: New book says Trump talked of COVID killing John Bolton — “Nightmare Scenario,” a book out next week on President Trump's handling of COVID, reports that he said he hoped it would take out his former national security adviser, John Bolton, who had just written an explosive tell-all about his time in the White House.
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Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Former DNC Chair Tom Perez enters Maryland governor's race — WASHINGTON — Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez is running for governor of his home state of Maryland, where the outgoing Republican governor has proven immensely popular despite the state's heavy Democratic tilt.
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Pamela Wood / Baltimore Sun:
Longtime Democratic official Tom Perez joins race for Maryland governor
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The Moscow Times:
Russia Fires ‘Warning’ Shots at British Warship Near Crimea — A Russian fighter jet and border guard ship have fired “warning” shots at a British warship that the military said violated Russia's borders in the Black Sea near annexed Crimea, state media reported Wednesday.
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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Manchin open to Biden's ‘human infrastructure’ plans and undoing some Trump tax cuts — WASHINGTON — A key moderate Democratic senator opened the door Tuesday to investing in President Joe Biden's “human infrastructure” proposals and unwinding some of the Republican tax cuts of 2017.
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Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and POLITICUSUSA
Miranda Devine / New York Post:
Did Joe inadvertently pay for Hunter Biden's wild night at Chateau Marmont? — It's May 2018, and Robert Hunter Biden is trawling through his favorite Los Angeles escort sites. He orders “Yanna,” a 24-year-old Russian native from Emerald Fantasy Girls. — “Russian, Green Eyes …
Hunter Walker / The Uprising:
Yang Presidential Campaign Advisers Blame Tusk Strategies For ‘Crashing’ His Mayoral Bid — This is a special breaking news issue of The Uprising, a daily politics newsletter. If you enjoyed this story and want to read more like it, please sign up! — BROOKLYN, N.Y. …
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Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Do Chance Meetings at the Office Boost Innovation? There's No Evidence of It. — For some, the office even stifles creativity. As the pandemic eases in the U.S., a few companies seek to reimagine what work might look like. — When Yahoo banned working from home in 2013 …
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Unlawful assembly? Arrests in Northern Virginia school board meeting after parents erupt over CRT — How does a public comment period at a school board turn into an unlawful assembly, and then into an ugly scrum? The Loudoun County school board apparently got tired of getting lectured …
Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo:
Ground Temperatures Hit 118 Degrees in the Arctic Circle — Newly published satellite imagery shows the ground temperature in at least one location in Siberia topped 118 degrees Fahrenheit (48 degrees Celsius) going into the year's longest day. It's hot [Siberia] Earth summer, and it certainly won't be the last.
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40 Years In The Desert
New York Times:
‘We Are Very Free’ How China Spreads Its Propaganda Version of Life in Xinjiang — These and thousands of other videos are meant to look like unfiltered glimpses of life in Xinjiang, the western Chinese region where the Communist Party has carried out repressive policies against Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities.
Max Boot / Washington Post:
Ron DeSantis is showing Trump-level skill at waging culture war — Former president Donald Trump is America's premier culture warrior. No other modern politician has displayed as much talent at dividing Americans, peddling disinformation, demonizing minorities and exacerbating social problems.
Axios:
Democrats sound alarm on crime as top threat to 2022 election chances — It's no coincidence former NYPD captain Eric Adams is leading the NYC mayoral race.
Joe Killian / The Progressive Pulse:
PW Exclusive: Nikole Hannah-Jones will not join UNC-Chapel Hill faculty without tenure — Nikole Hannah-Jones will not join the faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill without tenure, according to a letter from her legal team to the university this week. — According to the letter …
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Katie Benner / New York Times:
Garland Says Watchdog Is Best Positioned to Review Trump-Era Justice Dept., Not Him — The attorney general said that various inspector general inquiries would help uncover any wrongdoing and that he wanted to avoid politicizing the work of career officials.
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Danielle Douglas-Gabriel / Washington Post:
Warren holds up confirmation of a Biden pick at Education Department — James Kvaal is President Biden's pick to head higher-education policy at the agency — Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is impeding the confirmation of James Kvaal, President Biden's pick to head higher-education policy …
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Sui-Lee Wee / New York Times:
They Relied on Chinese Vaccines. Now They're Battling Outbreaks. — More than 90 countries are using Covid shots from China. Experts say recent infections in those places should serve as a cautionary tale in the global effort to fight the disease. — Mongolia promised its people a “Covid-free summer.”
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HotAir
Liz Crampton / Politico:
‘Rogue city leaders’: How Republicans are taking power away from mayors — Mayors and city councils across Arizona issued face mask mandates during the pandemic to prevent the spread of Covid-19, angering conservative state lawmakers who decried government overreach.
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Raw Story
American Greatness:
Juneteenth: George Floyd's Critical Race Holiday — Juneteenth is an enormous win for the racism industrial complex. — If we could somehow strip away the dubious political context in which it was birthed, Juneteenth might indeed be worthy of national commemoration.
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