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8:40 AM ET, June 27, 2021

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Jonathan D. Karl / The Atlantic:
William Barr Speaks  —  Donald Trump is a man consumed with grievance against people he believes have betrayed him, but few betrayals have enraged him more than what his attorney general did to him.  To Trump, the unkindest cut of all was when William Barr stepped forward and declared …
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
‘They were on their balconies, screaming:’ The final minutes at Champlain Towers South … SURFSIDE, Fla. — From her fourth-floor balcony, Cassondra Stratton felt a tremor and saw the swimming pool cave in.  She immediately called her husband, Michael, in Denver, 2,000 miles away.
Discussion: New York Times
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New York Times:
Engineer Warned of ‘Major Structural Damage’ at Florida Condo Complex
Chris Joyner / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
‘Castrate, kill, remove voting rights’: Ex-Marine, Georgia deputy was in extremist cell, feds say  —  When FBI agents in San Diego seized the cell phone of a suspected white supremacist last year, they discovered text messages with a Georgia sheriff's deputy boasting of racial violence and preparations for a civil war.
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
The White House:
Statement by President Joe Biden on the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework … On Thursday, I reached a historic agreement with a bipartisan group of Senators on a $1.2 trillion plan to transform our physical infrastructure.  The plan would make the largest investment in infrastructure in history …
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Annie Linskey / Washington Post:
Biden reverses himself on infrastructure, says he would sign bipartisan deal  —  WASHINGTON — President Biden on Saturday reversed a stand he had taken forcefully just two days earlier, saying he would will sign a roughly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package even if he is unable …
Brendan Cole / Newsweek:
USAA Urged to Pull Fox News Advertisements After Tucker Carlson's Mark Milley Comments  —  There are calls for the United Services Automobile Association (USAA) to stop advertising with Fox News following controversy over the comments by its anchor Tucker Carlson about the country's highest-ranking military officer.
Discussion: HuffPost
Sarah Maslin Nir / New York Times:
Johnson & Johnson to Pay New York $230 Million to Settle Opioid Case  —  The settlement agreement came just days before opening arguments in a sweeping trial of several defendants, including the company.  —  Johnson & Johnson will pay New York State more than $230 million in a settlement …
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NY State Attorney General:
Attorney General James Reaches $230 Million Settlement for Treatment and Prevention of Opioid Crisis in New York, Johnson & Johnson Ends Sale of Selling Opioids
Meridith McGraw / Politico:
Trump dishes the red meat but keeps revenge on ice  —  WELLINGTON, Ohio — Donald Trump's first MAGA rally since leaving the White House was billed as a takedown of one of the 10 Republicans who voted for the then-president's impeachment following the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill riots.
Discussion: National Review and BizPac Review
Washington Post:
A grandmother didn't answer her phone during a class.  She was sent back to prison.  —  In the year she was out of prison, Gwen Levi, 76, was thriving.  —  After serving 16 years in different federal facilities for dealing heroin, Levi was allowed to leave last June and finish her 24-year sentence …
CNN:
GOP lawmaker won't come to CNN, so Jim Acosta went to him.  See what happened  —  CNN's Jim Acosta talks with Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and tries to speak with Congressman Mo Brooks (R-AL) about the January 6th insurrection and conspiracy theories surrounding it.  Source: CNN
Discussion: UPROXX and Mediaite
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Bob Brigham / Raw Story:   Kevin McCarthy may appoint Marjorie Taylor Greene to select committee on Trump's Jan. 6 insurrection
Bob Liff / New York Daily News:
Eric Adams' promise: The likely next mayor has tremendous skills and some troubling tendencies  —  Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams' speech Tuesday night — with ranked-choice voting in play, we can't call it a victory speech until the computers work their magic — was a good precursor of an Adams mayoralty.
Matt Binder / Mashable:
Inside the shady world of influencers promoting cryptocurrency  —  From FaZe Clan to Tana Mongeau, why are so many influencers shilling altcoins?  —  Everyone knows Kim Kardashian, the influencer and reality TV show star, but do you know Kim Kardashian, the cryptocurrency advocate?
Matt Pearce / Los Angeles Times:
It's OK to cause some internet drama if you get cut from cheer squad  —  In pop culture, America's most famous pedagogic tool for teaching everyone how the world could work, there are two opposing models for law and order in the high school cheerleading system.
Jan Hoffman / New York Times:
As Parents Forbid Covid Shots, Defiant Teenagers Seek Ways to Get Them  —  Most medical consent laws require parental permission for minors to get a vaccine.  Now some places are easing restrictions for Covid shots while others are proposing new ones.  —  Teenagers keep all sorts of secrets from their parents.
Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: White House national security adviser misleadingly describes pipeline company as ‘not Russian’  —  Top WH official responds to bipartisan criticism of Biden-Putin summit — full interview  —  Washington (CNN)Last Sunday, CNN “State of the Union” co-anchor Dana Bash pressed White …
 
 
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Victoria Bekiempis / The Guardian:
Democrats cite Ku Klux Klan Act in suits over ‘Trump Train’ Texas bus incident
Maria Sacchetti / Washington Post:
Military mother returns as part of Biden's promise to reverse deportations of veterans and families of service members
Discussion: Breitbart
Philip Oltermann / The Guardian:
‘At first I thought, this is crazy’: the real-life plan to use novels to predict the next war
Nicholas Reimann / Forbes:
Democrats Sue Texas Gov. Greg Abbott After He Strips Legislature Of Funding For 2 Years
Andrew Romano / Yahoo News:
New Yahoo News/YouGov poll: Biden's approval rating falls, as both Republicans and Democrats grow more concerned about crime
Discussion: HotAir
theepochtimes.com:
Election Integrity: The Firewall That Keeps America Free
Stundin:
Key witness in Assange case admits to lies in indictment
 Earlier Items: 
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
A legendary Chicago newspaper columnist bids farewell — and wonders who will be left to tell her city's tale
Annie Linskey / Washington Post:
The remarkably unremarkable White House Pride ceremony
Discussion: People.com
Diane Francis / financialpost:
Canadian Forces have right to know if they got COVID at the 2019 Military World Games in Wuhan
Adam Serwer / New York Times:
The Cruel Logic of the Republican Party, Before and After Trump
Discussion: Salon and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
How Deceptive Campaign Fund-Raising Ensnares Older People
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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Financial Times:
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Javier Espinoza / Financial Times:
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Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
OpenAI says the ChatGPT desktop app for macOS can now read code from some developer-focused apps, including VS Code, Xcode, TextEdit, Terminal, and iTerm2

 
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