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Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
Trump lawyer: Manhattan DA won't charge former president — Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance has indicated he does not currently plan to charge the Trump Organization with crimes related to allegations of “hush money” payments and real estate value manipulations, according to a personal lawyer for Donald Trump.
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New York Times:
Trump's Lawyers Make Late Bid to Fend Off Charges Against His Business — An indictment against the business, the Trump Organization, and a top executive, Allen Weisselberg, could come as soon as this week in Manhattan. — Lawyers for Donald J. Trump's family business mounted a last-ditch effort …
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The Hill, KRDO and Just The News
Associated Press:
Trump Org lawyers make last pitch against prosecution — NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for the Trump Organization met again Monday with prosecutors in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office in a last bid to forestall a potential indictment stemming from a long-running investigation into the former president's company.
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump blasts McConnell over claims in book about election — Former President Donald Trump on Monday lashed out at Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, incensed by a forthcoming book that reports McConnell urged former Attorney General Bill Barr to push back on Trump's falsehoods after last November's elections.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
William Barr's bombshell about Trump is more revealing than it seems
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
McConnell tries to derail Democratic infrastructure strategy
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Rafael Bernal / The Hill:
Obama says Senate will vote again on voting rights
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Joe Biden / Yahoo News:
Americans can be proud of the infrastructure deal — I have always believed that there is nothing our nation can't do when we decide to do it together. Last week, we began to write a new chapter in that story. — After weeks of negotiations, a bipartisan group of United States senators forged …
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Politico and Washington Post
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Washington Post:
Biden tries to move beyond flubbed rollout of infrastructure deal — White House counselor Steve Ricchetti's message to moderate Republicans late last week was soothing: President Biden will clarify that he didn't mean it when he said he'd veto a bipartisan infrastructure deal unless it was accompanied by a more sweeping liberal bill.
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Breitbart, The Hill, Los Angeles Times, Inside Elections and New York Post
Kurt Bardella / USA Today:
Republicans are terrified of Capitol attack truths and Democrats must find out why — Let Republicans complain that the Jan. 6 investigation is unfair. The facts will speak for themselves. The evidence and testimony will tell the story. — The last time a House speaker set …
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Washington Post and New Hampshire Bulletin
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Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
Republican Voters Largely Want to Move On From Jan. 6. The Rest of the Country Doesn't
Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
Pence faces fierce resistance from GOP's pro-Trump base
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Washington Post, POLITICUSUSA and HotAir
Miami Herald:
Two days before condo collapse, a pool contractor photographed this damage in garage — There was nothing unusual about the lobby and pool area at Champlain Towers South condo, which looked clean and well maintained to a commercial pool contractor who visited the building last Tuesday …
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Amy Graff / SFGATE:
It's so hot in the Pacific Northwest that roads are buckling — It's so hot in the Pacific Northwest that roads are buckling. — Asphalt and concrete roadways are expanding and cracking and even Interstate 5 has been impacted amid a heat wave that has sent temperatures soaring to dangerous levels.
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Andrew Freedman / Axios:
Pacific Northwest heat wave reaches astonishing peak on Monday — The extraordinary heat wave that's stifling the Pacific Northwest will peak in many areas on Monday, with Seattle forecast to smash its all-time high-temperature record by about 7°F, an almost unheard-of margin for an all-time record …
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The Daily Beast:
YouTube Bans and Then Unbans Right Wing Watch, a Media Watchdog Devoted to Exposing Right-Wing Conspiracies — Right Wing Watch was banned while the right-wing extremists they merely exposed via the platform continue to publish misinformation on YouTube. — After left-wing media watchdog …
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David Ingram / NBC News:
YouTube reinstates channel devoted to exposing conservative extremism
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NBC News:
Clarence Thomas says federal laws against marijuana may no longer be necessary — Clarence Thomas, one of the Supreme Court's most conservative justices, said Monday that because of the hodgepodge of federal policies on marijuana, federal laws against its sale or cultivation may no longer make sense.
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Townhall, CNBC, Raw Story and Political Wire
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Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
Democracies Don't Try to Make Everyone Agree — “I've read Karl Marx. I've read Lenin. That doesn't make me a Communist.” — General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaking to the House Armed Services Committee last Thursday — “He's not just a pig—he's stupid.”
Michael Wolff / New York Magazine:
His Insurrection Inside the Oval Office on January 6. — Seems like quite a few crazies," said the president. — A little more than three weeks before rioters and revelers stormed the Capitol on January 6, several thousand Trump fans and fanatics gathered in Washington …
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Roland Li / San Francisco Chronicle:
Californians are fueling Austin's housing frenzy: 'We've never seen migration like this' — AUSTIN, Texas — The metro area of this capital city grows by around 180 people every day, a boom that's made it the country's fastest-growing major region for the past decade.
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Cameron Easley / Morning Consult:
U.S. Conservatives Are Uniquely Inclined Toward Right-Wing Authoritarianism Compared to Western Peers — Global Morning Consult data reveals a distinctive authoritarian bent in the American right — A scale measuring propensity toward right-wing authoritarian tendencies found right …
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Raw Story, Insider, Mock Paper Scissors and Political Wire
Daniel Hill / News Blog, Riverfront Times:
Inside Gun-Surrendering Criminal Mark McCloskey's Very Sad St. Louis Rally — They were at least kind enough to wear their signature outfits, which is good because no one would recognize or care about them otherwise. — Noted local criminal Mark McCloskey played host to a barbecue/political rally …
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Pfizer and Moderna Vaccines Likely to Produce Lasting Immunity, Study Finds — Immune cells are still organizing to fight the coronavirus months after inoculation, scientists reported. — The vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna set off a persistent immune reaction in the body …
David Corn / Mother Jones:
Documents Show Ivanka Trump Didn't Testify Accurately in Inauguration Scandal Case — The Trump family has trouble with depositions. In 2007 testimony, Donald Trump was repeatedly shown to be a liar. In February, Donald Trump Jr. was deposed in the Trump inauguration scandal lawsuit …
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Robert J. McCarthy / Buffalo News:
Brown launches write-in campaign for mayor as others eye the race — Byron W. Brown on Monday launched an unprecedented write-in campaign to reclaim the mayor's office he apparently lost in the June 22 Democratic primary as an increasingly chaotic situation surrounds the victory of newcomer India B. Walton.
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Jason Wilson / The Guardian:
Revealed: neo-Confederate group includes military officers and politicians — Leaked data shows other high-profile members have overlapping membership in more explicitly racist or violent groups — Leaked membership data from the neo-Confederate Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) …
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The Root and The Crime Report
Paige Williams / New Yorker:
Kyle Rittenhouse, American Vigilante — After he killed two people in Kenosha, opportunists turned his case into a polarizing spectacle. — The proliferation of digital video has exposed abuses of power that in the past often remained hidden. It has also allowed people to watch shocking footage …
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Raw Story
Megan Brenan / Gallup:
Three in 10 Americans Think Pandemic Is Over in U.S. — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Although a record-high 89% of Americans now say the coronavirus situation is improving, most are not yet ready to declare the pandemic over in the U.S. More than twice as many think the pandemic is not yet over (71%) than think it is over (29%).
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump's Situation Room shouting match — Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, repeatedly blew up at President Trump over how to handle last summer's racial-justice protests, The Wall Street Journal's Michael Bender writes in his forthcoming book, “Frankly, We Did Win This Election.”
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Mary Spicuzza / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
95% of those who've died from COVID-19 in Wisconsin since March weren't vaccinated or fully vaccinated, officials say — Nearly all Wisconsinites who recently have died of COVID-19 were unvaccinated — or not fully vaccinated — state health officials said Monday.
Andrew Jeong / Wall Street Journal:
Kim Jong Un Lost Some Weight—and North Koreans Are Alarmed — Pyongyang watchers don't suspect a health scare, but the implication is that the leader is belt-tightening alongside his citizens who face food shortages — SEOUL— Kim Jong Un has shed some weight. Much of North Korea is now in tears.
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Washington Examiner, Associated Press and CNN
WBAL:
Annapolis dedicates memorial to 5 killed in newsroom shooting — Gov. Larry Hogan proclaims Monday ‘Freedom of the Press Day’ in honor of slain Capital Gazette employees — Hide Transcript Show Transcript — The latest breaking updates, delivered straight to your email inbox. — Submit
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Erin Cunningham / Washington Post:
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