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Josh Kovensky / Talking Points Memo:
Auto Scrap Billionaire Who Paid To Send National Guard To Southern Border Sounds Off On Why He Did It — The auto scrap billionaire who is funding South Dakota's deployment of national guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border told TPM in an interview that he was making the contribution because …
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Insider, New York Post, The Western Journal, Fox News, Argus Leader, Raw Story and Townhall
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Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Billionaire GOP megadonor funding South Dakota's troop deployment to border — The Oklahoma-born Johnson is estimated to be worth $2.2 billion, per Forbes.
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KSFY/KDLT and Talking Points Memo
Alex Horton / Washington Post:
South Dakota governor sending National Guard to Mexico border on mission funded by GOP megadonor — South Dakota Gov. Kristi L. Noem (R) will deploy up to 50 National Guard troops to the southern U.S. border, her office said Tuesday, with a highly unusual caveat — the mission will be funded by a …
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Axios, One America News Network, HuffPost, USA Today, The Daily Caller and South Dakota State News
Steve Beynon / Military.com:
Billionaire GOP Mega-Donor Funds National Guard Mission to US-Mexico Border
Billionaire GOP Mega-Donor Funds National Guard Mission to US-Mexico Border
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Politico, The Daily Beast and No More Mister Nice Blog
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Tucker Carlson doubles down on NSA spy claim after agency denial — Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Tuesday again insisted that he is being spied on by the federal government despite the nation's leading intelligence agency refuting his claim earlier the same day. — “Did the Biden administration read my personal emails?
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Insider, Mediaite and The US Sun
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Fox News doesn't believe Tucker Carlson
Fox News doesn't believe Tucker Carlson
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HuffPost, Mediaite, RedState and The American Spectator
Eric Boehlert / PRESS RUN:
Most advertisers have dumped Tucker Carlson — why he's still on TV ?
Most advertisers have dumped Tucker Carlson — why he's still on TV ?
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Digby's Hullabaloo
Techno Fog / The Reactionary:
That Strange NSA Non-Denial
That Strange NSA Non-Denial
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Townhall, The Last Refuge, UPROXX, Twitchy, Ace of Spades HQ and TheBlaze
Katie Glueck / New York Times:
New York Mayor's Race in Chaos After Elections Board Counts 135,000 Test Ballots — The extraordinary sequence of events threw the closely watched Democratic primary contest into a new period of uncertainty and seeded further confusion about the outcome. — The New York City mayor's race plunged …
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Associated Press:
Error mars vote count in NYC mayoral primary — NEW YORK (AP) — The Democratic primary for mayor of New York City was thrown into a state of confusion Tuesday when election officials retracted their latest report on the vote count after realizing it had been corrupted by test data never cleared from a computer system.
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Talking Points Memo, NBC New York, Bloomberg, Breitbart, The Gateway Pundit, Reuters and CBS New York
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
Eric Adams Says He's the ‘Face of the New Democratic Party.’ Is He Right?
Eric Adams Says He's the ‘Face of the New Democratic Party.’ Is He Right?
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BizPac Review
Oren Oppenheim / ABC News:
Eric Adams keeps 1st-choice lead as more New York mayoral primary results arrive
Eric Adams keeps 1st-choice lead as more New York mayoral primary results arrive
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CNN, Bloomberg, MyNorthwest.com, The Hill and Instapundit
Katie Honan / Wall Street Journal:
New York City Mayoral Race: Elections Board Pulls Early Ranked-Choice Results
New York City Mayoral Race: Elections Board Pulls Early Ranked-Choice Results
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National Review, Raw Story, Fox News, Washington Examiner and NBC New York
The Columbus Dispatch:
Josh Mandel's staff quit campaign because of toxic work environment created by staffer in relationship with Mandel, sources say — Laura A. Bischoff Haley BeMillerThe Columbus Dispatch — At least two of the three fundraisers who quit Josh Mandel's U.S. Senate campaign in recent months …
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Raw Story, Talking Points Memo, The Hill and Insider
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Nutso in New York — DRIVING THE DAY — POLITICO New York's Joe Anuta and David Giambusso, in a story that posted at 11:31 p.m.: “Tallies released Tuesday afternoon indicated that KATHRYN GARCIA had come within 2.2 points of leading Democratic candidate ERIC ADAMS after ranked-choice tabulations were processed.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, Daily Kos and Insider
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Trump: Herschel Walker will run for Senate in Georgia — Former President Donald Trump said Georgia Bulldog football great Herschel Walker told him he was going to run for U.S. Senate, a decision that would make him the front-runner in the chaotic race against Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock.
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WJCL, HotAir, Deadline, The Daily Caller, New York Magazine, New York Post, Insider and Washington Times
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Murkowski has the moxie to take on Trump. Will she? — Lisa Murkowski has an ice-cold review of the Donald Trump-backed conservative who's vowing to topple her in Alaska's Senate race next year. — “It doesn't surprise me. The president has said, you know, that he's gonna endorse anybody …
Brittany Gibson / Politico:
Trump says Herschel Walker will run for Georgia Senate seat in 2022
Trump says Herschel Walker will run for Georgia Senate seat in 2022
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Hill
Katy O'Donnell / Politico:
Supreme Court allows eviction ban to remain in place — The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled to keep the federal eviction moratorium to in place, in a 5-4 decision in which Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined with liberals. — The decision is a blow …
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National Review, NPR, Washington Post and Courthouse News Service
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John Sexton / HotAir:
Supreme Court: CDC eviction ban can stay in place through July
Supreme Court: CDC eviction ban can stay in place through July
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CBS News, NBC News, Amy Howe, New York Post, Power Line, BuzzFeed News and Just The News
Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Supreme Court allows coronavirus eviction moratorium to remain in place
Supreme Court allows coronavirus eviction moratorium to remain in place
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New York Times and UPI
CNN:
NY prosecutors examining cash bonuses at Trump Organization, sources say — New York (CNN)New York prosecutors investigating the Trump Organization are scrutinizing cash bonuses as part of their focus on whether the company failed to pay taxes on benefits provided to some of its employees, people familiar with the matter say.
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Vanity Fair and KRDO
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Politico:
Dems fret that GOP could tap pro-Trump chaos agents for Jan. 6 probe — Democrats wanted a panel of outside experts to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection. Instead they might have to deal with the Trump wing of the House GOP. — The House is set to vote Wednesday to create a new committee …
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CNN, Washington Examiner, Associated Press, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Dispatch, The American Independent, HotAir and Raw Story
Dan Pfeiffer / The Message Box:
Infrastructure and McConnell's Theory of Midterm Politics — Mitch McConnell is more afraid of a big, party line bill than a smaller, bipartisan one, Democrats should take heed — Mitch McConnell is the physical embodiment of everything people hate about politics — self-interested, cynical, corrupt, and dishonest.
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Tennessee Star, Breitbart, Occupy Democrats, LifeZette and HotAir
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Cameron Jenkins / The Hill:
McConnell says Biden would be his ‘desert island’ Democratic president
McConnell says Biden would be his ‘desert island’ Democratic president
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POLITICUSUSA, NBC News and IJR
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
No. 3 House Democrat Steps Into Ohio Race to Head Off a Sanders Acolyte — The decision by Representative James Clyburn to oppose an outspoken ally of Senator Bernie Sanders in a special election in Cleveland highlights the generational and ideological gulf in the Democratic Party.
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Fox News, The Daily Poster and The Hill
Washington Post:
Video, images and interviews deepen questions about role of pool deck in condo collapse — Your browser does not support the video element. — A Washington Post examination of video and images from the deadly collapse of a high-rise apartment building outside Miami …
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Raw Story, Washington Examiner and Bulletin of the Atomic …
Associated Press:
Putin: US aircraft involved in Black Sea UK incident — MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that a U.S. reconnaissance aircraft was operating in sync with a British destroyer during last week's Black Sea incident in what he described as a “provocation” to test Moscow's response.
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Bloomberg, The Sun and MyNorthwest.com
Howard Koplowitz / al.com:
Trump rally in Mobile's Battleship Park cancelled amid concerns of ‘partisan political event’: Report — Plans for former President Donald Trump to return July 4th weekend to the city many credited with lending legitimacy to his 2016 campaign after USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park commissioners reportedly …
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Insider, Occupy Democrats, WPMI, The Hill, Washington Examiner and Washington Times
Phil Mattingly / CNN:
Biden to announce 5th wave of judicial nominees as Democrats aim to maintain quick pace of confirmations to federal bench — (CNN)President Joe Biden plans to announce eight new federal judicial nominations on Wednesday as the White House seeks to maintain its rapid pace of nominations — and confirmations — to the federal bench.
Jonathan Zittrain / The Atlantic:
The Internet Is a Collective Hallucination — How do we make it last? — Sixty years ago the futurist Arthur C. Clarke observed that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. The internet—how we both communicate with one another and together preserve …