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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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Fox News, The Western Journal and Townhall
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Yacob Reyes / Axios:
South Dakota Gov. Noem deploys National Guard to U.S-Mexico Border — South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem (R) announced Tuesday that up to fifty of her state's National Guard troops are being deployed to Texas border at the request of Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
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Washington Post, USA Today, South Dakota State News, Argus Leader, Fox News, POLITICUSUSA, Washington Examiner and LifeZette
Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Billionaire GOP megadonor funding South Dakota's troop deployment to border
Billionaire GOP megadonor funding South Dakota's troop deployment to border
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KSFY/KDLT and Talking Points Memo
Jake Lahut / Insider:
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem sends 50 National Guard troops to US-Mexico border, funded by a ‘private donation’
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem sends 50 National Guard troops to US-Mexico border, funded by a ‘private donation’
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The Hill, New York Post, Washington Times, Raw Story and The Daily Caller
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
Eric Boehlert / PRESS RUN:
Most advertisers have dumped Tucker Carlson — why he's still on TV ? — If you've been enjoying ad-free PRESS RUN since its launch, or just recently became a reader, please consider subscribing for $6 a month to support fearless media commentary. Thanks! — Stay healthy. Be kind.
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Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Fox News Agrees to $1 Million Fine for Violating Human Rights Law — Fox News effectively admitted to a pattern of misconduct and has agreed to pay a civil penalty in New York. … Despite Fox News' claims to have repaired the company's toxic workplace culture since the firing of founder …
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The Hill, Deadline, Raw Story, Variety, POLITICUSUSA and Hollywood Reporter, more at Mediagazer »
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Fox News doesn't believe Tucker Carlson — In January 2013, the New York Times disclosed that its computer systems had been infiltrated by Chinese hackers. Before issuing its report, the Times worked with AT&T, hired a computer security firm and took other precautions. That process took several months.
David Harsanyi / National Review:
Tucker Carlson Says the NSA Is Spying on Him. Sadly, It's Plausible
Tucker Carlson Says the NSA Is Spying on Him. Sadly, It's Plausible
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Townhall, Human Events, Page Array and HotAir
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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Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, Insider and The Hill
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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HotAir, New York Magazine, WJCL, Insider, Deadline, New York Post, The Daily Caller and Washington Times
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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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The Hill
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Pelosi rebuffs McConnell on infrastructure — Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Tuesday amplified her plans to link a bipartisan infrastructure agreement to a second package of Democratic economic priorities, rebuffing an appeal from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to decouple the two bills.
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HotAir, Roll Call, Washington Post, Politico, The Federalist, Bloomberg, One America News Network, The American Independent and CNBC
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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
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Manchin says he's on board with Democratic-only infrastructure bill
Manchin says he's on board with Democratic-only infrastructure bill
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Washington Monthly, National Review, Vox, The Daily Caller, Insider, Talking Points Memo, IJR and Reuters
Dan Pfeiffer / The Message Box:
Infrastructure and McConnell's Theory of Midterm Politics
Infrastructure and McConnell's Theory of Midterm Politics
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HotAir, Breitbart, LifeZette and Occupy Democrats
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
As Infrastructure Deal Gathers Steam, Democratic Cracks Begin to Show
As Infrastructure Deal Gathers Steam, Democratic Cracks Begin to Show
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Breitbart, Yahoo News, Wall Street Journal, ABC News, Los Angeles Times and Raw Story
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Pelosi's new Jan. 6 select committee is about to collide with ‘white rage’ — For nearly a week, the far right has raged at Gen. Mark A. Milley for declaring a desire to “understand white rage.” But Milley didn't allude to “white rage” in a vacuum. Milley said he wants to understand …
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Progress Pond and Daily Kos
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Zac Houston / House Republican Leader:
McCarthy Unveils Republican Task Forces, Announces Leaders and Members
McCarthy Unveils Republican Task Forces, Announces Leaders and Members
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Page Array and Daily Kos
Katie Glueck / New York Times:
Adams Still Leads Mayor's Race but ‘Discrepancy’ Puts Vote in Disarray — After voters' ranked choices were tabulated, Eric Adams led Kathryn Garcia by two percentage points in preliminary results, with nearly 125,000 absentee ballots still to be counted. Maya Wiley was in third.
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National Review, Vox, Politico, NBC News, Fox News, Reuters, Washington Post, UPI, The Daily Caller, MyNorthwest.com, New York Magazine and CBS New York
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Allahpundit / HotAir:
Stop the steal: NYC mayoral frontrunner hints at election chicanery as lead slips during ranked-choice voting count
Stop the steal: NYC mayoral frontrunner hints at election chicanery as lead slips during ranked-choice voting count
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The Hill, UPROXX, National Review and Mediaite
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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HuffPost, Gothamist, CNN and Instapundit
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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Washington Post, BuzzFeed News, National Review, NPR and Courthouse News Service
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John Fritze / USA Today:
Supreme Court permits federal eviction moratorium to remain in place
Supreme Court permits federal eviction moratorium to remain in place
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New York Times, HotAir and New York Post
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Supreme Court says no right to hearing for some immigrants
Supreme Court says no right to hearing for some immigrants
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Washington Post, New York Post, Wall Street Journal, The Daily Caller, Conservative Brief, TheBlaze, Fox News, The Root and Portland Mercury
Axios:
Boring news cycle deals blow to partisan media — In the months since former President Donald Trump left office, media companies' readership numbers are plunging — and publishers that rely on partisan, ideological warfare have taken an especially big hit. — Why it matters …
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Forbes, Breitbart, Mediaite, The Daily Caller and Raw Story, more at Mediagazer »
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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WPMI, Occupy Democrats, The Hill, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Examiner and Washington Times
Desmond Butler / Washington Post:
The land was worth millions. A Big Ag corporation sold it to Sonny Perdue's company for $250,000. — It was a curious time for Sonny Perdue to close a real estate deal. — In February 2017, weeks after President Donald Trump selected him to be agriculture secretary …
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Raw Story and Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Meridith McGraw / Politico:
A New Darkness Falls on the Trump Movement — It was 6 a.m. in Cleveland. I had spent the night trying to sleep stretched out across three chairs in the baggage claim at the airport and was wearing the same sweaty, grass-stained sundress I'd worn at the Donald Trump rally from the night before …
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Crooks and Liars
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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The Hill and The Daily Poster
Rowan Jacobsen / MIT Technology Review:
Inside the risky bat-virus engineering that links America to Wuhan — In 2013, the American virologist Ralph Baric approached Zhengli Shi at a meeting. Baric was a top expert in coronaviruses, with hundreds of papers to his credit, and Shi, along with her team at the Wuhan Institute of Virology …
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Lindsay Beyerstein / New Republic:
The Case Against the Covid-19 Lab Leak Theory
The Case Against the Covid-19 Lab Leak Theory
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New York Post and RedState
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Arizona ballot audit shows signs of backfiring on GOP — When Arizona Republicans first pushed for a partisan audit of the 2020 presidential ballots cast in the Phoenix metropolitan area, they argued that they needed to know if any irregularities or fraud caused President Trump to lose this rapidly evolving swing state.
Justin Rohrlich / The Daily Beast:
‘Right-Wing Death Squad’: Active-Duty Marine Plotted to Bomb DNC, Murder Black People, Feds Say — The feds investigated USMC Private First Class Travis Owens for discussing the unrealized plan with two others, including one person tied to neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen.
Janna Karel / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Transgender woman captures Miss Nevada USA pageant — The title of Miss Nevada USA has gone to a transgender woman for the first time in the pageant's history. — Kataluna Enriquez was crowned the winner Sunday in the pageant at the South Point hotel-casino in Las Vegas and will continue to compete for the title of Miss USA.
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People.com, National Review, Associated Press, Insider, BizPac Review, The Daily Caller, TheBlaze, ABC7, Washington Examiner, Must Read Alaska, Mediaite, New York Post and PinkNews
Ryan Goodman / Just Security:
January 6 Clearinghouse — Welcome to this all-source, public resource for analysts, researchers, investigators, journalists, educators, and the public at large. — If you think the January 6 Clearinghouse is missing something, please send recommendations for additional content by email to Jan6Clearinghouse@justsecurity.org.
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Mother Jones, Daily Kos, Associated Press and NBC4 Washington
Julian Mark / Washington Post:
Man who jumped from a moving plane at LAX tells FBI he bought ‘a lot’ of crystal meth before the flight — As United Airlines Flight 5365 was readying to take off from Los Angeles International Airport on Friday evening, 33-year-old Luis Antonio Victoria Dominguez of La Paz, Mexico …
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U.S. Department of Justice, Washington Examiner, Insider, KTLA, New York Post and CBS News
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Campus ‘Red Scare’ takes Florida back to the '50s — The Will Bunch Newsletter is back from its hiatus and for the rest of 2021 it's going to be bolder and better than ever. Since you asked, the reason for the break was my 2022 book about the modern American way of college and its outsized role …
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National Review
CNN:
Top Oregon RNC official says he was unaware of pro-Nazi host and White national activist they discussed during YouTube chat — (CNN)A top Republican Party official in Oregon appeared on a YouTube show hosted by a man with a history of racist, anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi statements …
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Arizona Republic, GOP.com and Raw Story
Deborah Acosta / Wall Street Journal:
Miami-Area Condo Board President Warned of Need for Repairs in April Letter — ‘The concrete deterioration is accelerating. The roof situation got much worse,’ condo board leader told residents — SURFSIDE, Fla.—The president of the Champlain South Towers condo association told residents …
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USA Today, Raw Story, Slate, Washington Post, New York Times, The Daily Caller, Breitbart, New York Post, Washington Examiner, The Guardian, Metro.co.uk and Fox News
Jacob M. Schlesinger / Wall Street Journal:
Biden Weighs New Executive Order Restraining Big Business — The action under consideration would go beyond traditional antitrust enforcement and would likely face legal challenges — The Biden administration is developing an executive order directing agencies to strengthen oversight …
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