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Corinne Ramey / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Organization and CFO Allen Weisselberg Expected to Be Charged Thursday — The Manhattan district attorney's first charges in three-year probe will focus on alleged tax-related crimes at former president's company — The Manhattan district attorney's office is expected to charge …
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Washington Post:
Trump's company is told to expect criminal charges Thursday, a dramatic turn in years-long probe of former president's business dealings — Prosecutors have told attorneys for former president Donald Trump's business that both the company and its longtime chief financial officer are likely …
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New York Times and The New Neo
Pew Research Center:
Behind Biden's 2020 Victory — An examination of the 2020 electorate, based on validated voters — Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand how Americans voted in 2020 and how their turnout and vote choices differed from 2016 and 2018. For this analysis …
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Danielle Kurtzleben / NPR:
We Just Got Our Clearest Picture Yet Of How Biden Won In 2020 — We know that Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election (regardless of what former President Trump and his allies say). We just haven't had a great picture of how he won. — ...that is, until today …
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The Daily Caller
Steven Shepard / Politico:
New poll shows how Trump surged with women and Hispanics — and lost anyway — Every piece of evidence since the November election suggests Donald Trump made significant inroads among blocs of voters thought to be out of reach to the controversial now-former president.
Associated Press:
Bill Cosby's sex assault conviction overturned by Pennsylvania Supreme Court — PHILADELPHIA - Pennsylvania's highest court overturned Bill Cosby's sex assault conviction Wednesday after finding an agreement with a previous prosecutor prevented him from being charged in the case.
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ABC News:
Bill Cosby to be released from prison after conviction vacated
Bill Cosby to be released from prison after conviction vacated
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Insider, Mother Jones, NOQ Report and Deseret News
Maryclaire Dale / Associated Press:
Bill Cosby's sex assault conviction overturned by court
Bill Cosby's sex assault conviction overturned by court
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Politico:
House approves Jan. 6 riot probe as Dems fret over pro-Trump chaos agents — 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 voted Wednesday, 222-190 …
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NBC News:
House votes to establish committee to investigate Jan. 6 Capitol riot … WASHINGTON — The House voted Wednesday to establish a select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attack at the U.S. Capitol, the only step needed to formalize the panel's creation. — The House voted 222 to 190 …
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Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
House votes to create select committee for investigating Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol — The House voted Wednesday to form a select committee tasked with investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol with nearly all Republicans opposing the legislation — a sign of the political challenges …
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Maura Gillespie / Congressman Adam Kinzinger:
Rep. Kinzinger: “We Need a Full Accounting for January 6th”
Rep. Kinzinger: “We Need a Full Accounting for January 6th”
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CNN and The Guardian
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
House approves select panel to probe Jan. 6 attack
House approves select panel to probe Jan. 6 attack
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Politico:
Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld dies at the age of 88 — Donald Rumsfeld, the secretary of Defense under both Gerald Ford and George W. Bush, has died. He was 88. — Rumsfeld passed away surrounded by relatives in Taos, N.M., his family said in a statement.
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Washington Free Beacon, ABC7 and Townhall
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Bradley Graham / Washington Post:
Donald Rumsfeld, influential but controversial Bush defense secretary, dies at 88
Donald Rumsfeld, influential but controversial Bush defense secretary, dies at 88
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Political Wire
Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Donald Rumsfeld, Defense Secretary During Iraq War, Is Dead at 88
Donald Rumsfeld, Defense Secretary During Iraq War, Is Dead at 88
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Jamie McIntyre / Washington Examiner:
Donald Rumsfeld, youngest and oldest US defense secretary, dies at 88
Donald Rumsfeld, youngest and oldest US defense secretary, dies at 88
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USA Today, HuffPost, CBS News, Reuters and Task & Purpose
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Stephen Breyer, and why Thursday is a huge day for the future of the Supreme Court — Relatively few people are talking about it right now, but Thursday (and perhaps the days to come) could be one of the most pivotal moments in recent Supreme Court history.
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Washington Examiner, Outside the Beltway and CNN
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New York Times:
Day of Rage: An In-Depth Look at How a Mob Stormed the Capitol — “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic, for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” [cheering] They came from all 50 states …
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NBC News, Roll Call, Courthouse News Service and Just Security
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Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed News:
An Oath Keeper Will Admit His Group Stashed Guns Outside DC For Jan. 6
An Oath Keeper Will Admit His Group Stashed Guns Outside DC For Jan. 6
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Associated Press, HuffPost, CBS News, NPR and CNN
Jim Brunner / The Seattle Times:
Washington lawmaker wears yellow Star of David, evoking Nazi persecution, to protest COVID vaccine mandates — A Washington state lawmaker critical of COVID-19 vaccine mandates wore a yellow Star of David at a speech over the weekend — a symbol the Nazis forced Jews to wear during the Holocaust.
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Jon Ward / Yahoo News:
New York City election debacle further undermines confidence in elections — mishandling of the vote count in the high-profile mayoral race has thrown that contest into confusion, but the city's debacle has significant national import as well. — Confidence in elections nationwide …
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Katherine Doyle / Washington Examiner:
DeSantis feuds with Trump over Florida rally amid search for survivors in Surfside — Former President Donald Trump is rejecting pleas from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to postpone a campaign-style rally this weekend some 200 miles from the Miami suburb where an international search-and-rescue mission …
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USA Today, Politico, The Daily Caller, Fox News, The Western Journal and Raw Story
Emily VanDerWerff / Vox:
A sci-fi writer got meta about gender. The internet responded by ruining her life. — Isabel Fall's sci-fi story “I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter” drew the ire of the internet. This is what happened next. — “In a war zone, it is not safe to be unknown.
Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
China is building more than 100 new missile silos in its western desert, analysts say — China has begun construction of what independent experts say are more than 100 new silos for intercontinental ballistic missiles in a desert near the northwestern city of Yumen, a building spree …
Politico:
‘Not a healthy environment’: Kamala Harris' office rife with dissent — When Vice President Kamala Harris finally made the decision to visit the Mexico border last week, people inside her own office were blindsided by the news. — For days, aides and outside allies had been calling …
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ABC News:
‘Perfect storm’: Bulletin warns of extremist violence as pandemic restrictions lift — No specific threat was mentioned for Independence Day. — Federal authorities are deeply concerned about the possibility of domestic terror and violence, including mass shootings, as the Fourth …
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Ron Johnson's anti-science crusade sets back the drive to vaccinate more people in Wisconsin — COVID-19 is still killing people in Wisconsin — nearly all of them people who have not been fully vaccinated, state health officials say. — And that's why Ron Johnson's news conference Monday was so disheartening.
Matt Taibbi / TK News:
Our Endless Dinner With Robin DiAngelo — Suburban America's self-proclaimed racial oracle returns with a monumentally oblivious sequel to “White Fragility” … Nice Racism, the booklike product released this week by the “Vanilla Ice of Antiracism,” Robin DiAngelo, begins with an anecdote from the author's past.
Allahpundit / HotAir:
NSA: We never targeted Tucker Carlson's communications with an eye to getting him kicked off the air — As others have noted, this statement is slippery in what it does and doesn't deny. … Does that mean they did target his communications, just without plans to use those communications against him politically?
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Christina Vazquez / WPLG-TV:
‘Something inside me said run’: Surfside survivor describes escaping as building came down — SURFSIDE, Fla. - It's an unbelievable story of survival. — For 64-year-old Iliana Monteagudo it's as if a supernatural force she said woke her up and guided her from her sixth floor unit at Champlain Towers South.
Tom Davies / Associated Press:
Federal judge blocks Indiana ‘abortion reversal’ law — A federal judge has blocked a new Indiana law that would require doctors to tell women undergoing drug-induced abortions about a disputed treatment for potentially stopping the abortion process — INDIANAPOLIS — A federal judge …
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Insider and National Review
Scott Wong / The Hill:
‘I want to cry’: House Republicans take emotional trip to the border — LA JOYA, Texas — They kept coming throughout the night. Clusters of migrant children, some with their mothers, others who made the 1,500-mile journey from Central America by themselves, surrendering to U.S. border patrol agents …
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Breitbart and The Daily Caller
Ana Ceballos / Tampa Bay Times:
DeSantis vetoes bipartisan bill that would have expunged minors' criminal records — The legislation had received little to no opposition from lawmakers. — TALLAHASSEE — In a rebuke to 157 voting members of the Florida Legislature, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday night vetoed a measure …
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The Hill and Florida Politics
David Harsanyi / National Review:
Who Really Wants to Defund the Police? Democrats, That's Who — They've concocted one of the most transparently silly talking points in memory to defend this position. — he quickest way to check out new Democratic Party talking points is to head over to Dana Milbank's column in the Washington Post.
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