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8:45 AM ET, July 3, 2021

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New York Times:
Trump Is Said to Have Called Arizona Official After Election Loss  —  Donald Trump tried to reach the top Republican in metropolitan Phoenix as his allies were trying to overturn the state's 2020 results, according to the official, who said he did not pick up the calls.
Devoun Cetoute / Miami Herald:
North Miami Beach condo ordered to close, evacuate after inspection said structurally unsafe  —  The city of North Miami Beach has ordered that Crestview Towers Condominium be immediately closed and evacuated Friday evening after a building inspection report found it to have unsafe structural …
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Organization Charges: A Probe of Hush Money Moved to Fringe Benefits  —  The indictment of the company and its CFO, Allen Weisselberg, grew out of an investigation into a hush-money payment to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels  —  The indictment of the Trump Organization …
Discussion: NBC New York and Insider
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Deanna Paul / Wall Street Journal:
Alvin Bragg Wins Democratic Nod for Manhattan District Attorney  —  Runner-up Tali Farhadian Weinstein concedes the race  —  Alvin Bragg is on the cusp of becoming the first Black Manhattan district attorney after his top rival, Tali Farhadian Weinstein, conceded the race Friday …
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William Saletan / Slate:
Trump Is Working Harder Than Ever to Undermine Democracy
Discussion: RedState and Politico
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Nancy Pelosi has backed Kevin McCarthy into a corner
New York Times:
Lawmaker Threatens to Subpoena Exxon After Secret Video  —  The chairman of a powerful House subcommittee said he is seeking answers from Exxon and other oil and gas giants over their role in spreading disinformation on climate change.  —  The chairman of a House subcommittee is demanding …
Discussion: INDIVISIBLE VENTURA
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Kate Aronoff / New Republic:
The Biden White House Has an Exxon Problem
Discussion: Common Dreams and Boing Boing
Kevin Collier / NBC News:
Ransomware attack on software manager hits 200 companies  —  A successful ransomware attack on a single company has spread to at least 200 organizations, according to cybersecurity firm Huntress Labs, making it one of the single largest criminal ransomware sprees in history.
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Adam Nossiter / New York Times:
As Afghan Forces Crumble, an Air of Unreality Grips the Capital  —  With the Taliban advancing and U.S. troops leaving, President Ashraf Ghani and his aides have become increasingly insular, and Kabul is slipping into shock.  —  KABUL, Afghanistan — With his military crumbling …
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Maria Sacchetti / Washington Post:
Biden administration formally launches effort to return deported veterans to U.S.  —  The Biden administration unveiled plans Friday to bring hundreds, possibly thousands, of deported veterans and their immediate family members back to the United States, saying their removal “failed to live up to our highest values.”
Discussion: Washington Times, CBS News and Fox News
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Department of Homeland Security:
DHS, VA Announce Initiative to Support Noncitizen Service Members, Veterans, and Immediate Family Members  —  WASHINGTON - Today, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas and Secretary of Veterans Affairs Denis R. McDonough announced a new initiative to support …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Associated Press:
NYC mayoral contenders file lawsuits seeking ballot review  —  NEW YORK (AP) — All three candidates who are still in the running in New York City's Democratic mayoral primary have filed legal actions seeking the right to review the ongoing ranked choice vote tally.
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Emma G. Fitzsimmons / New York Times:
Campaigns Keep Close Watch on Count That Will Decide N.Y.C. Mayor's Race
Discussion: The Daily Signal
New Yorker:
Britney Spears's Conservatorship Nightmare  —  How the pop star's father and a team of lawyers seized control of her life—and have held onto it for thirteen years.  —  On June 22nd, Britney Spears's management team started getting nervous.  Spears, who is thirty-nine …
Discussion: Metro.co.uk and Slate
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Scott Wong / The Hill:
GOP divided on anti-Biden midterm message
Discussion: RedState, Documented and Political Wire
ARLnow.com:
BREAKING: NWS Confirms Tornado Ripped Through North Arlington Neighborhoods  —  (Updated at 9:30 p.m.) The National Weather Service has confirmed that a tornado caused the widespread damage seen in several North Arlington neighborhoods today.  —  The tornado struck around 9 p.m. Thursday night …
Hayes Brown / MSNBC:
Sha'Carri Richardson's drug test suspension is the end result of racist policies … Sha'Carri Richardson should have been spending the next month preparing to win the Olympic gold medal in the 100-meter dash.  She had a shot after blazing through the event's qualifying race last month in under 11 seconds.
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Can the Senate Be Saved?  Ben Nelson, the Manchin of Yesteryear, Has Doubts  —  A former Democratic centrist senator says too many lawmakers come to Washington to obstruct rather than be constructive.  —  WASHINGTON — The senator adamantly insisted on bipartisanship.
Democracy Docket:
Professors and Students Sue Over Florida's New College Survey Law  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today individual professors and students of Florida's public colleges and universities filed a lawsuit against the Florida Commissioner of Education and other higher education officials challenging …
Stephen Fowler / NPR:
How Pro-Trump Local News Sites Keep Pushing 2020 Election Misinformation  —  If you don't follow politics in Georgia closely — or even if you do — you might be forgiven for not knowing much about The Georgia Star News.  —  Founded just after the November election when President Biden narrowly flipped …
 
 
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Shanti Escalante-De Mattei / ARTnews.com:
U.S. House Votes to Remove Confederate Statues from the Capitol
Morgan Phillips / Fox News:
Biden calls top donor NEA 'one of America's indispensable organizations'
Brooke Masters / Financial Times:
How Britain's private schools lost their grip on Oxbridge
Spencer Hsu / Washington Post:
Latest alleged Oath Keeper arrested in Capitol riot turned over body armor and firearm
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
Andy Harris, Maryland's only Republican in Congress, fears being written off the map. Some say it could happen.
Foreign Policy:
Study Finds Nearly 1 in 3 U.S. Diplomats Eyeing the Exit Door
 Earlier Items: 
J.P. Lawrence / Stars & Stripes:
Soldiers watch the US withdrawal from Bagram Airfield through the lens of Pokemon Go
Discussion: HotAir, UPI and Deseret News
David French / TIME:
Loving Your Country Means Teaching Its History Honestly
Associated Press:
Trump ally in Pennsylvania raises 2020 election audit plan
 

 
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John Koblin / New York Times:
NBC names Craig Melvin as Hoda Kotb's successor on Today, teaming up with Savannah Guthrie, starting January 13; Melvin has been Today's news anchor since 2018

Mia Sato / The Verge:
Facebook makes Views its primary metric for content, bringing it in line with Instagram; each time a piece of content appears on a screen, it counts as a View

Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
On Fox News, LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong discussed his new approach to publish “views from both sides”, and said the paper had conflated news and opinion
 
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