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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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CNN, THE CITY, Washington Post and The Western Journal
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Jonah E. Bromwich / New York Times:
Bragg Set to Be Manhattan's Next D.A., and a Potential Trump Scourge — With his main rival, Tali Farhadian Weinstein, conceding, Alvin Bragg is poised to lead the investigation into Donald J. Trump's family business. — Alvin Bragg, a career prosecutor with experience taking on white-collar crime …
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Insider, The Hill, Talking Points Memo, The Intercept and Joe.My.God.
NBC News:
'There's just no legal defense': Trump Organization in jeopardy, experts say … Lawyers and representatives for the Trump Organization dismissed the criminal charges against the company as prosecutorial overreach Thursday, but legal experts contacted by NBC News said the company …
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Washington Post, HotAir, CBS News, MSNBC, Associated Press, One America News Network and Townhall
Jennifer Taub / Washington Monthly:
How to Understand the Trump Tax Indictment — A best-selling scholar on white-collar and financial crimes examines Alan Weisselberg's indictment, the possible demise of Trump's business, and the dangers ahead for the ex-president. — Former President Donald J. Trump's business organization ran …
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Vanity Fair, Washington Post, Salon, The Atlantic, Just Security, Daily Kos, Associated Press, The Guardian, DCReport.org, Mother Jones, emptywheel and Japan Times
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
Weisselberg indictment creates new questions about Trump kids' hidden compensation: John Heilemann
Dan McLaughlin / New York Post:
Cy Vance's Trump case is straight from a banana republic — punish your political enemies
Cy Vance's Trump case is straight from a banana republic — punish your political enemies
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CBS News, New York Magazine, Fox News, Bloomberg, Raw Story, BizPac Review, RedState, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Guardian, CNN, Politico and National Review
David Frum / The Atlantic:
Trump Is Preparing for the Worst
Trump Is Preparing for the Worst
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New York Times, Washington Post, The Bulwark, Raw Story and The Guardian
CNN:
Trump's Hill allies could be ensnared in January 6 probe as GOP preps strategy — (CNN)House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has asserted he'd “have no problem talking to anybody” about his conversations with then-President Donald Trump on January 6. That proposition may soon be put to the test.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Nancy Pelosi has backed Kevin McCarthy into a corner — As the Jan. 6 select committee gears up, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy faces a thorny dilemma. Treating the effort to violently overthrow the U.S. constitutional order as an extremely weighty matter worthy of serious investigation …
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The American Independent, Joe.My.God. and ABC17NEWS
Philip Klein / National Review:
Lindsey Graham Is an Idiot — Sen. Lindsey Graham is an idiot. Don't take it from me. Take it from Graham himself. — Last week, after announcing a bipartisan deal with Republicans, President Biden said he would only sign it if it were passed in “tandem” with a multi-trillion dollar Democrats …
David Marcus / New York Post:
Ex-Senator Claire McCaskill says Capitol riots were worse than Benghazi
Ex-Senator Claire McCaskill says Capitol riots were worse than Benghazi
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The Hill, Townhall, Louder With Crowder and IJR
William Saletan / Slate:
Trump Is Working Harder Than Ever to Undermine Democracy
Trump Is Working Harder Than Ever to Undermine Democracy
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The Hill and The Bulwark
CNN:
Capitol rioter accompanied members of Congress on trip to US-Mexico border — (CNN)A conservative YouTuber who participated in the January 6 riot accompanied Republican members of Congress on a trip to the border Tuesday night, serving as a translator at times.
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Talking Points Memo, Crooks and Liars, Forbes, Joe.My.God., Raw Story, Mediaite and Mock Paper Scissors
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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U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, TODAY.com, Yahoo News and NBC News
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Washington Post:
Biden's cold response to Afghanistan's collapse will have far-reaching consequences — When President Biden chose in April to withdraw all U.S. forces from Afghanistan by September, we were among those who judged that the result would be a disaster for the country's 38 million people — and in particular, its women.
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Fox News, Politico and Wall Street Journal
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J.P. Lawrence / Stars & Stripes:
Soldiers watch the US withdrawal from Bagram Airfield through the lens of Pokemon Go
Soldiers watch the US withdrawal from Bagram Airfield through the lens of Pokemon Go
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Thomas Gibbons-Neff / New York Times:
U.S. Leaves Its Last Afghan Base, Effectively Ending Operations
U.S. Leaves Its Last Afghan Base, Effectively Ending Operations
Axios:
Biden aide charges “sabotage” of Harris — Top White House officials are mobilizing to defend Vice President Kamala Harris amid a gusher of leaks about dysfunction and infighting in her office. — Driving the news: White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain told Axios in a statement …
Patrick Whittle / Associated Press:
US Supreme Court to hear Maine religious school tuition case — The U.S. Supreme Court decided on Friday that it will hear a case brought by families from Maine who want to use a state tuition program to send their children to religious schools. — At the heart of the case is a Maine Department …
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The Daily Caller, Fox News, The Hill and Press Herald
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John DiStaso / WMUR:
New Hampshire Supreme Court strikes down 2017 voter registration law Senate Bill 3 as unconstitutional
New Hampshire Supreme Court strikes down 2017 voter registration law Senate Bill 3 as unconstitutional
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CNN, Courthouse News Service, InDepthNH.org, The Root and Political Wire
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Breyer Hires Four New Clerks in Hint He's Staying on Court — Likely retirement window closing as Supreme Court term ends — Liberal activists seeking retirement so Biden can fill seat — Justice Stephen Breyer has hired a full complement of four law clerks for the next Supreme Court term …
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Washington Examiner, HuffPost and Insider
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Bloomberg:
Biden Picks University of Pennsylvania Leader as Germany Envoy — Biden to nominate university president Gutmann for ambassador — President also names picks for ambassadors of Kosovo, Ghana — President Joe Biden intends to nominate University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann …
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Annie Karni / New York Times:
Biden names University of Pennsylvania president as ambassador to Germany.
Biden names University of Pennsylvania president as ambassador to Germany.
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New York Post, CNN, Politico and Forbes
Amy Graff / SFGATE:
710,117 lightning strikes hit western Canada in 15 hours — Van Ness is a mess and it's hurting businesses — This small town is California's ‘adult Disneyland’ — Disneyland should permanently remove this massive perk — Salt Fire near Redding explodes, destroys homes
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Axios, Yale Climate Connections, The Daily Caller, Slate, New York Post and Associated Press
Bari Weiss / Common Sense with Bari Weiss:
Winston Marshall Was ‘Bloody Terrified’ to Quit Mumford & Sons. He Tells Me Why. — The musician talks about self-censorship, his faith, moral courage, Jordan Peterson, Kanye West, Winston Churchill, and more. — 2 hr ago — Late last week, I was sitting in my kitchen when I read an essay that made me stand up and cheer.
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 …
San Antonio Express-News:
Texas history museum pulls out of event on book re-examining Alamo ‘myth’ — AUSTIN — The Texas history museum on Thursday abruptly pulled out of an event scheduled for that night on a new book that re-examines the story of The Alamo, prompting claims of state censorship from its authors.
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The Texas Tribune, The Experiment, Mother Jones, Talking Points Memo, Joe.My.God. and PEN America
Jacob Silverman / New Republic:
Tucker Carlson and Glenn Greenwald's Shameless Marriage of Convenience — Last week, in an appearance on a Mediaite podcast, the journalist Glenn Greenwald came to the defense once again of Fox News's chief hatemonger, Tucker Carlson. While he rightly accused Carlson of “deliberately inflaming …
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Just Security, UncoverDC, Vox, BizPac Review, Media Matters for America and Raw Story
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Progressives distance from Bernie Sanders — The progressive movement is in a new phase and activists say they've changed the conversation on key issues.
David French / TIME:
Loving Your Country Means Teaching Its History Honestly — French is a senior editor at The Dispatch and a columnist for Time. His new book is Divided We Fall: America's Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation. He is a former major in the United States Army Reserve.
Spencer Hsu / Washington Post:
Latest alleged Oath Keeper arrested in Capitol riot turned over body armor and firearm — A previous version of this article incorrectly reported the day David Moerschel was charged, his alleged username in an encrypted messaging group and Mark Grods's age.
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Raw Story and The Crime Report
Washington Post:
Andy Harris, Maryland's only Republican in Congress, fears being written off the map. Some say it could happen. — Ten years ago, as Maryland Democrats sat down to redraw the state's eight congressional districts, they considered making Republican members of Congress go extinct.
Tampa Bay Times:
DeSantis fires back after California bans state travel to Florida — Florida is one of 17 states on California's state-funded travel ban, due to the Sunshine State's laws involving LGBTQ people. — By News Service of Florida — TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis' office fired back this week …