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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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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
How to Understand the Trump Tax Indictment
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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, Raw Story, RedState, BizPac Review, Bloomberg, No More Mister Nice Blog, CNN, The Guardian and Politico
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:
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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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
Scott Wong / The Hill:
GOP divided on anti-Biden midterm message
GOP divided on anti-Biden midterm message
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Documented and Political Wire
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
William Saletan / Slate:
Trump Is Working Harder Than Ever to Undermine Democracy — On Wednesday, two dozen House Republicans flocked to Texas to show their support for Donald Trump. They joined the state's Republican governor, Greg Abbott, in applauding the former president as he toured the border …
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RedState and The Bulwark
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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Louder With Crowder, The Daily Caller, RedState and IJR
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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Maeve Sheehey / Politico:
White House calls Sha'Carri Richardson an ‘inspiring woman’ but stops short of opposing suspension
White House calls Sha'Carri Richardson an ‘inspiring woman’ but stops short of opposing suspension
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Associated Press, OutKick, HotAir, New York Post, Reason and Washington Examiner
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 …
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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HotAir, Washington Examiner, HuffPost, New York Magazine 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, Slate, The Daily Caller, New York Post and Associated Press
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 …
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.
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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Washington Post, Associated Press, The Record, Wired, Raw Story and BIG by Matt Stoller, more at Techmeme »
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 …
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 …
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
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.
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
Kate Aronoff / New Republic:
The Biden White House Has an Exxon Problem … In a blockbuster report from Greenpeace journalistic arm Unearthed this week, top Exxon lobbyist Keith McCoy all but claimed credit for helping excise climate policies from the Biden administration's much-hyped infrastructure package.
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ExxonMobil, Common Dreams and Washington Examiner
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.
Morgan Phillips / Fox News:
Biden calls top donor NEA 'one of America's indispensable organizations' — Biden told members of the teachers union, ‘You deserve a raise’ — Fox News Flash top headlines for July 2 — President Biden said Friday that the National Education Association, among the very most generous donors …
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Power Line
John DiStaso / WMUR:
New Hampshire Supreme Court strikes down 2017 voter registration law Senate Bill 3 as unconstitutional — In unanimous, 4-0, decision, state's highest court upholds lower court ruling, says law ‘imposes unreasonable burdens on the right to vote’ — Hide Transcript Show Transcript
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