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Kerry J. Byrne / New York Post:
11 in ‘heavily armed’ fringe group arrested after standoff in Massachusetts — Eleven “heavily armed” members of a fringe group called Rise of the Moors were arrested on a Massachusetts highway Saturday following a bizarre nine-hour standoff with law enforcement that included hostage negotiators.
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Associated Press:
11 people in custody after hourslong armed standoff on I-95 — WAKEFIELD, Mass. (AP) — An hourslong standoff with a group of heavily armed men that partially shut down Interstate 95 ended Saturday with 11 suspects in custody, Massachusetts state police said.
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CBS Boston:
Wakefield Standoff Suspects Claim To Be Part Of Group Called ‘Rise Of The Moors’ — WAKEFIELD (CBS) — Interstate 95 in Wakefield was shut down by a standoff between Massachusetts State Police and a group of heavily armed men Saturday morning. The men claim to be part of a group called …
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NBC Boston:
11 Suspects Now in Custody Following Armed Standoff Off I-95 in Mass.: Police — All remaining suspects involved in an hours long armed standoff with police off Interstate 95 in Wakefield, Massachusetts on Saturday morning have been taken into custody, state police said.
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The Boston Globe, The Western Journal and The Hill
Sarah Maslin Nir / New York Times:
A Fourth of July Symbol of Unity That May No Longer Unite — In a Long Island town, neighbors now make assumptions, true and sometimes false, about people who conspicuously display American flags. — SOUTHOLD, N.Y. — The American flag flies in paint on the side of Peter Treiber Jr.'s potato truck …
Washington Post:
Post-ABC poll: Biden earns high marks for handling the pandemic, but many Republicans resist vaccination — President Biden has earned high marks for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, but the government's effort to vaccinate as many Americans as possible continues to face hurdles …
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Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
FBI launches flurry of arrests over attacks on journalists during Capitol riot — Nearly six months after the U.S. Capitol riot, the Justice Department has begun arresting a new category of alleged criminals — those who attacked reporters or damaged their equipment as journalists documented …
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Jacques Billeaud / Associated Press:
Rioters accused of erasing content from social media, phones
Rioters accused of erasing content from social media, phones
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Kevin Drum:
If you hate the culture wars, blame liberals — On Thursday I posted a series of charts that all documented a similar theme: Since roughly the year 2000, according to survey data, Democrats have moved significantly to the left on most hot button social issues while Republicans have moved only slightly right.
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The Guardian:
Joe Biden cherry-picks audience to promote bipartisan infrastructure deal — President visits National Cherry Festival in Michigan — Associated Press in Traverse City, Michigan — Joe Biden used a visit to a cherry farm in Michigan on Saturday to talk up his bipartisan infrastructure package …
ABC News:
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Dan Goldberg / Politico:
‘Wasting my breath’: Southern faith leaders wary of promoting vaccines — Biden administration and state officials hoped that pastors would play an outsized role in promoting Covid-19 vaccines, but many are wary of alienating their congregants and are declining requests to be more outspoken.
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Sarah Kaplan / Washington Post:
Climate change has gotten deadly. It will get worse. — Researchers say they are ‘virtually certain’ that warming from human greenhouse gas emissions played a pivotal role in recent fatalities — PORTLAND, Ore. — The emergency department at Oregon Health Sciences University had rarely been this busy …
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Tyler Pager / Washington Post:
Trump appears to acknowledge tax schemes while questioning whether alleged violations are crimes — Former president Donald Trump lashed out at Manhattan prosecutors Saturday night for indicting his organization and its chief financial officer for tax fraud, calling it “prosecutorial misconduct” …
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Washington Post:
Craving freedom from virus, U.S. heads into July 4 with sharply divided risk — President Biden has pointed to July 4 as the day when Americans can mark independence from the coronavirus. But the United States has not fully snuffed out the threat from the virus — particularly in places …