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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.
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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 …
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NBC News, Associated Press, NBC 6 South Florida, Joe.My.God., The Hill, Fox News, WSVN-TV and NBC Bay Area
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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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Organization Charges: A Probe of Hush Money Moved to Fringe Benefits
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NBC New York and Insider
Jonah E. Bromwich / New York Times:
Bragg Set to Be Manhattan's Next D.A., and a Potential Trump Scourge
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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
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Washington Monthly, The American Independent and Joe.My.God.
David Marcus / New York Post:
Ex-Senator Claire McCaskill says Capitol riots were worse than Benghazi
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The Gateway Pundit, Townhall, Louder With Crowder, RedState and IJR
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 …
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Kate Aronoff / New Republic:
The Biden White House Has an Exxon Problem
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Common Dreams and Boing Boing
Darren W. Woods / ExxonMobil:
Our position on climate policy and carbon pricing
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Center for Climate …, Rolling Stone, Washington Examiner and Common Dreams
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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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.”
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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 …
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The Daily Caller
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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Mediaite, Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, Joe.My.God., Forbes, Crooks and Liars and Mock Paper Scissors
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Scott Wong / The Hill:
GOP divided on anti-Biden midterm message
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RedState, Documented and Political Wire
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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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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Wall Street Journal, Fox News, Townhall and Politico
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
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The Daily Signal
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 New York Times
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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 …
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.
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 …
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Slate
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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