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Karen Matthews / Associated Press:
Eric Adams wins Democratic primary in NYC's mayoral race  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams has won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City after appealing to the political center and promising to strike the right balance between fighting crime and ending racial injustice in policing.
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Katie Glueck / New York Times:
Live Updates: Adams Holds Narrow Lead in New Primary Results  —  Here's what you need to know:  —  Adams maintains a narrow lead in the Democratic primary after the city counts absentee ballots.  —  Eric Adams had a lead of one percentage point over his nearest rival, Kathryn Garcia …
Bloomberg:
Russia ‘Cozy Bear’ Breached GOP as Ransomware Attack Hit  — Hackers part of ‘Cozy Bear,’ people familiar with matter say  — RNC official says ‘no indication’ computer systems hacked  —  Russian government hackers breached the computer systems of the Republican National Committee last week …
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New York Times:
Attempted Hack of R.N.C. and Russian Ransomware Attack Test Biden  —  The breach of a Republican National Committee contractor, also linked to Russia, and the global ransomware attack occurred weeks after a U.S.-Russian summit.  —  Russian hackers are accused of breaching a contractor …
Alana Wise / NPR:
Russians Tried To Hack Republican National Committee
Discussion: Washington Times
Cameron Joseph / VICE:
‘So, So Angry’: Reporters Who Survived the Capitol Riot Are Still Struggling  —  The reporters who survived the insurrection are still covering Congress.  But things don't feel normal.  —  CJ  —  Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox?  Sign up here.
Jade Bremner / The Independent:
Trump stunned aides by saying he wanted to use Covid as excuse to delay 2020 election, new book claims  —  'I'm thinking about calling it off,' president reportedly said  —  Trump still bragging about ‘woman, man, tv, dog’ cognitive test results  —  In his third exposé of Donald Trump …
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David Millward / Telegraph:
Donald Trump feared Ghislaine Maxwell could embroil him in Jeffrey Epstein scandal, new book claims
Discussion: Insider
Mariel Fernandez / NAACP Legal Defense …:
Nikole Hannah-Jones Issues Statement on Decision to Decline Tenure Offer at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and to Accept Knight Chair Appointment at Howard University  — HOME - > - News - > - Nikole Hannah-Jones Issues Statement on Decision ...  Today, award-winning journalist …
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Philip Lewis / HuffPost:
Nikole Hannah-Jones Rejects UNC Tenure Offer, Will Teach At Howard University Instead
Washington Post:
Nikole Hannah-Jones, Ta-Nehisi Coates to join Howard University faculty
The White House:
Statement by President Joe Biden on the Six-Month Anniversary of the January 6th Insurrection on the Capitol  —  Not even during the Civil War did insurrectionists breach our Capitol, the citadel of our democracy.  But six months ago today, insurrectionists did.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation:   FBI Washington Field Office Releases New Videos of Suspects in Violent Assaults on Federal Officers at U.S. Capitol, Seeks Public's Help in Identifying Them
U.S. Department of Justice:
Six Months Since the January 6th Attack on the Capitol
Discussion: BuzzFeed News and Fox News
Eric Kaufmann / National Review:
Political Discrimination as Civil-Rights Struggle  —  Viewpoint neutrality should be legally mandated  —  When a sample of nearly 1,500 female Ivy League students was asked whether they would date a Trump supporter, only 6 percent said yes (after excluding the small minority of the sample who support him).
American Prospect:
Meet the Consulting Firm That's Staffing the Biden Administration  —  WestExec represented major corporations throughout the Trump years.  Now it's in the White House.  —  This piece has been co-published with The Intercept  —  From its headquarters just blocks from the White House …
Discussion: Breitbart and Washington Examiner
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Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
Mo Brooks throws Trump under the bus in response to lawsuit that accuses him of inciting MAGA mob  —  Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) claims in a new court filing that he was asked by a White House official to speak at former president Donald Trump's infamous “Stop the Steal” rally that preceded the Jan. 6 insurrection.
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Spencer Hsu / Washington Post:
Rep. Mo Brooks says he can't be sued for inciting Capitol riot because he is a federal employee
Robby Soave / Reason:
Is Critical Race Theory Taught in K-12 Schools?  The NEA Says Yes, and That It Should Be.  —  The public debate over critical race theory (CRT) is in large part a semantics argument, with the anti-CRT faction attempting to include “all of the various cultural insanities” …
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Hannah Natanson / Washington Post:
Amid critical race theory controversy, teachers union chief vows legal action to defend teaching of ‘honest history’
Discussion: RedState and HotAir
David Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Trump friend and golfing partner charged with misdemeanor indecent assault  —  A friend and golfing partner of former president Donald Trump — who gained notoriety for using that friendship to lobby Trump's administration — was charged with indecent assault last week in Pennsylvania …
Discussion: Raw Story
CNN:
GOP Sen. Ron Johnson mouths to GOP luncheon that climate change is ‘bullsh*t’  —  (CNN)Sen. Ron Johnson insisted again last week that he is not a climate change denier, but CNN's KFile found video of him from just weeks earlier telling a Republican group that it is “bullsh*t.”
Adam Kilgore / Washington Post:
Sha'Carri Richardson will miss Tokyo Olympics after exclusion from U.S. 4x100 relay team  —  Suspended star Sha'Carri Richardson will not be part of the United States' 4x100 team at the Tokyo Olympics, according to the roster USA Track and Field unveiled Tuesday evening …
Joshua Tait / The Bulwark:
The Paradox of Trumpist Patriotism  —  Claiming to love America while believing that it is broken and that many of your fellow citizens are your enemies.  —  How is it that we hear the loudest jingoistic yelps from dismal patriots who cannot stand the state of the nation and half the people in it?
NBC News:
Taliban parade new weapons seized from Afghan military as U.S. withdraws … KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban have showed off containers full of weapons and military hardware seized from the Afghan military as American forces withdraw from the country and the militants march across the country.
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Weeks after Holocaust Museum visit, Rep. Greene makes new Nazi-era comparison in opposing vaccination push  —  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Tuesday used a Nazi-era comparison in opposing the Biden administration's push to encourage all Americans to get vaccinated against the coronavirus …
Discussion: Raw Story
John Whitehouse / Media Matters for America:
Fox's Kayleigh McEnany blatantly lies about the Founding Fathers and slavery  —  Fox's Kayleigh McEnany, a liar who served as White House press secretary under former President Donald Trump, lied about slavery and the founders of the United States during Tuesday's Outnumbered.
James Torrez / KTVU-TV:
Group dashes out of San Francisco Neiman Marcus store after handbag robbery  —  Thieves strike Nieman Marcus in San Francisco  —  SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco police are investigating a handbag robbery at a Neiman Marcus store Monday evening.  —  Authorities said the robbery happened around 5:49 p.m …
Michelle Boorstein / Washington Post:
A horn-wearing ‘shaman.’ A cowboy evangelist.  For some, the Capitol attack was a kind of Christian revolt.  —  Late last month, one of the accused Jan. 6 Capitol insurrectionists told a D.C. judge that she didn't recognize his authority and was making a “divine special appearance.”
Discussion: Raw Story
Joe Trippi / USA Today:
I'm joining the Lincoln Project to make sure Republicans don't win Congress in 2022  —  Donald Trump is fueling an authoritarian movement abetted by far too many Republican senators and House members.  We must unite to preserve democracy.  —  America is exhausted.
David Faris / The Week:
The GOP's main voter bloc is shrinking  —  The electorate is shifting — and not in the Republican Party's favor  —  A new deep dive into the 2020 electorate by Pew Research contains mostly bad news for Republicans, whose approaching demographic doom is less racial than it is generational.
Peter Jamison / Washington Post:
Their neighbors called covid-19 a hoax.  Can these ICU nurses forgive them? … ABINGDON, Va. — The hospital executives at the lectern called her a hero, and the struggle that had earned Emily Boucher that distinction showed on her face: in the pallor acquired over 12-hour shifts in the intensive care unit …
Elizabeth Wagmeister / Variety:
Britney Spears' Court-Appointed Lawyer Resigns From Conservatorship Case … Ingham filed paperwork on Tuesday, asking the Los Angeles Superior Court to dismiss him as Spears' legal representative.  “Samuel D. Ingham III hereby resigns as court-appointed counsel for Britney Jean Spears …
Discussion: The Wrap and NPR
Gerald Roche / The Nation:
Xinjiang Denialists Are Only Aiding Imperialism  —  Denying China's oppression of Uighurs helps empire—both China's and the US's.  —  Opposing American empire should never justify supporting perpetrators of atrocities, and yet that's exactly what some anti-imperialists are doing …
Max Boot / Washington Post:
Republicans are preventing America from reaching Biden's vaccination goal  —  In December, I argued that the coronavirus vaccination campaign would be a test of who had the upper hand in the United States: the geniuses (not all of them American) who invented and produced these safe …
 
 
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Discussion: CBC News and Raw Story
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Ankush Khardori / Politico:
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