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Associated Press:
Official: Haiti President Jovenel Moïse assassinated at home  —  PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in an attack on his private residence, the country's interim prime minister said in a statement Wednesday, calling it a “hateful, inhumane and barbaric act.”
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New York Times:
After the killing of Haiti's president, the threat of further political violence escalates.  —  President Jovenel Moïse of Haiti was assassinated in an attack in the early hours of Wednesday at his home on the outskirts of the capital, Port-au-Prince, the prime minister said.
Jacqueline Charles / Miami Herald:
Haiti President Jovenel Moïse assassinated in middle-of-the-night attack at his home  —  Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was “mortally wounded” and his wife shot during an armed attack in the early hours of Wednesday at their private residence above the hills of Port-au-Prince …
Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Trump told chief of staff Hitler ‘did a lot of good things’, book says  — Remark shocked John Kelly, author Michael Bender reports  — Book details former president's ‘stunning disregard for history’  —  On a visit to Europe to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of the first world war …
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Bill Bostock / Insider:   Trump said ‘Hitler did a lot of good things,’ horrifying his then-chief of staff John Kelly, book says
Lee Moran / HuffPost:
Donald Trump Reportedly Praised Hitler During Trip Honoring U.S. Troops, New Book Claims
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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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American Greatness:
20 Questions for Nancy Pelosi About January 6
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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David Freedlander / New York Magazine:   How Eric Adams Did It The likely next mayor didn't look like it at the start of the campaign.
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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Neil Irwin / New York Times:
A Planned Biden Order Aims to Tilt the Job Market Toward Workers  —  Noncompete clauses, licensing requirements and corporate mergers have tended to strengthen the hand of business.  —  According to an increasingly influential school of thought in left-of-center economic circles …
CNN:
What Nikole-Hannah Jones's job decision reveals  —  Nikole Hannah-Jones explains why she rejected UNC tenure  —  Peniel E. Joseph is the author of “Stokely: A Life” and “The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.” The views expressed here are his own.
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Washington Post:
All Marylanders who died of covid in June were unvaccinated, data shows  —  Unvaccinated people made up all of Maryland's reported coronavirus deaths last month, as well as the vast majority of new cases and hospitalizations, the state reported Tuesday — data that public health officials say demonstrates the effectiveness of vaccines.
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 …
Discussion: Insider
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).
Discussion: New York Magazine
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 …
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.”
Washington Examiner:
Biden's fight for racial discrimination  —  With another defeat in the courts for President Joe Biden, a simple fact must be acknowledged: The Democratic Party's top priority is pushing racially discriminatory policies.  —  On Thursday, a judge issued a preliminary injunction preventing …
LZ Granderson / Los Angeles Times:
Column: Yes, the Olympics are political, including ridiculous rules on swim caps  —  The 1908 Summer Olympics in London were fascinating for a variety of nonsports reasons, starting with the fact the Games weren't supposed to be in London in the first place.  —  But the 1906 eruption of Mt. Vesuvius forced the move away from Rome.
Discussion: WRAL-TV, CNN and Comic Sands
Natasha Korecki / Politico:
Biden's Covid vaccine push crashes into reality  —  CHICAGO — Buzzing razors collided with roaring laughter that collectively rose and fell as James Brown screeched in the backdrop.  It's so loud at the “It's Official Barbershop” that it's hard to hear the reply from Mark Harmon …
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:
FBI infiltrates group whose members wanted to test homemade bombs, surveil Capitol, secede from US, court records show  —  Dramatic Capitol riot videos used in court tell a harrowing story  —  (CNN)The FBI has infiltrated a “Bible study” group in Virginia that after the January 6 riot …
Jamie Ross / The Daily Beast:
Riot Leader Had ‘Fully Constructed U.S. Capitol Lego Set’ at Home, FBI Says  —  PLAYING SOLDIER  —  Federal investigators seized an unusual piece of evidence from a Pennsylvania man indicted last month for his role in the Capitol riot—a Lego replica of the building he allegedly stormed.
Discussion: Twitchy
Josh Blackman / Newsweek:
Conservative Justices Warn Kavanaugh and Barrett Lack ‘Fortitude’  —  , PROFESSOR, SOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE OF LAW HOUSTON  —  For the first time in a generation, there are six conservative justices on the Supreme Court.  In time, this sextet will incrementally push the Court to the right.
Discussion: Politico and Reason
Washington Free Beacon:
Report: Malaysian ‘Troll Army’ Targeted Israelis During Conflict With Hamas  —  A series of cyberattacks aimed at shutting down pro-Israel social media accounts and spamming Israelis with abusive messages during the military conflict with Hamas was coordinated by a Malaysian “troll army,” …
The Daily Beast:
These Fascist ‘Diaries’ Keep Inspiring Jan. 6 Rioters  —  Author and professor Kathleen Belew talks to Fever Dreams about the disturbing parallels between a racist novel embraced by violent extremists and the Jan. 6 riots.  —  In 1978, an American neo-Nazi published The Turner Diaries …
Discussion: Raw Story
Greg Gardner / Forbes:
Yandex, GrubHub Launching Food Delivery Bots On 250 U.S. College Campuses  —  Yandex, a Russian tech company working on self-driving systems, is partnering with GrubHub to deploy a fleet of delivery robots on selected college campuses in the United States later this year.
New York Times:
Taliban Try to Polish Their Image as They Push for Victory  —  The insurgents are trying to rebrand themselves as effective governors as they capture new territory.  But there is more evidence that they are unreformed.  —  KABUL, Afghanistan — In June, when the Taliban took the district …
 
 
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Politico:
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