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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Tucker Carlson sought Putin interview at time of spying claim — Tucker Carlson was talking to U.S.-based Kremlin intermediaries about setting up an interview with Vladimir Putin shortly before the Fox News host accused the National Security Agency of spying on him, sources familiar with the conversations tell Axios.
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BuzzFeed News:
Here's The Extremely Broad FOIA Request Tucker Carlson's Producer Filed With The NSA — A Fox News producer sent an extremely broad Freedom of Information Act request to the National Security Agency last week seeking evidence that officials were spying on host Tucker Carlson …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Scoop: Trump to sue Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey — Former President Donald Trump, who has complained about censorship by social media giants, plans to announce class action lawsuits today against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, sources tell Axios.
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Washington Post:
Trump files class action lawsuits targeting Facebook, Google and Twitter over ‘censorship’ of conservatives — One suit claims Facebook should be considered a ‘state actor’ whose decisions are subject to First Amendment limits on government action — Former president Donald Trump …
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Associated Press:
Trump files suit against Facebook, Twitter and YouTube — WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has filed suit against three of the country's biggest tech companies, claiming he and other conservatives have been wrongfully censored. — Trump announced the action against Facebook …
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Trump says ‘there was no reason’ for officer to shoot rioter who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6
Trump says ‘there was no reason’ for officer to shoot rioter who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6
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Insider, IJR and Talking Points Memo
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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Simon Shuster / TIME:
Exclusive: Documents Reveal Erik Prince's $10 Billion Plan to Make Weapons and Create a Private Army in Ukraine — On the second night of his visit to Kyiv, Erik Prince had a dinner date on his agenda. A few of his Ukrainian associates had arranged to meet the American billionaire at the Vodka Grill that evening, Feb. 23, 2020.
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Political Wire
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Chilling Message of Trump's Embrace of Ashli Babbitt Martyrdom January 6 is now a heroic uprising for the movement. — Last Thursday, Donald Trump announced a new theme, with all his customary blunt-force subtlety. “Who shot Ashli Babbitt?,” he wrote on his official pseudo-presidential stationery.
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Washington Post and Raw Story
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Ben Collins / NBC News:
QAnon' new ‘plan’? Run for school board — Drake Wuertz came to the school board meeting in Seminole County, Florida, in late June with a message familiar to those who had heard him speak at previous meetings: America's children are at risk of systemic abuse. — And the way to stop it is to run for local office.
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Raw Story
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David Gilbert / VICE:
Michael Flynn's Family: That QAnon Oath Video Is Just Our Family Motto
Michael Flynn's Family: That QAnon Oath Video Is Just Our Family Motto
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Raw Story, Law & Crime and Gizmodo
Molly Ball / TIME:
Breakfast with J.D. Vance, Anti-Trump Author Turned Pro-Trump Candidate — “I'm not just a flip-flopper, I'm a flip-flop-flipper on Trump,” J.D. Vance says with a laugh, slicing into a half-stack of breakfast pancakes. The Hillbilly Elegy author and newly minted Republican Senate candidate …
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NBC News
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 early Wednesday, according to a statement from the country's interim prime minister, who called the killing a …
Insider:
Where is Trump's White House staff now? We created a searchable database of more than 327 top staffers to show where they all landed — Insider set out to find 327 of the most prominent Trump administration alumni. — Nearly 100 have gotten “establishment” jobs.
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The Daily Caller
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Ana Monteiro / Bloomberg:
GOP Senator Scoffs at Trump Auto-Tariff Report as Secrecy Ends
GOP Senator Scoffs at Trump Auto-Tariff Report as Secrecy Ends
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Reason
Jason Douglas / Wall Street Journal:
Julian Assange Won't Be Held in Supermax Jail If Extradited, U.S. Assures U.K. — American government says the WikiLeaks founder, if convicted on espionage charges, can serve any custodial sentence in his native Australia — LONDON—The U.S. government has given assurances to the U.K …
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National Review and The Daily Caller
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Perry Bacon / Washington Post:
The Democratic left was defeated in New York City. That doesn't mean it's a paper tiger. — A year after President Biden defeated several candidates to his left in the Democratic presidential primary, something similar happened in the mayor's race in New York.
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HotAir
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John Nichols / The Nation:
Eric Adams Won as a Centrist, but Bold Progressives Took the Other 2 Citywide Contests
Eric Adams Won as a Centrist, but Bold Progressives Took the Other 2 Citywide Contests
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USA Today
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Kevin McCarthy's struggles over the Jan. 6 committee reveal a dark GOP truth — Here's a puzzling development to ponder. Why is it that the Republicans most eager to join the Jan. 6 select committee are also among those most prone to sowing doubt about the legitimacy of the 2020 election …
Daniela Galarza / Washington Post:
Stop calling food ‘exotic’ — “One of the nicest things about Afghan restaurants is that they appeal to even the most timid of diners,” Mark and Gail Barnett wrote in the May 16, 1993, edition of The Post. “Your visiting aunt from Spokane, Wash., can enjoy the adventure of an exotic cuisine …
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HotAir
Marley Parish / Pennsylvania Capital-Star:
Pa. GOP lawmaker — and Trump ally — Mastriano initiates ‘forensic investigation’ into state elections — (*This story was updated at 11:26 a.m., 11:50 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 1 p.m., 2:11 p.m., 2:37 p.m., 3:48 p.m., and 4:25 p.m. on Wednesday, 7/7/21 to include the text of the letter …
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CBS News:
FBI orders new look at autopsy of Black motorist Ronald Greene after release of graphic bodycam video — The FBI is taking the unusual step of ordering a new look at the autopsy of Black motorist Ronald Greene to consider evidence not provided after his 2019 death, including graphic body camera video …
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 …
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Talking Points Memo and Associated Press
CNN:
Federal judge blocks effort to invalidate parts of new Georgia voting law ahead of July runoffs — (CNN)A federal court judge on Wednesday denied a motion to stop the implementation of parts of Georgia's new voting law, ahead of state legislature runoff elections next week.
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Washington Examiner and The Hill
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Gallup:
Americans' Life Ratings Reach Record High — WASHINGTON, D.C. — The percentage of Americans who evaluate their lives well enough to be considered “thriving” on Gallup's Live Evaluation Index reached 59.2% in June, the highest in over 13 years of ongoing measurement and exceeding the previous high of 57.3% from September 2017.
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CNN and The Daily Caller
Politico:
Democrats race to push bipartisan infrastructure bill through Senate — The White House's long sought-after bipartisan infrastructure deal could hit the Senate floor as early as the week of July 19, according to multiple House and Senate Democratic sources with knowledge of the conversations.
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ABC News and Washington Post
Yascha Mounk / The Atlantic:
We Might Have Reached Peak Populism — Feeling optimistic about the state of American politics is hard. The country is deeply polarized. Much of the debate consists of name-calling and demonization. Dissatisfied with a strategy of maximal obstructionism in Congress …
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Rep on bipartisanship: Republicans want ‘18 more months of chaos’ … On the surface, Rep. Chip Roy (R-Tex.) might seem like the kind of House Republican who might be willing to work with his Democratic colleagues. It's not because he's moderate — he's actually a very conservative Texas Republican …
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Insider, Los Angeles Times, Talking Points Memo, The Hill, Alternet.org and Common Dreams
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Rudy Giuliani suspended from practicing law in D.C. court — The D.C. Court of Appeals has temporarily barred Rudolph W. Giuliani from practicing law, following a similar decision in New York. — A committee of judges in New York determined last month that Giuliani was unfit to keep practicing law …
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USA Today, Talking Points Memo, Politico, New York Magazine and Forbes
David Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Trump golf club to pay penalty after customer's fatal car crash — One of former president Donald Trump's golf clubs on Wednesday agreed to pay a $400,000 penalty to the state of New Jersey for overserving alcohol to a customer who later caused a fatal car crash, according to settlement documents released by the state.
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Joe.My.God., Forbes, Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA
Michael Edison Hayden / Southern Poverty Law Center:
‘We Make Mistakes’: Twitter's Embrace of the Extreme Far Right — Twitter gave far-right extremists the platform they needed to plan an attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, and the website, if it maintains its current approach, will likely enable politically motivated violence again in the future.
Debra Nussbaum Cohen / The Forward:
Max Solomon Lewis, 20, killed by stray bullet in Chicago — Max Solomon Lewis, a 20-year-old University of Chicago student, was commuting home from his summer internship last Thursday evening when a stray bullet pierced the window of his train car and hit him in the back of the neck.
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The College Fix, The Federalist, The Times of Israel, CBS Denver, Washington Free Beacon and The Daily Caller
John Eligon / New York Times:
Jacob Zuma, Former South African President, Is Arrested — The Constitutional Court had found him guilty of contempt for failing to appear before a commission investigating corruption accusations that tainted a president once best known for fighting apartheid.
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One America News Network and Political Wire
Alana Goodman / Washington Free Beacon:
PHOTOS: John Kerry Flouts Mask Mandate at Airport — White House climate envoy John Kerry was photographed without a face mask while walking through Boston Logan International Airport on Monday morning—the second time he has been snapped apparently flouting the mask mandate during air travel this year …
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Fox News and The Gateway Pundit
Damon Linker / The Week:
The myth of asymmetric polarization — Yes, progressives are aggressors in the culture war, too — When progressives talk about the culture war, they tend to place themselves in a passive role. — It's conservatives who are the aggressors, they claim, with Republicans driving …