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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 …
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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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 …
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 …
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 …
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Patricia Zengerle / Reuters:
U.S. condemns ‘heinous’ assassination of Haitian leader, assessing attack
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 …
Discussion: Politico
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Varad Mehta / Arc Digital:
Liz Cheney Fell in a Forest  —  No one heard her  —  Eight weeks ago, Liz Cheney's colleagues struck her down—and made her more powerful than they could have possibly imagined.  They did so, if the media was to be believed, by inadvertently thrusting into her hands a new megaphone to broadcast her anti-Trump message.
Nihal Krishan / Washington Examiner:
House Republicans unveil legislative plan to break up Big Tech and stop censorship
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.
Discussion: Raw Story
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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New York Times:
Biden is preparing an executive order targeting noncompete clauses for workers.
Discussion: CNBC
Sarah Brown / Chronicle of Higher Education:
‘A Place That Was Built For Us’: How Howard U. Landed Nikole Hannah-Jones  —  In mid-May, the fraught fight over Nikole Hannah-Jones's tenure at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill spilled into public view.  Shortly after that, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist …
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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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Ana Monteiro / Bloomberg:
GOP Senator Scoffs at Trump Auto-Tariff Report as Secrecy Ends
Discussion: 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 …
Paul Blest / VICE:
Tucker Carlson Wants Body Cameras for Teachers to Stop Critical Race Theory  —  “How widespread is it?  Well, we can't really be sure until we finally get cameras in the classroom, as we put them on the chests of police officers.”  —  PB  —  Tucker Carlson thinks the renegade teaching …
Discussion: Vanity Fair and New York Post
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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.
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.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Matt Ford / New Republic:
Samuel Alito's Boundless Contempt for Democracy  —  I spent my Fourth of July holiday this year like most others did: spending time with friends and family, eating hot dogs and hamburgers, and setting off fireworks.  It's one of my favorite holidays—partly because of my affection for this country …
Dell Cameron / Gizmodo:
Intel Officials Warned of Hate Groups Using Ashli Babbitt to Incite Terrorism Days After Capitol Siege  —  Hardly a week had passed since a violent mob of Americans had laid siege to their own capital on Jan. 6 in a brutish but futile attempt to reverse the course of a national election.
Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Judge rejects attempt to stop parts of Georgia voting law  —  New election rules withstand first court challenge  —  A federal judge denied an effort to invalidate parts of Georgia's voting law Wednesday, the first court ruling upholding new rules passed after last year's elections.
Discussion: CNN, Associated Press and Townhall
Seth Cropsey / The Hill:
China's military prepares for war, while America's military goes ‘woke’  —  President Xi Jinping's Chinese Communist Party (CCP) centenary speech conveyed his regime's resolve in many ways.  —  Those who attempt to drive a wedge between the party and the Chinese nation, he stated …
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.
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.
Michael S. Steele / The Bulwark:
Getting to Yes on Voting Rights  —  Don't let the perfect get in the way of the possible.  —  Anyone familiar with the art of negotiation knows that success is unlikely unless there's at least some compromise.  Given the current tensions around voting and race within our democracy …
Discussion: SCOTUSblog
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 …
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. and 2:37 p.m. on Wednesday, 7/7/21 to include the text of the letter that Sen. Doug Mastriano sent to county officials …
Yaroslav Trofimov / Wall Street Journal:
A Generation of Afghan Professionals Flees Ahead of Taliban Advance  —  Many of Afghanistan's most successful men and women in careers that flourished under the protection of the U.S. military see their lives in peril  —  KABUL—Afghanistan's professional class of men and women …
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.
USA Today:
USA TODAY launches subscriber model for premium journalism, but many stories remain free.  Here's what you need to know.  —  Maribel Perez Wadsworth Nicole CarrollUSA TODAY  —  When major news breaks anywhere in the country, our journalists are on the scene quickly.
 
 
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John Nichols / The Nation:
Eric Adams Won as a Centrist, but Bold Progressives Took the Next 2 Biggest Citywide Contests
Discussion: USA Today
Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Biden targets children, spouses in visa crackdown on world's villains
Damon Linker / The Week:
The myth of asymmetric polarization
Jazmine Hughes / New York Times:
The Subversive Joy of Lil Nas X's Gay Pop Stardom
Discussion: The Root and Mediaite
Steven Lubet / American Prospect:
The Supreme Court's Inadequate Recusal Policy
Discussion: Raw Story
Scott Bauer / Associated Press:
Colby would be official Wisconsin cheese under bill
Discussion: WCCO | CBS Minnesota
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The GOP's very stubborn vaccine skepticism
Discussion: Insider
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Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Code in huge ransomware attack written to avoid computers that use Russian, says new report
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Charlie Duxbury / Politico:
Sweden's Stefan Löfven narrowly wins vote to return as PM
Discussion: Jacobin, Al Jazeera and MyNorthwest.com
Wall Street Journal:
Air Force Found Largely Responsible for Texas Church Shooting
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Toyota vies to become Official Car of Insurrectionists. Will Oath Keepers swear their brand loyalty?
Natasha Korecki / Politico:
Biden's Covid vaccine push crashes into reality
 

 
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
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