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Arizona Republic:
Biden names Arizona Republican Jeff Flake as his ambassador pick for Turkey  —  Ronald J. Hansen Yvonne Wingett SanchezArizona Republic  —  President Joe Biden intends to nominate former Sen. Jeff Flake as ambassador to Turkey, putting the Arizona Republican on the front lines diplomatically …
Discussion: CNN and Reuters
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Jeff Flake / Medium:
Nomination to be U.S. Ambassador to The Republic of Turkey  —  Given the strategic importance of the United States' relationship with our long-time NATO Ally, the Republic of Turkey, I am honored and humbled by the trust President Biden has placed in me with this ambassadorial nomination.
Tyler Pager / Washington Post:
Biden to nominate former GOP senator Flake to be ambassador to Turkey  —  President Biden will nominate former senator Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) to serve as ambassador to Turkey, the White House announced Tuesday.  —  Flake, who served in Congress for 18 years, became a vocal critic …
Discussion: Fox News, Politico and Bloomberg
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The good and the bad in Biden's blistering attack on GOP voter suppression
Asma Khalid / NPR:
Vice President Harris Hints That She Has Discussed Filibuster Changes With Senators
Aamer Madhani / Associated Press:
Biden taps GOP former Sen. Jeff Flake for Turkey ambassador
Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump unloads on Kavanaugh in new Michael Wolff book  —  Former President Donald Trump, in a book out Tuesday by Michael Wolff, says he is “very disappointed” in votes by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, his own hard-won nominee, and that he “hasn't had the courage you need to be a great justice.”
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Judi Hershman:
Ken Starr, Brett Kavanaugh, Jeffrey Epstein and Me  —  As a former professional partisan, I never thought I'd look back decades to my political beginnings and find the map that points to our current moment, when there is serious doubt whether the democracy we took for granted at the time will continue to exist.
Discussion: The Guardian and ArkansasTimes
Marc Pitzke / Spiegel Online:
“There Was No Plan.  He Is Deranged”  —  During the reporting of his latest book on the attack …
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
William Barr clashes with former Trump appointee from Pa. over handling of election-fraud claims  —  A war of words broke out Tuesday among former senior Justice Department officials over Pennsylvania politics and the aftermath of the 2020 election, fueled by former president Donald Trump's release …
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Washington Post:   Trump Justice Dept. effort to learn source of leaks for Post stories came in Barr's final days as AG, court documents show
U.S. Department of Justice:
Iranian Intelligence Officials Indicted on Kidnapping Conspiracy Charges  —  Iranian Intelligence Services Allegedly Plotted to Kidnap a U.S. Journalist and Human Rights Activist from New York City for Rendition to Iran  —  A New York federal court unsealed an indictment today charging four Iranian nationals …
Discussion: The National and Bloomberg
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Justice News:   Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Kidnapping Conspiracy Charges Against An Iranian Intelligence Officer And Members Of An Iranian Intelligence Network
Devan Cole / CNN:
Trump said whoever ‘leaked’ info on his White House bunker stay should be ‘executed,’ new book claims  —  Then-President Donald Trump told a number of his advisers in 2020 that whoever leaked information about his stay in the White House bunker during protests last June had committed treason …
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Dylan Byers / NBC News:
The Atlantic thrived through Trump and the pandemic.  The future is harder.  —  Nicholas Thompson, the chief executive of The Atlantic, gave a presentation to employees last month in which he disclosed some uncomfortable truths about the state of the magazine.
David Frum / The Atlantic:
There's a Word for What Trumpism Is Becoming  —  “I became worse.”  That's how double impeachment changed him, Donald Trump told a conservative audience in Dallas last weekend, without a trace of a smile.  This was not Trump the insult comic talking.  This was the deepest Trump self.
Washington Post:
‘I Alone Can Fix It’ book excerpt: Inside Trump's Election Day and the birth of the ‘big lie’ … Finally, Election Day had arrived.  The morning of Nov. 3, 2020, President Trump was upbeat.  The mood in the West Wing was good.  Some aides talked giddily of a landslide.
Laura K. Field / The Bulwark:
What the Hell Happened to the Claremont Institute?  —  [A printable PDF of this article is available here.]  —  Just before 11 o'clock on the morning of January 6—an hour before President Donald Trump began riling up his “Save America” rally in front of the White House …
Discussion: Bulwark+
Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
Texas House Republicans vote to track down absent Democrats and arrest them if necessary  —  The procedural move carries little apparent weight since the Democrats who fled the state to break quorum are beyond the jurisdiction of Texas law enforcement.  —  Copy link
The Daily Beast:
Bill O'Reilly's Accuser Finally Breaks Her Silence  —  HER STORY … In an exclusive interview, Andrea Mackris reveals the full scope of Bill O'Reilly's alleged harassment of her—and why she doesn't care if telling all means blowing up her NDA. … New York litigator David Ratner shouted at his client …
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
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Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump May Already Be Violating Campaign Laws
Discussion: Raw Story
John Stoehr / The Editorial Board:
For white evangelical Protestants, the degradation of democracy is not regrettable.  It's desirable  —  The point is rule by God's chosen.  —  3 hr ago  —  Members of the pundit corps seem to believe white evangelical Protestants (WEPs) have politicized their faith.
Discussion: Washington Post
Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
Newsmax vouches for vaccines after host Rob Schmitt says shots are ‘against nature’  —  “From time to time, a guest or host may not be as supportive of these efforts,” the conservative network said.  “However, they do not reflect the position of Newsmax.”  —  Rob Schmitt, a primetime host …
Naomi Lim / Washington Examiner:
Biden applauds ‘courage’ of Texas Democrats who fled state to avoid voting on election bills  —  President Joe Biden supports Democratic state lawmakers who fled Texas to delay Republican bills the GOP claims will help secure elections, according to the White House.
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Grace Panetta / Insider:   What's in the GOP voting bills that Texas Democrats fled their state to block
Laura Vozzella / Washington Post:
Youngkin to skip marquee debate over moderator's donation to Clinton Bush Haiti Fund  —  RICHMOND — Republican Glenn Youngkin will skip what is typically the premier debate of the Virginia governor's race, saying he objects to the moderator, PBS NewsHour host Judy Woodruff …
Discussion: The Hill, Fox News and NBC News
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Wall Street Journal:
‘Patria y Vida’: The Dissident Rappers Helping Drive Cuba's Protests  —  An artistic movement to challenge the government drew attention in a nation that keeps tight control on dissent  —  The protesters pouring into streets across Cuba have a common rallying cry: “Patria y Vida,” or “Fatherland and Life.”
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Nora Gámez Torres / Miami Herald:
Raúl Castro reappears in emergency meeting prompted by massive protests in Cuba
Discussion: Breitbart and spectatorworld.com
Ben White / Politico:
New concern for Biden: Could Larry Summers be right about inflation?  —  There is a new fear circulating inside the West Wing of the White House: Maybe Larry Summers was right.  —  The former Treasury secretary has been warning since February that President Joe Biden's big-spending agenda …
Discussion: Fortune, TheBlaze and Twitchy
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
How Republicans hope to scam Democrats into committing political suicide  —  It's a strange fact about our politics that GOP outrage is constantly treated as a stable, reliable currency, no matter how wildly and recklessly Republicans churn it out on their currency-manufacturing machine.
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:   Manchin draws red line in infrastructure talks
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
The obscure foundation funding “Critical Race Theory” hysteria  —  Critical Race Theory (CRT), once a little-known academic concept, is now at the center of the national political discussion.  CRT is discussed incessantly on Fox News.  It is featured in campaign advertisements.
The Daily Beast:
Feds: New Hampshire Firm Shipped WMD Tech to Russian Spies  —  Newly unsealed documents allege that a U.S. company “intentionally falsified shipping documents” to send scientific instruments to Moscow's domestic intelligence agency, the FSB. … The FBI and federal prosecutors are investigating …
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
REvil, Hacking Group Behind Major Ransomware Attack, Disappears  —  Just days after President Biden called President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and demanded that he act to shut down ransomware groups that are attacking American targets, the biggest of them has gone off-line.  The mystery is who made that happen.
Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Cheney fundraising surge continues, as Wyoming congresswoman sets second straight record  —  Cheney, who was ousted as House Republican Conference Chair in May, hauls in nearly $1.9M in past three months  —  Liz Cheney speaks out after being ousted by Republican Party
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Ron Kampeas / Jewish Telegraphic Agency:
Survey: A quarter of US Jews agree that Israel ‘is an apartheid state’  —  (JTA) — A survey of U.S. Jewish voters taken after the Israel-Gaza conflict finds that a sizable minority believe some of the harshest criticisms of Israel, including that it is committing genocide and apartheid.
Ann Marimow / Washington Post:
Gun laws barring sales to people under 21 are unconstitutional, appeals court rules  —  Laws preventing firearms dealers from selling handguns to anyone under age 21 are unconstitutional and violate the Second Amendment, a federal appeals court said Tuesday in a ruling that could have implications …
Cortney O'Brien / Fox News:
Greenwald hammers media on Avenatti: ‘Utter bulls—t’ to claim they couldn't have known he was a crook  —  'If you can't recognize what Avenatti is, you can't see anything'  —  Journalist Glenn Greenwald blasted the media Tuesday for their coverage of disgraced attorney Michael Avenatti …
 
 
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Matt Katz / Gothamist:
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 Earlier Items: 
Justine Coleman / The Hill:
US's largest registered nurses union calls on CDC to bring back universal mask guidelines
Discussion: Townhall and CNN
Heather Haddon / Wall Street Journal:
McDonald's Owners Offer Tuition, Child Care to Lure Burger Flippers
Discussion: HotAir, CBS News and New York Post
Adam Barnes / The Hill:
Fauci says vaccines should be mandated locally across the country
Jeremy Duda / Arizona Mirror:
Scottsdale woman indicted for casting dead mother's ballot
Marcy Nicholson / Bloomberg:
Lumber Wipes Out 2021 Gain With Demand Ebbing After Record Boom
Bill Press / The Hill:
Ice cream's back — thank you, Joe!
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Todd Spangler / Variety:
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New York Times:
In a first, Telegram is set to be profitable in 2024, with $1B+ in revenue, up from ~$350M in 2023, and 12M subscribers; source: 50%+ of its revenue is from ads
 
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