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Jonathan Lemire / Politico:
Bidenworld wants to make the midterms more about Trump and hopes Elon Musk helps — President Joe Biden and fellow Democrats have struggled to overcome historical headwinds and worrisome economic trends in the lead-up to the midterms. — So aides are scheming up something else …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: Jan. 6 committee looking into potential Trump pardons
POLITICO Playbook PM: Jan. 6 committee looking into potential Trump pardons
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Kansas Reflector, New York Times, Associated Press, Bloomberg and Breitbart
Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Judge rejects RNC bid to block email, fundraising data from Jan. 6 panel
Judge rejects RNC bid to block email, fundraising data from Jan. 6 panel
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Judge rules January 6 committee can obtain RNC and Trump campaign email data
Judge rules January 6 committee can obtain RNC and Trump campaign email data
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POLITICUSUSA, RedState, Vanity Fair, Talking Points Memo and The Root
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Former president Bill Clinton lunches with Biden at the White House
Former president Bill Clinton lunches with Biden at the White House
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Associated Press, Breitbart, The Hill, The Gateway Pundit, Fox News, The Daily Wire and Political Wire
NBC News:
A note to our readers — To our readers: — A review by NBC News has found 11 articles written by a reporter over the last year that did not meet our standards for original material. The articles contained passages from other news organizations that were used without attribution.
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Mediaite, New York Post, The Wrap, The Hill, Fox News, The Daily Caller and Twitchy, more at Mediagazer »
Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Esper says Trump wanted to shoot protesters — Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper charges in a memoir out May 10 that former President Trump said when demonstrators were filling the streets around the White House following the death of George Floyd: “Can't you just shoot them?
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Shawn McCreesh / New York Magazine:
Everybody Used to Be In On the Same Joke at the White House Correspondents' Dinner — I was at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday night — pushing rubbery food around my plate while President Biden admonished that “American democracy is not a reality show.”
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Breitbart and Power Line
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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
What Trevor Noah Got Desperately Wrong at the White House Correspondents' Dinner — Saturday marked the first White House correspondents' dinner in three years and the first one with an actual president in attendance since 2016. The most notable part of an event that has felt in recent years …
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CNN and Boing Boing
Ben Orner / WCMH-TV:
Vance leads, Dolan surging in last-minute Ohio GOP Senate poll — COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — As the remaining undecided voters pick their candidates, three Republican U.S. Senate candidates have emerged as the final frontrunners in a major pollster's last poll before Ohio's primary election Tuesday.
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Natalie Allison / Politico:
Arizona GOP Senate frontrunner loses lead amid air assault
Arizona GOP Senate frontrunner loses lead amid air assault
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Washington Examiner
David Siders / Politico:
Trumpworld braces for ‘a couple of ugly nights’ in May
Trumpworld braces for ‘a couple of ugly nights’ in May
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Washington Post, The Hill, Associated Press, RedState, NPR, CBS News, The Entermation Age, Mock Paper Scissors, Fox News, Raw Story and WPRI-TV
Annie Karni / New York Times:
As Feinstein Declines, Democrats Struggle to Manage an Open Secret — Democrats have quietly accepted the California senator's memory issues as the status quo, even as her inner circle frets that the spectacle of her difficulties on the job could tarnish her legacy. — Give this article- - - Read in app
Myra Noveck / New York Times:
Israel condemns Russian foreign minister's comments as antisemitic. — JERUSALEM — The Israeli prime minister, Naftali Bennett, condemned on Monday a recent claim by the Russian foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, that Jews were “the biggest antisemites.” — The Israeli Foreign Ministry …
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Alex Griffing / Mediaite:
MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Says ‘Hard For Israel’ to Remain Neutral After Russia Claimed Hitler Had Jewish Heritage
MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Says ‘Hard For Israel’ to Remain Neutral After Russia Claimed Hitler Had Jewish Heritage
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BBC:
Israel outrage at Sergei Lavrov's claim that Hitler was part Jewish
Israel outrage at Sergei Lavrov's claim that Hitler was part Jewish
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Joseph Zeballos-Roig / Insider:
Kyrsten Sinema nearly walked out on Biden last year during a heated exchange over his economic agenda, book says — Sen. Kyrsten Sinema almost walked out on Biden last year in a tense exchange over Build Back Better. — The Arizona Democrat was angry with Biden for disclosing her spending demands in a White House meeting.
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Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Former Marine who kicked officer on Jan. 6 sentenced to more than 2 years in prison — WASHINGTON — A military veteran from Georgia who attacked police officers at the Capitol as part of a pro-Trump mob attempting to overturn the 2020 election results was sentenced to more than two years in federal prison Monday.
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Law & Crime
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Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Former N.Y.P.D. Officer Convicted of Assault in Jan. 6 Case
Former N.Y.P.D. Officer Convicted of Assault in Jan. 6 Case
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Tucker Carlson Is a White Nationalist, and Conservatives Are Okay With It … Ten years ago, National Review fired longtime contributor John Derbyshire over a column urging white and Asian American parents to warn their children that Black people posed a danger to them.
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The Hill and HuffPost, more at Mediagazer »
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Devin Dwyer / ABC News:
Supreme Court rules for group in dispute with Boston over flying Christian Flag — The court ruled the city of Boston violated the group's First Amendment rights. — A unanimous Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the city of Boston violated the First Amendment when it denied a civic group …
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Andrew Chung / Reuters:
U.S. Supreme Court backs Christian group in Boston flag flap
U.S. Supreme Court backs Christian group in Boston flag flap
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New York Times, Associated Press, The Daily Wire, The Daily Caller, CBS News, The Western Journal and National Review
Josh Boswell / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Russian oligarch with close ties to Putin met with Hunter Biden in Moscow over potential investment deal before meeting TWICE more in New York and DC - and is now sanctioned by the UK (but NOT the US) — Emails obtained by DailyMail.com reveal Hunter Biden had courted Vladimir Yevtushenkov …
Alfredo Corchado / Dallas Morning News:
Mexico: Rail link worth billions won't go through Texas after Abbott used trade as ‘political tool’ — Instead, the proposed rail line would be routed along the far edge of West Texas up through Santa Teresa, N.M., about 20 miles west of downtown El Paso. — SANTA TERESA, N.M. …
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Talking Points Memo and New York Post
Katie Glueck / New York Times:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is planning to endorse Nina Turner in a rematch for an Ohio House seat. — Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, one of the nation's most prominent left-wing officials, is planning to endorse Nina Turner's congressional bid in the final hours …
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Political Wire and Punchbowl News
Andrew Stiles / Washington Free Beacon:
Another Obama Failure: Amber Heard Fires PR Team Run by Former WH Aides — Embattled actress Amber Heard fired her public relations team last week after complaining that her story was “not being told effectively,” according to the New York Post. — Heard, who is being sued by ex-husband Johnny Depp …
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The Daily Caller, New York Post and Vanity Fair
The Seattle Times:
Herrera Beutler, Newhouse went further than previously known in attempts to oust Trump, new book says — Washington Reps. Jaime Herrera Beutler and Dan Newhouse, two of the 10 Republican representatives who voted to impeach Donald Trump in the wake of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol …
Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters:
Amazon to reimburse U.S. employees who travel for abortions, other treatments — Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O), the second-largest U.S. private employer, told its staff on Monday it will pay up to $4,000 in travel expenses annually for non-life threatening medical treatments including abortions, according to a message seen by Reuters.
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Big League Politics, The Daily Wire and The Daily Caller
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Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters:
Amazon to get hearing that could overturn New York union vote
Amazon to get hearing that could overturn New York union vote
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Jacobin, New York Times, VICE, Washington Post, CBS News, Fortune, Mercury News, THE CITY, City & State New York, The Labor Report, FreightWaves, Denver Post, Mother Jones and The Hill
CNN:
Georgia official texted Mark Meadows as Trump badgered secretary of state to ‘find’ votes — (CNN)As Donald Trump badgered Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on an hour-long call to “find” the votes necessary to flip the battleground state to Trump's column after the 2020 election …
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Tamar Hallerman / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Special grand jury selected for Fulton DA's election investigation
Special grand jury selected for Fulton DA's election investigation
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CNN, UPI, The Guardian, CBS News and Florida Politics
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
This Is How America's Culture War Death Spirals — Sign up for Derek's newsletter here. — The drama in Florida between Governor Ron DeSantis and the Walt Disney Company has taken so many unusual turns in so little time that providing a truly straightforward account of what's transpired is not easy.
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Vanity Fair and Based and Reformed
Wall Street Journal:
EU Prepares Ban on Russian Oil — The bloc's executive expected to propose a phased-in embargo on Russian oil, taking effect by year-end, after Germany comes out in support of a ban — The European Union is likely to propose ending purchases of Russian crude oil by the 27-country bloc …