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Matt Levine / Bloomberg:
Elon Musk Does Not Care About Spam Bots — Programming note: Money Stuff will be off tomorrow, back on Thursday. Unless. You know. — Oh Elon — Elon Musk is the richest person in the world, and an active Twitter user. When he tweets, he gets a lot of spammy replies, many of which seem to be written by automated bots.
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Lee Brown / New York Post:
Twitter engineer recorded saying ‘Commie as f-k’ staff ‘censors the right’ — A senior Twitter engineer has been secretly recorded admitting that the social media giant is “censoring the right” — and that he and his co-workers are “Commie as f-k.” — “Twitter does not believe in free speech …
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New York Times:
Elon Musk says Twitter deal ‘cannot move forward’ without more information. — Mr. Musk called on Twitter to provide more data about the number of spam and fake accounts on the social media site. — Elon Musk, chaos agent. — Mr. Musk, the world's richest man, continued creating confusion around …
New York Times:
Justice Dept. Is Said to Request Transcripts From Jan. 6 Committee — The committee has interviewed more than 1,000 people so far, and the transcripts could be used as evidence in potential criminal cases or to pursue new leads. — WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has asked …
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Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
Republican Senate candidates promote ‘replacement’ theory — NEW YORK (AP) — A half-dozen mainstream Republican Senate candidates are drawing on the “great replacement” conspiracy theory once confined to the far-right fringes of U.S. politics to court voters this campaign season …
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Most Extremist Violence in the U.S. Comes From the Political Right — The Buffalo killings are part of a pattern: Most extremist violence in the U.S. comes from the political right. — Over the past decade, the Anti-Defamation League has counted about 450 U.S. murders committed by political extremists.
Adam Gabbatt / The Guardian:
Fox News suddenly goes quiet on ‘great replacement’ theory after Buffalo shooting
Fox News suddenly goes quiet on ‘great replacement’ theory after Buffalo shooting
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U.S. Department of Justice:
Justice Department Sues to Compel a U.S. Businessperson to Register Under the Foreign Agents Registration Act — Complaint Alleges That Stephen A. Wynn Lobbied the Then-President and Former Administration Officials at the Request of the People's Republic of China
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Niraj Chokshi / New York Times:
U.S. Accuses Steve Wynn of Lobbying Trump on Behalf of China — The Justice Department said that by serving as a middleman for the Chinese government, Mr. Wynn acted as a foreign agent and must register as one. — The Justice Department sued Stephen Wynn, the former casino mogul, on Tuesday …
ABC News:
Chinese plane crash that killed 132 caused by intentional act: US officials — The Eastern Airlines jet crashed into a mountain after a steep dive. — The China Eastern Airlines plane crash that killed 132 people is believed to have been caused by an intentional act, according to U.S. officials who spoke to ABC News.
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Aaron Sibarium / Washington Free Beacon:
Double Jeopardy: Princeton Prepares To Axe Star Professor Who Raised Hell Over Woke Lunacy — Ivy League school leans on second investigation into Joshua Katz's decade-old consensual relationship with a student — Princeton University is planning to fire one of the most distinguished classics professors …
Shawn Hubler / New York Times:
With Plunging Enrollment, a ‘Seismic Hit’ to Public Schools — The pandemic has supercharged the decline in the nation's public school system in ways that experts say will not easily be reversed. — ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. — In New York City, the nation's largest school district has lost some 50,000 students over the past two years.
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Associated Press:
FBI investigating Dallas' Koreatown shooting as hate crime — DALLAS (AP) — Police have arrested a suspect in connection with a shooting that wounded three women in a hair salon in the city's Koreatown and federal officials have launched a hate crime investigation, authorities said Tuesday.
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Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
Dinesh D'Souza's 2000 Mules Is a Hilarious Mockumentary — A tour de force exploring the limits of how many suckers there are willing to pay for fantasy. — Dinesh D'Souza's 2000 Mules is Plandemic for election truthers. For the non-insane, it's a hilarious mockumentary.
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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Powell says the Fed will not hesitate to keep raising rates until inflation comes down — Fed Chair Jerome Powell said he will back interest rate increases until prices start falling back toward a healthy level. — “If that involves moving past broadly understood levels of neutral …
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Christopher Rugaber / Associated Press:
Retail sales rise 0.9% in April as consumers show resilience
Retail sales rise 0.9% in April as consumers show resilience
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Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Wis. Democrats file first-of-its-kind suit vs. fake Trump electors — The civil lawsuit comes as the Justice Department and Georgia prosecutors are also exploring whether others similarly broke laws — Three Democratic voters in Wisconsin, including two who served as electors for President Biden in 2020 …
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Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Senior Trump official at State met with election denial activists Jan. 6 — The confirmation of the meeting provides new evidence of the success that the president's allies had in gaining access to top administration officials — On Jan. 6, 2021, around the time that thousands …
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Bernadette Hogan / New York Post:
Bill de Blasio eyeing run at newly drawn NY seat Jerrold Nadler has left behind — Just when you thought he was out ... Ex-New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio told a state lawmaker he plans to run for New York's newly drawn 10th Congressional district — the seat entrenched Rep. Jerrold Nadler …
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Luis Martinez / ABC News:
Pentagon now reports about 400 UFO encounters: 'We want to know what's out there' — Officials are “reasonably” sure pyramid-shaped objects in one video were drones. — Top Pentagon officials told a House panel on Tuesday that there are now close to 400 reports from military personnel …
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Shane Harris / Washington Post:
UFO hearing features historic testimony from Pentagon officials
UFO hearing features historic testimony from Pentagon officials
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Jolt: Where in the world is David Perdue? — We looked high and low for David Perdue near the end of his last campaign, when the then-senator loaded his schedule with a statewide bus tour and dozens of meet-and-greets, but he was almost impossible to access for most reporters.Now we're asking …
Washington Post:
Opinion All eyes are on Ukraine, but another crisis is brewing in Iran — Carl Bildt, a Global Opinions contributing columnist, is a former prime minister of Sweden. Javier Solana, a former secretary general of NATO and E.U. high representative for foreign affairs and security policy …
Nate Raymond / Reuters:
Jackson's first Supreme Court clerks include judiciary workplace reform advocate — (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court Justice-designate Ketanji Brown Jackson has selected a diverse set of lawyers to serve as her first four law clerks, including one who has advocated for the judiciary to do more to prevent sexual harassment.
Eugene Daniels / Politico:
Kamala Harris wants to get out of D.C. more. But she literally can't. — On Sunday afternoon, Vice President Kamala Harris led an American delegation to the United Arab Emirates to express condolences after the death of the federation's president. By Monday morning, she was on her way home.
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Yael Halon / Fox News:
Virginia mom suing biracial son's school over CRT curriculum says it ‘totally changed his perspective’ on race — Lawyer said Henley Middle School appears to be standing by divisive curriculum amid lawsuit — Virginia mother suing son's school over CRT curriculum
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Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Ukraine aid splinters the GOP — The Republican establishment is striking back against a right flank attempt to turn its opposition to Ukraine aid into an “America First” talking point. — Congress' nearly $40 billion package of help for the war-torn nation is taking heat from a growing number …
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Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
Blue Star registers retroactively for Burisma work — BLUE STAR REGISTERS RETROACTIVELY FOR BURISMA WORK: Democratic lobbying firm Blue Star Strategies has registered retroactively as a foreign agent for work it did in 2016 on behalf of Nikolai Zlochevsky (also known as Mykola) …
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Daniel Bergner / New York Times:
Doctors Gave Her Antipsychotics. She Decided to Live With Her Voices. — A new movement wants to shift mainstream thinking away from medication and toward greater acceptance. — Caroline Mazel-Carlton began hearing voices when she was in day care. Mornings, by the time she was in middle school …
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Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Supreme Court makes it easier for rich donors to bankroll candidates — The Supreme Court has boosted high-dollar donors' abilities to personally enrich candidates — including ones like the wealthy individuals pouring millions into their own campaigns this year — if they prevail on Election Day.
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Walter Shapiro / Roll Call:
Biden's ‘MAGA Republicans’ is a meh-ga slogan — Democrats are ensnared in the campaign consultant trap — It is a Washington ritual so old that it probably dates back to the era when senators lived in boarding houses and any stray citizen could wander into the White House.
Adam Staten / Newsweek:
Donald Trump Jr. Throws Cold Water on Finland Joining NATO — Donald Trump Jr., a prominent and vocal member of the MAGA crowd, has some concerns when it comes to Finland possibly joining NATO. — On Monday morning, Trump Jr. shared his thoughts on the possibility that the European country …
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CNBC:
Trump fundraiser Barrack sought UAE investment while lobbying for country, prosecutors say — A billionaire fundraiser for former U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign sought investment from two United Arab Emirates sovereign wealth funds at the same time he was illegally lobbying for the country, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
Axios:
America more interested in Depp-Heard trial than abortion — The defamation trial between actors and former spouses Johnny Depp and Amber Heard has quickly amassed more online attention than some of the country's biggest and most pressing news stories, including the leaked Supreme Court decision and Russia's war in Ukraine.
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