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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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C. Ryan Barber / Insider:
Trump and his associates just had a very bad day thanks to a cascading series of Justice Department moves — Bad news for Trump and associates as a key Democrat confirms DOJ asked for January 6 transcripts. — A federal grand jury also returned more charges against the ex-chair of Trump's 2017 inaugural committee.
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 …
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Politico, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Raw Story
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Doug Mastriano, a far-right 2020 election denier, is Pennsylvania Republicans' choice for governor. — Doug Mastriano, a central figure in former President Donald J. Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Pennsylvania, won the state's Republican primary for governor on Tuesday …
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Wall Street Journal, NBC News, Talking Points Memo, Spotlight PA, WITF and Insider
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Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Live Updates: Republicans Poised to Elevate Candidates Who Dispute the 2020 Election
Live Updates: Republicans Poised to Elevate Candidates Who Dispute the 2020 Election
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Bloomberg, New York Post, NewsNation, Election Law Blog, Fox News and Politico
Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
Mastriano wins Pennsylvania GOP governor primary despite party concerns
Mastriano wins Pennsylvania GOP governor primary despite party concerns
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The Philadelphia Inquirer, Mediaite, Breitbart, PennLive, Forbes, New York Post, NewsNation, HuffPost and NBC10 Philadelphia
Allahpundit / HotAir:
Live results: Girondins vs. Montagnards in Pennsylvania
Live results: Girondins vs. Montagnards in Pennsylvania
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New York Magazine, NPR and Fox News
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 …
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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Aruna Viswanatha / Wall Street Journal:
Steve Wynn Sued by Justice Department
Steve Wynn Sued by Justice Department
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Associated Press and The Guardian
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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KTLA, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Florida Politics, Iowa Starting Line, Twitchy, The Daily Caller, WITF and The Status Kuo
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Christina Prignano / The Boston Globe:
Map: A county-by-county look at COVID-19 transmission in the United States — As the Northeast and other parts of the country grapple with a highly transmissible offshoot of the Omicron variant, community transmission levels are once again rising, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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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COVID-19 Policy Update
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 …
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National Review
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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HotAir, Wall Street Journal, Raw Story, Breitbart, The Dispatch, Defense One and New York Times
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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TheBlaze, All, Mediaite and The Daily Wire
Wall Street Journal:
China Eastern Black Box Points to Intentional Nosedive — Flight data suggests someone in cockpit pushed Boeing 737-800 into near-vertical descent, according to a preliminary U.S. assessment — Search-and-rescue workers in March sorted through aircraft debris at the China Eastern crash site in southern China.
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ABC News, Bloomberg, The Western Journal, UPI, The Times of Israel, The Guardian, The Daily Wire, Reuters, New York Post, HotAir and The Hill
Shane Harris / Washington Post:
UFO hearing features historic testimony from Pentagon officials — Congress held a rare public hearing Tuesday into the existence of what the government calls unidentified aerial phenomena, more commonly known as UFOs, a subject of scrutiny by the Pentagon and U.S. intelligence agencies following …
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BuzzFeed News, New York Magazine, The Hill, TechCrunch, WCDC-TV, The Register, Roll Call, The Drive, Politico and WPRI-TV
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Luis Martinez / ABC News:
Pentagon now reports about 400 UFO encounters: 'We want to know what's out there'
Pentagon now reports about 400 UFO encounters: 'We want to know what's out there'
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Reuters, CNN, CBS News, NPR, challenge norms, Gizmodo, Task & Purpose and Louder With Crowder
Tom Dreisbach / NPR:
A pro-Trump film suggests its data are so accurate, it solved a murder. That's false — A conservative “election integrity” group called True The Vote has made multiple misleading or false claims about its work, NPR has found, including the suggestion that they helped solve the murder of an eight-year-old girl in Atlanta.
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The Bulwark, Mediaite and Crooks and Liars
Politico:
Dems question whether Maloney can run DCCC while battling freshman colleague — House Democrats could find themselves picking sides in a deeply uncomfortable primary this summer: their campaign chair versus a Black freshman. And a growing swath of the caucus is blaming its midterm chief …
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New York Times, Washington Times and The Daily Caller
Kipp Jones / Mediaite:
BREAKING: Madison Cawthorn Loses Primary After Series of Scandals, Concedes (UPDATED) — Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) narrowly lost his primary Tuesday, according to a projection by Dave Wasserman of Cook Political Report. — With 92% reporting, Cawthorn trails by two percentage points.
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Fox News, Breitbart and Talking Points Memo
Josh Barro / Very Serious:
Abortion-Rights Advocates Tell Democrats to Stop Saying ‘Choice,’ Because Reasons — Abortion can be a winning issue for Democrats but they have to make it one, instead of playing language games — Last Thursday, Politico congressional reporter Sarah Ferris reported on a memo circulated …
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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Dallas Morning News, NBC News, USA Today, WFAA-TV, NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth, ABC News, The Daily Beast, New York Post, Associated Press, CBS News and Twitchy
Robert Legare / CBS News:
Prosecutors allege Michael Sussmann planned “October Surprise” against Trump in September 2016 FBI meeting, as trial gets underway — Washington - Special counsel John Durham's first jury trial in the three years since his appointment by Trump Attorney General Bill Barr commenced Tuesday …
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New York Times, Politico, Breitbart, Washington Examiner, BizPac Review, Insider and WTOP News
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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National Review, Wall Street Journal and IJR
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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Daily Kos, The Daily Caller, TheBlaze, BizPac Review, NewsOne, Raw Story and The Daily Signal
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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Power Line, Freddie deBoer and Althouse
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.
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.
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NBC News, New York Times and NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
Steve Neavling / News & Views, Detroit Metro Times:
White supremacists are convicted of training for a civil war in Michigan — The Base is a pro-Hitler movement that advocates a race war against non-white people — Three members of a militant white supremacist group were the first in Michigan to be convicted of conspiring to train …
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Detroit Metro Times
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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Breitbart, Substack and The Daily Wire
Nur Ibrahim / Snopes.com:
Did WaPo Publish, ‘This Dog is the New Face of Online Homophobia’? … A screenshot of a supposed Washington Post article headlined, “This dog is the new face of online homophobia,” with a photograph of a dog, went viral in the spring of 2022. But the article is not real.
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Raw Story