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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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Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
Are Republicans Now Going to Endorse Doug Mastriano?  —  Doug Mastriano is an insurrectionist, period.  —  He bused supporters to the Capitol on January 6th, was photographed on the Capitol grounds, and ever since has sought to use his limited political powers as a Pennsylvania state senator to overturn the election.
Jazmine Ulloa / New York Times:
Live Updates: Mastriano and Fetterman Win in Pennsylvania; Cawthorn Concedes in North Carolina  —  Doug Mastriano, a far-right state senator, won the Republican nomination for governor, and Lt. Gov. John Fetterman will be Democrats' candidate in one of the fall's most important Senate races.
Amanda Terkel / HuffPost:
Madison Cawthorn Loses Primary After Brutal Barrage Of GOP Attacks  —  The Republican congressman has been at odds with GOP officials in both North Carolina and in the U.S. House.  —  Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) has twice been stopped trying to bring a gun onto a plane.
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.
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
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 …
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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.
Lee Brown / New York Post:
Twitter engineer recorded saying ‘Commie as f-k’ staff ‘censors the right’
Politico:
'She's not racist': House Republicans dismiss furor over Stefanik immigration ad  —  Rep. Elise Stefanik's GOP colleagues are largely defending the New Yorker over an incendiary immigration ad that sparked Democratic charges she was nodding to a racist conspiracy theory.
Discussion: PolitiFact, ABC News and Raw Story
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Brian Broome / Washington Post:
Opinion Black people want the hate to stop. But it is only getting worse.
Discussion: Twitchy and TheBlaze
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.
Aaron Sibarium / Washington Free Beacon:
Double Jeopardy: Princeton Prepares To Axe Star Professor Who Raised Hell Over Woke Lunacy  —  Princeton University is planning to fire one of the most distinguished classics professors in the country, Joshua Katz, after his criticism of the school's racial politics made him the target …
Discussion: National Review
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
John Fetterman (D-Vibes)  —  The 6 foot 8 goateed Senate candidate prevailed in the Democratic primary less on the strength of detailed policy proposals than on vibes.  —  Even if you don't know a single policy he supports, chances are good that you know what John Fetterman looks like.
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 …
The White House:
Remarks by President Biden and First Lady Biden Honoring the Lives Lost in Buffalo, New York, and Calling on All Americans to Condemn White Supremacy  —  THE FIRST LADY: I just wanted to say thank you to the families for opening up your hearts to us and for letting us be with you today.
Discussion: RedState
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Jill Lawrence / USA Today:   Buffalo shooting spotlights America's tragic race and gun failures. But we can't give up.
John Nichols / The Nation:
The Supreme Court Just Streamlined the Process for Bribing Senators  —  Ted Cruz manufactured a case to upend anti-corruption provisions, and it worked.  —  Bribing members of Congress is generally thought of as a bad thing.  That's why there was widespread support for the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act …
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.
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 …
Discussion: TheBlaze, All, Mediaite and The Daily Wire
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 …
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.
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 …
Discussion: HotAir and WTOC
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.
Washington Post:
U.S. sues to compel casino mogul Steve Wynn to register as agent of China  —  The former RNC finance chairman was repeatedly advised to register as an agent of a foreign government but declined to do so, according to prosecutors  —  The Justice Department on Tuesday sued Steve Wynn to compel …
Siobhan Hughes / Wall Street Journal:
House Plans Vote on Baby Formula Legislation Wednesday  —  Democrats have drawn criticism from GOP for not tackling shortage sooner  —  WASHINGTON—Democrats, responding to public anger over the baby-formula shortage, laid out plans for legislation and oversight hearings aimed at boosting supply …
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.
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Detroit Metro Times
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 …
Discussion: Power Line, Freddie deBoer and Althouse
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.
Discussion: Breitbart and Substack
Matthew C. Klein / The Overshoot:
Russia Is Losing Access to Imports  —  Comprehensive data from March show that the Russian economy is being denied access to critical manufactured goods.  The initial numbers for April suggest it's only getting worse for the Putin regime.  —  The Putin regime will find it increasingly difficult …
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 …
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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Skyler Swisher / Orlando Sentinel:
DeSantis' office considered a bill to target libel laws, records show
Discussion: Raw Story
Barbara Starr / CNN:
US assesses North Korea preparing for possible long range missile test within days as Biden prepares to travel to Asia
Discussion: Bloomberg
Nur Ibrahim / Snopes.com:
Did WaPo Publish, ‘This Dog is the New Face of Online Homophobia’?
Discussion: Raw Story
Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
Blue Star registers retroactively for Burisma work
Discussion: Washington Post and CNBC
Joseph Simonson / Washington Free Beacon:
Canceled: Senate Dems Nix ‘Disinformation’ Hearing After Embarrassing Jankowicz Videos Surface
Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ
Tim Scott / Washington Post:
Opinion Tim Scott: Abortion is not the way to help single Black mothers
Discussion: The Hill and IJR
Walter Shapiro / Roll Call:
Biden's ‘MAGA Republicans’ is a meh-ga slogan
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Luis Martinez / ABC News:
Pentagon now reports about 400 UFO encounters: 'We want to know what's out there'
Reuters:
Russian parliament to consider ban on exchanging Ukrainian Azov prisoners
Discussion: nationalinterest.org and The Hill
Bill Glauber / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Alex Lasry files for extension on statement of economic interests until after Aug. 9 primary
Jeffrey Schweers / Orlando Sentinel:
DeSantis doles out millions but fails to mention it mostly comes from Uncle Sam
Fox News:
Sussmann-Durham trial: Prosecution says Clinton lawyer used FBI to create an ‘October surprise’ against Trump
David Badash / Raw Story:
Republicans block bill to stop price gouging at the pump as gas hits new record high
Discussion: HotAir and Washington Times
Adam Staten / Newsweek:
Donald Trump Jr. Throws Cold Water on Finland Joining NATO
Discussion: CNN
 

 
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

Matthew Keys / The Desk:
DirecTV terminates its Dish acquisition after a group of Dish creditors rejected a modified bond exchange offer

 
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