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Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Election Deniers Thrive Even as Trumpism Drifts: 5 Primary Takeaways — Pennsylvania's Republican Senate contest, the biggest and most expensive race of a five-state primary night, is a photo finish between David McCormick, a former hedge fund executive, and Dr. Mehmet Oz, the celebrity surgeon.
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POLITICO Playbook: Takeaways from the biggest primary night of the year — With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross — DRIVING THE DAY — LATEST FROM THE OZ-MCCORMICK NAIL-BITER — “McCormick and Oz neck-and-neck in Pennsylvania as Fetterman gets Dem Senate nod,” by Natalie Allison, Zach Montellaro & Ally Mutnick
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Jim Swift / The Bulwark:
Don't Read Too Much Into Madison Cawthorn's Defeat — The GOP isn't turning the corner. — Come next January, Democrats won't have Madison Cawthorn to kick around anymore. The freshman North Carolina congressman lost his primary tonight in a close race—33 to 32 percent, as of this writing—to a state senator.
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Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
Are Republicans Now Going to Endorse Doug Mastriano? — Doug Mastriano is an insurrectionist, period. — The winner of tonight's GOP primary for the governorship of Pennsylvania bused supporters to the Capitol on January 6th, was photographed on the Capitol grounds, and ever since has sought …
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Pennsylvania U.S. Senate Primary Election Results — The Democratic primary features three major candidates: Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, U.S. Representative Conor Lamb and State Representative Malcolm Kenyatta. Fetterman has opened a wide lead in fund-raising and in public polls. Read more
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
The Democrats Wanted Doug Mastriano, and Now They've Got Him
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Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Doug Mastriano, a far-right 2020 election denier, is Pennsylvania Republicans' choice for governor.
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David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
John Fetterman Wins on Vibes
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Ben Jacobs / New York Magazine:
Madison Cawthorn's Self-Destruction Is Complete
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Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Democrats pick John Fetterman for Senate in Pennsylvania
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Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post:
How the Biden administration let right-wing attacks derail its disinformation efforts — A ‘pause’ of the Department of Homeland Security's newly created board comes after its head, Nina Jankowicz, was the victim of coordinated online attacks as the administration struggled to respond
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Shashank Bengali / New York Times:
A Russian soldier accused of killing a civilian pleads guilty in a Kyiv court. — The Russian Defense Ministry said that nearly 1,000 fighters had surrendered to Kremlin custody at the Azovstal steel plant. Finland and Sweden formally asked to join NATO, potentially the alliance's biggest expansion in decades.
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The Economist:
The Putin Show — How the war in Ukraine appears to Russians — When vladimir putin was first elected president of Russia in 2000, he changed little in the office he inherited from Boris Yeltsin. Yet in place of a pen on the desk, Mr Putin put a television remote control, one visitor noted.
Brian Stewart / The Bulwark:
Pope Francis Is Dangerously Wrong About Ukraine — Sending weapons to help Ukraine fight off a Russian invasion is not “madness.” — Since Vladimir Putin's renewed war of conquest in Ukraine in late February, Pope Francis has offered perfunctory condemnations of the “violent aggression against Ukraine.”
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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Fearing ‘Extinction-Level Event,’ N.Y. Democrats Turn Against Each Other — Newly drawn congressional maps have led some House members to quickly lay claim to certain districts, even if it means challenging fellow incumbents. — Two weeks ago, Representative Sean Patrick Maloney warned fellow Democrats …
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Ben Blanchet / HuffPost:
‘South Park’ Writer Beats Rep. Elise Stefanik To Her Own Website — The website mocks the congresswoman's controversial ads echoing the “great replacement theory” in the wake of the Buffalo mass shooting. — Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) may have to look for a new domain name come midterms.
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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
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Rami Ayyub / Reuters:
U.S. accuses casino tycoon Wynn of acting as Chinese agent
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Axios:
Scoop: DHS preparing for violence following abortion ruling — The U.S. government is bracing for a potential surge in political violence once the Supreme Court hands down the ruling that's expected to overturn Roe v. Wade, according to a Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by Axios.
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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.
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Helen Branswell / STAT:
CDC expresses concern about possibility of undetected monkeypox spread in U.K.
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Tiffany Hsu / New York Times:
All Those Celebrities Pushing Crypto Are Not So Vocal Now — Crypto boosters such as Matt Damon, Reese Witherspoon and Gwyneth Paltrow have been criticized for hyping virtual currency without highlighting the risks. — In the latest commercial from the virtual currency exchange Crypto.com …
Philippe Naughton / The Daily Beast:
Knife-Edge Pennsylania GOP Senate Race May Come Down to Party-Despised Mail-In Votes — FULL CIRCLE — When 2 million mail-in ballots carried Joe Biden over the line in Pennsylvania in the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump was the first to cry foul.
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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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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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Axios:
Scoop: White House tries to soothe solar probe fallout — White House officials told Democratic senators they're committed to resolving the uncertainty the solar industry is facing because of an investigation into whether China is secretly manufacturing solar panels destined for U.S. markets, Axios has learned.
New York Times:
As Adams Praised a New Police Tool, a Close Ally Had a Stake in the Maker — Mayor Eric Adams and his chief of staff, Frank Carone, say Mr. Adams's endorsement of BolaWrap was entirely coincidental. — For years, as an elected official and candidate for New York City mayor …
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