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Matt Viser / Washington Post:
A look at the time Tucker Carlson asked Hunter Biden for a favor — The Fox News host often ridicules the president's son, but years ago, the two were close — Tucker Carlson and his wife were looking to get their son a leg up in his college application to Georgetown University when they turned …
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Twitchy and POLITICUSUSA
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NBC News:
Analysis of Hunter Biden's hard drive shows he, his firm took in about $11 million from 2013 to 2018, spent it fast — Records show Hunter Biden's company made millions from joint venture funded by Chinese company — From 2013 through 2018 Hunter Biden and his company brought …
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Politico, RedState, New York Post, Townhall, Mediaite, Ace of Spades HQ, The Daily Wire, Twitchy and Political Wire
New York Times:
Oklahoma Legislature Passes Bill Banning Almost All Abortions — The legislation would be the nation's strictest, and relies on lawsuits from private citizens to enforce it. If the governor signs the bill, it would take effect immediately. — The Oklahoma Legislature gave final approval …
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Associated Press, The Daily Caller and NPR
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Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Oklahoma lawmakers pass bill banning abortions after ‘fertilization’ — Oklahoma lawmakers on Thursday passed a bill that would ban abortions from the moment of “fertilization,” which if signed into law would effectively prohibit almost all abortions in the state.
Hansi Lo Wang / NPR:
These 14 states had significant miscounts in the 2020 census — Loading... For the 2020 census, all states were not counted equally well for population numbers used to allocate political representation and federal funding over the next decade, according to a U.S. Census Bureau report released Thursday.
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The Gateway Pundit, Rolling Stone, The Daily Caller, National Review and Tilting At Windmills
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Michael Wines / New York Times:
Census Likely Miscounted the Population of 14 States, a Review Finds
Census Likely Miscounted the Population of 14 States, a Review Finds
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HotAir
Insider:
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez confirms she's engaged to her longtime partner, Riley Roberts: 'Yep! It's true' — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez confirmed to Insider that she's engaged. — AOC met her longtime partner, Riley Roberts, when they were students at Boston University.
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The Hill, Bloomberg, The Daily Caller, NBC New York and Rolling Stone
Timothy Snyder / New York Times:
Russia's War on Ukraine Shows That It Is Fascist — Dr. Snyder is a professor of history at Yale University and the author of many books on fascism, totalitarianism and European history. — Fascism was never defeated as an idea. — As a cult of irrationality and violence …
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Tina Nguyen / Puck:
Trump Forgot How to Spell MAGA — Has the movement Trump created now moved beyond him? — The last time Donald Trump gave a speech that truly roused his supporters was on January 6th, 2021. As he stood behind a wall of bulletproof glass in front of tens of thousands of roaring MAGA fans …
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Raw Story and Power Line
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Washington Post:
Nearly 200 Republicans vote against bill to ease baby formula shortage — House GOP leaders were among the 192 Republicans who voted against providing $28 million in aid to the Food and Drug Administration to address the shortage of baby formula — within days of criticizing President Biden for not doing enough on the issue.
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ABC News, Vanity Fair, The Daily Caller, TheBlaze, San Antonio Current, Democrats, BizPac Review and Daily Kos
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Elon Musk says he doesn't plan to donate to GOP super PACs in upcoming elections — despite feud with Biden — “No super PAC anything going on,” Elon Musk said when asked if he plans to finance a super PAC in the upcoming elections. — Musk didn't respond to follow up emails when asked …
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The Hill, Deseret News and Mercury News
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Sebastian Mallaby / Washington Post:
Opinion Elon Musk still has to answer to others
Opinion Elon Musk still has to answer to others
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Althouse, Fortune, TaaSMaster Newsletter and HuffPost
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Is the Democratic Party Giving Up Already? … The Democratic Party has a lot of problems right now. Many of these problems lie outside its control: A global wave of inflation and continuing waves of coronavirus infection have prevented the recovery Joe Biden imagined when he took office last year …
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Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Jan. 6 panel requests interview with GOP lawmaker who it says gave Capitol tour on Jan. 5 — Reps. Cheney and Thompson asked to meet with Rep. Loudermilk next week — just weeks ahead of public hearings scheduled to start on June 9 — The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 …
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Politico, Talking Points Memo, The Guardian and Rolling Stone
Twitter:
Introducing our crisis misinformation policy — Around the world, people use Twitter to find reliable information in real time. During periods of crisis - such as situations of armed conflict, public health emergencies, and large-scale natural disasters - access to credible …
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Washington Examiner, The Hill, TechCrunch, Protocol, Twitchy, Associated Press and The Verge, more at Techmeme »
Suzy Weiss / Common Sense:
He Was a World-Renowned Cancer Researcher. Now He's Collecting Unemployment. — In 2018, David Sabatini was a world-renowned molecular biologist. He was a tenured professor at MIT. He ran a major lab at the Whitehead Institute, overseeing a team of 39 researchers, postdocs and technicians.
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HotAir, Politics, Tech … and Points And Figures
Lindsey Graham / Fox News:
Why I support a Ukraine aid package before it's too late — When it comes to Putin, either we pay now or we pay later — Democrats keen on Ukraine aid, but refuse to help struggling Americans — There is an ongoing, vicious effort by a maniacal dictator to rewrite the map of Europe.
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AnnaMaria Andriotis / Wall Street Journal:
More Subprime Borrowers Are Missing Loan Payments — Borrowers with limited or troubled credit histories are defaulting on credit cards, car loans and personal loans — Consumers with low credit scores are falling behind on payments for car loans, personal loans and credit cards …
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Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
Poll: Two-thirds say don't overturn Roe; the court leak is firing up Democratic voters — About two-thirds of Americans say they do not support overturning Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal in the United States, according to the latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll.
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Marist Poll, Townhall, Forbes, PBS NewsHour, Althouse and POLITICUSUSA
The Economist:
The coming food catastrophe — War is tipping a fragile world towards mass hunger. Fixing that is everyone's business — By invading ukraine, Vladimir Putin will destroy the lives of people far from the battlefield—and on a scale even he may regret. The war is battering …
Aaron Parsley / People.com:
Kellyanne Conway Writes in New Book of Husband's ‘Cheating by Tweeting’ and Ivanka Trump's Supportive Gesture — “I was having a hard time competing with his new fling,” Conway writes in an excerpt of her memoir Here's the Deal of her husband's habit of criticizing President Trump on Twitter
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Washington Examiner and Raw Story
Ella Nilsen / CNN:
First on CNN: DOE announces multibillion-dollar project to kickstart a carbon dioxide removal industry in US — (CNN)The US Department of Energy is announcing a massive investment in direct air carbon removal projects, in hopes of kickstarting an industry that energy experts say is critical …
Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Turnout booms in Georgia primary, led by resurgent Republicans — GOP voters flood polling places in a midterm without Trump — In Georgia's first post-Trump primary election, unprecedented waves of voters have already swept into polling places — most of them Republicans.
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NBC News, The Philadelphia Inquirer, HuffPost, MSNBC, POLITICUSUSA, National Review, The Liberal Patriot and NBC10 Philadelphia
BBC:
MI5 agent used secret status to terrorise girlfriend — An MI5 spy used his status to terrorise his partner before moving abroad to continue intelligence work while under investigation, the BBC has found. — A video shows the man threatening to kill the woman and attacking her with a machete.
Misty Severi / Washington Examiner:
Former South Korean defense official claims army training is ‘very, very bad’ — A former deputy commander of South Korea's First Army said the conditions for training soldiers are “very, very bad,” partly because of a high turnover rate in the South Korean military.
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ABC News, ausa.org and You searched for
Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
Orban tells right-wing CPAC allies to recruit ‘troops’ to ‘reconquer’ American institutions — On Thursday, according to U.S. News & World Report, far-right Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told the Conservative Political Action Conference in Budapest that liberals are threatening Western civilization …
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Reuters, Los Angeles Times, Associated Press and WITF, more at Mediagazer »
Emily Flitter / New York Times:
At Wells Fargo, a Quest to Increase Diversity Leads to Fake Job Interviews — Black and female candidates are sometimes interviewed after the recipient of a job is identified, current and former employees say. — Joe Bruno, a former executive in the wealth management division of Wells Fargo …
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New York Post
David Roth / Defector:
The Secret History Of Richard Nixon, Mets Sicko — When he came off the mound on Sept. 30, 1988 after finishing off his eighth complete game and 20th win of the season, David Cone high-fived his teammates and walked into the home dugout unaware of what awaited him.
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Fetus-powered street lamps? Republicans ramp up outrageous anti-abortion lies ahead of Roe's demise — During a House hearing, the GOP demonized patients and doctors with QAnon-style conspiracy theories — It was only one half-hour into Wednesday's congressional hearing on abortion access …