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First on CNN: Giuliani meets with January 6 committee for more than 9 hours — (CNN)Rudy Giuliani, former President Donald Trump's onetime personal attorney and a lead architect of his attempt to overturn the 2020 election results, on Friday met with the House select committee investigating the January 6 …
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Politico:
Court ruling could upend Pa. Senate race — A little-watched federal court case could upend the neck-and-neck Republican Senate primary in Pennsylvania between Dr. Mehmet Oz and David McCormick. — On Friday afternoon, a three-judge panel for the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals issued …
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Jonathan Lai / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
A federal appeals court says undated Pa. mail ballots should be counted, a decision that breaks with state courts and could have immediate impact
A federal appeals court says undated Pa. mail ballots should be counted, a decision that breaks with state courts and could have immediate impact
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The Philadelphia Inquirer:
There's another high-profile vote count in Pa., but Republicans aren't objecting this time
There's another high-profile vote count in Pa., but Republicans aren't objecting this time
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Damien Cave / New York Times:
Australia Election Live Updates: Scott Morrison's Coalition Headed for Defeat — With polls closed, the opposition Labor Party was projected to win. During the campaign, Australians voiced concern about inflation and climate change, but the race turned into more of a personality contest.
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Rod Mcguirk / Associated Press:
Australian prime minister concedes election defeat — CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia's prime minister conceded defeat after an election Saturday that could deliver a minority government. — Scott Morrison acted quickly despite millions of votes yet to be counted …
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Tal Kopan / San Francisco Chronicle:
S.F. archbishop says Pelosi will be denied communion over abortion — WASHINGTON — The San Francisco archbishop issued a notice Friday that he would no longer allow House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to receive Communion, an escalation of his feud with the Catholic Democrat over abortion politics.
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Adam Shaw / Fox News:
San Francisco archbishop bars Pelosi from receiving Holy Communion due to abortion support
San Francisco archbishop bars Pelosi from receiving Holy Communion due to abortion support
Luke Coppen / Catholic News Agency:
BREAKING: Archbishop Cordileone bars Nancy Pelosi from Communion until she ends abortion support
BREAKING: Archbishop Cordileone bars Nancy Pelosi from Communion until she ends abortion support
New York Times:
The Root of Haiti's Misery: Reparations to Enslavers — Lire en français Li an Kreyòl — DONDON, Haiti — Adrienne Present steps into the thin forest beside her house and plucks the season's first coffee cherries, shining like red marbles in her hands. — The harvest has begun.
Jack Ewing / New York Times:
Tesla's Aura Dims as Its Plunging Stock Highlights the Risks It Faces — Investors are reassessing the premise that justified Tesla's astronomical stock price and made its founder, Elon Musk, the richest person in the world. — Tesla's $1 trillion valuation made sense only if investors believed …
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Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Georgia electrical vehicle factory becomes Kemp, Perdue campaign battle — RUTLEDGE, Ga. — There are few things politicians love more than creating jobs and cutting ribbons. — But what if those jobs are on the wrong side of the culture war? — Plans to build a massive electric vehicle factory …
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Bess Levin / Vanity Fair:
Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy: Our Maternal Death Rates Are Only Bad If You Count Black Women — “If you correct our population for race, we're not as much of an outlier as it'd otherwise appear.” — As conservatives across the country wage war on reproductive rights …
Brian Slodysko / Associated Press:
Herschel Walker's ties to veterans program face scrutiny — WASHINGTON (AP) — Herschel Walker, the football legend and leading Republican Senate candidate in Georgia, often boasts of his work helping service members and veterans struggling with mental health.
Dwight Garner / New York Times:
Roger Angell, Who Wrote About Baseball With Passion, Dies at 101 — In elegantly winding articles for The New Yorker loaded with inventive imagery, he wrote more like a fan than a sports journalist. — Roger Angell, the elegant and thoughtful baseball writer who was widely considered among …
New York Times:
Judge Orders Government to Continue Migrant Expulsions on Border — LAFAYETTE, La. — A federal judge on Friday blocked the Biden administration from lifting a pandemic-related health order whose scheduled expiration on Monday would have reopened the doors of the United States to asylum seekers …
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Wall Street Journal:
Garcetti Ambassador Nomination Stalled in Senate Over Questions About Former Aide's Conduct — Biden's pick for ambassador to India hasn't secured enough Senate confirmation votes — WASHINGTON—Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti's nomination to be ambassador to India has stalled in the U.S. Senate …
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Pete Davidson Expected to Exit ‘Saturday Night Live’ (EXCLUSIVE) … Chad, Li'l Baby Aidy, Barbara DeDrew and Baby Yoda are all leaving Studio 8H. — Pete Davidson, Aidy Bryant, Kate McKinnon and Kyle Mooney are all expected to leave “Saturday Night Live” after it ends its 47th season tomorrow evening …
Kate Lý Johnston / Heartland Signal:
Sen. Ron Johnson's campaign communications director resigns — Sen. Ron Johnson's (R-WI) campaign for a third term is already getting messy, as his communications director quit three months into the job. — Jake Wilkins, who started working for Johnson last February …
Washington Post:
Voting is surging in Georgia despite controversial new election law — Tuesday's primary is the first big test of new election legislation, which was opposed by voting-rights groups and Democrats. — GRIFFIN, Ga. — When the Spalding County Board of Elections eliminated early voting on Sundays …
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Washington Post:
Oracle's Larry Ellison joined Nov. 2020 call about contesting Trump's loss — The billionaire GOP donor participated along with Fox's Sean Hannity and Sen. Lindsey Graham, according to court filings and a participant — Larry Ellison, the billionaire co-founder and chairman …
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Wall Street Journal:
Princeton Targets a Dissenting Professor — The school may purge Joshua Katz after he criticized a faculty letter. — 1x — Everyone knows American universities are dangerous places these days if you dare to express unpopular views. But Princeton University's handling …
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Karen Townsend / HotAir:
Second look? John Kirby moves to White House communications job — Is this an admission that Karine Jean-Pierre has not exactly risen to her new position as White House press secretary? Yes, if you ask me. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby is a consummate professional, regardless of your political party of choice.
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Karine Jean-Pierre's Unlikely Rise to the White House Lectern
Karine Jean-Pierre's Unlikely Rise to the White House Lectern
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Wills Robinson / Daily Mail:
Hillary Clinton APPROVED sharing debunked ‘covert’ communications between Trump and Kremlin-backed bank with press - even though she wasn't ‘totally confident’ in the legitimacy, ex-campaign manager tells Durham trial — Robby Mook testified on Friday about the campaign meeting on the data
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Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Inside McConnell's bid to quash GOP ‘isolationists’ — After their two-hour meeting in Kyiv on Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy handed Mitch McConnell a profanity-laden gift. — It was a camo-green hat, emblazoned in bright yellow letters with the iconic phrase that has come …
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Catie Edmondson / New York Times:
On Ukraine, McConnell Tries to Show the World This Isn't Trump's G.O.P.
On Ukraine, McConnell Tries to Show the World This Isn't Trump's G.O.P.
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Politico:
National Dems are calling in a new communications expert: Eric Adams — NEW YORK — When New York City Mayor Eric Adams was asked whether he sees a place for himself on the 2024 presidential ticket, he gave an answer that fetes his current position without removing himself from the potential field.
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