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Emma Brown / Washington Post:
Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court justice, pressed Ariz. lawmakers to help reverse Trump's loss, emails show — Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the conservative activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, pressed Arizona lawmakers after the 2020 election to set aside Joe Biden's …
New York Times:
Russia moves toward dropping age limits for military service. — Finland's state energy provider said Russia had cited the company's failure to pay in rubles, but Moscow is also angry over Finnish moves to join NATO. Gerhard Schröder, the former German chancellor …
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New York Times:
New Evidence Shows How Russian Soldiers Executed Men in Bucha — Witness testimony and videos obtained by The New York Times show how Russian paratroopers executed at least eight Ukrainian men in a Kyiv suburb on March 4, a potential war crime. — THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS IMAGES OF GRAPHIC VIOLENCE.
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Graham's Newsletter, Wall Street Journal, Reuters and Al Jazeera
Mark Trevelyan / Reuters:
Struggling in Ukraine, Russia paves way to sign up over-40s for army
Struggling in Ukraine, Russia paves way to sign up over-40s for army
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Fox News:
Hillary Clinton approved dissemination of Trump-Russian bank allegations to media, campaign manager testifies — Clinton's former campaign manager said he took the idea of leaking Trump-Russia allegations to multiple senior campaign officials — Special counsel John Durham releases evidence …
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BBC:
Michael Sussmann: Clinton lawyer ‘lied to manipulate FBI over Trump’ — A lawyer for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign lied to the FBI to “manipulate” the agency in order to win the election, a court has heard. — Arguments in the trial of Michael Sussmann have begun …
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CNN, The Gateway Pundit, NewsNation, New York Post and Washington Times
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Eastman provides new details of Trump's direct role in legal effort to overturn election — John Eastman, the attorney who architected Donald Trump's last-ditch legal strategy to overturn the 2020 election, revealed Friday that he routinely communicated with Trump either directly or via …
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CNN:
Ohio GOP House candidate J.R. Majewski called for secession in livestream following 2020 election — J.R. Majewski shared pro-QAnon material online. Now, he's running for Congress — (CNN)Ohio Republican congressional candidate J.R. Majewski said in a livestream following the 2020 election …
Ryan Cooper / American Prospect:
The 2024 Presidential Election Is on the Ballot This Year
The 2024 Presidential Election Is on the Ballot This Year
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The Guardian, The Moderate Voice and The Smirking Chimp
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Right-wing attorney who challenged election results says Trump wrote him handwritten notes
Right-wing attorney who challenged election results says Trump wrote him handwritten notes
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Washington Post and Raw Story
Kate Sosin / The 19th:
A lesbian mom raised her son for two years. An Oklahoma judge erased that in 15 minutes. — For more stories like this, subscribe to our daily newsletter. — For the first two years of her son's life, Kris Williams read him the book “Love You Forever” before bedtime most nights.
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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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Josh Margolin / ABC News:
2 Secret Service employees being sent home from South Korea ahead of Biden's arrival after alleged incident: Sources — Agency spokesman told ABC News they'll be “placed on administrative leave.” — Two Secret Service employees — an agent and an armed physical security specialist …
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Nicholas Riccardi / Associated Press:
Biden's approval dips to lowest of presidency: AP-NORC poll — President Joe Biden's approval rating dipped to the lowest point of his presidency in May, a new poll shows, with deepening pessimism emerging among members of his own Democratic Party. — Only 39% of U.S. adults approve …
Sam Adler-Bell / New York Magazine:
The Liberal Obsession With ‘Disinformation’ Is Not Helping — On Wednesday, the Washington Post's Taylor Lorenz reported on the disastrous rollout of the Department of Homeland Security's Disinformation Governance Board. Announced on April 27 with a hazy remit to “coordinate countering …
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IJR, The Daily Caller, The Daily Signal and Midcentury
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Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic:
The Disinformation Board Is the Latest Cursed News Story
The Disinformation Board Is the Latest Cursed News Story
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The American Spectator and UncoverDC
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 …
National Review:
Yes on Kemp, No on Greene — Georgia voters going to the primary polls on Tuesday have some serious choices to make. They should renominate Brian Kemp for a second term as governor. But they should reject freshman congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and nominate Jennifer Strahan in the 14th congressional district.
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Michael Bamberger / GolfDigest.com:
Donald Trump speaks out on Phil, Jack, Saudi Arabia and the PGA that got away — After a reporter's story on Trump's lost 2022 PGA, the former president called unannounced to weigh in with his own thoughts. — After a reporter's story on Trump's lost 2022 PGA, the former president called unannounced …
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CNN:
Clarence Thomas calls out John Roberts as Supreme Court edges closer to overturning Roe v. Wade — (CNN)There was a little seen warm moment between Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Clarence Thomas last November 1, just before the Supreme Court heard arguments on Texas' abortion ban.
CBS News:
2 killed, 8 wounded in mass shooting outside a Chicago McDonald's — A suspect is in custody after two people were killed and eight others wounded in a mass shooting in downtown Chicago late Thursday night. — Police said it happened just after 10:40 p.m. outside a McDonald's a few blocks …
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Chicago Sun Times, UPI, TheGrio, New York Post and WKBN-TV
Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
Doug Mastriano warned of left-wing ‘Hitlerian Putsch’ in 2001 paper — The Pennsylvania GOP governor nominee's thesis argued morally debauched political leaders weren't fit to oversee the U.S. military — Two decades before he was Republican nominee for Pennsylvania governor …
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The Hill, Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Flora Garamvolgyi / The Guardian:
Viktor Orbán tells CPAC the path to power is to ‘have your own media’ — Hungarian leader also tells Republicans at Budapest conference that shows like Tucker Carlson's should be broadcast ‘24/7’ — The Hungarian leader, Viktor Orbán, has told a conference of US conservatives …
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Hailey Fuchs / Politico:
Eric Garcetti's parents register to lobby for their son's ambassador bid — The parents of Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti have enlisted the help of prominent lobbyists to aid their son's beleaguered nomination to serve as U.S. ambassador to India. — McGuireWoods Consulting registered …
HuffPost:
Trump-Endorsed Candidate Backs Banning Birth Control — Jacky Eubanks, who is running for Michigan state Senate, said “sex ought to be between one man and one woman in the confines of marriage.” — Donald Trump's pick for a Michigan state Senate seat is promising to ban all birth control if she gets the chance.
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POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Casper Star-Tribune:
Wyo GOP chairman quietly assumed power as party fractured — Victoria Eavis and Rone Tempest Casper Star-Tribune and WyoFile — W. Frank Eathorne says two of the most important moments in his life occurred when he was 7 years old, living on the family ranch in the Thunder Basin grasslands of eastern Wyoming.
Andrew Sullivan / The Weekly Dish:
The Sinister Symmetry Of CRT And GRT — The extremes of right and left on immigration are fueling each other. — The MSM rushed last weekend to explain the previously obscure conspiracy theory that motivated a mass-murderer on a shooting spree in a black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York.
Alice McCool / VICE:
The Daily Wire Spent Thousands of Dollars Promoting Anti-Amber Heard Propaganda — The conservative media outlet ran Facebook and Instagram ads for stories backing Johnny Depp, an investigation by media non-profit the Citizens for VICE World News found. — AM — MN
Ben Samuels / Haaretz:
57 U.S. Lawmakers Demand FBI, State Dept. Inquiry Into Shireen Abu Akleh Killing — A quarter of all House Democrats signed a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Blinken and the FBI's director demanding an independent investigation into the killing of the Palestinian journalist in the West Bank city of Jenin
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Al Jazeera and The Intercept
Hannah Natanson / Washington Post:
This Florida teacher married a woman. Now she's not a teacher anymore. — MIAMI — Nicolette Solomon felt her mother's words come through the phone and settle, heavy, in her stomach. — It was January, and her mother was talking about a new bill, just proposed in the Florida legislature …
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