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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 …
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Raw Story, The Hill, Talking Points Memo, Streams of Crunchiness, Jezebel, Mediaite and Political Wire
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, Reuters, Wall Street Journal and Al Jazeera
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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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Washington Examiner, The Guardian, Al Jazeera and UPI
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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The Hill, The Guardian, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, Washington Examiner, New York Times and Wall Street Journal
Yaroslav Trofimov / Wall Street Journal:
Ukraine Will Fight Until All Russian Forces Are Expelled, Military Intelligence Chief Says
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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NBC News:
Trump washes hands of Perdue in Georgia as his campaign limps into final stretch
Trump washes hands of Perdue in Georgia as his campaign limps into final stretch
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HotAir, Mediaite, Erick Erickson's Confessions …, Raw Story, Peach State Politics …, Insider and WSB-TV
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Trump's real win-loss record
POLITICO Playbook: Trump's real win-loss record
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New York Times, National Review and Raw Story
Zach Montellaro / Politico:
Trump's bid to control election offices hits first battleground
Trump's bid to control election offices hits first battleground
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Washington Post, Raw Story and Fox News
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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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, The Guardian and Raw Story
The 19th:
A lesbian mom raised her son for two years. An Oklahoma judge erased that in 15 minutes. — Kris Williams was removed from her son's birth certificate in a case experts say could test the boundaries of marriage equality. — For the first two years of her son's life, Kris Williams read him the book …
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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The Daily Caller, The Western Journal, 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, UncoverDC and RedState
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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Rich McHugh / Insider:
A SpaceX flight attendant said Elon Musk exposed himself and propositioned her for sex, documents show. The company paid $250,000 for her silence. — A flight attendant for SpaceX said Elon Musk asked her to “do more” during a massage, documents show. — The billionaire founder exposed …
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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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Letters from an American, Breitbart and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
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Anya van Wagtendonk / Grid News:
Q&A: Why is the MAGA right huddling up in Hungary?
Q&A: Why is the MAGA right huddling up in Hungary?
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Rolling Stone, Raw Story, Salon, The Guardian and WITF
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, WKBN-TV and New York Post
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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Raw Story
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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Ryan Cooper / American Prospect:
The 2024 Presidential Election Is on the Ballot This Year — If Republicans seize control of swing-state election administration in the midterms, they will steal the presidency. — State Sen. Doug Mastriano, the Republican candidate for governor of Pennsylvania, gestures to the crowd during …
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The Guardian, The Moderate Voice and The Smirking Chimp
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.
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 …
Jerod Macdonald-Evoy / Arizona Mirror:
The Yuma sheriff isn't investigating election fraud because of ‘2000 Mules’ — Conservative activist and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza told a conservative podcast that “2000 Mules,” his film making flawed and faulty claims about election fraud in 2020, directly led the Yuma County Sheriff's Office …
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The Daily Beast
CNN:
US likely to keep 100,000 troops in Europe for foreseeable future in face of Russian threat, US officials say — (CNN)The US is expected to keep 100,000 troops stationed in Europe for the foreseeable future unless Russia escalates and threatens Sweden and Finland or NATO members, according to multiple US officials.
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Foreign Policy, Euractiv, PennLive and nationalinterest.org
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Group Chat Linked to Roger Stone Shows Ties Among Jan. 6 Figures — The roster of participants highlights how Mr. Stone, the pro-Trump political operative, was involved with a strikingly large number of people who sought to overturn the 2020 election. — It was known as F.O.S. …
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Raw Story
NBC News:
DHS concerned it may need $2B to deal with migrant surge at border, documents show — Senior Department of Homeland Security officials are concerned they will not have enough funding and resources to cover the recording-breaking number of migrants at the southern border …
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Political Wire
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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Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
CNN:
Exclusive: Trevor Reed details surviving horrendous conditions in Russian psychiatric treatment facility — You can watch Jake Tapper's exclusive interview with Trevor Reed in a CNN Special Report: “Finally Home: The Trevor Reed Interview,” on CNN and CNN International on Sunday, May 22, at 8 p.m. ET.
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Washington Examiner, IJR and The Hill
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 …
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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Insider and New Jersey Online