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Russell Moore / Christianity Today:
This Is the Southern Baptist Apocalypse — The abuse investigation has uncovered more evil than even I imagined. — They were right. I was wrong to call sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) a crisis. Crisis is too small a word. It is an apocalypse.
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Sarah Pulliam Bailey / Washington Post:
Southern Baptist leaders covered up sex abuse, kept secret database, report says — Among the findings was a previously unknown case of a pastor who was credibly accused of assaulting a woman a month after leaving the presidency of the Southern Baptist Convention
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New York Times, Shore News Network, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Religion News Service
Houston Chronicle:
Bombshell 400-page report finds Southern Baptist leaders routinely silenced sexual abuse survivors — Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate — For 20 years, leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention — including a former president now accused of sexual assault …
New York Times:
Kushner's and Mnuchin's Quick Pivots to Business With the Gulf — Weeks before the Trump administration ended, Jared Kushner and Steven Mnuchin met with future investors on official trips to the Middle East. — Give this article- - - Read in app — Shortly before the 2020 election …
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Raw Story
New York Times:
Democrats See Headwinds in Georgia, and Everywhere Else — Raphael Warnock and Stacey Abrams, viewed as strong candidates by their party, will be running against President Biden's low ratings as well as their G.O.P. rivals. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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The Hill
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Jessica Chasmar / Fox News:
Stacey Abrams says Georgia ‘the worst state in the country to live,’ despite owning multiple houses there
Stacey Abrams says Georgia ‘the worst state in the country to live,’ despite owning multiple houses there
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National Review and The Gateway Pundit
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.
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New York Times:
The Ransom: A Look Under the Hood — Thousands of pages of original documents, and hundreds of books and articles. Here are the historians and researchers on which the Haiti project drew. — Give this article- - - Read in app — This series was the work of four reporters and more than a dozen researchers.
Ashley Southall / New York Times:
Man Fatally Shot on Manhattan Subway in Unprovoked Attack — Riders scrambled for safety when a gunman fired a shot on a Q train in Lower Manhattan on Sunday, killing Daniel Enriquez, 48. The gunman fled into the streets. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Reuters, ABC7, The Times of Israel and New York Post
Washington Post:
A grasp at diplomacy as fighting grinds on in Ukraine — The Polish president addresses Ukraine's parliament, calling on Russia to withdraw. — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the path to ending the war with Russia would require diplomacy and an international agreement …
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The Last Refuge, The Daily Wire, The Hill and BBC
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Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
In new book, Kellyanne Conway takes aim at many targets — except Trump — Part personal chronicle and part political journey, the book is filled with the sorts of barbed one-liners and bon mots that she dispensed on cable news — In 2015, Kellyanne Conway found herself en route to pick …
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Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast:
Kellyanne Conway Book: Trump Toyed With Quitting After Access Hollywood ‘Pussy’ Tape
Kellyanne Conway Book: Trump Toyed With Quitting After Access Hollywood ‘Pussy’ Tape
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The Wrap, The Daily Wire, Raw Story, BizPac Review, Insider, HuffPost, Mediaite, POLITICUSUSA and Political Wire
Nick Bryant / BBC:
Australia election: A great shock to the system — Victory belongs to Anthony Albanese, only the fourth Labor leader since World War Two to oust a Liberal prime minister, but the 2022 Australian election was primarily a rejection of Scott Morrison and the brand of politics he has come to personify.
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Digby's Hullabaloo
Michael Conroy / Associated Press:
78,000 pounds of infant formula arrives in US — INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A military plane carrying enough specialty infant formula for more than half a million baby bottles arrived Sunday in Indianapolis, the first of several flights expected from Europe aimed at relieving a shortage …
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Axios, Politico, The Daily Beast, Fox News and WNYW-TV
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Lara Seligman / Politico:
Pentagon seizes foreign reporter's phone during official travel — The Pentagon seized a foreign reporter's phone and would not allow them to use their electronics while traveling with the Defense Department's No. 2 official on Sunday, according to a person on the trip and an email viewed by POLITICO.
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Washington Examiner
Washington Post:
Inside the Republican push to stop Trump's ‘vendetta tour’ in Georgia — GOP governors hatched a plan months ago that will culminate in a closely-watched gubernatorial primary on Tuesday — Republican governors hatched the plan months ago. Meeting at the desert Biltmore resort in Phoenix …
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Election Law Blog, Wall Street Journal, Insider, Raw Story, HuffPost, Reuters, USA Today, Mercury News and Vox
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Kemp poised for a big win Tuesday, but Trump's shadow looms large
Kemp poised for a big win Tuesday, but Trump's shadow looms large
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Insider, Raw Story and Missoulian
Sophia Bollag / San Francisco Chronicle:
‘NIMBYism is destroying the state.’ Gavin Newsom ups pressure on cities to build more housing — SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom defended his administration's work on housing and homelessness during an interview with The Chronicle's editorial board Thursday, promising to crack down on local opposition to housing projects.
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Breitbart
Axios:
Democrats' redistricting nightmare — Early redistricting wins for Democrats are collapsing across the map, deepening the party's fears of a rout in November's midterm elections. … - Party heavyweights — including House Judiciary Chair Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) and House Oversight Chair Carolyn Maloney …
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Political Wire
CBS News:
More Americans label Republican Party extreme and Democratic Party as weak — CBS News poll — With midterm primaries helping set the direction for the Democratic and Republican parties, most Americans, including many of the parties' own voters, aren't terribly happy with the parties or what they're talking about.
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New York Post, The Gateway Pundit, The Hill and Politico
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Reuters:
Houthi top official says group not against extending truce in Yemen — The head of Yemen's Houthi Supreme Political Council, Mahdi al-Mashat, on Sunday said the group was not against extending a U.N.-brokered truce, despite describing it as “not encouraging enough”.
Financial Times:
Business leaders warn that three-decade era of globalisation is ending — Executives and investors gather in Davos to discuss mounting economic and financial challenges — The three-decade era of globalisation risks going into reverse according to company executives and investors …
Washington Post:
Ahead of Biden visit, Israel launches biggest eviction of Palestinians in decades — AL-MARKAZ VILLAGE, West Bank — The Najjar family knew what to expect on the morning of May 11 when a neighbor called: “The bulldozer is coming.” For the second time in five months, the Israeli military had come to knock down their house.
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The Times of Israel