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Texas school police chief hasn't responded for days to state investigators about Uvalde shooting — Police response to Uvalde school shooting under review, as funeral services begin — A local police chief in Uvalde, Texas, hasn't responded for a follow-up interview in a state investigation …
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Guillermo Contreras / San Antonio Express-News:
Lawyer: Uvalde teacher did not leave door open that gunman used to enter Robb Elementary School
Lawyer: Uvalde teacher did not leave door open that gunman used to enter Robb Elementary School
Jeremy Wallace / Houston Chronicle:
Texas police union calls for Uvalde authorities to cooperate with mass shooting inquiries
Texas police union calls for Uvalde authorities to cooperate with mass shooting inquiries
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Metro.co.uk and The Western Journal
Joseph R. Biden Jr / New York Times:
President Biden: What America Will and Will Not Do in Ukraine — The invasion Vladimir Putin thought would last days is now in its fourth month. The Ukrainian people surprised Russia and inspired the world with their sacrifice, grit and battlefield success.
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Jamie McIntyre / Washington Examiner:
Biden to give longer, but not longest, range rockets to Ukraine in bid to avert escalation with Russia — ‘WE DO NOT SEEK A WAR BETWEEN NATO AND RUSSIA’: President Joe Biden, in an attempt to give Ukraine just enough firepower to blunt the Russian offensive, but not enough to spark a wider war …
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Peter Hermann / Washington Post:
D.C. gun seizures are soaring — but charges aren't sticking — Police say there are legal hurdles to securing convictions even when they recover a weapon. Defense attorneys say they are bringing weak cases. — A D.C. police officer pulled over the driver of a Pontiac Bonneville …
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JONATHAN TURLEY:
Second Amendment Showdown: Beto O'Rourke Resumes Call for Gun Confiscation
Second Amendment Showdown: Beto O'Rourke Resumes Call for Gun Confiscation
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Fox News, The Daily Wire and National Review
Troy Closson / New York Times:
Subway Victim Sues Gun Maker Over Attack That ‘Changed My Life Forever’
Subway Victim Sues Gun Maker Over Attack That ‘Changed My Life Forever’
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Biden, Democrats out of sync in pushing assault weapons ban
Biden, Democrats out of sync in pushing assault weapons ban
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HotAir, The Guardian and Get Smart Politics
Axios:
Scoop: Dems' lead impeachment lawyer to run for Congress in New York — Dan Goldman, the former lead counsel for House Democrats in their first attempt to impeach former President Trump, is planning to jump into the crowded Democratic primary in New York's 10th congressional district.
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NBC News:
Democrats can make midterms about the ‘angry moms,’ one party strategist argues — WASHINGTON — If it's Wednesday ... The Biden administration provides Ukraine with longer-range rocket systems. ... Gas prices soar another five cents overnight. ... Schools police chief in Uvalde …
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Washington Post, CNN and Washington Examiner
Heidi Przybyla / Politico:
'It's going to be an army': Tapes reveal GOP plan to contest elections — Video recordings of Republican Party operatives meeting with grassroots activists provide an inside look at a multi-pronged strategy to target and potentially overturn votes in Democratic precincts …
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Election Law Blog and Raw Story
Adam Cancryn / Politico:
The White House has one problem that rules them all: Gas prices — For the past several months, a White House-led team of economic specialists has marked each day in the same way: With a painstaking, state-by-state examination of gasoline prices and the intricate market forces pushing them relentlessly upward.
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Washington Post:
White House scrambles on inflation after Biden complains to aides
White House scrambles on inflation after Biden complains to aides
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Dennis Aftergut / The Bulwark:
The Humiliation of John Durham — Hired by Bill Barr to investigate the Trump investigators, the prosecutor had little to show for his work even before his defeat in court yesterday. — John Durham, the special counsel appointed days before the 2020 election by Donald Trump's attorney general William Barr …
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Alexander Martin / Sky News:
US military hackers conducting offensive operations in support of Ukraine, says head of Cyber Command — In an exclusive interview with Sky News, General Paul Nakasone confirmed for the first time that the US had “conducted a series of operations” in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
Biden to meet with baby formula makers on easing shortage — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is set to meet with infant formula manufacturers as his administration works to ease nationwide shortages by importing foreign supplies and using the Defense Production Act to speed domestic production.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Blocks Texas Law Regulating Social Media Platforms — The law, prompted by conservative complaints about censorship, prohibits big technology companies like Facebook and Twitter from removing posts based on the views they express. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Amy Howe / SCOTUSblog:
Divided court blocks Texas from enforcing social media law
Divided court blocks Texas from enforcing social media law
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CBS News, Boston.com, Outside the Beltway and TheBlaze
Don Moynihan / Can We Still Govern?:
Anatomy of a fake — What a viral fake news story about “race-based grading” tells us about our media ecosystem — This is the tale of a fake news story, widely shared by a lot of smart people who so badly wanted for it to be true that they didn't care that it wasn't.
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Peter Navarro subpoena suggests DoJ may be investigating Trump — Justice department seeks former aide's communications with ex-president and his attorneys — Peter Navarro, a top White House adviser to Donald Trump, is being commanded by a federal grand jury subpoena to turn …
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Ally Mutnick / Politico:
Dems sweat GOP surge in South Texas special election — Democrats already had a South Texas problem — and it's on the verge of getting worse. — Republicans are well-positioned to flip former Rep. Filemon Vela's (D-Texas) seat in a special election this summer, a victory …
BuzzFeed News:
Here's The DOJ Report Finding That Obama Officials Didn't Improperly Unmask Gen. Flynn — A Justice Department probe found that members of the Obama administration did not seek to reveal the identity of General Michael Flynn “for political purposes or other inappropriate reasons,” a newly disclosed report reveals.
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Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
A ‘Dynamite’ guest at the White House: BTS meets with Biden on anti-Asian discrimination — A horde of eager journalists began to crowd the aisles of the White House briefing room Tuesday long before the daily parrying session with reporters would begin — and they weren't there for Brian Deese.
Alexander Sammon / American Prospect:
The RNC's Ground Game of Inches — Inside the secretive, dubious, and extremely offline attempt to convert minorities into Republicans … In some sense, it was predictable that my search for any information about one of the Republican National Committee's two dozen community centers would lead me back to Facebook.
Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
Same-Sex Marriage Support Inches Up to New High of 71% — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Seventy-one percent of Americans say they support legal same-sex marriage, which exceeds the previous high of 70% recorded in 2021 by one percentage point. — These data are from Gallup's annual Values and Beliefs poll, conducted May 2-22.
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The Hill, The 19th and Opinion Today
Alec MacGillis / ProPublica:
Trial Diary: A Journalist Sits on a Baltimore Jury — Could 12 strangers agree on justice in Baltimore, a city riddled with killings and distrust of the police, in a shooting case where the victim was an actor on the legendary drama “The Wire”? … By the end of our first afternoon …
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Opinion MBS stands on the verge of getting what he wants — The dictionary defines “realpolitik” as “policy based on power rather than ideals or principles.” We are about to see a version of this in action when President Biden visits Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Saudi Arabia.
Larry Neumeister / Associated Press:
Sarah Palin Didn't Supply ‘Even A Speck’ Of Proof In New York Times Lawsuit: Judge — On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff denied the former Alaska governor's request for a new trial. — NEW YORK (AP) — The judge who presided over Sarah Palin's libel case against The New York Times denied …
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