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Jesus Jiménez / New York Times:
Four People, Including Gunman, Are Killed in Attack at Tulsa Medical Building, Police Say — Multiple people were shot and four people, including the gunman, were killed on Wednesday afternoon at a medical building in Tulsa, Okla., the Tulsa police said. — The assailant, who was armed with a rifle …
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Fernando Alfonso III / NPR:
5 people dead at Tulsa medical building, in the 233rd mass shooting of 2022 — Tulsa police confirmed that a shooter killed four people at Saint Francis Hospital in Tulsa, Okla., on Wednesday. — “Four innocents and one shooter” are dead, Jonathan Brooks of the Tulsa police department said at a news conference on Wednesday.
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Mike Stone / Reuters:
EXCLUSIVE U.S. plans to sell armed drones to Ukraine in coming days -sources — The Biden administration plans to sell Ukraine four MQ-1C Gray Eagle drones that can be armed with Hellfire missiles for battlefield use against Russia, three people familiar with the situation said.
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Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
Live Updates: Facing Heavy Losses, Ukraine Slowly Falls Back in East — Pitched street battles raged in Sievierodonetsk as Russian forces pushed into the city center. Germany promised Ukraine an advanced air-defense system, a day after the U.S. said it would send more powerful artillery.
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Matthew Luxmoore / Wall Street Journal:
Documents Reveal Hundreds of Russian Troops Broke Ranks Over Ukraine Orders — Desertions and refusal to engage in the invasion have put Moscow in a bind over how to punish service members without drawing attention to the problem — Hundreds of Russian soldiers have escaped the fighting …
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Alexander Martin / Sky News:
US military hackers conducting offensive operations in support of Ukraine, says head of Cyber Command
US military hackers conducting offensive operations in support of Ukraine, says head of Cyber Command
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John Stoehr / The Editorial Board:
What are Uvalde police hiding? — It's not their incompetence and cowardice. — Texas law enforcement authorities said last week that Salvador Ramos got into Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, by way of a door propped open by a teacher. From there, they said, Ramos found a classroom with two teachers and 19 fourth-graders.
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J. David Goodman / New York Times:
Uvalde Teacher Spoke With Husband, a Police Officer, Before She Died — Eva Mireles's husband was an officer with the school district's Police Department. But he was not allowed to enter the place where his wife and her students were under attack. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Alexa Ura / The Texas Tribune:
Irma and Joe Garcia, a teacher and her heartbroken husband, are buried together in Uvalde
Irma and Joe Garcia, a teacher and her heartbroken husband, are buried together in Uvalde
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Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots:
What the AR-15 Does to a Child's Body
What the AR-15 Does to a Child's Body
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EJ Dickson / Rolling Stone:
‘Men Always Win’: Survivors ‘Sickened’ by the Amber Heard Verdict — It didn't matter what the verdict was — as one domestic violence survivor puts it, “this case is my worst fear playing out on a public stage” — Over the past few weeks, Meghan has been watching the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial with a sinking feeling.
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Candace McDuffie / The Root:
Amber Heard Verdict Sends A Message To Black Women Everywhere — If the mistreatment of a wealthy blonde haired, blue-eyed white actress is ridiculed by the world, what does that mean for Black women? — Alerts — On Wednesday, a jury in Virginia decided that actor Johnny Depp …
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Benjamin Wittes / Lawfare:
Thoughts on the Michael Sussmann Verdict — In the years since Donald Trump's election, the former president's supporters and opponents have often seemed to occupy entirely separate factual universes regarding both his conduct and the investigations of it. — In the factual universe occupied …
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Dennis Aftergut / The Bulwark:
The Humiliation of John Durham
The Humiliation of John Durham
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Bob Christie / Associated Press:
Records show coordinated Arizona ballot collection scheme — PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona woman indicted in 2020 on accusations of illegally collecting ballots apparently ran a sophisticated operation using her status as a well-known Democratic operative in the border city of San Luis …
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Sophia Cai / Axios:
Scoop: Blockbuster witness for Jan. 6 hearings — J. Michael Luttig, a former federal judge and lawyer who advised former Vice President Mike Pence, is expected to testify in the Jan. 6 select committee's public hearings this month, Axios has learned.
Washington Post:
House Republicans to unveil conservative roadmap on climate, energy — House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy plans to call for boosting domestic fossil fuel production and streamlining the permitting process for large infrastructure projects — House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) …
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Christian Datoc / Washington Examiner:
White House can't explain why Biden didn't know about formula crisis until April — White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre could not answer why President Joe Biden did not know about the baby formula crisis until April. — Jean-Pierre faced a slew of questions Wednesday on the topic …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Opinion Hapless Trumpist Mo Brooks gives away the GOP ‘vote fraud’ scam — You might have noticed that many of the same Republicans who insisted that “voter fraud” cast doubt on Donald Trump's 2020 loss mysteriously don't see fraud at play in elections that they win. This is routinely described as “hypocrisy.”
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Alexandre Tanzi / Bloomberg:
One-Third of Americans Making $250,000 Live Paycheck-to-Paycheck, Survey Finds — More than a third of Americans earning at least $250,000 annually say they are living paycheck to paycheck, underscoring how inflation is taking a bigger bite out of Americans' budgets at all ends of the pay spectrum.
Stacy Cowley / New York Times:
$5.8 Billion in Loans Will Be Forgiven for Corinthian Colleges Students — The Education Department said it would wipe out the debts of 560,000 borrowers who had enrolled in the for-profit college chain, which collapsed in 2015. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Adm. Linda Fagan becomes first woman to lead U.S. Coast Guard — Adm. Linda Fagan was sworn in Wednesday by President Biden as the 27th commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, becoming the first woman to lead the service. — With her appointment, Fagan also becomes the first female service chief in American history.
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New York Times:
The Middlemen Helping Russian Oligarchs Get Superyachts and Villas — They oversee the flow of billions of dollars from Putin-connected Russians to companies involved in superyachts and villas. They've drawn the attention of a U.S. task force. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Emilie Raguso / Berkeleyside:
Student, 16, arrested on suspicion of mass shooting, bomb plot at BHS — Police say they seized “explosives and assault rifles, several knives” and other concerning materials at the boy's Berkeley home. — A 16-year-old Berkeley High student turned himself in to police this week following …
Sandra Sobieraj Westfall / People.com:
First Look at Kathleen Buhle's Memoir: Hunter Biden's Ex on His Affair with Sister-in-Law — and Forgiveness — An exclusive excerpt from Buhle's upcoming book, If We Break, offers a window into how the onetime Biden found healing through her pain … There is a trace of wistfulness …
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Matt Stieb / New York Magazine:
Man Who Shot Reagan Granted Full Freedom — John Hinckley, the would-be assassin who shot President Ronald Reagan two months after his inauguration in 1981, was deemed by a federal judge on Wednesday to no longer be a “danger to himself or others.” As a result, he will be free of all remaining restrictions by June 15.
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Hugh Son / CNBC:
Jamie Dimon says ‘brace yourself’ for an economic hurricane caused by the Fed and Ukraine war — There are two main factors that has Dimon worried: So-called quantitative tightening, or QT, is scheduled to begin this month and will ramp up to $95 billion a month in reduced bond holdings.
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Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
Biden Administration to Cut Costs for Wind and Solar Energy Projects — Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said the government would sharply reduce the fees it charges to companies that operate on public lands. — Give this article- - - Read in app — WASHINGTON — The Biden administration …
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Molly Jong-Fast / The Atlantic:
Democrats Should “Do Something” the Way the GOP Does Things — Gun control can be a winning issue for Democrats, if they act quickly. … On Sunday, President Joe Biden attended a Catholic Mass in Uvalde, Texas, for the 19 children and two teachers who had been murdered at Robb Elementary School.
Washington Post:
Buffalo shooting suspect charged with murder as a hate crime, domestic terrorism — The White man accused of killing 10 people at a Buffalo grocery store on May 14 was indicted Wednesday on 25 counts, including domestic terrorism and murder as a hate crime, authorities said.
Reagan Knopp / The Oregon Catalyst:
BREAKING: Drazan has edge over Kotek in early poll — By In the news In: 2022 Election Wednesday June 1, 2022 No Comments yet, we're awaiting your thoughts — In a new poll from Nelson Research, Republican Christine Drazan has the early lead coming out of the primary.
The Seattle Times:
Seattle police stopped investigating new adult sexual assaults this year, memo shows — Seattle police's sexual assault and child abuse unit staff has been so depleted that it stopped assigning to detectives this year new cases with adult victims, according to an internal memo sent to interim police Chief Adrian Diaz in April.
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Heather Knight / San Francisco Chronicle:
A girl fled her war-torn homeland, but found more trauma in San Francisco — The morning began like most in the Saleh family's tiny studio six floors above Turk and Hyde streets in the Tenderloin. The four children rose from their mats on the floor as their parents emerged from the closet where they shared a small mattress.
Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
Watchdog opens probe into huge Social Security fines to poor, disabled — An independent watchdog this week opened a broad investigation into Social Security Inspector General Gail Ennis and her office following a Washington Post report that revealed how an anti-fraud program …
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.
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Ana Goñi-Lessan / Tallahassee Democrat:
'It's all about the kids': Florida high school raffles off rifles, handguns — A Florida high school raffled off guns and other weaponry through a month-long fundraising campaign that ended Wednesday. — James Madison Preparatory High School in Madison, a charter school …