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Grand jury indicts former Trump adviser Peter Navarro for contempt of Congress — (CNN)A federal grand jury has indicted former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro for contempt of Congress after he refused to cooperate in the House January 6 committee's investigation.
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Peter Navarro Indicted for Contempt of Congress — Two Charges Filed for Defaulting on House Subpoena From Select Committee Investigating Jan. 6 Capitol Breach — WASHINGTON - Former White House advisor Peter K. Navarro has been indicted by a federal grand jury on two counts of contempt …
Politico:
Jan. 6 panel fumes over ‘unauthorized’ interview by former adviser — Jan. 6 select committee leaders are furious that a onetime adviser to the panel, former Rep. Denver Riggleman, divulged private details about their work in what they say was an “unauthorized” CNN interview.
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The Daily Beast:
Navarro Rants About ‘Our Republic’ as Hearing on Contempt Charges Goes Off the Rails — The Trump loyalist was indicted Thursday for refusing to comply “in any way” with a subpoena issued by the House committee investigating the Capitol riot. — A federal grand jury has indicted former …
MSNBC:
Jail: Facing criminal subpoena, Trump aide threatens Biden, Pelosi, Fauci | Navarro MSNBC Interview
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Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro indicted on contempt of Congress charges
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New York Times:
N.Y. Republican Drops Re-Election Bid After Bucking His Party on Guns — Representative Chris Jacobs, whose district includes Buffalo suburbs, abandoned his campaign after his support for a federal assault weapons ban caused a G.O.P. backlash. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Jerry Zremski / Buffalo News:
Rep. Chris Jacobs withdraws from re-election bid amid gun control outcry — WASHINGTON - Rep. Chris Jacobs, an Orchard Park Republican, said Friday that he was withdrawing as the GOP and Conservative candidate for Congress in the newly redrawn 23rd District, acknowledging that his newfound views …
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Pence Staff Feared for His Safety Amid Trump's Pressure Campaign Before Jan. 6 — New details flesh out how the pressure campaign by Donald J. Trump and his allies to block certification of the 2020 election left the vice president's staff fearing for his safety. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Opinion Trump's latest Jan. 6 grift poses a hidden challenge to Democrats
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Zoë Richards / NBC News:
‘I almost died’: Fetterman releases cardiologist letter addressing stroke — John Fetterman releases statement on health after suffering stroke — Pennsylvania Democratic Senate nominee John Fetterman on Friday said he should have taken his health “more seriously” leading up to a stroke …
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Washington Post:
Fetterman says he ‘almost died’ after ignoring heart condition — Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, the Democratic nominee in the state's Senate contest, said Friday that he “almost died” after suffering a stroke last month, in a statement revealing that his condition was far more serious than his campaign had previously indicated.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Fetterman's cardiologist said the Pa. Senate candidate ignored medical advice, but his prognosis is good
New York Times:
No Radio, Old Tactics: How the Police Response in Uvalde Broke Down — The commander at the scene arrived without a police radio, and decided in the first minutes on an approach that would delay a confrontation. — UVALDE, Texas — Two minutes after a gunman burst through an unlocked door …
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United States Capitol Police:
USCP Arrests Man with Fake Badge, Body Armor & High Capacity Magazines — A Michigan man was arrested outside of the U.S. Capitol this morning after he was found with a fake badge, a BB gun, body armor, high capacity magazines and other ammunition. — Just before 5:00 am …
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Catherine Belton / Washington Post:
Putin thinks West will blink first in war of attrition, Russian elites say — The Kremlin is seeking to ramp up economic pressure to erode foreign support for Ukraine — Russian President Vladimir Putin is digging in for a long war of attrition over Ukraine and will be relentless in trying …
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Henry Fountain / New York Times:
Carbon Dioxide Levels Are Highest in Human History — Humans pumped 36 billion tons of the planet-warming gas into the atmosphere in 2021, more than in any previous year. It comes from burning oil, gas and coal. — The amount of planet-warming carbon dioxide in the atmosphere broke a record in May …
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Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
YouTubers say WaPo's Taylor Lorenz falsely claimed she reached out for comment in story about Depp-Heard trial — The Washington Post stealth-edited its report after Lorenz was called out on social media — Washington Post publishes identity of ‘Libs of TikTok’ creator
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Bryan Metzger / Insider:
Republican Sen. Ben Sasse says the GOP ‘wants a strongman daddy figure’ and ‘exists increasingly as a vehicle for the grievances of the angriest, oldest folks’ — GOP Sen. Ben Sasse gave a speech on Thursday that included heavy criticism of his own party.
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Richard Milne / Financial Times:
Estonian government collapses as prime minister hits out at coalition partner — Kaja Kallas accuses the Centre party of working against nation's ‘core values’ amid tensions over Russia — Estonia's government collapsed after the Baltic country's prime minister launched a blistering attack …
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David French / The Atlantic:
Time Has Proved the Slow-Riot Theory of Mass Shootings — We don't actually know how to solve the crisis. … We'll begin with two scenarios and explore which one is worse. In the first scenario, we know there's a crisis, and we know there's a solution to the crisis, yet we lack the political will to solve it.
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Morgan Trau / WEWS:
Ohio GOP passes bill aiming to root out ‘suspected’ transgender female athletes through genital inspection — Ohio GOP passes bill aiming to root out suspected transgender female athletes through genital inspection — COLUMBUS, Ohio — House Republican lawmakers in Ohio passed a bill …
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Matt Welch / Reason:
Can a Post-'Takeover' Libertarian Party Improve on Its Historical Run of 2012-20? — After succeeding last weekend in his half-decade-long quest to engineer a “takeover” of the Libertarian Party, Michael Heise, founder and chair of the L.P.'s now-dominant Mises Caucus, crowed on Twitter …
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Eric Sharp
San Antonio Express-News:
Teacher, father of mass-shooting victim looking to sue gunmaker over rifle sold to Uvalde gunman — A Robb Elementary School teacher and the father of a student killed in the May 24 mass shooting at the school both have signaled their intent to sue the manufacturer of the assault-style rifle the gunman used in the massacre.
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Laura Benshoff / NPR:
Uvalde parents and school staffer start legal action against gunmaker
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Steve Contorno / CNN:
DeSantis blocks state money for Tampa Bay Rays training facility after team tweets against gun violence — (CNN)Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis blocked state funding for a new Tampa Bay Rays training facility partly because the baseball team spoke out against gun violence in the wake …
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Another Proud Boy who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 has pleaded guilty — WASHINGTON — A Proud Boys member and former D.C. bartender who was caught on video joining a mob pursuing police officers and smashing a sign inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, pleaded guilty Friday to a felony count …
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The Philadelphia Inquirer:
David McCormick isn't winning the recount against Mehmet Oz — and he's running out of options — The recount isn't saving David McCormick.At least not by itself.Days of work reviewing and re-tabulating votes in Pennsylvania's incredibly tight Republican Senate primary have produced little change …
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Gideon Lewis-Kraus / New Yorker:
How Harmful Is Social Media? — There's a general sense that it's bad for society—which may be right. But studies offer surprisingly few easy answers. — In April, the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt published an essay in The Atlantic in which he sought to explain, as the piece's title had it …
David Freedlander / New York Magazine:
How New York's Redistricting Became a Civil War for Democrats — “It was mass hysteria. Everyone assumed the whole thing was a plot.” — Bill de Blasio was having lunch at Caffè Reggio in the West Village on the third Monday in May, sinking in to what he assumed would be a post-mayoral life …
Danyoung Kim / New Yorker:
When Cars Kill — On the afternoon of October 8, 2013, in the last moments of his life, twelve-year-old Sammy Cohen Eckstein, of Park Slope, Brooklyn, was walking to after-school soccer practice near his apartment on Prospect Park West when he lost control of his ball.
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Georgia GOP chair's impartiality questioned after Republican primary — In the halls of the Omni Hotel at the Battery, a Georgia GOP operative was searching for the state party's annual Christmas fundraiser when he stumbled upon a closed-door meeting with David Perdue and several …
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