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Washington Post:
Fake Trump electors in Ga. told to shroud plans in ‘secrecy,’ email shows — The message informed those involved in the plan that they were not allowed to disclose their intentions, even to State Capitol security — A staffer for Donald Trump's presidential campaign instructed Republicans planning …
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Brookings:
Trump on Trial: A Guide to the January 6 Hearings and the Question of Criminality — For media inquiries, contact: — Governance Studies Main Line 202.797.6090 — President Joe Biden legitimately won a fair and secure 2020 presidential election—and Donald Trump lost.
Kipp Jones / Mediaite:
Fox News Channel Will Not Carry Thursday's Primetime Jan. 6 Committee Hearing — Fox News Channel will not carry Thursday's primetime hearing of the Jan. 6 House select committee, as its usual lineup will air. — The hosts will cut in to the proceeding when or if they feel doing so is warranted, the network said.
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New York Times:
Jan. 6 Hearings Give Democrats a Chance to Recast Midterm Message — With their majority at stake, Democrats plan to use the six high-profile hearings to refocus voters' attention on Republicans' role in the attack. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Washington Post:
Proud Boys leader Tarrio, 4 lieutenants charged with seditious conspiracy — Indictments makes the Proud Boys the second group whose members face the rare charge in the Capitol attack — Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, the former longtime chairman of the extremist group Proud Boys …
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
The Washington Post suspends reporter David Weigel over sexist retweet — New York (CNN Business)The Washington Post has suspended reporter David Weigel without pay for retweeting a sexist joke, a person familiar with the matter told CNN on Monday. — Weigel did not respond to a request for comment …
Mark Follman / Mother Jones:
The Most Shocking New Statistic on Mass Shootings — Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine. — With the recent spate of mass shootings, a wave of public opinion polling has reaffirmed Americans' well-known views on gun violence.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Scoop: CNN evaluating partisan talent — CNN's new boss Chris Licht is evaluating whether personalities and programming that grew polarizing during the Trump era can adapt to the network's new priority to be less partisan. … - For on-air talent, that includes engaging in respectful interviews that don't feel like PR stunts.
Emily Ngo / Spectrum News NY1:
Exclusive Spectrum News NY1/Siena College poll finds New Yorkers are pessimistic about city's future and its mayor — The view of life in New York City is bleak, according to a Siena College poll of city residents conducted exclusively for Spectrum News NY1. — What You Need To Know
Joshua Rhett Miller / New York Post:
Packin' heat: Nude Hunter Biden cavorts with hooker, illegal gun in latest mess for president — Hunter Biden shows himself to be a real first son-of-a-gun in the latest embarrassing personal video leak for President Biden's scandal-scarred offspring. — A naked Hunter casually waves around …
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Anemona Hartocollis / New York Times:
A Conservative Quits Georgetown's Law School Amid Free Speech Fight — Ilya Shapiro, who tweeted that a “lesser Black woman” would get a Supreme Court nod, was cleared by a school investigation. He decided to leave anyway. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Georgetown Abandons Its Free-Speech Policy Over Ilya Shapiro
Georgetown Abandons Its Free-Speech Policy Over Ilya Shapiro
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New York Times:
Potent Weapons Reach Ukraine Faster Than the Know-How to Use Them — KHERSON REGION, Ukraine — Since Russia invaded, NATO nations have upgraded Ukraine's arsenal with increasingly sophisticated tools, with more promised, like the advanced multiple-launch rocket systems pledged by the United States and Britain.
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GOV.UK, Implicit Games and Axios
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
‘Bless her heart.’ Kemp ad slams Abrams for ‘worst state in the country’ remark — Almost as soon as Stacey Abrams called Georgia the “worst state in the country to live,” the Democrat's campaign expected the remark to be the center of new GOP attacks. Gov. Brian Kemp's first TV ad of the general election cycle does exactly that.
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Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:
US service member is possible suspect in Syria base blast — WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. service member has been identified as a possible suspect in an April explosion that injured several U.S. troops at a base in eastern Syria. — Patrick Barnes, a spokesman for the Army Criminal Investigation Division …
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Eduardo Medina / New York Times:
Mother Charged With Manslaughter After Her 2-Year-Old Fatally Shoots Father — It is unclear how the boy managed to get the Glock 19, but his mother acknowledged that “any child in the room could have figured out how to get the gun out of the bag,” the authorities said. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Kim Phuc Phan Thi / New York Times:
It's Been 50 Years. I Am Not ‘Napalm Girl’ Anymore. — I grew up in the small village of Trang Bang in South Vietnam. My mother said I laughed a lot as a young girl. We led a simple life with an abundance of food, since my family had a farm and my mom ran the best restaurant in town.
Texas Attorney General:
AG Paxton Launches Investigation Against Twitter for Potentially Deceiving Texas Consumers, Texas Businesses Over Fake Bot Accounts — Today Attorney General Ken Paxton launched an investigation against Twitter for potentially false reporting over its fake bot accounts in violation of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act.
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Washington Free Beacon:
How the Left Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Domestic Terrorism — Biden DOJ asks judge to go easy on Ivy League firebombers — On the cusp of nonstop, around-the-clock (primetime!) coverage of the Jan. 6 committee hearings, a couple of domestic terrorists are actually getting their day in court …
The White House:
FACT SHEET: Vice President Harris Announces More Than $1.9 Billion in New Private Sector Commitments as Part of Call to Action for Northern Central America — The Vice President, U.S. Department of State, and the Partnership for Central America (PCA), come together to announce private sector commitments now total more than $3.2 billion
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ABC News:
'Act like you're asleep': Wounded Uvalde teacher recounts chilling moment he 1st saw gunman — Arnulfo Reyes spoke exclusively with ABC News while still hospitalized. — Video by GMA TeamBy, Miles Cohen, Lucien Bruggeman, and Julia Jacobo — An elementary school teacher wounded …
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New York Post
Lawrence Richard / Fox News:
US Supreme Court declines to hear McCloskeys' law license case — Mark McCloskey said he is ‘disappointed’ by the U.S. Supreme Court's decision — Fox News Flash top headlines for June 6 — The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a case from Mark and Patricia McCloskey …
Michael Sainato / The Guardian:
‘People are stressed’: Apple workers set to begin first in-person union election — If successful, the store in Towson, Maryland, would be the first to unionize at the US tech company — Workers at an Apple store in Towson, Maryland, are set to begin their in-person union election on 15 June and …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court May Hear ‘800-Pound Gorilla’ of Election Law Cases — Next week the justices will consider whether to resolve a long-simmering dispute about the power of state legislatures in federal elections. — Give this article- - - Read in app — WASHINGTON — In October 2020 …
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Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Family of Bill Clinton advisor who admitted Jeffrey Epstein into White House seven times has blocked release of files detailing the death scene after he was found hanging from a tree with a shotgun blast at a ranch 30 miles from his home — Top Clinton advisor Mark Middleton died …
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Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Garcetti allies tried to put the screws to Mark Kelly. It may have backfired. — Democratic powerbrokers close to Eric Garcetti privately pressured Sen. Mark Kelly to support the Los Angeles mayor's ambassadorial nomination, according to five people familiar with the outreach.
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Political Wire
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
The GOP's ‘Glenn Youngkin Model’ Stalls Out on the Pennsylvania Turnpike — David McCormick loses to Dr. Oz as the donor class's post-Trump pivot fails. — Last fall, the members of the old guard GOP consultant class and their friends in the conservative media gushed about a new playbook …
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Ruth Comerford / The Bookseller:
Bloomsbury bags journalist Miller on transformation of Ukraine — Bloomsbury Continuum has acquired The War Came to Us: Life and Death in Ukraine by writer and journalist Christopher Miller. — Publisher Tomasz Hoskins obtained world English language rights for the non-fiction work …
Emily Brooks / The Hill:
Milo Yiannopoulos is an intern for Marjorie Taylor Greene — Right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos is working as an unpaid intern in the congressional office of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.). — Yiannopoulos, 37, announced the job on his Telegram account Monday with a photo of his official intern congressional badge.
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