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Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Jan. 6 committee's secret adviser — The House's Jan. 6 committee has turned to a renowned former network news executive to hone a mountain of explosive material into a captivating multimedia presentation for a prime-time hearing Thursday. — James Goldston — former president of ABC News …
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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Capitol attack panel to unveil new evidence against Trump at public hearings — Committee intends to reveal previously secret White House records, photos and videos to prove how Trump broke the law — The House select committee investigating the Capitol attack will unveil new evidence …
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Slate, NBC News, Associated Press, NPR, Robert Reich and Raw Story
Axios:
Scoop: Jan. 6 committee's private divide
Scoop: Jan. 6 committee's private divide
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Union-News, Raw Story, CNN, Twitchy, RedState, Poynter, Outside the Beltway, Mediaite, Politico, CBS News, Insider, Washington Post and Political Wire
Jonathan Lemire / Politico:
Biden wants to get out more, seething that his standing is now worse than Trump's — President Joe Biden and his aides have grown increasingly frustrated by their inability to turn the tide against a cascade of challenges threatening to overwhelm the administration. — Soaring global inflation.
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Fox News, New York Post, RedState, Townhall, Mediaite, Louder With Crowder, Breitbart, Power Line, Twitchy, POLITICUSUSA, Wide World of News, Outside the Beltway, ABC News and Althouse
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Washington Post:
Democrats aren't counting on Jan. 6 committee hearings to help them with voters
Democrats aren't counting on Jan. 6 committee hearings to help them with voters
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Politico, Bloomberg, NBC News, Morning Shots and The Hill
Katie Glueck / New York Times:
High California Gas Prices Rattle Democrats Ahead of Midterms
High California Gas Prices Rattle Democrats Ahead of Midterms
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CNN, The Hill, Vanity Fair and Times Leader
Ilya Shapiro / Wall Street Journal:
Why I Quit Georgetown — The university didn't fire me, but it abandoned free speech and created a hostile environment. — 1x — After a four-month investigation into a tweet, the Georgetown University Law Center reinstated me last Thursday. But after full consideration of the report …
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HotAir, Washington Post and Twitchy
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Dan McLaughlin / National Review:
BREAKING: Ilya Shapiro Resigns from Georgetown Law School
BREAKING: Ilya Shapiro Resigns from Georgetown Law School
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FIRE
Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian:
Legal claims shed light on founder of faith group tied to Amy Coney Barrett — Examination of People of Praise comes as supreme court seems poised to reverse Roe v Wade — The founder of the People of Praise, a secretive charismatic Christian group that counts supreme court justice Amy Coney Barrett …
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Raw Story
Jeff Mason / Reuters:
Exclusive: Biden to waive tariffs for 24 months on solar panels hit by probe — President Joe Biden will declare a 24-month tariff exemption on Monday for solar panels from four Southeast Asian nations after an investigation froze imports and stalled projects in the United States, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
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Jeremy Beaman / Washington Examiner:
Biden to use Defense Production Act to build more solar panel parts at home
Biden to use Defense Production Act to build more solar panel parts at home
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Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Reuters, The Dossier, Los Angeles Times and Townhall
Wall Street Journal:
Past Mass Shootings Prompted Sens. John Cornyn, Chris Murphy to Lead Gun Talks — Texas Republican and Connecticut Democrat aim to strike Senate deal to limit gun deaths — HARTFORD, Conn.—After 20 first-graders and six educators were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown …
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New York Times, The Guardian and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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New York Times:
How a New York County Used the State's ‘Red Flag’ Law to Seize 160 Guns
How a New York County Used the State's ‘Red Flag’ Law to Seize 160 Guns
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The US Sun and The Daily Wire
Ross Barkan / New York Magazine:
The Limits of San Francisco Liberalism — If Chesa Boudin is recalled, it will be because his city has never been its left-wing caricature. — In San Francisco, the signs are everywhere. Near the famed Lombard Street, one is affixed to a lamppost. Several of them, picturing menacing men …
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Grid News, Twitchy, CBS News, New York Times and The Hill
Michael Balsamo / Associated Press:
Axon halts plans for Taser drone as 9 on ethics board resign — WASHINGTON (AP) — Axon, the company best known for developing the Taser, said Monday it was halting plans to develop a Taser-equipped drone after a majority of its ethics board resigned over the controversial project.
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John Fritze / USA Today:
Supreme Court declines appeal over law licenses from St. Louis couple who waved guns at protest — Mark and Patricia McCloskey drew national attention for walking onto their front yard with guns during a 2020 protest of the police killing of George Floyd. — WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court …
Rebecca Traister / The Cut:
The Institutionalist — Dianne Feinstein fought for gun control, civil rights, and abortion access for half a century. Where did it all go wrong? — On election night in San Francisco in 1969, a 36-year-old woman who had run a campaign for the Board of Supervisors that featured …
Jennifer Senior / The Atlantic:
American Rasputin — I sometimes look at the long ribbons of texts I've gotten from Steve Bannon and wonder whether they couldn't tell the whole story all on their own. — There are certainly enough of them. He says he has five phones, two encrypted, and he's forever pecking away …
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Raw Story
Jill Lawless / Associated Press:
British Prime Minister Johnson to face no-confidence vote — LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will face a no-confidence vote Monday that could oust him from power, as discontent with his rule finally threatens to topple a politician who has often seemed invincible despite many scandals.
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Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
BREAKING: Musk threatens to dump deal in letter to Twitter, SEC — Time to play “Let's Make a Deal,” or time to escape a deal? With Elon Musk, no one's ever quite sure, but the Twitter buyout has had a lot of whiplash even for the world's wealthiest mogul.
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Cathy Young / The Bulwark:
The Long History of Glenn Greenwald's Kissing Up to the Kremlin — In his world, it seems America can do nothing right and Vladimir Putin can do nothing wrong. — In the months since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, maverick journalist Glenn Greenwald has emerged as one of the loudest anti-Ukraine voices …
Timi Iwayemi / American Prospect:
Sam Bankman-Fried's Multimillion-Dollar Game — He is spending prodigious amounts on lobbying and elections to ensure that crypto is lightly regulated in the future. — Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO of crypto firm FTX, testifies during a House Agriculture Committee hearing, May 12, 2022, on Capitol Hill.
Josh Marshall / New York Times:
Democrats Can Win This Fall if They Make One Key Promise — Democrats hope to make November's midterm elections a referendum on Roe v. Wade, the linchpin decision upholding abortion rights, which the Supreme Court is almost certain to strike down this summer. That strategy makes sense.
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Talking Points Memo
Robyn Dixon / Washington Post:
As war drags on, weary Russians yearn for a return to normal life — They feel frustrated, depressed and no more able to change their bleak situation than change the weather — RIGA, Latvia — For Russia's urban middle class, the war on Ukraine has messed up plans, ruined longed-for vacations …
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Dion Nissenbaum / Wall Street Journal:
Saudi Arabia Moves Toward Eventual Ties With Israel — Biden administration is working to broker agreements between the two countries that could pave the way for diplomatic relations — Saudi Arabia is engaging in serious talks with Israel to build business ties and create new security arrangements …
Vox:
Vox's Sean Illing to Take the Helm as Host of Vox Conversations — Illing, who has hosted the show part-time since it launched last year, will begin his role this fall. — Vox's VP for audio Liz Nelson today announced that Sean Illing will take the helm as the sole host of interview podcast Vox Conversations.