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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.
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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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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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Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Jan. 6 committee's secret adviser
Scoop: Jan. 6 committee's secret adviser
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Washington Post:
Opinion Memo to Democrats: Hammer the GOP as complicit in Trump's coup
Opinion Memo to Democrats: Hammer the GOP as complicit in Trump's coup
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Mychael Schnell / The Hill:
Raskin says Jan. 6 panel has found more on Trump than ‘incitement’
Raskin says Jan. 6 panel has found more on Trump than ‘incitement’
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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 …
Politico:
GOP senators surprisingly bullish on prospects for a bipartisan gun deal — Republican leaders are seriously weighing whether to cut a bipartisan deal on gun safety as bipartisan negotiations pick up momentum in the Senate. — Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), a leading negotiator on gun safety …
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Manchin wants to raise age to 21 for gun purchases, doesn't see need for AR-15s
Manchin wants to raise age to 21 for gun purchases, doesn't see need for AR-15s
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
With Cornyn in the Room, Senate Gun Talks Focus on Narrow Changes
With Cornyn in the Room, Senate Gun Talks Focus on Narrow Changes
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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 …
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.
Lauren Hirsch / New York Times:
Elon Musk threatens to pull out of Twitter deal without more information about fake accounts. — In a filing, Mr. Musk's lawyers said that Twitter was “actively resisting” his requests for more information. — Elon Musk is threatening to pull out of his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter …
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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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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Georgetown Abandons Its Free-Speech Policy Over Ilya Shapiro … Everybody supports freedom of speech for ideas they agree with. The concept only has meaning if it's applied to ideas you don't agree with. — I don't agree with the idea conservative lawyer Ilya Shapiro expressed in January …
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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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Reuters:
EXCLUSIVE Michigan widens probe into voting system breaches by Trump allies — State police in Michigan have obtained warrants to seize voting equipment and election-related records in at least three towns and one county in the past six weeks, police records show, widening the largest known investigation …
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Zachary Leeman / Mediaite:
AOC Blasts Fellow Democrats for Resisting Term Latinx: ‘Not About Your Reelection Prospects’ — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) blasted critics of the term Latinx, including fellow Democrats who resist using it and think it's “bad for the party.” — After a brief discussion of the term …
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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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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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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.
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 …
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 …
BBC:
Boris Johnson wins vote but suffers large Tory rebellion — Watch: BBC News coverage of PM confidence vote — Play video Watch: BBC News coverage of PM confidence vote — Summary — Conservative MPs have voted in favour of Boris Johnson remaining as PM by 211 to 148
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Zach Everson / Forbes:
Fourth Trump Golf Course Appears To Be Violating Law By Using Presidential Seal — The presidential seal has turned up as a marker at a fourth Trump golf course, a possible violation of federal law. — On April 21, an Instagram user posted a photo of the seal at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Washington Post:
China secretly building PLA naval facility in Cambodia, Western officials say — China is secretly building a naval facility in Cambodia for the exclusive use of its military, with both countries denying that is the case and taking extraordinary measures to conceal the operation, Western officials said.
Rachael Levy / Politico:
How many Covid deaths are acceptable? Some Biden officials tried to guess. — Biden officials in recent months privately discussed how many daily Covid-19 deaths it would take to declare the virus tamed, three people familiar with the conversations told POLITICO.
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Joshua Eaton / NBC News:
The U.S. has wasted over 82 million Covid vaccine doses
The U.S. has wasted over 82 million Covid vaccine doses
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Washington Post:
Cisneros asks for recount in Democratic primary runoff against incumbent Cuellar — Attorney Jessica Cisneros will request a recount of the runoff election between her and Texas Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar. — “Our community isn't done fighting, we are filing for a recount,” Cisneros said in a statement.
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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 …
Paige Skinner / BuzzFeed News:
Justine Lindsay Is The NFL's First Openly Trans Cheerleader — “I think more people need to see this. It's not because I want recognition. It's just to shed light on what's going on in the world.” — In a league not known for its progressiveness, Justine Lindsay just made NFL history.
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