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9:45 AM ET, June 12, 2022

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Vincent Saglimbeni / KXLY-TV:
Police: 31 members of white nationalist group arrested near Coeur d'Alene pride event  —  COEUR D'ALENE, ID.  — Thirty-one people affiliated with the white nationalist group “Patriot Front” were arrested in downtown Coeur d'Alene Saturday.  —  Coeur d'Alene Police Chief Lee White …
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Martha Bellisle / Associated Press:
31 Patriot Front members arrested near Idaho pride event  —  Authorities arrested 31 members of the white supremacist group Patriot Front near an Idaho pride event Saturday after they were found packed into the back of a U-Haul truck with riot gear.  —  The men were standing inside …
Josh Lyle / KREM-TV:
‘They came to riot downtown’ |  Police arrest 31 people with ties to hate group, found inside U-haul  —  Police stopped a U-haul in Coeur d'Alene on Saturday and arrested 31 people inside who police say have ties to a hate group.  Police said they planned to riot.
Discussion: BizPac Review and New York Post
NBC News:
31 linked to white nationalist group arrested near Pride event in Idaho  —  Idaho police arrest 31 linked to white nationalist group at Pride event: ‘They came to riot’  —  Thirty-one people affiliated with the white nationalist group Patriot Front were arrested near an annual LGBTQ+ event Saturday …
Alan Halaly / The Daily Beast:
‘Losers!’:  Mob of White Supremacists Busted Near Idaho Pride Event  —  Police say they foiled Patriot Front's plans for a riot after a “concerned citizen” reported seeing a bunch of masked men in a U-Haul that “looked like a little army.”  —  Dozens of masked members of the white supremacist …
Discussion: RedState, HuffPost and KXLY-TV
Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post:
The Google engineer who thinks the company's AI has come to life  —  AI ethicists warned Google not to impersonate humans.  Now one of Google's own thinks there's a ghost in the machine.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Google engineer Blake Lemoine opened his laptop to the interface for LaMDA …
Anchorage Daily News:
Palin, Begich, Gross and Peltola are early frontrunners in Alaska's special U.S. House primary  —  Early results in Alaska's 48-candidate special primary election for U.S. House Saturday showed Republicans Sarah Palin and Nick Begich III taking the lead, followed by independent Al Gross.
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Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
Alaska's new voting system has Sarah Palin facing Santa Claus for Congress
Discussion: Townhall and The Daily Wire
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Capitol attack pardon revelations could spell doom for Trump and allies  —  Disclosure that many House Republicans sought presidential pardon may show they believed election fraud claim was false  —  he House select committee investigating the Capitol attack revealed at its inaugural hearing …
Lindsay Watts / WTTG-TV:
Loudoun County judge removes Commonwealth's Attorney's Office from criminal case  —  LOUDOUN COUNTY, Va. - A Loudoun County judge has removed the county's Commonwealth's Attorney office from a criminal case saying the office has shown an inability to prosecute the case with professional standards …
Stephanie McCrummen / Washington Post:
The town crier  —  Deepening suspicions.  A parallel voting system.  Dumpster diving for documents.  In northwest Georgia, a woman known as ‘Burnitdown’ portends what the Trump movement is becoming.  —  In ROME, Ga.  —  The dumpster was at the end of a parking lot alongside the county election office.
Discussion: Raw Story
Politico:
Pence-world's final takedown of Trump's Jan. 6 bid to remain in power revealed in his lawyer's memo  —  A day before a mob of Donald Trump supporters smashed their way into the Capitol to disrupt the transfer of presidential power, then-Vice President Mike Pence's top lawyer dashed off a fateful memo.
Elena Schneider / Politico:
DNC cuts 3 contenders as it chooses new early state presidential lineup  —  The Democratic National Committee narrowed its list of states vying for the early presidential nominating window from 20 to 17 on Saturday, cutting it ahead of their June meeting.  —  Three applicants — New York …
Richard Milne / Financial Times:
Estonian PM set to form new coalition after conservative party joins talks  —  Kaja Kallas cites ‘strong common ground’ with Pro Patria amid Russia's war in Ukraine  —  Kaja Kallas is set to survive as Estonia's prime minister after one of the most outspoken European opponents of Russia's war …
Washington Post:
Supreme Court justices should be able to feel safe at home  —  A man traveled this past week from California to the Montgomery County home of Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, allegedly with plans to kill the jurist and then himself.  Authorities said he was dressed in black clothes …
Discussion: Newsweek and Wall Street Journal
Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Does the Justice Department want to charge Trump?  Here's what could happen.  —  Liz Cheney's powerful remarks at Thursday night's Jan. 6 congressional hearing on the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol — which sounded a lot like a lawyer's opening statement at a criminal trial …
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The Texas Tribune:
Protesters across U.S. and Texas join March for Our Lives rallies against gun violence  —  Outside the Capitol in Austin, relatives of Jackie Cazares, 9, and Annabell Guadalupe Rodriguez, 10, two of the 19 students killed at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, tearfully addressed a crowd.  —  Copy link
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