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Daniel Walters / New York Times:
Dozens of White Supremacists Arrested in Idaho Had Planned to Riot, Authorities Say — Members of the right-wing group Patriot Front who were charged on Saturday were preparing to disrupt a nearby Pride event, according to the police. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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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 …
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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CNN:
Senators look to announce initial agreement on guns as soon as Sunday — (CNN)Senate negotiators in both parties are pushing to announce as soon as Sunday the outlines of an agreement on new measures to address gun violence, according to sources familiar with the talks.
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Politico:
Senators strike bipartisan gun safety agreement — Senators are preparing to release a bipartisan gun safety framework on Sunday, according to multiple people familiar with the negotiations. It would mark a significant breakthrough in Congress' attempts to address recent back-to-back mass shootings.
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 …
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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.
Carol Rosenberg / New York Times:
The Secret Pentagon Photos of the First Prisoners at Guantánamo Bay — GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — For 20 years, the United States military has tightly controlled what the world can see of the detainees at Guantánamo Bay. — No images of prisoners struggling with guards.
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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Zac Anderson / Sarasota Herald-Tribune:
DeSantis raises another $10.2 million in May, bringing total to $124 million — Gov. Ron DeSantis's fundraising continued at a torrid pace in May, allowing the governor to put more distance between himself and his Democratic rivals. — DeSantis raised another $10.2 million …
Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times:
How Fashion Giants Recast Plastic as Good for the Planet — An influential system overseen by retailers and clothing makers ranks petroleum-based synthetics like “vegan leather” as more environmentally sound than natural fibers. — Give this article- - - Read in app — It's soft. It's vegan.
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 …
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Jamie Gangel / CNN:
Conservative election attorney Ben Ginsberg to testify to January 6 committee on Monday — (CNN)Conservative Republican election attorney Ben Ginsberg will testify to the House January 6 investigative committee during its next public hearing on Monday, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
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 …