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Washington Post:
Trump pushed ‘big lie’ despite being told election fraud claims were false, aides testify … The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection opened its second hearing Monday with assertions that the Capitol attack was the direct result of Donald Trump's repeated baseless claims …
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Words & Deeds, Raw Story, Los Angeles Times and Political Wire
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New York Times:
Election Night Scenes Show Trump Rejecting Advice About Chances for Victory — William P. Barr, the former attorney general, said in a recorded deposition that claims of widespread electoral fraud were nonsense. As the hearing closed, Rep. Zoe Lofgren said Mr. Trump used lies about fraud as a fund-raising tool.
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Washington Post, CNN, Mediaite, CBS News, Associated Press, Raw Story, Rolling Stone, Deadline and UPI
Oriana Gonzalez / Axios:
Ex-Trump campaign manager pulls out of Jan. 6 hearing — Former Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien will not testify before the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot on Monday due to a “family emergency,” the panel announced. … The committee will also show footage …
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Insider, The Daily Beast, PBS NewsHour, The Hill, New York Times, WOOD-TV, NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth and The Guardian
Zeeshan Aleem / MSNBC:
Jan. 6 hearings: Day two of House committee's presentation begins — Watch live: Jan. 6 committee holds public hearing on 2021 Capitol attack — The House Jan. 6 select committee's second public hearing on its investigation into the Capitol riot begins Monday at 10 a.m. ET.
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HuffPost, CBS News, The Hill, UPI, Raw Story, Common Dreams, USA Today, PBS NewsHour, Rolling Stone and The Guardian
Kayla Epstein / Insider:
Trump's attorney general Bill Barr said dealing with ‘bogus’ 2020 voting fraud claims was like ‘playing Whac-a-Mole’
Trump's attorney general Bill Barr said dealing with ‘bogus’ 2020 voting fraud claims was like ‘playing Whac-a-Mole’
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Major TV networks, including Fox News, plan to televise Monday's hearing of the January 6 committee
Major TV networks, including Fox News, plan to televise Monday's hearing of the January 6 committee
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HuffPost, Washington Times, RedState, Associated Press, The Guardian and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
CNN:
What to watch for at Monday's January 6 committee hearing
What to watch for at Monday's January 6 committee hearing
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Salon, New York Post, RedState, Raw Story, Mediaite, Boston.com, The Root, al.com, Sean Hannity, CBS News and Washington Times
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Jolt: Herschel Walker claimed to be in law enforcement when he wasn't. — U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker regularly praises police officers. But was Walker in law enforcement himself? In at least three speeches delivered before he entered politics, Walker claimed he was, the AJC's Shannon McCaffrey reports.
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Raw Story, The Root, The Triad and Political Wire
Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
Andrew Giuliani's Vaccination Status Will Bar Him From Debate Studio — The Republican candidate for governor of New York is unvaccinated and says he has “natural immunity” to the coronavirus. — Give this article- - - Read in app — ALBANY — With the first Republican debate …
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New York Magazine, Raw Story and The Daily Wire
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Chris Stirewalt / The Dispatch:
The January 6 Committee and Me — Why I'm testifying before Congress today. — In America, we once thought of political courage as being willing to do something at one's own expense. — At the pointy end of that consideration are instances when people risk their lives or freedom to do the right thing.
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The Newsletter, USA Today and Mediaite
Max Boot / Washington Post:
We can't let Ukraine lose. It needs a lot more aid, starting with artillery. — The battle of Donbas — with momentous implications for the future of Ukraine and the entire postwar world — is poised on a knife edge. — The Ukrainians are resisting bravely, but they are suffering terrible casualties and slowly losing ground.
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The New Freedom and Twitchy
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Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
The End of the Millennial Lifestyle Subsidy — Sign up for Derek's newsletter here. — Several weeks ago, I needed a ride home after some late-night drinks about two miles from my place in Washington, D.C. I pulled up the Uber app and entered my address.
Asawin Suebsaeng / Rolling Stone:
Taking Aim at DeSantis, Spooked Trump Considers Launching 2024 Bid in Florida — Sources tell Rolling Stone that the former president has been asking if anyone has venues near the governor's mansion in Tallahassee — Donald Trump in recent months has been telling confidants that he may launch …
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Insider, HotAir, Decision Desk HQ and Tallahassee Democrat
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Tom Phillips / The Guardian:
Two bodies found in search for Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira, Brazilian embassy says — Aide to Brazil's ambassador to UK tells family bodies discovered tied to a tree, but police appear to deny ambassador's remarks — Bodies feared to be those of the British journalist Dom Phillips …
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The Hill, The Daily Beast, Al Jazeera, Common Dreams, Fox News, CBS News and Associated Press
Greg Bishop / Sports Illustrated:
A High School Football Coach, His Covenant and the Separation of Church and State — The Supreme Court is expected to side with a public school football coach who prayed on the field. Many fear the decision will erode a bedrock of American democracy. — The shriek of a whistle sounded an end and a beginning.
Robert Reich:
Liz Cheney for President? — Is she the person America will need? … Friends, — I trust Joe Biden's steadiness and judgment, and if he runs again, I'll probably back him in 2024. But today I want to suggest someone who isn't even a Democrat, and whose positions on many issues I …
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American Politics Since Jan 6
Haroon Siddique / The Guardian:
Arron Banks loses libel action against reporter Carole Cadwalladr — Guardian journalist was being sued for defamation over Brexit backer's ‘covert relationship’ with Russia — The multimillionaire Brexit backer Arron Banks has lost his libel action against the Observer …
Jason Koebler / VICE:
Texas Police Want Uvalde Bodycam Footage Suppressed Because It Could Expose Law Enforcement ‘Weakness’ — The Texas Department of Public Safety asked the state's Attorney General to prevent the public release of body camera footage in response to a public records request from Motherboard.
Tyler Pager / Washington Post:
Inside Biden's frustration with soaring prices — Biden vented to aides after an ethanol announcement designed to ease gas prices, questioning the policy's effectiveness — President Biden seemed upbeat when he visited an Iowa biofuels plant in April to talk about bringing down gas prices …
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Insider, HotAir, The Daily Caller, Commentary Magazine, Breitbart and The Hill
Thomas Lecaque / The Bulwark:
Patriot Front and the Next Stage of the Culture War — The militias have a plan. — The 20 million people who tuned in to the prime-time January 6 Committee hearing last week saw proof that right-wing extremist groups played an essential role in planning and executing the attack …
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CNN, Raw Story, Queerty and LGBTQ Nation
Greg B. Smith / All:
Faulty Door at Site of Deadly Twin Parks Blaze Was Cited by Inspectors in 2019 for Failure to Self-Close — An annual check turned up 10 self-closing doors that didn't work at Twin Parks Northwest apartments managed by Reliant Realty Services — including one at the building in which 17 tenants died in January.
Julia Rock / The Lever:
To Fight Inflation, The Fed Declares War On Workers — By leaving the problem of rising prices to the central bank, Democrats are accepting an attack on labor power. — New inflation data released Friday offered dismal news: Historic price increases aren't showing any signs of abating, and in fact may be accelerating.
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