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The Texas Tribune:
Texas Republican Convention calls Biden win illegitimate and rebukes Cornyn over gun talks — Some 5,100 delegates and alternates voted on a party platform that also calls for ending the federal income tax, requiring education about fetal gestation and limiting the Legislature's right to regulate guns.
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Cathy Young / Morning Shots:
Has the Tide Really Turned in Ukraine? — Plus: It's all about the gays — In the past month or so, the dominant Ukraine narrative in the media has shifted from “heroic Ukrainians repelling a mismanaged Russian invasion” to “badly outgunned Ukrainians unable to hold back Russian advances in the East” …
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Sergio Martínez-Beltrán / KUT Radio …:
Texas Republican Party includes anti-LGBT ideology in its new platform
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Brian Chasnoff / San Antonio Express-News:
Source: Police never tried to open door to classrooms where Uvalde gunman had kids trapped — Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate — Surveillance footage shows that police never tried to open a door to two classrooms at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde in the 77 minutes between …
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Teresa Velasco / kens5.com:
Uvalde police never tried to open doors to classrooms where shooter was inside, Express-News reports — A source told the San Antonio Express-News that police may have assumed the doors were locked, according to a new report. — SAN ANTONIO — According to a new report by the San Antonio Express-News …
Coral Davenport / New York Times:
Republican Drive to Tilt Courts Against Climate Action Reaches a Crucial Moment — A Supreme Court environmental case being decided this month is the product of a coordinated, multiyear strategy by Republican attorneys general and conservative allies. — WASHINGTON — Within days …
Meredith Deliso / ABC News:
6 in 10 Americans say Trump should be charged for Jan. 6 riot: POLL — A majority of Americans also think the Jan. 6 committee has been fair. — Former President Donald Trump gives the keynote address at the Faith & Freedom Coalition during their annual “Road To Majority Policy Conference” …
Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
Peter Thiel helped build big tech. Now he wants to tear it all down. — Inside the billionaire investor's journey from Facebook board member to an architect of the new American right — On a summer morning in 2019, Rep. Matt Gaetz was having breakfast at the Los Angeles mansion …
New York Times:
Apple Workers at Maryland Store Vote to Unionize, a First in the U.S. — Roughly two-thirds of employees at the store in Towson, Md., voted to join the union. — Give this article- - - Read in app — Apple employees at a Baltimore-area store have voted to unionize …
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Salvador Rodriguez / Wall Street Journal:
Apple Employees at Maryland Store Vote to Unionize
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Kelly Livingston / ABC News:
Recession isn't ‘inevitable’ but inflation remains ‘unacceptably high’: Janet Yellen — The treasury secretary expects “the economy to slow” to more “stable growth.” — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen arrives to testifies before the House Ways and Means Committee at a hearing …
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Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
Fox News paid $15 million to former host who filed pay disparity claim — Melissa Francis alleged her male colleagues made far more than women. She won an unusually large settlement, according to documents viewed by The Post. — Fox News agreed to a roughly $15 million settlement …
Wall Street Journal:
Democrats Expect Joe Biden to Run in 2024. They're Less Sure If He Should. — Vice President Kamala Harris is seen as early front-runner should the president decide not to seek re-election — in Columbia, S.C. — Democratic insiders in Washington and key primary states expect President Biden …
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Glen Owen / Daily Mail:
WHO chief ‘believes Covid DID leak from Wuhan lab’ after a ‘catastrophic accident’ in 2019 despite publicly maintaining ‘all hypotheses remain on the table’ — Director-general Tedros Adhanom confided to a senior European official: source — The Mail on Sunday first revealed concerns about Wuhan's Institute of Virology
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New York Times:
Despite Growing Evidence, a Prosecution of Trump Would Face Challenges — As House hearings highlighted testimony that could create more pressure to pursue a criminal case, the former president tried out a defense that strained credulity. — As new questions swirled this past week …
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Texas AG Paxton's shameful Uvalde cop-out: ‘God always has a plan’ — When thoughts and prayers seem inadequate in the wake of a tragedy, you can always blame God. — That would seem to be how Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) sees it after a mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde …
Noam Scheiber / New York Times:
Why a Rhodes Scholar's Ambition Led Her to a Job at Starbucks — Jaz Brisack became a barista for the same reasons that talented young people have long chosen their career paths: a mix of idealism and ambition. — Give this article- - - Read in app — Most weekend mornings …
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Matt Dixon / Politico:
DeSantis draws huge cash haul from Trump donors — TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — As Ron DeSantis gears up for a likely 2024 White House bid — with or without Donald Trump in the race — the Florida governor is winning over some of the former president's biggest benefactors.
Manu Raju / CNN:
Arizona House speaker, who resisted Trump pressure campaign, testifying at January 6 hearing Tuesday — (CNN)Rusty Bowers, a Republican and Arizona state House speaker, will testify at a Tuesday hearing focusing on former President Donald Trump's pressure on state officials to overturn Joe Biden's victory …
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PoliticusUSA, Raw Story, Political Wire and Mercury News
Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost:
An Elite Christian College Has Become The Latest Battleground In America's Culture Wars — The saga that unfolded after a professor officiated a same-sex wedding has exposed deep rifts over how the school treats members of the LGBTQ community — and how its church interprets the Bible.
Caleb Howe / Mediaite:
UPDATES: Dan Crenshaw & Staff Assaulted by Right Wingers Shouting ‘Eyepatch McCain’ and Saying He Should be ‘Hung for Treason’ — Rep. Dan Crenshaw and his staff were violently confronted at the Republican Party of Texas convention a short time ago, when far-right social media activist Alex Stein …
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Caitlin Flanagan / The Atlantic:
Sheryl Sandberg and the Crackling Hellfire of Corporate America — In publishing, there are some books that are too big to fail. Very early on you get the message that this is a Major and Very Important Book. In 2013, that book was Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead …
NBC News:
Heat waves and high energy costs are hitting some communities hard — High temperatures and humidity hitting large parts of the U.S. last week collided with the ongoing challenges many people face from inflation and high energy costs. — In Macon, Georgia, where temperatures were expected …
Gideon Levy / Haaretz:
Between Jamal Khashoggi and Shireen Abu Akleh — Jamal Kashoggi and Shireen Abu Akleh were well-known journalists who were killed in the line of duty. There are many differences between the horrific, premeditated murder of the Saudi journalist and the killing of the Palestinian one …
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