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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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The Guardian, New York Magazine, USA Today, Rolling Stone and Bloomberg
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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.
Sergio Martínez-Beltrán / KUT Radio …:
Texas Republican Party includes anti-LGBT ideology in its new platform
Texas Republican Party includes anti-LGBT ideology in its new platform
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Insider and The Ugly Duckling
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” …
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Washington Examiner, Insider, Mother Jones, PoliticusUSA, RedState, Raw Story, Mediaite and Political Wire
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 …
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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Axios, CNBC, Associated Press, Fox Business, TechCrunch, CBS News, The Hill, The Daily Wire, Wired, The Verge, Bloomberg and Washington Post, more at Techmeme »
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Noam Scheiber / New York Times:
Why a Rhodes Scholar's Ambition Led Her to a Job at Starbucks
Why a Rhodes Scholar's Ambition Led Her to a Job at Starbucks
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WBOY-TV
Salvador Rodriguez / Wall Street Journal:
Apple Employees at Maryland Store Vote to Unionize
Apple Employees at Maryland Store Vote to Unionize
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Al Jazeera
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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HotAir, Daily Mail, The Gateway Pundit, Townhall, BizPac Review, The Sun, Insider, Twitchy, New York Post, Raw Story and TheBlaze
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Teresa Velasco / kens5.com:
Uvalde police never tried to open doors to classrooms where shooter was inside, Express-News reports
Uvalde police never tried to open doors to classrooms where shooter was inside, Express-News reports
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The Gateway Pundit
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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Insider, The Daily Caller, Washington Times, National Review and The Daily Wire
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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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Power Line and Fox News
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 …
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The Daily Beast and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
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 …
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.
Zack Colman / Politico:
Justice or overreach?: As crucial test looms, Big Greens are under fire — When Aaron Mair ascended to the board presidency of the Sierra Club, he brought a new mission to the century-old environmental group: Where once it devoted itself solely to conservation issues …
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.
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Raw Story
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
GOP member of Jan. 6 committee warns that more violence is coming — One of two Republican members of the House committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, starkly warned Sunday that his own party's lies could feed additional violence.
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Axios, The Guardian, Politico, The Hill and Insider
New York Times:
What Hundreds of Photos of Weapons Reveal About Russia's Brutal War Strategy — Reflecting a shockingly barbaric and old-fashioned wartime strategy, Russian forces have pummeled Ukrainian cities and towns with a barrage of rockets and other munitions, most of which can be considered relatively crude relics …
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 …
Associated Press:
Inflation taking bite out of new infrastructure projects — The price of a foot of water pipe in Tucson, Arizona: up 19%. The cost of a ton of asphalt in a small Massachusetts town: up 37%. The estimate to build a new airport terminal in Des Moines, Iowa: 69% higher, with a several year delay.
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Insider
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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Metro.co.uk, The Gateway Pundit and The Sun
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Here's what voters will get if they cast their ballots based on gas prices — Americans are mad about inflation. They're especially outraged that gasoline averages $5 per gallon nationwide. And history suggests they may act on that furor by voting the bums out.
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The Welcome Party, Townhall and Insider
Enrico Dela Cruz / Reuters:
Duterte's daughter sworn in as Philippines vice president — Sara Duterte-Carpio, daughter of outgoing Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, was sworn in as the country's 15th vice president on Sunday, calling for national unity following a divisive election campaign.
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
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 …