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7:25 AM ET, June 22, 2022

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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Oz drops Trump branding in general election shift  —  Mehmet Oz, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, is quietly shifting his campaign messaging away from former President Trump as he transitions into what's likely to be one of the most hotly contested Senate elections of the midterms.
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Rebuked again: Trump's picks for House seats in Georgia go bust  —  Georgia Republican voters rebuked Donald Trump for the second time in a month Tuesday by rejecting his picks for a pair of open U.S. House seats, another blow to the former president after his attempt to unseat Gov. Brian Kemp and other incumbents collapsed.
Gary Fineout / Politico:
2024 intrigue: DeSantis declines to ask Trump for reelection endorsement  —  DeSantis' reluctance to seek the former president's public support comes as the Florida governor prepares for a likely 2024 White House bid.  —  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has plenty …
Discussion: The Capitolist and New York Post
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Mo Brooks concession speech angry and bitter after Alabama Senate GOP runoff loss  —  HUNTSVILLE, Alabama — Rep. Mo Brooks delivered an angry, bitter concession speech after media outlets projected Katie Britt the winner of runoff election to determine Alabama's Republican Senate nominee …
Discussion: The Dispatch
Hannah Knowles / Washington Post:
Katie Britt is projected to beat Mo Brooks in Alabama GOP Senate race
Jazmine Ulloa / New York Times:
Cuellar Defeats Cisneros In South Texas Primary Runoff, Recount Shows
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Ivanka Trump expressed a different view on the election to a filmmaker.  —  Ivanka Trump, the elder daughter of former President Donald J. Trump, told a documentary film crew in the middle of December 2020 that her father should “continue to fight until every legal remedy is exhausted” …
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CNN:
7 takeaways from the fourth day of the January 6 hearings  —  The latest hearing before the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection revealed new details Tuesday about how former President Donald Trump pressured state officials to help him overturn the 2020 presidential election.
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
‘I took an oath,’ Rusty Bowers, the Arizona House speaker, says of rejecting efforts to overturn the election.
Amanda Carpenter / The Triad:
Trump Proves the Jan. 6th Committee's Point
Stephen Gutowski / The Reload:
Senate Gun Bill Extends Gun Prohibitions to Juvenile Records, Misdemeanor Violence Committed by ‘Dating Partners’  —  The Senate released the finalized text of its gun deal on Tuesday, adding new kinds of gun prohibitions to federal law.  —  The package extends current prohibitions on gun sales …
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Washington Post:
Senate votes to advance bipartisan gun deal, breaking 30-year logjam  —  The Senate on Tuesday night advanced a bill that would toughen federal gun laws and provide billions of dollars in new money to prevent future mass shootings after negotiators settled key disagreements …
Washington Post:
Biden to urge Congress to suspend federal gas tax for 3 months  —  The president plans to ask lawmakers Wednesday to enact a gas tax holiday, but lawmakers of both parties have voiced significant objections to the idea  —  President Biden will urge Congress on Wednesday to suspend …
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Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Biden will call for 3-month suspension of gas tax, though officials acknowledge it 'alone won't fix the problem'  —  Washington (CNN)President Joe Biden will call on Congress in a speech Wednesday to suspend federal gasoline and diesel taxes until the end of September, senior administration officials said …
Discussion: CBS News and Voice of America
The Hill:
Biden to call on Congress to suspend gas tax for three months  —  President Biden on Wednesday will call on Congress to suspend the federal gas and diesel taxes for the next three months, the latest effort by the White House to provide relief to Americans struggling with record-high gasoline prices.
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
New York Times:
Biden Will Push Congress for a Three-Month Gas Tax Holiday
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Fox News parent must face defamation lawsuit over election coverage  —  A Delaware judge on Tuesday rejected a motion by the parent of Fox News Network to dismiss Dominion Voting Systems Inc's $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit over the network's 2020 presidential election coverage.
Will Hobson / Washington Post:
Document reveals details of 2009 sexual assault allegation against Daniel Snyder  —  An employee of Washington's NFL team accused owner Daniel Snyder of sexually harassing and assaulting her in April 2009, three months before the team agreed to pay the woman $1.6 million as part of a confidential settlement …
Discussion: OutKick and NBC4 Washington
Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
Election workers describe ‘hateful’ threats after Trump's false claims  —  Shaye Moss's life forever changed on Dec. 10, 2020, when Rudy Giuliani, then President Donald Trump's top campaign lawyer, publicly claimed that she and her mother, a fellow poll worker in Fulton County, Ga., had rigged the outcome in her state.
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Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
'There's nowhere I feel safe': Georgia elections workers describe how Trump upended their lives
Discussion: The 19th and HuffPost
New York Times:
Western Move to Choke Russia's Oil Exports Boomerangs, for Now  —  With China and India buying the Russian oil shunned by the West in an effort to force an end to the Ukraine invasion, Moscow is earning more now than it did before the war.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
Discussion: Fox News, Comment is Freed and Politico
Zach Despart / The Texas Tribune:
DPS Director Steve McCraw says officers in Uvalde could have taken down gunman within 3 minutes had commander not hesitated  —  McCraw testified before a Texas Senate committee, laying blame on local police officers in Uvalde for not acting faster to save children in school shooting.  —  Copy link
Juan Perez Jr / Politico:
Why parents could be the new swing voters  —  MEET ‘THE NEW SWING VOTER’ — The state of American education is a growing concern for voting parents this year, and that offers a potential edge to candidates hoping to appeal across partisan lines in November.  — New polling released today …
Discussion: RedState and National Alliance …
Hannah Rabinowitz / CNN:
Top US ‘Nazi hunter’ to lead Justice Department effort to uncover war crimes in Ukraine  —  (CNN)The top US “Nazi hunter” will lead a Justice Department team to identify and prosecute anyone who has committed war crimes in Ukraine, Attorney General Merrick Garland said Tuesday during an unannounced visit to that country.
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Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
CNN picks worst time to bail on ‘the Big Lie’
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
What Are Trump Supporters So Afraid Of?
Ximena Bustillo / NPR:
School meal waivers expire in 9 days. After axing them, Congress may try to save them
New York Times:
F.D.A. Aims to Cut Down on Smoking by Slashing Nicotine Levels in Cigarettes
Discussion: Bloomberg and Washington Post
Tom Lawrence / The Daily Beast:
Killer South Dakota Attorney General Ousted and Banned From Office
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Matthew Hinton / ABC News:
Louisiana governor signs abortion bills imposing criminal penalties on providers
Discussion: HuffPost and Jezebel
David Gilbert / VICE:
American Grifters: Meet the MAGA Army Profiting Off Trump's Election Lies
Discussion: Raw Story
Matthew Cunningham-Cook / The Lever:
Biden Taps Anti-Social Security Ideologue To Oversee Program
 

 
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Richard Parsons, who had a long career as chairman, CEO, and as a board member of media companies including CBS and Time Warner, died at 76 of bone cancer

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