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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Cassidy Hutchinson's Testimony against Trump Is Devastating — Things will not be the same after this. — Cassidy Hutchinson, a top aide to Trump's White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, provided compelling testimony Tuesday that former president Donald Trump is singularly culpable for the Capitol riot.
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POLITICO Playbook: Jan. 6 panel may have found its ‘smoking gun’ — With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross — DRIVING THE DAY — It's hard to imagine how Tuesday's surprise hearing of the House Jan. 6 committee could've been more damning for President DONALD TRUMP.
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Washington Post:
Post Politics Now: Breyer to retire Thursday from Supreme Court, clearing way for Jackson swearing-in — Today, Justice Stephen G. Breyer told the White House that he will retire from the Supreme Court at noon Thursday, clearing the way for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to be sworn in.
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Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Pro-Trump web raced to debunk Jan. 6 testimony. Then they got confused. — The former president's supporters quickly spun an online conspiracy theory that he couldn't have possibly lunged for his driver's steering wheel on Jan. 6, 2021. When evidence suggested otherwise, they tried other routes to distract from the truth.
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David Frum / The Atlantic:
Kevin McCarthy, Have You No Sense of Decency? — In the last few minutes of today's January 6 committee hearing, Representative Liz Cheney presented evidence of possible witness intimidation. Several witnesses, she reported, had received messages from shadowy persons purportedly close …
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Will the Jan. 6 Committee Finally Bring Down the Cult of Trump? — There's a saying among cult experts: Nobody ever joins a cult. — Of course, people join what, to outsiders, certainly appear to be cults — the Branch Davidians, the Moonies, the Peoples Temple and so on.
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Robin Givhan / Washington Post:
The optimistic melancholy of Bennie G. Thompson — The witness called him “sir.” When Cassidy Hutchinson, the former White House aide, testified before the Jan. 6 committee on Tuesday afternoon, she addressed Chairman Bennie G. Thompson with a word that afforded him respect as a man, not merely as an official.
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Politico:
Secret Service: Jan. 6 committee didn't reach out before Hutchinson's explosive Trump testimony — The Jan. 6 committee didn't reach out to the Secret Service in the days before it aired explosive testimony about an alleged physical altercation between Donald Trump and his security detail …
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
A lawyer for Virginia Thomas said she would not testify to the House panel.
A lawyer for Virginia Thomas said she would not testify to the House panel.
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CBS News:
Secret Service plans to respond to Jan. 6 committee regarding Trump's actions, after Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony
Secret Service plans to respond to Jan. 6 committee regarding Trump's actions, after Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony
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Morgan Phillips / Daily Mail:
Secret Service lead and presidential driver are prepared to testify under oath that Trump did NOT grab steering wheel or lunge at agents to drive himself to Capitol on January 6
Secret Service lead and presidential driver are prepared to testify under oath that Trump did NOT grab steering wheel or lunge at agents to drive himself to Capitol on January 6
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Cameron Joseph / VICE:
The Secret Service's Denial Won't Erase Damning Jan. 6 Testimony on Trump
The Secret Service's Denial Won't Erase Damning Jan. 6 Testimony on Trump
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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
January 6 testimony puts Donald Trump in even greater legal peril
January 6 testimony puts Donald Trump in even greater legal peril
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's silly new ‘defense’ against Hutchinson is full of holes
Trump's silly new ‘defense’ against Hutchinson is full of holes
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New York Times:
Trump Aides Watch Testimony and Brace for Damage
Trump Aides Watch Testimony and Brace for Damage
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Shelby Talcott / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Ginni Thomas Responds To Jan. 6 Committee's Official Request For Testimony
EXCLUSIVE: Ginni Thomas Responds To Jan. 6 Committee's Official Request For Testimony
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Jan. 6 hearings deliver new template for digital-era dramatics
Jan. 6 hearings deliver new template for digital-era dramatics
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Charlie Duxbury / Politico:
Swedish and Finnish NATO deal with Turkey triggers fears over Kurdish deportations — STOCKHOLM — Relief over Tuesday night's deal with Turkey unblocking the NATO accession process for Sweden and Finland was palpable on Wednesday, but there were also fears that the two Nordic states …
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Pjotr Sauer / The Guardian:
Ukrainian villages ‘wiped from face of earth’ by Russian missile strikes
Ukrainian villages ‘wiped from face of earth’ by Russian missile strikes
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FACT SHEET: The 2022 NATO Summit in Madrid
FACT SHEET: The 2022 NATO Summit in Madrid
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NATO:
Issued by NATO Heads of State and Government participating in the meeting of the North Atlantic Council in Madrid 29 June 2022
Issued by NATO Heads of State and Government participating in the meeting of the North Atlantic Council in Madrid 29 June 2022
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Perry Bacon Jr / Washington Post:
The fall of Roe is the culmination of the Democratic establishment's failures — The overturning of Roe v. Wade, and the underwhelming reaction from senior Democratic leaders to that huge defeat, make the case even clearer that the party's too-long-in-power leaders — including President Biden — need to move aside.
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New York Times:
The Vanishing Moderate Democrat — Their positions are popular. So why are they going extinct? — Early last year, as Democrats were preparing to control the White House and Congress for the first time in a decade, Josh Gottheimer met with Nancy Pelosi to discuss their party's message.
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Sean Coughlan / BBC:
Charles charity cash donation ‘would not happen again’ — The cash donation accepted by the Prince of Wales for his charity would not happen now, a royal source says. — “That was then, this is now,” the source said, following reports Prince Charles had accepted around £2.5m in cash in a suitcase and carrier bags.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Narrows Ruling for Tribes in Oklahoma — The decision followed a landmark 2020 ruling that said much of eastern Oklahoma falls within Indian reservation lands, limiting the authority of state prosecutors. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Nicole Winfield / Associated Press:
Pelosi receives Communion in Vatican amid abortion debate — ROME (AP) — U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi met with Pope Francis on Wednesday and received Communion during a papal Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, witnesses said, despite her position in support of abortion rights.
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Stacey Abrams outlines stance on abortion limits — Stacey Abrams said Wednesday that she would support legislation that would protect the right to an abortion before the point of fetal viability if she's elected the state's first Democratic governor in decades.
Brad Dress / The Hill:
Boebert says she is ‘tired’ of separation between church and state: ‘The church is supposed to direct the government’ — Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) says she is “tired” of the long-standing separation between church and state in the U.S., adding that she believes “the church is supposed to direct the government.”
Vogue:
Gloria Steinem, the Duchess of Sussex, and Jessica Yellin on Abortion Rights, the ERA, and Why They Won't Give Up Hope — two days after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade—Jessica Yellin, the award-winning journalist and founder of the independent media company News Not Noise …
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Amy Howe:
After releasing three decisions on Monday, only four cases remain undecided — With the announcement of three decisions on Monday, the justices still have four more cases left to release before they leave for their summer recess, involving important issues such as the “major questions” …
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Rita Omokha / Vanity Fair:
Val Demings Is on a Mission — The former police chief helped impeach Donald Trump and survived an insurrection—now the third-term congresswoman has her eyes on the Senate. “In Val there's hope,” says fellow representative Robin Kelly, “that we can move closer to that promise of America.”
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Adam Piore / Columbia Journalism Review:
Insiders — A Friday morning last fall, in the subterranean labyrinth of the Capitol building, on either side of thick double doors: a throng of reporters and the House Democratic Caucus. No sound from the room could be heard in the hallway. There was a time, which I can remember …