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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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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 …
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 …
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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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's silly new ‘defense’ against Hutchinson is full of holes — Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony about Jan. 6 continues to drive brutal headlines for Donald Trump across the country. Leading analysts are describing her revelations as alternately devastating, emotionally powerful and historic.
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Cameron Joseph / VICE:
The Secret Service's Denial Won't Erase Damning Jan. 6 Testimony on Trump — Whether Trump got physical or just had a tantrum over not being taken to the Capitol on Jan. 6 is beside the point. — Cameron Joseph — WASHINGTON, US — Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson's damning testimony …
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New York Times:
Key Questions Posed by Cassidy Hutchinson's Testimony
Key Questions Posed by Cassidy Hutchinson's Testimony
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Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Will the Jan. 6 Committee Finally Bring Down the Cult of Trump?
Will the Jan. 6 Committee Finally Bring Down the Cult of Trump?
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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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Robin Givhan / Washington Post:
The optimistic melancholy of Bennie G. Thompson
The optimistic melancholy of Bennie G. Thompson
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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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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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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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ABC News:
Trump White House attorney disputes Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony about handwritten note
Trump White House attorney disputes Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony about handwritten note
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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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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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Julia Ioffe / Puck:
The G.O.P. Inside Conversation on Roe
The G.O.P. Inside Conversation on Roe
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Quinnipiac University Poll:
GA Senate Race: Warnock Opens Up 10 Point Lead Over Walker, Quinnipiac University Georgia Poll Finds; Kemp And Abrams Locked In Dead Heat In Governor's Race — mail_outline — In the race for the U.S. Senate in Georgia, Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock leads 54 …
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Stacey Abrams outlines stance on abortion limits
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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NBC News:
R. Kelly sentenced to 30 years in prison in sex trafficking case — R. Kelly, the disgraced R&B superstar, was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in prison, months after he was convicted on all nine counts against him in a high-profile sex trafficking case. — U.S. District Court Judge Ann …
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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.
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Alexander C. Kaufman / HuffPost:
Scott Pruitt, Trump's Disgraced Former EPA Chief, Gets Crushed In Senate Primary — The Republican had a history of electoral success in Oklahoma and widespread name recognition, but didn't get out of single digits on Tuesday. — Despite a history of winning statewide contests and a star turn …
Ashton Pittman / Mississippi Free Press:
12-Year-Old Incest Victims Should Birth Dad's Child, House Speaker Gunn Says — Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn says abortion should be illegal even for a 12-year-old rape victim carrying her father or uncle's child. He made the remark to reporters in the hours after the U.S. Supreme Court struck …
Pjotr Sauer / The Guardian:
Ukrainian villages ‘wiped from face of earth’ by Russian missile strikes — G7 leaders condemn invasion and pledge support for Kyiv amid reports of 130 missile strikes in four days — Russian missiles continued to rain down on Ukraine as G7 leaders wrapped up their summit in Madrid …
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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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Missouri Independent:
Missouri AG says state abortion ban does not prohibit Plan B or contraception — The clarification comes after a Kansas City hospital system said it would not provide emergency contraception in the wake of Missouri's trigger ban on abortions — After at least one hospital system …
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Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast:
Indicted Election Denier Tina Peters Loses Her Own Election—and Denies She Lost — “It's not over,” Tina Peters said, as she was down by 15 percentage points. — Tina Peters, the Colorado county clerk who flogged election conspiracy theories and was then indicted for allegedly breaching …
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Nick Papantonis / WFTV:
Teachers voice concerns after Orange County previews 'Don't Say Gay' impact to classrooms — VIDEO: Teachers voice concerns after Orange County previews 'Don't Say Gay' impact to classrooms Teachers voice concerns after Orange County previews 'Don't Say Gay' impact to classrooms
Bloomberg:
Senate Democrats Weigh Paring Biden Tax Hike to Win Over Manchin — Senate Democrats are working on shrinking the tax increases in President Joe Biden's economic package as part of a bid to cut a deal with Senator Joe Manchin and get it passed in the coming weeks, according to people familiar with the talks.
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FDA: Don't rush a move to change the Covid-19 vaccine composition — On Tuesday, the FDA's Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) voted 19-2 to approve the use later this year of Covid-19 vaccines based on an Omicron variant sequence.
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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 — We, the Heads of State and Government of the North Atlantic Alliance, have gathered in Madrid as war has returned to the European continent.
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