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ABC News:
Not prosecuting Trump for Jan. 6 would fuel a ‘much graver threat,’ Liz Cheney says — A criminal case could be “difficult” but necessary, Cheney said on “This Week.” — ABC News chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl interviews Congresswoman Liz Cheney at The Reagan Library in Simi Valley, Calif. June 29, 2022.
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Daily Mail, Insider, PoliticusUSA, CNN, RedState, New York Post, Talking Points Memo, Reuters, Fox News, The Daily Beast, The Guardian, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Times, The Hill and Townhall
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Hope Yen / Associated Press:
GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger: More Witnesses, Evidence Surface In Jan. 6 Probe
GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger: More Witnesses, Evidence Surface In Jan. 6 Probe
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The Hill, Washington Times, Raw Story, CBS News, Talking Points Memo, KSLTV.com and Political Wire
CBS News:
Trump told allies he's considering announcing 2024 presidential bid early, sources say
Trump told allies he's considering announcing 2024 presidential bid early, sources say
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Mother Jones, HuffPost, Telegraph, RedState, Vanity Fair, Raw Story, Washington Times, Christian Americanism, and CNBC
Daniel Chaitin / Washington Examiner:
Liz Cheney warns GOP 'can't survive' if Trump becomes 2024 nominee
Liz Cheney warns GOP 'can't survive' if Trump becomes 2024 nominee
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ABC News, AFP, BizPac Review, Insider, NOQ Report and Axios
Washington Post:
Akron police release video of officers shooting Black man dozens of times — AKRON, Ohio — Police on Sunday released footage showing officers firing dozens of rounds at a Black man who left his car to flee a traffic stop last week. — Akron Police Chief Stephen Mylett …
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Amanda Holpuch / New York Times:
Akron Police Officers Placed on Leave After Fatal Shooting of Black Man
Akron Police Officers Placed on Leave After Fatal Shooting of Black Man
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WEWS, WSVN-TV, CBS Philly, Mother Jones, One America News Network, Washington Post, Raw Story, 6abc, CBS News, Al Jazeera, Insider and The Hill
Henry Rodgers / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Text Messages Show Cassidy Hutchinson Referring To January 6 Committee As ‘BS’ — The January 6 committee's key witness, Cassidy Hutchinson, called the committee “bs” in a text message obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller. — On Feb 1. Hutchinson sent a text …
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RedState and The Daily Wire
Pamela Paul / New York Times:
The Far Right and Far Left Agree on One Thing: Women Don't Count — Perhaps it makes sense that women — those supposedly compliant and agreeable, self-sacrificing and everything-nice creatures — were the ones to finally bring our polarized country together.
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Kara Dansky's Substack and The Mourning
Mike McIntire / New York Times:
An American's Murky Path From Russian Propagandist to Jan. 6 — Charles Bausman, a former financial executive who runs websites that promote far-right views, recorded footage in the Capitol for a Russian television producer. Soon after, he fled to Moscow as a “political refugee.”
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Why Glenn Youngkin — or someone like him — must run in 2024 — Virginia's new Republican governor is seriously thinking of running for president in 2024. And that's good news. — My Richmond-based Post colleagues Laura Vozzella and Gregory S. Schneider wrote last week of the telltale clues …
Walter Kirn / Common Sense:
The Holy Anarchy of Fun — In our era of high vigilance, emergency measures and vast decrees, Walter Kirn makes the case for fun. — Writes Unbound · Subscribe … So, a little late as always, because I like my pop culture to ferment some before I swill it down, I saw the sequel to Top Gun.
Eve Simmons / mailplus.co.uk:
How California's legal cannabis dream became a public health nightmare — A ROW of luxury ‘healing’ creams is guarded by a locked glass cabinet, gilded in gold trim. — The packaging is stylishly minimal - clean and white with small black typeface - and beside the tubs sit decorative …
Anders Hagstrom / Fox News:
100-year-old WWII vet breaks down, says this isn't the ‘country we fought for’: ‘I am so upset’ — Carl Spurlin Dekel served in the U.S. Marines during World War II — Coming up on ‘Fox News Sunday’: July 3 — Much of what American soldiers fought for in World War II has “gone down the drain …
Ruth Graham / New York Times:
‘The Pro-Life Generation’: Young Women Fight Against Abortion Rights — Many American women mourned the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe, but for others it is a moment of triumph and a matter of human rights. — Give this article- - - Read in app
CNN:
Gavin Newsom goes on the air against Ron DeSantis as political rivalry grows — (CNN)Gavin Newsom and Ron DeSantis aren't just avatars for the different futures of their parties, but also for the separate realities blue and red Americans are living in — two people of opposing viewpoints looking …
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Matt Labash / Slack Tide:
Happy(?) Fourth of July — Cheer up. We're still America. There are worse things to be. — Warning: this isn't exactly a fully-formed essay. Just a grab-bag of Fourth of July sentiments, poetry, and song. Neither, despite the photo above, is it intended to be some concentrated meditation on Johnny Cash.
Douglas E. Schoen / The Hill:
Now more than ever, Democrats need Hillary Clinton — THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL — Earlier this year, I co-authored a piece for The Wall Street Journal that argued that a perfect storm in the Democratic Party is making a once unfathomable scenario …
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Vaughan Jones / KJZZ:
Top election officials in Yavapai County leave amid threats — The elected county recorder and the elections director in Arizona's Yavapai County are resigning after more than a year and a half of threats and heated criticism from backers of former President Donald Trump who accept his lie …
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Crooks and Liars and Raw Story
Lawrence Freedman / Comment is Freed:
Can Ukraine Win? — A Ukrainian soldier shows off a HIMARS multiple rocket launcher - part of the package of US military aid (Photo by Anastasia Vlasova for The Washington Post via Getty Images) — ‘Despise the enemy strategically, but respect him tactically’
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CNN and Washington Post
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Washington Post:
Summer in America is becoming hotter, longer and more dangerous — Wildfires had been burning for weeks, shrouding Reno, Nev., in harmful smoke, when Jillian Abney and her eight-year-old daughter Izi drove into the Sierras last year in search of cleaner air.
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Cafe Hayek