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Tamar Hallerman / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Fulton grand jury subpoenas Giuliani, Graham, Trump confidantes — The Fulton County special grand jury investigating potential criminal interference in Georgia's 2020 elections has subpoenaed key members of former President Donald Trump's legal team, including his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani …
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Giuliani, Eastman, Graham among those subpoenaed in Georgia election probe — Elie Honig analyzes what the grand jury in Georgia means for Trump 04:08 — (CNN)An Atlanta-area grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia …
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The Times of Israel:
Chabad rabbi says alleged July 4 Chicago shooter entered his synagogue on Passover — Rabbi Yosef Schanowitz, whose house of worship is near the site of Monday's shooting in heavily Jewish Highland Park, says he sternly asked Robert Crimo to leave — Following the shooting during …
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WGN-TV:
Suspect wore disguise, blended in with crowd after shooting from rooftop and killing 7, wounding 30 in Highland Park — HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. — The gunman accused of fatally shooting seven and wounding over 30 people at a Highland Park Fourth of July parade wore a disguise and blended …
LKeene / The Forward:
Security director: Suspect in July 4 Highland Park shooting was ‘sizing up’ synagogue — The suspect in the deadly Fourth of July mass shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, paid an alarming visit to the city's Chabad synagogue during Passover, said the congregation's volunteer security director.
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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
NBC's Ben Collins Says Highland Park Suspect Crimo Was ‘Trump Fan’ But Don't Blame Trump: ‘This Is Not Tied to One Guy’
NBC's Ben Collins Says Highland Park Suspect Crimo Was ‘Trump Fan’ But Don't Blame Trump: ‘This Is Not Tied to One Guy’
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Ben Bradley / WGN-TV:
Highland Park shooting suspect was ‘known to law enforcement’
Highland Park shooting suspect was ‘known to law enforcement’
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / CNN:
After string of Supreme Court setbacks, Democrats wonder whether Biden White House is capable of urgency moment demands — Debra Messing was fed up. The former “Will & Grace” star was among dozens of celebrity Democratic supporters and activists who joined a call with White House aides …
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Christopher Kang / Slate:
Democrats Are Headed for a Disaster With Unfilled Judicial Vacancies
Democrats Are Headed for a Disaster With Unfilled Judicial Vacancies
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Politico:
Boris Johnson rocked by resignation of top ministers Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid — LONDON — Boris Johnson was left fighting for his political life after two senior Cabinet ministers, including his chancellor, quit with a blast at his integrity. — Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak …
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BBC:
Sunak and Javid quit cabinet as PM admits Pincher mistake — Watch: Sunak and Javid quit cabinet as PM admits Pincher mistake — Play video Watch: Sunak and Javid quit cabinet as PM admits Pincher mistake — Summary — Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Sajid Javid quit …
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Ben Cost / New York Post:
Joe Rogan reveals if he will ever host Donald Trump on his podcast — He claims he'll never pull the Trump card. — Despite hosting a smorgasbord of polarizing figures on his show, pot-stirring podcaster Joe Rogan claimed there's one person that'll never appear on his podcast: Former US president Donald Trump.
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Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times:
On Conservative Radio, Misleading Message Is Clear: ‘Democrats Cheat’ — Election fraud claims from 2020 are widespread on talk radio, contributing to the belief that the midterm results cannot be trusted. — Give this article- - - Read in app — Stuart Thompson writes about online information flows.
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New York Times:
Has Biden's Top Diplomat in Mexico Gone Too Far, Officials Ask? — Administration officials fear that the U.S. ambassador's cozy relationship with the Mexican president has backfired, and may be setting back American interests in the region. — MEXICO CITY — Mexico's election czar delivered …
Los Angeles Times:
The Supreme Court is poised to cut the heart out of majority rule — The Supreme Court's extremist justices are aiming their next dagger at the heart of the entire democratic enterprise: voters' right to pick leaders of their choice. — On Thursday, the court announced that it will hear Moore vs. Harper …
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Politico:
New Jan. 6 Trump documentary footage revealed — POLITICO has exclusively obtained a trailer for Alex Holder's “Unprecedented,” the British filmmaker's upcoming Discovery+ docuseries about the Trump family. — The two-minute-plus trailer was included among the hours of footage that Holder turned …
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Zvika Klein / Jerusalem Post:
Russia orders Jewish Agency to stop all operations in country - exclusive — Dramatic order given to Jewish Agency by government officials in Moscow • Israeli government considering next steps — The Russian government has ordered the Jewish Agency to cease all operations inside the country …
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Monmouth University Polling Institute:
More Americans Struggling; Inflation, Gas Prices Top Family Concerns — Majority say federal government actions are hurting them — West Long Branch, NJ - The number of Americans who are financially struggling has increased by double digits in the past year as inflation and gas prices top …
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Natalie Winters / The National Pulse:
EXC: Top New Biden Staffer Defended Underage, Gay Prostitution Website Raided By Feds in Jaw-Dropping 2015 Article. — A recent, high-level hire at the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy defended a controversial gay prostitution website with a track record of allowing children …
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Piers Morgan Uncensored / YouTube:
“You're NOT A WOMAN Just Because You Got Surgery!” Macy Gray on Transgender Identity — American R&B and soul singer Macy Gray joins Piers Morgan Uncensored to discuss issues on racial inequality, transgender identity and even the advice success...
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Julia Reinstein / BuzzFeed News:
Twitter Allowed Elliot Page's Deadname To Trend In Violation Of Its Own Hateful Conduct Policy — The actor's deadname was listed under the site's trending tab for at least 45 minutes. — Elliot Page's deadname appeared as a trending topic on Twitter on Tuesday, violating the site's own policy on hateful conduct.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
In Louisiana, a dark turn in the post-Roe wars signals danger ahead — Barely moments after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, jubilant activists excitedly turned to the next step: criminalizing abortion to the maximal extent possible. This includes blocking women …
Harriet Alexander / Daily Mail:
'If we had killed 10.3 million Jews, I would say with satisfaction, “Good, we destroyed an enemy"': Nazi Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann is heard admitting to devising Final Solution in newly unearthed tapes — Eichmann is seen as the ‘architect’ of the Holocaust, and the driving force behind …
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Dennis Romero / NBC News:
'I'm terrified': Brittney Griner sends Biden handwritten letter amid trial in Russia — WNBA star Brittney Griner asked President Joe Biden to bring her home from detention in Russia, where she is being tried on drug smuggling charges, telling the president in a handwritten letter: “I'm terrified.”
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Grid News:
The insurrectionists' clubhouse: Former Trump aides find a home at a little-known MAGA hub — Nearly two dozen alleged members of the Jan. 6 plot are connected to a single Capitol Hill address. — Last summer, while most of official Washington was still reeling from the historic assault on the Capitol …
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Sorry, Mitt Romney. Denial is not an equal-opportunity offense. — Aside from Reps. Liz Cheney (Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (Ill.), few Republicans have been as consistent in their condemnation of defeated former president Donald Trump as Sen. Mitt Romney (Utah).
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Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
Doug Mastriano's Election-Takeover Plan — Stop the Steal is only a pretense for seizing control. — By now, political junkies are familiar with the rucksack of election-denying baggage that Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano schleps around: He organized …
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Kaelan Deese / Washington Examiner:
Virginia, Maryland officials push back on Supreme Court request to curb protests at justices' homes — A plea from the Supreme Court marshal to prohibit pro-abortion rights picketing outside the homes of justices got a lukewarm reception from certain Virginia and Maryland officials.
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Allison Quinn / The Daily Beast:
Russians Fear Commanders Are Selling Their Own Troops' Locations for Cash — An intercepted phone call reveals that Russians believe their own commanders are selling out troops for cash, according to the Ukrainian intelligence agencies. — A Russian colonel was accused of selling information …
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New York Times:
Parade Shooting Live Updates: Another Victim Has Died, Raising Toll to 7 — The police said the gunman appeared to be shooting randomly and not targeting any specific groups. — HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. — The man in custody after the death of seven people at a Fourth of July parade …
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Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Judge blocks Florida 15-week abortion ban, ruling stayed as state appeals — The abortion law remains in effect pending appeal — Fox News Flash top headlines for July 5 — A Florida state judge has temporarily blocked a Florida law that bans abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy …
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Stephen Grey / Reuters:
Suspect confesses to killing Malta journalist — The man accused of detonating a car bomb that killed a prominent Maltese journalist has confessed to the crime in an interview with a Reuters reporter and says he will soon implicate others in plotting to assassinate her.
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Slate:
Add Witness Intimidation to the List of Potential Jan. 6 Charges Against Trump — It might look like there are two unrelated storylines unspooling in the wake of Cassidy Hutchinson's devastating testimony at the January 6th committee's sixth hearing of the summer on June 28.
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Ryan Beene / Bloomberg:
American Factories Are Making Stuff Again as CEOs Take Production Out of China — There has been a sense in financial circles that the fever among American executives to shorten supply lines and bring production back home would prove short-lived. As soon as the pandemic started to fade, so too would the fad, the thinking went.
Nina Totenberg / NPR:
The Supreme Court is the most conservative in 90 years — In 2018 just after he announced his retirement, Justice Anthony Kennedy, who sat at the ideological center of the court for much of his 30-year tenure, met with a groups of reporters. Was he worried that some of the precedents he helped establish …
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