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Chavi Mehta / Reuters:
Elon Musk terminates $44 bln Twitter deal  —  Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said on Friday he was terminating his $44 billion deal for Twitter Inc (TWTR.N), saying that the social media company had failed to provide information about fake accounts on the platform.
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Lauren Feiner / CNBC:
Elon Musk notifies Twitter he is terminating deal  —  Billionaire Elon Musk wants to end his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter, according to a letter sent by a lawyer on his behalf to the company's chief legal officer Friday.  —  Twitter shares were down about 5% after hours on Friday.
Washington Post:
Elon Musk files to back out of Twitter deal  —  It's unclear what happens next as Twitter's board vows to still complete the deal  —  Listen  —  Gift Article  —  Elon Musk is terminating his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter, according to a filing the billionaire made with the Securities and Exchange Commission Friday.
Associated Press:
Elon Musk says he's terminating Twitter deal, board to fight
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Politico:
Pat Cipollone meets for over 8 hours with Jan. 6 committee  —  Former White House counsel Pat Cipollone spent over eight hours meeting with the Jan. 6 select committee, emerging Friday without commenting on his cooperation.  —  Cipollone huddled with committee investigators …
Peter Hermann / Washington Post:
Armed officers swarm Stephen K. Bannon's house after false report  —  Police were falsely told that a man with a gun was inside and had shot someone  —  Gift Article  —  Heavily armed police on Friday swarmed around the Capitol Hill rowhouse where former Trump White House adviser Stephen K. Bannon lives …
Dave Lieber / Dallas Morning News:
Pregnant woman says her fetus should count as a passenger in HOV lanes.  She got a ticket  —  The overturning of the Roe v. Wade ruling has one driver questioning HOV lane laws requiring two passengers in a car.  —  In economics, they call it the law of unintended consequences.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Raw Story
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Dan Carson / Houston Chronicle:   Pregnant Texas woman driving in HOV lane told police her unborn child counted as a passenger
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Appeals court upholds, but further narrows, House subpoena for Trump financial records  —  A federal appeals court ruled Friday that a House committee is entitled to a wide array of records on former President Donald Trump's finances and business practices, but the court further narrowed aspects …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
U.S. appeals court upholds release of Trump financial records to House  —  The ruling narrowing House Democrats' demand for records from Mazars USA is likely to be appealed.  —  Listen  —  Gift Article  —  A federal appeals court panel ruled Friday that House lawmakers can see years …
Discussion: Fox News, Roll Call, WTOP News and Raw Story
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
Sorry, but the Constitution contains no right to eat dinner  —  Listen  —  Gift Article  —  “Politics, regardless of your side or views, should not trample the freedom at play of the right to congregate and eat dinner.  There is a time and place for everything.
Discussion: HuffPost
CNBC:
Biden says Supreme Court is ‘out of control,’ orders HHS to protect abortion access  — President Joe Biden blasted the Supreme Court on Friday as “out of control” in its decision to overturn the constitutional right to abortion.  — Biden signed an executive order that aims to ensure …
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Laurel Duggan / The Daily Caller:
Biden Repeats Totally Unverified Story Of 10-Year-Old Seeking Abortion Making The Media Rounds
Discussion: Washington Post and HotAir
The Economist:
Covid learning loss has been a global disaster  —  Millions of children are still out of school.  The costs are stacking up  —  MANILA, MUMBAI AND TUXTLA  —  King norvic tarroyo lives with his parents and five siblings in a slum near the sea wall in Manila, the capital of the Philippines.
CNN:
Oath Keeper members brought explosives to DC area around January 6 and had a ‘death list,’ prosecutors say  —  (CNN)The Justice Department released new details Friday evening of the alleged extensive planning by the Oath Keepers to prepare for violence in Washington, DC, on January 6, 2021 …
Discussion: Politico
Dean Mirshahi / WRIC-TV:
Over 300 Virginia state employees resign in wake of Gov. Youngkin's telework policy  —  RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — More than 300 employees from five state agencies have resigned since Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Virginia's new telework policy in early May, according to records obtained by 8News.
Discussion: Blue Virginia and Raw Story
Fintan O'Toole / The Guardian:
Boris Johnson has vandalised the political architecture of Britain, Ireland and Europe  —  His political career has consisted of chucking rocks over the walls of the neighbours.  We will live with the damage for years  —  t seems rather apt that Boris Johnson pocketed a huge advance …
Thomas Catenacci / Fox News:
ShutDownDC group offers bounties on Twitter for public sightings of conservative Supreme Court justices  —  Twitter's policies prohibit ‘behavior that encourages others to harass’  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for July 8  —  The left-wing activist group ShutDownDC on Friday offered …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Ben Dreyfuss / Good Faith:
If you think Jon Stewart should run for president, you should go to a mental asylum  —  Not a nice one, either!  A really bad one!  —  There is an article in Politico.  —  Here is how it begins: … So far, so good. … Kill me. … I'm not sure what his height has to do with anything but still: kill me.
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Juleanna Glover / Politico:
If Tucker Runs in 2024, Here's Who the Democrats Need
Discussion: HotAir, Joel Mathis and Twitchy
Emily Crane / New York Post:
Hunter Biden reportedly called Jill an ‘entitled c-t’ in texts  —  Hunter Biden called his step-mom Jill Biden a “vindictive moron” and “entitled c-t” in text messages after she urged him to go to rehab to kick his drug habit, according to a new report.  —  President Biden's 52-year-old druggie son …
Politico:
‘Operation Higher Court’: Inside the religious right's efforts to wine and dine Supreme Court justices  —  The former leader of a religious right organization said he recruited and coached wealthy volunteers including a prominent Dayton, Ohio, evangelical couple to wine …
Discussion: JONATHAN TURLEY
The Daily Beast:
Parade Shooting Suspect Bobby Crimo Attempted Suicide Multiple Times, Family Friend Reveals  —  EXCLUSIVE: “I think his emotional instability was kind of brushed under the rug by his family,” the mother of two of Robert Crimo III's skatepark pals told The Daily Beast.
Discussion: Raw Story
Mother Jones:
America's Top Anti-War Think Tank Is Fracturing Over Ukraine  —  Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter.  Support our nonprofit reporting.  Subscribe to our print magazine.  —  Two prominent figures have resigned in protest from the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft …
Andrew Van Dam / Washington Post:
People from elite backgrounds increasingly dominate academia, data shows  —  First-generation academics were always rare.  Now they're vanishing.  —  Listen  —  Gift Article  —  To understand critical issues facing the U.S. economy — soaring inflation, worker shortages and perhaps …
Associated Press:
'Dad, that's it.  She's dead': Another day of loss in Ukraine  —  KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — She had gone out to feed the cats when the shelling began.  —  It was afternoon, a residential neighborhood, a time to get errands done.  But there is nothing routine about life near the front line in Ukraine.
Amanda Ripley / Washington Post:
I'm a journalist who stopped reading the news.  Is the problem me — or our product?  —  Listen  —  Gift Article  —  Amanda Ripley is the author of “High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped — and How We Get Out” and host of the Slate podcast “How To!”  —  I have a secret.
Discussion: Althouse
Julian Routh / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Fetterman to attack Oz's residency in ads — including with airplane banner over New Jersey beaches  —  A TV advertisement and an airplane.  —  That's what U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman will launch this weekend in an attempt to contrast his Pennsylvania roots — born and raised …
Discussion: PoliticusUSA, Insider and The Wrap
 
 
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