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Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Judge won't delay Steve Bannon's trial after his last-minute offer to cooperate with Jan. 6 panel — WASHINGTON — A judge said Monday that he would not delay the contempt of Congress trial of Steve Bannon, just one week before it is set to begin. — Bannon was indicted last year for refusing …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump lawyer interviewed with FBI about Bannon contempt case — Former President Donald Trump's attorney Justin Clark interviewed with federal investigators two weeks ago, the Justice Department revealed in a court filing early Monday morning, a significant development that could reverberate …
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'What's the point in going to trial' | Judge blocks Steve Bannon from blaming Trump in contempt case
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Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Judge rejects Bannon's bid to delay trial, executive privilege claim
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Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Steve Bannon's ‘eleventh-hour’ reversal on Jan. 6 testimony is a stunt, DOJ says
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The dispute between Trump's and Bannon's legal teams
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WSB-TV:
Sen. Lindsey Graham ordered to testify in front of special grand jury in Trump election probe — ATLANTA — A Fulton County judge has ordered U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham to testify in front of a special grand jury looking into possible election tampering by former President Donald Trump in the November 2020 election.
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Politico:
Judge shreds Bannon defenses ahead of contempt trial — A federal judge on Monday eviscerated nearly all of Steve Bannon's defenses against a charge that he criminally defied a subpoena from the Jan. 6 select committee, leaving the longtime Donald Trump ally with few options to fight the contempt of Congress case against him.
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Kanishka Singh / Reuters:
Senator Graham ordered to testify in front of grand jury in Trump election probe — A judge ordered U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham to testify in front of a special grand jury in Georgia investigating former President Donald Trump's alleged attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Oath Keepers lawyer says Stewart Rhodes wanted her Trump contacts before Jan. 6 Capitol attack — The Jan. 6 Committee will explore links between the Trump White House and right-wing militia groups on Tuesday. They've spoken to Kellye SoRelle, who might be a key.
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Andrew Weissmann / New York Times:
Merrick Garland Should Investigate Trump's 2020 Election Schemes as a ‘Hub and Spoke’ Conspiracy — The tenacious work of the Jan. 6 committee has transformed how we think about the Jan. 6 rebellion. It should also transform the Justice Department's investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
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Ashitha Nagesh / BBC:
Sir Mo Farah reveals he was trafficked to the UK as a child — Sir Mo Farah was brought to the UK illegally as a child and forced to work as a domestic servant, he has revealed. — The Olympic star has told the BBC he was given the name Mohamed Farah by those who flew him over from Djibouti.
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Maybe Americans Should Stop Giving the Democrats What They Want — One wrinkle to the “Should the Democrats dump Biden in 2024?” talk that doesn't get enough attention: In early 2020, out of Democratic primary field which consisted of a small army of candidates, more than half …
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Adam Cancryn / Politico:
Biden's abortion response curbed by fears of another Supreme Court showdown
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David Siders / Politico:
Progressive group to press Biden not to run in 2024
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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Biden's Approval Hits 33 Percent; Democrats Want 2024 Options, Poll Shows — With the country gripped by a pervasive sense of pessimism, the president is hemorrhaging support. — President Biden is facing an alarming level of doubt from inside his own party, with 64 percent …
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Ed Yong / The Atlantic:
Is BA.5 the ‘Reinfection Wave’? — Well, here we go again. Once more, the ever-changing coronavirus behind COVID-19 is assaulting the United States in a new guise—BA.5, an offshoot of the Omicron variant that devastated the most recent winter. The new variant is spreading quickly …
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Melanie Evans / Wall Street Journal:
Hospitals Must Provide Abortions in Emergency Situations, Biden Administration Says — Guidance aims to help doctors and hospitals reconcile state laws restricting abortions with federal law that can require the procedure — Federal health officials said doctors and hospitals must provide …
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Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico:
Biden admin looks to protect doctors providing emergency abortions, and warn those who don't
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Ron DeSantis Would Kill Democracy Slowly and Methodically … During the Donald Trump era, democracy itself has become the preeminent question of American politics. Yet Trump himself has played a paradoxical role in this development. While his overtly authoritarian personality brought …
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Reuters:
Abortion bans force U.S. students to rethink college plans — With its excellent academic and music programs, Oberlin College in Ohio seemed like a perfect fit for Nina Huang, a California high school student who plays flute and piano and hopes to eventually study medicine or law.
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Alexander Burns / New York Times:
States With Abortion Bans Risk Losing Their Economic Edge
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Dusan Stojanovic / Associated Press:
US rejects ‘Serbian world’ advocated by Serbian minister — BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — A senior Serbian minister on Monday advocated the creation of a “Serbian world” that would unite all Serbs in the Balkans into a single state, rejecting a U.S. warning that such calls could fuel tensions …
Karen Attiah / Washington Post:
I asked about abortion at a Texas gun show. The answer I got was grim. — Listen — Gift Article — DALLAS — Standing next to a display of military-grade weapons, I wondered aloud to the dealers at the gun-show booth if more women should get guns in Texas to protect themselves …
Olivia Rubin / ABC News:
Former Attorney General Bill Barr subpoenaed in Dominion 2020 election lawsuit — The subpoena has been issued in Dominion's defamation lawsuit against Fox News. — Attorney General Bill Barr holds a news conference at the Department of Justice December 21, 2020 in Washington, DC.
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Curt Levey / Washington Post:
Democrats are overreacting about the Supreme Court — Listen — Gift Article — Curt Levey, president of the Committee for Justice, is a constitutional law attorney. — With the end of the Supreme Court's term, Democrats are denouncing the court as ideologically motivated, extreme, undemocratic, even destabilizing.
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Roland Oliphant / Telegraph:
Russia suffers ‘wild shell hunger’ as Ukraine hits arms depots with long-range Western rockets — Vladimir Putin's forces face ‘out of the blue’ ammunition shortages as warehouses destroyed ‘one by one’ using Himar and MLRS weapons — Russia is running short of ammunition for its armies fighting …
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Wall Street Journal:
Justice Department Is Investigating PGA Tour Over Potential Antitrust Violations in LIV Golf Battle — The probe shows that the DOJ is watching the PGA Tour's fight to retain players in the face of new competition from the Saudi-backed LIV Golf circuit — The Department of Justice …
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Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
Musk, Trump, and the Rule of Law — All of the systems are being tested. — 1. JVL Is Always Right — There's a reason we sell the shirt. … Here's your Bloomberg report from June 8: … Who am I kidding? Ain't no way I'm letting go of this mic.
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Thomas Wolf / The Atlantic:
The Case That Could Blow Up American Election Law — Members of the Supreme Court's conservative supermajority just last week took the next step in a little-noticed, but extremely dangerous, project: attempting to jam into law a radical misinterpretation of the Constitution's elections and electors clauses …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
An expert in political violence urgently warns: The worst is coming — Listen — Gift Article — The Jan. 6 House select committee hearings this week are among the most important of all, because they will foreground a topic that many Americans ordinarily don't associate with their democracy …
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Danielle Battaglia / Raleigh News & Observer:
Trump rally in North Carolina canceled as former president summoned to court — Former President Donald Trump and a host of Republican personalities have canceled their scheduled appearances Friday in Greensboro. — News of the cancellation comes as Axios reports Trump, his son …
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Sam Adler-Bell / New York Magazine:
Is the January 6 Committee Really Saving Democracy? — Here's something I'm slightly ashamed to admit: I've barely watched any of the January 6 hearings. Given the significance the committee's work holds for many segments of the mainstream media, I've assumed that I'll be made aware …
Kimberly Leonard / Insider:
George W. Bush told Mitt Romney that Rick Perry was dumber than he was: book — George W. Bush told Mitt Romney that he thought Rick Perry was dumber than he was. — “People thought I was dumb,” Bush said. “Well, wait till you get a load of this guy.”
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