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Ken Klippenstein / The Intercept:
Secret Service Deleted Jan. 6 Text Messages After Oversight Officials Requested Them … The Secret Service erased text messages from January 5 and January 6, 2021, according to a letter given to the January 6 committee and reviewed by The Intercept.  The letter was originally sent …
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CNN:
First on CNN: DC police officer in Trump Jan. 6 motorcade corroborates details of heated Secret Service exchange to committee  —  (CNN)A Washington, DC, police officer has corroborated to the House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, details regarding a heated exchange former President Donald Trump …
United States Secret Service:
U.S. Secret Service Media Relations  —  The insinuation that the Secret Service maliciously deleted text messages following a request is false.  In fact, the Secret Service has been fully cooperating with the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General (DHS OIG) in every respect …
Discussion: Insider, Raw Story and Just The News
CNN:
Secret Service erased text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021 — after oversight officials asked for them, watchdog says  —  (CNN)The US Secret Service erased text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021, shortly after they were requested by oversight officials investigating the agency's response …
Washington Post:
Secret Service erased texts from Jan. 5 and 6, 2021, official says  —  Listen  —  Gift Article  —  A government watchdog accused the U.S. Secret Service of erasing texts from Jan. 5 and 6, 2021, after his office requested them as part of an inquiry into the U.S. Capitol attack, according to a letter sent to lawmakers this week.
Discussion: USA Today
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Jan. 6 panel aims to “reconstruct” deleted Secret Service texts … - They could shed light on reported efforts to remove former Vice President Mike Pence from the Capitol, and former President Trump's alleged attempts to travel to the Capitol to join his supporters on that day.
Discussion: Political Wire
Matt Christy / Fox 59:
Abortion report confirms Indiana doctor followed law after AG vowed investigation  —  INDIANAPOLIS — After Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita threatened to go after the license of an Indiana physician who provided an abortion to a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio, documents obtained …
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Politico:
National Right to Life official: 10-year-old should have had baby  —  The 10-year-old Ohio girl who crossed state lines to receive an abortion in Indiana should have carried her pregnancy to term and would be required to do so under a model law written for state legislatures considering …
Washington Post:
Manchin says he won't support any new climate spending or tax hikes  —  The West Virginia senator informed Democratic leaders on Thursday as negotiations over economic legislation continue  —  Listen  —  Gift Article  —  Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) informed Democratic leaders on Thursday …
Discussion: CBS News, The Hill, Insider and Electrek
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New York Times:
Manchin Pulls Plug on Climate and Tax Talks, Shrinking Domestic Plan
Discussion: E&E
The Dworkin Report:
Michael Cohen just explained how Trump set up a GOP Congressman seeking a pardon  —  Scott interviews friend and former political opponent, Michael Cohen in part one of this two-part interview.  He provided key insight into the unsavory way that the disgraced ex-president handled …
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ABC News:
Ivana Trump, ex-wife of former President Trump, dies at age 73  —  Ivana Trump is survived by three children: Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric Trump.  —  Ivana Trump, the ex-wife of former President Donald Trump, has died at age 73, the family told ABC News.  —  “Our mother was an incredible woman …
Myah Ward / Politico:
Ivana Trump, former president's first wife, dies at 73
Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
A judge issues an arrest warrant for Tina Peters, the Colorado county clerk under indictment.  —  Ms. Peters, the Mesa County clerk accused of overseeing a breach of election equipment, went to Las Vegas this week to speak at an event.  A judge said the trip violated her bond conditions.
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Jesse Paul / The Colorado Sun:
Judge orders arrest of indicted Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters for bond violations  —  Mesa County District Court Judge Matthew David Barrett issued a warrant for Peters' arrest and for her to be held in jail pending a hearing.  He also revoked her $25,000 cash bond.  —  Original Reporting
Megan McArdle / Washington Post:
A Berkeley professor's Senate testimony didn't go how the left thinks it did  —  Listen  —  Gift Article  —  Everyone agrees it was an epic own.  There's much less agreement about who got owned.  —  In Tuesday's Senate hearing on the Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe vs. Wade …
Discussion: The Distance
Axios:
GOP fears Senate debacle  —  Top Republicans, once confident about winning control of the Senate in the midterms, fear they'll blow it after nominating several deeply flawed candidates in winnable states, according to conversations with GOP strategists, pollsters and other officials.
Axios:
Stacey Abrams' blockbuster fundraising driven by out-of-state money  —  In one of the highest-profile gubernatorial battles in the country, Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams is leveraging a vast pool of out-of-state money. … - Incumbent Republican Gov. Brian Kemp's campaign and leadership committee …
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Graham Gremore / Queerty:
Amy Coney Barrett is having a really crappy summer  —  Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett has been having a rough go at it since becoming the sole woman justice to side with her conservative male colleagues in the decision to upend nearly 50 years of precedent and overturn Roe v. Wade.
Discussion: Twitchy and Slate
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Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
Donald Trump on 2024: 'I've Already Made That Decision' … Donald Trump was impeached twice, lost the 2020 election by 7,052,770 votes, is entangled in investigations by federal prosecutors (over the Capitol insurrection and over the mishandling of classified White House documents …
Peter Nicholas / NBC News:
Former White House attorney Ty Cobb: ‘Big Lie has been good only for Trump’  —  The adviser who helped lead Trump's response to the Mueller report now says the former president is a “disaster” for the GOP.  —  Ty Cobb is no stranger to former President Donald Trump.
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
Trump called member of White House support staff amid Jan. 6 probe  —  The phone call was disclosed by committee Vice Chair Liz Cheney, who said the matter had been referred to the Justice Department  —  Gift Article  —  Former president Donald Trump attempted to call a member …
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U.S. Mission to the OSCE:
Response to Moscow Mechanism Report on Ukraine  —  As delivered by Ambassador Michael Carpenter  —  Professors Bilkova, Guercio, and Sancin: welcome to the Permanent Council and thank you for presenting us with your comprehensive experts' report.  We appreciate the amount of work that has gone …
The Economist:
The Democrats need to wake up and stop pandering to their extremes  —  For the good of America, the governing party urgently needs to take on its own activists  —  Every president yearns to be historic—but not historic like Joe Biden.  At this point in his presidency Mr Biden's singular achievement …
Dave Philipps / New York Times:
With Few Able and Fewer Willing, U.S. Military Can't Find Recruits  —  Fighting headwinds from the pandemic, the tight labor market and demographic shifts, the armed forces may fall further short of enlistment quotas this year than they have in decades.  —  FOUNTAIN, Colo. — The local Army recruiting station was empty.
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
QAnon Fan Is Resurrecting JFK Jr.'s Magazine in Creepy Twist  —  A Times Square billboard announced the magazine's supposed return this week with a cover bearing the George logo and a painting portraying Donald Trump as Paul Revere.  —  In the world of QAnon conspiracy theorists …
Discussion: Raw Story
Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times:
Chinese drone maker lobbies to defeat US national security ban  —  DJI's share of the commercial market has fallen after Trump placed it on the ‘entities list’  —  China's blacklisted DJI is battling to maintain its dominance of the US drone market by lobbying Congress to block a bill barring …
Discussion: Washington Examiner and The Hill
 
 
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Anna Massoglia / OpenSecrets.org:
Trump's political operation continued to steer donor money to firm involved in the Jan. 6 rally
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