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9:55 PM ET, July 14, 2022

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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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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
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
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 …
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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 …
Scott Wong / NBC News:
Republicans shocked a 10-year-old can get pregnant after Ohio rape victim abortion story proves true  —  Rep. Jim Jordan was one of several Republicans wrestling with messaging after calling the story a lie.  He tried to shift focus onto the media and the undocumented man arrested.
Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
Indiana attorney general says he is investigating doctor who treated 10-year-old rape victim
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 …
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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 …
Clay Risen / New York Times:
Ivana Trump, Ex-Wife of Donald Trump and Businesswoman, Dies at 73  —  She helped build his real estate empire, though she was better known for being one half of the quintessential 1980s power couple.  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  Ivana Trump, the glamorous Czech American …
Myah Ward / Politico:
Ivana Trump, former president's first wife, dies at 73  —  Ivana Trump, Donald Trump's first wife, has died at age 73, the family announced Thursday.  —  She died at her home in New York City, the former president said in a post on Truth Social.  The Trump family's statement called her an “incredible woman.”
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 7,052,7 votes, is entangled in investigations by federal prosecutors (over the Capitol insurrection and over the mishandling of classified White House documents …
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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:
Donald Trump looks to fall launch for 2024, potentially upending midterms
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: Insider
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 and Above the Law
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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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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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 …
Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
Crazy Can Break a Wave  —  Joe Trippi looks at the map and the numbers and has . . . good news for Democrats?  —  Come hang out with me tonight as The Next Level takes over TNB.  —  Livestream starts at 8:00 p.m. eastern.  I'll be joined by Sarah Longwell and Amanda Carpenter and we're …
Paul Begala / CNN:
Progressives are practically doing Republicans' job for them  —  CNN report: This is why Democrats are frustrated with Biden  —  Paul Begala, a Democratic strategist and CNN political commentator, was a political consultant for Bill Clinton's presidential campaign in 1992 and served as a counselor to Clinton in the White House.
Liz Wolfe / Reason:
Elizabeth Warren Wants To Shut Down All of the Country's Crisis Pregnancy Centers  —  “In Massachusetts right now, those crisis pregnancy centers that are there to fool people who are looking for pregnancy termination help outnumber true abortion clinics by three to one,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) told NBC 10 Boston.
Christopher Mathias / HuffPost:
Gab Was Key To The Tree Of Life Shooting.  Doug Mastriano Seems To Be Paying It For Followers.  —  The GOP nominee for governor of Pennsylvania paid the far-right platform a $5,000 “consulting” fee.  Now, new Gab accounts are automatically following him.  —  Mere hours after a white …
Discussion: 90.5 WESA
MyNorthwest.com:
Man accused of threatening to kill Rep. Jayapal released after prosecutors fail to file charges in time  —  The Seattle man who was arrested on Saturday for making threats against Washington Representative Pramila Jayapal was released Wednesday, July 14 after King County Prosecutors did not file charging documents in time to hold him.
Discussion: The Seattle Times
Steffi Cao / BuzzFeed News:
A Mile-Long Procession Of Buses Is Carrying Items From School Shooting Victims To Ted Cruz's House  —  The 4,368 empty seats are meant to honor the number of children killed by gun violence this year.  —  A fleet of 52 yellow school buses will form a mile-long procession to Sen. Ted Cruz's house …
Discussion: Insider and Washington Examiner
Christopher Wiggins / Advocate:
Conservative Texas Lawyer Targets PrEP Access After Abortion Rights … With the Supreme Court overturning on Roe v. Wade last month, the architect of the Texas abortion law has already aimed at marriage equality, and his next target could leave Texans without access to lifesaving preventive care.
CNN:
Prominent conservatives issue report rebutting Trump election claims  —  (CNN)A group of conservatives, including prominent lawyers and retired federal judges, issued a 72-page report on Thursday categorically rebutting each of the claims made in court by former President Donald Trump and his supporters over the 2020 election results.
David Brooks / New York Times:
Americans Are Hungry for Change, So Get Ready for More Turmoil  —  I'd like you to consider the possibility that the political changes that have rocked this country over the past six years will be nothing compared with the changes that will rock it over the next six.
CNN:
In response to Trump, senators agree to clarify vice president's role in electoral certification  —  (CNN)Senators from both parties have reached an agreement to clarify that the vice president only has a ceremonial role in overseeing the certification of the electoral results …
Ruy Teixeira / The Liberal Patriot:
Working Class and Hispanic Voters Are Losing Interest in the Party of Abortion, Gun Control and the January 6th Hearings  —  White College-Educated Voters, On the Other Hand, Are On Board  —  Democrats are betting on a small set of issues to mitigate their losses this November.
Naftuli Moster / Jewish Currents:
Progressives Have Abandoned Haredi Children … Special interests, lobbyists, and activists of all stripes are descending on Albany to cajole lawmakers into acting on their priority issues.  One legislator representing a Hasidic community in Brooklyn introduces a last-minute bill that …
 
 
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Republican attorneys general to host private retreat for corporate donors at swanky Palm Beach resort
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