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ABC News:
Former Pence chief of staff appeared before grand jury probing Jan. 6: Sources — Marc Short appeared under subpoena, sources tell ABC News. — The former chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence appeared last week before a federal grand jury investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol …
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Wall Street Journal:
Justice Department Questions Top Pence Aides Over Trump Bid to Overturn Election — Marc Short and Greg Jacob, top advisers to Vice President Mike Pence, have appeared before a grand jury, people familiar with the matter say — WASHINGTON—The Justice Department has pressed top advisers …
New York Times:
Former Top Pence Aide Testifies to Grand Jury in Jan. 6 Investigation — Marc Short, who was chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, was subpoenaed in the Justice Department's expanding inquiry into the efforts to overturn the 2020 election. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Why the right-wing media is fracturing in its defense of Trump — Listen — Gift Article — The Jan. 6 House select committee's revelations have grown so overwhelmingly powerful that even some right-wing media figures have begun acknowledging their seriousness.
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
Why Rupert Murdoch Is Finally Done with Donald Trump — The slow learners at the New York Post and Wall Street Journal editorial pages had a revelation on Friday. As if synchronized to sing the same tune at the same time by their owner, Rupert Murdoch, they cited the proceedings …
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Mia Jankowicz / Insider:
Fox News anchor Bret Baier slams Trump, saying January 6 hearings made him look ‘horrific’
Fox News anchor Bret Baier slams Trump, saying January 6 hearings made him look ‘horrific’
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Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Trump: ‘Fox & Friends’ has gone to the ‘dark side’
Trump: ‘Fox & Friends’ has gone to the ‘dark side’
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Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
No, the Murdochs haven't turned on Trump
No, the Murdochs haven't turned on Trump
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Zachary Schermele / NBC News:
GOP lawmaker attended gay son's wedding 3 days after voting against same-sex marriage — The gay son of Rep. Glenn Thompson, R-Pa., got married on Friday. A few days earlier, his father voted against the Respect for Marriage Act. — A Republican lawmaker attended his gay son's wedding …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Samantha Bee's ‘Full Frontal’ Canceled in Latest Late-Night Cutback … “As we continue to shape our new programming strategy, we've made some difficult, business-based decisions,” TBS said in a statement. “We are proud to have been the home to “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee” and thank Sam …
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Natachi Onwuamaegbu / Washington Post:
‘Full Frontal with Samantha Bee’ is canceled by TBS after 7 seasons
‘Full Frontal with Samantha Bee’ is canceled by TBS after 7 seasons
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission:
Press Release SEC Charges Former Indiana Congressman with Insider Trading — Stephen Buyer allegedly used inside information to buy $1.5 million in stocks — The Securities and Exchange Commission today filed insider trading charges against Stephen Buyer, a former U.S. Representative for Indiana's 4th Congressional District.
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Kushner Says He Was Treated for Thyroid Cancer While in White House — In a memoir to be published next month, former President Donald Trump's son-in-law wrote that he wanted the diagnosis and treatment kept quiet. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Marin Cogan / Vox:
The deadliest road in America — Being a pedestrian in the US was already dangerous. It's getting even worse. — Part of the July 2022 issue of The Highlight, our home for ambitious stories that explain our world. — Drive along this part of US-19, a stretch of highway in Pasco County …
Cameron Joseph / VICE:
JD Vance Suggests People in ‘Violent’ Marriages Shouldn't Get Divorced — The Ohio Republican Senate nominee claimed people “shift spouses like they change their underwear,” and that it had damaged a generation of children. — Cameron Joseph — WASHINGTON, US
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Jerry Dunleavy / Washington Examiner:
Hunter Biden evidence wrongly labeled disinformation by FBI: Whistleblower — The FBI's investigation into Hunter Biden wrongly labeled verified evidence as “disinformation,” agency whistleblower s claimed. — Agents investigating President Joe Biden's son “opened an assessment which was used …
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Sarah Blaskey / Miami Herald:
Pawnbrokers: How FPL secretly took over a Florida news site and used it to bash critics — ORDER REPRINT → — When Florida Power & Light faced a spate of bad publicity and political blowback, a small but ambitious news website called the Capitolist sprang to the public utility's defense.
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Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
Lisa Murkowski Experiences a Rarity for Senators: A Mid-Campaign Approval Bump — Alaskan's net approval rating is up 22 points during Biden's presidency — 46% of Alaska voters approve and 39% disapprove of Sen. Lisa Murkowski's job performance ahead of her Aug. 16 primary.
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Breitbart and The Daily Caller
Tamar Hallerman / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Judge blocks Fulton DA from questioning GOP senator in Trump probe — Another office will be appointed to handle inquiry into lieutenant gov. nominee Burt Jones — A Fulton County judge is disqualifying District Attorney Fani Willis and her office from questioning state Sen. Burt Jones …
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Jeffrey Frank / New York Times:
Kamala Harris Is Stuck — Just months after being sworn in as president in 1953, Dwight D. Eisenhower gave an unusual task to his vice president, Richard Nixon. — Years earlier, when Eisenhower was the supreme commander of the Allied forces in World War II, he had been distressed …
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Giulia Carbonaro / Newsweek:
Josh Hawley's Humiliation by Jan. 6 Committee ‘Unconstitutional’—Mark Levin — Is it unconstitutional to embarrass a politician simply by presenting evidence of their own contradictory behavior? That is what Fox News host Mark Levin is claiming, accusing the Jan. 6 committee of violating Article 1 …
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Mediaite
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Biden tears into Trump over violence against police hours before ex-president returns to D.C. for campaign-style speech — WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden slammed former President Donald Trump Monday for lacking “the courage to act” as police defending the Capitol suffered through …
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Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
What's the Downside for Humoring Him . . . Until He Dies? — Republicans have their strategy all set. — We are all, by now, familiar with the most appalling, “boy did that age poorly” anonymous quote in the history of American politics, published by the Washington Post less than two months …
Christopher Hope / Telegraph:
Boris Johnson tells friend: I don't want to resign and will stay on if Tory members back me — Premier would ‘wipe away everything that stops me being PM in a second’ as he says unequivocally that he wishes to carry on — Boris Johnson has told a former treasurer campaigning to keep him in office that he …
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Political Wire
Anita Gates / New York Times:
Paul Sorvino, Master of the Mild-Mannered Mobster, Dies at 83 — A would-be singing star, he found success in Hollywood playing a variety of roles, but they were often quiet, dangerous men, like Paulie Cicero in “Goodfellas.” — Paul Sorvino, the tough-guy actor — and operatic tenor …
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Finn McRedmond / UnHerd:
News09:22 Ukraine Government issues blacklist of ‘Russian propagandists’ — The list includes a number of prominent Western intellectuals — The Government of Ukraine has issued a blacklist of individuals who they judge to be “promoting Russian propaganda” — including a number of prominent Western intellectuals.
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Washington Examiner
Mike Schneider / Associated Press:
Study: Millennials didn't stray far from where they grew up — Growing up in mid-sized Virginia Beach, Andrew Waldholtz wanted to live in a big city so he moved to the District of Columbia for college. After four years in the comparatively expensive city, he realized he wanted a place to live that was more affordable.
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Bangor Daily News
Isobel Asher Hamilton / Insider:
The quest to find $181 million in bitcoin buried in a dump — James Howells is known as the man who accidentally threw away 8,000 bitcoins. Now he has an $11 million master plan to get them back. … James Howells' life changed when he threw out a hard drive about the size of an iPhone 6.
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Infinite Eyes News and New York Post
David Freedlander / New York Magazine:
Why Republicans Stopped Talking to the Press — “I just don't see the point,” said an adviser to a GOP presidential aspirant. — When Fox News host Tucker Carlson appeared last week at the Family Leadership Summit in Iowa — an annual cattle call for Republican would-be presidential contenders …
Frank Heinz / NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth:
Woman Shot After Opening Fire Inside Dallas Love Field Airport; Flight Ops Resume — What to Know — Gunfire was reported inside Dallas Love Field Airport just after 11 a.m. — A woman was transported from the scene by Dallas Fire-Rescue after police say she fired several rounds inside the airport.
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Associated Press:
AP-NORC poll: 2 in 3 in US favor term limits for justices — WASHINGTON (AP) — About 2 in 3 Americans say they favor term limits or a mandatory retirement age for Supreme Court justices, according to a new poll that finds a sharp increase in the percentage of Americans saying they have “hardly any” confidence in the court.
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CNN:
‘Baked Alaska’ pleads guilty to US Capitol riot charge — (CNN)A far-right internet personality who goes by the name “Baked Alaska” has agreed to plead guilty to unlawfully protesting at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 — after abandoning a plea agreement in May during a hearing in which he proclaimed he was “innocent.”
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Susie Blann / Associated Press:
Lavrov says Russian goal to oust Ukraine's president — KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia's top diplomat said Moscow's overarching goal in Ukraine is to topple President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's government, expressing the Kremlin's war aims in some of the bluntest terms yet as its forces pummel …
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Sarah Posner / New Republic:
How Did Maryland Republicans Nominate Two Extremist Screwballs for Statewide Office? — Last Tuesday, Republican primary voters in Maryland picked two radical extremists as their nominees in November's race for governor and attorney general. In electing Dan Cox as their gubernatorial candidate …