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CNN:
CNN Exclusive: Biden administration offers convicted Russian arms dealer in exchange for Griner, Whelan — After months of internal debate, the Biden administration has offered to exchange Viktor Bout, a convicted Russian arms trafficker serving a 25-year US prison sentence …
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Yuri Kageyama / Associated Press:
Japanese city alarmed by biting, clawing, attacking monkeys — TOKYO (AP) — People in a southwestern Japanese city have come under attack from monkeys that are trying to snatch babies, biting and clawing at flesh, and sneaking into nursery schools. — The attacks — on 58 people since July 8 …
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Zachary Blackburn / The GW Hatchet:
Clarence Thomas won't teach GW Law seminar — Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas will not teach a Constitutional Law Seminar this fall, according to an email addressed to students in the seminar that was obtained by The Hatchet. — Gregory Maggs, who has co-taught the course with Thomas since 2011 …
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Congressman Hank Johnson:
Rep. Johnson Introduces Supreme Court Justice Term Limit Measure to Restore Balance, Legitimacy for SCOTUS
Rep. Johnson Introduces Supreme Court Justice Term Limit Measure to Restore Balance, Legitimacy for SCOTUS
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Fortesa Latifi / Teen Vogue:
Matt Gaetz Body-Shamed a Teen — Who Then Launched a Fundraiser for Abortion Rights — Olivia Julianna has raised over $230,000 for abortion funds. — According to Rep. Matt Gaetz, body-shaming a teenager to his 1.4 million Twitter followers is behavior befitting a congressman.
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Mychael Schnell / The Hill:
Gaetz among 20 House Republicans who voted against anti-human trafficking bill
Gaetz among 20 House Republicans who voted against anti-human trafficking bill
Andrew Jeong / Washington Post:
19-year-old turns Gaetz insult into $115K abortion rights fundraiser
19-year-old turns Gaetz insult into $115K abortion rights fundraiser
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Common Dreams, Daily Kos, The Guardian, The Full Belmonte and Insider
Eric Hananoki / Media Matters for America:
Gab CEO Andrew Torba on Jews: We're “done” being “told what we're allowed to do in our own country by a 2% minority” — Andrew Torba, Gab CEO and consultant to Republican Pennsylvania gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano, responded to criticism of Mastriano using his antisemitic platform by telling Jews that …
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ABC News:
RNC warning to Trump: If you run for president, we stop paying your legal bills, says official — Since October 2021, the RNC has paid nearly $2M to firms representing Trump. — Former President Donald Trump delivers speaks at the America First Agenda Summit hosted by America …
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Raw Story
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
AJC poll: Kemp, Warnock slightly ahead in Georgia's top races — U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock is slightly ahead of Republican Herschel Walker in the latest Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll of a race that could decide control of the Senate, while Gov. Brian Kemp has an apparent lead …
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ABC News:
Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson cooperating with DOJ's Jan. 6 probe, say sources — Hutchinson recently testified before the House Jan. 6 committee. — Cassidy Hutchinson, a former top adviser to then-President Donald Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows, has recently cooperated …
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Joyce Vance / MSNBC:
DOJ's Jan. 6 investigation is zeroing in on Trump. These bad lawyers could be the key.
DOJ's Jan. 6 investigation is zeroing in on Trump. These bad lawyers could be the key.
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
DeSantis spokeswoman Christina Pushaw makes sure reporters feel the burn — Known for her aggressive Twitter comments and brusque treatment of the media, the Florida governor's press secretary has used taunts to solidify a tough image — When Florida Republicans held their annual conference last week …
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Journal Sentinel:
Sources: Alex Lasry will withdraw from Wisconsin Democratic U.S. Senate primary, solidifying Mandela Barnes' front-runner status — Bill Glauber Daniel BiceMilwaukee Journal Sentinel — In a stunning move with less than two weeks before the primary, Milwaukee Bucks executive Alex Lasry …
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Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
Trump's Jan. 6th National Guard Lie Crumbles — Christopher Miller, Trump's acting defense secretary, gave a different story under oath than he did to Sean Hannity. — One of the biggest lies that former President Trump and his allies have perpetuated about January 6th is that Trump ordered the National Guard to secure the Capitol.
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Kate Linthicum / Los Angeles Times:
Californians and other Americans are flooding Mexico City. Some locals want them to go home — Fernando Bustos Gorozpe was sitting with friends in a cafe here when he realized that — once again — they were outnumbered. — “We're the only brown people,” said Bustos, a 38-year-old writer and university professor.
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Twitchy
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Manchin says he has reached deal with Democrats on economy, climate bill — Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) on Wednesday said he had reached a deal with Democrats to advance economic legislation that aims to lower health-care costs, combat climate change and pay down the deficit.
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Breaking News USA
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump threatens CNN with lawsuit over ‘defamatory’ reporting — Former President Trump on Wednesday said he planned to file a lawsuit against CNN, alleging the network has repeatedly defamed him dating back to his 2016 campaign for the presidency. — “I have notified CNN of my intent …
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Metro.co.uk, Washington Times, The Daily Caller and The Daily Wire
Norman Lear / New York Times:
What Archie Bunker Would Have Thought of Donald Trump and Jan. 6 — Well, I made it. I am 100 years old today. I wake up every morning grateful to be alive. — Reaching my own personal centennial is cause for a bit of reflection on my first century — and on what the next century will bring for the people and country I love.
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Brian Flood / Fox News:
Turning Point USA issues cease and desist to ABC News over ‘defamatory statements’ on ‘The View’ — Turning Point USA objects to comments made by Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg — TPUSA Summit puts focus on stopping the ‘educational cartel’: Turning Point USA founder
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Without Media Accountability, Republicans Will Govern Like a One-Party State — Last week, the Florida Republican Party held its annual Sunshine Summit, which was marked by a new policy: The mainstream media was not permitted to cover the event. Instead, the only “news” would be transmitted through conservative-approved sources.
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Politico:
House Dems berate campaign arm over ‘very dangerous’ GOP primary scheme — A growing number of House Democrats are seething at their own campaign arm for meddling in a GOP primary to promote a pro-Trump election conspiracy theorist — after months of warning that such candidates were a threat to democracy.
David Frum / The Atlantic:
Trump Just Told Us His Master Plan — Yesterday, an ex-president who had tried to overturn a democratic election by violence returned to Washington, D.C., to call for law and order. Again and again, the speech reversed reality. The ex-president who had spread an actual big lie …
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Raw Story
Jeremiah Poff / Washington Examiner:
Twenty-two states sue Biden administration over transgender rule for school lunch program — Twenty-two states sued the Biden administration for requiring states participating in the federal school lunch program to include gender identity and sexual orientation as protected under the definition of “sex” in Title IX .
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Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
America's real college debt: How we failed an entire generation … Ewan Johnson's college dreams nearly crashed down on him after just four days. The saga had started in the mid-2010s near the end of what by his own admission had been an unambitious time in high school.
Washington Post:
Christopher Shea, Washington Post editor, dies at 53 — At The Post, he assigned and edited hundreds of pieces that reflected his voracious consumption of politics, social science and popular culture — Christopher Shea, a Washington Post editor who specialized in assigning and editing news essays …
Donald Moynihan / Slate:
Trump Got Burned by a Major Mistake in His First Term. He Won't Make It Again. — There's a reason authoritarians target the bureaucracy. Once they have it under their control, they are better able to stifle dissent and criticism, reward friends and punish enemies, using the levers of government to maintain power.
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Perilous Times
New York Times:
F.T.C. Sues to Block Meta Virtual Reality Deal as It Confronts Big Tech — The move is a potential blow to Meta's metaverse efforts and signals a shift in how the Federal Trade Commission is approaching tech deals. — WASHINGTON — The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday filed …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Explosive revelations about Trump's coup plot demand a quick response — When discussing a future coup attempt, dry parliamentary reforms can seem almost comically beside the point. What can mere procedural tweaks accomplish against a movement that is fully prepared to wreck our political order …
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Slate, Arizona Republic and PennLive
Orlando Sentinel:
Dark power: How FPL, other utilities neutralize opponents, grow profits — The CEO of the biggest power company in the U.S. had a problem. A Democratic state senator was proposing a law that could cut into Florida Power & Light's profits. Landlords would be able to sell cheap rooftop solar power directly …
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The Daily Beast:
Dr. Oz's Turkish Nationalist Pals Living in His Secret N.J. Condo — Dr. Oz failed to report his ownership of a Garden State apartment, home to friends tied to groups involved in Armenian genocide denial. … Dr. Mehmet Oz owns an undisclosed apartment in New Jersey that houses close associates …
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CNN:
Federal prosecutors obtain warrant to search lawyer John Eastman's cell phone in January 6 criminal probe — The Justice Department obtained a second warrant to search the cell phone of right-wing lawyer John Eastman as part of a January 6-related criminal inquiry, prosecutors said in a court filing Wednesday.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement — Recent indicators of spending and production have softened. Nonetheless, job gains have been robust in recent months, and the unemployment rate has remained low. Inflation remains elevated, reflecting supply and demand imbalances related to the pandemic …
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Catie Edmondson / New York Times:
Senate Passes $280 Billion Industrial Policy Bill to Counter China — The lopsided bipartisan vote reflected a rare consensus in the otherwise polarized Congress in favor of investing federal resources into a broad industrial policy to counter China. — WASHINGTON — The Senate …
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Daniel Desrochers / Kansas City Star:
Eric Greitens' lost chapter: Inside his disappearance from public life before Senate run — Around 20 minutes before Eric Greitens officially became the former governor of Missouri, he put out a 1,485 word list of his gubernatorial accomplishments. — It served as a resume of sorts …
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