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Washington Post:
Justice Dept. investigating Trump's actions in Jan. 6 criminal probe — People familiar with the probe said investigators are examining the former president's conversations and have seized phone records of top aides — The Justice Department is investigating President Donald Trump's actions …
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‘Kind of Wild/Creative’: Emails Shed Light on Trump Fake Electors Plan — Previously undisclosed communications among Trump campaign aides and outside advisers provide new insight into their efforts to overturn the election in the weeks leading to Jan. 6. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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New York Times:
Justice Dept. Asking Witnesses About Trump in Its Jan. 6 Investigation — Federal prosecutors sought information about the former president's role in the efforts to overturn the election as the inquiry accelerates. — Give this article- - - Read in app
Media Matters for America:
The View's hiring of serial liar and Trump propagandist Alyssa Farah Griffin is a huge mistake
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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.
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / CNN:
Fearing a wipeout, Democrats try to unify around a simple midterm message: Republicans are ‘extremists’ — Washington (CNN)Seized by genuine panic about the prospect of Republicans winning control of Congress and governors' mansions across the country, multiple Democratic leaders and candidates …
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Washington Examiner, The Hill, New York Times, Supercreator and NPR
Allan Smith / NBC News:
The Jan. 6 hearings are breaking through in key battleground states. Partisan rifts remain.
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Politico:
Walker's fumbles highlight GOP's rocky Senate roster — Raphael Warnock wants to debate Herschel Walker. Republicans smell a trap. — As Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) sees it, Democrats are pushing for the former NFL star to debate their incumbent in Georgia's hotly contested Senate race because …
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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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Annie Grayer / CNN:
Trump's defense secretary denies there were orders to have 10K troops ready to deploy on January 6 — (CNN)Former acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller told the House select committee investigating the Capitol Hill insurrection that former President Donald Trump never gave him a formal order …
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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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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 …
Mike Stunson / Yahoo News:
‘Night of terror’: Female inmates raped when male detainees bribed guard, lawsuit says — Female inmates at an Indiana jail were subjected to a “night of terror” when male detainees gained access to their cells, the women allege in a lawsuit. — The lawsuit was filed Friday, July 22 …
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Associated Press:
US military making plans in case Pelosi travels to Taiwan — SYDNEY (AP) — U.S. officials say they have little fear that China would attack Nancy Pelosi's plane if she flies to Taiwan. But the U.S. House speaker would be entering one of the world's hottest spots, where a mishap, misstep or misunderstanding could endanger her safety.
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Jenny Leonard / Bloomberg:
Biden Will Speak With Xi on Thursday as US-China Ties Worsen
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Joel Gehrke / Washington Examiner:
China threat: Military 'won't sit idly by' if Pelosi visits Taiwan
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Lili Bayer / Politico:
‘Nazi’ talk: Orbán adviser trashes ‘mixed race’ speech in dramatic exit — Barbed warnings of “Nazi” rhetoric went flying Tuesday as the controversy over Viktor Orbán's “mixed race” remarks breached rare territory — the Hungarian prime minister's own circle.
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Chris Stokel-Walker / Gizmodo:
Inside TikTok's Attempts to ‘Downplay the China Association’ — Leaked documents detail what TikTok tells the media—and what it doesn't. — Leaked documents from within TikTok reveal how the company games out responses to tricky questions — and highlight what the company thinks its biggest public perception problems are.
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Louder With Crowder and The National Interest, more at Mediagazer »
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Emily Baker-White / BuzzFeed News:
TikTok Owner ByteDance Used A News App On Millions Of Phones To Push Pro-China Messages, Ex-Employees Say
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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 …
Kate Sullivan / CNN:
CNN Poll: 75% of Democratic voters want someone other than Biden in 2024 — A new CNN poll finds 75% of Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters want the party to nominate someone other than President Joe Biden in the 2024 election, a sharp increase from earlier this year.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Exclusive: Hulu to begin accepting political issue ads — Disney on Wednesday confirmed to Axios that it would allow political issue ads — in addition to candidate ads — on Hulu's streaming service, effective immediately, bringing Hulu's ad policies to parity with Disney's cable networks.
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Bloomberg:
Wuhan Locks Down 1 Million Residents in Echo of Pandemic's Start — A district on the outskirts of Wuhan has been locked down, the first time the Chinese city that saw the world's first Covid-19 lockdown has imposed such a measure since 2020, underscoring how far the country is from post-pandemic normalcy.
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Balloon Juice
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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April 16
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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American Greatness, Breitbart, RedState and The Gateway Pundit
Abrahm Lustgarten / New York Times:
Caribbean nations are trapped between the global financial system and a looming climate disaster. One country's leaders have been fighting to find a way out. — The Barbados Rebellion — By Abrahm Lustgarten Photographs by Erika Larsen — Late on May 31, 2018, five days after she was sworn …
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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Spencer Brown / Townhall:
'I'm an Insurrectionist': Cassidy Hutchinson's Texts Nuke Her J6 Committee Testimony — Testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson — the Trump administration aide to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows-turned star witness before the House committee investigating January 6th …
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Rolling Stone:
Exclusive: Neo-Nazi Marine Plotted Mass Murder, Rape Campaigns with Group, Feds Say — While tasked with protecting the nation, Matthew Belanger was plotting a killing spree against minorities and to rape “white women to increase the production of white children,” according to federal prosecutors
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Raw Story and Streams of Crunchiness
David Horowitz / Front Page Magazine:
Defund the FBI — The Bureau has become irremediably politicized and inveterately corrupt. — Was anyone really surprised when Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) announced that “highly credible” whistleblowers had given him information about FBI efforts to make the Hunter Biden scandal go away?
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