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New York Times:
Florida Pair Pleads Guilty in Theft of Biden's Daughter's Diary — Aimee Harris and Robert Kurlander admitted to participating in a conspiracy that saw Ashley Biden's diary end up in the hands of the conservative group Project Veritas near the end of the 2020 campaign.
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Justice News:
Florida Residents Plead Guilty To Conspiracy To Commit Interstate Transportation Of Stolen Property — Pleas Follow Filing of Criminal Information Alleging Defendants Stole Property Belonging to Immediate Family Member of a Then-Former Government Official — Damian Williams …
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Insider, HotAir, The Hill, Washington Examiner, ABC News, UPI, Breitbart, Forbes, The Daily Caller, IJR and emptywheel
Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Trump campaign rejected offer to buy Biden daughter's diary — Donald Trump's 2020 presidential campaign rejected an offer to buy President Biden's daughter's stolen diary, federal prosecutors say. — Why it matters: The revelation comes amid a criminal investigation into how the diary …
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Rolling Stone, Mediaite and Political Wire
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Two plead guilty to trafficking Ashley Biden's diary, property
Two plead guilty to trafficking Ashley Biden's diary, property
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Washington Post, American Greatness and Associated Press
CNN:
Inside Trump's public bravado and private resistance over Mar-a-Lago documents — Not long after the National Archives acknowledged in February that it had retrieved 15 boxes of presidential records from former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida, Trump began fielding calls …
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New York Times:
Justice Dept. to Submit Redacted Affidavit Used in Trump Search Warrant
Justice Dept. to Submit Redacted Affidavit Used in Trump Search Warrant
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NBC News:
Judge orders a redacted version of the Mar-a-Lago search warrant affidavit be made public Friday
Judge orders a redacted version of the Mar-a-Lago search warrant affidavit be made public Friday
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HuffPost, CNBC, MSNBC, Metro.co.uk and NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
Charlotte Alter / TIME:
Some of Biden's Student Loan Forgiveness Critics Went to College for Less Than $400 per Year — When the Biden Administration announced Wednesday that it would cancel $10,000 of federal student loans for Americans making under $125,000 per year, and $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients at the same income level …
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Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
WaPo editors: Biden's Academia bailout is “a regressive, expensive mistake” — Make no mistake about it — Joe Biden's student-loan forgiveness plan is a bailout of Academia, and it's as bad or worse as the Washington Post's editorial board declares. Allahpundit mentioned it in his earlier round …
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National Review, Axios, The Daily Caller and Patterico's Pontifications
Conover Kennard / Crooks and Liars:
Political Director Of Texas Right To Life Arrested For Soliciting A Minor — When Republicans claim that Democrats are doing something evil, it's just a matter of projection. I'm sure QAnon will be all over this, right? According to Current Revolt, Texas Right to Life told the outlet …
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Catherine Dominguez / The Courier:
Ex-Texas anti-abortion group official charged with solicitation of a minor
Ex-Texas anti-abortion group official charged with solicitation of a minor
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Raw Story
Jessica Valenti / All in Her Head:
Anti-Choice Leader Arrested for Solicitation of a Minor
Anti-Choice Leader Arrested for Solicitation of a Minor
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Living Blue In Texas and Daily Kos
Richie McGinniss / Newsweek:
‘I Was in Kenosha Two Years Ago, Kyle Rittenhouse Is Not a Hero’ — Before the shooting started, at 11:36 p.m. on August 25, 2020, I ran into Kyle Rittenhouse in front of a gas station and interviewed him for several minutes. He was a 17-year-old kid with a semi-automatic rifle …
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Mediaite
Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
Pennsylvania 2022: Fetterman Holds Four-Point Lead Over Oz for US Senate; Shapiro Leads Mastriano by Three — Home Polls Pennsylvania 2022: Fetterman Holds Four-Point Lead Over Oz for US Senate; Shapiro Leads Mastriano by Three — Majority of Voters Say Oz's NJ Residence Makes Them Less Likely to Vote for Him
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
The Not-So-Enthusiastic Pennsylvania GOP Support for Oz
The Not-So-Enthusiastic Pennsylvania GOP Support for Oz
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HotAir, Common Dreams and CNN
NBC News:
In Arizona, Blake Masters backtracks on abortion, scrubs campaign website — Arizona Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters softened his tone and scrubbed his website's policy page of tough abortion restrictions Thursday, as his party reels from the U.S. Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Trump reportedly oversaw collection of classified Mar-a-Lago docs — The more Donald Trump took a direct, hands-on role in keeping highly classified materials, the more he's personally responsible for this scandal. — In the wake of the FBI's search at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump's Republican allies …
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Media Matters for America, Washington Post, The Daily Caller and The Hill
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
The gaping hole in our knowledge of the Trump documents
The gaping hole in our knowledge of the Trump documents
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Insider, Baltimore Sun and Mediaite
David Corn / Mother Jones:
J.D. Vance Appeared With Podcaster Who Once Said “Feminists Need Rape” — Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. — J.D. Vance, the Republican nominee for Senate in Ohio, is typically described as the bestselling author …
Charlie Gasparino / Fox Business:
Trump's social media app facing financial fallout — Truth Social's finances may be in significant disarray, sources say — Rove says Trump's demand for special review not ‘likely’ to happen — Former President Donald Trump's social media outfit, Truth Social, is locked in a bitter battle …
Reade Pickert / Bloomberg:
US Corporate Profits Soar, Taking Margins to Widest Since 1950 — A measure of US profit margins has reached its widest since 1950, suggesting that the prices charged by businesses are outpacing their increased costs for production and labor. — After-tax profits as a share of gross value added …
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘swatted’ for second time in two days, police say — Police responded to another false 911 call at the home of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, authorities confirmed. — It was the second “swatting” call in two days targeting the Republican congresswoman, who is supported by former President Donald Trump.
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Zach Schonfeld / The Hill:
Marjorie Taylor Greene's home swatted a second time in two days
Marjorie Taylor Greene's home swatted a second time in two days
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Forbes, NBC News, RedState, Raw Story, LGBTQ Nation and Ground News
Washington Post:
Tesla demands removal of video of cars hitting child-size mannequins — The move comes amid heightened sensitivity to criticism of the software that is under public and regulatory scrutiny — SAN FRANCISCO — Tesla is demanding an advocacy group take down videos of its vehicles striking …
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The Verge, Washington Examiner and Electrek
Anthony Effinger / Willamette Week:
Polling Shows Portlanders Are Scared of Downtown—and of Their Own Neighborhoods — On the bright side: 57% are still willing to visit the central business district. — Expand — It's no secret downtown Portland is a shadow of its former self. — Cellphone data tells the tale.
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Ashton Pittman / Mississippi Free Press:
‘A Wrong Never Righted’: Court Upholds Mississippi's 1890 Jim Crow Voting Law — The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals voted to uphold a Jim Crow law that Mississippi's white-supremacist leaders adopted in 1890 in an attempt to disenfranchise Black residents for life.
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Raw Story and Mississippi Today
Politico:
How Trump has spent his days since the feds searched his home — As he finds himself, once more, in legal jeopardy—standing at the epicenter of a media storm of his own making, his political future changing course in real time—Donald Trump has done what Donald Trump likes to do.
New York Times:
Austin Orders Overhaul to Better Protect Civilians During U.S. Combat Operations — A Pentagon plan envisions broad changes to military doctrine, planning and training aimed at mitigating the risk of harm to noncombatants. — WASHINGTON — The Pentagon on Thursday announced sweeping changes aimed …
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Sean Hannity and Other Fox Stars Face Depositions in Defamation Suit — The depositions are one of the clearest indications yet of how aggressively Dominion Voting Systems is moving forward with its suit against the media company. — Some of the biggest names at Fox News have been questioned …
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The Daily Beast:
Eight Sources Say Feds Are Not Done With Matt Gaetz — It's been a quiet couple months in the probe into allegations that Rep. Matt Gaetz was involved in underage sex trafficking. But few involved think it's over. — When Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) beat his primary challenger Tuesday …
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PoliticusUSA, Alternet.org and Raw Story
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
An expert on the right urgently warns: Beware of another Oklahoma City — Consider the events of this month alone: Members of a militia in Michigan were convicted of a plot to kidnap the state's Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer. We've seen numerous threats and attempts at violent attacks against the FBI.