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Miami Herald:
Texas sheriff will investigate Florida flying Venezuelan migrants to Martha's Vineyard — Authorities in Texas have opened a criminal investigation into Gov. Ron DeSantis' operation to fly roughly 50 Venezuela migrants from Texas to Martha's Vineyard last week.
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USA Today, Insider, NPR, New York Post, New York Daily News, Washington Times, RedState, CBS News and WFLA-TV
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Amy Simonson / CNN:
Bexar County Sheriff announces investigation into how migrants went from Texas to Martha's Vineyard — A Texas sheriff said Monday evening his agency will open an investigation into the transportation of 48 Venezuelan migrants from the state to Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
The Search for “Perla” — The national news media seems to have lost interest entirely …
The Search for “Perla” — The national news media seems to have lost interest entirely …
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Insider and Digby's Hullabaloo
Brittany Bowker / The Boston Globe:
Plane towing a banner reading ‘Vineyard Hypocrites’ circles Martha's Vineyard
Tiana Lowe / Washington Examiner:
Immigration NIMBYism — Less than two days. That's how long the residents of Martha's Vineyard …
Immigration NIMBYism — Less than two days. That's how long the residents of Martha's Vineyard …
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Digby's Hullabaloo
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Was Warned Late Last Year of Potential Legal Peril Over Documents — A former White House lawyer sought to impress on him the need to return material he had taken with him upon leaving office. — A onetime White House lawyer under President Donald J. Trump warned him late last year …
Michael Levenson / New York Times:
Judge Vacates Murder Conviction of Adnan Syed of ‘Serial’ — Mr. Syed, 41, had been serving a life sentence for the 1999 murder of his high school classmate Hae Min Lee. The judge gave prosecutors 30 days to proceed with a new trial or drop the case. — Michael Levenson reported …
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Law & Crime, CBS News, Mediaite, TMZ.com, UPI, The Verge, Variety and Deadline, more at Mediagazer »
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Baltimore Sun:
Adnan Syed walks out of Baltimore courthouse after judge overturns his 1999 murder conviction — People react as Adnan Syed leaves the courthouse after being released from prison. (Baltimore Sun) — Adnan Syed — the man whose legal saga spawned the hit podcast “Serial” …
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NBC News, Metro.co.uk, The Root, National Review and Rolling Stone
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Scoop: McConnell's closed-door confidence — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) expressed cautious optimism in closed-door remarks Monday to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that the GOP can win back control of the Senate, Axios has learned. — Why it matters: McConnell …
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Daily Kos
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Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
House Republicans Plan to Investigate Chamber of Commerce if They Take the Majority … Republicans plan to launch a variety of investigations into the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and many of its largest member corporations if they retake the majority in the House of Representatives this November.
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Political Wire and The Daily Caller
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump discovers he's not in Cannon-land anymore — Donald Trump put the Justice Department on its heels, courtesy of a single federal judge who gave him the benefit of almost every doubt as he fought against the FBI's probe of documents seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate.
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Maya Wiley / New Republic:
Judge Aileen Cannon Thinks Poor Donald Trump May Be Stigmatized — Say someone took some important and personal papers of yours. You go to court, and a judge decides you can get those documents back. You would expect, by following the rules, that you could, right?
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The Nation
C.C. McCandless / KNWA FOX24:
Beyond Meat COO arrested for biting man's nose near Razorback Stadium — FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — A food company executive was arrested on a pair of charges after reportedly biting a man's nose in a parking garage in Fayetteville on Saturday night.
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Washington Examiner, TMZ.com, CNBC, WFLA-TV, New York Post, The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit, Louder With Crowder, Fox News, The Daily Wire, The Verge, al.com and Financial Times
Zachary Faria / Washington Examiner:
Republicans' choice for 2024 should be abundantly clear — Whatever debate there is about the 2024 presidential race, and about whether Republicans should nominate former President Donald Trump or Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, it is not much of a debate at all.
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HotAir, Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion and Townhall
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Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
GOP loyalty to Trump over party dips to new low in NBC poll — Just a third of registered Republican voters call themselves a supporter of Trump over the Republican Party. — The share of Republicans who choose loyalty to former President Donald Trump over the Republican Party has dropped …
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The Hill and Washington Times
Luke Martz / Iowa Field Report:
BREAKING: Police Report: Mike Franken's Former Campaign Manager Accused Candidate of Assault — Former Campaign Manager Alleges Franken is a Serial Perpetrator of Unwanted Advances Toward Women … According to a Des Moines Police Department incident report filed in April …
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Breitbart, Washington Free Beacon and The Daily Caller
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Jared S. Hopkins / Wall Street Journal:
Some People Are Finally Getting Their First Dose of a Covid-19 Vaccine — Job mandates and easing safety concerns are among the reasons newly vaccinated people say they got their shots — FDA Authorizes New Covid Boosters Aimed at Omicron Subvariants — Created with sketchtool.
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Politico:
Revenge? Republicans weigh tanking Manchin's permitting plan — Senate Republicans say Joe Manchin can't count on them to save his energy permitting deal with Democratic leaders, potentially upending efforts to attach the centrist's proposal to a must-pass government funding bill.
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The Hill, Raw Story, New York Times and Wall Street Journal
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Emily Brooks / The Hill:
House, Senate conservatives: GOP shouldn't give ‘lame duck’ Democrats power in funding bill
House, Senate conservatives: GOP shouldn't give ‘lame duck’ Democrats power in funding bill
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Raw Story
Eileen Sullivan / New York Times:
Arrests at Southwestern Border Exceed 2 Million in a Year for the First Time — The historic pace of undocumented immigrants entering the country continued as the Biden administration tried to steer clear of immigration issues with the midterm elections approaching.
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Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
U.S. arrests along Mexico border top 2 million a year for first time
U.S. arrests along Mexico border top 2 million a year for first time
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U.S. Customs …, The Hill, Politico, Washington Times and The Daily Caller
Reuters:
Trump ally Mike Lindell must face defamation suit over election-rigging claims — MyPillow Inc. Chief Executive Mike Lindell must face a defamation lawsuit brought by a voting machine company that the Trump ally falsely accused of rigging the 2020 U.S. election, a Minnesota federal judge ruled on Monday.
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Washington Examiner, Axios, UPI, Law & Crime and Bloomberg
Associated Press:
Judge holds gun ban for felony defendants unconstitutional — A U.S. law banning those under felony indictments from buying guns is unconstitutional, a federal judge in West Texas ruled Monday. U.S. District Judge David Counts, whom then-President Donald Trump appointed to the federal bench …
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The Texas Tribune
Charlotte Shane / Harper's:
The Right to Not Be Pregnant — I've never wanted to be pregnant, and I've been pregnant three times. Each time I learned the news, my commitment to what I'd already known was confirmed viscerally and instantaneously—with the unshakable certainty of no. I say “no” often. I think “no” frequently.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
Elizabeth Elkind / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: JD Vance tears into ‘shameless fraud’ Tim Ryan for attending a WEDDING on Saturday night - after Democrat repeatedly attacked him for holding a rally with Trump during an Ohio football game — Democrat House Rep. Tim Ryan is locked in a tight race with Trump-backed Republican JD Vance …
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Breitbart, Plain Dealer, RedState and CNN
Wall Street Journal:
The Real Midterm Election Stakes — Will voters put a check on the unrequited ambitions of the Democratic left? — WSJ Opinion: Inflation Reduction Act Not Working So Far — Skip Ad — in 15 — YOU MAY ALSO LIKE — Created with sketchtool.
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Washington Post, The Hill, Raw Story, The Daily Beast and Bloomberg
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's unhinged rage in Ohio shows the danger of a GOP Congress
Trump's unhinged rage in Ohio shows the danger of a GOP Congress
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CNN, Politico, Daily Kos, The Hill, FactCheck.org, Raw Story, The Mahablog and USA Today
Alexa Corse / Wall Street Journal:
In Wisconsin, Election Skeptics Deploy as Poll Watchers for Midterms — Typically mundane duty becomes flashpoint after Trump falsely claimed fraud cost him the White House — GREEN BAY, Wis.—Republicans here are recruiting a fresh batch of poll watchers to monitor voting in November …
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Associated Press, Washington Post, Politico, Washington Examiner and Political Wire
Stephon Johnson / All:
UWS Synagogue Refuses to Rent Space to Republican Club for Speech by Election Denier — The Society for the Advancement of Judaism had rented to the Upper West Side Republican Club before the pandemic, but after Jan. 6 they weren't interested in letting the group return for an event with Dick Morris.
Twitchy:
Greg Pollowitz, Twitchy's ‘rock’, has passed away after fight with leukemia — It is with the heaviest of hearts we announce the passing of Twitchy's Managing Editor, Greg Pollowitz. — Greg was our rock and always kept a steady head regardless of what the news (or Twitter) threw at us.