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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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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 in the story of the Venezuelan immigrants shipped off to Martha's Vineyard as part of Gov. Ron DeSantis's reelection campaign. The meta-story of course continues to get some attention …
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Insider
Brittany Bowker / The Boston Globe:
Plane towing a banner reading ‘Vineyard Hypocrites’ circles Martha's Vineyard
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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, The Hill, Daily Kos, FactCheck.org, Raw Story, The Mahablog and USA Today
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.
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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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.