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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.
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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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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
The smoking gun in Martha's Vineyard — Popular Information has obtained documentary evidence that migrants from Venezuela were provided with false information to convince them to board flights chartered by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R). The documents suggest that the flights …
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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 …
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, The Daily Caller and Washington Examiner
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's unhinged rage in Ohio shows the danger of a GOP Congress
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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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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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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
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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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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
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Raw Story
Politico:
Biden declared the pandemic ‘over.’ His Covid team says it's more complicated. — White House officials spent the better part of this year plotting a delicate, step-by-step process they hoped would guide the U.S. out of its pandemic era. — One element that was not part of that plan …
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Mary Kekatos / ABC News:
Is the COVID pandemic really ‘over’ like Biden says? Experts say no
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David Byler / Washington Post:
This little-known election predictor should worry Democrats — As early voting begins around the country, every political data point would appear to marginally favor the Democrats. Polls suggest they lead ever so slightly in key Senate races and in national House polls.
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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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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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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.
Washington Post:
A landmark Supreme Court fight over social media now looks likely — The stakes are high because of the increasingly dominate role platforms such as Twitter and Facebook play in American democracy and elections — Conflicting lower court rulings about removing controversial material …
Chuck Todd / NBC News:
Remembering a pioneer in political journalism — Bob Balkin, one of the original editors of The Hotline, has died at age 60. He helped change how campaigns are covered. — Bob Balkin, a pioneer of modern political journalism, died Sunday at age 60 following a battle with cancer.
Stephanie Slade / Reason:
The Will to Power Was Front and Center at NatCon III — “Wokeism is not a fever that will pass but a cancer that must be eradicated,” declared a main-stage speaker at the third National Conservatism Conference ("NatCon III") last week. “In this new reality, the only institution with the power …
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Rachel Wolfe / Wall Street Journal:
High Food Prices Are Getting to People. The Scene at One Grocery Store Shows Why. — Shoppers explain the stress they feel while buying groceries amid the highest food inflation in over 40 years — HOUMA, La.—To understand how people are navigating inflation these days, go to a grocery-store parking lot.
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Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
U.S. Rep. Ronny Jackson, prominent Trump ally, weighing U.S. Senate run in 2026 — Jackson recently launched Spanish-language TV ads in his reelection campaign, which is not competitive, in an effort to raise his profile with Latino voters. — Copy link — U.S. Rep. Ronny Jackson …
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Blake Hounshell / New York Times:
Scholars Ask Congress to Scrap Winner-Take-All Political System — More than 200 political scientists wrote an open letter to lawmakers proposing sweeping changes to federal elections. The overhaul would be a heavy lift. — If there's one thing we know about America's creaking democracy …
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