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Herschel Walker Urged Woman to Have a 2nd Abortion, She Says — The Georgia Senate candidate's ex-girlfriend says he wanted her to terminate a pregnancy in 2011. She chose to have their son instead. — ATLANTA — A woman who has said Herschel Walker, the Republican Senate nominee in Georgia …
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Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
Herschel Walker's Wife Reaches Out to His Abortion Accuser — Herschel Walker still maintains he doesn't know who the woman is who's accusing him of having an abortion. His wife seems pretty clear on the matter. … Herschel Walker has maintained that he still doesn't know the identity …
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Mediaite, Daily Kos, Peach State Politics …, Associated Press and Raw Story
Marc Caputo / NBC News:
Texts show family strife between Herschel Walker's wife and woman who alleged he paid for her abortion — “I'm not saying she did or didn't have one [an abortion],” Walker told NBC News. “I'm saying I don't know anything about that. I don't know.” — Herschel Walker …
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Reuters:
Russian shelling has again forced the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant offline, Ukrainian officials say. … The bridge linking Crimea with Russia is damaged by fire after an explosion. — KRYVYI RIH, Ukraine — A fireball erupted on Saturday on the sole bridge linking the Crimean Peninsula to Russia …
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CNN:
Massive blast cripples Crimea-Russia bridge, in blow to Putin's war effort — In a major blow for Russian President Vladimir Putin, a huge explosion has severely damaged the only bridge connecting the annexed Crimean peninsula with the Russian mainland, paralyzing a key supply route for Moscow's faltering war in Ukraine.
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Associated Press:
Crimea bridge blast damages key Russian supply route; 3 dead — An explosion caused the partial collapse of a bridge linking the Crimean Peninsula with Russia on Saturday, damaging a key supply artery for the Kremlin's faltering war effort in southern Ukraine. Three people were killed in the blast, Russian authorities said.
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Rolling Stone:
Justice Department Asking if Trump Stashed Documents in Trump Tower — Investigators have quizzed multiple witnesses about whether Trump is holding sensitive government documents at other properties outside Mar-a-Lago, including at his Manhattan tower and his New Jersey club
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New York Times:
How Trump Deflected Demands for Documents, Enmeshing Aides — The former president exhibited a pattern of dissembling about the material he took from the White House, creating legal risk not just for himself but also some of his lawyers. — Late last year, as the National Archives ratcheted …
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Donald Trump seeks to withhold two folders seized at Mar-a-Lago — The former US president is trying to exclude a specific set of seized documents from an inquiry into his handling of government records — Donald Trump is seeking to withhold from the justice department two folders marked …
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Forbes and Law & Crime
Ty Ross / Occupy Democrats:
STAMPED OUT: Letitia James protects the mail with huge judicial win against DeJoy — “After he assumed leadership in June 2020, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy pushed through drastic changes to the U.S. Postal Service's operations that slowed mail operations nationwide, harmed everyday Americans, and made a mockery of the right to vote.
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Daily Kos
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David Shepardson / Reuters:
U.S. Postal Service wants to hike stamp prices to 63 cents
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Associated Press
Washington Post:
Kremlin, shifting blame for war failures, axes military commanders — Russian Ground Forces Gen. Alexander Dvornikov, who over a 44-year military career was best-known for scorched-earth tactics in campaigns he led in Syria and Chechnya, was named overall operational commander of the war in Ukraine in April.
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Susan Rinkunas / Jezebel:
Dr. Oz Stood in Front of One of Hitler's Cars at a Fundraiser and Had Jordan Peterson Call In — Matt Gaetz's in-laws hosted the high-dollar dinner from hell. What is this campaign doing? — Alerts — In what continues to be an incredibly puzzling campaign, Dr. Mehmet Oz attended …
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Roula Khalaf / Financial Times:
Elon Musk: 'Aren't you entertained?' … Dinner with Elon Musk begins with a drive in a Tesla. I am seated in the back, next to X, the billionaire's two-and-a-half-year-old son. It's around 7pm in Austin, and X is, as one would expect, cranky. We had set off to Fonda San Miguel …
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iaea.org:
Ukraine's ZNPP Must Be Urgently Protected, IAEA's Grossi Says After Plant Loses All External Power Due to Shelling — Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) has lost its last remaining external power source due to renewed shelling and is now relying on emergency diesel generators …
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Associated Press, Politico and TASS
Jessica Piper / Politico:
Why Trump's last-minute super PAC spending doesn't go as far — Former President Donald Trump's new super PAC is hitting the airwaves backing GOP Senate candidates in five key races. But his paid media efforts are unlikely to reach as many viewers as the campaigns and even some other outside groups.
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Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
Howard Schultz's fight to stop a Starbucks barista uprising — Starbucks's CEO saw his unionizing baristas as a threat to his life's work. They said he didn't understand how the country and their lives had changed. — SEATTLE — Howard Schultz, the billionaire founder of Starbucks …
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Bloomberg and Detroit Metro Times
Politico:
Biden's inside man in Trump land — Welcome to POLITICO's West Wing Playbook, your guide to the people and power centers in the Biden administration. … In the spring of 2020, JOE BIDEN's transition team viewed CHRIS LIDDELL skeptically. — As a deputy chief of staff to DONALD TRUMP …
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The Guardian, Washington Post, Washington Times and Washington Monthly
Julian Borger / The Guardian:
Are Putin's nuclear threats really likely to lead to Armageddon? — The realities underlying the menacing vocabulary are a grey area - it is far from certain that Putin would be prepared to use nuclear weapons — he past week has seen a rapid escalation in nuclear rhetoric …
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Associated Press:
Biden's ‘Armageddon’ talk edges beyond bounds of US intel
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New York Times:
Many of Hurricane Ian's Victims Were Older Adults Who Drowned — The storm, Florida's deadliest since 1935, has been linked to the deaths of at least 119 people in the state, many of them older residents who lived near the coast. — A 57-year-old woman in the Sarasota area developed hypothermia …
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New York Post and WINK NEWS
Wall Street Journal:
Himars Transform the Battle for Ukraine—and Modern Warfare — The mobile, high-precision U.S. rocket system is thwarting Russia's invasion as it revolutionizes military strategy — MYKOLAIV REGION, Ukraine—A global revolution in warfare is dramatically tipping the scales …
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News Items
Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist:
‘Utter takeover’: Pickleball invasion prompts turf war in West Village … We rely on your support to make local news available to all — Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2022. — Gothamist is funded by sponsors and member donations
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Greensburg Tribune-Review and Althouse
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Valeriy Tarasenko, associate of fake heiress who wandered Mar-a-Lago and posed with Donald Trump, shot outside Canadian resort — A close associate of a woman who posed as a member of a famous banking family and spent days at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home was shot Friday outside …
Steve Beynon / Military.com:
‘The Army Gave a Hunting Permit to Radical Partisans’: What a General's Bout with Fox Could Mean for Women — The Army's top enlisted leader says he is steadfast in his commitment to his promise of crafting a more inclusive environment for women as the service has been rocked …
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Washington Post:
Arizona GOP raised record money with misleading pitches on election audit — GOP chair Kelli Ward said in a text message the party had no plans to fund the review, despite what it was telling supporters — Arizona's Republican Party raised record sums in 2021 with repeated appeals …
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Associated Press and Political Wire
Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast:
Pro-Trump Rally-Goers Blame Mysterious Bogeymen for Latest Event Flop — Speakers bent over backwards to explain the low turnout, blaming “paid agitators,” the government, and would-be attendees' spam folders. — WASHINGTON, D.C.—Right-wing activists assembled on Capitol grounds Friday afternoon …
Ramesh Ponnuru / National Review:
CNN Misrepresents Representative Tom Emmer — The Minnesota congressman who heads the National Republican Congressional Committee is the lead example of Republican hypocrisy in a CNN story: … I read that lede and thought, Did Emmer really say that? That seems like a pretty hyperbolic description …
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Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
No, Americans Who Lose Political Debates Are Not Obliged to Shut Up Thereafter
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