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Cheryl Hall / Dallas Morning News:
Harlan Crow: There's nothing wrong with my friendship with Clarence Thomas — The billionaire, in an exclusive interview, explains his relationship with Thomas, his love of American history and wanting to stay out of the limelight. — Harlan Crow believes he and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas …
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Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Clarence Thomas to amend financial disclosure forms to reflect sale to GOP megadonor — Justice Clarence Thomas intends to amend his financial disclosure forms to reflect a 2014 real estate deal he made with a GOP megadonor - an acknowledgment that the transaction should have been disclosed almost …
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
The Truth About Clarence Thomas's Disclosures — He reported carefully on his inherited real estate. ProPublica's reporting was slipshod and incurious. — Clarence Thomas lost his beloved maternal grandparents barely a month apart in the spring of 1983.
Wall Street Journal:
Fox News, Dominion Prepare for Battle in $1.6 Billion Defamation Trial — Jury set to consider if network is liable for broadcasting false election-fraud claims; Fox is pushing to settle dispute — Fox News is set to find itself Monday in a place it has spent two years trying to avoid …
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Washington Post:
Dominion v. Fox trial delayed for settlement talks, people familiar with the matter say — Two people familiar with the case said the sides are scheduled to meet Monday to determine if a last-minute deal can be brokered — The beginning of the much-anticipated defamation case between …
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New York Times:
Judge Delays Fox and Dominion Trial by a Day
Judge Delays Fox and Dominion Trial by a Day
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Fox News False Election Claims Trial Start Pushed Back To Tomorrow, Judge Confirms; Settlement Talk Speculation Swirls; Fox Claims Dominion Has Reduced Its Claim Of Damages - Update
Fox News False Election Claims Trial Start Pushed Back To Tomorrow, Judge Confirms; Settlement Talk Speculation Swirls; Fox Claims Dominion Has Reduced Its Claim Of Damages - Update
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Dennis Romero / NBC News:
Start of trial in Dominion lawsuit against Fox News delayed
Start of trial in Dominion lawsuit against Fox News delayed
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Sarah Longwell / Bulwark+:
You Have to Think of Trump's Election as Year Zero — THERE ARE EVENTS SO EPOCHAL that they create clear periods of before and after: Hiroshima; the fall of the Berlin Wall; 9/11. Eight years after he declared his intention to run for president, it's now clear that we should consider Donald …
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Doug Sosnik / New York Times:
The ‘Diploma Divide’ Is the New Fault Line in American Politics — The legal imbroglios of Donald Trump have lately dominated conversation about the 2024 election. As primary season grinds on, campaign activity will ebb and wane, and issues of the moment — like the first Trump indictment …
Alex Roarty / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
New poll: DeSantis — not Trump — leads Biden in battleground states
New poll: DeSantis — not Trump — leads Biden in battleground states
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Robyn Dixon / Washington Post:
Russia sentences Kara-Murza, Putin critic and Post contributor, to 25 years — RIGA, Latvia — A Russian court sentenced Vladimir Kara-Murza, a longtime opposition politician and Washington Post Opinions contributor, to 25 years in prison on Monday on charges of treason for criticizing Russia's war on Ukraine.
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Matthew Luxmoore / Wall Street Journal:
Russian Court Sentences Putin Critic Vladimir Kara-Murza to 25 Years for Treason
Russian Court Sentences Putin Critic Vladimir Kara-Murza to 25 Years for Treason
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Freedom House:
Russia: Freedom House Condemns Kara-Murza Sentencing, Calls on Democracies to Act
Russia: Freedom House Condemns Kara-Murza Sentencing, Calls on Democracies to Act
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GOV.UK and The Guardian
Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
How Jim Jordan, a Fighter Aligned With Trump, Wrestled His Way to Power — The Ohio Republican defines himself by his penchant for punching back, whether against allegations that he was derelict in a sex abuse scandal or attempts to prosecute the former president.
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Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Fiscal crisis nears as McCarthy takes debt ceiling plan to Wall Street
Fiscal crisis nears as McCarthy takes debt ceiling plan to Wall Street
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Lee Moran / HuffPost:
Del. Stacey Plaskett Exposes Rep. Jim Jordan's Glaring Hypocrisy
Del. Stacey Plaskett Exposes Rep. Jim Jordan's Glaring Hypocrisy
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Wall Street Journal:
Social-Media Account Overseen by Former Navy Noncommissioned Officer Helped Spread Secrets — An American administrator of the Donbas Girl blogger network uses a pro-Russian persona across online platforms — A social-media account overseen by a former U.S. Navy noncommissioned officer …
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Juan Perez Jr / Politico:
Why GOP culture warriors lost big in school board races this month — “Don't assume that a blanket message on critical race theory or transgender issues is going to claim every district,” one GOP activist said. — Amid all the attention on this month's elections in Wisconsin and Illinois …
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Raw Story
KC Defender / Kansas City Defender:
“This Is A Hate Crime”: Kansas City Black Family Demanding Justice After A White Man Shoots Black Boy, Ralph Yarl, In The Head Twice For Ringing Doorbell Of The Wrong Home, White Man Released By Police Hours Later — Community members are demanding justice after a white man in Kansas City shot a black boy …
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Sexton responds, constituents call for resignation — On Thursday, Popular Information reported that Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton (R) secretly purchased a $600,000 home in Nashville. Sexton and his family live in the Nashville home year-round, raising questions about whether Sexton …
Chris Geidner / Law Dork with Chris Geidner:
Clarence Thomas's problems are also a John Roberts problem — As story after story after story comes out about the ways in which Justice Clarence Thomas has decided not to share accurate details of his financial circumstances while on the court, Thomas has had nothing to say since …
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Philip Allen Lacovara / The Hill:
Clarence Thomas should follow the Abe Fortas precedent and resign gracefully
Clarence Thomas should follow the Abe Fortas precedent and resign gracefully
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The Guardian:
‘A weapon of war’ — Protesters in at least 100 US cities were met with teargas attacks in 2020, and in the three years since, law enforcement agencies have continued to deploy the chemical munition against crowds. In just the last year, police agencies have teargassed abortion rights …
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Megan Brenan / Gallup:
Concern About Several Environmental Problems Dips in U.S. — WASHINGTON, D.C. — A majority of Americans, 55%, express “a great deal” of worry about the pollution of drinking water in the U.S., which remains their top environmental concern of six problems tested.
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Axios:
Exclusive: Hikvision internal review found contracts targeted Uyghurs — Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian- Ina Fried — Chinese surveillance giant Hikvision has repeatedly denied reports that the company is complicit in human rights abuses targeting Uyghurs in China's northwestern region of Xinjiang.
Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
McCarthy's pitch to shrink food aid drawing skepticism from fellow Republicans — The House Speaker will propose new restrictions on the nutrition program formerly known as food stamps as part of House Republicans' debt limit negotiations with the White House.
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