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Alex Leary / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Tops Ron DeSantis in Test of GOP Presidential Field, WSJ Poll Finds — No candidate beyond the two leaders draws substantial support in the still-developing primary race — WASHINGTON—Donald Trump has gained command of the GOP presidential-nomination race over Ron DeSantis …
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Eric Cortellessa / TIME:
Top DeSantis Donor Says He's Ready to Put His Fortune Behind 2024 Bid — It's been a rough two weeks for Ron DeSantis. Members of Congress from his own state have been endorsing Donald Trump in droves. A crippling gas shortage in South Florida coincided with the governor's travel …
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Politico:
Playbook: How to lose friends and alienate people, by Ron DeSantis — Presented by The U.S. Chamber of Commerce — With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross — DRIVING THE DAY — NEW 2024 POLLS — “Donald Trump Tops Ron DeSantis in Test of GOP Presidential Field, WSJ Poll Finds,” …
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New York Times:
Biden 2024 Re-election Announcement Could Come as Soon as Tuesday — A campaign video is said to be in production, and donors are being mobilized, for a run that could be announced early next week. — President Biden is nearing a final decision to formally enter the 2024 presidential race …
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Associated Press:
Biden 2024 splits Dems but most would back him: AP-NORC poll
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
BuzzFeed News Is Shutting Down, Company Laying Off 180 Staffers — BuzzFeed is shutting down BuzzFeed News because it is not able to turn a profit, according to a memo CEO Jonah Peretti sent to company staff Thursday. The digital publisher is laying off 15% of its employees, or about 180 people …
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Hillary Frey / Slate:
BuzzFeed News Is Dead — I heard about BuzzFeed News shutting down right before it hit Twitter. Word travels fast among industry old-timers like myself, and we try to keep each other in the loop. The consensus in this little group chat was that this is really sad, but not surprising.
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Ben Smith / Semafor:
The end of the BuzzFeed era in news — My old boss and partner Jonah Peretti announced today that he's shutting down BuzzFeed News, which we built together starting in 2012. — He wrote to staff that he'd been “slow to accept that the big platforms wouldn't provide the distribution …
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Juliegrace Brufke / Axios:
McCarthy at risk of falling short on GOP votes for debt ceiling bill — House Republicans are feeling a debt ceiling hangover, with senior GOP sources worrying they're significantly short on votes now that members have read the 320-page bill. … - Much of the skepticism is coming …
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Richard Cowan / Reuters:
US House Republicans squirm over Speaker McCarthy's debt ceiling proposal
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New York Times:
I.R.S. Official Is Said to Assert Political Meddling in Hunter Biden Inquiry — An agent overseeing the agency's portion of the investigation into the president's son is asking Congress for whistle-blower protection to discuss what he says is misconduct in the case.
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Steven Nelson / New York Post:
Attorney General Merrick Garland is ‘senior’ Biden official in Hunter Biden IRS whistleblower claim
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Phil Williams / WTVF-TV:
REVEALED: GOP leader, who voted to expel TN Three, resigns; found guilty of sexually harassing interns — A member of GOP leadership in the Tennessee House of Representatives was recently found guilty of sexually harassing at least one legislative intern, likely two, by an ethics subcommittee acting in secret,
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ABC News:
Charges dropped against Alec Baldwin in fatal on-set ‘Rust’ shooting: Sources — Baldwin was charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter. — Charges against Alec Baldwin have been dropped in the — fatal on-set “Rust” shooting — , according to sources familiar with the matter.
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Deadline:
Alec Baldwin Not Absolved In Fatal ‘Rust’ Shooting Despite Planned Dropping Of Charges, Prosecutors Say - Update
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NBC News:
Capitol rioter shot at local deputies after FBI informed him of Jan. 6 charges — Nathan Donald Pelham, of Texas, now faces an additional felony count, on top of the four misdemeanor charges stemming from the attack on the Capitol. — A Texas man facing charges in the Jan. 6 riot opened fire …
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New York Times:
How Hard Lines in Fox-Dominion Deal Talks Suddenly Softened — The $787.5 million settlement, believed to be the largest in a defamation case, came together quickly. — Reporting from Wilmington, Del. — On Tuesday morning, as the legal team for Dominion Voting Systems walked …
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Marshall Cohen / CNN:
Smartmatic wants more than Dominion's $787 million payout, plus a retraction from Fox for its 2020 election lies, lawyer says
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David French / New York Times:
Did Fox News Just Pay for the Privilege of Continued Corruption?
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Shania Shelton / CNN:
Larry Elder announces 2024 White House bid — Conservative talk radio host Larry Elder announced Thursday that he's launching a 2024 presidential campaign, joining a growing list of Republicans vying for the GOP nomination. — Elder will speak at the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition this weekend.
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Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic:
The Internet of the 2010s Ended Today — BuzzFeed News was more than a website: It defined an era. — If you're curious to know what it was like to work at BuzzFeed News in the salad days of the mid-2010s, here is a representative anecdote: I was sitting at my desk one morning …
Brian Lopez / The Texas Tribune:
Public schools would have to display Ten Commandments under bill passed by Texas Senate — The Senate also passed a bill that would set prayer and Bible reading times during the school day. — Public schools in Texas would have to prominently display the Ten Commandments …
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Washington Post:
Ukraine defended Bakhmut despite U.S. warnings in leaked documents — BAKHMUT, Ukraine — Months after dire warnings from Washington that Ukraine would not be able to hold Bakhmut against an onslaught of Russian mercenaries, Ukrainian forces still cling to the city's western edge …
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Uwa Ede-Osifo / NBC News:
Widow of man who died in custody of deputies in Oklahoma county where officials talked about lynching Black people files suit — A Tulsa woman has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the McCurtain County Sheriff and other local officials. — A Tulsa woman filed a wrongful death lawsuit …
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Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
Trump-appointed judge facing more scrutiny as Christian radio interviews surface — The far-right Trump-appointed federal judge in Texas who authored the opinion revoking the US Food and Drug Administration's approval of the abortion drug mifepristone failed to disclose interviews he gave …
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The Verge:
LeBron James didn't pay for his Twitter checkmark, but Elon Musk gave it to him anyway … Twitter has started getting rid of legacy blue checks for those who don't pay up. Well, unless you're LeBron James and a couple of other celebrities. — The Verge has confirmed that an employee …
E&E News:
GOP targets clean energy laws despite boons back home — Earlier this year, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene heralded the expansion of a South Korean solar panel production company in her district — a $2.5 billion cash infusion. — “QCells, the solar company ... I think they're fantastic,” she said.
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Politico:
Trump killed the ‘values voter’ wing of the GOP. It isn't coming back in 2024. — On the eve of a Christian cattle call in Iowa, the two 2024 contenders who talk the most about their faith aren't gaining traction. — Mike Pence has spent nearly a half dozen of his Sundays in recent months speaking …
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Gideon Rubin / Raw Story:
‘Self-infatuated extremist’: Marjorie Taylor Greene hit with brutal op-ed after rushing to defend a ‘reckless brat’ — Shortly after federal authorities announced the arrest of Jack Douglas Teixeira on allegations the 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guard member leaked sensitive …
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Miranda Devine / New York Post:
Ex-CIA chief spills on how he got spies to write false Hunter Biden laptop letter to ‘help Biden’ — Joe Biden's presidential campaign prompted former acting CIA director Mike Morell to “help Biden” by organizing 50 colleagues to sign a letter in October 2020 falsely claiming that damning emails …
Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
‘A Quick Death or a Slow Death’: Prisoners Choose War to Get Lifesaving Drugs — An estimated 20 percent of Russia prisoner recruits are H.I.V. positive. To some, the front lines seemed less risky than prisons where they said they were denied effective treatments.
Washington Post:
Amplifiers of election lies pay a price, but it's not clear if it'll make a difference — Welcome to The Cybersecurity 202! The NBA Playoffs went from “Draymond Green unlikely to face suspension” to the refs just throwing everyone out of the Nets-76ers game.
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James Call / Tallahassee Democrat:
Prosecutor's memo said Hispanics get tougher plea deals; state attorney calls it a mistake — State Attorney Jack Campbell moved quickly Wednesday night to counter allegations his office singles out Hispanic defendants in rural North Florida for stiffer penalties in plea bargain offers.
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