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Washington Post:
Biden announces 2024 reelection bid, saying he wants to ‘finish the job’ — President formalizes his intent to seek another term, setting the stage for a tumultuous election — President Biden officially announced his bid for reelection Tuesday morning, saying in a solemn launch video that he wants to …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The analyst who saw through 2022's red mirage has a prediction for Biden 2024 — Throughout the 2022 elections, Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg offered up a counterintuitive diagnosis: Confident GOP predictions of a “red wave” weren't just wrong, they were designed to deenergize Democratic voters with “negative sentiment.”
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Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
Sen. Bernie Sanders says he's endorsing Biden for reelection — Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont said Tuesday that he would forgo another presidential bid of his own and instead endorse President Joe Biden's reelection. The leading progressive, who was Biden's chief rival …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Biden Announces Re-election Bid, Defying Trump and History — While the president once pitched himself as “a bridge” to a new generation of Democratic leaders, he has decided that he is not ready to turn the torch over yet. — WASHINGTON — President Biden formally announced on Tuesday …
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NBC News:
Biden announces he is running for re-election, framing 2024 as a choice between ‘more rights or fewer’ — Biden, who at 80 is already the oldest commander-in-chief, said “MAGA extremists are lining up” to take away the social safety net and personal freedoms.
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Alex Thompson / Axios:
First look: RNC slams Biden in AI-generated ad … - The video features AI-created images appearing to show Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris celebrating at an Election Day party, followed by a series of imagined reports about international and domestic crises that the ad suggests would follow a Biden victory in 2024.
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
‘Damning’ new J6 recording: Ted Cruz discusses how to force a reassessment of Biden's win
‘Damning’ new J6 recording: Ted Cruz discusses how to force a reassessment of Biden's win
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Washington Post and New York Times
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
RNC's AI-generated Biden attack ad puzzles pundits, Democrats
RNC's AI-generated Biden attack ad puzzles pundits, Democrats
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Washington Post and Forbes
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Biden's never-Trump campaign for '24
Biden's never-Trump campaign for '24
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Katie Glueck / New York Times:
Biden names Julie Chávez Rodríguez as his campaign manager.
Biden names Julie Chávez Rodríguez as his campaign manager.
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Politico, Washington Examiner and The Hill
CBS News:
CBS News poll finds Democrats meet Biden reelection bid with acceptance, more than excitement
CBS News poll finds Democrats meet Biden reelection bid with acceptance, more than excitement
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Politico, The Daily Caller, RedState, Breitbart, Washington Examiner, ABC11 and CNBC
David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:
Joe Biden Is Old. Get Over It.
Joe Biden Is Old. Get Over It.
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Ryan Bort / Rolling Stone:
Bernie Sanders Endorses Biden for President
National Review:
America Doesn't Want This Biden Reelection Bid
America Doesn't Want This Biden Reelection Bid
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Biden threatens to veto House GOP bill to raise debt ceiling, slash spending
Biden threatens to veto House GOP bill to raise debt ceiling, slash spending
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
The Map, the Issues and the Incumbency Favoring Democrats
The Map, the Issues and the Incumbency Favoring Democrats
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Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Yes, Biden negotiated over the debt limit before. He's learned his lesson.
Yes, Biden negotiated over the debt limit before. He's learned his lesson.
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Associated Press, The Hill and The Daily Caller
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
Tucker Carlson's Prayer Talk May Have Led to Fox News Ouster: “That Stuff Freaks Rupert Out” — Fox Corp. chair Rupert Murdoch is said to have balked at Carlson's remarks in a Friday night speech, driving another theory about the prime-time star's abrupt exit. “He doesn't like all the spiritual talk,” said a source.
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American Prospect:
The Smuggest Man On Air — Goodbye for now to Tucker Carlson, who punctured the lazy pieties of the media class. — Tucker Carlson poses in a Fox News Channel studio on March 2, 2017, in New York. — Tucker Carlson has left Fox News, just days after the network settled a historic defamation lawsuit …
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Forbes, NPR, New York Times, Joe.My.God., The Desk and Washington Examiner
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Fox News' sudden firing of Tucker Carlson may have come down to one simple calculation
Fox News' sudden firing of Tucker Carlson may have come down to one simple calculation
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Morning Shots, Mercury News, Washington Post, Vox, Forbes, RADAR and New York Times
Heidi Przybyla / Politico:
Law firm head bought Gorsuch-owned property — The Supreme Court justice did not report the identity of the purchaser, whose firm has had numerous cases before the court. — For nearly two years beginning in 2015, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch sought a buyer for a 40-acre tract of property he co-owned in rural Granby, Colo.
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Ryan Bort / Rolling Stone:
Neil Gorsuch Has Joined the Supreme Court Ethics Scandal Party
Neil Gorsuch Has Joined the Supreme Court Ethics Scandal Party
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Twitchy, Washington Press and PoliticusUSA
Prem Thakker / New Republic:
Democratic Senator Calls for Clarence Thomas to Resign: “He Cannot Judge Right From Wrong”
Democratic Senator Calls for Clarence Thomas to Resign: “He Cannot Judge Right From Wrong”
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nate Silver Out at ABC News as Disney Layoffs Once Again Hit News Division — ABC News is expected to retain the FiveThirtyEight brand, with plans to streamline the data-driven site. — The second round of Disney layoffs once again hit ABC News on Tuesday, with Nate Silver's data-driven politics …
The Intercept:
Clarence Thomas Billionaire Benefactor Harlan Crow Bought Citizenship in Island Tax Haven … In partnership with — Harlan Crow, the billionaire GOP donor who paid for luxury travel on his private jet and yacht for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, was a dual citizen of the U.S …
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New York Times:
Taliban Kill Head of ISIS Cell That Bombed Kabul Airport — Thirteen U.S. service members and scores of Afghan civilians died in the bombing as the United States was evacuating in August 2021. — WASHINGTON — The Taliban have killed the leader of the Islamic State cell responsible …
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Matt Seyler / ABC News:
Taliban kills suspected ‘mastermind’ of bombing that killed 13 US troops, officials say — America didn't coordinate with the Taliban, according to an official. — The terrorist allegedly responsible for planning the August 2021 bombing at the Kabul, Afghanistan, airport …
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Dan McLaughlin / National Review:
Trump Tries to End the Game Before the Voters Get Involved — It is hard not to see a fear of Ron DeSantis animating everything Donald Trump does these days. Combine that with Trump's general modus operandi of crying foul in advance at anything he expects to go against him while declaring victory …
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Daniel W. Drezner / Drezner's World:
The Ron DeSantis Bubble Deflates
The Ron DeSantis Bubble Deflates
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Ben Goggin / NBC News:
A 13-year-old boy was groomed publicly on Twitter and kidnapped, despite numerous chances to stop it — The abduction came after a series of missed opportunities where Twitter and law enforcement failed to effectively intervene. — The 13-year-old Utah boy hung out in the typical online spaces …
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David Corn / Mother Jones:
Tucker Carlson's Long Con — Was his long, strange trip a put-up job? — Washington, DC, Bureau Chief — Tucker Carlson wasn't always Tucker Carlson. Or maybe he was. — When I met the recently defenestrated Fox host in the late 1990s, he was stylizing himself as a facts-driven reporter …
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Wesley Lowery / Columbia Journalism Review:
A Test of the News — Objectivity, democracy, and the American mosaic — We find ourselves in a perilous moment. Democracy is under withering assault. Technological advances have empowered propagandists to profit through discontent and disinformation.
David Wallace-Wells / New York Times:
Dr. Fauci Looks Back: ‘Something Clearly Went Wrong’ … It was, perhaps, an impossible job. Make one man the face of public health amid an unprecedented pandemic, in a country as fractious as the United States, and there were bound to be disappointments and frustrations, and they were bound to get personal.
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Tucker Realignment — Across Donald Trump's presidency and immediately afterward there was a lot of talk about realignment. Everyone could see that the Republican coalition was becoming more working-class and the Democratic coalition more dominated by upper-class professionals.
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The American Conservative and The Daily Beast
Natalie Allison / Politico:
Nikki Haley promised to address abortion ‘directly and openly.’ Then she didn't. — The conversation is not getting any easier for the GOP presidential contenders. — Nikki Haley's campaign had billed her Tuesday address on abortion as a “major policy speech” that would make clear …
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Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
E. Jean Carroll v. Donald Trump: Trials are unpredictable, but here's the roadmap for this one — As a trial begins in writer E. Jean Carroll's lawsuit against former president Donald Trump, the United States contemplates the startling possibility that a federal jury may declare …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Tuberville blocks Warren's attempt to begin advancing 184 military promotions — Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R) on Tuesday blocked a request by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) to allow 184 military promotions to move forward over his objection to the Pentagon's recently-enacted abortion policy.
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Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
Show more — Tacopina is now positing political or financial motives for Carroll's allegations against his client. He says that the jury will see that Carroll and her friends “schemed” to hurt Trump politically, and also to sell the book where she revealed her rape allegation.
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Washington Examiner
Washington Post:
Retired NSA director won lucrative consulting deals with Saudis, Japan — Retired Army Gen. Keith Alexander, who led the National Security Agency under Presidents Obama and George W. Bush, secured $2 million in consulting deals with foreign governments after leaving office …
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Raw Story
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
The Memo: How long will Tucker Carlson's influence linger? — Tucker Carlson is gone from Fox News, but his influence on conservative politics may linger — at least for a while. — Carlson, during his more than six years in Fox's prime-time lineup, became perhaps more closely aligned …
David Samuels / Tablet Magazine:
The RFK Jr. Tapes — The Democratic presidential candidate and America's most prominent ‘conspiracy theorist’ talks about his family, the military-pharmaceutical complex, and our new system of social control — I first met Bobby Kennedy Jr. when he showed up one summer afternoon in 1976 …