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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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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 …
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.
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Biden's never-Trump campaign for '24 … But Biden sees Trump as a lethal threat to America — the reason to run and the issue to build his campaign around. … - “When I ran for president four years ago, I said we are in a battle for the soul of America - and we still are,” Biden says in the video announcing his reelection.
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.
Katie Glueck / New York Times:
Biden names Julie Chávez Rodríguez as his campaign manager.  —  Ms. Chávez Rodríguez, a veteran of Vice President Kamala Harris's political orbit, also worked on the president's 2020 campaign before becoming director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.
Discussion: The Hill and Politico
National Review:
America Doesn't Want This Biden Reelection Bid  —  Public-opinion polling regularly shows that lopsided majorities of the American people, and even significant majorities of Democrats, think that Joe Biden should not run for another term as president.  An NBC News poll released on Sunday …
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Tucker Carlson's Exit Shows Who's the Real Star at Fox  —  No one is irreplaceable at the network.  It was designed that way.  —  If you're wondering did Tucker Carlson jump, was he pushed or were he and Fox News wrestling on the ledge of a skyscraper, and the two of them fell 57 stories …
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Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots:
Tucker's Demise  —  Fox “parts ways” with a uniquely toxic voice.  —  It was as abrupt as it was shocking.
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Julia Davis / The Daily Beast:
Hysterical Putin Pals Claim the Deep State Took Out Tucker Carlson
Adam Gabbatt / The Guardian:
Tucker Carlson leaves a toxic legacy at Fox News. What's next?
Jeffrey Lord / The American Spectator:
Fox Dumps Tucker to Go Woke
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.
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 …
New York Times:
Major G.O.P. Donor's Commitment to DeSantis Is Murkier Than Thought  —  The hedge fund billionaire Kenneth Griffin, who seemed set to be a powerful financial backer of the Florida governor, is said to still be evaluating the Republican primary race.  —  Nearly six months ago, Kenneth Griffin …
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Daniel W. Drezner / Drezner's World:
The Ron DeSantis Bubble Deflates  —  You know it's hard out there for a Florida governor...  Remember six months ago?  The Republican Party had just massively underperformed in the midterm elections, and a lot of GOP power brokers were grousing that the blame lay with one Donald J. Trump.
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.
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 …
Discussion: HotAir
CNN:
Haley courts moderates with anti-abortion speech as GOP struggles with the issue  —  Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Tuesday will attempt to appeal to swing voters and more moderate Republicans as she delivers an anti-abortion speech in a call to reframe an issue that the GOP …
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Ava Sasani / New York Times:
North Dakota Governor Signs Near-Total Abortion Ban
Jack Dura / The Bismarck Tribune:
Burgum signs off on revisions to North Dakota abortion laws
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 …
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
Trump Is Losing the E. Jean Carroll Rape Case Even Before It Starts  —  Trump tried to prevent jurors from hearing about another incident when he allegedly forced himself on another journalist.  It didn't work.  —  With the rape trial of former President Donald Trump just days away …
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Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
Trump Faces Rape Allegation as E. Jean Carroll's Suit Goes to Trial
Washington Post:
Mallory McMorrow has a ‘bench’ warning for Democrats  —  Welcome to The Daily 202!  Tell your friends to sign up here.  On this day in 1983, the U.S.S.R. made public a reply from Soviet Premier Yuri Andropov to 10-year-old Samantha Smith of Maine, inviting her to visit his country.
New York Times:
Harry Belafonte, 96, Dies; Barrier-Breaking Singer, Actor and Activist  —  In the 1950s, when segregation was still widespread, his ascent to the upper echelon of show business was historic.  But his primary focus was civil rights.  —  By Peter Keepnews  —  Harry Belafonte …
Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Company with ties to GOP megadonor and longtime friend of Justice Thomas had business before Supreme Court  —  A company related to Republican megadonor Harlan Crow, a longtime friend of Clarence Thomas who paid for lavish trips for the Supreme Court justice and his wife …
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Rachel Frazin / The Hill:
Comer threatens to subpoena Biden administration over Kerry documents  —  House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is threatening to subpoena the Biden administration over documents related to climate envoy John Kerry's office and work.  —  Comer previously requested documents related …
Discussion: Washington Times and BizPac Review
Silja J.A. Talvi / The Appeal:
Women Report ‘Rampant’ Sexual Abuse at Federal Prison Where Ghislaine Maxwell Is Held  —  Content warning: This story contains graphic descriptions of sexual abuse.  —  The word spread like wildfire in July 2022 throughout FCI Tallahassee, a low-security federal women's prison in Florida: Ghislaine Maxwell had arrived.
 
 
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Grant Stern / Washington Press:
EXCLUSIVE: Democrat becomes first senator calling for Justice Thomas' resignation
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Gallup:
Russia Suffers Global Rebuke After Invasion
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Biden's “freedom” pitch and the coming political realignment
The Baltimore Banner:
Black residents are leaving Baltimore in large numbers, heading to suburbs
Allison Quinn / The Daily Beast:
Russian Lawmaker: Let's Bring Back ‘Stalinist Repressions’
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Bill Lueders / The Bulwark:
Tearing Down Art to Spare Republican Snowflakes' Feelings?
Discussion: Raw Story
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
As Carlson and Lemon Exit, a Chapter Closes on Cable's Trump War
Amanda Holpuch / New York Times:
Statue Is Defaced in England After Children Were Given Crayons
Discussion: NDTV
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Trans teen died from vaginoplasty complications during landmark Dutch study used to justify child sex changes
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Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January
 
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