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CNN:
Trump and the Town Hall — It's hard to see how America was served by the spectacle of lies that aired on CNN Wednesday evening. — Kaitlan Collins is as tough and knowledgable of an interviewer as they come. She fact-checked Trump throughout the 70-minute town hall.
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Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair:
CNN's Donald Trump Town Hall Was Essentially a Campaign Rally — The network gave Trump a platform to spout lies and insults—and a cheering section! Network boss Chris Licht is defending the debacle, but inside, says one CNN journalist, “the mood is absolutely the lowest.”
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Axios:
Key takeaways from Trump's CNN town hall … - He inserted himself into the delicate negotiations over the debt ceiling and said congressional Republicans should let the U.S. government default unless Democrats agree to “massive” budget cuts. — He downplayed the potential fallout from a default …
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Politico:
Playbook: How Trump dominated CNN — Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross — DRIVING THE DAY — TITLE 42 GETS EIGHTY-SIXED — NYT: “U.S. Warns Migrants Before End of Pandemic Restrictions That ‘Border Is Not Open’” ... WaPo: “Texas uses aggressive tactics to arrest migrants …
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Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots:
The Moment That You Knew — Critics had worried that giving the indicted, twice-impeached, coup-plotting, chronically lying sexual predator an unedited, live television forum might turn out badly. — The reality, however, was far ghastlier: a sh*tshow for the ages, and a moment that captured …
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Michael Tomasky / New Republic:
Shame on CNN for That Naked, Cynical Play for Fox Viewers — Here's what Chris Licht said the day he took over at CNN: “Sadly, too many people have lost trust in the news media. I think we can be a beacon in regaining that trust by being an organization that exemplifies the best characteristics …
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New York Times:
Five Takeaways From Trump's Unruly CNN Town Hall — Behaving as the Republicans' de facto nominee, Donald Trump dug in on his 2020 lies and dodged on abortion. The G.O.P. audience cheered, but so did Democrats seeking 2024 fodder. — Donald Trump is still Donald Trump.
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Rolling Stone:
‘F—king Disgrace’: CNN Gifts Trump Primetime Campaign Rally — Network insiders who spoke to Rolling Stone were distraught that the former president had free rein to “spew lies” during the ill-advised town hall — CNN INVITED DONALD Trump to lie on its airwaves for over an hour on Wednesday night.
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Darren Tome / CNN:
The chilling reality of Trump — CNN Opinion asked expert contributors to weigh in with their reactions to former President Donald Trump's CNN town hall on Wednesday night. The views expressed in this commentary are their own. — Paul Begala: Trump whined, griped and complained
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John Hendrickson / The Atlantic:
Entirely Unrepentant — “Our country is being destroyed by stupid people,” former President Donald Trump declared during a CNN town hall tonight, shortly after he endorsed defaulting on the national debt. — Trump remains without shame. Neither impeachment nor indictment nor arraignment nor …
Alex Sherman / CNBC:
CNN town hall shows the network still doesn't know how to handle Donald Trump — CNN is trying to rebrand itself as a down-the-middle, facts-only network. — Trump's Wednesday town hall performance felt more like a rally than an attempt to keep him tethered to the truth.
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Tom Jones / Poynter:
CNN's Trump town hall turns into a Trump rally
CNN's Trump town hall turns into a Trump rally
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
CNN Chairman Defends Decision to Host Trump Town Hall
CNN Chairman Defends Decision to Host Trump Town Hall
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Ed Mazza / HuffPost:
Hakeem Jeffries Torches Trump Republicans By Naming Their 3 Basic Pillars
Hakeem Jeffries Torches Trump Republicans By Naming Their 3 Basic Pillars
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Jason Easley / PoliticusUSA:
The Lincoln Project Unloads On CNN For Malpractice In Normalizing Trump
The Lincoln Project Unloads On CNN For Malpractice In Normalizing Trump
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Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
CNN's Trump Town Hall: All Spectacle, No Sunlight
CNN's Trump Town Hall: All Spectacle, No Sunlight
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Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
CNN's Kaitlan Collins tries, and tries, to rebut Trump's election lies
CNN's Kaitlan Collins tries, and tries, to rebut Trump's election lies
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Ben Terris / Politico:
The Drug-Fueled Protest in Dianne Feinstein's Office You Haven't Heard About — Tales of workplace woe from the underside of the nation's Capitol. — He wasn't supposed to be there, but he was wearing a suit and he still had his congressional employee badge.
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ProPublica:
The Origins of Our Investigation Into Clarence Thomas' Relationship With Harlan Crow — The lavish travel, real estate deal and tuition arrangements have set off a frenzy. Here's where our reporting started and how we got the story. — Our reporting on the relationship between Supreme …
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Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
House Republican Report Finds No Evidence of Wrongdoing by President Biden — After months of investigation and many public accusations of corruption against Mr. Biden and his family, the first report of the premier House G.O.P. inquiry showed no proof of such misconduct. — Reporting from Washington
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Tori Otten / New Republic:
Republicans Finally Admit They Have No Incriminating Evidence on Joe Biden
Republicans Finally Admit They Have No Incriminating Evidence on Joe Biden
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Devan Markham / NewsNation:
Comer: Biden family received $10M from foreign nationals
Comer: Biden family received $10M from foreign nationals
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Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court throws out ex-Cuomo aide's bribery conviction — The justices' ruling narrowed the scope of a law used to root out public corruption. — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday narrowed the scope of a federal anticorruption law by ruling in favor of an ex-aide to former …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Throws Out Fraud Convictions in Albany Scandals
Supreme Court Throws Out Fraud Convictions in Albany Scandals
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Ian Millhiser / Vox:
Is the debt ceiling constitutional? — What will the courts do if House Republicans push the United States into a default? — The United States has a time bomb written into federal law, and no one knows whether it is constitutional or not. — As anyone who has paid attention …
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Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Yellen Calls Invoking 14th Amendment to Raise Debt Limit ‘Legally Questionable’
Yellen Calls Invoking 14th Amendment to Raise Debt Limit ‘Legally Questionable’
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Scott Waldman / Politico:
Manchin attacked EPA's new rules. They could cost him millions. — The West Virginia senator accused the Biden administration of killing coal plants. One, in particular, has helped enrich him. — When Sen. Joe Manchin upbraided EPA on Wednesday for requiring power plants to reduce …
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Hans Nichols / Axios:
Scoop: Manchin flirts with Iowa voters
Scoop: Manchin flirts with Iowa voters
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Connie Wang / New York Times:
Connie — IT WAS ON MY FIRST DAY OF COLLEGE at the University of California, Berkeley, when I started to realize there were more of us out there. — Suddenly, I was among a student body that was almost 50 percent Asian. While I was standing in line to order a sandwich at the campus cafe …
Nina Golgowski / HuffPost:
New York City Weakens Right-To-Shelter Rules Ahead Of Expected Migrant Surge — The mayor's executive order suspends longstanding shelter guarantees for families with children as the city braces for an influx of migrants. — New York City has suspended portions of its longstanding right …
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ProPublica:
Video Showed an Officer Trying to Stop His Partner From Killing a Man. Now We Know Police Investigators Never Even Asked About the Footage. — We obtained the NYPD's full investigation into the killing of Kawaski Trawick, including documents and audio of interviews with the officers.
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Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
Here Are Five Rules for the Media When They Cover Trump — This isn't rocket science, people. — ∙ Paid — Tonight on the livestream I'm going to talk with Will Saletan and Adam Keiper about the CNN town hall, the E. Jean Carroll verdict, and Will's Lindsey Graham opus.
New York Times:
What's Driving Record Levels of Migration to the U.S. Border? — The United States is trying to curtail border crossings as a Covid-era immigration policy lifts this week, but it has little control over the crises in Latin America that have upended the lives of millions.
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
‘The forever prisoner’: Abu Zubaydah's drawings expose the US's depraved torture policy — Exclusive: For 21 years, the detainee has been in US custody without charge, tortured and sexually humiliated, with no prospect for release — Warning: the images and descriptions of torture in this article are extremely graphic
Al Weaver / The Hill:
Feinstein return allows Judiciary Committee to advance three stalled nominees — Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) returned to her post on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday and greenlit the passage of three judicial nominees who had been stalled during her lengthy health-related absence.
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Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
Trump gave prosecutors new evidence for all three ongoing criminal cases: experts — Legal experts believe that former President Donald Trump's CNN town hall at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire gave fresh evidence to every one of the three ongoing criminal cases against him, reported Salon on Thursday.
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Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
Washington Post names Matea Gold as new managing editor — Matea Gold will become a managing editor of The Washington Post, executive editor Sally Buzbee announced Thursday. — She replaces Steven Ginsberg, who left The Post last year to take a position as top editor of the Athletic, a sports site owned by the New York Times.
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Erika Edwards / NBC News:
At least two cases of drug-resistant ringworm infections found in the U.S., CDC says — Cases of the infection had surged in South Asia over the past decade. — Two cases of highly contagious, drug-resistant ringworm infections have been detected in New York City — the first such cases ever reported …
Hugo Bachega / BBC:
Zelensky says Ukraine needs more time for counter-offensive — Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has said his country needs more time to launch a much-anticipated counter-offensive against Russian forces, as the military awaits the delivery of promised aid.
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