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Todd / Mid Hudson News:
Homeless men recruited for veteran hotel scam — POUGHKEEPSIE - Seven homeless men have come forward to say they were part of a group of men recruited at a Poughkeepsie homeless shelter to act as veterans that had been displaced from a Newburgh hotel in order for a non-profit organization to perpetrate a fraud on the public.
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Insider, Rolling Stone, New York Post, New Republic, The Messenger, Digby's Hullabaloo and Hell Gate
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Joseph Spector / Politico:
Prosecutors looking into false reports of veterans displaced by migrants — The disabled veteran who made claims said the reports were a misunderstanding. — ALBANY, N.Y. — The state Attorney General's Office said Friday it is looking into reports that a nonprofit organization …
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Mid Hudson News and Daily Kos
Albany Times Union:
Story of homeless veterans displaced by migrants was false — A claim that veterans were ousted from Hudson Valley lodging as a result of NYC's migrant surge was a tall tale — Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate — NEWBURGH — Over the past week, a sensational story …
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Military Times, The Hill, The Daily Beast, New York Magazine, Mid Hudson News, Joe.My.God. and One America News Network
Phillip Pantuso / Albany Times Union:
Homeless men say they were recruited to pose as displaced vets
Homeless men say they were recruited to pose as displaced vets
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Joe.My.God. and Alternet.org
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Homeless Vets Story Eaten Up By Fox News Turns Out to Be Spectacularly False
Homeless Vets Story Eaten Up By Fox News Turns Out to Be Spectacularly False
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The American Independent, Media Matters for America and Mid Hudson News
Adam Cancryn / Politico:
Biden's 14th Amendment message to progressives: It ain't gonna happen — The president's advisers fear such a move would trigger a legal battle, undermine global faith in U.S. creditworthiness and damage the economy. — Progressive lawmakers renewed their call for President Joe Biden …
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Washington Examiner, The Hill, Bloomberg, Axios, KTLA, Insider, PoliticusUSA and acecomments.mu.nu
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Catie Edmondson / New York Times:
Debt Limit Talks Hit Snag as G.O.P. Declares a ‘Pause’ — Republicans left negotiations on Friday, saying the White House was refusing to move its way on spending cuts. — Reporting from Washington — Negotiations between top White House and Republican congressional officials over a deal …
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Associated Press, ABC News, Politico, Bloomberg, NBC News, Washington Times, USA Today, Orange County Register, Reuters, NPR, The Hill, CBS News, NewsNation, The Nation, Axios and Jacobin
Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
Debt ceiling talks resume after Republicans trigger brief pause
Debt ceiling talks resume after Republicans trigger brief pause
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Bloomberg, Politico, Associated Press, One America News Network, RedState, Washington Examiner, Washington Times, Fox News, Joe.My.God., CNN and Reuters
Washington Post:
White House, GOP abruptly break off debt ceiling talks as deadline nears
White House, GOP abruptly break off debt ceiling talks as deadline nears
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HuffPost, TIME, The Guardian, WWLP-TV, Plain Dealer, WGN-TV, Insider, UPI, NewsNation, USA Today and The Hill
Sascha Pare / LiveScience:
Orcas have sunk 3 boats in Europe and appear to be teaching others to do the same. But why? — Scientists think a traumatized orca initiated the assault on boats after a “critical moment of agony” and that the behavior is spreading among the population through social learning.
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BGR
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
FBI misused surveillance tool on Jan. 6 suspects, BLM arrestees and others — Crime victims, political donors, and potential sources were targeted in digital searches that the FBI says have now been scaled back — The FBI has misused a powerful digital surveillance tool more than 278,000 times …
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Maggie Miller / Politico:
FBI misused surveillance authorities to investigate Black Lives Matter protesters
FBI misused surveillance authorities to investigate Black Lives Matter protesters
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Common Dreams
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
F.B.I. Violated Surveillance Program Rules After George Floyd Protests and Jan. 6 Attack
F.B.I. Violated Surveillance Program Rules After George Floyd Protests and Jan. 6 Attack
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Fox News, Associated Press and Daily Caller News Foundation
David Weigel / Semafor:
Megan Hunt doesn't want to be your Democratic hero. She just wants to protect her trans son. — The Subject — “I don't like you.” Nebraska state Sen. Megan Hunt said that to Republicans in March, as she filibustered legislation that would ban gender-affirming treatment for minors like her son, Ash Homan.
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Associated Press, Washington Examiner, Jezebel, PinkNews, New Republic, Raw Story and LGBTQ Nation
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Tori Otten / New Republic:
Nebraska Passes Double-Whammy Bill Banning Abortion and Trans Kids' Health Care
Nebraska Passes Double-Whammy Bill Banning Abortion and Trans Kids' Health Care
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Jezebel, Associated Press and Truthout
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
D.C. police lieutenant indicted with tipping off Proud Boy Enrique Tarrio about arrest — After Jan. 6, Lt. Shane Lamond said he supported the group and didn't “want to see your group's name or reputation dragged through the mud,” an indictment alleged. — WASHINGTON — A Metropolitan …
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Washington Post, DeadState, Associated Press, Joe.My.God., Truthout, CNN, HuffPost and Politico
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US Department of Justice:
MPD Lieutenant Charged with Obstruction of Justice and False Statements
MPD Lieutenant Charged with Obstruction of Justice and False Statements
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Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, ABC News, Al Jazeera, emptywheel, Washington Post, One America News Network, Washington Examiner, NPR, UPI, Raw Story, Law & Crime, CBS News, New York Daily News, New York Magazine, The Hill, Washington Press, NewsNation, Insider, Rolling Stone and The Messenger
Josh Kovensky / Talking Points Memo:
DC Police Intel Chief Was Supplicant To Proud Boys Leader, Prosecutors Say
DC Police Intel Chief Was Supplicant To Proud Boys Leader, Prosecutors Say
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NBC News and Digby's Hullabaloo
Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
Rudy Giuliani's raw reaction to sexual assault suit by employee he ‘dated’ was quietly edited, and the truth may be even stranger — Two days after a woman filed a salacious lawsuit accusing Rudy Giuliani of rape, The Gateway Pundit ran the former mayor's raw and “EXCLUSIVE” reaction to her sexual abuse claims.
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Josh Fiallo / The Daily Beast:
Rudy Giuliani's Election Fraud Lawyer Can't Stand Him Anymore
Rudy Giuliani's Election Fraud Lawyer Can't Stand Him Anymore
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Election Law Blog, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Raw Story, Washington Press and Gothamist
Guy Trebay / New York Times:
Do Dress Sneakers Belong in the Oval Office? — People felt strongly after spotting the hybrid shoe at a meeting with the president. — Think of it as a rare instance of cross-aisle consensus or else a sartorial trend gone badly wrong. But it did not go unnoticed when …
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The Spectator World
Washington Post:
The short life of Baby Milo — Nobody expected Baby Milo to live for long. — He arrived in the world with no kidneys, underdeveloped lungs and a life expectancy of between 20 minutes and a couple of hours. — He lived for 99 minutes. — Milo Evan Dorbert drew his first and last breath on the evening of March 3.
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Raw Story
NBC News:
U.S. and allies plan to provide Ukrainian pilots with F-16 fighter jets, official says — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has repeatedly called on the U.S. to provide F-16 jets, but U.S. President Joe Biden had so far refused the requests. — HIROSHIMA, Japan …
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CNN, CBS News, WWLP-TV, New York Post, Euromaidan Press, National Review, Fox News, Associated Press, UPI and The Guardian
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Michael Kruse / Politico:
The Casey DeSantis Problem: ‘His Greatest Asset and His Greatest Liability’ — Ron DeSantis' wife is going to play a very prominent role in his presidential campaign. Some of his supporters wonder if that's an entirely good thing. — Casey DeSantis plays an uncommonly pivotal role …
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New York Post, Mediaite, RedState, HotAir, The Nation, Vox, Twitchy and Raw Story
Kwame Anthony Appiah / New York Times:
My Husband Flies First Class and Puts Me in Coach. Is That Fair? — The magazine's Ethicist columnist on who deserves what in a marriage. … — Name Withheld — From the Ethicist: — The institution of marriage has always taken on characteristics of the society in which it arises.
Liam Stack / New York Times:
A University Fired 2 Employees for Including Their Pronouns in Emails — The firings set off a debate at Houghton University, a small Christian institution in western New York, which said its decision was not based only on the pronoun listings. — When Raegan Zelaya and Shua Wilmot decided …
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Raw Story, The Daily Caller, Lawyers, Guns & Money and The Messenger
Politico:
Georgetown invited Navalny's kid to commencement. ‘Chaos’ followed. — A chorus of students at Georgetown University's foreign service school are lashing out at the administration over a controversial choice of speaker for Saturday's commencement — the daughter of an imprisoned Russian opposition leader.
New York Times:
Trump Ally Could Face Perjury Charge if He Doesn't Cooperate With D.A. — After bringing charges against former President Donald J. Trump, the Manhattan district attorney's office is once again investigating Allen H. Weisselberg, 75. — One of Donald J. Trump's longtime lieutenants …
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Talking Points Memo, Washington Press, Joe.My.God. and Raw Story
Ron Dicker / HuffPost:
Ted Cruz Launches Senate Probe Into Bud Light's Ad With Dylan Mulvaney — The Texas Republican demanded the beer industry investigate on its own — or have Anheuser-Busch apologize for the alleged Mulvaney infraction. — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) this week opened a Senate investigation …
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Rolling Stone:
Fox News Just Axed Its Investigative Unit, Sources Say — More layoffs could still be on the way as the network tries to cut costs following its settlement with Dominion, insiders tell Rolling Stone … “The rank and file journalists are getting let go meanwhile upper management …
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New York Daily News, Alternet.org, IJR, Political Wire and TIME
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
White House reporters stuck with $25,000 charges after Biden trip canceled — Some correspondents think it could prompt media bosses to pull back from covering the president on future overseas tours — Every traveler dreads a sudden flight cancellation. But few travelers have been stuck …
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Breitbart, more at Mediagazer »
Washington Post:
Mike Lindell's $5 million contest winner takes him to federal court — A Nevada computer scientist has gone to federal court to pursue the $5 million prize he is owed by MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell following a ruling by private arbitrators last month.
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Insider, Raw Story, CNN, CBS News, Alternet.org and Joe.My.God.
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Two GOP senators smear a witness to defend Clarence Thomas — Mark L. Wolf has spent his career fighting against corruption and for the rule of law — as a public corruption prosecutor, as a federal judge, as a crusader against international kleptocracy. For that, at a hearing on judicial ethics …
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Senate Candidate ‘Patriot Whistleblower’ Admits to Fabricating Sex Trafficking Story — Ryan Dark White, who ran for Congress as “Jon McGreevey,” took pictures of a child he said was being trafficked. It was a campaign stunt, he now admits. — A failed Republican congressional candidate allied …
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Raw Story
Sam Levine / The Guardian:
He voted in Florida for the first time in 2020. Then came the criminal charges — John Boyd Rivers says he was misled by an election official who urged him to vote for the first time in 2020. Now he's been found guilty of voter fraud — The fight for democracy is supported by