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GOP rejects White House compromise to limit spending as talks stall — Talks broke down on Friday but resumed later that night. A deadline to raise the borrowing cap is fast approaching. — Republican negotiators rejected a White House offer to limit spending next year on both the military …
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Jonathan Lemire / Politico:
Debt ceiling talks break down and attacks escalate as deadline approaches — The GOP wants to raise spending for the military, veterans care and border security; the White House wants to spread the impact of cuts across the board. — Debt ceiling negotiations deteriorated …
Eduard Gismatullin / Bloomberg:
White House Calls Republican Budget Pact Offer ‘A Big Step Back’ — The budget offer made by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's team on May 19 was “a big step back” and contained a set of extreme partisan demands that could never pass both Houses of Congress, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said.
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Julia Shapero / The Hill:
McCarthy signals debt limit negotiations can't move forward until Biden returns — Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) signaled on Saturday that he doesn't think debt limit negotiations can move forward until President Biden returns to Washington. — “Unfortunately, the White House moved backwards …
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New York Times:
Former Trump Lawyer Describes Conflict Inside Legal Team — Timothy Parlatore, who withdrew this past week from representing the former president in the special counsel investigations, said he stepped aside over differences with a Trump adviser, Boris Epshteyn.
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Kaanita Iyer / CNN:
Former key Trump attorney says he left because of legal team infighting — Former Donald Trump attorney Timothy Parlatore, who departed the former president's legal team earlier this week, said Saturday he left because of infighting among the group. — “It had nothing to do with the case itself …
Nicole Carr / ProPublica:
He Became Convinced the School Board Was Pushing “Transgender Bullshit.” He Ended Up Arrested — and Emboldened. — An image of a shooting target — with two bullet holes to the head and five scattered around the chest — serves as a warning to visitors who climb the brick steps and pass …
Gillian McGoldrick / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Doug Mastriano says he'll announce next week if he'll run for U.S. Senate, teasing ‘crazy good news’ — State Sen. Doug Mastriano plans to make an announcement next week about the decision he has made on whether he will run for U.S. Senate, in what he teased as “crazy good news.”
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NAACP:
NAACP Issues Travel Advisory in Florida — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — Contact: Chyna Fields cfields@naacpnet.org — WASHINGTON - Today, the NAACP Board of Directors issued a formal travel advisory for the state of Florida. The travel advisory comes in direct response …
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Tensions Flare Inside The Messenger, a Fledgling News Site — The company's high-volume approach to digital publishing has led to duplicated stories and alienated some of its journalists. At least one editor has already resigned. — Executives at The Messenger, a news start-up …
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Mike Lofgren / Salon:
The GOP's heart of darkness: Why Ron DeSantis can never beat Donald Trump — No Republican can beat Trump, because no one else can command his coalition of damaged, discarded, marginal people — In the last few weeks the mainstream media have not only buried the presidential ambitions …
Dwight Garner / New York Times:
Martin Amis, Acclaimed Author of Bleakly Comic Novels, Dies at 73 — In books like “Money” and “The Information,” he created “a high style to describe low things,” as he put it. He found more renown as a critic, and a measure of unease as his famous father's son.
Dana Kennedy / New York Post:
Daniel Penny, charged in NYC subway chokehold death, breaks silence: ‘I am not a white supremacist’ — Ex-Marine Daniel Penny insisted to The Post Saturday that the chokehold killing of Jordan Neely had nothing to do with race — and everything to do with a broken system “that so desperately failed us.”
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Jason Linkins / New Republic:
The Beltway Media Is Spreading Debt Limit Misinformation — Having watched Capitol Hill fall into chaotic convulsions over the debt ceiling a million times before, I've come to the conclusion that the only way to properly negotiate your way through a debt ceiling crisis is to not negotiate at all.
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Susie Blann / Associated Press:
Russia says Wagner private army, with help from Russian troops, seized Bakhmut — Russia's defense ministry said early Sunday that forces of the Wagner private army, with the support of Russian troops, seized the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. The ministry statement on the Telegram channel came …
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David Sims / The Atlantic:
Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon Is a Triumph — The highly anticipated adaptation of David Grann's book is extraordinary filmmaking—and a big win for Apple TV+. — David Grann's nonfiction book Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI …
Politico:
Prosecutor connected to Jan. 6 probe takes on lawyer for tech companies in mystery appeals court fight — Lawyers for prominent firm WilmerHale were spotted leaving the courthouse Friday after sealed oral arguments in the special counsel-connected matter. — A Justice Department attorney …
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New York Times:
After a Show-Stopping Entrance at the G7, Zelensky Pleads for More Aid — He urged his supporters to stay the course and tried to convince fence sitters like India and Brazil that there is no middle ground. — President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine landed in Japan on Saturday determined …
The White House:
Statement from White House Communications Director Ben LaBolt on a Reasonable Bipartisan Budget Agreement — President Biden has made clear for weeks that Congress must act to prevent default. Earlier this week, the President met with the four Congressional leaders at the White House …
Jason Burke / The Guardian:
Russian mercenaries behind slaughter of 500 in Mali village, UN report finds — Report implicates Wagner group fighters in Moura atrocity, including the torture and rape of civilians — First came a single helicopter, flying low over the marshes around the river outside the village …
Rachel Roubein / Washington Post:
Republicans deploy new playbook for abortion bans, citing political backlash — GOP lawmakers in North Carolina and Nebraska are casting new 12-week bans as “mainstream,” while Democrats say they are “cruel and extreme” — Nebraska antiabortion groups and GOP lawmakers were stunned.
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Jenny Goldsberry / Washington Examiner:
Nebraska passes abortion and transgender treatment bill into law
Nebraska passes abortion and transgender treatment bill into law
Caroline Vakil / The Hill:
Colorado GOP fears it's ceding ground to Democrats — Republican worries are growing that Colorado is slipping further into the hands of Democrats after recent defeats and close calls in the most conservative parts of the state. — The latest blow to the GOP in the Centennial State came …
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Corey Kilgannon / New York Times:
Ugly Tale of Migrants Displacing Veterans Makes Waves and Then Dissolves — The eviction in Newburgh, N.Y., became an instant talking point. The problem was that it apparently had not occurred. — The story seemed tailor-made for opponents of outsiders.
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New York Times:
Even Flirting With U.S. Default Takes Economic Toll — Financial markets are still betting that Congress and the White House will strike a deal. But the uncertainty alone is having consequences. — As negotiations over the debt limit continue in Washington and the date on which the U.S. government …