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Washington Post:
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 …
Jason Linkins / New Republic:
The Beltway Media Is Spreading Debt Limit Misinformation
The Beltway Media Is Spreading Debt Limit Misinformation
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Digby's Hullabaloo
Eduard Gismatullin / Bloomberg:
White House Calls Republican Budget Pact Offer ‘A Big Step Back’
White House Calls Republican Budget Pact Offer ‘A Big Step Back’
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The White House, RedState, Fortune, The Daily Caller, Washington Examiner, Associated Press and The Hill
Julia Shapero / The Hill:
McCarthy signals debt limit negotiations can't move forward until Biden returns
McCarthy signals debt limit negotiations can't move forward until Biden returns
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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 …
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David Cohen / Politico:
Former Trump attorney says he left legal team because of infighting
Former Trump attorney says he left legal team because of infighting
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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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Political Wire
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 …
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Louder With Crowder
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.
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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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
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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Raw Story and Alternet.org
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 …
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 …
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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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 …
Washington Post:
Man with AR-15-style rifle by bus stop says he wasn't out to terrify kids — The man stood in a red Make America Great Again baseball cap pointing his AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle toward the sidewalk. — An elementary school student ran home crying. Parents were terrified. Neighbors called the police.
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NPR, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Digby's Hullabaloo and BizPac Review
Aaron Kliegman / Fox News:
Dems championed Chicago-area man now charged with attempted murder after Obama commuted his sentence — Sens. Warren, Durbin praised Alton Mills, who's accused in connection with a freeway shooting — A Chicago-area man whose life sentence in prison was commuted by then-President Barack Obama in 2015 …
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Katherine Donlevy / New York Post:
Illinois crack dealer granted clemency by Obama charged with attempted murder
Illinois crack dealer granted clemency by Obama charged with attempted murder
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Jason Easley / PoliticusUSA:
Trump Is Up In The Middle Of The Night Obsessing Over Jack Smith — Trump was posting in the middle of the night on Friday/early Saturday about Special Counsel Jack Smith. — Trump wrote on Truth Social: … The poll that Trump referred to didn't show him way up on Biden.
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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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Raw Story, Insider and Political Wire
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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Twitchy and Florida Politics
Emily Jacobs / Washington Examiner:
Russia scrutinized for placing Hague prosecutor on wanted list after Putin ICC warrant — The International Criminal Court criticized Russia on Saturday for issuing an arrest warrant for a senior Hague prosecutor in retaliation for a warrant against Russian President Vladimir Putin on war crimes charges related to his war in Ukraine.
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Associated Press:
A look inside the playbook on transgender health bills — Aaron and Lacey Jennen's roots in Arkansas run deep. They've spent their entire lives there, attended the flagship state university, and are raising a family. So they're heartbroken at the prospect of perhaps having to move …
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Florida Politics, Why Evolution Is True, Washington Press, Digby's Hullabaloo, Insider and Twitchy
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 …
Gram Slattery / Reuters:
Trump or DeSantis? Neither, say Ukrainian-American voters angry at war stance — George Stawnyczyj voted for Donald Trump twice. On domestic policy, he gives the former president top marks. But he'll stay home on Election Day should Trump win his party's nomination to take on Joe Biden in 2024.
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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