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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Trump was warned about retaining classified documents, notes reveal — Exclusive: Unreported warning contained in notes taken by lawyer Evan Corcoran that prosecutors have viewed in recent months — Federal prosecutors have evidence Donald Trump was put on notice that he could not retain …
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Politico:
Key Republican recruits hesitate to jump in if Trump is the nominee — Potential Republican candidates in swing states and districts are reluctant to throw hats into ring. — Less than a month after the midterms, Republican recruiters were already plotting how to persuade …
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Concerns about Biden's reelection swamped by fear of Trump in swing voter focus groups — “Whatever the step above panicked is, that is what I feel about Trump,” said one of the voters, who picked Trump in 2016 then Biden in 2020 — Nearly all of the 15 gathered swing state voters described …
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Politico:
Playbook: The case for Tim Scott — Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross — DRIVING THE DAY — EYES ON WILMINGTON — Sen. TOM CARPER (D-Del.), 76, is expected to announce at 11 a.m. whether he'll run for a fifth term, per WBOC-TV's Hunter Landon. Watching closely: Rep. LISA BLUNT ROCHESTER.
Reuters:
Biden and McCarthy to meet on Monday as debt ceiling talks resume — U.S. President Joe Biden and House Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy will meet to discuss the debt ceiling on Monday, after the two leaders held a phone call on Sunday as the president flew back to Washington that both sides described as positive.
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Ezra Klein / New York Times:
Liberals Are Persuading Themselves of a Debt Ceiling Plan That Won't Work
Liberals Are Persuading Themselves of a Debt Ceiling Plan That Won't Work
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Olivia Beavers / Politico:
Biden and McCarthy set to meet again to try to close distance on debt
Biden and McCarthy set to meet again to try to close distance on debt
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Washington Post:
As hold on Bakhmut slips, Ukrainian forces push to encircle city — KOSTYANTYNIVKA, Ukraine — Ukrainian forces have been reduced to small footholds in the devastated eastern city of Bakhmut, which despite its limited strategic importance has emerged as the war's bloodiest battlefield.
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Jeffrey Clark / Fox News:
Fetterman wearing ‘hoodies and gym shorts’ in Senate shows ‘robust recovery,’ AP report claims — Fetterman reportedly ‘votes from the doorway’ or a ‘side entrance’ to get around the Senate's strict dress code rules — Sources “close” to Sen. John Fetterman, D.-Penn., are claiming that his trademark …
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Bill Whitaker / CBS News:
Weapons contractors hitting Department of Defense with inflated prices for planes, submarines, missiles — With the U.S. supplying billions-of-dollars of munitions to Ukraine and growing tensions in the Taiwan Strait, some Pentagon generals are sounding alarms about the dwindling supply of U.S. weapons …
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Kellen Browning / New York Times:
Uber's Diversity Chief Put on Leave After Complaints of Insensitivity — The executive hosted sessions about race and being a white woman that were titled “Don't Call Me Karen,” prompting an employee uproar. — Uber has placed its longtime head of diversity, equity and inclusion on leave …
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New York Times:
Spying in Mexico Strikes a New Victim: the President's Ally — While looking into abuses by the armed forces, the country's top human rights official was targeted with Pegasus, the world's most notorious spyware, The Times found. — Natalie Kitroeff reported from Mexico City and Ronen Bergman from Tel Aviv.
Ben Smith / Semafor:
Ron DeSantis shut out the media. That's changing. — The presidential campaign-in-waiting and super PAC supporting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are trying to warm up the governor's cold war with the journalists who cover him. — DeSantis had taken apparent pride in a combative operation …
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Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
First on Fox: Trump ally Sen JD Vance endorses in Ohio's 2024 GOP Senate primary, backing Bernie Moreno — Moreno 1 of 2 major GOP candidates in Ohio Senate primary along with state Sen Matt Dolan — EXCLUSIVE - First-term Republican Sen. JD Vance of Ohio is weighing in on his state's burgeoning 2024 Senate primary.
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Wall Street Journal:
Jeffrey Epstein Appeared to Threaten Bill Gates Over Microsoft Co-Founder's Affair With Russian Bridge Player — The disgraced financier was trying to set up a philanthropic fund that he hoped would include the billionaire as an anchor donor — Jeffrey Epstein discovered that Bill Gates …
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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Imagine if the Press Covered the Supreme Court Like Congress — This is a part of Disorder in the Court, a weeklong series on the legal press and the most explosive Supreme Court in generations: how we cover it, how we've failed, and how we can do better. — You can only write …
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Public Notice:
The Democratic upset in Jacksonville is a product of the GOP's war on cities — Republican big city mayors are a highly endangered species. That's not a fluke. — ∙ Paid … Last week, Democrat Donna Deegan won an upset mayoral election victory in Jacksonville, Florida …
Herb Scribner / Washington Post:
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO booed at Boston University commencement speech over writers strike — The Writers Guild of America said it planned to picket during the speech — Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav faced boos and jeers from audience members during his Boston University commencement speech …
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Bernard-Henri Lévy / Wall Street Journal:
Put Ukraine on the U.N. Security Council — Russia's membership has no legal basis and should be transferred. — Tap For Sound — In Vladimir Putin's war against Ukraine, one of his weapons is Russia's status as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, which entails the power to block any resolution.
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Star Tribune:
Minnesota Legislature wrapping work on one of the most consequential sessions in state history — Democrats crossed off a long list of priorities in a single session in power. Republicans say they overreached. — Minnesota Democratic leaders gathered the Friday after they won control …
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Gillian Brockell / Washington Post:
Ron DeSantis's context-free history book vanished online. We got a copy. — In the lead-up to this spring's release of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's book “The Courage to Be Free,” a funny thing happened on the internet: His first book, published in 2011 before his political career began, disappeared.
Mary Margaret Olohan / The Daily Signal:
EXCLUSIVE: Leaked Policy Exposes Fox News Stances on Woke Ideology — FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Fox News employees are allowed to use bathrooms that align with their gender identity, rather than their biological sex, and permitted to dress in alignment with their preferred gender.
Sarah Longwell / Bulwark+:
The GOP Is in an Abusive Relationship with Trump — No matter how horrible Trump is to women, Republicans' opinions are baked in. — WHEN A JURY FOUND Donald Trump liable for sexually assaulting and defaming E. Jean Carroll, it drove home one of the grosser features of our political era …
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Jennifer Hansler / CNN:
Exclusive: Paul Whelan tells CNN he's confident ‘wheels are turning’ toward his release — Paul Whelan, an American who is wrongfully detained in Russia, told CNN on Sunday that he feels confident that his case is a priority for the United States government but wishes it could be resolved faster.
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Scott Horsley / NPR:
These are some of the people who'll be impacted if the U.S. defaults on its debts — Veterans, seniors and government employees: These are just some of the people who stand to be impacted if Congress fails to raise the debt ceiling. — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warns …
Hannah Knowles / Washington Post:
DeSantis keeps abortion comments brief at antiabortion group's gala — DeSantis spent about 20 seconds on abortion restrictions during a 40-minute address to a gala for a major advocate of Florida's new six-week ban — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis discussed abortion only briefly during …
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