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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
GOP Rep. James Comer Implies Biden Family Probe Is Really About Helping Trump In 2024 — Oops! — Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) on Monday inadvertently implied that House Republicans' high-profile investigation into President Joe Biden's family members and their finances is actually about helping Donald Trump win the presidency in 2024.
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Congressional Integrity …, Joe.My.God. and PoliticusUSA
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Washington Post:
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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Breitbart, Raw Story, Alternet.org and Plain Dealer
Dennis Aftergut / The Bulwark:
Why Trump Wants U.S. to Default on Debt — And why Biden now says he's “looking at” invoking the Fourteenth Amendment. — Late last week, amid the on-again/off-again White House negotiations with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on raising the debt ceiling, Donald Trump lobbed a grenade.
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Washington Examiner, CNN, The Mahablog, PolitiFact, The Guardian, American Prospect, Raw Story and The Messenger
Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots:
Fox's Latest Hoax — Plus: Slouching toward a debt disaster. … — Laura Ingraham, making on-air correction. — To which, attorney George Conway replied: — “We have no idea why the lies we incessantly repeated were made up, says the network that paid over three-quarters of a billion dollars for incessantly repeating lies.”
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RedState, The Daily Beast and Jezebel
Reuters:
Exclusive: Texts tie DeSantis closely to Trump insider Lev Parnas in 2018 race — Ukrainian-American businessman Lev Parnas and his business partner were arrested in 2019, accused by the U.S. government of funneling a Russian oligarch's money into American political campaigns.
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Florida Politics, Joe.My.God. and The Messenger
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Henry J. Gomez / NBC News:
Ron DeSantis is learning that not every state wants to be Florida — As the Florida governor pushes his “Make America Florida” agenda, states start to (politely) push back. — Wherever Gov. Ron DeSantis goes, he brings greetings from “the free state of Florida.” He heralds his “Florida Blueprint.”
Alex Roarty / Miami Herald:
'We've got a real dilemma': How ‘Never Trump’ Republicans view DeSantis vs Trump — Fergus Cullen is wary of Ron DeSantis' conflict with Disney, dislikes how the governor once used his kids in a campaign ad, and doubts he'd support the Florida Republican's presidential candidacy if it were any other election.
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PJ Media, The Hill, Washington Examiner, New York Post, Raw Story and Fox News
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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Raw Story, Talking Points Memo, Alternet.org and Washington Press
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Why Can't Progressive Writers Defend the Law? — Rich points to a column by Ezra Klein in the New York Times, in which Klein objects to President Biden taking the “14th Amendment option.” Rich notes that Klein has a practical objection to the idea — namely that “if the administration declares …
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Alternet.org and Political Wire
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David Dayen / American Prospect:
The President Is Already in Litigation Over the Debt Ceiling
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Biden Flirts with Triggering ‘Constitutional Crisis’
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Washington Examiner, Wall Street Journal, Insider, RedState, Politico and Washington Times
New York Times:
Bakhmut Is Gone: An Aerial Look at the War's Destruction — Drone footage taken by The New York Times captured the scorched buildings, destroyed schools and cratered parks that now define the city in eastern Ukraine. — Photographs and Video by Tyler HicksText by Marc Santora
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Thomas Gibbons-Neff / New York Times:
Why Bakhmut? It's a Question as Old as War.
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Vox, NBC News, Financial Times, The Guardian and Wall Street Journal
Cheyanne M. Daniels / The Hill:
NAACP president on Florida warning: We shouldn't use race to ‘weaponize against people’ — NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson on Monday defended the organization's decision to issue a travel advisory to Florida for Black Americans and communities of color.
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Jesus Jiménez / New York Times:
N.A.A.C.P. Issues Florida Travel Advisory, Joining Latino and L.G.B.T.Q. Groups
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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.
Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
Bob Woodward roasts Trump's ‘everything is mine’ take in ‘unprecedented’ copyright suit: Interview tapes ‘belong to the People’ — From George Washington to Joe Biden, U.S. presidents have harnessed the power of the press to reach the populace. Investigative journalist Bob Woodward argues …
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Raw Story
Brittany Gibson / Politico:
Marianne Williamson loses top two campaign officials in a matter of days — The campaign director and deputy director for the longshot Democratic presidential candidate quit over the weekend. — The top two campaign officials for longshot Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson resigned over the weekend.
Christopher Rowland / Washington Post:
Seniors are flooding homeless shelters that can't care for them — Cities are building special shelters for the old, and shelters are hiring trained staff to handle a wave of aging baby boomers — PHOENIX — Beatrice Herron, 73, clutched a flier offering low-cost cable TV …
Joshua Partlow / Washington Post:
Colorado River states reach deal with Biden to protect drought-stricken river — The states along the Colorado River — a vital source of water and electricity for the American West — reached an agreement with the Biden administration to conserve an unprecedented amount of their water supply …
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Pluribus News, U.S. Department …, Associated Press, E&E News, Daily Kos and The Messenger
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Christopher Flavelle / New York Times:
A Breakthrough Deal to Keep the Colorado River From Going Dry, for Now
Tessa Stuart / Rolling Stone:
Texas Forced This Woman to Give Birth to a Stillborn Son. She's Suing — “I was told that if I tried to discharge myself, or seek care elsewhere, that I could be arrested for trying to kill my child” — AFTER MULTIPLE MISCARRIAGES, Kiersten Hogan thought she would never be able to carry a pregnancy to term.
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Raw Story
Graeme Wood / The Atlantic:
Inside the Garden of Evil — Harlan Crow wants to stop talking about Clarence Thomas. — When you collect statues of lenin, Harlan Crow told me, “you get to be a bit of a snob.” The first Lenin I had seen that morning was a brass likeness in the entryway to Crow's Dallas mansion …
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Washington Examiner, Insider, Alternet.org and Vanity Fair
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Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Harlan Crow on buying house of Justice Clarence Thomas' mother: 'I don't see the foot fault'
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New York Daily News, Raw Story and Insider
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
I Know One Way the Supreme Court Got to How It Is. I Watched It Happen for Years. — 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.
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SCOTUSblog and Eschaton, more at Mediagazer »
Julia Mueller / The Hill:
Bowman says he will ‘stay as far away’ from Greene as possible — Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) says he will “stay as far away...as possible” from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) after a contentious exchange between the two stemming from an encounter outside the Capitol last week.
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Salon and New York Magazine
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Reporter Asks Tim Scott If He's a Virgin — It's interesting which details and interviews re-emerge about a presidential candidate as they announce their run for office. — Washington Post reporter Ben Terris remains in the process of writing his soon-to-be released book The Big Break …
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Joe.My.God. and The Daily Caller
Li Cohen / CBS News:
Trevi Fountain water turned black by climate activists protesting fossil fuels — Rome's historic and iconic Trevi Fountain became the site of a protest Sunday when climate activists turned its water black in protest of the fossil fuel industry. — Activist group Ultima Generazione …
The Daily Dot:
EXCLUSIVE: Murder, kidnapping, brutality charges: These are the cops Ron DeSantis paid to come to Florida — Florida's police recruitment bonus appears to have attracted a certain kind of cop. — In July 2021, the son of a high-ranking New York Police Department (NYPD) …
Randall Chase / Associated Press:
Democratic Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware won't seek reelection, opening up seat in liberal state — Democratic Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware announced Monday that he will not seek reelection to a fifth term in the U.S. Senate. Carper's announcement paves the way for a wide-open contest …
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
Uber suspends diversity chief over 'Don't Call Me Karen' events — Bo Young Lee faced criticism for Zoom sessions that focused on white women's experience of ‘Karen’ stereotype of entitlement — Uber has suspended its head of diversity, equity and inclusion after Black and Hispanic employees complained …
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The Nib:
The Future of The Nib — I'm afraid I have some bad news. After ten years of publishing, The Nib is going to close down this summer. The new issue of our magazine, the Future issue, will be our last. We will continue to publish online every weekday through August and then shut down.
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