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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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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
Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots:
Fox's Latest Hoax — “Alright, before we go, a little update on a story we brought you this week about homeless vets being displaced from hotels so that illegals could move in. Turns out the group behind the claim made it up. We have no clue as to why anyone would do such a thing, but we'll bring you any updates should they come.”
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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CNN, Washington Examiner, The Mahablog, The Guardian, PolitiFact, American Prospect, Raw Story, The Daily Beast and The Messenger
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, Alternet.org and Washington Press
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CNN:
Trump's attorney took notes that say the former president wanted to fight subpoena for classified docs — Donald Trump asked whether he could push back against Justice Department efforts last year to recover any classified documents still in his possession during conversations with his lawyer …
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Washington Post, Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
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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Raw Story, Joe.My.God., Florida Politics and The Messenger
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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, New York Post, Washington Examiner, The Hill, Raw Story, Fox News and Financial Times
Henry J. Gomez / NBC News:
Ron DeSantis is learning that not every state wants to be Florida
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The Post Millennial and The Daily Caller
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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Rebecca Cohen / Insider:
An apparently AI-generated hoax of an explosion at the Pentagon went viral online — and markets briefly dipped — An apparently AI-generated photo faking an explosion near the Pentagon in D.C. went viral. — The Arlington Police Department confirmed that the image and accompanying reports were fake.
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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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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Biden Flirts with Triggering ‘Constitutional Crisis’
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Washington Examiner, Wall Street Journal, New Republic, RedState, Politico and Washington Times
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 …
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, Raw Story, Vanity Fair and Insider
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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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One America News Network, New York Daily News, Raw Story and Insider
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
Financial Times:
Pro-Ukraine fighters ‘liberate’ village in Russia's Belgorod region — Kyiv denies direct involvement but says Russian fighters are seeking to create ‘security zone’ near border — A group of anti-Kremlin fighters stormed Russia's Belgorod region bordering Ukraine on Monday …
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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
Jonathan Shamir / Haaretz:
No More Arab States Will Normalize Ties With Israel, Netanyahu Gov't ‘Embarrassed’ UAE, Emirati Analyst Warns — ‘My government and the other signatories are embarrassed,’ says policy analyst Dr. Ebtesam Al-Ketbi at Israeli confab hours before UAE ambassador to Israel extends invite to international climate conference
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middleeastmonitor.com, Exposing the role … and Al-Monitor
Brittany Gibson / Politico:
Marianne Williamson loses top 2 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.
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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HuffPost, Salon, Raw Story and New York Magazine
Adam Goldman / New York Times:
Justice Dept. Investigated Clinton Foundation Until Trump's Final Days — President Donald J. Trump and his allies tried to cast the Clinton Foundation as corrupt. But the yearslong investigation sputtered to its conclusion without charges. — Reporting from Washington
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Dylan Gwinn / Breitbart:
WATCH: ‘That Is Disgusting’: High School Athlete Gives Thumbs Down at Podium After Losing to Trans Runner — A female high school runner let her frustrations be known on Saturday, as she gave a big thumbs down following her loss to a trans athlete. A loss that resulted in her exclusion from the state championships.
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Daily Mail, New York Post, Newsbusters, Louder With Crowder, The Gateway Pundit, BizPac Review, National Review and The Daily Caller
Clara Hendrickson / Detroit Free Press:
Whitmer signs red flag law allowing temporary removal of guns from those deemed dangerous — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed into law a series of bills Monday that will allow law enforcement, family, health care providers and others to petition courts to temporarily remove guns …
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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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Eschaton and SCOTUSblog, more at Mediagazer »
Paul Wiseman / Associated Press:
What it would mean for the global economy if the US defaults on its debt — If the debt crisis roiling Washington were eventually to send the United States crashing into recession, America's economy would hardly sink alone. The repercussions of a first-ever default on the federal debt would quickly reverberate around the world.
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Alternet.org, CNN, Cyprus Mail and Boston Herald
Washington Post:
Vladimir Kara-Murza is wrongfully detained. Time for the U.S. to say so. — A month ago, Vladimir Kara-Murza, a columnist for Post opinions, was sentenced to 25 years in a Russian prison for speaking out against the murderous war in Ukraine. At the time, the State Department expressed support …
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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
David Von Drehle / Washington Post:
My neighbor lived to be 109. This is what I learned from him. — Early one August morning during a heat wave in Kansas City, Mo., I stepped outside to fetch the Sunday newspaper — and something stopped me in my tracks. — My new neighbor was washing a car.
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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