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New York Times:
New Details in Debt Limit Deal: Where $136 Billion in Cuts Will Come From — Two years of spending caps, additional work requirements for food stamps and cuts to I.R.S. funding are among the components in the deal. — Reporting from Washington — The full legislative text …
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Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Al Jazeera, Center on Budget … and CBS News
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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
What's in the debt limit bill? Key provisions in the Biden-McCarthy deal to avert default — Republicans and Democrats each won some concessions in the legislation. — WASHINGTON — The bipartisan deal struck by Democratic President Joe Biden and Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy extends …
Wall Street Journal:
House Leaders Press for Support Ahead of Debt-Ceiling Vote — While defections have so far been limited, the bipartisan deal faces procedural hurdles to meet June 5 deadline — WASHINGTON—President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy appeared on track to gain enough bipartisan support …
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Raw Story, New York Post, Politico, The Daily Caller, IJR, The Hill, USA Today and ABC News
Axios:
Inside Biden's relentless soft-sell on the debt ceiling bill
Inside Biden's relentless soft-sell on the debt ceiling bill
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PBS NewsHour, New York Daily News, One America News Network, NBC News, The Guardian, The Post Millennial, The Hill, NPR, CNN and Breitbart
Kierra Frazier / Politico:
DeSantis dunks on debt deal: We're ‘careening towards bankruptcy’
DeSantis dunks on debt deal: We're ‘careening towards bankruptcy’
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Washington Times, The Arizona Sun Times, The Hill, The Daily Caller, Florida Politics and The Messenger
Punchbowl News:
5/29/23 ☀️ Punchbowl News AM
5/29/23 ☀️ Punchbowl News AM
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Fox News, Bloomberg, Breitbart, RedState, The Arizona Sun Times, TheBlaze and Wall Street Journal
Akayla Gardner / Bloomberg:
How Shalanda Young Helped Broker Biden's Toughest Deal Yet
How Shalanda Young Helped Broker Biden's Toughest Deal Yet
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Associated Press and Wall Street Journal
Politico:
White House to Dems: The debt deal could have been a LOT worse
White House to Dems: The debt deal could have been a LOT worse
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La Prensa Latina Media, Washington Examiner, CBS News and The Hill
Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
Why Spending Cuts Likely Won't Shake the Economy
Why Spending Cuts Likely Won't Shake the Economy
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Insider, Mother Jones and New York Post
Nancy A. Youssef / Wall Street Journal:
WSJ News Exclusive | China Rebuffs Pentagon Chief, Blunting Push for Rapprochement — China has rebuffed a U.S. request for a meeting of U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and China's Defense Minister Li Shangfu at a security forum in Singapore this coming weekend, the Pentagon said …
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The Daily Caller and The Gateway Pundit
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Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times:
China turns down US invitation for defence chiefs' meeting in Singapore — Pentagon had requested the encounter between Lloyd Austin and Li Shangfu, who is under sanctions, at forum in June — Beijing has declined the Pentagon's request for a meeting between US defence secretary Lloyd Austin …
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Washington Examiner and Bloomberg
CNN:
Ugandan president signs one of the world's harshest anti-LGBTQ bills into law — Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has signed some of the harshest anti-LGBTQ laws in the world, the speaker of parliament said, defying international pressure. — The bill includes the death penalty for …
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Reuters, The Daily Beast, The Hill, Raw Story, USA Today, The Daily Caller and La Prensa Latina Media
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The White House:
Statement from President Joe Biden on the Enactment of Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Act — The enactment of Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Act is a tragic violation of universal human rights—one that is not worthy of the Ugandan people, and one that jeopardizes the prospects of critical economic growth for the entire country.
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Reuters, Washington Post, The Hill, New York Daily News, Forbes, CBS News and Political Wire
Abdi Latif Dahir / New York Times:
New Anti-Gay Law in Uganda Includes Life in Prison as Penalty
New Anti-Gay Law in Uganda Includes Life in Prison as Penalty
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Forbes, Mediaite, One America News Network, The Messenger, NPR, Reuters, Associated Press, Washington Press, Politico, TheBlaze, CBS News, ABC News, Raw Story, Al Jazeera and Bloomberg
CBS News:
Hollywood police respond to mass shooting on Broadwalk — MIAMI - Hollywood police have responded to reports of multiple people shot Monday afternoon. — CBS News Miami has learned 9 people were transported to area hospitals, 5 were taken into custody and 1 person is possibly still at large …
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Sun-Sentinel, FOX3 Now, Washington Examiner, NBC 6 South Florida, Raw Story, The Gateway Pundit, New York Daily News, The Sun and The Messenger
Andrea Cavallier / Associated Press:
Graduates boo and turn their chairs away from former U.S Rep. Liz Cheney as she delivers commencement address at liberal Colorado College - despite her blasting Trump's election-denying attorney — The former U.S. Rep. gave the commencement speech at her alma mater Colorado College, a liberal arts school she graduated from in 1988
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Daily Mail, The Gateway Pundit, Breitbart, RedState, Conservative Brief, Associated Press, IJR, Politico, Twitchy, One America News Network and The Hill
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Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
Liz Cheney says Republicans “wanted me to lie” about Trump
Liz Cheney says Republicans “wanted me to lie” about Trump
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Gazette, NPR, Digby's Hullabaloo, Mediaite and USA Today
New York Times:
The bidding for Lot 17 started at $23 million. — In the packed room at Sotheby's in Manhattan, the price quickly climbed: $32 million, $42 million, $48 million. Then a new prospective buyer, calling from China, made it a contest between just two people. — On the block that evening …
Katie S. Phang / MSNBC:
Trump's legal team is an epic disaster — This kind of havoc does not bode well for Trump's legal future. — The attorney-client relationship is historically one of the most sacred, cloaked with the (usually) impenetrable privilege of complete confidentiality and one that is imbued with explicit and implicit trust.
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Digby's Hullabaloo, Raw Story and Mediaite
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Data analyst explains why Ron DeSantis is in trouble with voters already — CNN's data analyst dived into some polling for Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) to closely examine why the GOP presidential candidate isn't connecting well with voters. — DeSantis spent over a month traveling …
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The Hill, The Wrap, New York Magazine, Conservative Brief, Mercury News, CNN, Florida Politics and Los Angeles Times
Politico:
China plans to land astronauts on moon before 2030 — It also plans to expand its orbiting space station. — BEIJING — China's burgeoning space program plans to place astronauts on the moon before 2030 and expand the country's orbiting space station, officials said Monday.
Victoria Guida / Politico:
Historic gains: Low-income workers scored in the Covid economy — A POLITICO analysis shows that pandemic-era policies reversed the trend toward a widening income gap. The move away from them threatens those gains. Which way will Biden turn? — For the past three years …
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Raw Story
Associated Press:
Impeachment trial of Texas' Ken Paxton to begin no later than August 28 — A historic impeachment trial in Texas to determine whether Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton should be permanently removed from office will begin no later than August in the state Senate, where the jury …
Jonathan Lemire / Politico:
Biden world confident in a Trump rematch but preps for a surprise — Democrats and campaign officials know their job may get tougher if Trump's name isn't on top of the GOP ticket. — President Joe Biden and his campaign team continue to believe that they will square off against Donald Trump …
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Washington Examiner, New York Post, Raw Story, Vanity Fair and Outside the Beltway
Cara Lombardo / Wall Street Journal:
Wall Street Mobilizes for a Presidential Election, Reluctantly — Jamie Dimon? Joe Manchin? The finance set is casting about for a business-friendly challenger. — On a farm in upstate New York last weekend, Wall Street types groused about the coming presidential election in between bites of roast pig.
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No More Mister Nice Blog and The Daily Caller
Rasmussen Reports:
Memorial Day More Important Than Ever, Americans Say — As the nation celebrates a day honoring its military heroes, the importance of Memorial Day is rated higher than ever. — The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 51% of American Adults consider Memorial Day …
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Washington Examiner and Breitbart