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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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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 …
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Washington Examiner, Los Angeles Times, Washington Times and Boston Herald
Axios:
Inside Biden's relentless soft-sell on the debt ceiling bill — The White House is kicking its outreach to congressional Democrats into overdrive as it tries to sell lawmakers on President Biden's debt ceiling deal with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. … - After the deal was announced late Saturday …
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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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Washington Examiner, Florida Politics, The Hill and Arkansas Advocate
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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Politico and Wall Street Journal
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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Mediaite, Washington Times, The Arizona Sun Times, The Messenger and Insider
Punchbowl News:
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Bloomberg, RedState, Breitbart, The Arizona Sun Times and Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal:
House Leaders Press for Support Ahead of Debt-Ceiling Vote
House Leaders Press for Support Ahead of Debt-Ceiling Vote
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Politico, RedState, The Daily Caller, The Hill and Daily Kos
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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Mother Jones, Semafor and New York Post
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
With this debt limit deal, Congress has beclowned itself
With this debt limit deal, Congress has beclowned itself
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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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Bloomberg, The Gateway Pundit and The Daily Caller
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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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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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 …
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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Cara Lombardo / Wall Street Journal:
Wall Street Mobilizes for a Presidential Election, Reluctantly
Wall Street Mobilizes for a Presidential Election, Reluctantly
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The Daily Caller
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Fox News poll finds 56% doubt Trump's ‘mental soundness’ to be president
Fox News poll finds 56% doubt Trump's ‘mental soundness’ to be president
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Outside the Beltway and Slate
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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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
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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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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CBS News:
Russia issues arrest warrant for Sen. Lindsey Graham — Moscow — Russia's Interior Ministry on Monday issued an arrest warrant for U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham following his comments related to the fighting in Ukraine. — In an edited video of his meeting on Friday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy …
Yuliya Talmazan / NBC News:
‘Nuclear weapons for everyone’ who joins Belarus and Russia, Putin ally promises — Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko's comment comes amid escalating nuclear rhetoric from Vladimir Putin, whose army is floundering in Ukraine. — Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge postpones showdown over 14th Amendment debt powers — Citing the debt limit deal, the Justice Department said a union's lawsuit no longer required urgent action. — A federal judge in Boston has postponed a hearing scheduled for this week in a lawsuit that a government workers' union filed …
Kevin D. Williamson / The Dispatch:
The Burial of the Dead … KYIV—This doesn't feel like a city at war, or a city under martial law. Not at first, anyway. — Kyiv is a city with packed restaurants—reservations are hard to come by—packed bars, packed cafes, busy streets. Our hotel is bustling, the traffic is substantial …
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 …
Associated Press:
Missing 73 years, Medal of Honor recipient's remains returned to Georgia: “He's home” — Savannah, Ga. — Soldiers of the 9th Infantry Regiment made a desperate retreat as North Korean troops closed in around them. A wounded 18-year-old Army Pfc. Luther Herschel Story feared his injuries …
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