Top Items:
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 …
Discussion:
Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Al Jazeera, Center on Budget … and CBS News
RELATED:
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 …
Axios:
Inside Biden's relentless soft-sell on the debt ceiling bill
Inside Biden's relentless soft-sell on the debt ceiling bill
Discussion:
PBS NewsHour, The Post Millennial, New York Daily News, The Guardian, NBC News, 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’
Discussion:
Washington Times, The Hill, The Daily Caller, Florida Politics and The Messenger
Wall Street Journal:
House Leaders Press for Support Ahead of Debt-Ceiling Vote
House Leaders Press for Support Ahead of Debt-Ceiling Vote
Discussion:
Politico, New York Post, The Daily Caller, IJR, The Hill, USA Today and ABC News
Akayla Gardner / Bloomberg:
How Shalanda Young Helped Broker Biden's Toughest Deal Yet
How Shalanda Young Helped Broker Biden's Toughest Deal Yet
Discussion:
Politico, 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
Discussion:
CBS News, Washington Examiner 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
Discussion:
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 …
Discussion:
The Daily Caller and The Gateway Pundit
RELATED:
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 …
Discussion:
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 …
Discussion:
Sun-Sentinel, Washington Examiner, New York Post, 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
Discussion:
Daily Mail, RedState, The Gateway Pundit, Breitbart, Conservative Brief, Associated Press, Politico, IJR, Twitchy, One America News Network, The Hill and KRDO
RELATED:
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
Liz Cheney says Republicans “wanted me to lie” about Trump
Liz Cheney says Republicans “wanted me to lie” about Trump
Discussion:
NPR, Gazette, Digby's Hullabaloo, Mediaite and USA Today
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.
Discussion:
CNN, Reuters, Washington Post, The Hill, The Daily Caller, Raw Story, New York Daily News, CBS News and Political Wire
RELATED:
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
Discussion:
The Hill, Mediaite, NPR, One America News Network, The Messenger, Associated Press, Forbes, Reuters, CBS News, Washington Press, Politico, TheBlaze, ABC News, Raw Story, Al Jazeera and Bloomberg
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 …
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 …
Discussion:
The Hill, The Wrap, New York Magazine, Conservative Brief, Mercury News, CNN, Florida Politics and Los Angeles Times
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.
Discussion:
Digby's Hullabaloo, Raw Story and Mediaite
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.
Discussion:
New York Times, Washington Examiner, One America News Network, Fox News, Associated Press, Al Jazeera and KRDO
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 …
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 …
Discussion:
Reuters, Newsweek, The Hill, Breitbart, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, FISM TV, CNN, The Times of Israel and The Kyiv Independent
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 …
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 …
Sarah Rumpf / Mediaite:
Vulnerable House Republicans Worried About ‘Trump Drag’ on Ticket Repeating 2022 Midterm Losses: Report — Vulnerable House Republicans are worried that former President Donald Trump will be a “drag” on the GOP down-ballot races in 2024, writes Cook Political Report editor-in-chief Amy Walter.