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Musk's response to an anti-trans video sparks 24 hours of chaos at Twitter — A conservative pressure movement built against Twitter's CEO, resulting in high-level departures from the company. — A week ago, Elon Musk's Twitter seemed to be taking shaky footsteps toward a new phase …
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Twitter Loses Second Safety Executive Within Days — A.J. Brown's departure comes after Ella Irwin, company's head of trust and safety, left Thursday — Twitter lost its head of brand safety and ad quality, people familiar with the matter said, the second departure of a top safety executive …
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Prem Thakker / New Republic:
Elon Musk Personally Elevates Transphobic Video Originally Flagged as Hate Speech
Elon Musk Personally Elevates Transphobic Video Originally Flagged as Hate Speech
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Prem Thakker / New Republic:
Elon Musk Calls to Imprison Therapists Helping Trans Kids
Elon Musk Calls to Imprison Therapists Helping Trans Kids
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New York Times:
Trump Lawyer's Notes Could Be a Key in the Classified Documents Inquiry — M. Evan Corcoran recorded recollections of his legal work last year for Donald Trump. The recording is now in the hands of prosecutors, unnerving some aides to the former president.
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New York Times:
Lawyers Unable to Find Document Trump Discussed in Recorded Conversation — Prosecutors issued a subpoena for a description of military options for Iran mentioned by the former president during an interview. But Mr. Trump's legal team said they could find no such document.
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Team Trump reportedly can't find doc referenced in audio recording
Team Trump reportedly can't find doc referenced in audio recording
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Sam Metz / Associated Press:
Utah district bans Bible in elementary and middle schools ‘due to vulgarity or violence’ — The Good Book is being treated like a bad book in Utah after a parent frustrated by efforts to ban materials from schools convinced a suburban district that some Bible verses were too vulgar or violent for younger children.
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Logan Stefanich / KSL-TV:
Davis District pulls Bible from elementaries, junior highs ‘due to vulgarity or violence’ — FARMINGTON — The Bible has been removed from all elementary and middle school libraries throughout the Davis School District after someone challenged its contents.
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Courtney Tanner / Salt Lake Tribune:
The Bible is banned in these Utah elementary and middle schools now for ‘vulgarity or violence’
The Bible is banned in these Utah elementary and middle schools now for ‘vulgarity or violence’
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Jon Levine / New York Post:
Donald Trump's campaign hit with blizzard of Twitter ‘community notes’ — Donald Trump's 2024 election campaign's claims are already being hit with Twitter's new “community notes,” which fact-check or offer context to dubious posts. — In May alone, Team Trump and their surrogates …
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Nicholas Nehamas / New York Times:
5 Takeaways From Ron DeSantis's First Campaign Trip — He swung back at Donald Trump. He vowed to vanquish the “woke mob” and turn the country into mega-Florida. He had normal encounters with voters that didn't become memes. — After his unusual, buzzy and ill-fated presidential debut …
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Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
Biden's Debt-Deal Strategy: Win in the Fine Print — The president and his negotiators believe they worked out a deal that allowed Republicans to claim big spending cuts even as the reality was far more modest. — Reporting from Washington — Shalanda Young couldn't sleep.
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Alex Gangitano / The Hill:
Biden commends McCarthy for debt ceiling deal: ‘We were able to get along and get things done’
Biden commends McCarthy for debt ceiling deal: ‘We were able to get along and get things done’
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Joe Drape / New York Times:
Churchill Downs to Cease Racing as It Investigates Deaths of Horses — The track, the home of the Kentucky Derby, is moving races to another location while officials look into why 12 thoroughbreds have died at Churchill Downs in recent weeks. — Horse racing will be suspended at Churchill Downs …
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Decca Muldowney / The Daily Beast:
Violence Erupts at Anti-Pride School Assembly Protest in North Hollywood — One man was beaten and left unresponsive on the ground as an anti-Pride protester yelled “he has to suffer.” — Heated clashes between protesters angry about a Pride assembly at a North Hollywood school …
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New York Times:
More Than 260 Dead and 900 Injured in Train Crash in India — The rail disaster, in the eastern state of Odisha, was among the deadliest in a nation with a history of rail safety problems. — More than 260 people were killed and hundreds more injured when a passenger train derailed …
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Sky Palma / Raw Story:
YouTube policy that banned election fraud lies reversed as 2024 approaches — YouTube has reversed a policy that previously banned false claims about the 2020 election, according to a statement on the site. — The video sharing platform now says that the policy, which was enacted in December 2020 …
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Jared Gans / The Hill:
Hutchinson vows to meet ‘whatever is set’ as criteria for first GOP debate — Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, a GOP presidential candidate, vowed on Friday to meet “whatever is set” as the criteria for making the stage for the Republican debates starting at the end of the summer.
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Marc Caputo / The Messenger:
GOP Issues Debate Rules, But Will Trump Bother to Show Up?
GOP Issues Debate Rules, But Will Trump Bother to Show Up?
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Wall Street Journal:
Ukraine's Zelensky: We Are Ready for Counteroffensive — Ukrainian president also discusses U.S. elections, NATO and China in wide-ranging interview — ODESA, Ukraine—Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he was now ready to launch a long-awaited counteroffensive but tempered …
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Associated Press:
Austria's Social Democrats choose Doskozil as new leader, looking to elections expected next year — Austria's center-left Social Democrats elected Hans Peter Doskozil as their new party leader Saturday, hoping to turn around the party's fortunes ahead of parliamentary elections expected in the small Alpine nation next year.
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Lauren Feiner / CNBC:
California Democrat who opposed anti-tech bills is top contender for key role on antitrust subcommittee — A California Democrat who has opposed efforts to reform competition laws to crack down on the tech industry is the leading contender to become the highest ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust.
Chris Geidner / Law Dork with Chris Geidner:
Breaking: Federal judge rules Tennessee drag restrictions unconstitutional after trial — The anti-drag law lost on all fronts. “[L]aws infringing on the Freedom of Speech must be narrow and well-defined.” This law “is neither,” the Trump appointee ruled.
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Daniel Trotta / Reuters:
Texas becomes largest state to ban transgender care for minors — Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Friday signed a bill that bans transgender healthcare including puberty blockers and hormone therapy for minors, making Texas the largest of the 20 states to have outlawed gender-affirming care.
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Jared Gans / The Hill:
Greene flips on public release of Jan. 6 tapes, claims it could ‘put the security of the Capitol at risk’ — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has changed her position on the public release of the tapes documenting the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, warning Friday that their release could “put the security of the Capitol at risk.”
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