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Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
Chuck Todd to leave NBC's ‘Meet the Press’; Welker will become host — The transition will happen in September, a major change at one of broadcast television oldest institutions — Chuck Todd, who has served as moderator of NBC's Sunday-morning talk show “Meet the Press” since 2014 …
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Daniel Arkin / NBC News:
Chuck Todd will depart NBC's ‘Meet the Press’; Kristen Welker to become host — Chuck Todd, a mainstay in Washington as moderator of “Meet the Press,” will step down from the show in the coming months. NBC News' co-chief White House correspondent Kristen Welker will take his place.
New York Times:
Inside the Complicated Reality of Being America's Oldest President — President Biden is asking voters to keep him in the White House until age 86, renewing attention to an issue that polls show troubles most Americans. — There was the time last winter when President Biden was awakened …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Biden has a theory of MAGA that just might be working — Now that Congress has passed the debt limit deal, explanations for President Biden's success in negotiating the outcome are abounding. Among them: Biden drew on his long experience in Washington to achieve bipartisan compromise …
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Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Kamala Harris is a Biden fall away from being in the Oval Office — It was alarming to watch Joe Biden take a tumble Thursday at the Air Force Academy commencement. — But the really scary thought is that if he had landed head-first, Kamala Harris would be sitting in the Oval Office.
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CNN:
California is investigating after a private jet carrying migrants arrived in Sacramento, officials say — An investigation is underway after over a dozen migrants arrived in Sacramento, California, by private jet “with no prior arrangement or care in place,” Gov. Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta said Saturday.
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Isabel Keane / New York Post:
Mystery private jet of migrants arrives in Sacramento, prompting investigation
Mystery private jet of migrants arrives in Sacramento, prompting investigation
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NBC News:
Grand jury in Trump classified documents case expected to meet this coming week after hiatus — A grand jury that has been hearing evidence in the case against former President Donald Trump is expected to meet this coming week in Washington after a lull. — The federal grand jury …
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Pence readies for Trump showdown as 2024 launch approaches — When then-Vice President Mike Pence spoke outside Baltimore at the 2020 Republican National Convention, he declared: “America needs four more years of President Donald Trump in the White House.” — This week, when Pence officially …
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Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
DeSantis suggests Trump doesn't understand the ‘woke’ threat to America
DeSantis suggests Trump doesn't understand the ‘woke’ threat to America
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Mark Leibovich / The Atlantic:
Ron DeSantis's Joyless Ride
Ron DeSantis's Joyless Ride
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Washington Post:
NATO-trained units will serve as tip of spear in Ukraine's counteroffensive — When Ukraine's long-awaited counteroffensive finally begins, the fight will be led by brigades armed not only with Western weapons but also Western know-how, gleaned from months of training aimed …
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Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Ramaswamy: ‘America First’ agenda doesn't ‘belong to Trump’ — Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said on Sunday that the “America First” agenda does not “belong” to former President Donald Trump, and pledged to “take that agenda even further.” — “'America First' does not belong to Trump.
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Kimberlee Kruesi / Associated Press:
Trump-appointed judge rejects Tennessee's anti-drag law as too broad, too vague — Tennessee's first-in-the-nation law designed to place strict limits on drag shows is unconstitutional, a federal judge says. The law is both “unconstitutionally vague and substantially overbroad” and encouraged …
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Micaela A Watts / The Commercial Appeal:
Federal judge tosses Tennessee's controversial anti-drag law, declares it unconstitutional
Federal judge tosses Tennessee's controversial anti-drag law, declares it unconstitutional
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Nicholas Carlson / Insider:
'It's like watching a snuff film': Media elites shocked by The Atlantic's surgical dismantling of CNN boss Chris Licht — Holy moly did CNN boss Chris Licht get smoked by The Atlantic. — I was at a conference with other media bosses when the story dropped. I asked them what they thought. - “He needs a handler — fast.”
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Washington Post:
Target gets caught in cultural crossfire over Pride Month items — Some shoppers have become more emboldened to engage in confrontational, even threatening, behavior over polarizing social issues. — Brandishing her own scissors in front of guest services in a Target store in south Florida …
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No More Mister Nice Blog and Outside the Beltway
Benjamin Dodman / France 24:
Le Pen's far right served as mouthpiece for the Kremlin, says French parliamentary report — Dogged by accusations of proximity to the Kremlin, Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally party had hoped to clear its name by setting up a parliamentary inquiry to investigate foreign interference in French politics.
Jason Willick / Washington Post:
What Republicans and Democrats are missing about threats to democracy — Political scientists are finally getting a better handle on how modern democratic systems can break down. But the best research doesn't support the self-serving account the Western establishment has been offering since the Brexit and Donald Trump shocks of 2016.
Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast:
DNA Test Proves Ex-Wrestler Not Lauren Boebert's Father — Stan Lane has been dogged by accusations that he got the congresswoman's mother pregnant during a brief affair. … For years, Rep. Lauren Boebert's mother has maintained that a retired professional wrestler named Stan Lane …
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Jesus Jiménez / New York Times:
New Hampshire Man Is Arrested After Threatening to Kill U.S. Senator — In a voice mail message, the man told the senator was that he was “a dead man walking,” according to federal court documents. He was angry about the blocking of military promotions, prosecutors said.
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