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New York Times:
Twitter's U.S. Ad Sales Plunge 59% as Woes Continue — In internal forecasts, the company projected that ad sales would keep declining, handing a tough challenge to its new chief executive. — Ryan Mac reports on Twitter, and Tiffany Hsu reports on misinformation.
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Chris Sununu / Washington Post:
I'm not running for president in 2024. Beating Trump is more important. — Chris Sununu, a Republican, is governor of New Hampshire. — I will not be seeking the Republican nomination for president in 2024. — Our party is on a collision course toward electoral irrelevance without significant corrective action.
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Trump lawyers ask Justice Dept. not to charge Trump in classified docs case — High-stakes meeting included special counsel Jack Smith, who is leading probe of Trump's conduct, possible obstruction — Attorneys for Donald Trump went to the Justice Department on Monday morning to make their case …
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Trump attorneys met at Justice Department for just under two hours — Attorneys representing former President Donald Trump — John Rowley, James Trusty and Lindsey Halligan — were at the Justice Department at around 10 a.m. Monday, weeks after Trump's lawyers had requested a meeting with top federal law enforcement officials.
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Politico:
Trump lawyers visit Justice Department
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Lawyers Seek to Persuade Justice Department Not to Indict Former President
The Economist:
Ukraine's counter-offensive appears to have begun — Its armour strikes in the south-east; but there is more to come — For months a guessing game has played out in military circles worldwide: where and when would Ukraine conduct its counter-offensive? Most expected it to come through …
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New York Times:
Ukraine Intensifies Attacks on Russian Frontline Positions — U.S. officials said there were signs that Ukraine may have begun its expected counteroffensive, but Kyiv remained silent about its strategy. — Here's what we're covering: — Fighting is raging at several points on the front line, Russian and U.S. officials say.
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CNN:
Exclusive: Ukraine has cultivated sabotage agents inside Russia and is giving them drones to stage attacks, sources say
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Samuel Charap / Foreign Affairs:
An Unwinnable War — Washington Needs an Endgame in Ukraine — Russia's invasion of Ukraine …
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Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Cornel West announces 2024 run for president as People's Party candidate — Progressive activist Cornel West announced Monday his 2024 campaign for president with the People's Party. — “I have decided to run for truth and justice, which takes the form of running for President …
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Cornel West Announces Run For President As Third-Party Candidate
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New York Times:
S.E.C. Accuses Binance of Mishandling Funds and Lying to Regulators — The S.E.C. said the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange mixed “billions of dollars” in customer funds and secretly sent them to a separate company controlled by Binance's founder, Changpeng Zhao.
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Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tests the conspiratorial appetite of Democrats — One of the most famous living descendants of the most famous American political dynasty shows early strength against Biden in polls — INDIANAPOLIS — Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a candidate for president supported …
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Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
‘Trump too small’ trademark clash to be decided by Supreme Court — The dispute is over whether lawyer Steve Elster can register “Trump too small” as a trademark for use on T-shirts. — WASHINGTON — A crude joke that Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., used to mock what he said was then-2016 …
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Kierra Frazier / Politico:
Supreme Court to hear ‘Trump too small’ trademark case
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Max Tani / Semafor:
CNN lost trust over COVID coverage, internal report found — The Scoop — The Atlantic's Friday profile of the embattled CEO profile Chris Licht drew cringes at Hudson Yards — but also anger over Licht's criticism of the network's award-winning pandemic coverage.
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CBS News:
Robert Hanssen, former FBI agent convicted of spying for Russia, dead at 79 — Robert Hanssen, a former FBI agent who was one of the most damaging spies in American history, was found dead in his prison cell Monday morning, according to the Bureau of Prisons.
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Hundreds of Gannett Journalists Walk Out — The union representing the company's newsroom employees has urged a vote of no-confidence against the C.E.O. at a shareholder meeting on Monday. — Hundreds of journalists for the country's largest newspaper chain walked off the job on Monday …
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Rebecca Jacobs / CREW:
Trump made over $80 million from UK and Ireland while president — Donald Trump made $82.5 million from his businesses in Ireland and Scotland while serving as president, according to a CREW analysis of his tax returns. All of this revenue came with extraordinary conflicts of interest …
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Jack Elbaum / Washington Examiner:
Another violent weekend in Chicago is met with silence from the mayor and local BLM — It is summertime as usual in Chicago: For two weekends in a row, there has been a double-digit number of people killed in shootings around the city. — ABC Chicago reports that just last weekend, at least 52 people were shot — 10 fatally.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Axelrod: Manchin is ‘dead man walking’ in West Virginia — Former Obama White House senior political adviser David Axelrod says Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is “dead man walking” in West Virginia, where the senior senator finds himself far behind in the polls ahead of the 2024 election.
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Oversight Chair Comer to hold FBI Director Wray in contempt of Congress over Biden doc alleging crime scheme — Comer said the FBI did not comply with a subpoena demanding the document be turned over — House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said he will begin the process …
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
DeSantis and the Nebulous ‘Charisma Threshold’ — On the menu today: I'm not interested in discussing whether you think Ron DeSantis is charismatic or not. What I want to discuss is how seemingly overnight, so many people decided that the single most important measuring stick of DeSantis …
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Adrienne LaFrance / The Atlantic:
In Defense of Humanity — We need a cultural and philosophical movement to meet the rise of artificial superintelligence. — On july 13, 1833, during a visit to the Cabinet of Natural History at the Jardin des Plantes, in Paris, Ralph Waldo Emerson had an epiphany.
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Wall Street Journal:
Targeting Toyota for Its Electric-Vehicle Heresy — Public pensions and proxy advisers try to punish the company using corporate governance as a pretext. — By The Editorial Board — It wasn't long ago that Toyota's hybrid vehicles were all the rage with the climate-change left.
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Thomas Gibbons-Neff / New York Times:
Nazi Symbols on Ukraine's Front Lines Highlight Thorny Issues of History — Troops' use of patches bearing Nazi emblems risks fueling Russian propaganda and spreading imagery that the West has spent a half-century trying to eliminate. — KYIV, Ukraine — Since Russia began its invasion …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The GOP's Authoritarian Acceleration — Internal resistance to its anti-democratic turn has all but vanished. — In May 2017, Donald Trump fired FBI director James Comey, crashing through the first of many important democratic norms. While FBI directors technically can be fired …
Jeanne Whalen / Washington Post:
Electric vehicles appeal to conservative buyers sick of gas guzzlers — A few red counties in Texas are experiencing higher-than-average EV growth, as drivers tire of gas prices and chase the latest tech — PLANO, Tex. — Tony Federico bought his Tesla Model 3 in 2018.
The Debrief:
Intelligence Officials Say U.S. Has Retrieved Craft of Non-Human Origin — A former intelligence official turned whistleblower has given Congress and the Intelligence Community Inspector General extensive classified information about deeply covert programs that he says possess retrieved intact …
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