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Lillian Rizzo / CNBC:
PGA Tour agrees to merge with Saudi-backed rival LIV Golf  — The PGA Tour agreed to merge with rival LIV Golf, which is backed by the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund, an entity controlled by the Saudi crown prince.  — The proposed merger comes after the PGA Tour and LIV Golf …
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Alan Blinder / New York Times:
PGA Tour and LIV Golf Agree to Merger  —  In a stunning announcement, the tour, along with the DP World Tour and Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, said the rivals had agreed to create a “new, collectively owned, for-profit entity.”  —  The PGA Tour and LIV Golf, the insurgent league bankrolled …
Washington Post:
PGA Tour agrees to merge with Saudi-backed LIV Golf, ending feud  —  The PGA Tour on Tuesday announced that it was merging operations with LIV Golf, the Saudi-funded breakaway league that roiled professional golf by luring some of the game's best players with hefty paychecks, a lighter schedule and less-competitive tournaments.
Garrett Ross / Politico:
Playbook PM: 9/11 families tee off on LIV Golf
New York Times:
Russia-Ukraine War  —  Crucial Dam Destroyed on Southern Ukraine's Front Lines  —  President Volodymyr Zelensky blamed Russia and convened the National Security Council.  The damage threatened the safety of a nearby nuclear plant and forced the evacuation of thousands.
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Washington Post:
Live updates: Nova Kakhovka dam destroyed on Ukraine's front lines, causing flooding and evacuations
Financial Times:
Military briefing: Russia has most to gain from Ukrainian dam breach
Washington Post:
U.S. had intelligence of detailed Ukrainian plan to attack Nord Stream pipeline  —  The CIA learned last June, via a European spy agency, that a six-person team of Ukrainian special operations forces intended to blow up the Russia-to-Germany natural gas project
Washington Post:
These academics studied falsehoods spread by Trump.  Now the GOP wants answers.  —  Rep. Jim Jordan is demanding emails and meetings with leading disinformation researchers, part of a flurry of records requests, subpoenas and lawsuits that academics say have become a means of harassment.
Discussion: Breitbart and Political Wire
Bloomberg:
Trump Special Counsel Summons Florida Witnesses in Classifed Documents Probe  —  Special Counsel Jack Smith's office in recent weeks has issued federal grand jury subpoenas out of southern Florida to multiple witnesses linked to the classified documents probe involving former President Donald Trump …
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Ali Vitali / NBC News:
Rep. Jim Jordan demands DOJ memo outlining scope of Trump probe
Philip Rotner / Bulwark+:   Here's Why Trump's “Declassification” Defense Falls Apart
Adam Gabbatt / The Guardian:
Texas sheriff files criminal case over DeSantis flights to Martha's Vineyard  —  Sheriff recommends charges over flights arranged by Florida governor to deport 49 South American migrants to wealthy town  —  A Texas sheriff's office has recommended criminal charges over flights that the Florida governor …
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Nicholas Nehamas / New York Times:
DeSantis Stays Silent on Whether Florida Arranged Migrant Flights to California
Caroline Vakil / The Hill:
Chris Christie makes 2024 bid against Trump official  —  Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) on Tuesday filed paperwork to run for president as he looks to take on former President Trump a second time in 2024.  —  Christie is the latest Republican to enter the burgeoning 2024 Republican primary field.
Naomi Feinstein / Miami New Times:
DeSantis Critic, Professor Tossed From New College After Inviting Black Historian Marvin Dunn to Campus  —  Richard Corcoran speaks at the end of a special legislative session, flanked by Rick Scott (right) and Joe Negron (left), on June 9, 2017. … On May 12, New College …
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Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:   Florida college left without American history professor after axing DeSantis critic
Brendan Farrington / Associated Press:
US Judge blocks Florida ban on trans minor care in narrow ruling, says ‘gender identity is real’  —  Saying gender identity is real, a federal judge temporarily blocked portions of a new Florida law that bans transgender minors from receiving puberty blockers, ruling Tuesday that the state …
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Alicia Victoria Lozano / NBC News:
Oregon breakaway effort is down to just 8 votes, deepening urban-rural divide  —  The Greater Idaho movement aims to redraw Idaho's map to include 14 conservative Oregon counties, but opponents say it's only worsening political tensions.  —  ENTERPRISE, Ore. — A grassroots movement …
Discussion: KOIN-TV and Progress Pond
Jonathan Haidt / The Atlantic:
Phones at School Are a Disaster  —  Smartphones impede learning, stunt relationships, and lessen belonging.  —  In may 2019, I was invited to give a lecture at my old high school in Scarsdale, New York.  Before the talk, I met with the principal and his top administrators.
Discussion: The Hill and Joanne Jacobs
The Hill:
Judge grants request for George Santos's bond sponsors to be unsealed  —  A federal judge Tuesday granted media organizations' requests to unseal the names of the people who cosigned Rep. George Santos's (R-N.Y.) $500,000 bond in his criminal fraud case.  —  The order is a blow to Santos …
Thomas Kika / Newsweek:
Republicans Urge Immigrants to Stay in Florida, Fearing New Law's Impact  —  A handful of Florida Republicans have implored immigrants to stay in the state in the wake of recent laws signed by Governor Ron DeSantis.  —  Last month, Florida enacted a new bill, SB 1718, that is set …
Branko Marcetic / The Lever:
Clarence Thomas' Billionaire Benefactor Tied To SCOTUS Bombshell  —  Despite being caught in a swirling corruption scandal, the Supreme Court continues to rule on cases and issue far-reaching decisions that shatter years of precedent to rewrite the country's laws.
Axios:
Uninsurable America: Climate change hits the insurance industry … - It is also bedeviling regulators. … - State Farm said in late May it was done accepting new applications for California property insurance — including homes and commercial property — “due to historic increases …
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission:
SEC Charges Coinbase for Operating as an Unregistered Securities Exchange, Broker, and Clearing Agency  —  Coinbase also charged for the unregistered offer and sale of securities in connection with its staking-as-a-service program.  —  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  —  2023-102
Whitney Downard / Indiana Capital Chronicle:
Fort Wayne man charged with felony in harassment of Congressman Banks  —  (Photo courtesy of congressional office)  —  Allen County prosecutors charged a Fort Wayne man with intimidation and harassment of Congressman Jim Banks after he allegedly threatened the elected representative and his family.
Richard Luscombe / The Guardian:
Black woman in Florida shot dead through front door by white neighbor  —  Ajike ‘AJ’ Owens killed after allegedly trying to retrieve iPad taken from her child, while shooter has not been arrested or charged  —  A Black mother of four in Florida was killed by a white neighbor who shot …
Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:
During this Pride month, journalists should be ashamed  —  The front-page headline in the Washington Post proclaimed that “emboldened shoppers” are threatening Target workers for carrying Pride month merchandise — a trend that the article explained had “engulfed” the chain “in culture wars.”
Rachel M. Cohen / Vox:
Republicans' abortion bans are nothing like those in Europe  —  Yes, even the 12-week ones.  —  Republicans scrambling to address mounting backlash to abortion bans have landed on what they hope they can market as a moderate political compromise: limiting abortion after 12 weeks of pregnancy.
Chris Gelardi / New York Focus:
A New Prison Policy Blocks Incarcerated Journalists and Artists From Publishing Their Work  —  New York prisons may have effectively banned journalism behind bars.  —  The new prison policy prohibits incarcerated people from getting paid for their creative work.  —  STAY FOCUSED  —  Submit
Discussion: The Hill
Abrahm Lustgarten / ProPublica:
Climate Crisis Is on Track to Push One-Third of Humanity Out of Its Most Livable Environment  —  As conditions that best support life shift toward the poles, more than 600 million people are already living outside of a crucial “climate niche,” facing more extreme heat, rising food scarcity and higher death rates.
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Maine election officials say No Labels may be misleading voters in its third-party push  —  After receiving complaints, Maine's secretary of state is trying to make sure voters are aware they switched their registration to the centrist party.  —  LINCOLNVILLE, Maine …
Discussion: The Hill
Gabby Deutch / Jewish Insider:
U.S. diplomat with antisemitic, racist blog ‘cannot continue to serve’: Foreign Service union president  —  U.S. Ambassador Eric Rubin called for the firing of Fritz Berggren, who remains at State Department more than two years after the discovery of his ties to the website
Rebecca Robbins / New York Times:
Merck Sues Over Law Empowering Medicare to Negotiate With Drugmakers  —  The company is heavily reliant on a cancer drug that could be targeted by a program intended to lower drug prices.  —  The pharmaceutical company Merck sued the government on Tuesday over a federal law that empowers Medicare …
Stuart Lau / Politico:
China Watcher: Singapore showdown — European slapdown — Paris touchdown  —  Voiced by artificial intelligence.  —  Decoding transatlantic relations with Beijing.  —  with PHELIM KINE  —  WELCOME TO CHINA WATCHER.  Your correspondent Stuart Lau has this Tuesday edition …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Richard Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
With Debt-Ceiling Deal Done, House GOP Looks to Cut Taxes  —  Republicans hope to revive expired business tax breaks in a bill they could introduce this month  —  WASHINGTON—After insisting on spending cuts and deficit reduction in a debt-ceiling deal that came together just before the U.S. breached …
Discussion: The Hill
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
Harvard affirmative action challenge partly based on Holocaust denier's work  —  Complaint draws heavily from 2012 article by Ron Unz, who publishes antisemitic, anti-LGBTQ+ and neo-Nazi screeds  —  Backers of the legal challenge to Harvard University's affirmative action program currently pending …
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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