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Washington Post:
Trump rejected lawyers' efforts to avoid classified documents indictment — The former president was not interested in attempting to negotiate a settlement in the classified documents investigation — One of Donald Trump's new attorneys proposed an idea in the fall of 2022 …
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Tom Ginsburg / Persuasion:
Jack Smith Changed My Mind On Prosecuting Trump — Since at least the first impeachment proceeding against him in 2019, and accelerating after January 6, 2021, the country has been considering whether Donald Trump ought to be prosecuted for various misdeeds.
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Washington Post and Media Matters for America
Wall Street Journal:
The Self-Destructive Donald Trump — The document indictment is misguided, but he made it easier for his enemies, as he always does. — By The Editorial Board — Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to federal charges on Tuesday, with the typical array of supporters and opponents.
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Jeffrey Blehar / National Review:
Pardoning Is Not Enough: We Must All Perform Seppuku for Donald Trump — Some people have been skeptical about the presence of motivational speaker/venture capitalist Vivek Ramaswamy in the 2024 Republican presidential primary race. My colleague Charlie Cooke cruelly accused him of “not really running for president.”
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ABC News, CBS News, The Post Millennial, New York Times and Fox News
NBC News:
Republicans privately acknowledge Trump's legal woes are serious this time — Many GOP operatives who spoke with NBC News said the federal indictment is serious — and could cause problems for the party. — It's long been Republican orthodoxy that no matter what Donald Trump does, the GOP base will stick with him.
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Raw Story, PJ Media, KION546, Slate, Political Wire, WSVN-TV and The Daily Caller
The Atlantic:
Jack Smith's Backup Option — Donald Trump was indicted in Florida. Could he also face charges in New Jersey? — Even before last Thursday's indictment in United States v. Donald Trump, public speculation swirled about whether the former president had taken classified documents …
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Talking Points Memo, Washington Press, What The Fuck …, The Gateway Pundit, Just Security, Saywhat Politics, Raw Story and Mediaite
David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump Is About to Have His Wile E. Coyote Moment — The double-indicted ex-president will soon look down to discover he's over the cliff and there's nothing and no one left to support him. … Donald Trump is rapidly approaching his Wile E. Coyote moment.
New York Times:
G.O.P. Rivals See Trump's Indictment as a Big Problem (for Them)
G.O.P. Rivals See Trump's Indictment as a Big Problem (for Them)
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Jared Gans / The Hill:
GOP's Bacon on Trump indictment: ‘The emperor has no clothes’
GOP's Bacon on Trump indictment: ‘The emperor has no clothes’
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National Review and Washington Examiner
Jess Bidgood / MSN:
As GOP candidates evoke Reagan, Michigan Republicans say the future is Trump, indictments and all
As GOP candidates evoke Reagan, Michigan Republicans say the future is Trump, indictments and all
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NBC News and The Dispatch
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Trump would burn America before facing justice
Trump would burn America before facing justice
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Los Angeles Times, Magnolia Tribune, The American Spectator and New York Times
Mike Ives / New York Times:
Fox News Chyron Calls Biden a ‘Wannabe Dictator’ — The onscreen text appeared Tuesday beneath split-screen footage of President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump, who had been charged with federal crimes hours earlier. — A Fox News chyron appeared to refer to President Biden as a …
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
In Legal Peril, Trump Tries to Shift the Spotlight to Biden
In Legal Peril, Trump Tries to Shift the Spotlight to Biden
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Washington Post, New York Magazine and The Daily Signal
Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair:
Why CNN and MSNBC Didn't Carry Trump's Post-Arraignment Speech Live
Why CNN and MSNBC Didn't Carry Trump's Post-Arraignment Speech Live
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ABC News:
Grand jury indicts Daniel Penny in chokehold death of Jordan Neely — Neely's death was ruled a homicide, according to the medical examiner. — A grand jury has indicted former U.S. Marine Daniel Penny in connection with the chokehold death of Jordan Neely aboard a subway train, law enforcement sources told ABC News.
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New York Times:
Judge in Trump Documents Case Has Scant Criminal Trial Experience — Judge Aileen M. Cannon, under scrutiny for past rulings favoring the former president, has presided over only a few criminal cases that went to trial. — Michael S. Schmidt reported from New York, and Charlie Savage reported from Washington.
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Politico, Bloomberg, Raw Story, The Hill, The Daily Caller, Just The News and TIMCAST
Ed Shanahan / New York Times:
White Starbucks Manager Fired Amid Furor Over Racism Wins $25 Million — The company fired a former regional manager because of her race amid the fallout from the arrests of two Black men at a Philadelphia store, a federal jury found. — The episode plunged one of America's most ubiquitous brands into crisis.
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James Gant / Daily Mail:
White Starbucks manager who ran Philly store where two black men were refused access to bathroom - sparking protests - is awarded $25M as jury finds she was fired because of her race — Shannon Phillips won her lawsuit against the coffee giant and got $25.6million
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David Remnick / New Yorker:
Remembering Robert Gottlieb, Editor Extraordinaire — At Knopf and The New Yorker, Gottlieb was an editor of unexampled accomplishment—someone who seemed to have read everything worth reading and to have published a fair amount of it, too. — Early this year, Film Forum …
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Associated Press
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Broader Support for Abortion Rights Continues Post-Dobbs — WASHINGTON, D.C. — After rising to new heights last year, Americans' support for legal abortion remains elevated in several long-term Gallup trends. — A record-high 69% say abortion should generally be legal in the first three months of pregnancy.
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Sarah McCammon / NPR:
Nearly a year later, most Americans oppose Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe
Nearly a year later, most Americans oppose Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe
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Gallup, National Review and Washington Examiner
U.S. Central Command:
F-22 Raptors Demonstrate Air Superiority in CENTCOM — TAMPA, Fla. - U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptors deployed to U.S. Central Command's area of responsibility as part of a multifaceted show of U.S. support and capability in the wake of increasingly unsafe and unprofessional behavior by Russian aircraft in the region.
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The Hill, Washington Examiner and Task & Purpose
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John Sexton / HotAir:
Community outrage after Burlington, MA Middle School students counter-program Pride celebration — I guess it's taken as a given now that Middle Schoolers should be encouraged to celebrate Pride month. That's certainly the case in Burlington, Massachusetts where on June 2 the school encouraged students …
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PinkNews, NBC Boston, RedState, WHDH-TV, The Daily Caller, Louder With Crowder, TheBlaze, Boston.com, Twitchy, New York Post and The Post Millennial
Perry Stein / Washington Post:
Garland defends special counsel, Trump classified-documents probe — Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday afternoon defended the Justice Department's classified-documents investigation of former president Donald Trump, who has been calling Jack Smith, the special counsel in charge of the probe, a “thug” and a “lunatic.”
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Ryan Cooper / American Prospect:
Tesla's “Self-Driving” System Never Should Have Been Allowed on the Road — Elon Musk's automatic driving technology seems to be roughly an order of magnitude more deadly than human drivers. — Tesla CEO Elon Musk is seen during a meeting with France's Finance Minister Bruno Lemaire outside Paris, France, on May 15, 2023.
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
The Gross Spectacle of Murder Fandom — After four University of Idaho students were killed, TikTok and Reddit sleuths swarmed the campus. The community is still struggling with the wreckage they left behind. — The reporters arrived in news vans and satellite trucks that trundled …
Gary Fineout / Politico:
Miami GOP Mayor Francis Suarez jumps into presidential race — He is the third candidate from Florida running for the GOP nomination. — Miami GOP Mayor Francis Suarez filed federal paperwork Wednesday to join the crowded Republican field for president, becoming the third candidate from Florida running for the GOP nomination.
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Washington Post:
The bitter strike at Insider — longest ever in digital media — is over — The 13-day labor struggle prompted managers to write their own stories and the editor in chief to tear down union fliers — Even casual followers of Insider — the fast-paced publication that has become …
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The Messenger, The Daily Beast, Insider Union, Variety and The Wrap, more at Mediagazer »
Nicholas Biase / US Department of Justice:
U.S. Army Soldier Pleads Guilty To Terrorism Charges For Attempting To Assist ISIS To Conduct Deadly Ambush On U.S. Troops — For Immediate Release — U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York — U.S. Army Private First Class Cole Bridges Provided Tactical Guidance in Attempt …
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David Corn / Mother Jones:
No Labels Is Helping a Firm that Raises Money for Right-Wing Extremists — The self-proclaimed centrist group is using a vendor that assists election deniers, MAGA Republicans, and the radical Trump right. — No Labels is a political outfit that hails political centrism, calls for bipartisanship …
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Political Wire
Mychael Schnell / The Hill:
House blocks resolution to censure Adam Schiff — The House on Wednesday effectively killed a resolution to censure Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), voting for a Democratic-led motion to table the measure. — The chamber voted 225-196-7 to table the resolution.
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NBC Boston:
Feds: Human brains, skin stolen from Harvard morgue, sold on black market — A group of people stole and sold off human remains from Harvard Medical School's morgue, federal prosecutors say, with a grand jury indicting the morgue's manager and his wife, among others.
Zach Everson / Forbes:
Mar-A-Lago Sought 380 Foreign Workers During Time Trump Had Access To Classified Documents — Mar-a-Lago looked to employ 380 short-term foreign workers from 2017 to 2022, when Trump had access to classified documents, initially as president and ultimately as a former official living at the club.
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Paul Campos / Lawyers, Guns & Money:
Ron DeSantis, open fascist — Luckily this guy has as much chance of being the GOP nominee as I have of displacing Nikola Jokic as Denver's starting center next season. Still this is a chilling reminder of which way the wind is blowng: … Disciplined coherent fascism is to some extent …
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The Daily Caller and Digby's Hullabaloo
Timothy Nerozzi / Fox News:
Michigan city votes against allowing Pride flags on public property after contentious council meeting — The city council in Hamtramck, Michigan, says Pride flag ban is about respecting religious rights of its citizens — A Michigan city near Detroit has decided against allowing Pride flags …
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Washington Post:
How much did Congress lose by defunding the IRS? Way more than we thought. — The White House and Congress recently agreed to claw back more than $20 billion earmarked for the Internal Revenue Service. This deal was, ostensibly, part of a grand bargain to reduce budget deficits.
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Daily Kos
Max Bearak / New York Times:
The U.S. Is Paying Billions to Russia's Nuclear Agency. Here's Why. — Nuclear power companies rely on cheap enriched uranium made in Russia. That geopolitical dilemma is intensifying as climate change underscores the need for emissions-free energy. — Reporting from Piketon, Ohio; Kemmerer, Wyo.; and Washington.
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Ex-Chief of Staff John Kelly Claims Trump Is Absolutely Terrified of Documents Indictment: 'He's Scared Sh*tless' — Donald Trump's former White House chief of staff assessed that the ex-president's blustery defiance throughout his arraignment day was a facade designed to mask his serious fear of the legal danger he faces.
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PoliticusUSA and The Hill
Eamon Whalen / Mother Jones:
Report: J.D. Vance Watered Down His Rail Safety Bill — In his brief tenure, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) has touted a signature piece of legislation to show his New Right bonafides: The Railway Safety Act of 2023. A bipartisan bill, co-authored with fellow Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown …
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Kerry Byrne / Fox News:
White House flew controversial new transgender flag that troubles some critics in the gay community — ‘Progress Pride Flag’ hung from White House portico between American flags for Pride Month ceremony — A mysterious and divisive new symbol of pride had a coming-out party at the White House on Saturday.
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Mediaite, The Gateway Pundit, WKBN-TV and KTLA