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Washington Post:
FBI resisted opening probe into Trump's role in Jan. 6 for more than a year — In the DOJ's investigation of Jan. 6, key Justice officials also quashed an early plan for a task force focused on people in Trump's orbit — Hours after he was sworn in as attorney general …
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Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Chris Cameron / New York Times:
Barr Says Documents Case Against Trump Is ‘Entirely of His Own Making’ — The former attorney general, who has become a vocal critic of Donald Trump, was one of two people who served in the former president's cabinet to question his judgment on Sunday. — Reporting from Washington
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Washington Examiner, Rolling Stone, National Review, 19FortyFive, MSNBC, Mediaite, HuffPost, Politico, Washington Post, CBS News, CNN, Occupy Democrats, WFLA-TV, USA Today, The Hill, Political Wire and Breitbart
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William P. Barr / The Free Press:
Bill Barr: The Truth About the Trump Indictment — This time the president is not a victim of a witch hunt. The situation is entirely of his own making. — He's the victim. Since President Trump was indicted in Florida last week, those of us who read and listen to conservative media have heard that singular message.
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Vanity Fair, Washington Times, Breitbart, Bloomberg, The Hill, Washington Examiner, RedState, The Daily Caller and CBS News
Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots:
The Call is Coming from Inside the House
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Notes from the Middleground, Raw Story and IJR
Tierney Sneed / CNN:
Judge issues order that Trump keep quiet about disclosure of discovery material issued in classified documents case — A magistrate judge has signed off on special counsel Jack Smith's request that former President Donald Trump and his co-defendant Walt Nauta be prohibited from disclosing information …
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Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
Judge orders Trump not to disclose evidence in documents case — A federal magistrate judge Monday agreed to a motion from the Justice Department to block former President Trump from disclosing information relating to the Mar-a-Lago case, after prosecutors said the investigation remains ongoing.
Discussion:
ABC News, RedState, Al Jazeera and Law & Crime
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Why Robert Kennedy Jr.'s 2024 Bid Is a Headache for Biden — The unexpected polling strength of an anti-vaccine activist with a celebrated Democratic lineage points to the president's weaknesses, which his team is aiming to shore up. — Reporting from Washington
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The Daily Caller, Florida Politics, Washington Times, Daily Mail, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Conservative Brief, CNN and The Hill
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William Cooper / Orlando Sentinel:
A Democrat's case for DeSantis
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New York Post, Washington Examiner and Mercury News
Gareth Evans / BBC:
Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way — A submersible used to take people to view the wreck of the Titanic has gone missing in the Atlantic Ocean. — The Boston Coastguard told BBC News that a search and rescue operation was under way off the coast of Newfoundland.
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The Guardian, The Messenger, Fox News, New York Times, New York Post, Global News, CBS News, Metro.co.uk, The Daily Caller and New York Daily News
Gideon Rachman / Financial Times:
Europe has fallen behind America and the gap is growing — From technology to energy to capital markets and universities, the EU cannot compete with the US — The Ukraine war has revived the transatlantic alliance. But the relationship between the US and its European allies is increasingly lopsided.
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Radio Free Europe/Radio …
Glen OwenDaily Mail / PerthNow:
Chinese military scientist Zhou Yusen ‘thrown to his death’ at Wuhan lab for leaking COVID lab information — A Chinese military scientist who was reportedly thrown to his death from the roof of a Wuhan institute is at the centre of mounting evidence that the COVID pandemic resulted from a lab leak.
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National Review
Andrew McMillan / WSOC-TV:
Lawsuit alleges NC House Speaker had affair, sex with people seeking political favor — RALEIGH — A detailed lawsuit filed by a former Apex City Councilman claims that North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore (R-Cleveland County) started an affair with his wife and engaged in group sex with other people seeking political favor.
New York Times:
G.O.P. Targets Researchers Who Study Disinformation Ahead of 2024 Election — A legal campaign against universities and think tanks seeks to undermine the fight against false claims about elections, vaccines and other hot political topics. — On Capitol Hill and in the courts …
Discussion:
Raw Story
Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
Blinken and Xi pledge to stabilize the deteriorating ties between the US and China — The United States and China have pledged to stabilize their badly deteriorated ties during a critical visit to Beijing by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who met Monday with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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New York Times:
Russia Sought to Kill Defector in Florida — A failed plot to assassinate a C.I.A. spy in 2020 in part led to expulsions of the agency's chief in Moscow and his Russian counterpart in Washington. — As President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has pursued enemies abroad …
Discussion:
The Messenger and Saywhat Politics
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
‘Flat-out lying’: Legal analyst fact-checks Mike Pence claiming no BLM protesters were arrested — Former Vice President Mike Pence faced off against an angry crowd of Donald Trump's supporters who built a gallows on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol and chanted “Hang Mike Pence.”
Politico:
2024's hidden prize: The upper hand in tax ‘Armageddon’ — If either party can claim a full sweep of next year's elections, it would claim the power to unilaterally shape the code for millions of Americans. — If either party can claim both the White House and Congress in next fall's elections …
John Blake / CNN:
As the nation celebrates Juneteenth, it's time to get rid of these three myths about slavery — Temple “Tempie” Cummins stoically stares at the camera with her arms folded in her lap, sitting stiffly in a chair in her dusty, barren backyard with her weather-beaten wooden shack behind her.
Ben Samuels / Haaretz:
U.S. ‘Deeply Troubled’ by Israeli Settlement Plans That Violate Commitment to Biden — The U.S. opposes the move, as has been its ‘longstanding policy’ for actions it considers ‘obstacles to peace’ — WASHINGTON — The United States on Sunday said it was “deeply troubled” …
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Associated Press and The Hill
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Barak Ravid / Axios:
Israel moves to expedite West Bank settlement building ahead of U.S. official's visit
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The Hill, The Gateway Pundit, UPI, The Times of Israel, Haaretz, Reuters, KION546, Associated Press, Al Jazeera and Washington Post
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