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Miles Klee / Rolling Stone:
Trump All But Confesses to Mishandling Classified Docs on Fox News — The former president, facing charges of mishandling classified information, nearly confessed to the crime — while blaming his “golf shirts” … But he ended up essentially confessing to the crime of which he's accused …
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Michael Luciano / Mediaite:
Fox's Brit Hume Torches Trump's Explanations for Why He Took Documents: They ‘Verge on Incoherent’ — Fox News Chief Political Analyst Brit Hume is not buying Donald Trump's excuses for why he took government documents to his Mar-a-Lago estate when he left the White House in January 2021.
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Jennifer Bowers Bahney / Mediaite:
Trump Claims He Has ‘Zero’ Worry About Federal Indictment — Donald Trump told Fox News' Bret Baier on Monday that the law was on his side and he had no worries about the 37 federal charges against him. — Baier grilled Trump about why he allegedly kept classified documents when he left …
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Sam Stein / Politico:
Trump: I was too busy to sort through the boxes I took to Mar-a-Lago — The former president said he kept golf clothes and shoes among government records and didn't have time to sift through it all. — Donald Trump on Monday said he did not hand over government records to the federal officials …
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Trump rips Quinnipiac, Fox News over poll — Former President Trump tore into Quinnipiac and Fox News over a poll showing him trailing President Biden in a head-to-head matchup. — “The Quinnipiac Poll FoxNews keeps showing on “TRUMP” vs. Biden is not just an old Poll, it is a BAD Poll,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Monday.
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Christopher Kane / Washington Blade:
RFK Jr. claims chemicals in the water are turning boys transgender — Democratic presidential candidate known for pushing conspiracy theories — In a recently unearthed video interview, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the noted anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist and a Democratic challenger …
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Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News:
The conspiracy candidate: What RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine crusade could look like in the White House — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a conspiracy theorist running for president as a Democrat. Experts fear his anti-vaccine activism threatens public health in America.
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Brandon Gillespie / Fox News:
Former Navy officer, US congressman calls for deployment of nuclear sub to search for missing Titanic tour — The tourist submersible went missing Sunday with five people on board — EXCLUSIVE: A U.S. congressman who served as a nuclear submarine officer in the U.S. Navy is calling …
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Gareth Evans / BBC:
Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way
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Brad Reed / Raw Story:
North Carolina GOP House speaker ‘engaged in group sex with people seeking political favor’: lawsuit — The Republican speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives is being accused to using his position to secure sexual favors. — As WSOC-TV reports, a new lawsuit filed …
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Andrew McMillan / WSOC-TV:
Lawsuit alleges NC House Speaker had affair, sex with people seeking political favor
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Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
The charlatan who has Trump's ear — Tom Fitton is no lawyer, but Trump listens to him. Why? Because he's saying what Trump wants to hear. — ∙ Paid … During his sordid, lengthy legal history, Donald Trump has had some terrible lawyers — Roy Cohn, Rudy Guiliani, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis.
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
How Classified Evidence Could Complicate the Trump Documents Case — Prosecutors and defense lawyers appear to be preparing for a pretrial fight over showing sensitive evidence to the jury and the public. — Reporting from Washington — Lawyers for former President Donald J. Trump …
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Aaron Katersky / ABC News:
Judge orders Trump not to disclose evidence in classified documents case
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New York Times:
China's Rebound Hits a Wall, and There Is ‘No Quick Fix’ to Revive It — Policymakers and investors expected China's economy to rev up again after Beijing abruptly dropped Covid precautions, but recent data shows alarming signs of a slowdown. — When China suddenly dismantled its lockdowns …
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Alex Gangitano / The Hill:
Biden calls Tuberville hold on military nominations ‘bizarre’ — LOS GATOS, Calif. — President Biden on Monday called Sen. Tommy Tuberville's (R-Ala.) hold on military nominees over the Department of Defense's abortion policy “bizarre.” — Biden, during a fundraiser in Los Gatos, Calif. …
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Tomiwa Owolade / The Free Press:
What Americans Get Wrong When They Talk about Race — On Juneteenth, we celebrate black progress. But if we want to achieve more of it, writes Tomiwa Owolade, we need ideas that aren't born in the U.S.A. — On this day in 1865, two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect …
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CNN:
Saudi Arabia is quietly changing its textbooks. Could that lead to acceptance of Israel? — Editor's Note: A version of this story appears in CNN's Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, a three-times-a-week look inside the region's biggest stories. Sign up here. — Jerusalem and Abu Dhabi CNN —
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Adam Gabbatt / The Guardian:
Well-funded Christian group behind US effort to roll back LGBTQ+ rights — Advocacy groups condemn Alliance Defending Freedom as ‘a danger to every American who values their freedoms’ — With the US besieged by a rightwing culture war campaign that aims to strip away rights from LGBTQ+ people and others …
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Decca Muldowney / The Daily Beast:
New Hampshire State Senator Keith Murphy Arrested for Bar Fight — ‘AGGRESSIVE MANNER’ — A New Hampshire state senator has been arrested after allegedly slapping and spitting on a man in a bar, police say. Keith Murphy, 47, a Republican lawmaker who was elected in 2022 …
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Courtney Kube / NBC News:
House GOP moves to ban public access to service members' military records — The proposal comes after the Pentagon erroneously released the personal information of several Republican politicians who were current or former members of the armed forces. — House Republicans are attempting …
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Laura Bassett / Jezebel:
Sen. Josh Hawley Shares His Mindblowingly Stupid Thoughts on Juneteenth — “Today is a good day to remember: Christianity is the faith and America is the place slavery came to die,” the Missouri senator tweeted. Who's gonna tell him? — On June 19th, 1865, Union Civil War soldiers …
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Tyler Durden / ZeroHedge:
Rand Paul: “Bill Gates Is Largest Funder Of Trying To Find Viruses In Caves And Bring Them To Big Cities” — Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, — Senator Rand Paul teed off on globalist Bill Gates Sunday, heavily intimating that the billionaire's obsession with funding research …
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Michael Lind / New Statesman:
The 15-minute city is a working-class nightmare — A car-free lifestyle is only possible for those whose profession and income permit it. — Is there a global conspiracy to confine people to “15-minute cities”? At the recent UK local elections, MPs and councillors heard this message from voters.
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Samantha Jarpe / The Hill:
Joe Exotic says he's officially on Colorado ballot as presidential candidate — DENVER (KDVR) - Joseph Maldonado-Passage, known widely as “Joe Exotic,” has filed the paperwork to appear on the 2024 Democratic presidential primary ballot in Colorado, according to the former zookeeper.
Andrew Stiles / Washington Free Beacon:
Democrat Donor Arrested for Starting Massive Fire Democrats Blamed on Climate Change — Several firefighters injured in ‘ginormous’ blaze; suspect also donated to the Lincoln Project … Democratic politicians had insisted climate change was to blame for the blaze, which destroyed …
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emptywheel:
The WaPo Shows There Should Be More Scrutiny of Steve D'Antuono — The WaPo has a story that many Merrick Garland attackers claim confirms their fears about the DOJ investigation. Except the story has really important gaps, most importantly in its portrayal of the fake electors investigation …
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Tim Nudd / Ad Age:
Bud Light's struggles have been a ‘wake-up call,’ says AB InBev CMO at Cannes — Marcel Marcondes says the brewer's goal is to ‘celebrate and appreciate every consumer that loves our brands’ — Anheuser-Busch InBev's top global marketer on Monday addressed the backlash to Bud Light's use …
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