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10:40 AM ET, June 20, 2023

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Washington Post:
Hunter Biden reaches deal to plead guilty in tax, gun case  —  The president's son would get about two years probation and enter a diversion program, people familiar with the negotiations said  —  President Biden's son Hunter has reached a tentative agreement with federal prosecutors …
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Lindsay Whitehurst / Associated Press:
Hunter Biden charged with failing to pay federal income tax and illegally having a weapon  —  President Joe Biden's son Hunter has been charged with failing to pay federal income tax and illegally possessing a weapon and has reached an agreement with the Justice Department, according to a letter filed in U.S. District Court in Delaware.
CNBC:
Hunter Biden to plead guilty to federal tax crimes, take deal on gun charge  — Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, has agreed to plead guilty to federal criminal tax charges, a court filing revealed.  — Hunter Biden also has agreed to enter a so-called pretrial diversion agreement …
NBC News:
Hunter Biden expected to plead guilty to tax-related misdemeanor crimes as part of a plea agreement  —  The Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney in Delaware reached the agreement.  —  Hunter Biden reaches plea deal on tax charges  —  The Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney for Delaware has reached …
Kara Scannell / CNN:
Hunter Biden to plead guilty to federal tax charges, strikes deal on gun charge  —  Hunter Biden will plead guilty to two tax misdemeanors and struck a deal with federal prosecutors regarding a felony gun charge, the Justice Department said Tuesday in court filings.
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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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Trump classified documents trial date set for Aug. 14  — A Florida federal judge scheduled the criminal trial of former President Donald Trump for his alleged illegal retention of classified government documents to begin Aug. 14.  — But legal experts do not expect the trial to begin so early.
New York Times:
Trump Says ‘Secret’ Document He Described on Tape Referred to News Clippings
Miles Klee / Rolling Stone:
Trump All But Confesses to Mishandling Classified Docs on Fox News
Jack Birle / Washington Examiner:
Donald Trump trial: Classified documents hearing set one week before first GOP debate
Discussion: The Daily Caller and IJR
Yael Halon / Fox News:
Trump addresses reluctance to hand over documents in first interview since indictment
Luiza Ilie / Reuters:
Romanian prosecutors send Andrew Tate to trial for human trafficking  —  Romanian prosecutors sent divisive internet personality Andrew Tate, his brother Tristan and two other suspects to trial on Tuesday on charges of human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women.
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Associated Press:
Andrew Tate is charged with rape and human trafficking in Romania
Discussion: Rolling Stone
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 …
Discussion: Washington Post and Newsweek
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Politico:
Playbook: Dems salivate as McCarthy caters to the right
Discussion: Raw Story and ABC News
Associated Press:
Rescuers race against time to find the missing sub in the Atlantic bound for the Titanic site  —  Rescuers in a remote area of the Atlantic Ocean raced against time early Tuesday to find a missing submersible carrying five people on a mission to document the wreckage of the Titanic …
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New York Times:
Why the Search for the Missing Sub Will Be Difficult
Brandon Gillespie / Fox News:
Former Navy officer, US congressman calls for deployment of nuclear sub to search for missing Titanic tour
Wall Street Journal:
U.S.-Funded Scientist Among Three Chinese Researchers Who Fell Ill Amid Early Covid-19 Outbreak  —  Identification of three who worked at Wuhan Institute of Virology fuels suspicion for proponents of lab-leak theory  —  A prominent scientist who worked on coronavirus projects funded …
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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”
Associated Press:
Lawyer Eastman faces disciplinary hearing over plot to keep Trump in power after 2020 election loss  —  An effort to disbar conservative attorney John Eastman, who devised ways to keep President Donald Trump in the White House after his defeat in the 2020 election, will begin Tuesday in Los Angeles.
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Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
The charlatan who has Trump's ear
Discussion: The Dispatch and The Free Press
Ramon Antonio Vargas / The Guardian:
Revealed: New Orleans archdiocese concealed serial child molester for years  —  Lawrence Hecker confessed to superiors he had molested multiple teenagers but he was never prosecuted, secret documents show  —  The last four Roman Catholic archbishops of New Orleans went to shocking lengths …
Washington Post:
Gov. Ron DeSantis used secretive panel to flip state Supreme Court  —  Leonard Leo, the key architect of the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority, led the advisers who helped DeSantis reshape the state court  —  For decades, the ambitions of Florida's Republican governors were stymied by the liberal-leaning state Supreme Court.
Discussion: National Review
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
US murder rate declines dramatically in 2023 — but you probably haven't heard about it  —  In 2020, along with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a dramatic spike in murders in the United States.  This increase in lethal violence, understandably, was covered extensively in national and local media outlets.
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Trump Real Estate Deal in Oman Underscores Ethics Concerns  —  Details of the former president's agreement to work with a Saudi firm to develop a hotel and golf complex overlooking the Gulf of Oman highlight the ways his business and political roles intersect.  —  Reporting from Yiti, Oman
Discussion: Raw Story and Iran Nuances
Kimberly Guilfoyle / Washington Times:
MAGA hat stays on: The people choose their president, not the federal bureaucracy  —  FRONT PAGE PODCAST  —  LATEST CARTOON QUESTION OF THE DAY  —  How do you feel about the expanding field of GOP presidential candidates?  —  Question of the Day There is room for more The options are now enough
Wall Street Journal:
Beijing Plans a New Training Facility in Cuba, Raising Prospect of Chinese Troops on America's Doorstep  —  Biden administration scrambles to forestall China's ambitions in the Caribbean  —  WASHINGTON—China and Cuba are negotiating to establish a new joint military training facility on the island …
 
 
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Sen. Marco Rubio / Washington Examiner:
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Courtney Kube / NBC News:
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Discussion: CNN
Associated Press:
More than 1 million people are dropped from Medicaid as states start a post-pandemic purge of rolls
Discussion: ABC4 Utah and The Daily Caller
Jason DeParle / New York Times:
Federal Policy on Homelessness Becomes New Target of the Right
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Max Seddon / Financial Times:
Alexei Navalny calls on Russians to back new anti-war campaign
Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
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