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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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The Hill, PoliticusUSA and Political Wire
New York Times:
Trump Says ‘Secret’ Document He Described on Tape Referred to News Clippings — “There was no document,” the former president said on Fox News as he gave some of his most expansive remarks on the case that led to his federal indictment. — Former President Donald J. Trump claimed …
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 …
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Jennifer Bowers Bahney / Mediaite:
Trump Claims He Has ‘Zero’ Worry About Federal Indictment
Trump Claims He Has ‘Zero’ Worry About Federal Indictment
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Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Trump rips Quinnipiac, Fox News over poll
Trump rips Quinnipiac, Fox News over poll
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BBC:
Andrew Tate charged with rape and human trafficking — Controversial influencer Andrew Tate has been charged in Romania with rape, human trafficking and forming an organised crime group to sexually exploit women. — His brother Tristan and two associates also face charges. All have denied the allegations.
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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.
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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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Politico:
Playbook: Dems salivate as McCarthy caters to the right — Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross — DRIVING THE DAY — TOP-ED — “The Truth About the Trump Indictment,” by BILL BARR in The Free Press: “For the sake of the country, our party, and a basic respect for the truth …
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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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.
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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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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
The charlatan who has Trump's ear
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The Dispatch and The Free Press
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
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Iran Nuances
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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Fox News, National Review, New York Times, The Daily Caller, The Federalist and Bloomberg
Josephine Harvey / HuffPost:
‘Too Painful’: Trump Says Ivanka Won't Serve In A 2024 Administration — The former president commiserated that his daughter had to step back from her clothing brand when he gave her a job in the White House. — Donald Trump said his daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner …
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Jack Birle / Washington Examiner:
Donald Trump trial: Classified documents hearing set one week before first GOP debate — Judge Aileen Cannon has set the first court date for former President Donald Trump's classified documents trial, a little over a week before the first GOP primary debate.
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The Hill, The Daily Caller and IJR
Max Seddon / Financial Times:
Alexei Navalny calls on Russians to back new anti-war campaign — Latest trial of opposition activist could lead to him being held in prison for decades — Alexei Navalny, Russia's most prominent opposition activist, urged his countrymen to join a new information campaign against the war …
Katie Glueck / New York Times:
What Republicans Say About Their Risky Balancing Act on Abortion — The historic Dobbs ruling has hurt the party electorally, but G.O.P. lawmakers are still moving to pass more restrictive laws. These two realities represent the defining political fallout of the end of Roe v. Wade.
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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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The Economist, HotAir, New Republic and The Hill
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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Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
Republican primary spending projected to approach or surpass $1 billion — The Republican presidential primary is getting crowded. With a former president and well-heeled politicians running, plus super PACs boosting them, it all points to what's likely going to be the most money ever spent to win the GOP nomination.
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