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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
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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Washington Examiner, Raw Story, Axios and Conservative Brief
Sam Stein / Politico:
Trump: I was too busy to sort through the boxes I took to Mar-a-Lago
Trump: I was too busy to sort through the boxes I took to Mar-a-Lago
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Washington Times, The Dispatch, Reuters, HuffPost, USA Today, National Review, New York Daily News, Breitbart, New York Post, The Hill and The Messenger
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Trump rips Quinnipiac, Fox News over poll
Trump rips Quinnipiac, Fox News over poll
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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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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 …
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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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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Reuters, Metro.co.uk and The Messenger
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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Associated Press:
Rescuers race against time to find the missing sub in the Atlantic bound for the Titanic site
Rescuers race against time to find the missing sub in the Atlantic bound for the Titanic site
New York Times:
Why the Search for the Missing Sub Will Be Difficult
Why the Search for the Missing Sub Will Be Difficult
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Gareth Evans / BBC:
Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way
Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way
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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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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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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.
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, New York Times, The Messenger, The Federalist and Bloomberg
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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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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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 …
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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Lucille Sherman / Axios:
NC House Speaker accused of sexual relationship with state employee
NC House Speaker accused of sexual relationship with state employee
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Daily Press, Washington Examiner, Occupy Democrats and Law & Crime
Katie Glueck / New York Times:
A Year After Dobbs, Republicans Push Into Risky Territory on Abortion — The historic 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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Punchbowl News, Washington Post, The Daily Beast and New Republic
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
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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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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