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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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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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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
Trump rips Quinnipiac, Fox News over poll
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NBC News:
Evangelicals supported Trump because he ‘gave voice’ to their frustrations, Pence says
Evangelicals supported Trump because he ‘gave voice’ to their frustrations, Pence says
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William P. Barr / The Free Press:
Bill Barr: The Truth About the Trump Indictment
Bill Barr: The Truth About the Trump Indictment
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Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots:
The Call is Coming from Inside the House
The Call is Coming from Inside the House
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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 …
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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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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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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Occupy Democrats, Washington Examiner and Law & Crime
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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Tierney Sneed / CNN:
Judge issues order that Trump keep quiet about disclosure of discovery material issued in classified documents case
Judge issues order that Trump keep quiet about disclosure of discovery material issued in classified documents case
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Aaron Katersky / ABC News:
Judge orders Trump not to disclose evidence in classified documents case
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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Matthew Rozsa / Salon:
Climate change denial hit its stride in the Bush-Cheney era, precipitating today's climate disaster — Once upon a time, the mainstream Republican Party did not deny the reality of climate science and even saw the environment as something to be valued and protected, not exploited.
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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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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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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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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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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Raw Story
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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