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New York Times:
The outcome focused attention on whether Hunter Biden got a better deal than the average person would get.  —  Under a deal with the Justice Department, the president's son agreed to probation for filing his taxes late, and he can avoid a charge that he lied about his drug use when he purchased a handgun.
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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 …
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
After Hunter Biden charges, right-wing media immediately move the goalposts  —  News broke on Tuesday morning that federal prosecutors have charged Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden's son, with two misdemeanor counts of failure to pay taxes and one count of felony gun possession.
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.
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump compares Hunter Biden charges to ‘traffic ticket’  —  Former President Trump and his allies on Tuesday bemoaned a plea deal struck between Hunter Biden and federal prosecutors over tax and firearm crimes, comparing it unfavorably to the charges Trump is facing over his retention of classified documents after leaving office.
New York Times:
Hunter Biden Reaches Deal with Justice Dept. on Tax and Gun Charges
NBC News:
Hunter Biden expected to plead guilty to tax-related misdemeanor crimes as part of a plea agreement
Shawna Mizelle / CNN:
Who is David Weiss, the US attorney overseeing Hunter Biden criminal probe?
The Hill:
McCarthy doubles down on Biden family probes after Hunter guilty plea deal
CNN:
CNN Poll: Trump's GOP support appears to soften post-indictment, but he holds lead in primary field  —  Former President Donald Trump's support appears to have softened following his indictment and arrest on federal charges, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS.
Rolling Stone:
Team Trump Suspects His Former Chief of Staff Is a ‘Rat’  —  The former president is sending his attorneys and allies on ‘fact-finding’ missions about what Mark Meadows is up to.  They've returned with no answers but lots of suspicions  —  EARLIER THIS YEAR, Donald Trump sent some of his lawyers …
Discussion: Raw Story
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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.
Shelby Talcott / Semafor:
Trump says he will try to unilaterally cut government spending if elected president
Discussion: The Hill
New York Times:
Judge in Trump Documents Case Sets Tentative Trial Date as Soon as August  —  The judge, Aileen M. Cannon, set an aggressive schedule for moving the case forward, though the proceedings are likely to be delayed by pretrial clashes.  —  The federal judge presiding over the prosecution …
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Trump classified documents trial date set for Aug. 14
New York Times:
Trump Says ‘Secret’ Document He Described on Tape Referred to News Clippings
Tina Reed / Axios:
Scientists on Twitter head for the exit  —  A feud broke out on Twitter over the weekend between popular podcaster Joe Rogan and prominent vaccine researcher Peter Hotez, with the podcaster challenging the scientist to a debate about vaccines in an online skirmish that drew fire from a few billionaires.
Monmouth University Polling Institute:
Most Say Fundamental Rights Under Threat  —  Partisan identity determines which specific rights people feel are at risk  —  West Long Branch, NJ - Most Americans are worried that their fundamental freedoms could be at risk according to the Monmouth ("Mon-muth") University Poll.
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
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Julia Mueller / The Hill:
Three in 10 still say Biden won because of voter fraud: survey
Discussion: Washington Post, NBC News and Breitbart
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.
Reuters:
Titanic tourist sub missing for third day with five aboard  —  A submersible taking wealthy tourists to visit the site of the Titanic wreckage in deep waters off the coast of Canada was missing for a third day on Tuesday, as U.S. and Canadian ships and planes swept a huge area trying to find the vessel.
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Associated Press:
A Titanic expert, an adventurer, and a father and son are among the passengers on missing sub
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: Insider, The Atlantic and Raw Story
Brittany Gibson / Politico:
Marianne Williamson loses second campaign manager in two months  —  Other staff departures have also been rampant.  —  Marianne Williamson has lost her second campaign manager in as many months in what has proven to be a rocky 2024 presidential bid.  —  Roza Calderon's departure …
Discussion: Insider and Raw Story
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 …
Jonathan V. Last / Bulwark+:
RFK Jr.: A Threat Assessment  —  This isn't a primary campaign.  It's a Fifth Column.  —  ∙ Paid  —  1. It's Not a Primary Campaign  —  There are two fundamental truths about the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. primary campaign.  —  (1) RFK Jr.'s polling is real.
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 …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and New York Post
New York Times:
Authors and Students Sue Over Florida Law Driving Book Bans  —  The authors of a picture book about a penguin family with two fathers sued the state and a school district that removed the book from libraries.  —  A group of students and the authors of a children's book about a penguin family …
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Scoop: Doug Ducey targets free enterprise voters  —  Former Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is launching a national grassroots effort to find, register and educate voters who are willing to fight for free enterprise, Axios has learned. … - Ducey wants to build a 50-state organization that focuses …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Delilah Friedler / Slate:
When I Transitioned in Rural Tennessee, I Never Could Have Expected the Reaction  —  In rural America, many queer people have built lives rich in nature and community.  Now they face an impossible choice. … What surprised me most living as a trans woman in rural Tennessee was how tranquil it could be.
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.
Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
No elections takeover: Georgia board clears Fulton County  —  State Election Board cites improvements in Fulton elections since 2020  —  A unanimous vote by the State Election Board on Tuesday scuttled a potential state takeover of elections in Fulton County following Georgia's contentious 2020 presidential race.
Richard Wolin / Los Angeles Review of Books:
To Sanitize the Master's Corpus: On the Heidegger Hoax  —  THE PHILOSOPHER Martin Heidegger's influence has been enormous.  Richard Rorty once justifiably claimed that it would be impossible to write the intellectual history of the 20th century without acknowledging Heidegger's titanic impact.
The Marshall Project:
Ohio Prison System Bans Java Computer Manual, But Allows Hitler's Mein Kampf  —  Incarcerated people are baffled by the state's book screening process.  —  The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) has a host of policies controlling which books people can have in prisons …
Discussion: Raw Story
Mike Reed / USA Today:
Gannett CEO: Here's why we are suing Google for deceptive business practices  —  Google is a serial violator of U.S. antitrust and consumer-protection laws.  —  Mike ReedGannett CEO and chairman  —  This morning, Gannett, the largest news publisher in the United States including USA TODAY …
Gabriel Schoenfeld / Bulwark+:
It's Not the Law's Fault that Trump Broke It  —  What, if anything, is wrong with the Espionage Act of 1917?  The question is pertinent right now because a certain former president of the United States is facing 31 counts of violating the law.  In particular, Donald Trump is charged under …
 
 
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US Department of Justice:
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Discussion: Raw Story
Bolts:
Melinda Katz Once Faced Off Against DSA. Now It's New York's Police Lobby.
Will James / KNKX Public Radio:
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House GOP conference chairwoman calls for 15-week federal abortion ban post-Dobbs
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Inside Moms for Liberty's Close Relationship With the Proud Boys
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Sen. Marco Rubio / Washington Examiner:
The Left's civic religion is a threat to national security
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