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Will Weissert / Associated Press:
Former Texas congressman Will Hurd, a Trump critic, announces 2024 Republican presidential campaign — Former Texas congressman Will Hurd, a onetime CIA officer and fierce critic of Donald Trump, announced on Thursday that he's running for president, hoping to build momentum …
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Cara Korte / CBS News:
Republican Will Hurd announces he's running for president — Former Texas Congressman Will Hurd announced he's running for president on “CBS Mornings” Thursday. — “This morning, I filed to be the Republican nominee for president of the United States,” Hurd told “CBS Mornings.”
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's confession on Fox News should prompt Democrats to step up
Trump's confession on Fox News should prompt Democrats to step up
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Rich Lowry / Politico:
The Trump Divide that Should Have Republicans Terrified
The Trump Divide that Should Have Republicans Terrified
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NBC News:
Republicans take the rare step of censuring Rep. Adam Schiff over Trump-era probes — Schiff, D-Calif., will be required to stand on the House floor and receive a formal reprimand. The resolution also directs the Ethics Committee to launch an investigation into Schiff.
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Brie Stimson / Fox News:
Adam Schiff censured: 6 Republican lawmakers break with party to vote ‘present’ — Schiff told Republicans that they ‘honor’ him with their ‘enmity’ — Six Republicans voted present on Wednesday before the House narrowly censured Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., 213-209 along party lines.
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Pelosi Knocks Republicans Pushing Schiff Censure: ‘You Look Miserable!’
Pelosi Knocks Republicans Pushing Schiff Censure: ‘You Look Miserable!’
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The Daily Beast:
Marjorie Taylor Greene Calls Boebert a ‘Little Bitch’ on the House Floor — A feud has been boiling between Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert for months. It finally reached a new level on Wednesday. … The messy feud between two of MAGA world's biggest stars burst into public view on Wednesday …
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Alito's Reply in a Rival Publication Surprises ProPublica — The Wall Street Journal made the unusual decision to let Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. pre-empt ProPublica's article about him in its opinion pages. — The Wall Street Journal faced criticism on Wednesday after its highly unusual decision …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justice Alito Defends Private Jet Travel to Luxury Fishing Trip
Justice Alito Defends Private Jet Travel to Luxury Fishing Trip
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Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Sam Alito and his fishy Alaskan getaway
Sam Alito and his fishy Alaskan getaway
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Jonathan Shorman / Kansas City Star:
Ex-FBI analyst who kept classified info in bathroom like Trump going to prison in KC case — A former FBI intelligence analyst from Dodge City, Kansas, who kept hundreds of classified documents at her home, including in her bathroom, was sentenced to nearly four years in prison by a federal judge …
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US Department of Justice:
Former FBI Analyst Sentenced for Retaining Classified Documents — For Immediate Release — U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Missouri — Kept Hundreds of National Defense Documents at Her Home in Violation of the Espionage Act — KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A former analyst …
Zoë Richards / NBC News:
Former FBI analyst sentenced to nearly 4 years for illegally retaining classified docs
Former FBI analyst sentenced to nearly 4 years for illegally retaining classified docs
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Sophia Cai / Axios:
Scoop: VP Harris gets campaign chief of staff — Longtime Democratic operative and Biden aide Sheila Nix will be joining the Biden campaign to serve as Vice President Kamala Harris' chief of staff, Axios has learned. … - Harris has been vocal on reproductive rights since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
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Mother Jones:
John Durham Just Made False Statements to Congress — The former special counsel denied two essential facts of the Trump-Russia scandal. — John Durham—the special counsel who was appointed by then-Attorney General Bill Barr to investigate the FBI's investigation of the Trump-Russia scandal …
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Special Counsel Who Hunted for a Deep-State Conspiracy Presents Muted Findings
Special Counsel Who Hunted for a Deep-State Conspiracy Presents Muted Findings
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Associated Press:
Moscow court upholds ruling to keep U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich in detention until late August — Gershkovich, 31, was arrested in late March while on a reporting trip. — A court in Moscow on Thursday upheld an earlier ruling to keep Evan Gerhskovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter arrested …
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Wall Street Journal:
Russian Court Rejects Appeal to Release Journal Reporter Evan Gershkovich — Wall Street Journal reporter had been ordered to remain in a Moscow prison until at least Aug. 30 — A Russian court upheld the extended detention of Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter deemed …
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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Mark Zuckerberg is ready to fight Elon Musk in a cage match … Here we go. — After Elon Musk recently tweeted that he would be “up for a cage fight” with Zuckerberg, the Meta CEO shot back by posting a screenshot of Musk's tweet with the caption “send me location.”
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Did Hunter Biden get a “sweetheart deal”? — In a May interview, President Joe Biden said that his son, Hunter, “has done nothing wrong.” That turned out not to be true. On Tuesday, Hunter Biden was charged with two misdemeanor counts of failure to pay income tax and one felony charge of unlawful possession of a firearm.
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Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
Did Hunter Biden get off easy? We asked the experts.
Did Hunter Biden get off easy? We asked the experts.
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CNN:
Trump receives first batch of evidence against him in classified documents case, including audio tapes — Special counsel Jack Smith has begun producing evidence in the Mar-a-Lago documents case to Donald Trump, according to a Wednesday court filing that hints that investigators collected …
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Zeynep Tufekci / New York Times:
The Government Must Say What It Knows About Covid's Origins — Three researchers at a laboratory in Wuhan, China, who had fallen ill in November 2019 had been experimenting with SARS-like coronaviruses under inadequate biosafety conditions, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing current and former U.S. officials.
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Julian E. Barnes / New York Times:
U.S. Intelligence Agencies May Never Find Covid's Origins, Officials Say
U.S. Intelligence Agencies May Never Find Covid's Origins, Officials Say
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Lauren Tousignant / Jezebel:
So, Kari Lake Has Basically Moved In With Donald Trump — “Kari Lake is there every night,” a source told People of her frequent visits to Mar-a-Lago. “There's a suite there that she practically lives in.” — There's no bond more delusional than the bond between two people who both believe …
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Daniel Strauss / New Republic:
OceanGate CEO Missing in Titanic Sub Had History of Donating to GOP Candidates … Public campaign finance records indicate that Stockton Rush, the CEO of OceanGate currently stuck on the missing Titan submersible that was running a tourist expedition of the Titanic wreck, has been a consistent Republican donor over the years.
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David Bauder / Associated Press:
Television veteran Geraldo Rivera says he's quitting Fox News' political combat show ‘The Five’ — Geraldo Rivera has quit as one of the lonely liberal voices on Fox News' popular political combat show “The Five,” saying Wednesday that “a growing tension that goes beyond editorial differences” made it no longer worth it to him.
Dana Goldstein / New York Times:
What the New, Low Test Scores for 13-Year-Olds Say About U.S. Education Now — What's New — The math and reading performance of 13-year-olds in the United States has hit the lowest level in decades, according to test scores released today from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the gold-standard federal exam.
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Jay Stahl / Des Moines Register:
KCCI chief meteorologist Chris Gloninger departing station citing PTSD, past death threat — KCCI's chief meteorologist Chris Gloninger is departing the station due in part to past threats he said stemmed from his coverage of climate change. — Gloninger announced the news on Twitter …
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Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Court: Professor who went to strip club with students not ‘anti-male bias’ victim — George Mason psychology professor Todd Kashdan has been fighting the public Virginia university where he works. — For the past four years, George Mason psychology professor Todd Kashdan has been fighting …
Molly Hennessy-Fiske / Washington Post:
September date set for Texas attorney general impeachment trial — The Texas Senate voted Wednesday to begin the historic impeachment trial of Attorney General Ken Paxton on Sept. 5, and it approved rules that bar Paxton's wife from voting due to a conflict of interest.
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Rewiring America:
Electrifying everything at the rate required to meet our climate goals — The story of new technology emerging in the marketplace, proving itself to be the better option, and becoming the standard is an inevitable one. Refrigerators. The car. Electricity itself.
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