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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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Kadia Goba / Semafor:
Marjorie Taylor Greene explains why she called Lauren Boebert a ‘little b***’  —  Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. isn't backing down after calling Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo. a “little bitch” to her face on the House floor Wednesday during a fight over their dueling efforts to impeach President Joe Biden.
Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:
GOP's Boebert wanted to impeach Biden, but House Speaker McCarthy had other plans
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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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 …
Neil Vigdor / New York Times:   Will Hurd Announces 2024 Presidential Election Bid
Owen Tucker-Smith / Los Angeles Times:
House Republicans censured Adam Schiff.  He couldn't be happier  —  The House of Representatives censured Rep. Adam B. Schiff in a party-line, 213-209 vote Wednesday, and the Burbank Democrat seems delighted.  —  The censure was a victory for Donald Trump, who had called for primary challenges …
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Brie Stimson / Fox News:
Adam Schiff censured: 6 Republican lawmakers break with party to vote ‘present’
NBC News:
Republicans take the rare step of censuring Rep. Adam Schiff over Trump-era probes
Rich Lowry / Politico:
The Trump Divide that Should Have Republicans Terrified  —  The indictments are making him stronger in the Republican nomination fight while he's taking on more baggage for a general election.  —  The conventional wisdom is that Donald Trump's interview with Bret Baier of Fox News on Monday night …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Goes on Fox and Shows His Weakness
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Christie Lashes Trump, to the Slice of the G.O.P. Open to It
Discussion: Morning Shots
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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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Trump documents investigation examined New Jersey club from outset
Discussion: Raw Story and NBC News
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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Daniel Wu / Washington Post:
Meteorologist resigns, citing PTSD from threats over climate change coverage  —  When Iowa meteorologist Chris Gloninger got an email notification last June, it read: “Getting sick and tired of your liberal conspiracy on the weather.”  —  “What's your address,” another asked Gloninger a few days later.
Discussion: The Messenger
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.”
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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Bloomberg:
Ford Gets $9.2 Billion to Help US Catch Up With China's EV Dominance … A deep-pocketed US government program designed to finance futuristic energy businesses is issuing a conditional $9.2 billion loan to Ford Motor Co. for the construction of three battery factories.
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Bloomberg:   Transcript: A $9 Billion Deal to Supercharge US Cleantech
JONATHAN TURLEY:
“You Will End Up on the Bottom of a Pyre”: Democrats Attack Special Counsel John Durham  —  Below is my column in Fox.com on yesterday's hearing with Special Counsel John Durham and the personal attacks that he faced from the Democratic members of the Judiciary Committee.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Fox News
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Special Counsel Who Hunted for a Deep-State Conspiracy Presents Muted Findings
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 …
Lee Harris / American Prospect:
Chipmaker's Scramble to Build Marred by Mistakes and Injuries  —  TSMC's $40 billion semiconductor facility in Phoenix, an open shop that resisted signing an agreement with labor unions, has been tainted with accidents, alleged wage theft, and costly setbacks.
New York Times:
Who Bailed George Santos Out?  Court Is Set to Reveal the Mystery.  —  Mr. Santos, a first-term G.O.P. congressman, has tried to keep the names of his bail sureties sealed, but two judges have now rejected his efforts.  —  Of the many questions that surround Representative George Santos …
Ron Dicker / HuffPost:
Kari Lake Was At Mar-A-Lago ‘Every Night’ In Bid To Be Trump VP Pick: Report  —  The loser in the 2022 Arizona governor's race had a suite at Mar-a-Lago “that she practically lives in,” a source told People.  —  Kari Lake spent a lot of time at Mar-a-Lago this spring in an apparent bid …
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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 …
Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux / FiveThirtyEight:
Dobbs Turned Abortion Into A Huge Liability For Republicans  —  Support for abortion rights is higher than it's been in decades.  —  By Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux  —  Graphics by Humera Lodhi  —  Jun. 22, 2023, at 9:15 AM  —  When Theresa M. started attending a support group for breast cancer survivors …
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 …
Anushka Patil / New York Times:
Submersible Pilot's Spouse Is Descended From a Famous Titanic Couple  —  Wendy Rush is a great-great-granddaughter of the retailing magnate Isidor Straus and his wife, Ida, two of the wealthiest people to die aboard the ocean liner.  —  Wendy Rush, the wife of Stockton Rush …
Evan Bush / NBC News:
Three of Mount Rainier's glaciers have melted away  —  Glaciers across the world are on a path of prolonged decline, a trend driven by the human use of fossil fuels and the accumulation of heat-trapping gasses in the atmosphere.  —  A warming climate has melted three glaciers on Mount Rainier …
Andrea Chang / Los Angeles Times:
Snctm sex club founder banned after naming Hunter Biden as former member  —  Damon Lawner, the founder of Snctm, has been banned from the high-end sex club after he publicly identified Hunter Biden as a former member.  The claim about President Biden's son was included in a Times profile of Lawner published Tuesday.
April Rubin / Axios:
Middle schoolers' reading and math scores plummet  —  American students' test scores in math and reading got significantly worse last year — continuing a decade-long freefall. … Results were distributed by the National Center for Education Statistics, a branch of the Education Department.
Washington Post:
Dictators' dark secret: They're learning from each other  —  In the spring of 2012, Vladimir Putin was feeling the pressure.  —  For months, anti-Putin protests had surged through the streets of Moscow and other cities following fraudulent parliamentary elections the previous December.
 
 
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Nikki Haley / Daily Mail:
Obama cynically attacked me after I dared to say America is NOT racist. …
Chauncey DeVega / Salon:
“Decline into anocracy”: Experts outline Trump's retaliation plan
Discussion: 19FortyFive
Dana Goldstein / New York Times:
The U.S. Population Is Older Than It Has Ever Been
Jack Stripling / Washington Post:
The professor is canceled.  Now what?  —  An ‘intolerant’ professor is higher ed's toughest subject
Politico:
Money, it's a drag
Gregory Korte / Bloomberg:
Jill Stein, 2016 Green Candidate, Now Running Cornel West's Bid
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Post
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Molly Hennessy-Fiske / Washington Post:
September date set for Texas attorney general impeachment trial
Rewiring America:
Electrifying everything at the rate required to meet our climate goals
Discussion: Grist
Elida Moreno / Reuters:
Drought-hit Panama Canal further restricts maximum ship depth
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
DOJ fires Black immigration judge in the ongoing purge of Trump hires
David Bauder / Associated Press:
Television veteran Geraldo Rivera says he's quitting Fox News' political combat show ‘The Five’
 

 
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Yifan Yu / Nikkei Asia:
Biden admin finalizes its $6.6B CHIPS Act grant to TSMC; money will be disbursed in stages and TSMC is expected to receive at least $1B by the end of 2024
 
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