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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.
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Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:
GOP's Boebert wanted to impeach Biden, but House Speaker McCarthy had other plans
GOP's Boebert wanted to impeach Biden, but House Speaker McCarthy had other plans
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Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots:
John Durham Flames Out
John Durham Flames Out
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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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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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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 …
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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’
Adam Schiff censured: 6 Republican lawmakers break with party to vote ‘present’
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NBC News:
Republicans take the rare step of censuring Rep. Adam Schiff over Trump-era probes
Republicans take the rare step of censuring Rep. Adam Schiff over Trump-era probes
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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 …
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Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Goes on Fox and Shows His Weakness
Trump Goes on Fox and Shows His Weakness
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Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Christie Lashes Trump, to the Slice of the G.O.P. Open to It
Christie Lashes Trump, to the Slice of the G.O.P. Open to It
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Morning Shots
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.
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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.
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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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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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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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CNN:
Alito in the hot seat over trips to Alaska and Rome he accepted from groups and individuals who lobby the Supreme Court — Concerns about ethics and transparency at the Supreme Court have been reignited this week after Justice Samuel Alito acknowledged attending a luxury fishing trip …
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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 …
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 …
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Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux / FiveThirtyEight:
Dobbs Turned Abortion Into A Huge Liability For Republicans — When Theresa M. started attending a support group for breast cancer survivors, she didn't expect political issues like abortion to be a part of the conversation. But since last summer, when her home state of Florida …
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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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Geoffrey Dickens / Newsbusters:
Nets Spend 491 Minutes On Trump Indictment, 0 Seconds On Biden Burisma Bribery
Nets Spend 491 Minutes On Trump Indictment, 0 Seconds On Biden Burisma Bribery
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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 …
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.
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 …
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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 …
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
The Missing Titanic Sub Is Already a Culture War Battlefield — It's never too soon to turn a tragedy into an opportunity to dunk on the other political tribe. … Of course the missing Titanic sub discourse devolved into a culture war shit show in under two minutes flat. Everything is part of the culture war now.
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