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12:45 PM ET, June 22, 2023

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Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots:
John Durham Flames Out  —  Let's catch up before we get to the main event today:  — Fight Club update: “Marjorie Taylor Greene Calls Boebert a ‘Little Bitch’ on the House Floor.” … - Meanwhile... “Chaos ERUPTS in House After Adam Schiff Is Censured: ‘Shame!  Shame!  Shame!’
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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  —  A surprise effort by hard-right House Republicans to impeach President Joe Biden has been sidelined for now, but the ability of GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert to force the issue to a House vote demonstrates …
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 …
Jonathan Shorman / Kansas City Star:
Ex-FBI analyst who kept classified info in bathroom like Trump going to prison in KC case
The Indianapolis Star:
Moms for Liberty's Hamilton County chapter quotes Hitler in first newsletter  —  The Hamilton County chapter of Moms for Liberty, a national organization recently listed as an “extremist group” by a civil rights watchdog, introduced its first newsletter Wednesday, The Parent Brigade.
Discussion: Raw Story and New Republic
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Trump documents investigation examined New Jersey club from outset  —  Exclusive: Prosecutors developed evidence early on of classified documents at Trump's Bedminster golf club  —  Federal prosecutors investigating Donald Trump's retention of national security material were examining evidence within weeks …
Discussion: PoliticusUSA, Raw Story and NBC News
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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 …
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
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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Trip Gabriel / New York Times:   Christie Lashes Trump, to the Slice of the G.O.P. Open to It
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Goes on Fox and Shows His Weakness
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’
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
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Jay Stahl / Des Moines Register:   KCCI chief meteorologist Chris Gloninger departing station citing PTSD, past death threat
New York Times:
George Santos Was Bailed Out by His Father and Aunt, Court Records Show  —  Mr. Santos, a first-term G.O.P. congressman, had tried to keep the names of his bail sureties sealed, but two judges rejected his efforts.  —  Of the many questions that surround Representative George Santos …
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Joan Walsh / The Nation:
Just Another RFK Jr. Lie.  I Know, Because It's About Me.  —  I edited Kennedy's error-ridden piece on a vaccine-autism link, which Salon later retracted.  We caved to the truth, not Big Pharma.  —  I've been doing my best to ignore the farcical presidential candidacy of Robert F. Kennedy Jr …
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.”
Kevin Mahnken / The 74:
NAEP Scores ‘Flashing Red’ After a Lost Generation of Learning for 13-Year-Olds  —  'Nation's Report Card' shows math skills reset to the level of the 1990s, while struggling readers are scoring lower than they did in 1971  —  Get stories like these delivered straight to your inbox.
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 …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: CBS News
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.
Leo Shane III / Defense News:
White House mum on jailed Defense News correspondent  —  Senior White House officials said press freedom would be among the topics discussed this week by President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in private meetings, but would not commit to specifically intervening in the case of …
The Guardian:
These 1,572 US politicians have helped ban abortion since Roe fell.  They're mostly men  —  These are the faces of lawmakers and governors whose votes helped pass bans on abortion  —  Ava Sasani, graphics by Andrew Witherspoon  —  It's been one year since the US supreme court ended the constitutional right to abortion.
Discussion: Politico
Dana Goldstein / New York Times:
The U.S. Population Is Older Than It Has Ever Been  —  New census data shows that the country's median age is now over 38.  In 1980, it was 30.  —  What's New  —  The median age in the United States reached a record high of 38.9 in 2022, according to data released Thursday by the Census Bureau.
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Obama warns democratic institutions are ‘creaky’ but Trump's indictment is proof rule of law still exists in US  —  Watch the full interview with former President Barack Obama at 10 p.m. ET Thursday on CNN's hour-long special, “Obama & Amanpour: Will Democracy Win?”  —  CNN —
Discussion: The Hill
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 …
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.
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 …
Madeline Peltz / Media Matters for America:
Tucker Carlson's racist former head writer resurfaces as Charlie Kirk's radio producer  —  Blake Neff, a former writer for Fox's now-defunct Tucker Carlson Tonight who resigned from the show in 2020 following revelations that he made racist and sexist posts in an online forum …
Discussion: The Charlie Kirk Show
Marc Caputo / The Messenger:
Florida Abortion Rights Plan Polls at 70 Percent But Passage Is Far From Assured  —  The carefully written proposal avoids saying “pregnant people” or setting a hard time limit on abortions. … The polling looks favorable.  The petition-gathering is strong.
Discussion: Politico
Maggie Astor / New York Times:
Report Cites More Than 350 Anti-L.G.B.T.Q. Incidents Over 11 Months  —  The incidents included online harassment, gatherings of armed protesters outside drag shows, and bomb threats against hospitals that provide gender transition care.  —  There were more than 350 incidents of anti-L.G.B.T.Q. harassment …
Discussion: The Hill, CBS News and Rolling Stone
 
 
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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control:
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Hachette Book Group:
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 Earlier Items: 
JONATHAN TURLEY:
“You Will End Up on the Bottom of a Pyre”: Democrats Attack Special Counsel John Durham
Discussion: Fox News and The Gateway Pundit
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: CNN, The Hill and Washington Post
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Electrifying everything at the rate required to meet our climate goals
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Meta will also block sharing of Ken Klippenstein's newsletter and other sources with the JD Vance dossier, citing foreign meddling and hacked materials policies

Tyler Falk / Current:
NPR is making changes to Morning Edition and All Things Considered, including shorter stories, a broader range of topics, and a more conversational tone

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Comcast's European pay-TV company Sky sues WBD, accusing it of violating a 2019 deal giving Sky exclusive rights to shows, including a new Harry Potter series
 
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