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9:40 AM ET, June 22, 2023

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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.
Owen Tucker-Smith / Los Angeles Times:
House Republicans censured Adam Schiff. He couldn't be happier
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
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Rich Lowry / Politico:
The Trump Divide that Should Have Republicans Terrified
Discussion: Raw Story
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Christie Lashes Trump, to the Slice of the G.O.P. Open to It
Discussion: Morning Shots
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Goes on Fox and Shows His Weakness
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  —  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 …
Discussion: The Messenger and Raw Story
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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 …
Discussion: Law & Crime, Just The News, Insider and UPI
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
Discussion: The Messenger
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 …
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.”
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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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 …
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
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 …
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 …
Julian E. Barnes / New York Times:
U.S. Intelligence Agencies May Never Find Covid's Origins, Officials Say  —  The agencies are expected to release declassified material on what they have learned about Covid's origins.  People briefed on the material say there is no smoking gun.  —  Julian Barnes, a Washington-based intelligence reporter …
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Zeynep Tufekci / New York Times:
The Government Must Say What It Knows About Covid's Origins
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.
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.
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.
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.
Politico:
Money, it's a drag  —  Welcome to POLITICO's West Wing Playbook, your guide to the people and power centers in the Biden administration.  With help from Allie Bice.  —  Nobody in JOE BIDEN's world of big money donors is sweating it — and least not yet.  —  But as the president sets …
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.
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.
Gregory Korte / Bloomberg:
Jill Stein, 2016 Green Candidate, Now Running Cornel West's Bid  —  Cornel West, the Ivy League academic and progressive activist mounting a third-party campaign for president, has chosen former Green Party candidate Jill Stein to help him challenge to President Joe Biden from the left.
Discussion: The Hill
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
DOJ fires Black immigration judge in the ongoing purge of Trump hires  —  Pieters says Trump ties irked ‘sick’ liberals, made him a target  —  FRONT PAGE PODCAST  —  QUESTION OF THE DAY  —  Do you support using the U.S. military to help fight Mexican cartels?  —  Question of the Day
 
 
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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
Jack Stripling / Washington Post:
The professor is canceled.  Now what?  —  An ‘intolerant’ professor is higher ed's toughest subject
The Economist:
Ben Wallace says he is out of the race for NATO's top job
Discussion: Politico
Conrad Hoyt / Washington Examiner:
Texas tornadoes kill three people and wound ten others
Rewiring America:
Electrifying everything at the rate required to meet our climate goals
Discussion: Grist
 Earlier Items: 
Elida Moreno / Reuters:
Drought-hit Panama Canal further restricts maximum ship depth
Sophia Cai / Axios:
Scoop: VP Harris gets campaign chief of staff
Hannah Rabinowitz / CNN:
Pentagon leaks suspect Jack Teixeira pleads not guilty to federal charges
Ben Cost / New York Post:
I went on the Titanic submarine — it was a suicide mission