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Shelby Talcott / Semafor:
‘It was bravado’: Trump says he wasn't holding up classified documents in 2021 meeting  —  The News  —  Former President Donald Trump insisted on Tuesday that he was not showing off classified documents in an audio clip first published by CNN in which he referred to “highly confidential” …
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CBS News:
Iran memo not among the 31 records underlying charges in Trump federal indictment  —  Washington — The Defense Department memo on Iran — at the heart of the now-public audio recording that captured a July 2021 meeting with former President Donald Trump — is not part of the 31 counts …
Discussion: Mediaite, Fox News, RedState and USA Today
Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Trump reacts after leaked recording shows him discussing classified docs  —  Former president tells Fox News Digital he ‘did nothing wrong’ in secret documents case  —  CONCORD, N.H. - Former President Donald Trump insists that he did “nothing wrong” as he reacted to a leaked recording …
Washington Post:
It's not just Mar-a-Lago: Trump charges highlight his New Jersey life  —  Two of the most vivid scenes in the former president's indictment take place at his Bedminster golf club, which has not been searched by the FBI  —  The 49-page indictment against Donald Trump for mishandling classified documents …
Eli Yokley / Morning Consult Pro:
Tracking the 2024 Republican Primary  —  Trump maintains big lead over the GOP field  —  Responses shown among potential GOP primary voters, who said they would vote for each of the above if the 2024 Republican primary or caucus were held in their state today.
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Why Trump's weird reaction to the audio recording matters  —  A newly surfaced audio recording appears to show Donald Trump admitting he kept classified docs while presenting them to someone who lacked clearance.  —  Late last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that there were some …
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — Speaker McCarthy: ‘Trump Is Stronger Today Than He Was in 2016’
S.V. Date / HuffPost:
Trump Expands His Attack On Special Counsel To Include His Family And Friends
Discussion: Raw Story
David Moye / HuffPost:
Nikki Haley Wants Biden Investigation, But We 'Can't Keep Chasing Every Trump Drama'
Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
There's a Time Bomb in Progressives' Big Supreme Court Voting Case Win  —  This is part of Opinionpalooza, Slate's coverage of the major decisions from the Supreme Court this June.  We're working to change the way the media covers the Supreme Court.  Sign up for the pop-up newsletter …
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Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
How the Supreme Court made it harder to overturn the 2024 election  —  A ruling rejecting a broad version of the “independent state legislature theory” could help deter far-fetched legal arguments in the 2024 election.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court's ruling on Tuesday in a major election case …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Rejects Theory That Would Have Transformed American Elections
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — Rising Conservative Influencer Pedro Gonzalez Regularly Espoused Racist and Anti-Semitic Sentiments in Private Messages  —  Pedro Gonzalez, a rising conservative influencer and politics editor of Chronicles magazine, regularly in 2019 and 2020 sent racist and antisemitic messages …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Bud McLaughlin / Yellowhammer News:
Alabama to receive $1.4B for broadband access  —  The state will receive $1.4 billion to boost ongoing efforts to expand broadband access to unserved areas, Gov. Kay Ivey announced today.  —  The National Telecommunications and Information Administration today released the state allocations …
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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:   Tommy Tuberville Celebrates Broadband Funding He Voted Against
CNN:
Exclusive: Rudy Giuliani interviewed in special counsel's 2020 election interference probe  —  Former Donald Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani has been interviewed by federal investigators as part of the special counsel's investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, multiple sources familiar with the meeting told CNN.
Tyler Kingkade / NBC News:
'We're Coming For Your Children' chant at NYC Drag March elicits outrage, but activists say it's taken out of context  —  Organizers say the NYC Drag March is meant to be lighthearted and to poke fun at anti-LGBTQ sentiment.  —  Over the weekend, a short video circulated widely on social media …
Discussion: Twitchy
New York Times:
Competing Accounts of Justice Dept.'s Handling of Hunter Biden Case  —  An I.R.S. investigator's testimony describing strains over the inquiry into President Biden's son is at odds with the version laid out by Attorney General Merrick Garland.  —  At a Senate hearing in March …
Nick Robertson / The Hill:
Most countries express confidence in Biden, US: poll  —  Most people around the world in a new survey have largely positive views of the U.S. and President Biden, according to data from the Pew Research Center.  —  The poll, released Tuesday, found that 59 percent of people surveyed globally view …
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Pew Research Center:
International Views of Biden and U.S. Largely Positive
Discussion: The Times of Israel
Jessica Piper / Politico:
No Labels' signature-gathering firm has ties to Ron DeSantis  —  The bipartisan group contracted with a Republican firm for its work to qualify for the ballot in Colorado.  —  As part of its push for a unity ticket presidential bid, the bipartisan group No Labels quietly employed a firm …
Rolling Stone:
RFK Jr. Claims ‘Vaccine Research’ Likely Responsible for HIV and the Spanish Flu  —  The 2024 presidential hopeful hosted a panel with some of the loudest vaccine skeptics in the nation … During the unfiltered conversation, he falsely suggested that millions of deaths in the Great Influenza …
Discussion: Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
Magic Mushrooms.  LSD.  Ketamine.  The Drugs That Power Silicon Valley.  —  Entrepreneurs including Elon Musk and Sergey Brin are part of a drug movement that proponents hope will expand minds, enhance lives and produce business breakthroughs  —  Elon Musk takes ketamine.
Associated Press:
The Great Grift: More than $200 billion in COVID-19 aid may have been stolen, federal watchdog says  —  More than $200 billion may have been stolen from two large COVID-19 relief initiatives, according to new estimates from a federal watchdog investigating federally funded programs …
Reuters:
America's Family Secret  —  More than 100 U.S. leaders - lawmakers, presidents, governors and justices - have slaveholding ancestors, a Reuters examination found.  Few are willing to talk about their ties to America's “original sin”  —  WASHINGTON  —  A chiseled block of sandstone …
New York Times:
DeSantis's Pitch to New Hampshire Is All About a State 1,000 Miles South  —  Focusing heavily on Florida at his first town-hall event in the Granite State, Ron DeSantis drew a reception that was sometimes warm, sometimes more skeptical — especially on the issue of abortion.
Henry Rodgers / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: SOURCE: Top Anheuser-Busch Marketing Executives Behind Boycott Are No Longer Employed  —  The two top Anheuser-Busch marketing executives who were placed on leave amid the company shakeup no longer work for the brand, a source inside Anheuser-Busch confirmed in texts obtained by the Daily Caller on Tuesday.
Discussion: TheBlaze, RedState and Twitchy
 
 
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Michael Goldberg / Associated Press:
Deputies accused of abusing Black men are fired by Mississippi sheriff amid federal probe
Discussion: WDTN-TV and Mississippi Today
Erik Larson / Bloomberg:
Trump Sues Carroll for Defamation Over Post-Trial Rape Claim
Discussion: The Hill and Reuters
Mychael Schnell / The Hill:
White House picks fight with Greene over funding
Kate Cohen / Washington Post:
Taxpayers shouldn't be paying for religious schools
Discussion: Oklahoma Watch
Reuters:
Exclusive: Russian firm asks Venezuela to match Chevron oil-for-debt deal
Azeen Ghorayshi / New York Times:
Landmark Study Shows Higher Suicide Risk for Transgender People
Discussion: Just The News and The Daily Caller
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Discussion: The Hill
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Liz Cheney on what's wrong with politics: 'We're electing idiots'
New York Times:
Court Throws Out New York's Civil Case Against Ivanka Trump
John Koblin / New York Times:
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