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Khaleda Rahman / Newsweek:
Exclusive: Trump Made Shocking Comments About Ivanka, Says Ex-Staffer — Donald Trump's “naked sexism,” including toward his own daughter, is described in a new book by Miles Taylor, the former Trump administration official who famously wrote a scathing op-ed about the former president under the pen name “Anonymous.”
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Adam Nichols / Raw Story:
Ex-staffer describes Trump fantasizing about sex with Ivanka — Former President Donald Trump made sexual comments about his daughter Ivanka that were so lewd he was rebuked by his Chief of Staff, former Trump official Miles Taylor writes in a new book. — The comments are used by Taylor …
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Daily Kos and Digby's Hullabaloo
Doha Madani / NBC News:
Human remains and debris from sub returned to land after fatal implosion near Titanic site — The Titan, a submersible operated by OceanGate Expeditions, lost contact with its home ship on June 18 off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. All five people on board were killed.
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Meredith Deliso / ABC News:
Debris from Titan submersible brought ashore after catastrophic implosion — The evidence will be analyzed by the Marine Board of Investigation. — Debris recovered from the submersible that catastrophically imploded while on a voyage to see the Titanic wreckage last week contained …
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Raw Story, GB News, Deadline, Fox News, Los Angeles Times and Washington Examiner
New York Times:
Debris and Presumed Human Remains From Lost Titan Are Recovered — Debris from the Titan was returned to land off Newfoundland, nearly a week after an international search-and-rescue effort for the vessel ended and its five passengers were presumed dead. — The Latest
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CBC News, CBS News, The Sun and Associated Press
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
National Geographic lays off its last remaining staff writers — The magazine, which remains among the most read in the U.S., has struggled in the digital era to command the kind of resources that fueled the deep reporting it became known for — Like one of the endangered species whose impending extinction …
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Quinnipiac University Poll:
Biden vs. Trump: Toss Up In Pennsylvania, Trump Leads GOP Primary, Quinnipiac University Pennsylvania Poll Finds; Voters Give Gov. Shapiro High Marks, Especially On I-95 Handling — mail_outline — In a state considered key to presidential elections, former President Donald Trump is leading …
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Biden opens up wide lead on RFK Jr. in New Hampshire poll — President Biden holds a strong lead over his long-shot 2024 Democratic primary challengers Robert Kennedy Jr. and Marianne Williamson in New Hampshire, according to a poll released Tuesday. — The survey conducted …
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Trump gains ground post-indictment
Fox News Poll: Trump gains ground post-indictment
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Florida Politics, HotAir, New York Post and Washington Times
New York Times:
How Migrants Flown to Martha's Vineyard Came to Call It Home — Florida flew 49 migrants from Texas to the liberal enclave last year. Since then, a few of them have found work, friends and a new life on the wealthy island. — Reporting from Edgartown, Mass.
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HotAir, The Daily Caller and Balloon Juice
Tamar Hallerman / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
DOJ questions Raffensperger for Trump election probe — Federal prosecutors examining former President Donald Trump's efforts to cling to power following the 2020 election interviewed Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in Atlanta on Wednesday. — Few other details about the meeting …
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Polina Ivanova / Financial Times:
Putin freezes out hardliners after Wagner mutiny — Russian president's security forces ‘have started shaking down sympathisers’ of exiled warlord — Vladimir Putin has moved to shake up Russia's security services in the wake of the Wagner group's failed insurrection …
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The Guardian, The Daily Beast, Washington Free Beacon, RedState, The Moscow Times, New York Post, Semafor, The Messenger, Political Wire and The Sun
German Lopez / New York Times:
Conservative Court, Moderate Decision — A bipartisan Supreme Court majority preserved democratic checks and balances. — Yesterday, the Supreme Court took a step in a high-profile case to preserve democratic checks and balances. — The details of the case, Moore v. Harper, can sound technical.
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Los Angeles Times, Election Law Blog, The Federalist, The Guardian, FiveThirtyEight and Washington Examiner
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Aparna Gopalan / Jewish Currents:
The Hindu Nationalists Using the Pro-Israel Playbook — Inspired by Jewish groups that cast criticism of Israel as antisemitism, Hindu American organizations are advancing a concept of “Hinduphobia” that puts India beyond reproach. — EVERY AUGUST, the township of Edison, New Jersey …
Melissa Gira Grant / New Republic:
The Christian Right Is Making Up Wedding Websites to Attack LGBTQ People — It's the final week of the Supreme Court session and, incredibly, we have yet to see opinions in at least five major cases—including one meant to hack away at what legal protections LGBTQ people have in equal access to public accommodations.
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Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Biden world wants Republicans to feel the pain for voting no while taking the dough — Unlike past attempts to sell the public on its work, the administration seems intent to inflict a modicum of political pain for those who opposed it. — WEST COLUMBIA, S.C.— Jennifer Granholm came …
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Rolling Stone
Ian Livingston / Washington Post:
Canada wildfire smoke is drifting from the Midwest to the East Coast — Air quality alerts related to wildfire smoke were in effect for parts of 20 states, covering nearly a third of the American population — Dense smoke from wildfires burning in Canada continued to migrate eastward Wednesday …
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CNN:
More than a third of the US population, from the Midwest to the East Coast, under air quality alerts from Canadian wildfire smoke
More than a third of the US population, from the Midwest to the East Coast, under air quality alerts from Canadian wildfire smoke
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Washington Examiner, The Detroit News, USA Today, Fox 8 Cleveland WJW, IJR, NBC Chicago, Vox, The Hill, NPR, New York Times, ABC News, Straight Arrow News, The Gateway Pundit and Plain Dealer
Bloomberg:
Biden Has Begun Using CPAP Machine to Aid With Sleep Apnea — President Joe Biden has begun using a continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, machine to treat longstanding sleep apnea, according to two people familiar with the matter. — As Biden departed the White House on Wednesday …
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CNN:
Multiple deputies fired after 2 Black men file lawsuit alleging torture and attempted sexual assault in Mississippi — The Rankin County Sheriff's Office in Mississippi has fired multiple deputies after two Black men filed a federal civil rights lawsuit alleging six White deputies entered …
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The Messenger, Mississippi Today, UPI, The Root and Associated Press
Michael Mitsanas / NBC News:
Arizona county elections director resigns, citing politicization and ‘intimidation’ — Geraldine Roll, the Pinal County elections director, wrote that “you idly stood by when I was attacked” in an email to the county's manager. — An Arizona county elections director quit Tuesday …
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Kevin McCarthy scrambles after accidentally speaking his mind — Kevin McCarthy occasionally slips, tells accidental truths, and then scrambles to deal with the consequences of his unintended candor. — One of the most important things to know about House Speaker Kevin McCarthy …
Politico:
Inside Biden's dramatic backchannel to Russia as a near-coup unfolded — The U.S. reached out to Russia at a critical moment to ensure there was no confusion about its lack of involvement. — Last weekend, as President Joe Biden and top national security aides watched a dramatic …
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New York Times, ABC News and Sputnik News
New York Times:
Death Toll Climbs in Kramatorsk Restaurant Hit by Russian Missile — The Ria Lounge eatery, known to many as Ria Pizza, was a long-running haunt popular with Ukrainian soldiers, foreign journalists and aid workers. — KRAMATORSK, Ukraine — Rescuers were combing through the rubble …
Katie Daviscourt / The Post Millennial:
BREAKING: Hunter Biden settles with baby mama under condition child can't use his last name — Roberts, who was initially receiving $20,000 monthly child support payments from Hunter, agreed to have the monthly payments cut to $5,000. … Minute Read — Hunter Biden and Lunden Roberts …
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Daily Mail, TheBlaze and HotAir
A.G. Gancarski / Florida Politics:
Poll: Clear majority of women voters disapprove of Ron DeSantis … A.G. Gancarski — A.G. Gancarski has written for FloridaPolitics.com since 2014. He is based in Northeast Florida. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Why Donald Trump Was So Mad at Mark Milley That He Confessed to a Crime — The backstory on the tape that could get the ex-President convicted in the classified-documents case. — Donald Trump, once again, wants us not to believe our own lying ears. The template for this defense was set on October 7 …
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Robin Fields / ProPublica:
How Often Do Health Insurers Say No to Patients? No One Knows. — Insurers' denial rates — a critical measure of how reliably they pay for customers' care — remain mostly secret to the public. Federal and state regulators have done little to change that. — Co-published with The Capitol Forum
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The Lever, Florida Politics and Mackinac Center
T.A. Frank / Washington Post:
Why does Mike Pence bother? — Some see him as a turncoat. Some see him as an enabler. He's running for president anyway. — Perspective by T.A. Frank — People tell the story in different ways, but they agree on this much: In 1979, at Hanover College, the boys of Phi Gamma Delta threw a party with girls and booze.
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Mock Paper Scissors and Raw Story
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
If ‘Bidenomics’ works, it will be a very big deal — President Biden might not seem like a revolutionary, but he is presiding over a fundamental change in the nation's approach to economics. Not only is he proposing a major break from the “trickle-down” policies of Ronald Reagan …
Caitlin Byrd / Post and Courier:
US Rep. Nancy Mace endorses Charleston bus project. But she voted against its funding — NORTH CHARLESTON — A routine press conference on a federal grant for Charleston's bus system put Republican U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace on the defensive after Democrats pounced on the fact she actually voted against the bill that made it happen.
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Raw Story, Political Wire and Mock Paper Scissors
Seth Wenig / Washington Examiner:
State Department confirms ‘shooting incident’ outside US consulate in Saudi Arabia — A local guard died in a “shooting incident” at a U.S. consulate in Saudi Arabia, Secretary of State Antony Blinken's team confirmed. — “We can confirm reports of a shooting incident today outside …
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Mark Pazniokas / CT Mirror:
Lowell Weicker, Connecticut governor and U.S. senator, dies at 92 — Lowell P. Weicker Jr., who swaggered through three terms as Connecticut's last Republican senator, challenging Richard Nixon over Watergate and the GOP's rightward shift under Ronald Reagan, then willed the state's income tax …
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Wall Street Journal:
Putin Moves to Seize Control of Wagner's Global Empire — The Kremlin assured nations in Africa and the Middle East that it would manage Wagner forces, which have spread Russian power at little cost to Putin — In the hours after Yevgeny Prigozhin's army of ex-convicts and mercenaries halted …
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Financial Times, Semafor, World News, Fortune, Voice of America, Politico and Associated Press
David Frum / The Atlantic:
The New Republican Litmus Test Is Very Dangerous — Candidates who do not speculate about war with Mexico may be perceived as weak. — War with Mexico? It's on the 2024 ballot, at least if you believe the campaign rhetoric of more and more Republican candidates.
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Florida Politics and Washington Post
Jolie McCullough / The Texas Tribune:
Inmates are dying in stifling Texas prisons, but the state seldom acknowledges heat as a cause of death — Since a heat wave gripped Texas, at least nine inmates, including two men in their 30s, have died of heart attacks or unknown causes in prisons lacking air conditioning.
Ryan Cooper / American Prospect:
The Death Cult of the American Car — It's obvious how to make the roads safer for cyclists, pedestrians, and drivers alike. We just don't do it. — There are too many cars and trucks that are too heavy and tall, driving too fast on streets that are too wide, with too many points of conflict.
NBC News:
Body camera footage from Allen, Texas, mall shooting shows officer chase and kill gunman — The video showed the officer by his car in the mall parking lot having a pleasant chat with children and a woman when gunshots suddenly rang out. — Police release bodycam footage of Texas mall shooting
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