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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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Politico:
Inside Trump world's fury at McCarthy — Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross — DRIVING THE DAY — MY, KEVIN — Former President DONALD TRUMP has catapulted the career of many a Republican over the past eight years, elevating backbenchers into stars and breathing new relevance into more than a few GOP has-beens.
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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 …
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Trump world fumes over McCarthy's 2024 slight — The speaker tried to make amends, but it just made things worse. — Former President Donald Trump has catapulted the careers of many Republican over the past eight years. None have benefited more than Kevin McCarthy.
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NBC News:
Trump explores messing with the first GOP debate
Trump explores messing with the first GOP debate
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Philip Klein / National Review:
Indictment Didn't Boost Trump, but It Froze Race He's Already Winning
Indictment Didn't Boost Trump, but It Froze Race He's Already Winning
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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
House Republicans embark on a mission: Avenge Trump
House Republicans embark on a mission: Avenge Trump
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Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
More than Trump ego maintenance: GOP move to “expunge” impeachments is part of their war on history
More than Trump ego maintenance: GOP move to “expunge” impeachments is part of their war on history
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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 …
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Zachary Faria / Washington Examiner:
How badly do Republican voters want to lose? — The question being posed to GOP voters ahead of the 2024 election has been, remains, and will continue to be a simple one: How badly do you want to lose another presidential election? — Another set of polls has shown just how unyielding the political reality is.
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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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Richard H. Pildes / New York Times:
The Supreme Court Rejected a Dangerous Elections Theory. But It's Not All Good News. — Mr. Pildes is a legal scholar who analyzes the intersection of politics and law and how they affect our democracy. — On Tuesday, the Supreme Court decision in Moore v. Harper rejected the most extreme version …
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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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New York Times:
Russian General Knew About Mercenary Chief's Rebellion Plans, U.S. Officials Say — Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of Wagner, may have believed he had support in Russia's military. — Reporting from Washington — A senior Russian general had advance knowledge of Yevgeny Prigozhin's plans …
Bojan Pancevski / Wall Street Journal:
Wagner's Prigozhin Planned to Capture Russian Military Leaders
Wagner's Prigozhin Planned to Capture Russian Military Leaders
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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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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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Matt Dixon / NBC News:
Ron DeSantis pushes for the federal Disney trial to start after the presidential election — Lawyers representing the Florida governor want a federal trial delayed until August 2025 and are also pushing to have the case dismissed. — TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Attorneys for Gov. Ron DeSantis …
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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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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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Bridget Bowman / NBC News:
The ‘lesser of two evils’ voters who could decide 2024
The ‘lesser of two evils’ voters who could decide 2024
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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 …
Kara Scannell / CNN:
Donald Trump sues E. Jean Carroll for defamation — Donald Trump has sued E. Jean Carroll for defamation after a jury found he sexually abused the former magazine columnist and defamed her. — In a counter claim filed Tuesday night, Trump alleges that Carroll defamed him when she appeared …
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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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Nathaniel Rakich / FiveThirtyEight:
Introducing Our Brand-New Polling Averages — As you may have heard, there have been some changes at FiveThirtyEight recently. While it will be strange around here without our founder Nate Silver, his models and his oddly strong opinions about states, there are also some things that aren't going away …
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Jared Gans / The Hill:
Trump leading DeSantis by 23 points in new South Carolina poll
Trump leading DeSantis by 23 points in new South Carolina poll
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Reem Nadeem / Pew Research Center:
Gun Violence Widely Viewed as a Major - and Growing - National Problem — U.S. public evenly split on whether gun ownership does more to increase or decrease safety — U.S. public evenly split on whether gun ownership does more to increase or decrease safety — How we did this
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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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Timothy Noah / New Republic:
Your Boss Wants to Dope You — Before the Nazi invasion of France in the spring of 1940, the Wehrmacht distributed to German troops the drug Pervitin, a pill form of methamphetamine that could keep soldiers awake for days. As Norman Ohler explains in his 2017 book Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich …
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Fox News:
IRS whistleblower defends claims Hunter Biden got special treatment from the Justice Department — IRS agent Gary Shapley has come forward with claims the Justice Department stalled its Hunter Biden investigation — Internal Revenue Service whistleblower Gary Shapley defended his claims …
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NBC News:
Have you heard the one about the old president? Well, Biden has a joke for you — In the past two weeks, Biden has increasingly made his age the punchline, an NBC News analysis of his remarks found. — 'I know I'm 198 years old': Biden cracks jokes about his age in speeches — WASHINGTON — He's been 198.
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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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Jonathan Landay / Reuters:
Most Americans support US arming Ukraine -Reuters/Ipsos — Solid majorities of Americans support providing weaponry to Ukraine to defend itself against Russia and believe that such aid demonstrates to China and other U.S. rivals a will to protect U.S. interests and allies, according to a Reuters/Ipsos survey.
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Hannah Rabinowitz / CNN:
DOJ targets nationwide health care fraud scheme involving over $2.5 billion — The Justice Department announced a sweeping enforcement effort Wednesday aimed at health care, telemedicine and illegal prescription schemes totaling of $2.5 billion in alleged fraud.
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Hunter Biden Isn't Hiding. Even Some Democrats Are Uncomfortable. — Hunter Biden's public appearances came across as a message of defiance by the president, who is determined to show that he stands by his son. — Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent, covered the recent state visit and reported from Washington.
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