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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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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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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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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
House Republicans embark on a mission: Avenge Trump
House Republicans embark on a mission: Avenge Trump
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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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Washington Post:
Twice-indicted Trump dominates GOP race, as support for DeSantis stalls
Twice-indicted Trump dominates GOP race, as support for DeSantis stalls
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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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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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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 …
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 …
Jay Kuo / The Status Kuo:
Whew! — In the summer of 2022, when the Supreme Court announced that it would hear …
Whew! — In the summer of 2022, when the Supreme Court announced that it would hear …
Ned Foley / Election Law Blog:
Moore v. Harper & the need for clarity
Moore v. Harper & the need for clarity
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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 …
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Bojan Pancevski / Wall Street Journal:
Wagner's Prigozhin Planned to Capture Russian Military Leaders — Western intelligence officials say Russian domestic intelligence agency learned of plot in advance — Mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin planned to capture Russia's military leadership as part of last weekend's mutiny …
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Jeremy Bowen / BBC:
Ukraine war: Countdown has begun to end of Putin, say Kyiv officials
Ukraine war: Countdown has begun to end of Putin, say Kyiv officials
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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.
New York Times:
Giuliani Sat for Voluntary Interview in Jan. 6 Investigation — The one-time personal lawyer for Donald Trump answered questions from federal prosecutors about the former president's efforts to remain in power after his 2020 election loss. — Rudolph W. Giuliani, who served …
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CNN:
Exclusive: Rudy Giuliani interviewed in special counsel's 2020 election interference probe
Exclusive: Rudy Giuliani interviewed in special counsel's 2020 election interference probe
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Rudy Giuliani met special counsel prosecutors probing Trump over 2020 election
Rudy Giuliani met special counsel prosecutors probing Trump over 2020 election
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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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Marita Vlachou / HuffPost:
Liz Cheney Says She Will Do Whatever It Takes To Stop Donald Trump
Liz Cheney Says She Will Do Whatever It Takes To Stop Donald Trump
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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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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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Aaron Katersky / ABC News:
Donald Trump sues E. Jean Carroll with his own claims of defamation
Donald Trump sues E. Jean Carroll with his own claims of defamation
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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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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 …
Bloomberg:
Joe Biden Keeps Confusing Ukraine and Iraq — President Joe Biden slipped up twice in the last 24 hours by confusing the US war in Iraq with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. — Speaking to reporters Wednesday on the South Lawn of the White House, Biden said that Russian President Vladimir Putin …
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Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Biden says Putin has ‘absolutely’ been weakened after revolt in Russia
Biden says Putin has ‘absolutely’ been weakened after revolt in Russia
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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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Raw Story
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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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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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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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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Gabby Deutch / Jewish Insider:
In rollout of antisemitism strategy, White House steers clear of the Jewish state — During hour-long panel at Aspen Ideas focused on fighting antisemitism, Biden officials avoided any mention of Israel — On a windy, sunny summer morning in Colorado, two senior White House officials joined …
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Washington Free Beacon
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 …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Retirement talk surrounding Thomas, Alito raises stakes for 2024 election — Lawmakers are looking ahead to the 2024 election as a pivotal opportunity to shape the future of the Supreme Court because of the possibility that conservative Justices Clarence Thomas, 75, and Samuel Alito, 73, could retire.
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