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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 …
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
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 …
Discussion: The Hill, Fox News and Raw Story
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Politico:
Inside Trump world's fury at McCarthy
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Trump world fumes over McCarthy's 2024 slight
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 …
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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Jay Kuo / The Status Kuo:
Whew!  —  In the summer of 2022, when the Supreme Court announced that it would hear …
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 …
Discussion: The Messenger, Raw Story and CBS News
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New York Times:
Giuliani Sat for Voluntary Interview in Jan. 6 Investigation
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.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Balloon Juice
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 …
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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Molly Nagle / ABC News:
Biden using CPAP machine to deal with sleep apnea, White House says
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.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Reuters:
For Ketanji Brown Jackson, a self-assured and forceful US Supreme Court debut
Discussion: NBC News
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 …
Discussion: Rolling Stone
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 …
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 third of the US population is under air quality alerts, covering more than a dozen states from the Midwest to the East Coast, as smoke …
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Ian Livingston / Washington Post:
Canada wildfire smoke is drifting from the Midwest to the East Coast
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
Discussion: 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
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.
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 …
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 …
Chris Geidner / Law Dork with Chris Geidner:
Kentucky's ban on trans care for minors is likely unconstitutional, judge blocks enforcement  —  “Plaintiffs have shown a strong likelihood of success on the merits of their constitutional challenges to SB 150,” U.S. District Judge David Hale ruled.  —  The unbroken record of federal judges finding …
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
Cosmin Dzsurdzsa / True North:
CBC changes LGBTQIA2S+ acronym to 2STNBGC  —  In a story on demands in British Columbia to provide “gender-affirming care” such as puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to transgender kids, CBC News opted for the acronym 2STNBGC instead of LGBTQIA2S+.  —  The article titled …
Discussion: HotAir
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.
Discussion: Florida Politics
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.
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
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 …
Sydney Kashiwagi / CNN:
Exonerated Central Park Five member Yusef Salaam poised to win New York City Council seat  —  An exonerated member of the Central Park Five, Yusef Salaam, is poised to win a Democratic primary race for a New York City Council seat in Harlem.  —  Salaam declared victory at a campaign event …
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 …
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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The White House:
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Fox News:
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NBC News:
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NBC News:
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Discussion: HotAir, Insider and Political Wire
Bojan Pancevski / Wall Street Journal:
Wagner's Prigozhin Planned to Capture Russian Military Leaders
Kara Scannell / CNN:
Donald Trump sues E. Jean Carroll for defamation