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Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic:
Elon Musk Really Broke Twitter This Time — The social network has never seen chaos quite like this. — Twitter may have just had its worst weekend ever, technically speaking. In response to a series of server emergencies, Elon Musk, the Twitter owner and self-professed free-speech …
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Kylie Cheung / Jezebel:
Elon Musk Suggests ‘Childless’ People Should Lose the Right to Vote — People without children “have little stake in the future,” says the right-wing billionaire whose own daughter said she doesn't want to be related to him. — Elon Musk, the right-wing billionaire and deadbeat dad who's hellbent …
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Olafimihan Oshin / The Hill:
Federal court blocks Florida election law — A federal court blocked a Florida election law Monday that would've imposed more limitations on voter registration efforts in the state. — In a 58-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Mark Walker agreed with the plaintiffs that the new state law …
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Gary Fineout / Politico:
Federal judge halts new Florida law he calls ‘latest assault’ on voting
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Mohammad Yunus Yawar / Reuters:
Taliban administration orders beauty salons in Afghanistan to close — The Taliban administration in Afghanistan has ordered beauty salons to close within a month, the morality ministry said, in the latest shrinking of access to public places for Afghan women.
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Riazat Butt / Associated Press:
The Taliban ban women's beauty salons in Afghanistan — The Taliban are banning women's beauty salons in Afghanistan, a government spokesman said Tuesday. It's the latest curb on the rights and freedoms of Afghan women and girls, following edicts barring them from education, public spaces and most forms of employment.
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NBC News:
Four killed, two injured in Philadelphia shooting, police say — Police say a suspect with a semiautomatic rifle, handgun, body armor, and police scanner opened fire and continued shooting as officers pursued him. — Four people were killed and two others, both minors …
David Badash / Raw Story:
'We didn't want to live in fear': Exodus of workers begins as Florida's extreme anti-immigrant law goes into effect — Business owners in Florida are worried after Governor Ron DeSantis' new anti-immigrant law took effect on Saturday, forcing many migrant workers to flee the state and head north …
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Deborah Acosta / Wall Street Journal:
Migrant Workers Flee Florida as New Immigration Law Takes Effect
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Kathryn Armstrong / BBC:
Ukraine war: Major Moscow airport flights disrupted by drone attack — Ukraine has launched a drone attack on Moscow, the Russian defence ministry says, forcing flights to be diverted from Vnukovo International Airport. — Five drones were reportedly used in Tuesday's attack …
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
A viral left-wing Twitter account may have been fake all along — The Erica Marsh account shows how ‘rage baiting’ remains a powerful way to win attention and score political points — In eight months, Erica Marsh has become one of the most consistently viral left-wing voices on Twitter …
Robby Soave / Reason:
UCLA Declined To Hire a Professor After Students Denounced His Mild DEI Criticism — Yoel Inbar is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. He was slated to join the University of California at Los Angeles as a tenured professor of psychology …
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Anastasia Stognei / Financial Times:
Prigozhin appeals for public support as Wagner continues recruiting — Paramilitary group still signing contracts with fighters for Ukrainian front despite terms of truce with the Kremlin — Russian warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin called on the Russian public to stand up for his Wagner paramilitaries …
MSNBC:
Seeing the erosion of our freedoms makes it hard to celebrate this Fourth of July — The Supreme Court, conservative governors and gerrymandered state legislatures are racing to shrink our fundamental rights and freedoms. — By Jill Lawrence, author of “The Art of the Political Deal …
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The Hill, The Liberal Patriot and NBC News
Brakkton Booker / Politico:
GOP has its most diverse presidential field ever — But most Republicans are loathe to talk about it. — The GOP has its most diverse presidential field in modern history. But the party isn't keen to trumpet it — if they address it at all. — Few of the candidates speak directly to it.
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Political Wire and Florida Politics
Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Williamson torches DNC's ‘outrageous’ support for Biden in 2024 Dem primary — Marianne Williamson tells Fox News Digital that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine skepticism ‘obviously’ out-of-line with many Democratic voters — MANCHESTER, N.H. - White House hopeful Marianne Williamson …
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
Why Democrats Should Primary Biden
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Elie Mystal / The Nation:
The Supreme Court Has Kicked the Door Wide Open to Jim Crow-Style Bigotry The Supreme Court Has Kicked the Door Wide Open to Jim Crow-Style Bigotry — The court's conservatives used a case literally based on a homophobe's fantasies to blow a huge hole in our antidiscrimination laws and revive the spirit of Plessy v. Ferguson.
Michael Walsh / The Pipeline:
THE COLUMN: Grant, the Indispensable Man — Happy Fourth of July, Sam. — These first few days of July are of importance to every real American. Not simply because the Declaration of Independence was unanimously adopted by the Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia …
Peter Hermann / Washington Post:
Secret Service investigating suspicious substance found in White House — A preliminary field test indicated the substance was cocaine. Authorities sent the sample to a lab for further testing. — The U.S. Secret Service is investigating a suspicious substance that prompted a brief evacuation …
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The Messenger, KYMA-TV and Just The News
Sophie Mann / Daily Mail:
Bud Light is now cheaper than WATER at some retailers after $20b Dylan Mulvaney disaster - as some stores report a 50% decline in sales year-on-year after marketing gimmick gone wrong — Sales troubles continue to abound for Bud Light as some retailers reveal the once popular beer is now selling for less than cases of water
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Fox News, Louder With Crowder, New York Post and The Western Journal
David Strom / HotAir:
Were you aware that the White House grounds were evacuated? — I saw this on Twitter and thought it must have been a joke. — After all, if the White House grounds were evacuated and a Hazmat team called in, I would have thought it would be all the talk.
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Bradford Betz / Fox News:
White House grounds evacuated after Secret Service discovers ‘unknown item’
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Jack Forrest / CNN:
Biden nominates controversial former Trump-appointee to Public Diplomacy Commission — President Joe Biden announced Monday his intention to nominate a former appointee under former President Donald Trump with a controversial past in Latin America to the bipartisan United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy.
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Elian Peltier / New York Times:
Macky Sall, Senegal's Leader, Says He Won't Run for Third Term — Macky Sall had considered seeking a third term in the West African country despite a constitutional limit of two. — Reporting from Dakar, Senegal — President Macky Sall of Senegal said on Monday that he would not seek …
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Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg:
Oligarch Fridman Bemoans a Life ‘Destroyed’ by EU Sanctions — The life of Mikhail Fridman, one of Russia's original oligarchs, was “destroyed” after he was hit by European Union sanctions following the Kremlin-led invasion of Ukraine, his attorney told an EU court.
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Financial Times:
Marine Le Pen seizes on French riots in push to outflank Emmanuel Macron — Far-right party launches recruitment drive amid unrest triggered by police killing of teenager — Fires of unrest burned across France, protests gripped cities over the fatal police shooting of a teenager but …
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Semafor and Associated Press
Mark Sweetman / Bloomberg:
Ukraine Recap: NATO Chief Extends Tenure as Kyiv Forces Advance — NATO extended Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg's by a year as the military alliance confronts Russia's invasion, while Ukraine pressed forward with its counteroffensive in the country's east.
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Washington Post
Stephanie Saul / New York Times:
Harvard's Admissions Is Challenged for Favoring Children of Alumni — After the Supreme Court banned race-conscious affirmative action, activists filed a complaint, saying legacy admissions helped students who are overwhelmingly rich and white. — It's been called affirmative action for the rich …
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