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11:45 AM ET, July 10, 2023

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Alex Thompson / Axios:
Old yeller: Biden's private fury  —  In public, President Biden likes to whisper to make a point.  In private, he's prone to yelling.  — Behind closed doors, Biden has such a quick-trigger temper that some aides try to avoid meeting alone with him.
New York Times:
The New York Times to Disband Its Sports Department  —  Coverage of games, players and leagues will now primarily come from The Athletic, the sports website that the company bought last year.  —  The New York Times said on Monday that it would disband its sports department and rely on coverage …
Washington Post:
Putin met with Wagner leader Prigozhin after failed mutiny, Kremlin says  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Wagner Group mercenary boss Yevgeniy Prigozhin and 35 of his commanders on June 29 in Moscow, five days after Wagner's brief mutiny aimed at ousting the country's top military officials …
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Reuters:
Putin held post-mutiny talks with Wagner leader Prigozhin and his fighters - Kremlin  —  President Vladimir Putin has held Kremlin talks with Wagner mercenary group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin and his commanders to discuss the armed mutiny Wagner attempted to mount against the army's top brass, Putin's spokesman said on Monday.
Politico:
Playbook: A new way to make Biden officials pay  —  Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  THE WEEK — Today: President JOE BIDEN meets with British PM RISHI SUNAK and KING CHARLES III in London.  The Senate returns from July Fourth recess. ...
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Washington Post:
Congress returns with lots to do but little time to do it  —  Good morning, Early Birds.  Would you spend $743 a night to stay in a Hilton Garden Inn in Texarkana, Tex.?  No need to let us know, but please send us your freshest tips: earlytips@washpost.com.  Thanks for waking up with us.
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Associated Press:
Disgraced sports doctor Larry Nassar stabbed multiple times at Florida federal prison: AP sources  —  Disgraced sports doctor Larry Nassar, who was convicted of sexually abusing female gymnasts, was stabbed multiple times during an altercation with another inmate at a federal prison in Florida.
Antonio Fins / Palm Beach Post:
FAU poll shows Trump still routs DeSantis in Florida and a partisan split on Disney World  —  Curiously, Trump's lead appears to have dwindled by 7 percentage points since the most recent FAU and Mainstreet poll in April, which took place before Trump's June 13 indictment on federal charges.
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Yair Rosenberg / The Atlantic:
Ron DeSantis's Only Hope Is to Beat Trump From the Hard Right
The Messenger:
Longtime Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown Raises $5 Million in the Second Quarter (Exclusive)  —  Brown is one of the most vulnerable incumbent senators running for re-election in 2024  —  A Facebook icon representing an external link to share the article on Facebook.A Twitter icon representing …
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Henry J. Gomez / NBC News:   Ohio GOP Senate hopeful Bernie Moreno raises $2.2 million in second quarter
Natalie Allison / Politico:
Vivek Ramaswamy is paying supporters to find him donors  —  The longshot GOP candidate is launching a program to pay participants a cut of any money they raise.  —  It now pays to be a supporter of Vivek Ramaswamy's presidential bid — at least for those who can convince their friends to click a link and donate.
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Katherine Koretski / NBC News:
Vivek Ramaswamy campaign proposes giving 10% commission to bundlers
Discussion: CNBC and FiveThirtyEight
Ben Hubbard / New York Times:
Erdogan Makes Turkey's E.U. Bid a Condition of Supporting Sweden's NATO Membership  —  The Turkish president's surprising new demand was bound to frustrate other leaders in the military alliance one day before a high-profile summit.  —  ISTANBUL — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey …
Jazmine Ulloa / New York Times:
Hill Harper, ‘Good Doctor’ Actor, Enters Senate Race in Michigan  —  Mr. Harper is challenging Representative Elissa Slotkin from the left and will have an uphill climb in a heated Democratic primary race in a 2024 presidential swing state.  —  Hill Harper, an author and actor …
Joe Scarborough / The Atlantic:
America Is Doing Just Fine  —  The United States deserves a robust defense.  —  As Americans celebrated the Fourth of July by watching baseball, fireworks, and Joey Chestnut hammering home his 16th win in the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, poor Uncle Sam labored through …
Bonnie Kristian / The Daily Beast:
The Republican Party's Debate Rules Make It Impossible for Trump to Lose  —  From polling minimums, loyalty pledges, and the GOP's refusal to cooperate with the Commission for Presidential Debates—every scenario looks rosy for the ex-president. … Appearing in the Republican presidential primary debates is no small feat.
Discussion: Townhall and Raw Story
Axios:
Scoop: GOP plan targets foreign dark money for 2024  —  House Republicans are working on new legislation to prevent foreign nationals from influencing America's political process, Axios has learned. … - Now House Republicans are trying to flip to script and draw attention to foreign donations …
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Democratic state senator launches challenge to Sen. Ted Cruz in Texas  —  Texas state Sen. Roland Gutierrez entered the state's US Senate race on Monday, becoming the second high-profile Democrat vying to take on Republican Sen. Ted Cruz next fall.  —  Gutierrez, a long-time state lawmaker …
Moira Donegan / The Guardian:
She performed an abortion on a 10-year-old rape victim.  The right vilified her  —  Caitlin Bernard deserves a statue for her service.  Instead, she's been harassed and persecuted  —  f the United States was a country that valued women and girls, or that understood the moral gravity of misogyny …
Garry Kasparov / Wall Street Journal:
Ukrainians Die as America Dawdles  —  Fears of ‘escalation’ leave Russia feeling free to attack innocent civilians like Victoria Amelina.  —  I will speak this week in Vilnius, Lithuania, on behalf of the antiwar Russian Action Committee.  President Biden will attend the North Atlantic …
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Financial Times:
Nato's dilemma: what to do about Ukraine's bid to join?
New York Times:
The Case That Could Be Fox's Next Dominion  —  Tucker Carlson, before he was sidelined by Fox, repeatedly endorsed a conspiracy theory about an Arizona man, who may sue for defamation.  Legal experts say it would be a viable case.  —  Of all the distortions and paranoia that Tucker Carlson promoted …
New York Post:
Elderly man killed by scooter-riding gunman in NYC rampage was dad of six heading to mosque to pray, son says  —  The elderly man killed when a scooter-riding maniac shot him in the back this weekend was a beloved father of six who was heading to his Queens mosque to pray when he was cruelly gunned down, his son told The Post on Sunday.
Washington Post:
House Republicans target the Pentagon's use of electric vehicles  —  Good morning and welcome to The Climate 202!  We hope you had a great weekend, and if you're a congressional staffer or lawmaker, welcome back to the season that's known in D.C. as “humidity's wrath.”
Megan McArdle / Washington Post:
How today's Twitter has made conservative boycotts more successful  —  A question that has been eating at me recently: Why in the world are conservative boycotts suddenly working?  —  I mean, in general, politically motivated boycotts rarely work — people get bored or their opponents stage “buycotts” that cancel out their efforts.
Christine Emba / Washington Post:
Men are lost.  Here's a map out of the wilderness.  —  I started noticing it a few years ago.  Men, especially young men, were getting weird.  —  It might have been the “incels” who first caught my attention, spewing self-pitying venom online, sometimes venturing out to attack the women they believed had done them wrong.
Discussion: gregfallis.com
 
 
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Sam Fossum / CNN:
Top Treasury sanctions official to visit southern border as it ramps up efforts to crack down on deadly fentanyl trade
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Nick Robins-Early / The Guardian:
‘A deranged ploy’: how Republicans are fueling the disinformation wars
Discussion: Raw Story
Heather Long / Washington Post:
If we avoid a recession, we can thank Black and Hispanic workers
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Deroy Murdock / The Daily Caller:
Bidens Do The Crime, But Not The Time  —  The family that skates together stays together.
New York Times:
For a President and a King, the View From the Top Is Curiously Similar
Andrew Restuccia / Wall Street Journal:
Biden Takes On Federal Forms That One User Calls ‘More Frightening Than Having Cancer’
Discussion: The Messenger
 Earlier Items: 
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Pride and prejudice  —  Last week, seven Republican state attorneys general sent a letter …
Politico:
House Republicans move to silence Wall Street in climate fight
Discussion: CNBC and Political Wire
The Hill:
Greene's Freedom Caucus ousting underscores GOP-conservative tensions
Discussion: Political Wire
James Bickerton / Newsweek:
How's Twitter Working Out for Tucker Carlson?
Blake Jones / Politico:
Religious right gets blindsided by angry parents in a Southern California school district
Discussion: New York Post and Fox News
Paul Heintz / VTDigger:
Catastrophic, life-threatening flooding expected in Vermont starting Sunday
Discussion: New York Post and WCAX-TV
 

 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Reach CEO Jim Mullen says there is “too much power in the hands of platforms and their algorithms” and calls for regulation to make platforms pay for content

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TikTok rolls out its redesigned Subscription feature, which lets creators offer three tiers, to eligible creators in select regions, including the UK and the US

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
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