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6:25 PM 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.
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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 …
Washington Post:
Turkey drops opposition to Sweden's NATO bid on eve of summit  —  ISTANBUL — Turkey has agreed to admit Sweden to NATO, the alliance's secretary general said Monday, dropping months of opposition that had roiled Western governments trying to counter Russia's invasion of Ukraine.  —  Are you on Telegram?
Wall Street Journal:
NATO Chief Says Turkey Has Agreed to Let Sweden Join Alliance
The White House:
Statement from President Biden on President Erdoğan's Commitment to Advance Sweden's NATO Accession Process
Discussion: New York Post, UPI and NPR
San Francisco Chronicle:
This is the hometown of San Francisco's drug dealers  —  SIRIA VALLEY, HONDURAS — Thirty-five hundred miles southeast of San Francisco, a dirt road in Honduras shared by pickup trucks and oxcarts cuts through mostly abandoned farmland.  On the outskirts of a small village …
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 …
Mark Schlabach / ESPN:
LIV championship moved to Trump National Doral  —  The LIV Golf League's season-ending team championship will be played at Trump National Doral Golf Club in Miami for the second straight year.  —  LIV Golf League officials announced Monday that the $50 million team championship …
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.
Haley Britzky / CNN:
Republican block leaves major branch of US military without a confirmed leader for first time in over a century  —  A major branch of the US military does not have a Senate confirmed leader for the first time in more than a century, as a result of a Republican senator refusing to lift his block on military nominations.
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Paul McLeary / Politico:
Top Marine general steps down with no Senate-confirmed successor in place
Discussion: New York Post and Daily Kos
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 …
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Jennifer Bowers Bahney / Mediaite:   Ray Epps May Sue Fox News For Defamation After Tucker Carlson Repeatedly Claimed He Was A Fed Who ‘Helped Stage-Manage The Insurrection’: Report
ABC News:
US Attorney David Weiss says he has not asked for special counsel status in Hunter Biden investigation  —  The president's son agreed to a plea deal in June, potentially ending the probe.  —  David Weiss, the U.S. attorney leading the investigation into Hunter Biden, on Monday directly …
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Politico:
U.S. Attorney David Weiss says he has not requested special counsel status as part of the years-long investigation into Hunter Biden.
emptywheel:
The Blind Squirrel's Nut: Chuck Grassley Unwittingly Debunks Bill Barr  —  Last month, Bill Barr got Federalist Faceplant Margot Cleveland to claim that Jamie Raskin was lying when he said that the lead from an informant claiming that Joe Biden had been bribed was assessed by Pittsburgh US Attorney Scott Brady and then shut down.
Discussion: HotAir and The Federalist
Megan Barth / Nevada Globe:
The Globe Interview: President Donald J Trump  —  Trump: 'All Democrats do is disinformation and hoaxes..they're destroying our country'  —  The Nevada Globe (TNG), had the opportunity for a one-on-one interview with former President Donald J. Trump during his first 2024 presidential campaign stop in Las Vegas.
Discussion: Raw Story
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.
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.
Emily Brooks / The Hill:
House GOP introduces election reform bill  —  House Republicans on Monday introduced election reform legislation that encourages states to implement certain changes while revising local election processes in Washington, D.C., and adjusting federal campaign finance rules.
Discussion: Roll Call and The Federalist
Mitch McConnell / Washington Post:
Neither party can count on the Supreme Court to be its ally  —  Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, is minority leader of the U.S. Senate.  —  Every June, the Supreme Court releases its most controversial opinions, and without fail, politicians complain about how those decisions came down.
Craig Silverman / ProPublica:
Right-Wing Websites Connected to Former Trump Lawyer Are Scamming Loyal Followers With Phony Celebrity Pitches  —  A mysterious network called AdStyle is placing ads with fake endorsements from celebrities like Oprah Winfrey and Elon Musk on conservative sites based in the U.S. and abroad.
Joe Saunders / The Western Journal:
Americans Horrified After Seeing How Biden Looked at Beach: ‘Fitting Snapshot of an America in Decline’  —  He's the world's most pallorful man.  —  President Joe Biden took to the beach for a family outing in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, on Saturday in full view of watching cameras …
Tom Sykes / The Daily Beast:
King Charles Loved President Biden's Breach of Royal Protocol  —  President Biden broke the royal rules by patting the king on the back, but Charles' aides told The Daily Beast it was a “wonderful symbol.” … Aides to King Charles told The Daily Beast that the king positively welcomed …
US Department of Justice:
U.S. Attorney Announces Charges Against Co-Director Of Think Tank For Acting As An Unregistered Foreign Agent, Trafficking In Arms, Violating U.S. Sanctions Against Iran, And Making False Statements To Federal Agents  —  For Immediate Release  —  U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York
Discussion: The Right Scoop
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 …
CBS News:
FBI looking into Biden Iran envoy Rob Malley over handling of classified material, multiple sources say  —  The FBI is now looking into President Biden's Iran envoy, Rob Malley, three sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.  —  One source familiar with the matter told CBS News …
Brooke Leigh Howard / The Daily Beast:
Kari Lake Insists She Hasn't Been Dumped by Trump  —  ON LIFE SUPPORT  —  Arizona election denialist Kari Lake railed against the media on Monday, denying that her relationship with former President Donald Trump has waned.  During an interview on Steve Bannon's “War Room” podcast …
Discussion: Raw Story
The Independent:
Trump wanted to tap phones of White House aides, new book claims  —  Mr Trump also wanted to use the IRS to target critics  —  ‘What the hell is a Blizzard?’:  Trump reveals he's never been to a Dairy Queen … Donald Trump wanted to “tap the phones” of White House aides who he suspected …
Discussion: Morning Shots and Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
The Country With the Highest Murder Rate Now Has the Highest Incarceration Rate  —  El Salvador President Nayib Bukele kicked off a gang crackdown that has strong support from locals who can now live and do business safely, but it faces questions from rights groups
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 …
Discussion: Twitchy
Adam Wren / Politico:
The testosterone primary of 2024 is ‘getting out of hand’  —  The presidential contest is careening into a frenetic fit boy summer sidequest in which candidates are skirmishing over feats of strength.  —  Francis Suarez is bragging about placing sixth in an Independence Day 5K in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Discussion: The Spectator World and Raw Story
Michael Tomasky / New Republic:
What Do Bidenomics and the President's Grandchild Have to Do with Each Other?  Everything.  —  Joe Biden recently unveiled the term “Bidenomics” to express and encompass the positive economic news—and there's a lot of it—that he hopes will lift him to reelection.
Discussion: Mediaite, The Daily Caller and IJR
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. ...
Kara Scannell / CNN:
Steve Bannon ordered to pay nearly $500,000 in legal fees to firm that represented him in subpoena fight  —  A New York judge has ordered Steve Bannon to pay his former attorneys nearly $500,000 in unpaid legal fees for work on various legal matters, including his fight against a subpoena …
Washington Free Beacon:
Top Democratic Operatives Were Quietly Pulling the Strings at a Voting Rights Group.  Lawyers Say They May Have Broken the Law.  —  The shady scheme implicates the Left's largest dark money network, Arabella Advisors  —  In the months before the 2020 elections, the New Venture Fund had a problem.
 
 
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Jason Alatidd / USA Today:
Kansas to temporarily stop allowing trans people to change their sex listing on driver's licenses
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Wes Davis / The Verge:
Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement
Nick Robins-Early / The Guardian:
‘A deranged ploy’: how Republicans are fueling the disinformation wars
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Eric Bradner / CNN:
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