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12:20 PM ET, July 13, 2023

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Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
First on CNN: Secret Service concludes cocaine investigation, no suspect identified  —  The Secret Service has concluded its investigation into the small bag of cocaine found at the White House and has been unable to identify a suspect, two sources familiar with the investigation told CNN.
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Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Secret Service briefs House Oversight Committee on cocaine found at White House  —  The bag of powder was found in a cubby near the White House's West Executive entrance in an area that's heavily trafficked, not the formal West Wing lobby, NBC News reported last week.
Mara Siegler / Page Six:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. press dinner explodes in war of words and farting  —  Page Six regrets to report that a press dinner to boost Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s presidential campaign devolved into a foul bout of screaming and polemic farting on Tuesday night.  —  The White House hopeful attended …
ProPublica:
Close to 100,000 Voter Registrations Were Challenged in Georgia — Almost All by Just Six Right-Wing Activists  —  On March 15, 2022, an email appeared in the inbox of the election director of Forsyth County, Georgia, with the subject line “Challenge of Elector's Eligibility.”
Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post:
The FTC is investigating whether ChatGPT harms consumers  —  The agency's demand for OpenAI's documents about AI risks mark the company's greatest U.S. regulatory threat to date  —  The Federal Trade Commission has opened an expansive investigation into OpenAI, probing whether the maker …
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Wall Street Journal:
ChatGPT Under Investigation by FTC  —  Agency probes whether OpenAI chatbot has harmed people by publishing false information  —  WASHINGTON—The Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether OpenAI's ChatGPT artificial-intelligence system has harmed individuals by publishing false information …
Discussion: Breitbart
Pam Belluck / New York Times:
F.D.A. Approves First U.S. Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pill  —  The price of the pill, which has not been announced, will determine how affordable it will be when it becomes available in early 2024.  —  Pam Belluck has covered reproductive health for more than a decade.
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US Food and Drug Administration:
FDA Approves First Nonprescription Daily Oral Contraceptive
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Democrats Try a Novel Tactic to Revive the Equal Rights Amendment  —  Proponents of the measure to enshrine a guarantee of sex equality into the Constitution are using a creative legal theory to try to resurrect the long-stalled amendment.  —  Reporting from Capitol Hill
Sarah Kaplan / Washington Post:
Floods, fires and deadly heat are the alarm bells of a planet on the brink  —  The world is hotter than it's been in thousands of years, and it's as if every alarm bell on Earth were ringing.  —  The warnings are echoing through the drenched mountains of Vermont, where two months of rain just fell in only two days.
Discussion: Los Angeles Times and NBC News
Politico:
Top donors start giving Tim Scott a look after souring on DeSantis  —  Billionaire Ronald Lauder met with the South Carolina senator.  Others in the check-writing class are also showing interest.  —  With Ron DeSantis stalling in the Republican presidential primary, some wealthy donors …
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Norman L. Eisen / Just Security:
Trump on Trial: A Model Prosecution Memo for Federal Election Interference Crimes  —  This model prosecution memorandum (or “pros memo") assesses federal charges Special Counsel Jack Smith may bring against former President Donald Trump for alleged criminal interference in the 2020 election.
Discussion: Raw Story and Washington Post
July 4th Holiday Closure:
SAG-AFTRA Television, Theatrical and Streaming Contracts Expire Without a Deal  —  Negotiating Committee Votes Unanimously to Recommend a Strike SAG-AFTRA National Board to Meet Thursday to Vote on a Strike  —  SAG-AFTRA's Television/Theatrical/Streaming contracts have expired without a successor agreement.
Declan Harty / Politico:
Former crypto CEO arrested on fraud charges  —  The Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Federal Trade Commission also filed charges.  —  U.S. authorities on Thursday arrested Alex Mashinsky, the former CEO of failed crypto lending platform Celsius Network …
CNN:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. repeatedly suggested that chemicals in water are impacting sexuality of children  —  Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a history of repeatedly sharing unfounded conspiracies that man-made chemicals in the environment could be making children gay …
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
Washington Post:
Senate appropriators to debate Supreme Court ethics proposal  —  Good morning, Early Birds.  Congrats to the Bad News Babes for beating the Members of Congress 15-9 in the Congressional Women's Softball Game last night.  The best stat of the game: A record $588,000 was raised to beat cancer.
Discussion: National Review and Political Wire
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The head of the GOP is still elevating 2020 election skepticism  —  RNC chair Ronna McDaniel won't say the election was fair because, given her position, she can't  —  A particularly easy question for a fourth-grade social studies test would be to ask who won the 2020 presidential election.
Discussion: HuffPost and Joe.My.God.
Nicki Brown / CNN:
Jury finds Pittsburgh synagogue mass shooter eligible to face the death penalty  —  The jury in the trial of Pittsburgh synagogue mass shooter Robert Bowers found Thursday he is eligible for the death penalty, shifting the focus of the proceeding to whether he should be sentenced to death or life in prison.
Stephanie Saul / New York Times:
Texas A&M Celebrated a New Journalism Director.  Then Came the Complaints.  —  Kathleen McElroy was appointed head of a journalism program at the university.  But then her work in D.E.I. seemed to come into question.  —  Kathleen McElroy, who had recently served as the director of the University …
Discussion: KBTX-TV, Instapundit and Raw Story
Sarah Dean / CNN:
US defense secretary says Tuberville holds are ‘national security issue’  —  Watch the full interview with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin at 6 p.m. ET on “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer.”  —  CNN —  US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville's holds …
Eric Hananoki / Media Matters for America:
McCarthy-backed House candidate is getting help from an antisemitic podcaster who wants political leaders assassinated  —  U.S. House candidate Riley Moore, who's backed by Speaker Kevin McCarthy, has made six appearances on virulent antisemite Michael Scheuer's podcast …
Discussion: Political Wire
Associated Press:
Thousands of Ukraine civilians are being held in Russian prisons.  Russia plans to build many more  —  The Ukrainian civilians woke long before dawn in the bitter cold, lined up for the single toilet and were loaded at gunpoint into the livestock trailer.  They spent the next 12 hours …
Reuters:
Final offer: UK's Sunak seeks to end strikes with new pay deals  — Won't negotiate again even if more strikes, PM says  — UK accepts independent pay recommendations  — Decision follows widespread industrial action  — Teachers' unions call off strikes; others unimpressed
Pew Research Center:
Republican Gains in 2022 Midterms Driven Mostly by Turnout Advantage  —  An examination of the 2022 elections, based on validated voters  —  An examination of the 2022 elections, based on validated voters  —  How we did this Terminology  —  In midterm elections that yielded mixed results …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The demographic shifts in voting, visualized
Jared Gans / The Hill:
Former Trump aide and Jan. 6 witness Cassidy Hutchinson signs book deal  —  Cassidy Hutchinson, a former Trump White House aide who testified before the House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, has signed a deal to release a book in September.
Politico:
Justice Department appeals Jan. 6 prison sentences for Stewart Rhodes, Oath Keepers  —  Prosecutors are dissatisfied with the severity of the sentences handed down by the federal judge overseeing the case.  —  The Justice Department on Wednesday appealed the sentences handed down to seven members …
Associated Press:
Suspect in Larry Nassar stabbing said ex-doctor made lewd remark watching Wimbledon, AP source says  —  A prisoner suspected of stabbing Larry Nassar at a federal penitentiary in Florida said the disgraced former sports doctor provoked the attack by making a lewd comment while they were watching …
John Hanna / Associated Press:
Trans people's rush to alter their Kansas licenses created a ‘safety concern,’ a judge says  —  A state-court judge has declared that the nearly 200 transgender people in Kansas who rushed in recent weeks to change the sex listings on their driver's licenses created an immediate “public safety concern.”
Mike Memoli / NBC News:
Kamala Harris plans tour energizing key Democratic groups in coming weeks  —  The vice president will speak to major Black and Latino groups and a gun safety organization in a month-long series.  —  Vice President Kamala Harris is preparing to kick off a month-long series …
Karoun Demirjian / New York Times:
G.O.P.'s Far Right Seeks to Use Defense Bill to Defund Ukraine War Effort  —  The group's proposals have no chance of passage, but they have further mired the military spending bill in a partisan fight and highlighted Republican divisions over the war.  —  Reporting from Washington
 
 
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Brandon Gillespie / Fox News:
House Dem Jayapal grills FBI's Wray on collecting Americans' data, warns of ‘difficult’ FISA reauthorization
Discussion: RedState and Just The News
Howie Carr Show / HCRN:
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Cristina Gallardo / Politico:
British response to China threat ‘completely inadequate,’ damning report warns
Discussion: Financial Times and Bloomberg
Justin Rohrlich / The Daily Beast:
Ex-Spy Accused of Putting CIA Hopeful Through Sordid Secret Sex ‘Training’
Discussion: Raw Story and Rolling Stone
 Earlier Items: 
Elie Mystal / The Nation:
The White Media Has Missed a Key Part of the Affirmative Action Ruling The White Media Has Missed a Key Part of the Affirmative Action Ruling
Discussion: Politico
NBC News:
Driver kills pedestrian after fleeing Secret Service near National Mall in D.C., is still at large
KFF:
A Small Number of Drugs Account for a Large Share of Medicare Part D Spending
Discussion: The Hill
Craig Mauger / The Detroit News:
Judge rules Michigan law broadly bans ‘undue possession’ of voting machines
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Why can't the right-wing bubble give up on Ray Epps?
Annie Roth / New York Times:
A Sea Otter Is Stealing Surfboards Near Santa Cruz, California
Brooke Leigh Howard / The Daily Beast:
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