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ROBERT F. KENNEDY HUMAN RIGHTS:
Statement by Kerry Kennedy on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Recent Remarks  —  I strongly condemn my brother's deplorable and untruthful remarks last week about Covid being engineered for ethnic targeting.  His statements do not represent what I believe or what Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights stand for …
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Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Kerry Kennedy rebukes brother RFK Jr. after he linked Covid-19 and Jewish people  —  A report on Saturday quoted RFK Jr., a Democratic presidential contender, as saying Covid-19 was “targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people” and that Jewish people are most immune.
Paul Kiel / ProPublica:
How Harlan Crow Slashed his Tax Bill by Taking Clarence Thomas on Superyacht Cruises  —  Friends of the Court  —  SCOTUS Justices' Beneficial Relationships With Billionaire Donors  —  For months, Harlan Crow and members of Congress have been engaged in a fight over whether the billionaire needs …
United States House Committee on Oversight …:
Former FBI Supervisory Special Agent Confirms IRS Whistleblower Testimony  —  WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer issued the following statement after committee staff today conducted a transcribed interview with a former FBI supervisory special agent assigned …
Hannah Fingerhut / Associated Press:
Abortion in Iowa is legal again, for now, after a judge blocks new restrictions  —  An Iowa judge on Monday temporarily blocked the state's new ban on most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, just days after Gov. Kim Reynolds signed the measure into law.
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
BREAKING: Georgia's top court rejects Trump's bid to quash grand jury report  —  X  —  The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday unanimously rejected former President Donald Trump's bid to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the 2020 presidential election probe and to quash …
Bloomberg:
DeSantis Group Attacks Trump Directly for the First Time in Iowa Ad  — Never Back Down's ad plays up Trump's beef with Iowa governor  — DeSantis is trying to reboot campaign amid disappointing polls  —  A super PAC supporting Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is going on the offensive …
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New York Times:
Trump and Allies Forge Plans to Increase Presidential Power in 2025  —  The former president and his backers aim to strengthen the power of the White House and limit the independence of federal agencies.  —  Donald J. Trump and his allies are planning a sweeping expansion of presidential power …
Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
The One Big Thing Everyone Misses About 2024  —  No one alive has ever seen an election like this one.  —  ∙ Paid  —  1. Unprecedented  —  The 2024 election has no modern precedent and this unprecedented difference (1) Is not properly appreciated, and (2) Explains why the race has been so stable.
Gloria Oladipo / The Guardian:
Author of spoof story shared by Greg Abbott calls him one of ‘dumbest people in the country’  —  Texas governor shared fake article by Christopher Blair about Garth Brooks being booed by ‘patriots’ in made-up city  —  The author of a satirical website said the Texas governor, Greg Abbott …
Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
Democrats push DHS for plan to root out internal extremists  —  More than 60 congressional Democrats are calling on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to detail “actions you have taken to weed out extremists within your ranks,” citing a report finding that members of far-right groups have ties to the department.
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Tom Jackman / Washington Post:
Democrats press Homeland Security about domestic extremism among employees
Discussion: Raw Story
Michael Tomasky / New Republic:
This Is the Time for Quixotic, Corrosive Campaigns?  Seriously?  —  You might think, in a two-party democracy where the man who is a dead-on bet to be the presidential nominee of one of those parties has all but pledged to wipe out said democracy and promised to use his second term to destroy …
Discussion: Raw Story and National Review
NBC News:
McCarthy rejects RFK Jr.'s comments about Covid and race but won't cancel his testimony  —  A group of House Democrats urged McCarthy and Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, to block Kennedy from testifying before the House.  —  McCarthy defends inviting RFK Jr. to testify: ‘Censoring someone’ isn't the answer
NBC News:
Independent organization launching $70 million effort for third party presidential campaign  —  The organization ‘No Labels’ is launching a massive $70 million effort to create a third party presidential campaign.  It comes as polls indicate the prospect of a Biden-Trump rematch becomes more likely.
Ellen Milligan / Bloomberg:
UK Support to Rejoin the EU Passes 50% For the First Time  — Some 51% say they would rejoin the EU; 32% would stay out  — YouGov logs 57% of Brits saying 2016 Brexit decision was wrong  —  More than half of Britons would vote to rejoin the European Union for the first time since …
Discussion: Reuters
Associated Press:
Alabama Republicans, despite Supreme Court ruling, reject call for second majority Black House district  —  Lawmakers must adopt a new map after the high court in June affirmed a three-judge panel's ruling that Alabama's existing congressional map likely violated the Voting Rights Act.
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Retrospective Approval of JFK Rises to 90%; Trump at 46%  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — John F. Kennedy remains the most highly rated former president when Gallup asks Americans whether, in retrospect, they approve or disapprove of the job each did as president.  Ninety percent of U.S. adults …
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Billionaires aren't okay — for their mental health, time to drastically raise their taxes  —  From threatening cage matches to backing RFK Jr., billionaires prove too much money detaches a person from reality  —  The psyche of mainstream America is slowly starting to grasp what grumpy leftists …
Thomas Catenacci / Fox News:
Non-binary ex-Biden official Sam Brinton was on secret taxpayer-funded trip at time of luggage theft  —  'It's outrageous that tax dollars transported Brinton to and from the scene of a crime,' watchdog spokesperson tells Fox News Digital  —  EXCLUSIVE: Sam Brinton, the embattled non-binary …
Julia Mueller / The Hill:
Boebert's Democratic challenger raises three times more than her  —  Adam Frisch, the Democrat who came close to beating Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) in last year's midterms, raised three times more than the incumbent in second-quarter fundraising as he seeks a 2024 rematch.
Will Steakin / ABC News:
Vivek Ramaswamy, who's embraced Trump on the campaign trail, condemned him after Jan. 6  —  “What Trump did last week was wrong,” he tweeted after the Jan. 6 attack.  —  Republican presidential candidate and political newcomer Vivek Ramaswamy, who's climbed in the polls thanks in part …
Discussion: Raw Story and Newsbusters
David Corn / Mother Jones:
No Labels Says It's Not a Political Party.  But It's Setting Up State Parties.  —  Democrats and Never-Trump GOPers are worried about the group's 2024 plans.  —  No Labels, the self-professed centrist group that is preparing to possibly run its own presidential candidate in 2024, says it is not a political party.
Erum Salam / The Guardian:
Extreme heatwave live: Texas city confirms first heat death; northern hemisphere boils in severe weather - as it happened  —  Man in Houston died in house without air conditioning; mercury in parts of Italy is close to hitting 45C as wildfires ravage Greece and Spain  —  Key events
Discussion: ABC News
Tom Fairless / Wall Street Journal:
Europeans Are Becoming Poorer.  'Yes, We're All Worse Off.'  —  An aging population that values its free time set the stage for economic stagnation.  Then came Covid-19 and Russia's war in Ukraine.  —  Europeans are facing a new economic reality, one they haven't experienced in decades.
Rasmussen Reports:
Supreme Court's Affirmative Action Ruling Approved by Most Voters  —  Barely one-in-five voters think affirmative action programs have been successful, and about two-thirds approve of the Supreme Court's decision striking down racial favoritism in university admissions.
Haley Britzky / CNN:
US orders deployment of fighter jets and Navy destroyer to Middle East in response to Iranian activities  —  US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered F-35 and F-16 fighter jets deployed to the Middle East, as well as the destroyer USS Thomas Hudner, in response to Iranian activities in the Strait of Hormuz.
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Can DeSantis do what Bush, Huntsman, Harris and Lieberman couldn't?  —  Shaking up a presidential campaign hasn't brought much past success, but the Florida governor is trying to buck the trend.  —  There was California Gov. Pete Wilson in September 1995, who, the Associated Press reported at the time …
David Marchese / New York Times:
Joyce Carol Oates Figured Out the Secret to Immortality  —  “I have,” Joyce Carol Oates says, “so many ideas.”  That's putting it mildly.  It's hard to think of another writer with as fecund and protean an imagination as the 85-year-old, who is surely on any shortlist of America's greatest living writers.
Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast:
The Standoff Between Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert Is Worse Than You Think  —  Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert used to be allies.  Now they're enemies.  And it's much worse than almost anyone knows. … It's no secret that the relationship between Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert has never been worse.
Alex Gangitano / The Hill:
‘Just the right darn thing to do for people who raise their hand:’ Kirby defends Pentagon abortion policy  —  White House national security spokesman John Kirby on Monday passionately defended the Pentagon's policy of paid leave and travel reimbursement for abortions, calling it the right thing …
 
 
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The MAGA persecution complex is eating itself to death
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Sam Jeske / Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal:
Jayapal Statement on Israel Comments
Guy Faulconbridge / Reuters:
Crimea Bridge, key Russian supply line, damaged, two dead amid reports of blasts
Politico:
A group of GOP centrists threatens hardline tactics on tax bill
Discussion: Sacramento Bee
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP senators rattled by radical conservative populism
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Peter Blumberg / Bloomberg:
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