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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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Politico:
Playbook: Can Ron DeSantis become an insurgent?  —  Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  HAPPENING TODAY — “6 things to watch as Trump classified documents case returns to court,” by Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
DeSantis PAC uses AI-generated Trump voice in ad attacking ex-president  —  The spot illustrates the new frontiers in political advertising.  —  A pro-Ron DeSantis super PAC uses an Artificial Intelligence version of Donald Trump's voice in a new television ad attacking the former president.
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 …
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 …
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Holly Bailey / Washington Post:
Georgia Supreme Court rejects Trump petition to block election probe  —  The unanimous opinion says Trump had not proved the ‘extraordinary circumstances’ that warranted intervention by Georgia's top court  —  ATLANTA — The Georgia Supreme Court unanimously dismissed former president Donald Trump's petition …
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.
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 …
Miranda Nazzaro / The Hill:
Jordan threatens FBI's Wray with contempt of Congress  —  House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) threatened Monday to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress for what he claims is the agency's “wholly inadequate” compliance with two subpoenas issued earlier this year.
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Fox Business:
House GOP considers holding Zuckerberg in contempt of Congress
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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Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
Trump Hired Adviser He Pardoned for Campaign Finance Crimes  —  A campaign operative who Trump pardoned over his participation in a political bribery scheme is now working for the Trump campaign.  —  Former President Donald Trump's 2024 campaign is once again spitting on campaign finance laws …
Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Biden to host Israel's Herzog amid tensions between two nations  —  Meeting comes as Biden has seemed to keep his distance from Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu  —  President Biden is scheduled to host Israeli President Isaac Herzog at the White House on Tuesday, a high-profile meeting …
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 Since Brexit  — 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: Al Jazeera, Politico and Reuters
NBC News:
SAG-AFTRA issues strike guidance specifically for influencers amid confusion  —  Social media stars, even those who aren't part of the union, are encouraged to avoid promoting shows and movies online.  —  Social media stars don't need Hollywood to get famous, but they still have to play by some of the industry's rules.
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 …
Lexi Lonas / The Hill:
Supreme Court, Republicans to blame for lack of debt forgiveness, students say in poll  —  The Supreme Court and Republicans are on the top of the list for college students and recent graduates to blame for the lack of student debt relief after the high court's recent ruling striking …
Discussion: Axios and Slate
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.
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.
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.
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
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: Mediaite, Raw Story and Newsbusters
Sean Lyngaas / CNN:
Common typo causes millions of emails intended for members of the US military to be sent to accounts in Mali  —  Millions of emails intended for Pentagon employees were inadvertently sent to email accounts in Mali over the last decade because of typos caused by the similarity …
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Financial Times:
Typo leaks millions of US military emails to Mali web operator
 
 
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Will Sommer / Washington Post:
A North Korean defector captivated U.S. media. Some question her story.
Erum Salam / The Guardian:
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Rasmussen Reports:
Supreme Court's Affirmative Action Ruling Approved by Most Voters
Nicole Acevedo / NBC News:
NYPD makes history with first Latino commissioner
Tom Fairless / Wall Street Journal:
Europeans Are Becoming Poorer. 'Yes, We're All Worse Off.'
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Tucker Carlson's show on Twitter makes ad deal with anti-ESG shopping app
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Michael Tomasky / New Republic:
This Is the Time for Quixotic, Corrosive Campaigns? Seriously?
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