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4:50 PM ET, July 18, 2023

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ABC News:
Special counsel informs Trump he is target in probe of efforts to overturn 2020 election
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Kasich urges GOP candidates to ‘step up and say something’ after Trump gets target letter
Discussion: NBC4 WCMH-TV, Vanity Fair and CBS News
Politico:
6 things to watch as Trump classified documents case returns to court
Sadie Gurman / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Says He Is Target of Criminal Probe in Jack Smith's Jan. 6 Case
Washington Post:
Trump says he received a target letter in federal Jan. 6 investigation
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
DeSantis says Trump ‘should have come out more forcefully’ on Jan. 6
NBC News:
Trump says Jack Smith sent him a target letter in Jan. 6 probe: Live updates
The Messenger:   Former Trump Cabinet Member Hosting Event for Virginia Gov. Youngkin
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Trump told by special counsel he is criminal target in Jan. 6 probe
David Jackson / USA Today:
Donald Trump target in Jan. 6 investigation, predicts arrest and indictment in Jack Smith probe
Associated Press:
US soldier who fled to North Korea was facing disciplinary action after time in South Korean prison  —  An American soldier facing military disciplinary actions fled across the heavily armed border from South Korea into North Korea, U.S. officials said Tuesday, becoming the first American detained in the North in nearly five years.
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Washington Post:
U.S. soldier detained after intentionally crossing into North Korea  —  North Korean officials have detained a U.S. national who crossed into the country through the demarcation zone without authorization, a United Nations body responsible for ensuring security on the inter-Korean border reported Tuesday.
James Salzer / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Legal bills mount for Georgia Republican Party in Trump investigation  —  X  —  The Georgia GOP spent more in the first six months of 2023 than it paid out in all of 2022 to represent “alternate” Republican electors targeted amid Fulton County's probe into whether Donald Trump …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
Michigan attorney general charges ‘false electors’ over efforts to overturn the 2020 election
Discussion: New York Times and Washington Post
Politico:
Trump, 5 rivals on cusp of qualifying for first GOP debate  —  The leading candidates still need one more poll to officially stamp their tickets, the RNC confirmed Tuesday.  —  The Republican National Committee on Tuesday clarified the criteria for presidential candidates to qualify for the debate stage …
Washington Post:
House GOP seeks billions in cuts to rail, water infrastructure spending  —  Two years after approving a bipartisan $1.2 trillion law, Republicans are looking to scale back spending that some in their own party previously supported  —  It took decades for Congress to deliver on its promise …
Amir Tibon / Haaretz:
Israeli Antiquities Are Stranded at Trump's Florida Estate as Authorities Fail to Retrieve Them  —  Israeli clay lamps, intended for a brief exhibition in Washington D.C. in 2019, got stranded in the U.S. due to the pandemic.  Recently, they were found at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida
Benjamin Wermund / Houston Chronicle:
Exclusive: Texas troopers told to push children into Rio Grande, deny water to migrants, records say  —  WASHINGTON — Officers working for Gov. Greg Abbott's border security initiative have been ordered to push small children and nursing babies back into the Rio Grande …
Politico:
Discussion: The Hill and CNN
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
‘Bullhorn Lady’ who helped break into Capitol found guilty in Jan. 6 case  —  Rachel Powell, a mother, was found guilty on nine felony charges.  —  WASHINGTON — A Pennsylvania mother who was known as “Bullhorn Lady” because she used the sound amplifier to instruct rioters at the Capitol was convicted Tuesday of nine federal counts.
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
Is Tennessee a Democracy?  —  What happened when a Republican supermajority gained control—and wasn't satisfied  —  Drive along the outer rim of the exurbs north of Nashville, past structures that might be barns or might be wedding venues, around developments called Vineyard Grove or New Hope Village …
Discussion: Raw Story
Politico:
House GOP support for Santos censure builds  —  Democrats may have enough GOP support to adopt a formal rebuke of the New York Republican's campaign fabrications.  —  A group of New York Republicans passed on punishing George Santos once.  Some of them say they won't do it again.
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Charlottesville tiki torch carrier arrested for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6  —  Tyler Bradley Dykes, who served time in connection with the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally, stole a police shield and stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, the FBI said.  —  WASHINGTON — A man who carried a tiki torch during …
Noah Goldberg / Los Angeles Times:
He was making a documentary about police brutality.  Then the LAPD tased him in his home  —  Damien Smith was making a documentary about police brutality.  But when a burglar broke into his Hollywood apartment, he didn't hesitate to call the cops.  —  Smith, a filmmaker and actor …
Discussion: The Messenger and Raw Story
Stephen Groves / Associated Press:
House Republicans propose planting a trillion trees as they move away from climate change denial  —  As Speaker Kevin McCarthy visited a natural gas drilling site in northeast Ohio to promote House Republicans' plan to sharply increase domestic production of energy from fossil fuels last month …
Discussion: HotAir and Political Wire
 
 
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