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2:05 AM ET, July 25, 2023

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CNN:
Special counsel scrutinizing February 2020 meeting where Trump praised US election security protections  —  Special counsel Jack Smith's office has asked former US officials about a February 2020 Oval Office meeting where then-President Donald Trump praised improvements to the security of US elections …
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NBC News:
Former Giuliani colleague turns over thousands of pages to special counsel on 2020 election
Discussion: Raw Story and The Hill
Fox News:
Obama's chef ID'd as paddleboarder who drowned near former president's Martha's Vineyard estate  —  Barack and Michelle Obama were not present at the home at the time of the accident, authorities said  —  A paddleboarder who drowned near former President Barack Obama's Martha's Vineyard estate …
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Associated Press:
Obamas' personal chef drowns near family's home on Martha's Vineyard
Juliana Kim / NPR:
Justice Department sues Texas after Gov. Abbott refuses to remove floating barrier  —  The Department of Justice has sued Texas Gov. Greg Abbott following the governor's refusal to remove a stretch of inflatable buoys on the Rio Grande, which sits between his state and Mexico.
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CNN:
Justice Department sues to force Texas to remove floating barriers in Rio Grande
Washington Post:
Twitter rival Mastodon rife with child-abuse material, study finds  —  Happy Monday!  Send news tips and summer podcast recommendations to: cristiano.lima@washpost.com.  —  Below: The Microsoft-Activision deal is back in the hands of the U.K.'s antitrust watchdog, and a key OpenAI employee departs.
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Bloomberg:
Ron DeSantis Plans to Shake Up 2024 Campaign Staff
Mattathias Schwartz / Insider:
Exclusive: Hunter Biden's gallery sold his art to a Democratic donor ‘friend’ who Joe Biden named to a prestigious commission  — Insider has learned the identities of two Hunter Biden “friends” who were also buyers of his art: Elizabeth Hirsh Naftali and Kevin Morris.
Mitt Romney / Wall Street Journal:
Donors, Don't Fund a Trump Plurality  —  As in 2016, Republican candidates won't drop out soon enough.  Here's how to give them a push.  —  Despite Donald Trump's apparent inevitability, a baker's dozen Republicans are hoping to become the party's 2024 nominee for president.
Jim Jones / The Hill:
The GOP is rushing headlong into huge election losses in 2024  —  The Republican Party appears to be following the playbook of those storied lemmings that rush to the edge of the cliff and throw themselves off in a suicidal frenzy.  —  You'd think that Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) …
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Madison Hall / Insider:
Nearly a third of Republicans now view Trump as ‘unfavorable’: Pew
Tessa Stuart / Rolling Stone:
Former Anti-Abortion Leader and Aide to Alabama Lt. Gov. Arrested on Child Sex Abuse Charges  —  Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth once called Cole Wagner “a whiz-kid” and a “bright, young guy”  —  AS THE CHAIR of Alliance for a Pro-Life Alabama in 2018, Cole Wagner helped muscle into the Alabama Constitution …
Discussion: The Messenger
Kate Briquelet / The Daily Beast:
Jury Decides Ammon Bundy Must Pay More Than $50M for Defaming Hospital  —  The anti-government leader waged a crusade over treatment of an ally's grandson, known as Baby Cyrus.  —  Anti-government agitator Ammon Bundy must pay an Idaho hospital more than $50 million for defaming it and targeting …
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
Why Elon Musk Bid Twitter Goodbye  —  Rebranding the social network as X marks the billionaire's latest gamble to reinvent the company, after buying it last year for $44 billion.  —  Twitter has flown away  —  Bye-bye, blue bird: Twitter overnight began rebranding itself as X …
Brian Broome / Washington Post:
Jason Aldean?  Please spare me the small-town nostalgia.  —  I'm not here to talk about Jason Aldean's country song “Try That in a Small Town.”  I'm not a fan.  I'm just here to pat you on the back if you're one of the many Americans, like me, who ran from small-town life and never looked back.
MSPNews:
UPDATE #2-MSP Divers, Environmental Police Recover Body of Paddle Boarder from Edgartown Great Pond  —  UPDATE #2—Shortly before 10 AM the body of the missing paddle boarder was recovered from Edgartown Great Pond by Massachusetts State Police divers.  MSP Underwater Recovery Unit divers …
Gillian Brockell / Washington Post:
Note to Florida and DeSantis: Enslaved Africans were already skilled  —  Florida governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis doubled down Friday on controversial new rules passed by his state's Board of Education that will require educators to teach that enslaved Black people …
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
A radical idea: Just give kids lunch  —  Consider the remarkable concept of “lunch debt,” with which a student is burdened when their parents haven't been able to put enough money into their school account.  When they get to the front of the line in the cafeteria, they might be told …
Discussion: NBC News
Anna Wascovich / The College Fix:
Leftist prosecutor booted from office gets $210,000 job at UC Berkeley  —  'If Boudin was hired to relate his experience, the only take could be how to destroy a city's criminal justice system piece by piece,' critic says  —  A former leftist prosecutor in San Francisco who lost a recall election …
NBC News:
Michigan Supreme Court expands parental rights in former same-sex relationships  —  The case involved a woman seeking parental rights over her former partner's child, who was born while they were in a relationship but before same-sex marriage was legalized.  —  DETROIT — The Michigan Supreme …
Emily Brooks / The Hill:
McCarthy: Biden probes ‘rising to the level of impeachment inquiry’  —  House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said that he expects the House GOP's investigations into the foreign business activities of President Biden's family to rise to the level of an impeachment inquiry
 
 
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Internal Revenue Service:
IRS ends unannounced revenue officer visits to taxpayers; major change to end confusion, enhance safety as part of larger agency transformation efforts
Andrew Perez / The Lever:
The Church Of Leonard Leo
Discussion: Jacobin
John Bowden / The Independent:
Lauren Boebert blames her AirPods after she threw away photo of 10-year-old Uvalde victim
Discussion: The Hill, HuffPost and Raw Story
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Kevin Shalvey / ABC News:
Israel approves divisive judicial overhaul, weakening court's power amid pro-democracy protests
Kim Tong-Hyung / Associated Press:
North Korea fires 2 short-range ballistic missiles after US submarine arrives in South Korea
Sam Jones / The Guardian:
Spain elections: hung parliament after conservatives fail to secure expected majority
New York Times:
Study of Elite College Admissions Data Suggests Being Very Rich Is Its Own Qualification
Susan Page / USA Today:
Bellwether? Ohio voters back abortion rights amendment in a test case for other states
 

 
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Ramish Zafar / Wccftech:
AMD says it will lay off ~4% of its global staff to align “resources with our largest growth opportunities”; SEC filing: AMD had 26,000 staff at the end of 2023

Bloomberg:
Sources: OpenAI plans to launch a new AI agent codenamed Operator, which can use a computer to take actions on a person's behalf, in January 2025
 
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