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12:31 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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CNN:
Special counsel received documents from Giuliani team that tried to find fraud after 2020 election  —  Among the materials turned over to special counsel Jack Smith about supposed fraud in the 2020 election are documents that touch on many of the debunked conspiracies and unfounded claims …
NBC News:
Former Giuliani colleague turns over thousands of pages to special counsel on 2020 election
Discussion: Raw Story, The Hill and Daily Kos
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
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Bloomberg:
Ron DeSantis Plans to Shake Up 2024 Campaign Staff
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.
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 …
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.
Madison Hall / Insider:
Nearly a third of Republicans now view Trump as ‘unfavorable’: Pew  — Trump is becoming more unfavorable amongst Republicans and Republican-leaning Independents.  — Trump's “unfavorable” rating rose from 24% in 2022 to 32% in 2023's most recent July poll.
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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.
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 …
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Miranda Devine / New York Post:
Hunter Biden put then-VP dad Joe on the phone with business associates at least 2 dozen times, ex-partner Devon Archer to testify
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Robert Greenall / BBC:
Ukraine war: Russia attacks grain stores at River Danube ports  —  Russian drones have attacked Ukrainian ports on the River Danube, destroying grain storage infrastructure, local officials say.  —  The facilities are just across the river from Nato-member Romania.
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
Kevin Shalvey / ABC News:
Israel approves divisive judicial overhaul, weakening court's power amid pro-democracy protests  —  Netanyahu's hardline nationalist government proposed the judicial reform.  —  LONDON — Israeli lawmakers on Monday approved the key part of a divisive judicial overhaul plan pushed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Associated Press:
Israeli parliament approves key part of judicial overhaul that has exposed deep fissures in society
 
 
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Gillian Brockell / Washington Post:
Note to Florida and DeSantis: Enslaved Africans were already skilled
NBC News:
Michigan Supreme Court expands parental rights in former same-sex relationships
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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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
Susan Page / USA Today:
Bellwether? Ohio voters back abortion rights amendment in a test case for other states
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix will host NFL Christmas games, including Beyonce's Halftime show, for only three hours after streaming them live; replays will be available on NFL+

New York Times:
In a first, Telegram is set to be profitable in 2024, with $1B+ in revenue, up from ~$350M in 2023, and 12M subscribers; source: 50%+ of its revenue is from ads
 
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