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1:40 PM ET, July 25, 2023

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CNN:
Bidens' dog Commander involved in biting incidents as White House says he's getting more training  —  President Joe Biden's younger dog, Commander, has been involved in several biting incidents at the White House and in Delaware, according to US Secret Service email correspondence …
Discussion: Judicial Watch and Political Wire
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Steven Nelson / New York Post:
Biden's dog Commander sent Secret Service officer to hospital, bit 6 others after replacing first pooch Major  —  WASHINGTON — President Biden's nearly 2-year-old German shepherd Commander bit seven people in a four-month period after former first dog Major was ousted from the White House …
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Secret Service: Biden dog would be ‘put down’ if not president's pet  —  Judicial Watch's new release of Secret Service emails about attacks by first dog Commander are in focus today.  —  The Washington Examiner's Jack Birle reported: “President Joe Biden's dog Commander has reportedly …
Fox News:
DeSantis involved in car accident on drive to Chattanooga; Florida governor unhurt  —  Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was involved in a car accident in Tennessee on Tuesday, his spokesman says.  —  “This morning, the governor was in a car accident while traveling …
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Steve Contorno / CNN:
DeSantis uninjured after being involved in car accident Tuesday, campaign says  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was not injured after being involved in a car accident Tuesday morning in Tennessee, his campaign tells CNN.  —  Bryan Griffin, a spokesman for his 2024 presidential campaign …
Karl Mathiesen / Politico:
Gulf Stream shutoff could happen this century, scientists warn  —  It would be the end of the world as we know it but some scientists say they feel fine.  —  3 MINUTES READ  —  The Atlantic Ocean current that keeps large parts of Europe warm could come to an abrupt and catastrophic stop …
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Peter Ditlevsen / Nature:
Warning of a forthcoming collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation  —  orcid.org/0000-0003-2120-7732 1 na1 & - Susanne Ditlevsen  —  14, Article number: 4254 (2023) Cite this article  —  Abstract  —  The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) …
The Texas Tribune:
Texas A&M suspended professor accused of criticizing Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick in lecture  —  The professor, an expert on the opioids crisis, was placed on paid administrative leave and investigated, raising questions about the extent of political interference in higher education, particularly in health-related matters.
Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Vaccine rejection may be linked to excess deaths among Florida, Ohio Republicans  —  Happy Tuesday!  It's my first time filling in for The Health 202 - my regular beat here at The Post is opioids and addiction.  Not a subscriber?  Sign up here.  —  Today's edition: The White House …
Discussion: JAMA Network, New Republic and The Hill
Victoria Prodeline / Monmouth University …:
DeSantis Message Falls Flat  —  West Long Branch, NJ - A majority of Republican voters say former President Donald Trump would be their strongest nominee in the 2024 election and few feel the criminal indictments he faces are of any concern.  According to the Monmouth ("Mon-muth") …
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Jason Aldean, Decrying ‘Cancel Culture,’ Has a No. 2 Hit  —  “Try That in a Small Town” went from overlooked to almost topping the charts after a week of controversy.  —  In May, the country star Jason Aldean released a single, “Try That in a Small Town,” with lyrics that paint contemporary urban life …
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Georgia prosecutors eye criminal solicitation crimes in Trump inquiry  —  Exclusive: Fulton county DA has identified multiple state election crimes in the 2020 election investigation, sources say  —  The Fulton county district attorney investigating Donald Trump's efforts to overturn …
Discussion: PolitiFact, Raw Story, HuffPost and Mediaite
Associated Press:
Obamas' personal chef drowns near family's home on Martha's Vineyard  —  Former President Barack Obama's personal chef has drowned near the family's home on Martha's Vineyard.  Massachusetts State Police confirmed that the paddleboarder whose body was recovered from Edgartown Great Pond …
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Fox News:
Obama's chef ID'd as paddleboarder who drowned near former president's Martha's Vineyard estate
John Wagner / Washington Post:
McCarthy floats the idea of an ‘impeachment inquiry’ against Biden  —  House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Monday night that unsubstantiated investigations launched by Republican lawmakers into the business dealings of President Biden's family members are “rising to the level of impeachment inquiry.”
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Emily Brooks / The Hill:
McCarthy: Biden probes ‘rising to the level of impeachment inquiry’
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
Amy Nelson / Fox News:
Maskless churchgoer settles lawsuit over 2020 arrest, calls liberalism a ‘modern-day cult’  —  City of Moscow agreed to $300,000 settlement with Gabriel Rench, 2 others arrested in September 2020  —  Idaho resident Gabriel Rench was awarded a hefty settlement for his 2020 arrest during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Discussion: National Review and IJR
U.S. Air Forces Central:
Russian unprofessional behavior over Syria - 23 July 2023  —  SHAW AIR FORCE BASE, S.C. —  “On 23 July, 2023 at 12:23 a.m. (EST) Russian fighter aircraft flew dangerously close to a U.S. MQ-9 drone on a defeat-ISIS mission, harassing the MQ-9 and deploying flares from a position directly overhead …
Washington Post:
Democrats move to censure Marjorie Taylor Greene  —  Good morning, Early Birds.  Frank O'Hara died 57 years ago today.  He was only 40.  Carve out a minute today to read his perfect poem about Lana Turner collapsing.  Tips: earlytips@washpost.com.  Thanks for waking up with us.  —  Reading this online?
Discussion: Insider and The Hill
Michael Kunzelman / Associated Press:
Man who beat officer with flagpole during Capitol riot is sentenced to over 4 years in prison  —  An Arkansas truck driver who beat a police officer with a flagpole attached to an American flag during the U.S. Capitol riot was sentenced Monday to more than four years in prison.
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Washington Post:
Putin appeared paralyzed and unable to act in first hours of rebellion  —  LONDON — When Yevgeniy Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner mercenary group, launched his attempted mutiny on the morning of June 24, Vladimir Putin was paralyzed and unable to act decisively, according to Ukrainian and other security officials in Europe.
Jamie Corley / Politico:
The Political Dead-End Abortion Foes Should Avoid  —  It might seem like a contradiction for those who oppose abortion, but it's the only way to avoid a disastrous political dead-end.  —  Soon, women in states that have placed restrictions on abortion may find it easy to just order abortion pills by mail.
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
How right-wing news powers the ‘gold IRA’ industry  —  Ads for gold coins have become a mainstay on Fox News, Newsmax and other conservative outlets, even as regulators have accused some companies of defrauding elderly clients.  —  Dedicated viewers of Fox News are likely familiar with Lear Capital …
Discussion: CBS News and Raw Story
Haaretz:
Our Hope Is Not Yet Lost  —  The 64 Knesset members who voted on Monday in favor of the law canceling the reasonableness standard have struck a serious blow to the State of Israel's infrastructure of democracy and have signaled the direction in which they plan to take the country, namely dictatorship.
Discussion: New York Times, CNN and The Federalist
 
 
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CNN:
US attorney who has led Hunter Biden probe offers to publicly testify to Congress this fall
Sarah Mervosh / New York Times:
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Gillian Brockell / Washington Post:
Note to Florida and DeSantis: Enslaved Africans were already skilled
Discussion: Raw Story and Newsbusters
Mattathias Schwartz / Insider:
Exclusive: Hunter Biden's gallery sold his art to a Democratic donor ‘friend’ whom Joe Biden named to a prestigious commission
 Earlier Items: 
MSPNews:
UPDATE #2-MSP Divers, Environmental Police Recover Body of Paddle Boarder from Edgartown Great Pond
Brian Broome / Washington Post:
Jason Aldean? Please spare me the small-town nostalgia.
Discussion: Human Events
Juliana Kim / NPR:
Justice Department sues Texas after Gov. Abbott refuses to remove floating barrier
Mitt Romney / Wall Street Journal:
Donors, Don't Fund a Trump Plurality
CNN:
Special counsel scrutinizing February 2020 meeting where Trump praised US election security protections
New York Times:
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The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney expects to spend $24B on content in 2025, up from $23.4B in 2024, due to sports programming expenses rising after NFL rate increases and NBA contracts

Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal:
Disney reports Q4 revenue up 6% YoY to $22.6B, TV network revenue down 6% YoY to $2.5B, and a $321M DTC streaming profit, up from a $387M loss in Q4 2023

Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Disney said Disney+ Q4 ARPU in the US and Canada, down 1% QoQ to $7.70, was affected partly by new wholesale arrangements with some distributors

 
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