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8:40 AM ET, July 25, 2023

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NBC News:
Former Giuliani colleague turns over thousands of pages to special counsel on 2020 election
Discussion: HuffPost, The Hill and Raw Story
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
Eric Cortellessa / TIME:
Ron DeSantis' Latest Staff Shakeup Is Part of a Pattern  —  Ron DeSantis is looking for a fresh start.  Last week, the Florida governor fired roughly a dozen staffers and offloaded two top aides to a pro-DeSantis super PAC, signaling a campaign reset amid an existential crisis …
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Bloomberg:
Ron DeSantis Plans to Shake Up 2024 Campaign Staff
US Department of Justice:
Arkansas Man Sentenced for Assaulting Law Enforcement During Jan. 6 Capitol Breach  —  Defendant Beat Police Officer with a Flagpole  —  WASHINGTON - An Arkansas man was sentenced today on a felony charge for his actions during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Discussion: HuffPost and The Hill
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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.
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.
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
NBC News:
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott promises legal battle over river buoys after DOJ warns it will sue
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
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.
Andrew Atterbury / Politico:
Florida and DeSantis dig in as criticism of Black history curriculum mounts  —  The teaching standards have again thrust Florida and DeSantis into America's politically polarized fight over how and what to teach children.  —  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida officials are digging in and defending …
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Steven Lemongello / Orlando Sentinel:
DeSantis campaign mired in controversies over slavery, anti-gay video, alleged Nazi symbol
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
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 …
International Atomic Energy Agency:
IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine  —  International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) experts have observed directional anti-personnel mines on the periphery of the site of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said today.
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 …
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.
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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The Political Dead-End Abortion Foes Should Avoid
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Emily Brooks / The Hill:
McCarthy: Biden probes ‘rising to the level of impeachment inquiry’
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
Anna Wascovich / The College Fix:
Leftist prosecutor booted from office gets $210,000 job at UC Berkeley
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
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
A radical idea: Just give kids lunch
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The Church Of Leonard Leo
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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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Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
CNN confirms Kaitlan Collins as its chief White House correspondent; she will become CNN's first prime-time anchor to also serve as its top White House reporter

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
A group published a project on Hugging Face that seemingly granted brief access to OpenAI's Sora, protesting what it calls duplicity and “art washing” by OpenAI

Mia Sato / The Verge:
A lawsuit between two Amazon influencers over allegations of copyright infringement shows the challenges of defining originality and ownership in content
 
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