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11:25 AM ET, July 26, 2023

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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge says member of Hunter Biden's legal team ‘misrepresented her identity’ on eve of plea deal hearing  —  Biden's legal team staunchly denied any misconduct, saying the episode was a misunderstanding.  —  The judge who will review Hunter Biden's plea deal on Wednesday accused a member …
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Josh Boswell / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Hunter Biden's lawyers face SANCTIONS after being accused of lying to the clerk in his criminal tax case as judge orders First Son's attorneys to explain themselves by tonight  — Hunter Biden's legal team is accused of lying to the clerk in his criminal case
Punchbowl News:
7/26/23 ☀️ Punchbowl News AM  —  If you work at the DCCC or you're camped out in House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries' second-floor Capitol office, the current state of the Republican Conference probably has you salivating. … If you talk to senior GOP leadership figures privately, they'll admit this.
New York Times:
Republicans in Congress Seek to Block Hunter Biden's Plea Deal
Lisa Lerer / New York Times:
Anti-Trump Ads in Iowa Feature Republican Voters Who Turned Against Him  —  Hoping to persuade G.O.P. voters that Donald Trump cannot win another general election, the Republican Accountability Project is running ads that feature voters who grew disillusioned with him.
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Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
The Fulton County Case Against Trump May Be the Most Serious—and Imminent  —  Donald Trump is facing legal jeopardy on a number of fronts.  But the Fulton County case may be the most challenging for him to wriggle out of.  —  The slowest of the many criminal investigations into Donald Trump …
Paul Rosenzweig / The Atlantic:
The 2024 Election Could Be the End of the Cases Against Donald Trump  —  The most powerful office in the nation presents his best chance to terminate the cases against him.  —  If, as seems likely, Donald Trump is the Republican presidential nominee next year, the 2024 elections …
Discussion: NBC News, Raw Story and Salon
NBC News:
Rudy Giuliani concedes he made ‘false’ statements about Georgia election workers  —  The Trump ally's acknowledgment came in a Tuesday filing related to the 2020 election workers' lawsuit about baseless claims of fraud that he made against them.  —  Rudy Giuliani conceded in a court filing Tuesday …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Giuliani won't contest Georgia election workers' claims that he falsely accused them of manipulating ballots  —  In the heavily couched statement, Giuliani also conceded that his statements meet the “factual elements of liability” for Moss and Freeman's claims that his attacks amounted to “intentional infliction of emotional distress.”
Washington Post:
Republicans tiptoe toward an impeachment inquiry  —  Good morning, Early Birds.  Are you like us and way overthink and inevitably fail Captchas, those little puzzles to make sure you're a human visiting a website?  Soon, we might no longer have to stress about them.  Tips: earlytips@washpost.com.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate Republicans see Biden impeachment as fraught with risk
Discussion: NBC News and Political Wire
CNN:
Inside McCarthy's sudden warming to a Biden impeachment inquiry
Alex Thompson / Axios:
DeSantis team fires aide who secretly made video with Nazi symbol  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' 2024 campaign fired an aide this week who secretly created and shared a pro-DeSantis video that featured the candidate at the center of a Sonnenrad, an ancient symbol appropriated by the Nazis and still used by some white supremacists.
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Politico:
Playbook: Team DeSantis' identity crisis
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
DeSantis lets go of more than a third of campaign staff as reset continues
Damian Carrington / The Guardian:
Gulf Stream could collapse as early as 2025, study suggests  —  A collapse would bring catastrophic climate impacts but scientists disagree over the new analysis  —  The Gulf Stream system could collapse as soon as 2025, a new study suggests.  The shutting down of the vital ocean currents …
New York Times:
Where Is Melania Trump Now?  —  The former first lady has mostly retreated from public view — and steered clear of the campaign trail — while her husband fights to return to the White House and faces increasing legal peril.  —  Lisa Lerer covers national politics and reported from New York.
Discussion: The Daily Beast, Insider and Raw Story
Liz Dye / Public Notice:
Trump's aggressive legal strategies keep backfiring spectacularly  —  His lawyers love using the courtroom for political attacks.  It's not going well. … Even before he was president, Donald Trump had a reputation for engaging in vindictive litigation and stiffing his lawyers.
Luc Cohen / Reuters:
Bannon co-defendant Shea sentenced to 5-1/4 years over ‘We Build the Wall’ fraud  —  The sole person convicted at trial of defrauding donors to an online campaign to build Donald Trump's signature wall along the U.S.-Mexico border was sentenced on Tuesday to 5-1/4 years in prison.
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Miranda Nazzaro / The Hill:   Man who misused donations solicited for Trump agenda sentenced to prison
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Tuberville's tales about his father in World War II have false elements  —  The Fact Checker … — Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), in a tweet posted with a Fox News interview, June 6  —  “He lied about his age at 16, joined the Army.”  — Tuberville, in the Fox interview
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Seth Borenstein / Associated Press:
Water at tip of Florida hits hot tub level and may have set world record for warmest seawater  —  The water temperature on the tip of Florida hit hot tub levels, exceeding 100 degrees Fahrenheit two days in a row.  Meteorologists say it could potentially be the hottest seawater ever measured.
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Will the real Ramaswamy please stand up, please stand up  —  Vivek Ramaswamy once had an Eminem-inspired, rap artist alter ego.  —  Before he was an upstart candidate for president and a philosophical leader of what he dubs the “anti-woke” movement, before he was a New York Times bestselling author …
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Judge Vacates Bowe Bergdahl's Conviction and Dishonorable Discharge  —  The Army colonel overseeing the court-martial trial had applied for a job with the Trump-era Justice Department, raising the appearance of bias.  —  Reporting from Washington  —  A federal judge on Tuesday wiped …
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Blake Brittain / Reuters:
Meta, Microsoft, hundreds more own trademarks to new Twitter name
 
 
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DeSantis' small-dollar donation ratio ranks near bottom of GOP field
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Bloomberg:
Senate Targets US Investments in China Through Key Defense Bill
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Doha Madani / NBC News:
5 Florida high school staffers charged with failure to report teen's sexual assault
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Politico:
North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum qualifies for first GOP primary debate
NBC News:
Pope tells transgender person: ‘God loves us as we are’
NBC News:
Eight search warrants issued in Trump classified documents case, new filings show
Christopher R. Browning / The Atlantic:
A New Kind of Fascism  —  I've resisted using the word until now, but something menacing …
Discussion: Raw Story
Maria Sacchetti / Washington Post:
Federal judge tosses Biden administration asylum rule for migrants
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