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Julia Shapero / The Hill:
‘Liar,’ ‘loser,’ a ‘national security threat’: Hurd rips into Trump  —  Republican presidential hopeful and former Texas Rep. Will Hurd ripped into former President Trump on Friday, calling him a “liar,” “loser” and “national security threat.”  —  Hurd, who has been sharply critical …
Discussion: HuffPost
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Judge warns Trump: ‘Inflammatory’ statements about election case could speed trial
CNN:
Judge Chutkan says Trump's right to free speech in January 6 case is ‘not absolute’
New York Times:
Judge Limits Trump's Ability to Share Jan. 6 Evidence
Pilar Melendez / The Daily Beast:
Sheriff Says Former Trump Doctor Threatened to Beat Officer  —  Republican Congressman Ronny Jackson reportedly threatened a state trooper and vowed retribution against a local sheriff after he was briefly detained at a rodeo in July.  —  A Texas Republican who previously worked …
Discussion: The Texas Tribune
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Todd J. Gillman / Dallas Morning News:
Sheriff: Ronny Jackson threatened to ‘beat’ state trooper after being handcuffed at rodeo  —  Aide to ex-White House physician says he wasn't drinking and shouldn't have been detained while trying to help a teen suffering a seizure.  —  Update:  —  8:20 p.m. with response from Jackson.
New York Times:
Republicans Wanted a Special Counsel Investigation of Hunter Biden.  Now Many Oppose It.  —  Although some G.O.P. lawmakers see the appointment of David C. Weiss as a vindication of their strategy, others criticize the now-scuttled plea deal he struck with Mr. Biden.
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Wall Street Journal:
Merrick Garland Names David Weiss as Special Counsel in Hunter Biden Investigation
Politico:
Biden world resigned to a campaign shadowed by Hunter drama
Andrew Goudsward / Reuters:
Hunter Biden could face trial as US special counsel named
Roni Caryn Rabin / New York Times:
Growing Segregation by Sex in Israel Raises Fears for Women's Rights  —  Ultra-Orthodox members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right coalition want to expand the powers of all-male rabbinical courts, and to bar women and men from mixing in many public arenas.  —  Reporting from Tel Aviv
Chris Pandolfo / Fox News:
Pence previews debate strategy at Iowa State Fair: Attack on abortion  —  Pence supports a national 15-week abortion ban  —  Former Vice President Mike Pence signaled Friday he will go on attack on abortion at the upcoming Republican presidential primary debate.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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James West / Mother Jones:
Debunking Florida's Argument That Slavery Could Benefit the Enslaved, in 120 Seconds  —  In my latest video, I tackle the controversy surrounding Florida's teaching standards.  These new guidelines, approved last month, sparked an avalanche of criticism by suggesting that enslaved Americans …
MacKenzie Ryan / The Guardian:
‘Better martyrs’: the growing role of women in the far-right movement  —  The pipeline from mommy blogger to Tradwife to book-banner is an important aspect of the extreme right wing in the US  —  Researchers who track how the far right in in the US mobilizes, self-promotes and recruits …
Discussion: Raw Story
Reuters:
Ron DeSantis and his backers paid $95,000 to an Iowa religious leader's group  —  As Florida Governor Ron DeSantis scrambles to shore up his struggling run for the Republican presidential nomination, he has spent far more than any rival on courting an influential Christian conservative leader …
Sherman Smith / Kansas Reflector:
Police stage ‘chilling’ raid on Marion County newspaper, seizing computers, records and cellphones  —  Eric Meyer, publisher of the Marion County Record, answers questions in his newspaper office Friday after police seized computers, servers, cellphones and other items.
CNN:
Nevada GOP Senate candidate raised money to help other candidates — the funds mostly paid down his old campaign's debt instead  —  Nevada Republican Senate candidate Sam Brown created a political action committee to “help elect Republicans” but most of its funds were spent paying down debt from his failed previous campaign.
Discussion: Political Wire
Andrew Zhang / Politico:
Ramaswamy: U.S. is scared of China ‘because we depend on them’  —  Ramaswamy promised he would push back more forcefully against China as president.  —  Speaking at the Iowa State Fair on Saturday, Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy warned that the United States was too dependent on China …
Discussion: The Hill and Iowa Capital Dispatch
Jenny Goldsberry / Washington Examiner:
Judge gives former Tennessee state senator 21-month sentence over campaign finance crime  —  A former Tennessee state senator was given a 21-month prison sentence Friday for violating campaign finance laws.  —  Brian Kelsey, 45, pleaded guilty to concealing the transfer of $91,000 …
KXAN-TV:
3-year-old migrant child dies on Texas' border bus  —  AUSTIN (KXAN) — A child died on one of the buses that Operation Lone Star has been using to move migrants from the Texas border to other parts of the country, the Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM) said Friday.
 
 
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