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CNN:
The testimony from Trump's White House chief of staff could change everything — Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows rolled the dice on Monday with his opening move in the sprawling Fulton County election subversion trial: he took the stand himself.
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Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
How Trump's Election Lies Left the Michigan G.O.P. Broken and Battered — Infighting between Trump acolytes and traditionalists has driven away donors and voters. Can the Michigan Republican Party rebuild in time for the presidential election? — The Michigan Republican Party is starving for cash.
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
AJC poll: Trump leads Republicans in Georgia despite Fulton County charges
AJC poll: Trump leads Republicans in Georgia despite Fulton County charges
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CNN:
Francis Suarez ends campaign for Republican presidential nomination — Miami Mayor Francis Suarez announced Tuesday that he is ending his campaign for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. — “While I have decided to suspend my campaign for President, my commitment to making …
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Julia Mueller / The Hill:
Suarez suspends presidential campaign
Suarez suspends presidential campaign
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Emily Brooks / The Hill:
Steve Scalise diagnosed with ‘very treatable’ blood cancer — House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a blood cancer, he announced Tuesday. — Scalise, 57, has begun treatment and plans to return to Washington, D.C.
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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise says he is being treated for cancer
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise says he is being treated for cancer
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Tami Luhby / CNN:
These are the first 10 drugs subject to Medicare price negotiations — The Biden administration unveiled Tuesday the names of the first 10 drugs subject to price negotiations in Medicare. — They are: Eliquis, Jardiance, Xarelto, Januvia, Farxiga, Entresto, Enbrel, Imbruvica, Stelara …
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FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Announces First Ten Drugs Selected for Medicare Price Negotiation
FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Announces First Ten Drugs Selected for Medicare Price Negotiation
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Politico:
GOP salivates at the biggest campaign finance win since Citizens United — It could be a seismic shift in how tens of millions of campaign dollars are spent. — Republicans have waged a decades-long battle to blow up the campaign-finance laws that rein in big-money spending.
Scott Bauer / Associated Press:
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett Says She Welcomes Public Scrutiny Of Court — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett did not offer any opinion, or speak directly about, recent calls for the justices to institute an official code of conduct. — LOADING
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Army Times:
Texas Guardsmen spied on migrants via WhatsApp, mishandled secret docs — Senior leaders allegedly ignored oversight officials' concerns. — This article is co-published and co-reported with The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit newsroom that informs Texans about state policy and politics.
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David Strom / HotAir:
Gadsden flag now a symbol of hate? — A schoolboy has become an instant internet legend for defying a school district. — The 12-year-old has, as is so often the case, a bunch of patches on his backpack as an expression of his individuality. His school didn't like one of the patches and demanded that he quit displaying it.
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Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
Conservative Coalition Recruiting for Plan to Dismantle Federal Government — NOW HIRING — A coalition of right-wing organizations has started recruiting thousands of people as part of a project aimed at gutting the federal government in anticipation of a Republican victory in the 2024 election, according to a report.
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Associated Press:
GOP silences ‘Tennessee Three’ Democrat on House floor for day on ‘out of order’ rule; crowd erupts — Republican lawmakers voted Monday to temporarily silence a Democratic member of the so-called Tennessee Three during an already tense House floor session after determining …
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Franklin Foer / The Atlantic:
The Final Days — Joe Biden was determined to get out of Afghanistan—no matter the cost. — august is the month when oppressive humidity causes the mass evacuation of official Washington. In 2021, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki piled her family into the car for a week at the beach.
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
A shutdown wouldn't halt Trump's trials, so Republicans seek to rein in his prosecutors — Federal criminal proceedings are exempted from shutdowns. But GOP House members want to use a must-pass funding bill to defund or limit law enforcement investigating Trump.
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Associated Press:
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis faces Black leaders' anger after racist killings in Jacksonville — Ron DeSantis scoffed when the NAACP issued a travel advisory this spring warning Black people to use “extreme care” if traveling to Florida. The leading civil rights group argued …
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David Frum / The Atlantic:
The Fourteenth Amendment Fantasy — The Constitution won't disqualify Trump from running. The only real-world way of stopping him is through the ballot box. — The fourteenth amendment won't save us from Donald Trump. — Eminent jurists are promising that it will.
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Stephanie Murray / The Messenger:
Christie Super PAC Airing Trump Mugshot On TV In New Hampshire — The pro-Christie super PAC is spending six figures to air the former president's mugshot on television — A Facebook icon representing an external link to share the article on Facebook.A Twitter icon representing an external link …
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Rolling Stone:
Jack Smith's Team Grilled Witnesses About Rudy Giuliani's Drinking — The special counsel's interest in Rudy's drinking could play a role in undermining one of Trump's key legal defenses … In their questioning of multiple witnesses, Smith's team of federal investigators have asked questions …
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Ella Nilsen / CNN:
EPA significantly shrinks what qualifies as federal waters after Supreme Court rolled back protections — The Environmental Protection Agency and US Army on Tuesday released a new rule that dramatically shrinks what qualifies as federal waters, following a Supreme Court decision in May that rolled back protections for US wetlands.
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Politico:
Playbook: A first look at the big new Biden book — Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross — DRIVING THE DAY — IDALIA LATEST — From the National Hurricane Center's 5 a.m. update: “IDALIA NOW A HURRICANE ... EXPECTED TO RAPIDLY INTENSIFY INTO AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS MAJOR HURRICANE BEFORE LANDFALL ON WEDNESDAY.”
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Mark Scott / Politico:
China behind ‘largest ever’ digital influence operation — People with ties to China's law enforcement agencies conducted the largest known covert digital influence operation aimed at discrediting the West and promoting Beijing's agenda across more than 50 social media and online platforms …
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Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Republicans demand answers from Garland on Covid relief fraud — The Labor Department's latest estimate of unsupported payments in the unemployment program from March 2020 to September 2021 is nearly 40%, or $47 billion. — A congressional committee investigating pandemic relief fraud …
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