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Michelle L. Price / Associated Press:
Trump's social media account shares a campaign video with a headline about a ‘unified Reich’ — A video posted to Donald Trump's account on his social media network included references to a “unified Reich” among hypothetical news headlines if he wins the election in November.
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Tom Porter / Business Insider:
Trump's Truth Social posted a video with apparent Nazi messaging — his team says it wasn't him — Donald Trump's Truth Social account shared a video referencing a “unified Reich.” — The Biden campaign accused Trump of echoing Nazi Germany. — The Trump campaign said the wording of the video hadn't been checked.
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Joshua Green / Bloomberg:
A Hidden Variable in the Presidential Race: Fears of ‘Trump Forever’ — Undecided voters are concerned that if Donald Trump returns to the White House, he'll never leave. — As the rematch between Joe Biden and Donald Trump draws nearer, political professionals are detecting …
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Jada Yuan / Washington Post:
Controversial Donald Trump movie ‘The Apprentice’ depicts him as rapist — A dark new biopic starring Sebastian Stan as a young Trump is the talk of Cannes. — CANNES, France — Had a movie called “The Apprentice” about a young Donald Trump's rise to power premiered in America …
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Kat Rosenfield / The Free Press:
Harrison Butker is Catholic. So What? — This is America: We need to tolerate a Catholic man saying Catholic things at a Catholic university. — Perhaps you have heard of Harrison Butker, the 28-year-old Kansas City Chiefs kicker at the center of the latest viral outrage.
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Michael Boyle / The Daily Beast:
Jon Stewart Sounds Off on the ‘Real Cancel Culture’
Jon Stewart Sounds Off on the ‘Real Cancel Culture’
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Associated Press:
Israeli officials seize AP equipment and take down live shot of northern Gaza, citing new media law — Israeli officials seized a camera and broadcasting equipment belonging to The Associated Press in southern Israel, accusing the news organization of violating a new media law by providing images to Al Jazeera.
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Aaron Rupar / Public Notice:
Biden quietly advances a range of progressive policies — He did so just before a deadline on his rule-making authority. — ∙ Paid … Congress, in case you're just back from Mars, has been so mired in gridlock that its main function — passing laws — has become about as common as hens teeth.
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Marcia Brown / Politico:
Biden's legacy long game: Rain regulations — now
Bobby Allyn / NPR:
Scarlett Johansson says she is ‘shocked, angered’ over new ChatGPT voice — Lawyers for Scarlett Johansson are demanding that OpenAI disclose how it developed an AI personal assistant voice that the actress says sounds uncannily similar to her own. — Johansson's legal team has sent OpenAI …
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Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
An Alabama Trump appointee is threatening to jail LGBTQ civil rights lawyers — A forum-shopping dispute that been ongoing for two years briefly reached the Eleventh Circuit on Monday. Also: More on Alito. And: Law Dork in the news. — An “unprecedented judicial investigation” …
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ABC News:
Special counsel suspected additional obstruction effort by Trump in classified docs case — The allegations were revealed in a newly unsealed court filing Tuesday. — Former President Donald Trump listens during a news conference after attending the wake of New York City police officer Jonathan Diller …
Matt Stout / The Boston Globe:
‘Millionaires tax’ has already generated $1.8 billion this year for Massachusetts, blowing past projections — Massachusetts' so-called “millionaires tax” appears primed to actually deliver billions. — State officials said Monday that the voter-approved surtax on high earners has generated …
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Trump Mode — How Trump gives his quislings room to defend him. — ∙ Paid — 1. 12 Years a President — At the NRA convention this weekend Donald Trump floated, in an oblique way, the idea of a third term. — “You know, FDR 16 years—almost 16 years—he was four terms.
Gina Chon / Semafor:
Imprisoned ex-Trump aide Peter Navarro predicts Fed Chair's ouster and ‘mass deportations’ in a second presidential term — The Scoop — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell would be gone in the first 100 days of a second Donald Trump term that would also include mass deportations …
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New York Times:
Biden and Big Oil Had a Truce. Now, It's Collapsing. — Companies were enjoying record profits. But the president's decision to pause permits for gas export terminals has whipped up industry support, and donations, for Donald Trump. — Early in his term, President Biden seemed …
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Financial Times:
How sanctions played havoc with Iran's ageing helicopters — US-made Bell 212 carrying country's president was almost 30 years old when it crashed into a mountainside — The circumstances could hardly have been more difficult as the decades-old helicopter, which had clocked up thousands …
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Jesse Wegman / New York Times:
There's No Sense of Shame at the Supreme Court — An earlier generation of Supreme Court justices seemed to possess the capacity for shame. — In 1969, Justice Abe Fortas resigned his seat for accepting a $20,000 consulting fee (which he returned) from a foundation led by a man who was convicted of securities fraud.
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Reuters:
Biden campaign's fundraising lags Trump for the first time in April — President Joe Biden's 2024 campaign's fundraising in April lagged rival Donald Trump's for the first time, after the former president ramped up his joint operation with the Republican National Committee and headlined high-dollar fundraisers.
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Marc A. Caputo / The Bulwark:
‘October 7 was a turning point’: Trump's pro-Israel fundraising accelerates.
‘October 7 was a turning point’: Trump's pro-Israel fundraising accelerates.
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United States Department of State:
On the Death of Iranian President Raisi and Others in a Helicopter Crash — The United States expresses its official condolences for the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Amir-Abdollahian, and other members of their delegation in a helicopter crash in northwest Iran.
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Politico:
The one thing US fears after Iranian president's death
The one thing US fears after Iranian president's death
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