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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Lawyers found classified docs in Trump's bedroom 4 months after Mar-a-Lago search  —  The revelation was contained in a newly unsealed opinion that a federal judge issued in 2023.  —  Four months after the FBI raided his Mar-a-Lago estate, Donald Trump's attorneys discovered four documents marked “classified” in his personal bedroom.
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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 …
Gil Duran / FrameLab:
‘Unified Reich’: Trump campaign goes full Nazi  —  In a shocking development - even by the Republican Party's low, low standards - Donald Trump has directly framed his campaign using Nazi terminology.  —  A video posted on his social media accounts yesterday promised a “unified Reich” if he wins the presidency in 2024.
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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.
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Associated Press:
Election deniers moving closer to GOP mainstream, report shows, as Trump allies fill Congress  —  In the hours after the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Ohio's then-Republican senator, Rob Portman, voted to accept President Joe Biden's win over the defeated former president …
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Erin Doherty / Axios:
Trump backtracks on “looking at” restrictions on contraceptives
Allison Quinn / The Daily Beast:
Kremlin TV Drops ‘New’ Tucker Carlson Show  —  THEY'LL NEVER LET GO  —  The former Fox News host has responded to becoming a fixture on Russian TV.  —  The Kremlin propaganda machine has made Tucker Carlson its newest star television host, whether he likes it or not.
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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Matthew Haag / New York Times:
Trump seems unlikely to testify.  Here's the latest.  —  The jury has been dismissed until closing arguments next Tuesday, but the court has more business to deal with this afternoon.  Lawyers for Donald J. Trump called just two witnesses before wrapping up their case.  —  The jury will begin deliberations next week.
Michael Boyle / The Daily Beast:
Jon Stewart Sounds Off on the ‘Real Cancel Culture’  —  ‘CONSTANT VICTIMIZATION’  —  “Jerry Seinfeld took more shit over the past two weeks promoting a Pop-Tart movie than Harrison Butker did for his entire speech,” Stewart said on Monday's “Daily Show.”  —  Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker …
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Matthew Daly / Associated Press:
Biden releasing 1 million barrels of gasoline from Northeast reserve in bid to lower prices at pump  —  The Biden administration said Tuesday that it is releasing 1 million barrels of gasoline from a Northeast reserve established after Superstorm Sandy in a bid to lower prices at the pump this summer.
Associated Press:
UN halts all food distribution in Rafah after running out of supplies in the southern Gaza city  —  The United Nations says it has suspended food distribution in the southern Gaza city of Rafah due to lack of supplies and insecurity.  It also said no aid trucks entered in the past two days via …
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Rachel Bluth / Politico:
California pushes through Gavin Newsom's bill helping Arizona abortion-seekers  —  The measure is expected to go into effect imminently, just weeks after the blue-state governor made the proposal to take in patients from the neighboring state.  —  SACRAMENTO, Calif. …
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Live chat  —  Updates about tonight's presidential race  —  🌖Our chat has ended, but you can still read it back.  —  Taking Biden at face value about Michigan and Wisconsin — where, for what it's worth (not that much), the exit poll data looks pretty good for him and he came …
Discussion: IJR
Juliegrace Brufke / Axios:
Rep. Greg Murphy reveals skull tumor diagnosis, planned surgery … - He is an active member of the House Committee on Ways and Means, the Committee on Veterans' Affairs and the Committee on House Administration.  — “As a physician I have, for the last 30 years, taken care of thousands and thousands of patients.
David Moye / HuffPost:
Texas GOP Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick Weirdly Claims Trump Is Not ‘Ruling Class’  —  Patrick and other Trump defenders bristled when their definitions were called into question.  —  LOADING  —  Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick was the latest GOP toady of Donald Trump's to show up outside …
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 …
New York Times:
How Donald Trump's Financial Future Became Tied to Trump Media  —  Mr. Trump has treated Trump Media, which runs his social network Truth Social, as a low-cost sideshow.  Now a big portion of his wealth hinges on its success.  —  At Mar-a-Lago on a Wednesday evening last month …
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.
Radley Balko / The Watch:
Trump's deportation army  —  The former president's vow to deport 15 million people is the cruelest, most illiberal, most openly authoritarian campaign promise in modern U.S. history.  Oh, and it would also destroy the economy.  —  Donald Trump wants to deport 15 million people.
 
 
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Carol Rosenberg / New York Times:
The U.S. Was Resettling Guantánamo Prisoners. The Hamas Attack Halted Those Plans.
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Liz Peek / Fox News:
Another surprising reason Joe Biden should now step aside
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Patricia Zengerle / Reuters:
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Biden quietly advances a range of progressive policies
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Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Filing: Trump asks SCOTUS to pause the law that could ban TikTok, saying the court should give him time to “pursue a political resolution” of the dispute

Youkyung Lee / Bloomberg:
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