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Tim Reid / Reuters:
Trump booed and heckled by raucous crowd at Libertarian convention — Presidential candidate Donald Trump was booed and heckled by many in a raucous audience at the Libertarian National Convention on Saturday night, a marked change from the adulation he receives at rallies from his fervently loyal supporters.
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David Smith / The Guardian:
‘No wannabe dictators!’: Donald Trump booed at Libertarian convention — Jeers suggest Republican presidential candidate faces a challenge in broadening his appeal — Donald Trump, the former US president, has suffered the rare humiliation of getting booed and heckled during a raucous speech to the Libertarian National Convention.
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NBC News:
Trump to announce plans to commute ‘Silk Road’ website operator Ross Ulbricht's prison sentence — The former president has previously called for the death penalty for some drug traffickers, depending on the severity of the crime. — WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump plans …
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Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
Washington Post bombshell: Washington Post buried Alito flag story for three years — Last week, many of us learned from The New York Times that an upside-down American flag had been temporarily raised over the Alito household in the days after January 6, 2021.
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Sophia Cai / Axios:
Trump's new policy wonks are proteges of Stephen Miller and Newt Gingrich … - Haley and Worthington write the first drafts of scripts Trump uses to record policy videos as well as the text on how a second Trump administration would handle issues from education to energy and immigration.
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Julian E. Barnes / New York Times:
Russia Steps Up a Covert Sabotage Campaign Aimed at Europe — Russian military intelligence, the G.R.U., is behind arson attacks aimed at undermining support for Ukraine's war effort, security officials say. — U.S. and allied intelligence officials are tracking an increase …
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Jason Zengerle / New York Times:
The Hard Problem of Bringing Trump Into Focus — For all the news that the former president makes, the Biden team is struggling to make the campaign about him. — The video shows Donald Trump standing at a gilded lectern in Mar-a-Lago. It's December, a week or so before Christmas …
New York Times:
Putin Shakes Up Things at Home as His Optimism About Ukraine War Rises — Despite years of criticism, President Vladimir V. Putin has only now changed his defense minister and allowed high-level corruption arrests. — Periodic outcries over incompetence and corruption at the top …
Washington Post:
Netanyahu's split with Biden and the Democrats was years in the making — The Israeli leader's longtime strategy of aligning with the GOP has helped shatter the American consensus behind Israel. — When President Barack Obama hosted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office in 2014 …
Margery A. Beck / Associated Press:
Pronouns and tribal affiliations are now forbidden in South Dakota public university employee emails — A new South Dakota policy to stop the use of gender pronouns by public university faculty and staff in official correspondence is also keeping Native American employees from listing …
Jeremy B. White / Politico:
Criminal justice backlash heads to the California ballot — Those who pushed past reforms, including Gov. Gavin Newsom, have to decide which parts of that legacy are worth defending. — This fall, California voters will have multiple chances to decide whether their state has gone too far …
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Washington Examiner
Axios:
Scoop: Trump ally urges Senate GOP to punt funding fight to 2025 … - The moves telegraph Republican confidence going into what's expected to be a fierce fight for the White House and Congressional majorities in November's election. — Funding the government into 2025 also would avoid …
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Washington Examiner
Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Even as Violent Crime Drops, Lawlessness Rises as an Election Issue — In most cities, rates of homicide and violent assault are down significantly from pandemic-era highs. But property crimes have risen, fueling voter anxiety. — In mid-2020, the country was reeling from a surge …
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New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Has Some Tough Words for Democrats, and for Women — In an interview for a forthcoming book, Mrs. Clinton also suggested that if Donald Trump won in November “we may never have another actual election.” — Hillary Clinton criticized her fellow Democrats over what she described …
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