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ProPublica:
Multiple Trump Witnesses Have Received Significant Financial Benefits From His Businesses, Campaign — Nine witnesses in the criminal cases against former President Donald Trump have received significant financial benefits, including large raises from his campaign, severance packages …
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
Mike Johnson says the quiet part on Fox — PN is a reader-supported publication made possible by paid subscribers. Appreciate our independent journalism? Then please sign up to support us. — 📈 Subscribe to Public Notice 📈 — It was a given, of course …
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Axios:
Behind the Curtain: Speaker Johnson's secret muse … - In our column on Johnson's historic road-to-Kyiv conversion, we told you how the speaker defied the loudest, most threatening GOP personalities, dug deep into government intelligence, and shifted his position on the most vital foreign policy legislation in years.
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
‘2,000 Mules’ Retracted, Still Lodged in Grandma's Brain — Sen. Tim Scott wants you to know: 2024 is not an abortion-policy election. — “The Supreme Court has already ruled that this is a states' issue. President Trump and Speaker Johnson have both said that this will remain a states' issue …
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OutsideTheBeltway
Politico:
Playbook: The Trump verdict lands on the Hill — With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine — DRIVING THE DAY — WAPO SHOCKER — SALLY BUZBEE is out as the Washington Post's executive editor after a three-year run, to be immediately replaced by former WSJ editor in chief MATT MURRAY and …
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Raw Story
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Washington Post:
Sally Buzbee steps down as Executive Editor of The Washington Post. Matt Murray and Robert Winnett take editorial leadership roles in new newsroom structure. — The Washington Post also announced today its intention to launch a new division of the newsroom dedicated to better serving audiences …
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Texas professors sue to fail students who seek abortions — Men are using abortion bans to control and abuse women in their lives for “consensual sexual intercourse” — A pair of Texas professors figured out that their female students have sex and, boy, they do not like it.
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court sends dispute over Arkansas' GOP-drawn congressional map back to lower court — Last month, the Supreme Court ruled on South Carolina's congressional map, making it more difficult to bring racial gerrymandering claims. — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday told …
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
8 years later, Trump haunted by rhetoric about candidates, crimes — By the reasoning Donald Trump pushed in 2016, his candidacy creates “an unprecedented constitutional crisis,” and he has “no right to be running.” — Eight years later, some find it easy to forget some of the more ridiculous elements …
Reuters:
Claudia Sheinbaum claims sweeping mandate to become Mexico's first female president — Claudia Sheinbaum, a Nobel Prize-winning climate scientist, will become Mexico's first female president after winning a landslide election victory and promising to continue the work of her mentor and outgoing leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
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Washington Post:
Russia co-opts far-right politicians in Europe with cash, officials say — A Kremlin-backed media outlet — the Prague-based Voice of Europe — funneled hundreds of thousands of euros to far-right politicians, officials say. — PRAGUE — When an associate of one of Russian President …
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The Kyiv Independent
Anders Hagstrom / Fox News:
Jury selection kicks off in Hunter Biden's federal gun crime trial — Hunter Biden's gun crime trial in Delaware kicks off with jury selection on Monday. Hunter is charged with making a false statement during the purchase of a firearm, and his addiction to drugs at the time is key to the case.
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Dánica Coto / Associated Press:
Puerto Rico's two biggest parties hold primaries as governor seeks 2nd term and voters demand change — SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The future of Puerto Rico's political status and its rebounding but fragile economy are at the center of fiery debates as the island's two biggest political …
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The Hill and New York Times
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
All the arguments against Trump's convictions, debunked — Donald Trump, the former president and current Republican nominee, is now a convicted felon. In the aftermath of the verdict, Trump predictably complained that the trial was “rigged.” This was not particularly surprising.
Ruxandra Iordache / CNBC:
Kremlin warns Washington of ‘fatal’ miscalculation to let Kyiv use U.S.-supplied weapons inside Russia … Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov on Monday warned the U.S. against the potential “fatal consequences” of allowing Kyiv to deploy U.S.-supplied weapons against targets inside Russia.
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Financial Times, Politico and Reuters
Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: Trump falsely claims he didn't call to lock up Hillary Clinton — Former President Donald Trump falsely claimed in a new interview that he didn't make a “lock her up” call for the imprisonment of his Democratic opponent of the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton.
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No More Mister Nice Blog, The Daily Beast, Raw Story, The Daily Caller and Mediaite
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Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:
Trump falsely claims he never called for Hillary Clinton to be locked up
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Rolling Stone, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Raw Story, WFLA-TV, Althouse, The Mahablog, HuffPost and Forbes
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