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US Department of Justice:
Chief Financial Officer Of Multinational Media Company Charged With Participating In Scheme To Launder At Least $67 Million In Fraud Proceeds  —  For Immediate Release  —  U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York  —  Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District …
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Alex Griffing / Mediaite:
Feds Indict Far-Right Media Exec in Massive Money Laundering Scheme  —  Bill Guan, the chief financial officer of the far-right Epoch Times, was indicted Monday on charges of allegedly participating in a massive money laundering scheme.  —  The Southern District of New York released a statement saying …
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Feds Accuse Far-Right Newspaper of Being a Money Laundering Operation  —  $67 MILLION!  —  The indictment alleges the conspiracy-fueled paper's massive revenue growth in recent years was tied to the chief financial officer's fraudulent “Make Money Online” team.
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.
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Breitbart
Andrew Perez / Rolling Stone:
The Most Ridiculous, Right-Wing Supreme Court That Dark Money Could Buy
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
Biden Is Expected to Sign Order Letting Him Seal Border With Mexico  —  The move, expected on Tuesday, would allow the president to temporarily seal the border and suspend longtime protections for asylum seekers in the United States.  —  President Biden is expected to sign an executive order …
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Associated Press:
Biden prepares a tough executive order that would shut down asylum after 2,500 migrants arrive a day
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Trump's Most Audacious Lie Yet  —  When someone lies as prodigiously as Donald Trump—The Washington Post stopped counting at more than 30,000, around the time he left office—handing out superlatives is challenging.  Even so, the former president might have told his most audacious lie yet this weekend.
David Edwards / Raw Story:
‘Suspend!’  Marjorie Taylor Greene smacked down by GOP chair at hearing with Dr. Fauci  —  Democrats called for the words of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) to be taken down after she refused to call former National Institutes of Health Director Anthony Fauci “doctor.”
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David Edwards / Raw Story:
Jamie Raskin blasts GOP at hearing: ‘Some of them blindly worship convicted felons’
Discussion: Breitbart and PoliticusUSA
The Hill:
Menendez files independent bid for Senate seat  —  Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) filed to run for another term in the Senate as an independent on Monday, as his federal bribery trial continues.  Menendez had announced in March that he would not seek the Democratic nomination for his Senate seat …
Discussion: New Jersey Globe
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Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Michael Cohen's family doxed after Trump guilty verdict in porn star hush money case  —  The latest doxing attempt fits into a pattern of threats against individuals who speak out against former President Donald Trump.  —  WASHINGTON — The addresses and phone numbers of former Trump lawyer …
Asher Notheis / Washington Examiner:
Congressman's son steals the show as father speaks at House podium  —  Rep. John Rose (R-TN) brought his son, Guy, with him to the House floor on Monday, and the youngster has now gone viral for his facial expressions as his father spoke.  —  The older Rose was delivering a speech …
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.
Discussion: USA Today
Ed Mazza / HuffPost:
Eric Trump Claims Black Voters Are Turning To His Dad ‘In Spades’  —  Critics slammed the son of the former president over his claim — and his choice of words.  —  LOADING  —  Eric Trump, son of Donald Trump, claimed his father's conviction on 34 felony charges last week is making …
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Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Google Leak Reveals Thousands of Privacy Incidents  —  Google has accidentally collected childrens' voice data, leaked the trips and home addresses of car pool users, and made YouTube recommendations based on users' deleted watch history, among thousands of other employee-reported privacy incidents …
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Trump's Second Term Would Be Even More Corrupt and Vindictive Than His First  —  A truism of the Trump era is that every accusation is a confession.  When Donald Trump hurls wild charges at his opponents, he is telegraphing what he plans to do to them, preemptively justifying the breaking …
Discussion: RedState
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump's many dog whistles about unrest and violence  —  The former president's post-conviction comment about a “breaking point” follows a long line of suggestive comments.  The thrust is unmistakable.  —  Before the 2016 election, Marco Rubio warned about it.  Ted Cruz warned about it.
Khadeeja Safdar / Wall Street Journal:
Epstein Accuser Files Lawsuit Alleging Famed Psychiatrist Henry Jarecki Facilitated Sexual Abuse  —  Woman's lawsuit alleges Jeffrey Epstein sent her for psychological treatment to wealthy psychiatrist, who sexually abused her over several years  —  Henry Jarecki has won awards practicing psychiatry …
Robert Reich / The Guardian:
Why is a group of billionaires working to re-elect Trump?  —  Oligarchs like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel aren't just hostile to progressivism.  They're hostile to American democracy itself  —  Elon Musk and the entrepreneur and investor David Sacks reportedly held a secret dinner party …
David Smith / The Guardian:
The reich stuff - what does Trump really have in common with Hitler?  —  Comparisons between the ex-president and the 20th-century Nazi leader are controversial but a new book says they resemble each other as political performance artists  —  When Donald Trump shared a video that dreamed of a …
Discussion: Raw Story
The White House:
G7 Leaders' Statement on Gaza  —  We, the Leaders of the Group of Seven (G7), fully endorse and will stand behind the comprehensive deal outlined by President Biden that would lead to an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the release of all hostages, a significant and sustained increase …
Discussion: Reuters
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 …
Emily Atkinson / BBC:
Nigel Farage to stand in election and become leader of Reform UK  —  Summary  — Nigel Farage says he will stand for election in Clacton - days after ruling himself out  — At a campaign event in central London, Farage also confirms he will become leader of Reform UK
Olivia Rubin / ABC News:
Trump's appeal hearing on Fani Willis set for October, likely pushing trial past election  —  Trump is appealing the ruling that led DA Fani Willis stay on his election case.  —  Former President Donald Trump attends UFC 302 at Prudential Center on June 1, 2024, in Newark, N.J.
Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
Aileen Cannon hands Trump weeks to argue against latest gag order demand  —  Judge Aileen Cannon, the jurist presiding over special counsel Jack Smith's criminal case against Trump for storing highly classified national defense information, is giving the former president two weeks to rebut Smith's request to impose a gag order.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
 
 
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US Department of Justice:
Former U.S. Soldier Turned Foreign Fighter Extradited from Ukraine to the United States for 2018 Double Homicide, Armed Robbery, Immigration Document Offenses …
Discussion: Task & Purpose
Anderson Cooper / CBS News:
Regretful Wisconsin fake elector says he was tricked into signing phony document claiming Trump won in 2020
Caitlin Emma / Politico:
Congress is already bracing for a 2025 fiscal pileup
Discussion: PoliticusUSA
Qasim Rashid / Let's Address This with Qasim Rashid:
103 Years After the Tulsa Race Massacre
Discussion: Washington Post
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Associated Press:
Jury selection is beginning in gun case against President Joe Biden's son
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Two years later, obvious misinformation is finally taken down
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Democrats must defend Trump's guilty verdict against MAGA jury denial
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
‘2,000 Mules’ Retracted, Still Lodged in Grandma's Brain
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court sends dispute over Arkansas' GOP-drawn congressional map back to lower court
Discussion: Associated Press
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
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