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Former Trump aide Steve Bannon ordered to jail by July 1 to serve contempt of Congress sentence … A federal judge in Washington, D.C., at a hearing Thursday ordered former Trump White House aide Steve Bannon to report to jail by July 1 to begin serving a four-month sentence for his criminal contempt of Congress conviction.
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Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
Judge to consider if ex-Trump adviser Steve Bannon should begin prison sentence — Bannon was sentenced to four months in prisfor contempt of Congress. — Steve Bannon, former adviser to Donald Trump, during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Md., Feb. 24, 2024.
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CNN:
Steve Bannon ordered to report to prison by July 1 to serve contempt of Congress sentence — A federal judge on Thursday ordered Steve Bannon to report to prison by July 1, giving the former Donald Trump adviser a short window to get a higher court's intervention.
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Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Judge to decide if Bannon must go to prison while appealing contempt case
Judge to decide if Bannon must go to prison while appealing contempt case
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Fritz Farrow / ABC News:
Exclusive: Biden tells Muir he wouldn't pardon son Hunter, says Trump got ‘fair trial’ — Biden is in Normandy commemorating the 80th anniversary of D-Day. — ABC News' David Muir sat down exclusively with President Joe Biden in Normandy, France, on the 80th anniversary of D-Day on June 6, 2024.
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Patrick Svitek / Washington Post:
Biden says he wouldn't pardon son in felony gun case in Delaware — The White House press secretary has said previously the president would not pardon his son, Hunter Biden. — President Biden said Thursday he would not pardon his son, Hunter Biden, if he is convicted in his felony gun trial in Delaware.
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Joyce Vance / Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance:
Going Retrograde — Today was an important day to be paying attention. In many ways, we seem to be going backward. Only our votes can ultimately change that. — Senate Republicans blocked a measure that would have created a federal right to contraception access today.
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Senate GOP blocks bill to guarantee access to contraception
Senate GOP blocks bill to guarantee access to contraception
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Leo Sands / Washington Post:
Several Pa. House Republicans boo officers who defended Capitol on Jan. 6 — Harry Dunn and Aquilino Gonell were invited to Pennsylvania's House of Representatives — but several GOP lawmakers booed and some walked out, Democratic lawmakers said. — Two former law enforcement officers …
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Alex Shephard / New Republic:
The Billionaires Have Captured Donald Trump — One of the most enduring—and ridiculous—#Resistance narratives of the Trump era was the idea that the president of the United States was a literal Manchurian Candidate, a man who had been compromised for years (perhaps even decades) by a foreign power, namely Russia.
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New York Times:
Clash Over Phone Hacking Article Preceded Exit of Washington Post Editor — Will Lewis, the chief executive of The Washington Post, objected to coverage of a legal development involving him in a phone hacking case. — Weeks before the embattled executive editor of The Washington Post abruptly resigned …
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David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:
Biden's D-Day Speech Nailed the Threat of Modern Fascism — 80 YEARS ON — Speaking on sacred ground in Normandy, the president correctly drew parallels between America's enemies in World War II and the threats we face domestically and globally today.
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Biden's D-Day visit may mark the end of an American era
Biden's D-Day visit may mark the end of an American era
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Fox News:
Trump: Critics saying he'd seek retribution are ‘wrong,’ but ‘I would have every right’ to go after opponents — Former President Trump told Fox News on Wednesday that critics claiming he'd seek retribution against political opponents are “wrong,” but he would have “every right” …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Trump's Vows to Prosecute Rivals Put Rule of Law on the Ballot
Trump's Vows to Prosecute Rivals Put Rule of Law on the Ballot
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John T. Seward / NOTUS:
'It's Really Shameful': House Republicans Accuse Rep. Troy Nehls of Stolen Valor Over Military Award Pin … House Republicans are accusing Rep. Troy Nehls of “stolen valor” for continuing to wear a lapel pin for infantrymen or Special Forces who fought in active combat. — “It matters.
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Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
The Myth That Biden Had Nothing to Do with the Prosecutions of Trump … The five criminal and civil prosecutions of Donald Trump all prompt heated denials from Democrats that President Biden and Democrat operatives had a role in any of them. — But Joe Biden has long let it be known …
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emptywheel:
Judge Noreika Risks Narrowing Hunter Biden's Right to Confront His Accuser Even Further — Gordon Cleveland, the man who sold Hunter Biden a gun without seeing an ID with an address on it on October 12, 2018, did not finish testifying at the Hunter Biden trial yesterday.
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NBC News:
Hunter Biden trial live updates: Hallie Biden testifies about drug addictions that rocked the Biden family
Hunter Biden trial live updates: Hallie Biden testifies about drug addictions that rocked the Biden family
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Justin Rohrlich / The Daily Beast:
YouTuber's Wacko Lamborghini Stunt Ends in Federal Charges — FROM CLICKS TO CLINK — He took aim at a $300,000 Italian supercar from a helicopter with an arsenal of fireworks onboard. — What's more American than celebrating July 4 by taking aim at a $300,000 Italian supercar …
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John Fritze / CNN:
Alito's former neighbor says justice is ‘at best mistaken’ in flap over upside-down US flag — A former neighbor of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Wednesday disputed his account of a neighborhood spat that led to the hoisting of an upside-down US flag on his property in Virginia …
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Reuters:
Exclusive: Cows infected with bird flu have died in five US states — Dairy cows infected with avian flu in five U.S. states have died or been slaughtered by farmers because they did not recover, state officials and academics told Reuters. — Reports of the deaths suggest the bird flu outbreak …
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Anders Hagstrom / Fox News:
Florida Supreme Court backs Ron DeSantis on removal of Soros-backed prosecutor — DeSantis accused State Attorney Monique Worrel of ‘dereliction of duty’ — Join Fox News for access to this content — The Florida Supreme Court ruled in favor of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' decision to remove a Soros-backed prosecutor on Thursday.
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NBC News:
Progressive Caucus rescinds endorsement of former Rep. Mondaire Jones — The Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC unendorsed one of its former members after the New York Democrat backed a primary rival to another progressive lawmaker. — WASHINGTON — The Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC …
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Gil Duran / San Francisco Chronicle:
Words like moderate and centrist are political weasel words with no set definitions — In 2021, billionaire tech executive Chamath Palahapitiya briefly considered running for California governor on a moderate-sounding platform of low taxes and school reform.