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Washington Post:
Justice Thomas discloses two 2019 trips paid for by Harlan Crow — 2023 financial disclosure reports for Supreme Court justices also show six-figure book payments for Kavanaugh, Gorsuch and Jackson — Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has disclosed for the first time trips to Bali …
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Abbie VanSickle / New York Times:
Clarence Thomas, in Financial Disclosure, Acknowledges 2019 Trips Paid by Harlan Crow — The justice amended an earlier filing to include vacations to Bali and an exclusive California club paid for by the Texas billionaire Harlan Crow. — Justice Clarence Thomas acknowledged …
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The Daily Beast, The Guardian, Business Insider, WHDH-TV, Fix the Court, New Republic, Crooks and Liars and AllSides Balanced
ProPublica:
Justice Clarence Thomas Acknowledges He Should Have Disclosed Free Trips From Billionaire Donor
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Washington Examiner, Fox News, ABC News, Politico, USA Today, HuffPost, Bloomberg, Associated Press, Rolling Stone, Raw Story, CBS News and PoliticusUSA
Gabe Roth / Fix the Court:
A Staggering Tally: Supreme Court Justices Accepted Hundreds of Gifts Worth Millions of Dollars
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The Hill, The Mahablog, UPI, Forbes, WFLA-TV, Daily Caller News Foundation, USA Today, Raw Story, Wait - what ?, Daily Kos, New Republic, The New Civil Rights Movement, Above the Law and CNBC
April Rubin / Axios:
Clarence Thomas officially discloses trips gifted by GOP megadonor
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Robust job growth in May once again exceeds expectations — By nearly every metric, the latest jobs report points to a very strong U.S. job market. The political implications have the potential to be dramatic. — Expectations heading into this morning showed projections of about 190,000 …
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NBC News:
Hunter Biden trial live updates: Forensic chemist, DEA agent set to testify in gun case — Hunter Biden wiped away tears as his eldest daughter testified about being “proud” of him during his rehab stint. … Hunter Biden's defense to decide on last witness over the weekend
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Ankush Khardori / Politico:
The Hunter Biden Case Is Solid. There's Something Rotten About It Too.
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Breitbart, Vox and nationalinterest.org
Jamie Frevele / Mediaite:
‘We Ride at Dawn’: The Federalist Came For Dolly Parton, Now Her Fans Are Coming For Them — When is The Federalist going to learn that it's a mistake to go after intensely popular and beloved pop stars just for the sake of contrarianism? — Not any time soon, going by their new attack on country music icon Dolly Parton.
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Crooks and Liars, CBS News and The Federalist
Greg Olear / PREVAIL:
Convictions: The Many Crimes of Donald Trump: Bannon Banished — On July 1, three days before Independence Day, Stephen Kevin Bannon, the leprous-faced, multi-shirt-wearing, nihilistic windbag, must report to prison, to serve his four-month sentence for Contempt of Congress.
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New York Times, New Republic and Vanity Fair
John Sexton / HotAir:
Nashville School Shooter's Writings Leak: ‘I Hate Everything About My Gender’ (Update) — This week the Tennessee Star published a description of previously unseen writings by Audrey Hale. The Star is one of the papers that is part of a lawsuit trying to force the Metro Nashville PD …
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Tennessee Star
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NBC News:
RNC hires a prominent ‘Stop the Steal’ advocate to help craft its 2024 platform — Ed Martin, who was hired by the RNC in May, pushed to overturn Donald Trump's 2020 loss and marched outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. — WASHINGTON — The Republican National Committee has hired …
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New Republic, Raw Story and PoliticusUSA
CNN:
Isolated and inexperienced: A portrait of the judge overseeing Trump's documents case from veterans of her courtroom — Judge Aileen Cannon had been on the federal bench for little more than a year when a senior judge offered to preside over one of her first criminal trials in her isolated south Florida courthouse.
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Raw Story, Mediaite and New Republic
New York Times:
Businessman Tells Jury He Bribed Senator Menendez With a Mercedes-Benz — Jose Uribe said he had provided the car to Senator Robert Menendez's girlfriend in exchange for gaining his “power and influence.” — Until recently, Jose Uribe was an obscure New Jersey businessman who had been caught …
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NBC News, CBS News, Mediaite, DNyuz, New Jersey Globe, New Jersey Monitor and Politico
Public Notice:
Revisiting “the biggest political crime in American history, by far” — Remember “Obamagate”? You should. … It's tough to remember now as Donald Trump regularly wails about the need for total presidential immunity, but four years ago, the then-president was a huge proponent of prosecuting presidents.
David Gilbert / Wired:
Google's and Microsoft's AI Chatbots Refuse to Say Who Won the 2020 US Election — With just six months to go before the US presidential election, Gemini and Copilot chatbots are incapable of saying that Joe Biden won in 2020, and won't return results on any election anywhere, ever.
Charlie Nash / Mediaite:
Trump Says ‘Sometimes Revenge Can Be Justified’ During Interview With Dr. Phil: ‘I Have to be Honest’ — Former President Donald Trump told Dr. Phil McGraw on Thursday that “sometimes revenge can be justified” after the television host suggested Trump wouldn't “have time to get even” …
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NOTUS:
It's 2024. Elon Musk Rules X. And the Political World Is Still Addicted. … While former President Donald Trump was actively being convicted by a jury of his peers in New York City last week, Democratic strategist Tim Hogan did what just about everyone in politics, media …
Victoria Balara / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Trump holds 4-point edge in Florida rematch as majority says conviction won't matter to vote — Nearly 7 in 10 support legalizing marijuana and establishing the right to abortion — Former President Donald Trump won Florida in 2016 and 2020 and a new Fox News survey shows he is favored to win it again.
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Pluribus News, Florida Phoenix, The Capitolist and Florida Politics
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
'Donald Trump doesn't like America': Ex-GOP pollster writes MAGA movement's obituary — Republicans booed and walked out on two former Capitol police officers at the Pennsylvania statehouse, and a former GOP pollster was disgusted by that display of antipathy to American democracy.
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Operatives with GOP ties are helping Cornel West get on the ballot in a key state — Documents obtained by NBC News show operatives connected to a Colorado-based GOP firm helped the far-left presidential candidate in North Carolina. — Cornel West's independent presidential campaign is broke.
Brian Beutler / Off Message:
Yes, Democrats Should Still Care How Real Journalists Cover The News — Just because most mainstream news consumers are already Biden voters, doesn't mean big problems with mainstream news coverage don't seep into the larger culture. — Six years ago, White House Press Secretary Sarah …
Alex Kaplan / Media Matters for America:
A group of far-right media figures is using social media to recruit for its newly formed militia — The group is recruiting on Instagram, despite Meta's previous crackdowns on militias — A group of far-right media figures has announced the formation of a militia group that is dedicated to …
Alex Guillén / Politico:
Biden pulls back on tightened car and truck fuel standards — The new CAFE standards for the popular classes of vehicles will require more modest mileage improvements than the Biden administration had called for last year. — The Biden administration on Friday backed off its proposal …
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Associated Press and The Verge
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Alex Jones agrees to liquidate his assets to pay Sandy Hook families, in move that would end his ownership of Infowars — Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Thursday moved to liquidate his personal assets, agreeing to demands from the families of Sandy Hook victims whom he owes …
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