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Politico:
Trump raised so much last month he erased Biden's cash advantage — Trump's fundraising while he was on trial in New York, punctuated in the final days when he was convicted, was enough to surpass the incumbent Democrat when it comes to campaign cash. — Former President Donald Trump's huge …
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Trump's shocking cash comeback
Trump's shocking cash comeback
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Tarini Parti / Wall Street Journal:
Biden Is Pouring Millions Into a State Democrats Haven't Won Since 2008
Biden Is Pouring Millions Into a State Democrats Haven't Won Since 2008
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Washington Examiner
Olivia Rinaldi / CBS News:
Trump to campaign in Virginia after first presidential debate
Trump to campaign in Virginia after first presidential debate
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New York Times, The Dispatch, Fox News, Vanity Fair, USA Today, Raw Story, New York Daily News, HotAir, Boston Herald and CNN
New York Times:
Timothy Mellon, Secretive Donor, Gives $50 Million to Pro-Trump Group
Timothy Mellon, Secretive Donor, Gives $50 Million to Pro-Trump Group
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Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Biden settles on a message against Trump: He's even worse than before
Biden settles on a message against Trump: He's even worse than before
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Twitchy
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court upholds domestic violence gun restriction — The case was a test for how far the court's conservative majority is willing to go in backing gun rights following a major ruling in 2022. — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a federal law that prohibits people subjected …
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Justin Rohrlich / The Daily Beast:
Clarence Thomas Says Domestic Abusers Should Own Guns — BOOM — He wrote the lone dissent as the Supreme Court overwhelmingly upheld the constitutionality of a federal ban on gun ownership on Friday. — The Supreme Court on Friday overwhelmingly upheld the constitutionality of a federal ban …
Nina Totenberg / NPR:
Supreme Court upholds federal ban on guns for domestic abusers
Supreme Court upholds federal ban on guns for domestic abusers
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David Bauder / Associated Press:
Newly named Washington Post editor decides not to take job after backlash, will stay in Britain — The Washington Post said Friday that newly named editor Robert Winnett has decided not to take the job and remain in Britain instead, another upheaval at a news outlet where a reorganization plan has gone disastrously wrong.
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Robert Winnett will not join The Post as editor — Robert Winnett, hired by Washington Post publisher William Lewis, faced questions about his U.K. work, including stories based on stolen records. — Robert Winnett, the British journalist recently tapped to become editor of The Washington Post later …
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Politico:
Is Jack Smith's appointment constitutional? Trump's Florida judge is set to decide. — A hearing starting Friday will delve into Trump's claim that the special counsel lacks authority. — Special counsel Jack Smith's case against Donald Trump for allegedly stealing national security secrets …
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CNN:
Judge Aileen Cannon pushes Trump's lawyer to defend claim that special counsel is part of a ‘shadow government’
Judge Aileen Cannon pushes Trump's lawyer to defend claim that special counsel is part of a ‘shadow government’
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Hafiz Rashid / New Republic:
Roger Stone Seems to Imply Trump Totally Controls Judge Cannon
Roger Stone Seems to Imply Trump Totally Controls Judge Cannon
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New York Times:
Bragg Asks Judge to Extend Trump's Gag Order, Citing Deluge of Threats — Donald J. Trump claims the order has unfairly restricted his free speech rights ahead of his sentencing on 34 felony counts. He has nonetheless attacked the judge, prosecutor and justice system.
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Jake Offenhartz / Associated Press:
NY prosecutors urge judge to keep gag order blocking Trump from criticizing jurors who convicted him — Prosecutors on Friday urged the judge overseeing Donald Trump's criminal hush money case to uphold provisions of a gag order that bar him from criticizing jurors and court staff …
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Molly Crane-Newman / New York Daily News:
DA Alvin Bragg deluged with death threats, racist harassment since Trump's hush money trial conviction
DA Alvin Bragg deluged with death threats, racist harassment since Trump's hush money trial conviction
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Salon, New York Magazine, New York Post and Raw Story
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump Media free fall continues as DJT stock slides 6% … Trump Media stock fell more than 6% on Friday, compounding a weekslong slide for former President Donald Trump's tech and media company that has only grown steeper since a federal regulator approved the registration of new tradable shares.
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Raw Story, Mediaite, Yahoo Finance and New Republic
Lindsay Whitehurst / Associated Press:
Trump ally Bannon asks the Supreme Court to delay his 4-month prison sentence on contempt charges — Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, asked the Supreme Court on Friday to delay his prison sentence while he fights his convictions for defying a subpoena …
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NBC News:
Trump is focused on Doug Burgum, JD Vance and Marco Rubio as his VP search enters the home stretch — With less than a month until the GOP convention, internal debates are centered on Burgum and Vance, while lingering doubts could jeopardize Rubio's chances of being picked.
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Sophia Cai / Axios:
Scoop: Trump has big fundraising plans for VP
Scoop: Trump has big fundraising plans for VP
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Washington Examiner, Daily Kos and AllSides Balanced
Rachel Oswald / National Press Club:
Club urges members to donate for Aubuchon winner's hospice care — The National Press Club is grieved to learn that freelance photojournalist Linda Tirado, the recipient of the Club's 2020 domestic John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award, is dying and has entered hospice care as a result …
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Michael LaRosa / New York Times:
How Marco Rubio Could Cost Biden the Election — Pennsylvania has been political ground zero in presidential elections for nearly a quarter-century, and 2024 will be no different. Joe Biden carried his birth state by almost 82,000 votes in 2020, and will need to win it again this year.
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OutsideTheBeltway, Washington Examiner and The Gateway Pundit
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Moira Donegan / The Guardian:
Rightwing cases built on made-up stories keep making it to the US supreme court — Again and again, the conservative movement promotes cases based on inaccuracies, falsehoods and outright deceptions — The first of many lies at the center of Moore v United States, the major tax case …
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Stephen Robinson / Public Notice:
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Edward Helmore / The Guardian:
Missouri attorney general to sue New York over Trump prosecutions — Andrew Bailey's lawsuit is part of series of actions against NY attorney general and Manhattan DA, who both secured Trump convictions — The Missouri attorney general, Andrew Bailey, has confirmed that he's suing the state …
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Fox News, Breitbart, Raw Story, Axios, The Gateway Pundit and Tennessee Star