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4:45 PM ET, June 25, 2024

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Hillary Rodham Clinton / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton: I've Debated Trump and Biden.  Here's What I'm Watching For.  —  Last week, I had the time of my life at the Tony Awards introducing a song from “Suffs,” the Broadway musical I co-produced about the suffragists who won women the right to vote.
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NBC News:
Trump's VP announcement could come as early as this week  —  Four sources told NBC News that the campaign is considering revealing Trump's running mate this week, possibly before his debate with Biden on Thursday.  —  Former President Donald Trump could announce his vice presidential pick …
Hayes Brown / MSNBC:
Speaker Johnson wants to lower the debate bar for Trump  —  The GOP leader suggested this weekend that host network CNN will “rig” the debate for President Joe Biden.  —  Speaker Mike Johnson, the highest-ranking Republican in government, has been leaning hard into former President Donald Trump's embrace lately.
Ivana Saric / Axios:
Clinton to Biden: Rebutting Trump's debate “blather” is a “waste of time”
Discussion: Fox News and AllSides Balanced
Elizabeth Stauffer / Washington Examiner:
Trump and Biden's faceoff in Atlanta could be the most consequential debate in political history
emptywheel:
The Nuclear Weapons Document Trump Stashed under Bubble Wrap and a Christmas Pillow  —  As noted, Jack Smith has filed his response to Trump's bid to throw out his stolen document indictment because the order of certain boxes was not retained.  —  A key part of Smith's response argues …
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CBS News:
Newly released photos from FBI's Mar-a-Lago search show Trump keepsakes alongside sensitive records  —  Washington — Newly revealed photographs taken by the FBI during its August 2022 search of former President Donald Trump's South Florida resort shed further light on how the former president kept keepsakes …
emptywheel:   “Nobody ever slept on that side of the bed usually so he would have it all full of boxes”
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
AJC Poll: Trump leads Biden in Georgia ahead of first debate  —  Sharp warning signs emerge in the state for both candidates.  —  Former President Donald Trump holds a slight lead over President Joe Biden in Georgia in an Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll released Tuesday ahead of an Atlanta debate …
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Mary Ellen Klas / Bloomberg:
Trump Could Actually Lose Florida.  Here's Why.  —  After two years of Governor Ron DeSantis pushing his extremist agenda, there's a case to be made that voters have had enough of the Republican Party's obsession with culture wars.  —  The Florida Democratic Party insists the state is in play in November …
Discussion: The Floridian and Alternet.org
Kimberly Leonard / Politico:
Florida not a battleground, Biden campaign chair says
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Introducing Our 2024 Poll Tracker
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Scoop: 16 Nobel economists see a Trump inflation bomb … - “While each of us has different views on the particulars of various economic policies, we all agree that Joe Biden's economic agenda is vastly superior to Donald Trump,” the 16 economists write in a letter, first obtained by Axios.
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Andrew Stanton / Newsweek:
Donald Trump May ‘Reignite’ Inflation, Nobel Prize-Winning Economists Warn  —  A coalition of Nobel Prize-winning economists has warned about inflation if former President  —  wins the presidential election.  —  President  —  and Trump are set to face off in the November election, and inflation remains a key issue in the race.
Lee Moran / HuffPost:   16 Nobel Economists Warn Second Donald Trump Term Would Mean 1 Thing
Maayan Lubell / Reuters:
Israel supreme court rules religious seminary students must be drafted to military  —  Israel's Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that the state must begin drafting ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary students into the military, a decree which creates new political strains for embattled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Aaron Boxerman / New York Times:
Israeli Military Must Draft Ultra-Orthodox Jews, Supreme Court Rules
Aysha Bagchi / USA Today:
Donald Trump hush money gag on witnesses and jurors lifted, but prosecutors remain protected  —  Former President Donald Trump was freed on Tuesday from gag order restrictions that protected witnesses and jurors in his hush money case, although prosecutors and the family members …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Why Jamaal Bowman's New York primary is huge for pro-Israel groups  —  An AIPAC-aligned super PAC and others have spent increasingly huge sums of money in high-profile Democratic primaries.  Their record is mixed, but a Bowman defeat would be their biggest win yet.
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Politico:
Playbook: Jamaal Bowman might need a miracle
Discussion: Mediaite and IJR
Devi Shastri / Associated Press:
Infant mortality rate rose 8% in wake of Texas abortion ban, study shows  —  In the wake of Texas' abortion ban, the state's infant death rate increased and more died of birth defects, a study published Monday shows.  —  The analysis out of Johns Hopkins University is the latest research …
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Annalisa Merelli / STAT:
Infant deaths increased after Texas banned abortion in early pregnancy
John Paul Tasker / CBC News:
Conservatives win longtime Liberal stronghold Toronto-St. Paul's in shock byelection result  —  Stunning result raises questions about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's future  —  Conservative candidate Don Stewart has won the longtime federal Liberal stronghold of Toronto-St. Paul's …
Discussion: The Hub and Toronto Sun
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Kyle Duggan / Politico:
Justin Trudeau gets a wakeup call
Discussion: Bloomberg, Reuters and The Hub
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Ethics investigation adds to troubles for GOP's Ronny Jackson  —  Rep. Ronny Jackson didn't need another controversy.  The Texas Republican is nevertheless facing an advancing investigation from the House Ethics Committee.  —  During his relatively brief tenure as a political figure …
Eric Berger / The Guardian:
Conservative US lawmakers are pushing for an end to no-fault divorce  —  Republicans in Louisiana, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Texas have discussed eliminating or restricting such cases  —  Some prominent conservative lawmakers and commentators are advocating for ending no-fault divorce …
Discussion: New Jersey Online
Sarah Mervosh / New York Times:
Oklahoma Supreme Court Says No to State Funding for a Religious Charter School  —  In a closely watched case, Oklahoma's highest court blocked what was set to become the nation's first religious charter school.  An appeal is likely.  —  The Oklahoma Supreme Court blocked on Tuesday …
CNN:
Biden expected to pardon veterans convicted under military law banning gay sex, officials say  —  President Joe Biden is expected to pardon US veterans who were convicted by the military over a 60-year period under a military law that banned gay sex, three US officials told CNN.
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
Charlie Kirk once unified conservative youth for Trump.  Why are Republicans now turning on him?  —  Kirk's non-profit, Turning Point Action, is planning a $100m ‘chase the vote’ operation to help propel the ex-president to the White House, but his outsized influence is being subjected to scrutiny
Politico:
House GOP passes on using funding bills to target Trump prosecutors — for now  —  House Republicans are bypassing a major tool they said they could use to target former President Donald Trump's prosecutors — at least for now.  Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee …
Evelyne Musambi / Associated Press:
Kenya's parliament burns as protesters object to new taxes.  Clashes spread and bodies are counted  —  (AP video shot by: Jackson Njehia and Idi Ali Juma)  —  Anti-tax protesters enter Kenya's parliament as clashes with police intensify, resulting in deaths
 
 
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Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Austin and Russia's New Defense Minister Speak via Phone for the First Time
Discussion: Reuters
PBS NewsHour:
Depletion of major groundwater source threatens Great Plains farming
Kate O'Keeffe / Bloomberg:
Huawei's Secret Ally in the US-China Tech War: A Science Nonprofit Based in DC
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
RFK Jr. border fixes: Wall, 2,600 more agents, ‘Remain in Mexico’
Discussion: RedState and Reuters
Mikhail Zygar / Vanity Fair:
Putin Is Banking On a Trump Win for His New World Order
Discussion: Raw Story
Kerry Breen / CBS News:
World War II POW from Louisiana accounted for 82 years after Bataan Death March
Discussion: RedState
Politico:
Courts block part of Biden's student loan repayment plan for millions
 Earlier Items: 
New York Times:
Assange Agrees to Plead Guilty in Exchange for Release, Ending Standoff With U.S.
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
Fox News returns to “migrant crime” fixation as migrant crossings, crime plummet
Discussion: The Guardian and Blaze Media
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
From Virginia to Colorado, MAGA infighting during primaries puts the GOP into disarray
Ellen Barry / New York Times:
Surgeon General Declares Gun Violence a Public Health Crisis
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
One question Trump must be asked in the debate
 

 
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Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Filing: Trump asks SCOTUS to pause the law that could ban TikTok, saying the court should give him time to “pursue a political resolution” of the dispute

CBS News:
Greg Gumbel, a CBS Sports anchor and commentator who covered the NFL and college basketball for more than 20 years, died at 78 of cancer

Youkyung Lee / Bloomberg:
Shares of South Korean entertainment companies related to Squid Game drop 20%+ following a less-than-perfect debut for the new season of the series on Netflix
 
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