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9:20 AM ET, July 7, 2024

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Mark Thiessen / Associated Press:
Hawaii governor says Biden could decide within days whether to remain in the presidential race  —  U.S. President Joe Biden could make a decision within days whether to remain a candidate for reelection, said Hawaii's governor who participated in a recent meeting with Biden and other Democratic governors …
Discussion: Fox News
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Bill Barrow / Associated Press:
At Essence, Black Democrats rally behind Biden and talk up Kamala Harris, but she avoids the drama  —  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — As President Joe Biden tries to revive his embattled reelection bid, Vice President Kamala Harris led a parade of Black Democrats who warned Saturday that the threat …
Alex Thompson / Axios:
Biden's team drafted the questions for his first post-debate interviews … - WURD is the only African-American owned and operated talk radio station in Pennsylvania, but the White House's director of Black media was not part of the process.  — It is the latest instance of the White House continuing …
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Biden Aides Provided Questions in Advance for His Radio Interviews
The Philadelphia Inquirer:
The lingering focus on Biden's shaky debate obscures Trump's major verbal miscues  —  President Joe Biden dug himself a hole and now he is trying to climb out.  But many fellow Democrats and some in the media keep shoveling dirt on him.One 20-minute TV interview was never going to swing …
Discussion: ABC News
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Politico:
Secret Meetings, Private Threats and a Massive Arms Race: How the World is Preparing for Trump  —  In 2016, no one in the world was ready for President Trump.  America's NATO allies aren't making the same mistake this time.  —  In Brussels, NATO officials have devised a plan to lock …
Discussion: Politico and New York Times
Bryan Schott / Salt Lake Tribune:
Mike Lee spreads fake claim of Biden medical emergency on Air Force One  —  Utah Senator then attacked media for being untrustworthy, during frenzied posting on social media  —  On Friday evening, Utah Sen. Mike Lee used his personal X/Twitter account to amplify a baseless claim …
Discussion: Alternet.org and PoliticusUSA
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Melissa Goldin / Associated Press:
FACT FOCUS: Online reports falsely claim Biden suffered a ‘medical emergency’ on Air Force One  —  False reports that President Joe Biden had a “medical emergency” while traveling back to Delaware on Friday after a campaign stop in Wisconsin, spread widely on social media on Friday.  They were without merit.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Gateway Pundit
Annie Karni / New York Times:
McCarthy's Revenge Tour Rolls On, With Mixed Results … Kevin McCarthy, the former House speaker, held his leadership role for 269 days.T.J. Kirkpatrick for The New York Times  —  During the awkward interlude after he was ousted from the speakership but before he resigned from Congress …
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Wildlife Protections Take a Back Seat to SpaceX's Ambitions … Starship, the upper stage of SpaceX's new rocket, at its launchpad in Boca Chica, Texas.  Conservationists are concerned with the environmental impact space operations have on the area.  —  As Elon Musk's Starship …
Owen Lavine / The Daily Beast:
Former Trump Advisor Stephen Miller Denies Involvement With Project 2025, Ad Says Otherwise  —  WE GOT THE RECEIPTS  —  Former Trump advisor Stephen Miller claimed he has “never been involved with Project 2025” in a post on X on Saturday, however, a video on the Project 2025 YouTube channel says otherwise.
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Joyce Vance / Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance:
Trump's Project 2025  —  We know that Donald Trump was fixated on polls Friday morning.
NBC News:
'It's Shakespearean': Long-simmering tensions between Biden's family and aides spill out  —  Biden has taken full responsibility for his debate performance, saying in an interview on Friday it was “nobody's fault but mine.”  —  President Joe Biden's family is attempting to become more involved …
Charles Gasparino / New York Post:
America may soon be subjected to the country's first DEI president: Kamala Harris  —  There is a raging debate in corporate America on the future of DEI, aka Diversity Equity and Inclusion, because it is literally destroying businesses that go there.  —  And yet the American public may soon …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Raw Story
Lauren Floyd / Axios:
Trump wins delay in classified documents case … - It's an opinion that Trump has used to throw a wrench in prosecutors' plans although the SCOTUS decision on July 1 failed to clarify whether his alleged conduct on Jan. 6 was protected. … - Trump's attorneys have also used presidential immunity …
Associated Press:
Hamas clears the way for a possible cease-fire in Gaza after dropping key demand, officials say  —  (AP video/Abdel Kareem Hana, Production: Wafaa Shurafa)  —  ‘Even if we had money, there are no goods’: Palestinians at Gaza refugee camp suffer food shortages
 
 
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Radley Balko / The Watch:
The Supreme Court folds
Discussion: Washington Post
The Guardian:
The French republic is under threat. We are 1,000 historians and we cannot remain silent
Discussion: Reuters and emptywheel
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Jon Levine / New York Post:
President Biden's physician met with Parkinson's disease specialist in White House
Rebecca Solnit / The Guardian:
Why is the pundit class so desperate to push Biden out of the race?
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Financial Times:
Sources: Mathias Döpfner and KKR near a deal to split up Axel Springer, valuing the company at €13.5B; KKR would get control of the €10B+ classifieds business

Peter Beaumont / The Guardian:
The Jewish Chronicle removes a series of sensational articles relating to the Gaza war after claims that they were fabricated by freelance journalist Elon Perry

Max Tani / Semafor:
As NYT's tech staff guild, which has never secured a contract, threatens to strike, NYT says those staffers average ~$190K/year, $40K more than NYT journalists
 
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