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Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Biden administration removes Rodney Scott as head of U.S. Border Patrol  —  The Biden administration has forced out the head of the U.S. Border Patrol, Rodney Scott, clearing a path for a leadership overhaul at an agency strained by a 20-year-high in illegal border crossings …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Kamala Harris is set to visit the border  —  Vice President Kamala Harris is heading to the U.S.-Mexico border this week, amid an unrelenting chorus of criticism from Republicans over her failure to visit there.  —  Harris, who was tasked by President Joe Biden to lead diplomatic efforts …
Eileen Sullivan / New York Times:   Biden administration forces out border patrol chief, a supporter of Trump's policies.
Washington Post:
In sentencing regretful Capitol protester, federal judge rebukes Republicans  —  U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth castigated Republican lawmakers on Wednesday for downplaying the violence of the mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, saying in handing down the first sentence …
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Alanna Durkin Richer / Associated Press:
No jail time in 1st riot sentence; Oath Keeper pleads guilty  —  An Indiana woman on Wednesday became the first defendant to be sentenced in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and avoided time behind bars, while a member of the Oath Keepers extremist group pleaded guilty in a conspiracy case …
Discussion: WINK NEWS and Bloomberg
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
New videos show Capitol rioters attacking police line from officers' point of view  —  New bodycam video released of rioters attacking police at Capitol  —  (CNN)The Justice Department released six never-before-seen clips of police body-camera and surveillance footage showing rioters harassing …
Discussion: Raw Story, NPR and Daily Kos
CNN:
Judge rebukes GOP for downplaying US Capitol riot as he hands out first sentence in insurrection
Discussion: UPI, NBC News and KCTV
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Staving Off G.O.P. Attacks, Democrats Show New Urgency on Crime  —  A strong showing by Eric Adams in the New York mayoral race and President Biden's announcement of a new crime-fighting agenda signal a shift by Democrats toward themes of public safety.  —  Facing a surge in shootings …
Discussion: HotAir and New York Post
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Andy Newman / New York Times:
N.Y.C. Mayoral Race Live Updates: Ranked-Choice Could Give Wiley and Garcia a Win, But It Is an Uphill Battle  —  Eric Adams holds a commanding lead in the race for the Democratic nomination.  The winner might not be known for weeks.  —  Here's what you need to know:  —  Can Wiley or Garcia still win?
Alex Pareene / New Republic:
Centrist Pundits' Supposedly Savvy, Terribly Wrong Takes About the New York Mayoral Race  —  Savvy guys like Matt Yglesias, the newsletter writer and former Vox and Slate blogger, sometimes critique bad political punditry by pointing out that it often boils down to saying things like …
Discussion: Breitbart and New York Post
David Freedlander / New York Magazine:
The Mayor's Race Isn't (Quite) Decided Yet
Discussion: New York Post and Washington Post
Sam Mintz / Politico:
Senators say a deal with the White House is in hand on infrastructure  —  A group of bipartisan senators said Wednesday evening that they had agreed with the White House on a framework for an infrastructure package and will brief President Joe Biden in person Thursday on the details.
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
White House, bipartisan group agree on infrastructure framework  —  The White House and a bipartisan group of senators struck a tentative deal on Wednesday for the framework of a roughly $1.2 trillion infrastructure package, Senate aides familiar with the negotiations told Axios.
Eric Kleefeld / Media Matters for America:
“From POTUS”: Trump wanted Justice Department to investigate a QAnon-linked election conspiracy theory
Discussion: Politico and National Review
Homer Wilkes / The White House:
President Biden Announces 17 Key Nominations  —  WASHINGTON - Today, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate the following 17 individuals to serve in key roles:  — Michael Carpenter, Nominee for U.S. Representative to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), with rank of Ambassador
Discussion: UPI, Politico and Breitbart
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Annie Karni / New York Times:
Cindy McCain is Biden's choice for ambassador to the U.N.'s food program.  —  President Biden announced Wednesday that he was nominating Cindy McCain, the widow of former Senator John McCain, as ambassador to the United Nations World Food Programme, giving the post to a longtime Republican friend …
Ana Ceballos / Tampa Bay Times:
State university faculty, students to be surveyed on beliefs  —  Gov. Ron DeSantis suggested that budget cuts could be looming if universities and colleges are found to be “indoctrinating” students.  —  TALLAHASSEE — In his continued push against the “indoctrination” of students …
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Travis Gettys / Raw Story:   ‘Florida goes full fascist’: Ron DeSantis sparks furious backlash with ‘authoritarian’ campus political surveys
CNN:
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner distance themselves from the former President and his constant complaints  —  (CNN)With each passing day away from Washington, former President Donald Trump's grievances continue unabated.  And those complaints appear to be driving away two of the people …
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Jonathan D. Salant / New Jersey Online:   Secret Service paid Trump to stay at his N.J. golf club while protecting him as president. Here's the total bill.
Amber Jamieson / BuzzFeed News:
A Former NRA President Was Tricked Into Speaking At A Fake High School Graduation  —  In a speech to the James Madison Academy 2021 graduating class, David Keene, a former NRA president and current board member of the gun rights group, called on the teens to fight those looking to implement tighter gun restrictions.
Discussion: Insider and Mediaite
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
John McAfee found dead of apparent suicide in Spanish jail after court approves his extradition for tax crimes  — Eccentric antivirus software company founder John McAfee was found dead of suspected suicide in a jail in Barcelona, Spain.  — McAfee died shortly after Spain's National Court approved …
Politico:
‘The Tea Party to the 10th power’: Trumpworld bets big on critical race theory  —  Former top aides to President Donald Trump have begun an aggressive push to combat the teaching of critical race theory and capitalize on the issue politically, confident that a backlash will vault them back into power.
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Olivia Krauth / Courier-Journal:
Protesters, driven by disdain for critical race theory, derail JCPS school board meeting
Discussion: Raw Story
Carl Zimmer / New York Times:
Scientist Finds Early Virus Sequences That Had Been Mysteriously Deleted  —  By rooting through files stored on Google Cloud, a researcher says he recovered 13 early coronavirus sequences that had disappeared from a database last year.  —  About a year ago, genetic sequences …
Discussion: ScienceAlert, Twitchy and New York Post
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Nina Totenberg / NPR:
Supreme Court Restricts Police Powers To Enter A Home Without A Warrant  —  The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that police cannot always enter a home without a warrant when pursuing someone for a minor crime.  —  The court sent the case back to the lower court to decide if the police violated …
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Jordan Lancaster / The Daily Caller:
REPORT: Brian Stelter's Wife Accused Of Workplace Bullying  —  CNN host Brian Stelter's wife has been accused of workplace bullying by anonymous colleagues, according to a New York Magazine report published Wednesday.  —  The piece claims there was an alleged hostile work environment at the news station, NY1.
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Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
Flesh Peddling To Own the Libs  —  Raymond Arroyo is the perfect distillation of modern conservatism.  —  4 hr ago  —  1. Victoria's Secret  —  If you want to see the single purest distillation of modern conservatism so far in existence, I beg you to watch the first three minutes …
Discussion: The Ringer
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Majority believes COVID-19 leaked from lab in China  —  No direct scientific evidence has been made public that conclusively proves either perspective  —  Newly resurfaced report from U.S. scientists says Wuhan lab leak theory is ‘plausible’
Discussion: The Hill, Power Line and Political Wire
New York Post:
Curtis Sliwa gives an inside look of what life is like with 15 cats  —  It's the purrrfect apartment.  —  The Post got an exclusive look inside Curtis Sliwa's tiny Upper West Side studio apartment Wednesday — after the newly minted GOP mayoral nominee revealed that he and his wife share the space with 15 rescue cats.
Discussion: Fox News
Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots:
The Shark Attack Party  —  How panic porn shapes our politics  —  In the Before Times, you could always tell that it was a slow news day when we got lots of stories about the crisis of shark attacks.  Even now, we have a taste for the panic porn.  —  Fox News News reports: “Shark attack prompts dramatic rescue at Florida beach.”
Wall Street Journal:
Afghan Government Could Collapse Six Months After U.S. Withdrawal, New Intelligence Assessment Says  —  Taliban advances prompt agencies to revise outlook for how long Kabul can hold out  —  KABUL—The U.S. intelligence community concluded last week that the government of Afghanistan …
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Merrick Garland is the wrong man for the job  —  Attorney General Merrick Garland on Tuesday made clear that he has decided to let bygones be bygones.  I can only imagine the reaction from the scores of former Justice Department lawyers who spent four years writing pleas to their ex-colleagues …
Rob Crilly / Daily Mail:
Congress demands investigation into the ‘super-spreader’ Wuhan Military Games in October 2019 where athletes from several countries ‘got sick with COVID symptoms’ and recalled streets being locked down - two months before China reported their first case  — A string of athletes said they got sick …
Ted Nesi / WPRI-TV:
Sen. Whitehouse's beach club says accusations of all-white membership are ‘inaccurate and false’  —  You have been added to Nesi's Notes Newsletter  —  Nesi's Notes  —  NEWPORT, R.I. (WPRI) — The leaders of the private beach club tied to U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse broke their silence Wednesday …
Discussion: CNN, The Hill and National Review
Reuters:
Partisan war over teaching history and racism stokes tensions in U.S. schools  —  The school board of Virginia's wealthy Loudoun County had planned to hold a routine meeting to close out the school year.  Instead, it was pandemonium.  —  Many of the hundreds of parents who flooded …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Brian Flood / Fox News:
Joy Reid's MSNBC show has worst week ever, sets viewership lows in multiple categories  —  ‘The ReidOut’ averaged 1.2 million total viewers for its smallest audience since the far-left program began  —  MSNBC's “The ReidOut” with Joy Reid had its worst week ever from June 14-18 …
Jack Jenkins / Religion News Service:
Jesse Jackson, William Barber arrested protesting filibuster and Manchin  —  The Rev. Jesse Jackson, right, was arrested alongside the Rev. William Barber II during the protest on June 23, 2021, outside the Hart Senate Building.  RNS photo by Jack Jenkins  —  WASHINGTON (RNS) …
Discussion: The Sun
 
 
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Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times:
Biden pushes for high-level meetings with Beijing officials
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Jerry Dunleavy / Washington Examiner:
Hunter Biden holds stake in Chinese firm that invested in companies sanctioned by US
Discussion: Breitbart
Laura Zornosa / New York Times:
Unanimous Vote Is Final Step Toward Removing Roosevelt Statue
Discussion: New York Post, Breitbart and IJR
Dhruv Khullar / New Yorker:
The Delta Variant Is a Grave Danger to the Unvaccinated
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Paul Blest / VICE:
Here's the Tweet Matt Gaetz Tried to Delete About the FBI
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Connor O'Brien / Politico:
Top general fires back at ‘offensive’ criticism of military being ‘woke’
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Why won't the national media cover the story Americans care about most?
Luis Ferré-Sadurní / New York Times:
India Walton, a socialist candidate, stuns longtime incumbent in Buffalo mayor's race.
Jonathan Oosting / Bridge Michigan:
GOP investigation finds no Michigan vote fraud, deems many claims ‘ludicrous’
 

 
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