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11:00 AM ET, June 27, 2021

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Jonathan D. Karl / The Atlantic:
Inside William Barr's Breakup With Trump  —  Donald Trump is a man consumed with grievance against people he believes have betrayed him, but few betrayals have enraged him more than what his attorney general did to him.  To Trump, the unkindest cut of all was when William Barr stepped forward …
Washington Post:
‘They were on their balconies, screaming:’ The final minutes at Champlain Towers South … SURFSIDE, Fla. — From her fourth-floor balcony, Cassondra Stratton felt a tremor and saw the swimming pool cave in.  She immediately called her husband, Michael, in Denver, 2,000 miles away.
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Washington Post:   Engineer warned of ‘major structural damage’ years before Florida condo building collapsed
Bob Liff / New York Daily News:
Eric Adams' promise: The likely next mayor has tremendous skills and some troubling tendencies  —  Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams' speech Tuesday night — with ranked-choice voting in play, we can't call it a victory speech until the computers work their magic — was a good precursor of an Adams mayoralty.
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Josh Kraushaar / National Journal:
Biden is blowing a golden political opportunity  —  This week, the president could have sealed a bipartisan win on infrastructure and forged a tougher approach on rising violent crime.  He would do well to take a page from Eric Adams's playbook.  —  See more stories about...
Chris Joyner / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
‘Castrate, kill, remove voting rights’: Ex-Marine, Georgia deputy was in extremist cell, feds say  —  When FBI agents in San Diego seized the cell phone of a suspected white supremacist last year, they discovered text messages with a Georgia sheriff's deputy boasting of racial violence and preparations for a civil war.
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy / Arizona Mirror:
Audit leader Doug Logan appears in conspiracy theorist election film  —  The CEO of a Florida-based firm chosen to conduct the review of Maricopa County's election results appeared in a conspiracy theorist film riddled with falsehoods about the 2020 election and directed by a man whose previous work claimed aliens were behind 9/11.
Annie Linskey / Washington Post:
Biden reverses himself on infrastructure, says he would sign bipartisan deal  —  WASHINGTON — President Biden on Saturday reversed a stand he had taken forcefully just two days earlier, saying he would will sign a roughly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package even if he is unable …
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Meridith McGraw / Politico:
Trump dishes the red meat but keeps revenge on ice  —  WELLINGTON, Ohio — Donald Trump's first MAGA rally since leaving the White House was billed as a takedown of one of the 10 Republicans who voted for the then-president's impeachment following the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill riots.
Discussion: National Review and BizPac Review
Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
GOP Candidate Bankrolled Jan. 6 Riot Trip With Campaign Cash  —  Derrick Van Orden barely lost his race to be a Congressman.  But then he used campaign funds to get to D.C. for the Jan. 6 riot.  Now he's running again.  —  Two months after Republican congressional candidate Derrick Van Orden lost …
Discussion: Raw Story
Brendan Cole / Newsweek:
USAA Urged to Pull Fox News Advertisements After Tucker Carlson's Mark Milley Comments  —  There are calls for the United Services Automobile Association (USAA) to stop advertising with Fox News following controversy over the comments by its anchor Tucker Carlson about the country's highest-ranking military officer.
Discussion: HuffPost
Jane Arraf / New York Times:
Royal Drama Unfolds in Court, but a Prince at the Center of It Is Absent  —  Two prominent figures are on trial in Jordan accused of plotting to destabilize the kingdom.  One is an adviser to Saudi Arabia's leader, and the Saudis have been trying to disrupt the trial.
Washington Post:
A grandmother didn't answer her phone during a class.  She was sent back to prison.  —  In the year she was out of prison, Gwen Levi, 76, was thriving.  —  After serving 16 years in different federal facilities for dealing heroin, Levi was allowed to leave last June and finish her 24-year sentence …
Paul Rosenberg / Salon:
She predicted the blue wave — now she's trying to prevent a big red one  —  Now she's trying to stop them from losing it all in 2022  —  Political scientist Rachel Bitecofer made a name for herself as an election analyst who saw the 2018 blue wave coming long before anyone else.
Discussion: Raw Story
Jan Hoffman / New York Times:
As Parents Forbid Covid Shots, Defiant Teenagers Seek Ways to Get Them  —  Most medical consent laws require parental permission for minors to get a vaccine.  Now some places are easing restrictions for Covid shots while others are proposing new ones.  —  Teenagers keep all sorts of secrets from their parents.
Discussion: HotAir
Matt Binder / Mashable:
Inside the shady world of influencers promoting cryptocurrency  —  From FaZe Clan to Tana Mongeau, why are so many influencers shilling altcoins?  —  Everyone knows Kim Kardashian, the influencer and reality TV show star, but do you know Kim Kardashian, the cryptocurrency advocate?
CNN:
GOP lawmaker won't come to CNN, so Jim Acosta went to him.  See what happened  —  CNN's Jim Acosta talks with Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and tries to speak with Congressman Mo Brooks (R-AL) about the January 6th insurrection and conspiracy theories surrounding it.  Source: CNN
Discussion: UPROXX and Mediaite
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Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
Kevin McCarthy may appoint Marjorie Taylor Greene to select committee on Trump's Jan. 6 insurrection
Discussion: CNN
Sarah Maslin Nir / New York Times:
Johnson & Johnson to Pay New York $230 Million to Settle Opioid Case  —  The settlement agreement came just days before opening arguments in a sweeping trial of several defendants, including the company.  —  Johnson & Johnson will pay New York State more than $230 million in a settlement …
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NY State Attorney General:
Attorney General James Reaches $230 Million Settlement for Treatment and Prevention of Opioid Crisis in New York, Johnson & Johnson Ends Sale of Selling Opioids
 
 
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Bryan Mena / Wall Street Journal:
New York and Other Northeast States See Large Drop in Unemployment
Cassidy Morrison / Washington Examiner:
Fewer than half of nursing home staff are vaccinated in more than a dozen states
Discussion: Vox
Jonathan Turley / The Hill:
Politics by other means? Giuliani suspension should worry all lawyers
Discussion: Washington Post and Yahoo News
Mark Landler / New York Times:
British Health Minister, Matt Hancock, Quits After Social Distancing Furor
Victoria Bekiempis / The Guardian:
Democrats cite Ku Klux Klan Act in suits over ‘Trump Train’ Texas bus incident
Matt Pearce / Los Angeles Times:
It's OK to cause some internet drama if you get cut from cheer squad
Philip Oltermann / The Guardian:
‘At first I thought, this is crazy’: the real-life plan to use novels to predict the next war
 Earlier Items: 
Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: White House national security adviser misleadingly describes pipeline company as ‘not Russian’
Nicholas Reimann / Forbes:
Democrats Sue Texas Gov. Greg Abbott After He Strips Legislature Of Funding For 2 Years
theepochtimes.com:
Election Integrity: The Firewall That Keeps America Free
Stundin:
Key witness in Assange case admits to lies in indictment
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
A legendary Chicago newspaper columnist bids farewell — and wonders who will be left to tell her city's tale
Adam Serwer / New York Times:
The Cruel Logic of the Republican Party, Before and After Trump
Discussion: Salon and Lawyers, Guns & Money
 

 
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Pew Research Center:
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Renee DiResta / The Guardian:
How a rightwing smear campaign against NPR and its CEO Katherine Maher, who is on Signal Foundation's board, led Elon Musk to malign Signal

Alexandra Canal / Yahoo Finance:
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