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5:25 AM ET, June 29, 2021

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Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
Trump lawyer: Manhattan DA won't charge former president  —  Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance has indicated he does not currently plan to charge the Trump Organization with crimes related to allegations of “hush money” payments and real estate value manipulations, according to a personal lawyer for Donald Trump.
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Organization Lawyers Make Last-Ditch Effort to Avoid New York Charges  —  The company's lawyers told the Manhattan district attorney's office it is being unfairly targeted in an investigation that could result in charges this week  —  Lawyers representing the Trump Organization …
New York Times:
Trump's Lawyers Make Late Bid to Fend Off Charges Against His Business  —  An indictment against the business, the Trump Organization, and a top executive, Allen Weisselberg, could come as soon as this week in Manhattan.  —  Lawyers for Donald J. Trump's family business mounted a last-ditch effort …
Amy Graff / SFGATE:
It's so hot in the Pacific Northwest that roads are buckling  —  It's so hot in the Pacific Northwest that roads are buckling.  —  Asphalt and concrete roadways are expanding and cracking and even Interstate 5 has been impacted amid a heat wave that has sent temperatures soaring to dangerous levels.
Discussion: Washington Post and HuffPost
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Andrew Freedman / Axios:
Pacific Northwest heat wave reaches astonishing peak on Monday  —  The extraordinary heat wave that's stifling the Pacific Northwest will peak in many areas on Monday, with Seattle forecast to smash its all-time high-temperature record by about 7°F, an almost unheard-of margin for an all-time record …
Joe Biden / Yahoo News:
Americans can be proud of the infrastructure deal  —  I have always believed that there is nothing our nation can't do when we decide to do it together.  Last week, we began to write a new chapter in that story.  —  After weeks of negotiations, a bipartisan group of United States senators forged …
Discussion: Politico and Washington Post
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Washington Post:
Biden tries to move beyond flubbed rollout of infrastructure deal  —  White House counselor Steve Ricchetti's message to moderate Republicans late last week was soothing: President Biden will clarify that he didn't mean it when he said he'd veto a bipartisan infrastructure deal unless it was accompanied by a more sweeping liberal bill.
CNN:
How Biden and his team rushed to save him from his infrastructure blunder
Discussion: Daily Herald
Miami Herald:
Two days before condo collapse, a pool contractor photographed this damage in garage  —  There was nothing unusual about the lobby and pool area at Champlain Towers South condo, which looked clean and well maintained to a commercial pool contractor who visited the building last Tuesday …
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Miami Herald:
Death toll hits 11 in Champlain condo collapse on fifth day of search for 150 missing  —  The fifth day of an unprecedented international rescue effort brought only grim news: Two more bodies were pulled from the twisted metal-and-concrete ruins of Champlain Towers South …
Cameron Easley / Morning Consult:
U.S. Conservatives Are Uniquely Inclined Toward Right-Wing Authoritarianism Compared to Western Peers  —  Global Morning Consult data reveals a distinctive authoritarian bent in the American right  — A scale measuring propensity toward right-wing authoritarian tendencies found right …
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump blasts McConnell over claims in book about election
Kurt Bardella / USA Today:
Republicans are terrified of Capitol attack truths and Democrats must find out why  —  Let Republicans complain that the Jan. 6 investigation is unfair.  The facts will speak for themselves.  The evidence and testimony will tell the story.  —  The last time a House speaker set …
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Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
Chris Christie's book ‘Republican Rescue’ coming this fall
Discussion: Washington Post and HotAir
Luke Money / Los Angeles Times:
L.A. County urges everyone to wear masks indoors as Delta variant spreads  —  With the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus continuing to spread statewide, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is recommending that all residents wear masks in public indoor spaces …
Roland Li / San Francisco Chronicle:
Californians are fueling Austin's housing frenzy: 'We've never seen migration like this'  —  AUSTIN, Texas — The metro area of this capital city grows by around 180 people every day, a boom that's made it the country's fastest-growing major region for the past decade.
Discussion: Breitbart
The Criterion Collection:
The Criterion Channel's July 2021 Lineup  —  Next month brings a bevy of femmes fatales, gumshoes, crooks, and con artists to the Channel with a twenty-seven-film spotlight on the neonoir thrillers that updated one of Hollywood's richest genres for the post-studio-system era.
The Daily Beast:
YouTube Bans and Then Unbans Right Wing Watch, a Media Watchdog Devoted to Exposing Right-Wing Conspiracies  —  Right Wing Watch was banned while the right-wing extremists they merely exposed via the platform continue to publish misinformation on YouTube.  —  After left-wing media watchdog …
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Marshall Cohen / CNN:
Book bombshells reveal depths of Trump's 2020 delusions  —  Washington (CNN)Excerpts from three upcoming books revealed previously unknown efforts by then-President Donald Trump to abuse the powers of his office to overturn the 2020 election, deploy the military against racial justice protests and prosecute his political opponents.
Discussion: Fox News, The Sun, KRDO, Jezebel, Breitbart and HotAir
Danielle E. Gaines / Maryland Matters:
‘Guardians of the First Amendment’ Memorial Dedicated in Annapolis  —  A crowd of hundreds gathered in Annapolis on Monday — declared as Freedom of the Press Day in Maryland — for the dedication of a memorial to five slain Capital Gazette employees.  —  Survivors and friends shared memories …
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WBAL:
Annapolis dedicates memorial to 5 killed in newsroom shooting
Discussion: NBC4 Washington
Daniel Hill / News Blog, Riverfront Times:
Inside Gun-Surrendering Criminal Mark McCloskey's Very Sad St. Louis Rally  — They were at least kind enough to wear their signature outfits, which is good because no one would recognize or care about them otherwise.  —  Noted local criminal Mark McCloskey played host to a barbecue/political rally …
David Agren / The Guardian:
Mexico supreme court strikes down laws that ban use of recreational marijuana  —  Adults will be able to apply for permits to grow and consume cannabis after decision that moves country toward legalisation  —  Mexico's supreme court has struck down laws prohibiting the use of recreational marijuana …
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NBC News:
Clarence Thomas says federal laws against marijuana may no longer be necessary
Discussion: Townhall, CNBC, Raw Story and Political Wire
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
Democracies Don't Try to Make Everyone Agree  —  “I've read Karl Marx.  I've read Lenin.  That doesn't make me a Communist.”  — General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaking to the House Armed Services Committee last Thursday  —  “He's not just a pig—he's stupid.”
John Nichols / The Nation:
Mike Gravel Told Americans What Was Being Done in Their Name but Without Their Consent  —  Fifty years ago this week, the senator read the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record.  He never stopped battling war and secrecy.  Gravel died on Saturday.  —  Mike Gravel was a two-term …
Discussion: Jacobin and UPI
Jeffrey Sachs / Arc Digital:
Laws Aimed at Banning Critical Race Theory in K-12 Schools Are a Poorly Written, Misguided Mess  —  Even if you agree with the intention, these laws are a mistake  —  This is the year of the anti-Critical Race Theory bill.  Back in February, I warned of the threat these bills pose …
Discussion: FIRE, HotAir, Reason and Christopher F. Rufo
Robert J. McCarthy / Buffalo News:
Brown launches write-in campaign for mayor as others eye the race  —  Byron W. Brown on Monday launched an unprecedented write-in campaign to reclaim the mayor's office he apparently lost in the June 22 Democratic primary as an increasingly chaotic situation surrounds the victory of newcomer India B. Walton.
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Kelly Khatib / WIVB-TV:
“Write down, Byron Brown”: 4-term Buffalo mayor to seek write-in campaign in November election
Discussion: WKBW-TV and HuffPost
CNN:
Moderate House Democrats are uneasy over Pelosi's infrastructure strategy  —  Mitt Romney on infrastructure: ‘I do trust the president’ - first full block  —  (CNN)Speaker Nancy Pelosi's vow to hold up a bipartisan infrastructure deal until the Senate approves a larger Democratic bill …
Discussion: The Hill, Washington Post and Townhall
Michelle Brutlag Hosick / NCAA.org:
DI Council recommends DI Board adopt name, image and likeness policy  —  Policy preserves rules against pay-for-play and recruiting inducements  —  The Division I Council voted to recommend the Division I Board of Directors adopt an interim policy that would suspend amateurism rules related to name, image and likeness.
Joe Concha / The Hill:
US just finished dead last among 46 countries in media trust — here's why  —  The U.S. media is the least trustworthy in the world, according to a comprehensive new Reuters Institute survey encompassing 46 countries.  —  Yes, you read that right.  The country with among the most resources in this arena …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and OutKick
Nick Cahill / Courthouse News Service:
Newsom Sues Elections Chief to Get Party Preference on Recall Ballot  —  Months before the pending recall, the Democratic governor of California is at risk of being designated without a party preference on ballots destined for millions of voters.  —  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) …
 
 
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Courtney Fischer / ABC7:
Man cuts power to ex's home, breaks in, shoots her 4 times on day of child custody hearing: Deputies
Karen Townsend / HotAir:
Al Gore on CNN: Republicans are putting out “artificial insanity” on 2020 election
Discussion: MSN and UPROXX
Ali Hashem / Al-Monitor:
Raisi's election brings rise of Iran's Hezbollahis
Mary Spicuzza / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
95% of those who've died from COVID-19 in Wisconsin since March weren't vaccinated or fully vaccinated, officials say
Tim Mak / NPR:
Some Proud Boys Are Moving To Local Politics As Scrutiny Of Far-Right Group Ramps Up
Discussion: Raw Story
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Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
Pence faces fierce resistance from GOP's pro-Trump base
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Jerusalem Demsas / Vox:
Why does it cost so much to build things in America?
Brian Flood / Fox News:
CNN's ‘The Lead with Jake Tapper’ has shed 75% of its audience since January
Discussion: RedState and The Daily Caller