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6:45 PM ET, June 30, 2021

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Corinne Ramey / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Organization and CFO Allen Weisselberg Expected to Be Charged Thursday  —  The Manhattan district attorney's first charges in three-year probe will focus on alleged tax-related crimes at former president's company  —  The Manhattan district attorney's office is expected to charge …
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Washington Post:
Trump's company is told to expect criminal charges Thursday, a dramatic turn in years-long probe of former president's business dealings
Discussion: New York Times and The New Neo
Pew Research Center:
Behind Biden's 2020 Victory  —  An examination of the 2020 electorate, based on validated voters  —  Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand how Americans voted in 2020 and how their turnout and vote choices differed from 2016 and 2018.  For this analysis …
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Danielle Kurtzleben / NPR:
We Just Got Our Clearest Picture Yet Of How Biden Won In 2020  —  We know that Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election (regardless of what former President Trump and his allies say).  We just haven't had a great picture of how he won.  —  ...that is, until today …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Steven Shepard / Politico:
New poll shows how Trump surged with women and Hispanics — and lost anyway  —  Every piece of evidence since the November election suggests Donald Trump made significant inroads among blocs of voters thought to be out of reach to the controversial now-former president.
Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
House votes to create select committee for investigating Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol  —  The House voted Wednesday to form a select committee tasked with investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol with nearly all Republicans opposing the legislation — a sign of the political challenges …
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Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
House approves select panel to probe Jan. 6 attack
Maura Gillespie / Congressman Adam Kinzinger:
Rep. Kinzinger: “We Need a Full Accounting for January 6th”
Discussion: CNN and The Guardian
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Jazz Shaw / HotAir:
Bill Cosby gets his walking papers
Discussion: Washington Examiner and NBC News
Graham Bowley / New York Times:
Bill Cosby Freed as Court Overturns His Sex Assault Conviction
Washington Post:
UNC board weighs tenure for journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones after uproar over inaction on job protection  —  Trustees of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill met Wednesday afternoon in a closed-door session that could lead to a vote on tenure for Nikole Hannah-Jones …
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Amanda Becker / The 19th:
Nikole Hannah-Jones receives tenure offer from UNC after backlash  —  Her 1619 Project is at the center of a political battle over what students can learn about race in America.  —  The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's board of trustees voted 9-4 on Wednesday to grant tenure …
Discussion: Washington Post and Slow Boring
New York Times:
Day of Rage: An In-Depth Look at How a Mob Stormed the Capitol  —  “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic, for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”  [cheering] They came from all 50 states …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Stephen Breyer, and why Thursday is a huge day for the future of the Supreme Court  —  Relatively few people are talking about it right now, but Thursday (and perhaps the days to come) could be one of the most pivotal moments in recent Supreme Court history.
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Experts Debate Reducing the Supreme Court's Power to Strike Down Laws  —  In its first public hearing with witnesses, President Biden's reform commission largely stayed away from the idea of expanding the court.  —  Legal experts clashed on Wednesday over the wisdom of proposals to reduce …
Politico:
Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld dies at the age of 88  —  Donald Rumsfeld, the secretary of Defense under both Gerald Ford and George W. Bush, has died.  He was 88.  —  Rumsfeld passed away surrounded by relatives in Taos, N.M., his family said in a statement.
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Bradley Graham / Washington Post:
Donald Rumsfeld, influential but controversial Bush defense secretary, dies at 88
Discussion: Political Wire
Politico:
‘Not a healthy environment’: Kamala Harris' office rife with dissent  —  When Vice President Kamala Harris finally made the decision to visit the Mexico border last week, people inside her own office were blindsided by the news.  —  For days, aides and outside allies had been calling …
Nikki Schwab / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE - The ‘blood feud’ between Jared and Kellyanne: Kushner thought Conway was an ‘idiot’ and tried to get her fired - before she threw him under the bus over Trump's Bible photo-op during George Floyd protests  — Michael Bender writes about the years-long feud between Conway and Kushner
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Katie Rogers / New York Times:
The Trump Books Are Coming. Cue the War of the Excerpts.
Discussion: NPR
Jim Brunner / The Seattle Times:
Washington lawmaker wears yellow Star of David, evoking Nazi persecution, to protest COVID vaccine mandates  —  A Washington state lawmaker critical of COVID-19 vaccine mandates wore a yellow Star of David at a speech over the weekend — a symbol the Nazis forced Jews to wear during the Holocaust.
Jon Ward / Yahoo News:
New York City election debacle further undermines confidence in elections  —  mishandling of the vote count in the high-profile mayoral race has thrown that contest into confusion, but the city's debacle has significant national import as well.  —  Confidence in elections nationwide …
Discussion: Slate, Townhall, UPI, TheGrio and Raw Story
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Emily VanDerWerff / Vox:
A sci-fi writer got meta about gender.  The internet responded by ruining her life.  —  Isabel Fall's sci-fi story “I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter” drew the ire of the internet.  This is what happened next.  —  “In a war zone, it is not safe to be unknown.
Andrew Solender / Forbes:
Trump Ranks 41st Of 44 Presidents In Survey Of Historians As Obama Cracks Top 10  —  Former President Donald Trump came just short of being ranked dead last among America's presidents in a newly released survey of presidential historians as his predecessor, former President Barack Obama made his way into the top 10.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Slate and Politico
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Ron Johnson's anti-science crusade sets back the drive to vaccinate more people in Wisconsin  —  COVID-19 is still killing people in Wisconsin — nearly all of them people who have not been fully vaccinated, state health officials say.  —  And that's why Ron Johnson's news conference Monday was so disheartening.
Discussion: The Hill and USA Today
ABC News:
‘Perfect storm’: Bulletin warns of extremist violence as pandemic restrictions lift  —  No specific threat was mentioned for Independence Day.  —  Federal authorities are deeply concerned about the possibility of domestic terror and violence, including mass shootings, as the Fourth …
Discussion: The Root, Raw Story and Politico
Katherine Doyle / Washington Examiner:
DeSantis feuds with Trump over Florida rally amid search for survivors in Surfside  —  Former President Donald Trump is rejecting pleas from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to postpone a campaign-style rally this weekend some 200 miles from the Miami suburb where an international search-and-rescue mission …
Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
China is building more than 100 new missile silos in its western desert, analysts say  —  China has begun construction of what independent experts say are more than 100 new silos for intercontinental ballistic missiles in a desert near the northwestern city of Yumen, a building spree …
Discussion: Political Wire and Foreign Policy
John McCormack / National Review:
Paul Gosar Showed His True Colors Months Ago  —  The Arizona congressman has forged an alliance with a vile racist and anti-Semite.  —  Late Monday night, a flyer began circulating on Twitter that advertised an upcoming fundraiser hosted by Nicholas Fuentes, a vile racist and anti-Semite …
Matt Taibbi / TK News:
Our Endless Dinner With Robin DiAngelo  —  Suburban America's self-proclaimed racial oracle returns with a monumentally oblivious sequel to “White Fragility” … Nice Racism, the booklike product released this week by the “Vanilla Ice of Antiracism,” Robin DiAngelo, begins with an anecdote from the author's past.
Allahpundit / HotAir:
NSA: We never targeted Tucker Carlson's communications with an eye to getting him kicked off the air  —  As others have noted, this statement is slippery in what it does and doesn't deny. … Does that mean they did target his communications, just without plans to use those communications against him politically?
The Guardian:
How bad is the rise in US homicides?  Factchecking the ‘crime wave’ narrative police are pushing  —  Homicides were up across the US in 2020 and appeared to be primarily driven by rising gun violence, but other crimes fell  —  There's been a wave of media coverage this summer about an increase …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Tom Davies / Associated Press:
Federal judge blocks Indiana ‘abortion reversal’ law  —  A federal judge has blocked a new Indiana law that would require doctors to tell women undergoing drug-induced abortions about a disputed treatment for potentially stopping the abortion process  —  INDIANAPOLIS — A federal judge …
Discussion: National Review and Insider
 
 
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The White House:
President Biden Names Fifth Round of Judicial Nominees
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Kennedy's Presidency Accomplished Little, But His Historic Myth Endures
Discussion: Mediaite, Washingtonian and The Hill
CNN:
Avlon: NYC Board of Elections needs to be ripped up by the roots
Discussion: NBC News and Insider
Ana Ceballos / Tampa Bay Times:
DeSantis vetoes bipartisan bill that would have expunged minors' criminal records
Discussion: The Hill and Florida Politics
Marisa Iati / Washington Post:
Their grandparents' landline from the collapsed condo kept calling. They still don't have answers.
Discussion: Insider
Marissa Martinez / Politico:
Rep. Adam Smith pushes back against private funding for National Guard deployment
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
David Harsanyi / National Review:
Who Really Wants to Defund the Police? Democrats, That's Who
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Axios:
Exclusive: White House signals “clean” standard push in budget reconciliation
Discussion: Common Dreams
Lydia DePillis / ProPublica:
This Company Got a $10 Million PPP Loan, Then Closed Its Plant and Moved Manufacturing Jobs to Mexico
Discussion: TheBlaze
Wall Street Journal:
Democratic-Leaning Suburbs Pose Redistricting Challenge for GOP
Scott Wong / The Hill:
‘I want to cry’: House Republicans take emotional trip to the border
Discussion: Breitbart and The Daily Caller
Barbara Sprunt / NPR:
The House Votes To Remove Confederate Statues In The U.S. Capitol
Christina Vazquez / WPLG-TV:
‘Something inside me said run’: Surfside survivor describes escaping as building came down
Discussion: CNN, WSVN-TV and KRDO