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7:35 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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New York Times:
Inside the Capitol Riot: An Exclusive Video Investigation  —  The Times analyzed thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol Building to understand how it happened — and why.  Here are some of the key findings.  —  In the six months since an angry pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol …
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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 …
Allahpundit / HotAir:
House votes to approve January 6 select committee, with only two Republicans voting yes
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
House approves select panel to probe Jan. 6 attack
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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.
Discussion: NBC News
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Bradley Graham / Washington Post:
Donald Rumsfeld, influential but controversial Bush defense secretary, dies at 88
Discussion: Political Wire
Robert Burns / Associated Press:
Donald Rumsfeld, a cunning leader undermined by Iraq war
Discussion: The Guardian
Amanda Becker / The 19th:
Nikole Hannah-Jones receives tenure offer from UNC after backlash  —  The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's board of trustees voted on Wednesday to grant tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones after initially delaying the customary job protection for the incoming journalism professor …
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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 …
Discussion: NPR, WRAL-TV, The Hill, Mother Jones and Fox News
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 …
Associated Press:
Bill Cosby's sex assault conviction overturned by Pennsylvania Supreme Court  —  PHILADELPHIA - Pennsylvania's highest court overturned Bill Cosby's sex assault conviction Wednesday after finding an agreement with a previous prosecutor prevented him from being charged in the case.
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Maryclaire Dale / Associated Press:
Bill Cosby's sex assault conviction overturned by court
Jazz Shaw / HotAir:
Bill Cosby gets his walking papers
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
Zac Houston / House Republican Leader:
McCarthy Statement on the National Security Agency  —  Washington, D.C. - House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (CA-23) released the following statement on why he's asked House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Ranking Member Devin Nunes (CA-22) to investigate the National Security Agency:
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John Schindler / TOP SECRET UMBRA:   NSA to Tucker: Drop Dead
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, HotAir, TheGrio and UPI
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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
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 …
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 …
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.
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
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.
Daniela Altimari / Hartford Courant:
Lamont vetoes bill sharply limiting solitary confinement in Connecticut prisons, saying it could jeopardize the safety of incarcerated people and staff  —  Gov. Ned Lamont on Wednesday vetoed a bill that would have sharply curtailed the use of solitary confinement in Connecticut prisons …
Keith Griffith / Daily Mail:
Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse's mother claims #FightBack Foundation left him in jail for a MONTH after raising millions needed for bail and says lawyers used him as a ‘ticket out of debt’  — New report examines feuds behind the scenes in Kyle Rittenhouse's defense
Discussion: BizPac Review
Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed News:
An Oath Keeper Will Admit His Group Stashed Guns Outside DC For Jan. 6  —  WASHINGTON — A member of the alleged Oath Keepers conspiracy who cut a deal with prosecutors will admit he stashed guns at a Virginia hotel as part of preparations for demonstrations at the Capitol on Jan. 6.
 
 
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Financial Times:
US and Japan conduct war games amid rising China-Taiwan tensions
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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
 Earlier Items: 
The Guardian:
How bad is the rise in US homicides? Factchecking the ‘crime wave’ narrative police are pushing
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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
Tom Davies / Associated Press:
Federal judge blocks Indiana ‘abortion reversal’ law
Discussion: National Review and Insider
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
Christina Vazquez / WPLG-TV:
‘Something inside me said run’: Surfside survivor describes escaping as building came down
Discussion: CNN, WSVN-TV and KRDO
 

 
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