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Trump Is Said to Have Called Arizona Official After Election Loss — Donald Trump tried to reach the top Republican in metropolitan Phoenix as his allies were trying to overturn the state's 2020 results, according to the official, who said he did not pick up the calls.
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Devoun Cetoute / Miami Herald:
North Miami Beach condo ordered to close, evacuate after inspection said structurally unsafe — The city of North Miami Beach has ordered that Crestview Towers Condominium be immediately closed and evacuated Friday evening after a building inspection report found it to have unsafe structural …
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Deanna Paul / Wall Street Journal:
Alvin Bragg Wins Democratic Nod for Manhattan District Attorney — Runner-up Tali Farhadian Weinstein concedes the race — Alvin Bragg is on the cusp of becoming the first Black Manhattan district attorney after his top rival, Tali Farhadian Weinstein, conceded the race Friday …
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Jonah E. Bromwich / New York Times:
Bragg Set to Be Manhattan's Next D.A., and a Potential Trump Scourge
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NBC News:
'There's just no legal defense': Trump Organization in jeopardy, experts say
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Jennifer Taub / Washington Monthly:
How to Understand the Trump Tax Indictment
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CNN:
Trump's Hill allies could be ensnared in January 6 probe as GOP preps strategy — (CNN)House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has asserted he'd “have no problem talking to anybody” about his conversations with then-President Donald Trump on January 6. That proposition may soon be put to the test.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Nancy Pelosi has backed Kevin McCarthy into a corner
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David Marcus / New York Post:
Ex-Senator Claire McCaskill says Capitol riots were worse than Benghazi
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CNN:
Capitol rioter accompanied members of Congress on trip to US-Mexico border — (CNN)A conservative YouTuber who participated in the January 6 riot accompanied Republican members of Congress on a trip to the border Tuesday night, serving as a translator at times.
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Scott Wong / The Hill:
GOP divided on anti-Biden midterm message
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Kevin Collier / NBC News:
Ransomware attack on software manager hits 200 companies — A successful ransomware attack on a single company has spread to at least 200 organizations, according to cybersecurity firm Huntress Labs, making it one of the single largest criminal ransomware sprees in history.
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New York Times:
Lawmaker Threatens to Subpoena Exxon After Secret Video — The chairman of a powerful House subcommittee said he is seeking answers from Exxon and other oil and gas giants over their role in spreading disinformation on climate change. — The chairman of a House subcommittee is demanding …
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Kate Aronoff / New Republic:
The Biden White House Has an Exxon Problem
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Darren W. Woods / ExxonMobil:
Our position on climate policy and carbon pricing
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Hayes Brown / MSNBC:
Sha'Carri Richardson's drug test suspension is the end result of racist policies … Sha'Carri Richardson should have been spending the next month preparing to win the Olympic gold medal in the 100-meter dash. She had a shot after blazing through the event's qualifying race last month in under 11 seconds.
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Adam Nossiter / New York Times:
As Afghan Forces Crumble, an Air of Unreality Grips the Capital — With the Taliban advancing and U.S. troops leaving, President Ashraf Ghani and his aides have become increasingly insular, and Kabul is slipping into shock. — KABUL, Afghanistan — With his military crumbling …
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Maria Sacchetti / Washington Post:
Biden administration formally launches effort to return deported veterans to U.S. — The Biden administration unveiled plans Friday to bring hundreds, possibly thousands, of deported veterans and their immediate family members back to the United States, saying their removal “failed to live up to our highest values.”
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ARLnow.com:
BREAKING: NWS Confirms Tornado Ripped Through North Arlington Neighborhoods — (Updated at 9:30 p.m.) The National Weather Service has confirmed that a tornado caused the widespread damage seen in several North Arlington neighborhoods today. — The tornado struck around 9 p.m. Thursday night …
Associated Press:
NYC mayoral contenders file lawsuits seeking ballot review — NEW YORK (AP) — All three candidates who are still in the running in New York City's Democratic mayoral primary have filed legal actions seeking the right to review the ongoing ranked choice vote tally.
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Emma G. Fitzsimmons / New York Times:
Campaigns Keep Close Watch on Count That Will Decide N.Y.C. Mayor's Race
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Democracy Docket:
Professors and Students Sue Over Florida's New College Survey Law — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today individual professors and students of Florida's public colleges and universities filed a lawsuit against the Florida Commissioner of Education and other higher education officials challenging …
Stephen Fowler / NPR:
How Pro-Trump Local News Sites Keep Pushing 2020 Election Misinformation — If you don't follow politics in Georgia closely — or even if you do — you might be forgiven for not knowing much about The Georgia Star News. — Founded just after the November election when President Biden narrowly flipped …
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Amy Graff / SFGATE:
710,117 lightning strikes hit western Canada in 15 hours — Van Ness is a mess and it's hurting businesses — This small town is California's ‘adult Disneyland’ — Disneyland should permanently remove this massive perk — Salt Fire near Redding explodes, destroys homes
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Axios, Slate, The Daily Caller, New York Post and Yale Climate Connections
San Antonio Express-News:
Texas history museum pulls out of event on book re-examining Alamo ‘myth’ — AUSTIN — The Texas history museum on Thursday abruptly pulled out of an event scheduled for that night on a new book that re-examines the story of The Alamo, prompting claims of state censorship from its authors.
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Spencer Hsu / Washington Post:
Latest alleged Oath Keeper arrested in Capitol riot turned over body armor and firearm — A previous version of this article incorrectly reported the day David Moerschel was charged, his alleged username in an encrypted messaging group and Mark Grods's age.
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Raw Story
Shanti Escalante-De Mattei / ARTnews.com:
U.S. House Votes to Remove Confederate Statues from the Capitol — On June 29th, the House of Representatives voted to remove Confederate statues from the Capitol building. … Last July, a similar bill passed through the House, but not in the Senate, which had a GOP majority at the time.
Morgan Phillips / Fox News:
Biden calls top donor NEA 'one of America's indispensable organizations' — Biden told members of the teachers union, ‘You deserve a raise’ — Fox News Flash top headlines for July 2 — President Biden said Friday that the National Education Association, among the very most generous donors …
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Washington Post:
Andy Harris, Maryland's only Republican in Congress, fears being written off the map. Some say it could happen. — Ten years ago, as Maryland Democrats sat down to redraw the state's eight congressional districts, they considered making Republican members of Congress go extinct.
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