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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 …
Discussion: CNN, THE CITY and The Western Journal
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Jonah E. Bromwich / New York Times:
Bragg Set to Be Manhattan's Next D.A., and a Potential Trump Scourge  —  With his main rival, Tali Farhadian Weinstein, conceding, Alvin Bragg is poised to lead the investigation into Donald J. Trump's family business.  —  Alvin Bragg, a career prosecutor with experience taking on white-collar crime …
Jennifer Taub / Washington Monthly:
How to Understand the Trump Tax Indictment  —  A best-selling scholar on white-collar and financial crimes examines Alan Weisselberg's indictment, the possible demise of Trump's business, and the dangers ahead for the ex-president.  —  Former President Donald J. Trump's business organization ran …
NBC News:
'There's just no legal defense': Trump Organization in jeopardy, experts say … Lawyers and representatives for the Trump Organization dismissed the criminal charges against the company as prosecutorial overreach Thursday, but legal experts contacted by NBC News said the company …
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:   Weisselberg indictment creates new questions about Trump kids' hidden compensation: John Heilemann
Dan McLaughlin / New York Post:
Cy Vance's Trump case is straight from a banana republic — punish your political enemies
New York Post:
Trump Organization indictments are a travesty of justice
Discussion: BizPac Review
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  —  As the Jan. 6 select committee gears up, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy faces a thorny dilemma.  Treating the effort to violently overthrow the U.S. constitutional order as an extremely weighty matter worthy of serious investigation …
Philip Klein / National Review:
Lindsey Graham Is an Idiot  —  Sen. Lindsey Graham is an idiot.  Don't take it from me.  Take it from Graham himself.  —  Last week, after announcing a bipartisan deal with Republicans, President Biden said he would only sign it if it were passed in “tandem” with a multi-trillion dollar Democrats …
Discussion: HotAir, RedState and Raw Story
David Marcus / New York Post:
Ex-Senator Claire McCaskill says Capitol riots were worse than Benghazi  —  Former Sen. Claire McCaskill said Friday that she believes last January's Capitol riot was worse than the 2012 attack on US personnel in Benghazi.  —  “Joe I have one word: Benghazi.
William Saletan / Slate:
Trump Is Working Harder Than Ever to Undermine Democracy
Discussion: The Hill and The Bulwark
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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Axios:
Biden aide charges “sabotage” of Harris  —  Top White House officials are mobilizing to defend Vice President Kamala Harris amid a gusher of leaks about dysfunction and infighting in her office.  —  Driving the news: White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain told Axios in a statement …
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Thomas Gibbons-Neff / New York Times:
U.S. Leaves Its Last Afghan Base, Effectively Ending Operations  —  With little fanfare, Bagram Air Base — once the military's nerve center — was handed over to the Afghans, after nearly 20 years of waging war from the hub.  —  KABUL, Afghanistan — American troops and their Western allies …
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J.P. Lawrence / Stars & Stripes:
Soldiers watch the US withdrawal from Bagram Airfield through the lens of Pokemon Go
Discussion: UPI
Patrick Whittle / Associated Press:
US Supreme Court to hear Maine religious school tuition case  —  The U.S. Supreme Court decided on Friday that it will hear a case brought by families from Maine who want to use a state tuition program to send their children to religious schools.  —  At the heart of the case is a Maine Department …
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John Fritze / USA Today:
Supreme Court won't hear case of florist who sought to deny service to same-sex wedding
Discussion: NBC News and UPI
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Breyer Hires Four New Clerks in Hint He's Staying on Court  — Likely retirement window closing as Supreme Court term ends  — Liberal activists seeking retirement so Biden can fill seat  —  Justice Stephen Breyer has hired a full complement of four law clerks for the next Supreme Court term …
Discussion: HuffPost and Insider
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Reuters:   Barrett finds own voice at center of conservative U.S. Supreme Court
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:   A Supreme Blow to Intimidation
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
Bloomberg:
Biden Picks University of Pennsylvania Leader as Germany Envoy  — Biden to nominate university president Gutmann for ambassador  — President also names picks for ambassadors of Kosovo, Ghana  —  President Joe Biden intends to nominate University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann …
Discussion: Twitchy
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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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Bari Weiss / Common Sense with Bari Weiss:
Winston Marshall Was ‘Bloody Terrified’ to Quit Mumford & Sons.  He Tells Me Why.  —  The musician talks about self-censorship, his faith, moral courage, Jordan Peterson, Kanye West, Winston Churchill, and more.  —  2 hr ago  —  Late last week, I was sitting in my kitchen when I read an essay that made me stand up and cheer.
Discussion: RedState, Breitbart and Fox News
Jacob Silverman / New Republic:
Tucker Carlson and Glenn Greenwald's Shameless Marriage of Convenience  —  Last week, in an appearance on a Mediaite podcast, the journalist Glenn Greenwald came to the defense once again of Fox News's chief hatemonger, Tucker Carlson.  While he rightly accused Carlson of “deliberately inflaming …
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Progressives distance from Bernie Sanders  —  The progressive movement is in a new phase and activists say they've changed the conversation on key issues.
Discussion: Townhall and HotAir
David French / TIME:
Loving Your Country Means Teaching Its History Honestly  —  French is a senior editor at The Dispatch and a columnist for Time.  His new book is Divided We Fall: America's Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation.  He is a former major in the United States Army Reserve.
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.
Andrea Salcedo / Washington Post:
A former police officer arrested after the Jan. 6 riot was told to stay away from guns.  He bought 34, feds say.  —  In January, a federal judge agreed to release Thomas Robertson, a former Rocky Mount, Va., police officer facing multiple charges over his alleged participation in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
Discussion: Daily Kos
 
 
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Foreign Policy:
Study Finds Nearly 1 in 3 U.S. Diplomats Eyeing the Exit Door
Kelsey Penrose / Carson Now:
Lyon commissioners vote to begin process to rename Old Dayton Valley Road ‘Pres. Trump Way’
Discussion: Raw Story
Jeff Poor / Breitbart:
Ted Cruz: ‘I Believe Joe Biden Is Jimmy Carter 2.0’
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
PBS NewsHour:
2 out of 3 Americans believe U.S. democracy is under threat
Discussion: CBS News and Mercury News
Maeve Sheehey / Politico:
White House senior adviser Anita Dunn to step down shortly from her temporary role
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Tampa Bay Times:
DeSantis fires back after California bans state travel to Florida
 Earlier Items: 
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Washington lawmaker apologizes for wearing Star of David to protest Covid mandates
Discussion: The Hill, New York Post and Jim Walsh
Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
U.S. economy added 850,000 jobs in June as labor market showed renewed strength
John Smith / American Thinker:
Did Biden Really Win California?
Rep. Rodney Davis / Washington Examiner:
Pelosi cancels the Fourth of July
Discussion: HotAir and Washington Monthly
Clare Malone / The Atlantic:
Ohio Is Now Fully Trumpified
Discussion: National Review
 

 
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
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New York Times:
Sources: Sony and Apollo sign NDAs but back away from their $26B offer for Paramount's assets, partly due to Sony shareholders' concerns over streaming costs

Hayley Wong / South China Morning Post:
The US says it is deeply concerned over reports that Zhang Zhan, imprisoned after covering COVID-19 in China, has disappeared after her expected prison release
 
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