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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  —  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 …
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 …
Jennifer Taub / Washington Monthly:
How to Understand the Trump Tax Indictment
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
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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.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Crime Report
Scott Wong / The Hill:
GOP divided on anti-Biden midterm message
Discussion: Documented and Political Wire
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 …
William Saletan / Slate:
Trump Is Working Harder Than Ever to Undermine Democracy  —  On Wednesday, two dozen House Republicans flocked to Texas to show their support for Donald Trump.  They joined the state's Republican governor, Greg Abbott, in applauding the former president as he toured the border …
Discussion: RedState 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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Washington Post:
Biden's cold response to Afghanistan's collapse will have far-reaching consequences  —  When President Biden chose in April to withdraw all U.S. forces from Afghanistan by September, we were among those who judged that the result would be a disaster for the country's 38 million people — and in particular, its women.
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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
Thomas Gibbons-Neff / New York Times:
U.S. Leaves Its Last Afghan Base, Effectively Ending Operations
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 …
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 …
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Reuters:   Barrett finds own voice at center of conservative U.S. Supreme Court
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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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
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 …
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
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.
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 …
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, Daily Kos and Raw Story
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
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 …
Kate Aronoff / New Republic:
The Biden White House Has an Exxon Problem … In a blockbuster report from Greenpeace journalistic arm Unearthed this week, top Exxon lobbyist Keith McCoy all but claimed credit for helping excise climate policies from the Biden administration's much-hyped infrastructure package.
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.
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 …
Discussion: Power Line
John DiStaso / WMUR:
New Hampshire Supreme Court strikes down 2017 voter registration law Senate Bill 3 as unconstitutional  —  In unanimous, 4-0, decision, state's highest court upholds lower court ruling, says law ‘imposes unreasonable burdens on the right to vote’  —  Hide Transcript Show Transcript
 
 
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Brooke Masters / Financial Times:
How Britain's private schools lost their grip on Oxbridge
Washington Post:
Andy Harris, Maryland's only Republican in Congress, fears being written off the map. Some say it could happen.
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
PBS NewsHour:
2 out of 3 Americans believe U.S. democracy is under threat
Discussion: CBS News and Mercury News
 Earlier Items: 
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
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
John Smith / American Thinker:
Did Biden Really Win California?
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.
Discussion: Daily Kos
 

 
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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

Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with New Yorker journalist Rachel Aviv on her Lucy Letby article, the cost of trial transcripts in the UK, the police documentary about the case, and more

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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