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Trump considers waiving claim of executive privilege for Steve Bannon — A letter from Trump, which could be signed as soon as tonight or tomorrow morning, may clear the way for Bannon to testify before the House select committee probing the Jan. 6 attack — Gift Article
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Politico:
Pat Cipollone meets for over 8 hours with Jan. 6 committee — Former White House counsel Pat Cipollone spent over eight hours meeting with the Jan. 6 select committee, emerging Friday without commenting on his cooperation. — Cipollone huddled with committee investigators …
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CNN:
Jan. 6 panel didn't specifically ask Cipollone about Hutchinson's testimony on legal consequences of going to Capitol during riot, sources say
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HuffPost, CBS News, Breitbart and Courthouse News Service
Peter Hermann / Washington Post:
Armed officers swarm Stephen K. Bannon's house after false report
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Washington Examiner, The Daily Beast, Breitbart, HuffPost, New York Post, The Gateway Pundit, We Love Trump and Mediaite
Chavi Mehta / Reuters:
Elon Musk terminates $44 bln Twitter deal — Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said on Friday he was terminating his $44 billion deal for Twitter Inc (TWTR.N), saying that the social media company had failed to provide information about fake accounts on the platform.
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Lauren Feiner / CNBC:
Elon Musk notifies Twitter he is terminating deal — Billionaire Elon Musk wants to end his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter, according to a letter sent by a lawyer on his behalf to the company's chief legal officer Friday. — Twitter shares were down about 5% after hours on Friday.
Washington Post:
Elon Musk files to back out of Twitter deal — It's unclear what happens next as Twitter's board vows to still complete the deal — Listen — Gift Article — Elon Musk is terminating his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter, according to a filing the billionaire made with the Securities and Exchange Commission Friday.
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Dave Lieber / Dallas Morning News:
Pregnant woman says her fetus should count as a passenger in HOV lanes. She got a ticket — The overturning of the Roe v. Wade ruling has one driver questioning HOV lane laws requiring two passengers in a car. — In economics, they call it the law of unintended consequences.
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Outside the Beltway and Raw Story
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Appeals court upholds, but further narrows, House subpoena for Trump financial records — A federal appeals court ruled Friday that a House committee is entitled to a wide array of records on former President Donald Trump's finances and business practices, but the court further narrowed aspects …
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Raw Story
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Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
U.S. appeals court upholds release of Trump financial records to House — The ruling narrowing House Democrats' demand for records from Mazars USA is likely to be appealed. — Listen — Gift Article — A federal appeals court panel ruled Friday that House lawmakers can see years …
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
Sorry, but the Constitution contains no right to eat dinner — Listen — Gift Article — “Politics, regardless of your side or views, should not trample the freedom at play of the right to congregate and eat dinner. There is a time and place for everything.
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CNBC:
Biden says Supreme Court is ‘out of control,’ orders HHS to protect abortion access — President Joe Biden blasted the Supreme Court on Friday as “out of control” in its decision to overturn the constitutional right to abortion. — Biden signed an executive order that aims to ensure …
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Laurel Duggan / The Daily Caller:
Biden Repeats Totally Unverified Story Of 10-Year-Old Seeking Abortion Making The Media Rounds
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Washington Post and HotAir
The Economist:
Covid learning loss has been a global disaster — Millions of children are still out of school. The costs are stacking up — MANILA, MUMBAI AND TUXTLA — King norvic tarroyo lives with his parents and five siblings in a slum near the sea wall in Manila, the capital of the Philippines.
CNN:
Oath Keeper members brought explosives to DC area around January 6 and had a ‘death list,’ prosecutors say — (CNN)The Justice Department released new details Friday evening of the alleged extensive planning by the Oath Keepers to prepare for violence in Washington, DC, on January 6, 2021 …
Thomas Catenacci / Fox News:
ShutDownDC group offers bounties on Twitter for public sightings of conservative Supreme Court justices — Twitter's policies prohibit ‘behavior that encourages others to harass’ — Fox News Flash top headlines for July 8 — The left-wing activist group ShutDownDC on Friday offered …
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Washington Examiner, National Review and New York Post
New York Times:
Sri Lanka Live Updates: Protesters Enter President's House — The whereabouts of the president is unclear. — COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Protesters in Sri Lanka entered the president's residence and his office on Saturday, as thousands descended on the capital, Colombo, to register their growing fury …
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Dean Mirshahi / WRIC-TV:
Over 300 Virginia state employees resign in wake of Gov. Youngkin's telework policy — RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — More than 300 employees from five state agencies have resigned since Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Virginia's new telework policy in early May, according to records obtained by 8News.
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Blue Virginia and Raw Story
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Abe's legacy is a world better prepared to confront China — Listen — Gift Article — Friday was a day of shock, sadness and anger in Japan and around the world following the assassination of former prime minister Shinzo Abe. But when the grieving has subsided and the history books are written …
Fintan O'Toole / The Guardian:
Boris Johnson has vandalised the political architecture of Britain, Ireland and Europe — His political career has consisted of chucking rocks over the walls of the neighbours. We will live with the damage for years — t seems rather apt that Boris Johnson pocketed a huge advance …
Ben Dreyfuss / Good Faith:
If you think Jon Stewart should run for president, you should go to a mental asylum — Not a nice one, either! A really bad one! — There is an article in Politico. — Here is how it begins: … So far, so good. … Kill me. … I'm not sure what his height has to do with anything but still: kill me.
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Juleanna Glover / Politico:
If Tucker Runs in 2024, Here's Who the Democrats Need
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HotAir, Joel Mathis and Twitchy
Emily Crane / New York Post:
Hunter Biden reportedly called Jill an ‘entitled c-t’ in texts — Hunter Biden called his step-mom Jill Biden a “vindictive moron” and “entitled c-t” in text messages after she urged him to go to rehab to kick his drug habit, according to a new report. — President Biden's 52-year-old druggie son …
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OutKick, The Gateway Pundit and RedState
The Daily Beast:
Parade Shooting Suspect Bobby Crimo Attempted Suicide Multiple Times, Family Friend Reveals — EXCLUSIVE: “I think his emotional instability was kind of brushed under the rug by his family,” the mother of two of Robert Crimo III's skatepark pals told The Daily Beast.
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Raw Story
Politico:
‘Operation Higher Court’: Inside the religious right's efforts to wine and dine Supreme Court justices — The former leader of a religious right organization said he recruited and coached wealthy volunteers including a prominent Dayton, Ohio, evangelical couple to wine …
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JONATHAN TURLEY
Caitlin McFall / Fox News:
Army cuts pay, benefits from more than 60,000 unvaccinated National Guard, Reserves — Army pledges to keep encouraging service members to get the vaccine
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Substack Alexander …, New York Post, The Daily Caller and IJR
Mother Jones:
America's Top Anti-War Think Tank Is Fracturing Over Ukraine — Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine. — Two prominent figures have resigned in protest from the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft …
Andrew Van Dam / Washington Post:
People from elite backgrounds increasingly dominate academia, data shows — First-generation academics were always rare. Now they're vanishing. — Listen — Gift Article — To understand critical issues facing the U.S. economy — soaring inflation, worker shortages and perhaps …
Associated Press:
'Dad, that's it. She's dead': Another day of loss in Ukraine — KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — She had gone out to feed the cats when the shelling began. — It was afternoon, a residential neighborhood, a time to get errands done. But there is nothing routine about life near the front line in Ukraine.
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