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Michelle Ye Hee Lee / Washington Post:
Shinzo Abe, former Japanese leader, is shot at campaign event  —  Listen  —  Gift Article  —  TOKYO — Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe was shot at a campaign event Friday, public broadcaster NHK reported, citing Japanese police sources.  —  Party officials cited in Japanese media said Abe is unconscious.
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Japan Times:
Former PM Shinzo Abe in critical condition after assassination attempt  —  NARA - Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe — one of the most consequential leaders in Japan's post-war history — was shot in the chest while he was making a stump speech on a street in the city of Nara on Friday in what appears to be an assassination attempt.
Associated Press:
Japan ex-leader Shinzo Abe apparently shot, in heart failure  —  TOKYO (AP) — Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was in heart failure after apparently being shot during a campaign speech Friday in western Japan, NHK public television said Friday.  —  The broadcaster aired footage …
Washington Post:
Elon Musk's deal to buy Twitter is in peril  —  Talks with investors have cooled in recent weeks and Musk's camp believes it can't confirm Twitter's claims about spam accounts  —  Listen  —  Gift Article  —  Elon Musk's deal to buy Twitter is in serious jeopardy, three people familiar …
Mark Leibovich / The Atlantic:
The Most Pathetic Men in America  —  When he wasn't melting down over how “very badly” he was treated or acting like a seditious lunatic, Donald Trump could be downright serene in certain Washington settings—and never more so than when he would swan in for dinner at the Trump International Hotel …
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Ewan Palmer / Newsweek:
Lindsey Graham ‘Desperate’ Not to Self-Incriminate in Georgia: Kirschner
Discussion: Raw Story and The Hill
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
What Brexit Did to Boris Johnson—And Britain  —  Not too long ago, I heard one of the leading Brexiteers describe his political philosophy in a room full of CEOs and senior politicians.  He started by talking to this elite group about the great division between “elites” and “the people,” …
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David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:
Boris Johnson's Comic Downfall and the U.S.-U.K. ‘Special Relationship’
Discussion: CNN, The Guardian and New York Times
Associated Press:
Facing pressure, Biden to sign order on abortion access  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will take executive action Friday to protect access to abortion, according to three people familiar with the matter, as he faces mounting pressure from Democrats to be more forceful on the subject …
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Eugene Daniels / Politico:
Biden's court commission appointees: We told you so on expanding the court
Discussion: HotAir and Wall Street Journal
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Dems weigh jamming McConnell on China bill  —  Some key House Democrats think they've found a clever way to break Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell's stranglehold on a popular bill to massively fund the U.S. chip industry at the expense of China.
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Brittany Shammas / Washington Post:
Eight-year-old Highland Park victim hospitalized with a severed spine  —  Listen  —  Gift Article  —  An 8-year-old boy shot during the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Ill., remains hospitalized in critical condition, his spinal cord severed.  —  Cooper Roberts is sedated …
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Odette Yousef / NPR:
Why the Highland Park suspect represents a different kind of violent extremism
Discussion: The Forward and MindWar
Chris Anderson / Sarasota Herald-Tribune:
Exclusive: Trump left Sarasota media company weeks before federal subpoenas were issued  —  Donald Trump removed himself from the board of his Sarasota-based social media company, records show, just weeks before the company was issued federal subpoenas by both the Securities and Exchange Commission and a grand jury in Manhattan.
Houston Keene / Fox News:
Treasury faces mounting scrutiny for giving Hunter Biden ‘cover’ with new rule for document requests  —  The Treasury's new rule severely affects how Congress conducts its oversight on sensitive financial records  —  Media, Jean-Pierre avoids Hunter Biden ‘like the plague’: Piro
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Jesus Jiménez / New York Times:
Dallas Cowboys Face Criticism After Partnership With Black Rifle Coffee  —  The announcement drew criticism in part for its timing, a day after the deadly mass shooting in Highland Park, Ill.  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  The Dallas Cowboys are facing criticism after announcing …
New York Post:
NYC bodega worker Jose Alba freed on murder rap after bail is lowered in self-defense case  —  The hard-working Manhattan bodega worker languishing on Rikers Island on a murder charge after fending off a violent ex-con was sprung from jail Thursday after a judge agreed to lower his sky-high bail.
Kara Scannell / CNN:
IRS chief refers Comey, McCabe audit decision to inspector general for review  —  ‘Scary to be targeted like that’: McCabe reacts to IRS audit  —  Washington (CNN)The head of the Internal Revenue Service has asked a watchdog to investigate the decision to conduct rare tax audits …
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Carmel Dagan / Variety:
James Caan, ‘The Godfather’ and ‘Misery’ Star, Dies at 82 … James Caan, whose indelible, Oscar-nominated performance as Sonny Corleone, the recklessly hotheaded son of Marlon Brando's Mafia don in “The Godfather,” is sure to be remembered as long as there are gangster movies, died on Wednesday, his family announced in Twitter.
Associated Press:
GOP push to defeat Whitmer threatened by candidates' baggage  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — A leading contender for the Republican nomination for governor in Michigan was sued in the 1990s, accused of using racial slurs about Black people in the workplace and sexually harassing his employees.
Discussion: Raw Story
Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
Herschel Walker Lied About His Secret Kids to His Own Campaign  —  Herschel Walker's campaign said he had never tried to hide his children.  He did—to his own campaign even. … When Herschel Walker's campaign aides approached him this winter to discuss whispers that Walker had a secret child …
Chelsea Curtis / USA Today:
Recordings within 8 feet of police will be illegal in Arizona under new law  —  People will no longer be allowed to take close-range recordings of Arizona police under a new bill signed into law by Gov. Doug Ducey on Wednesday.  —  House Bill 2319, sponsored by state Rep. John Kavanagh …
Discussion: Uniic Media
Abby Bammerlin / The Columbus Dispatch:
'It's another crappy day': Feces sent to Ohio senators in mail launching investigation  —  All 25 Republican members of the Ohio Senate were mailed envelopes full of feces on Thursday morning launching a federal investigation.  —  The packages arrived after being sent almost a week earlier from a Cleveland post office.
Discussion: HuffPost and Raw Story
Zoe Schiffer / The Verge:
Netflix doesn't want to hear it anymore … This article is a collaboration between New York Magazine and The Verge.  —  The sign that Netflix's culture had irreversibly started to change came in the form of a Google doc.  The company had long prided itself on welcoming brutally honest feedback …
Discussion: Breitbart
John Binder / Breitbart:
Illegal Aliens Plotted July 4th Mass Shooting, Thwarted by American ‘Hero Citizen’  —  The pair of suspects arrested for allegedly plotting to “shoot up” a Fourth of July celebration in Richmond, Virginia — thwarted by an American citizen — are illegal aliens, court records state.
Discussion: Power Line and Associated Press
Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Secret Service chief James Murray leaving agency  —  Listen  —  Gift Article  —  Secret Service Director James Murray is stepping down from his post as head of the storied protective service, according to a statement issued by the agency Thursday.  —  Murray, who has held the job since 2019 …
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Ken Klippenstein / The Intercept:
Ron Johnson Campaign Scrambled to Pull “Mass Murder” Ad After July 4 Mass Shooting … “The latest mass murder in America didn't involve guns,” Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., said in a recorded campaign radio ad slated to appear on July 6.  But when the Highland Park, Illinois, shooting took place on July 4 …
Discussion: HuffPost and Mediaite
Axios:
Biden is nowhere close to hitting his refugee goals  —  Biden officials expect to fall short by about 100,000 refugees on their goal to resettle 125,000 in the U.S. this fiscal year, according to two sources with direct knowledge of internal estimates.  —  Why it matters: The U.S. refugee system …
Jeremy Roebuck / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Seven Pa. lawyers involved in Trump's legal fight to overturn the 2020 election are hit with ethics complaints  —  A legal advocacy group formed in hopes of disbarring and disciplining lawyers who aided Donald Trump's push to overturn the outcome of the 2020 election filed complaints Thursday …
Discussion: Raw Story and The 65 Project
Washington Post:
Let's call monkeypox what it is: A pandemic  —  Listen  —  Gift Article … It is time for the global public health community to recognize a growing reality: Monkeypox is now a pandemic.  And unless we declare an emergency and act quickly to combat it, we risk repeating the same mistakes we made with our covid-19 battle.
Julia Davis / The Daily Beast:
Putin World's Lovefest With ‘Beaut’ Trump Gets Cringier Than Ever  —  Just when you thought Russia's love affair with the former U.S. president could not get any more nauseating.  —  Russia is starting to feel the sting of Western sanctions, with state media shows featuring multiple experts who talk of …
Discussion: Raw Story
USA Today:
'It's been plenty of time.' Kentucky governor urges Biden to rescind anti-abortion GOP judge pick  —  Joe Sonka Andrew Wolfson Joey GarrisonLouisville Courier Journal  —  FRANKFORT, Ky. — Gov. Andy Beshear said Thursday it's past time for the White House to withdraw the name …
Discussion: Nevada Current and New Republic
 
 
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CNN:
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Kristina Wong / Breitbart:
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Washington Post:
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Reuters:
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