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Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Police arrest county official in reporter's stabbing death  —  Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles was arrested on suspicion of murder Wednesday evening in the fatal stabbing of Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German, whose investigation of the politician contributed to his primary election loss in June.
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Michael Levenson / New York Times:
Politician Arrested in Las Vegas Reporter's Stabbing Death, Prosecutor Says  —  Robert Telles, the Clark County public administrator, was taken into custody in the killing of Jeff German, a reporter at The Las Vegas Review-Journal, the district attorney said.
Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Police search county official's home in connection with reporter's killing  —  Authorities served search warrants Wednesday morning in connection with the slaying of Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative reporter Jeff German, Las Vegas police said.  —  Around 7 a.m., reporters observed uniformed officers …
David K. Li / NBC News:
Elected official who was subject of Las Vegas reporter's stories arrested in journalist's death
Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Scoop: Dems' accidental GOP data mine  —  A slip-up by social media giant Snap allowed leading Democratic campaigns and party committees to unwittingly tap into a vast repository of Republican voter data to hone their midterm ads, Axios has learned. … But the blunder underscores …
Discussion: The Hill
Rolling Stone:
Trump Told White House Team He Needed to Protect ‘Russiagate’ Documents  —  The former president, who left the White House with a trove of sensitive material, believes there are documents that would expose a Deep State plot against him — and told confidants he needed to protect them from the next administration
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Fetterman to POLITICO: I will debate Oz  —  PHILADELPHIA — John Fetterman said he is committing to attending one debate with his Republican opponent, Mehmet Oz, in the closely watched battle for the Senate in Pennsylvania, but his campaign is still discussing accommodations for his auditory processing problems.
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Dr. Oz owns shares of companies that supply hydroxychloroquine, a drug he has backed as a Covid treatment  — Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Republican candidate for Pennsylvania's open Senate seat, owns stock in Thermo Fisher Scientific, a supplier of the drug hydroxychloroquine, and McKesson, a distributor of the anti-malaria medicine.
Discussion: Insider and NBC10 Philadelphia
Lynn Neary / NPR:
Anne Garrels, longtime foreign correspondent for NPR, dies at 71  —  Anne Garrels, longtime foreign correspondent for NPR, died on Wednesday of lung cancer.  She was 71 years old.  —  At NPR, Garrels was known as a passionate reporter willing to go anywhere in the world at a moment's notice if the story required it.
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Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Anne Garrels, Fearless NPR Correspondent, Dies at 71
Will Heinrich / New York Times:
Painting Michelle Obama Took 9 Months.  Keeping It Secret Took 6 Years.  —  Sharon Sprung, an instructor at the Art Students League of New York, is a realist painter of the old school.  —  When Sharon Sprung was chosen to paint Michelle Obama's official portrait for the White House …
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Tyler Pager / Washington Post:
Obamas unveil their portraits, and it feels like a reunion
Politico:
Official portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama unveiled at White House
Ben Dreyfuss / Calm Down:
A personal note about my Substack...  (I'm rebranding it.)  —  So, I'm doing a rebranding.  —  When I left Mother Jones last year, I was heartbroken.  I was totally screwed up in the head.  All of my friends worked there and I had been untouchable for so long because of my successes …
New York Times:
F.B.I. Sought Interview With Trump Aide  —  Agents investigating the events leading up to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol tried to question William Russell, who served as a special assistant to the former president.  —  The F.B.I. sought to interview a personal aide to former President Donald J. Trump …
Discussion: ABC News, Raw Story and The Hill
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Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:   U.S. cited ‘domestic terrorism’ in search tied to Oath Keepers' lawyer
Nick Catoggio / The Dispatch:
A Better Conservative Media and a Better Politics  —  Why I joined The Dispatch.  —  Hello,  —  I'm Nick Catoggio, formerly known as Allahpundit and currently known as the newest staff writer at The Dispatch.  I've spent almost 20 years as a writer in conservative media and many years more than that as a reader of it.
Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair:
“I Really Hope That We Don't Both-Sides Democracy”: Where Is CNN Headed?  —  The abrupt exits of Brian Stelter and John Harwood have unnerved staffers, who want clarity from newish CEO Chris Licht, and rattled viewers, who fear CNN is veering right.  The network, however, vows to “stand up for democracy and call out lies.”
Chris Geidner / Law Dork, with Chris Geidner:
The PrEP decision is bad — but the question now is whether any judges will stop it  —  Far-right US District Judge Reed O'Connor ruled that requiring employers with religious objections to include the HIV-prevention drug in their insurance plans violates federal law.
Lubov Chernukhin / Politico:
UK, the West mustn't succumb to Ukraine war fatigue  —  Lubov Chernukhin is a former investment banker born in the USSR and the largest female political donor in British history, having donated over £2 million to the Conservative Party.  —  The international humanitarian response …
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CNN:
Michigan GOP leaders encourage rule breaking at poll worker training session  —  The evening before Michigan's state primary, Wayne County GOP leaders held a Zoom training session for poll workers and partisan observers - warning them about “bad stuff happening” during the election and encouraging …
Discussion: Raw Story
Julia Rock / The Lever:
Abortion Foes Target Their Next Supreme Court Fight  —  When the U.S. Supreme Court allowed states to limit reproductive rights in its June ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, experts predicted that conservatives would soon use the decision to try to secure a federal ban on abortion.
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Amy Yurkanin / al.com:
Pregnant women held for months in one Alabama jail to protect fetuses from drugs  —  Police arrested Ashley Banks on May 25 with an unregistered gun and a small amount of marijuana.  —  Under normal circumstances, the 23-year-old from Gadsden would have been able to post bond and leave jail until her criminal trial.
New York Times:
Democrats Fret as Stacey Abrams Struggles in Georgia Governor's Race  —  She has been trailing her Republican rival, Gov. Brian Kemp, alarming Democrats who have celebrated her as the master strategist behind the state's Democratic shift.  —  NEWNAN, Ga. — Georgia Democrats …
Matthew Brown / Washington Post:
Georgia's biggest county can't find a top elections official  —  Amid relentless scrutiny, disinformation campaigns, harassment and a state review, Georgia's most populous county has had trouble hiring a director of elections  —  ATLANTA — It is in many ways an ideal job for a public servant …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The right-wing grift machine blows up in Steve Bannon's face  —  Political commentators often ask whether the ideology of Trumpism will outlast Donald Trump.  We don't yet know the answer to that, but we already can say this: If there's one legacy of Trumpism that will endure long after Trump himself, it's Trumpist grift.
Salvador Rizzo / Washington Post:
Navy reservist already charged in Jan. 6 riot indicted in Va.  —  Hatchet M. Speed has been described by federal prosecutors as a heavily armed Nazi sympathizer with a top-level U.S. government security clearance  —  A Navy reservist has been indicted in Virginia on charges …
 
 
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