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Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Police arrest county official in reporter's stabbing death  —  Less than a day after asking for the public's help in identifying a suspect in the stabbing death of Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative reporter Jeff German, police arrested Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles …
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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 …
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.
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: Mediaite and Raw Story
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
Discussion: Insider and NBC10 Philadelphia
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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Politico:
Official portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama unveiled at White House
Tyler Pager / Washington Post:
Obamas unveil their portraits, and it feels like a reunion
Lynn Neary / NPR:
Anne Garrels, long time foreign correspondent for NPR, dies at 71  —  Anne Garrels, long time 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
Ivana Saric / Axios:
Oath Keepers members list includes military, law enforcement, politicians … - The events of Jan. 6 also highlighted fresh concerns about domestic extremism in the military, after several former and current military members were charged for their involvement in the Capitol riot.
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Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:   U.S. cited ‘domestic terrorism’ in search tied to Oath Keepers' lawyer
Associated Press:
Elected officials, police chiefs on leaked Oath Keepers list
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: The Hill and Raw Story
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New York Times:
Justice Dept. Faces Tough Calls in Weighing Response to Trump Ruling
Discussion: Al Jazeera and Raw Story
Julia Rock / The Lever:
Abortion Foes Target Their Next Supreme Court Fight  —  The right is now trying to use a Rhode Island case to get the high court to create a federal abortion ban.  —  When the U.S. Supreme Court allowed states to limit reproductive rights in its June ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health …
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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.
Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Schumer announces same-sex marriage vote  —  Chuck Schumer said the Senate would vote on legislation to protect same-sex marriage in the coming weeks, forcing Republicans to take a stance ahead of the midterm elections.  —  “A vote on marriage equality will happen on the Senate floor in the coming weeks …
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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.”
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
Wesley Lowery / GQ:
AOC's Fight for the Future  —  Almost four years after her improbable arrival in Washington, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has become the political voice of a generation—and a cultural star whose power transcends politics.  Now, as the country hurtles toward the midterm elections …
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
New York Times:
Europe Says Putin's Gas Power Is Weakening  —  In Germany and elsewhere, leaders are growing more confident that months of work to stockpile and line up alternate energy sources may help them blunt Russia's weaponization of exports.  —  BERLIN — Not long after Russian forces invaded Ukraine, another mobilization began.
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
On judging Trump, Americans are moving from ‘unethical’ to ‘illegal’  —  Americans appear to be warming to the idea that former president Donald Trump has broken the law and are less willing to dismiss his actions as merely being unethical.  —  In new polling, Trump's effort to overturn …
Discussion: PBS NewsHour, Marist Poll and Raw Story
David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:
We Need to Know Trump's Motive For Taking Classified Documents  —  It's well past time for the Justice Department to stop coddling the rogue ex-president, and get to the bottom of his assault on U.S. national security. … The more we learn about former president Donald Trump's apparent theft …
 
 
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Anton Troianovski / New York Times:
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Bolts:
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Alexander Nieves / Politico:
Gavin Newsom encounters an unexpected antagonist: Joe Biden
Discussion: Sacramento Bee
Noah Lanard / Mother Jones:
Newly Uncovered Emails Show Blake Masters' Long History of Hating Democracy
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Merdie Nzanga / USA Today:
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Michelle R. Smith / Associated Press:
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