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9:30 AM ET, June 7, 2023

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Dylan Byers / Puck:
Licht's Out  —  The embattled CNN C.E.O. will be leaving the company, and long-time beloved top executive Amy Entelis will steady the ship until Zaz picks a new leader.  It's been a hell of a week since The Atlantic story dropped, and yet here goes another reinvention.
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New York Times:
Chris Licht Is Out at CNN  —  Mr. Licht had a turbulent tenure that lasted slightly more than a year.  —  Chris Licht, the former television producer who oversaw a brief and chaotic tenure as the chairman of CNN, is out at the network, according to a person briefed on the decision.
Wall Street Journal:
Top CNN Anchors Criticize CEO Chris Licht's Leadership
New York Times:
Mark Meadows Testified to Grand Jury in Special Counsel Investigation of Trump  —  Mr. Meadows, the final White House chief of staff under Donald Trump, is seen as a potentially key witness in the documents and Jan. 6 inquiries.  —  Mark Meadows, the final White House chief …
New York Times:
Grand Jury in Florida Hints at Unknown Complexities in Trump Documents Inquiry  —  Prosecutors have started calling witnesses to a federal grand jury in Miami after months in which activity in the investigation was centered on a separate grand jury in Washington.
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New York Times:
Chris Christie Announces '24 Run, Taking Square Aim at Trump  —  At his New Hampshire kickoff, the former New Jersey governor called Donald Trump “a bitter, angry man” and said his time in office was a failure.  —  Trip Gabriel reported from Goffstown, N.H.
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Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Pence announces presidential run: ‘Different times call for different leadership’
ABC News:
7 people shot following high school graduation in Richmond, Virginia: Police  —  Six people were also injured in the aftermath of the shooting, police said.  —  Seven people were shot following a high school graduation in Richmond, Virginia, on Tuesday, police said.
New York Times:
Wildfire Smoke Blots Sun and Prompts Health Alerts in Much of U.S.  —  The smoke was pouring across the border from Canada, where hundreds of wildfires remain unchecked, and the hazardous smoke conditions are expected to linger through Wednesday and perhaps until later in the week.
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Robinson Meyer / Heatmap News:
The East Coast's Wildfire Smoke Is On Par With the West's Worst Days  —  “I pulled the data for the past 18 years, and it's almost off the charts.”  —  Air pollution in New York and across the eastern United States, driven by an outbreak of wildfires across Quebec and Nova Scotia …
Discussion: NBC News, CNN, Rolling Stone and ABC7
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Rachel Pannett / Washington Post:
A Ukrainian zoo survived through war.  The Kakhovka flood ended it.  —  Over the past year, the keepers at the Kazkova Dibrova zoo in southern Ukraine battled to safeguard their charges under Russian occupation.  —  The park surrounding the zoo was mined and access routes blocked, making evacuating the animals impossible.
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Yahoo News:
U.S. eyes Russia in destruction of Ukraine's Kakhovka dam
Benjamin Parker / Bulwark+:
Ukraine Dam Disaster: What Does It Mean for the War?
Politico:
Conservatives surprise McCarthy with floor rebellion over debt deal anger  —  A band of House conservatives derailed a bill that takes aim at gas stove regulation.  It could be just the beginning of moves to undercut the speaker.  —  A band of House conservatives mounted an extraordinary rebellion …
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David Morgan / Reuters:
McCarthy faces sudden challenge from hardliners after US debt ceiling bill
Discussion: East Bay Times
NBC News:
Republicans angry with McCarthy over debt deal join Democrats to block gas stove bills
Nicholas Nehamas / New York Times:
DeSantis Stays Silent on Whether Florida Arranged Migrant Flights to California  —  The silence from Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican running for president, on such a high-profile incident is unusual.  —  Reporting from Miami  —  In his first public appearance since officials in California accused …
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Newsom's feud with DeSantis turns ugly
NBC News:
How Ron DeSantis found a home in Florida's swamp
Discussion: Raw Story and Washington Examiner
Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
WATCH: Fights Outside California School Board Meeting over LGBT Curriculum  —  LOS ANGELES, California — Fights broke out Tuesday between a group of conservative protesters and left-wing counter-demonstrators outside a school board meeting in Glendale, California, that discussed LGBT issues in the curriculum.
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Brody Levesque / Los Angeles Blade:
Glendale school district meeting about LGBTQ studies gets violent
Discussion: Insider
Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
Doug Burgum, Wealthy North Dakota Governor, Enters Presidential Race  —  As the leader of a deep-red state, Mr. Burgum has promoted staunchly conservative policies, signing into law a near-total ban on abortion.  —  Gov. Doug Burgum, the Republican governor of North Dakota who rose …
Discussion: The Hill and Associated Press
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CBS News:
White woman who fatally shot Black neighbor through front door arrested on manslaughter and other charges  —  Ocala, Fla. — A White woman who fired through her front and killed a Black neighbor was arrested Tuesday, authorities said, in a case that's put Florida's divisive “stand your ground law” back in the spotlight.
Discussion: WCJB-TV and The 19th
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Washington Post:
Family calls for arrest of White woman who fatally shot Black neighbor
Washington Post:
These academics studied falsehoods spread by Trump.  Now the GOP wants answers.  —  Rep. Jim Jordan is demanding emails and meetings with leading disinformation researchers, part of a flurry of records requests, subpoenas and lawsuits that academics say have become a means of harassment.
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
An uncomfortable truth about GOP anti-trans bigotry  —  This is how genocide begins.  —  At her CNN town hall on Sunday, GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley joined in her party's vicious anti-trans campaign.  —  “How are we supposed to get our girls used to the fact that biological boys …
Raymond Zhong / New York Times:
Arctic Summer Could Be Practically Sea-Ice-Free by the 2030s  —  In a new study, scientists found that the climate milestone could come about a decade sooner than anticipated, even if planet-warming emissions are gradually reduced.  —  The first summer on record that melts practically …
Perry Bacon Jr / Washington Post:
CNN's Chris Licht showed the problem with anti-woke centrism  —  In a roughly 15,000-word profile published last week by the Atlantic, CNN chief executive Chris Licht, who has complained that the network's journalists were too opinionated when Donald Trump was president, gave a lot of, well, opinions.
PGATOUR.COM:
PGA TOUR, DP World Tour and PIF announce newly formed commercial entity to unify golf  —  Agreement establishes common goal to promote and grow the game globally for the benefit of all stakeholders, ends litigation
Eli Yokley / Morning Consult Pro:
Tracking the 2024 Republican Primary  —  Responses shown among potential GOP primary voters, who said they would vote for each of the above if the 2024 Republican primary or caucus were held in their state today.  —  Survey conducted June 2-4, 2023, among 3,545 potential Republican primary voters …
 
 
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Maxine Joselow / Washington Post:
A bipartisan plan to punish global climate laggards: Tax them
Io Dodds / The Independent:
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LIV Golf Joins a Club That Will Have It as a Member
Jessica Piper / Politico:
Got $1 to spare? RNC debate rules trigger a mad dash for very small donors
Jonathan Oosting / Bridge Michigan:
Gretchen Whitmer forms ‘Fight Like Hell PAC’ to back federal candidates
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Max Tani / Semafor:
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Luc Cohen / Reuters:
US trial for exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui set for April 2024
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
D-Day dawns for Ukraine
Discussion: BBC and The Moscow Times
Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico:
Appeals court weighs nationwide freeze of Obamacare's coverage mandate
Discussion: CNN, The Messenger and Associated Press
NBC News:
Drone attack in Moscow may have targeted homes of Russian intelligence officials, multiple U.S. officials say
Chris Geidner / Law Dork with Chris Geidner:
Florida ban on trans care for minors is likely unconstitutional, federal judge rules
Jonathan Haidt / The Atlantic:
Get Phones Out of Schools Now  —  They impede learning, stunt relationships, and lessen belonging.