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Miles Klee / Rolling Stone:
Trump All But Confesses to Mishandling Classified Docs on Fox News  —  The former president, facing charges of mishandling classified information, nearly confessed to the crime — while blaming his “golf shirts” … But he ended up essentially confessing to the crime of which he's accused …
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Michael Luciano / Mediaite:
Fox's Brit Hume Torches Trump's Explanations for Why He Took Documents: They ‘Verge on Incoherent’  —  Fox News Chief Political Analyst Brit Hume is not buying Donald Trump's excuses for why he took government documents to his Mar-a-Lago estate when he left the White House in January 2021.
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
The charlatan who has Trump's ear  —  Tom Fitton is no lawyer, but Trump listens to him.  Why?  Because he's saying what Trump wants to hear.  —  ∙ Paid … During his sordid, lengthy legal history, Donald Trump has had some terrible lawyers — Roy Cohn, Rudy Guiliani, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis.
Discussion: The Dispatch
Jennifer Bowers Bahney / Mediaite:
Trump Claims He Has ‘Zero’ Worry About Federal Indictment  —  Donald Trump told Fox News' Bret Baier on Monday that the law was on his side and he had no worries about the 37 federal charges against him.  —  Baier grilled Trump about why he allegedly kept classified documents when he left …
Sam Stein / Politico:
Trump: I was too busy to sort through the boxes I took to Mar-a-Lago  —  The former president said he kept golf clothes and shoes among government records and didn't have time to sift through it all.  —  Donald Trump on Monday said he did not hand over government records to the federal officials …
William P. Barr / The Free Press:
Bill Barr: The Truth About the Trump Indictment
Christopher Kane / Washington Blade:
RFK Jr. claims chemicals in the water are turning boys transgender  —  Democratic presidential candidate known for pushing conspiracy theories  —  In a recently unearthed video interview, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the noted anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist and a Democratic challenger …
Discussion: Washington Post and Newsweek
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Politico:
Playbook: Dems salivate as McCarthy caters to the right  —  Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  TOP-ED — “The Truth About the Trump Indictment,” by BILL BARR in The Free Press: “For the sake of the country, our party, and a basic respect for the truth …
Discussion: Raw Story and ABC News
Brandon Gillespie / Fox News:
Former Navy officer, US congressman calls for deployment of nuclear sub to search for missing Titanic tour  —  The tourist submersible went missing Sunday with five people on board  —  EXCLUSIVE: A U.S. congressman who served as a nuclear submarine officer in the U.S. Navy is calling …
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Gareth Evans / BBC:
Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
North Carolina GOP House speaker ‘engaged in group sex with people seeking political favor’: lawsuit  —  The Republican speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives is being accused to using his position to secure sexual favors.  —  As WSOC-TV reports, a new lawsuit filed …
Discussion: WSOC-TV
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
How Classified Evidence Could Complicate the Trump Documents Case  —  Prosecutors and defense lawyers appear to be preparing for a pretrial fight over showing sensitive evidence to the jury and the public.  —  Reporting from Washington  —  Lawyers for former President Donald J. Trump …
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New York Times:
China's Rebound Hits a Wall, and There Is ‘No Quick Fix’ to Revive It  —  Policymakers and investors expected China's economy to rev up again after Beijing abruptly dropped Covid precautions, but recent data shows alarming signs of a slowdown.  —  When China suddenly dismantled its lockdowns …
Alex Gangitano / The Hill:
Biden calls Tuberville hold on military nominations ‘bizarre’  —  LOS GATOS, Calif. — President Biden on Monday called Sen. Tommy Tuberville's (R-Ala.) hold on military nominees over the Department of Defense's abortion policy “bizarre.”  —  Biden, during a fundraiser in Los Gatos, Calif. …
Matthew Rozsa / Salon:
Climate change denial hit its stride in the Bush-Cheney era, precipitating today's climate disaster  —  Once upon a time, the mainstream Republican Party did not deny the reality of climate science and even saw the environment as something to be valued and protected, not exploited.
Tomiwa Owolade / The Free Press:
What Americans Get Wrong When They Talk about Race  —  On Juneteenth, we celebrate black progress.  But if we want to achieve more of it, writes Tomiwa Owolade, we need ideas that aren't born in the U.S.A.  —  On this day in 1865, two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect …
Discussion: HISTORY
Wall Street Journal:
Beijing Plans a New Training Facility in Cuba, Raising Prospect of Chinese Troops on America's Doorstep  —  Biden administration scrambles to forestall China's ambitions in the Caribbean  —  WASHINGTON—China and Cuba are negotiating to establish a new joint military training facility on the island …
Discussion: Bloomberg and The Federalist
CNN:
Saudi Arabia is quietly changing its textbooks.  Could that lead to acceptance of Israel?  —  Editor's Note: A version of this story appears in CNN's Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, a three-times-a-week look inside the region's biggest stories.  Sign up here.  —  Jerusalem and Abu Dhabi CNN —
Decca Muldowney / The Daily Beast:
New Hampshire State Senator Keith Murphy Arrested for Bar Fight  —  ‘AGGRESSIVE MANNER’  —  A New Hampshire state senator has been arrested after allegedly slapping and spitting on a man in a bar, police say.  Keith Murphy, 47, a Republican lawmaker who was elected in 2022 …
Adam Gabbatt / The Guardian:
Well-funded Christian group behind US effort to roll back LGBTQ+ rights  —  Advocacy groups condemn Alliance Defending Freedom as ‘a danger to every American who values their freedoms’  —  With the US besieged by a rightwing culture war campaign that aims to strip away rights from LGBTQ+ people and others …
Discussion: Raw Story
Courtney Kube / NBC News:
House GOP moves to ban public access to service members' military records  —  The proposal comes after the Pentagon erroneously released the personal information of several Republican politicians who were current or former members of the armed forces.  —  House Republicans are attempting …
Discussion: Washington Examiner and The Hill
Laura Bassett / Jezebel:
Sen. Josh Hawley Shares His Mindblowingly Stupid Thoughts on Juneteenth  —  “Today is a good day to remember: Christianity is the faith and America is the place slavery came to die,” the Missouri senator tweeted.  Who's gonna tell him?  —  On June 19th, 1865, Union Civil War soldiers …
Tyler Durden / ZeroHedge:
Rand Paul: “Bill Gates Is Largest Funder Of Trying To Find Viruses In Caves And Bring Them To Big Cities”  —  Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News,  —  Senator Rand Paul teed off on globalist Bill Gates Sunday, heavily intimating that the billionaire's obsession with funding research …
 
 
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David Shepardson / Reuters:
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Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Indigo Olivier / New Republic:
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Jeffrey Clark / Fox News:
Pro-life leader Lila Rose calls Trump unqualified to lead despite Roe overturn: Can't have ‘blind loyalty’
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Shira Kadari-Ovadia / Haaretz:
'I'll Blow It Up': Far-right MKs Threaten Summer Camp for Israeli and Palestinian Orphans
Discussion: The Times of Israel
Yaron Steinbuch / New York Post:
Jewish teacher resigns after antisemitic harassment from 12-year-old student
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Raw Story
NBC News:
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Discussion: National Review
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