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Minnesota Officer Shoots Driver, and Protesters Clash With Police — A young Black man died after an officer shot him during a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, near where Derek Chauvin is on trial in the death of George Floyd — BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. — A 20-year-old Black man died …
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Violence flares after Brooklyn Center police fatally shoot man, 20, inflaming tensions during the Derek Chauvin trial — Man, 20, killed after being pulled over for traffic violation in Brooklyn Center — A Brooklyn Center police officer fatally shot a man during a traffic stop Sunday afternoon …
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Man Shot by Minnesota Police in Traffic Stop Dies — Brooklyn Center police shooting sparks protests — BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn.—Crowds of mourners and protesters gathered in a Minnesota city where the family of a 20-year-old man say he was shot by police before getting back into his car and driving away …
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Embattled Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz is denied a meeting with Trump — (CNN)Rep. Matt Gaetz, who's facing a federal investigation into sex trafficking allegations, was recently denied a meeting with Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate as the ex-President and his allies continue to distance themselves from the Florida congressman.

POLITICO Playbook: Scoop: Cindy McCain set to land Biden ambassadorship — DRIVING THE DAY — President JOE BIDEN is preparing to name Republican CINDY MCCAIN to a coveted ambassador post in Western Europe in what would be his administration's first Republican appointee to a Senate-confirmed position.
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Biden Republicans? Some in GOP open to president's agenda
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Senate Republicans label Biden infrastructure plan a ‘slush fund’
Senate Republicans label Biden infrastructure plan a ‘slush fund’
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Polls show majority of Republicans mistakenly think the 2020 election wasn't legitimate
Polls show majority of Republicans mistakenly think the 2020 election wasn't legitimate
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Blackout Hits Iran Nuclear Site in What Appears to Be Israeli Sabotage — The power failure comes at a delicate time, with talks underway in Vienna to restore the 2015 nuclear deal. — The Natanz nuclear facility in Iran mysteriously lost power on Sunday in what Iranian officials called …
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Why We're Freaking Out About Substack — A company that makes it easy to charge for newsletters has captivated an anxious industry because it embodies larger forces and contradictions. — Danny Lavery had just agreed to a two-year, $430,000 contract with the newsletter platform Substack …
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Major Biden to get training after two biting incidents — First dog Major Biden bites second person in White House — (CNN)President Joe Biden's German shepherd, Major, will receive training after two biting incidents involving workers at the White House, according to first lady Jill Biden's spokesman.
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Biden administration plans to name former senior NSA officials to White House cyber position and head of CISA
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Eugene Daniels / Politico:
The Biden White House media doctrine: Less can be more
The Biden White House media doctrine: Less can be more
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More than a hundred corporate executives hold call to discuss halting donations and investments to fight controversial voting bills — More than 100 chief executives and corporate leaders gathered online Saturday to discuss taking new action to combat the controversial state voting bills …
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Mitch McConnell's Threat Backfires As Big Business Meets To Cut Off GOP Cash
Mitch McConnell's Threat Backfires As Big Business Meets To Cut Off GOP Cash
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Tucker Carlson and White Replacement — This racist theory is rooted in white supremacist panic. — On Thursday, Fox News host Tucker Carlson caused an uproar by promoting the racist, anti-Semitic, patriarchal and conspiratorial “white replacement theory.”
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Officer Accused of Force in Stop of Black Army Officer Fired — One of two police officers accused of pepper-spraying and pointing their guns at a Black Army officer during a traffic stop has since been fired, a Virginia town announced late Sunday, hours after the governor called for an independent investigation into the case.
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Biden nominates a critic of Trump's immigration policies to lead Customs and Border Protection. — President Biden will nominate Chris Magnus, the police chief of Tucson, Ariz., and a critic of the Trump administration's anti-immigration policies, to lead Customs and Border Protection …

Jim Acosta Mocks Trump's ‘Grievance Groundhog Day’: ‘He Gets Up Every Day, Gripes About the Election, and Wakes Up the Next Day Still a Loser’ — CNN's Jim Acosta responded to reports of former President Donald Trump's remarks at a Republican donor event at Mar-a-Lago by mocking …
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‘White Lives Matter’ rallies flop as hardly anyone shows up — In semi-private, encrypted chats, neo-Nazis and other far-right extremists planned rallies in dozens of cities on Sunday to promote their racist movements and spread their ideologies to larger audiences.

Mitch McConnell tends his legacy 8,000 miles away — He reshaped the federal judiciary. He made history as the longest-serving Senate GOP leader. But Mitch McConnell has unfinished business more than 8,000 miles from the halls of Congress. — There's no more consistent or surprising through line …
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The Week

Cuomo's government staff did work on 'super PAC's' poll — NY Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's government staff did work on 'super PAC's' poll — ALBANY - Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's lucrative book deal is not the only instance where the governor's office mixed private activities and government staff.

‘Like the Tiger King Got Elected Tax Collector’: Inside the Case That Ensnared Matt Gaetz — Joel Greenberg, a onetime local official in Florida, is accused of an array of crimes, including bribery, stalking and corruption. — LAKE MARY, Fla. — Long before the F.B.I. began to scrutinize …

Hawley hauls in $3M after attempt to block election results — Sen. Josh Hawley raised more than $3 million during the first three months of the year, underscoring how the Missouri Republican converted his high-profile opposition to the certification of the 2020 election into big fundraising support.
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How Hunter Biden's Memoir Played in the White House — Hunter Biden was careering above Highway 10 in the Sonoran desert. Eastbound behind the wheel of a rented Lincoln Town Car, exhausted and speeding 80 mph, he'd closed his eyes just long enough to zag off the road and into the air, twirling to land in the opposite lanes.
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Ohio State employs 150 diversity officials, to add more professors focused on social and racial justice … States News Ohio Ohio State University Race and Diversity