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Michelle L. Price / Associated Press:
Trump's social media account shares a campaign video with a headline about a ‘unified Reich’  —  A video posted to Donald Trump's account on his social media network included references to a “unified Reich” among hypothetical news headlines if he wins the election in November.
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Tom Porter / Business Insider:
Trump's Truth Social posted a video with apparent Nazi messaging — his team says it wasn't him  — Donald Trump's Truth Social account shared a video referencing a “unified Reich.”  — The Biden campaign accused Trump of echoing Nazi Germany.  — The Trump campaign said the wording of the video hadn't been checked.
Joshua Green / Bloomberg:
A Hidden Variable in the Presidential Race: Fears of ‘Trump Forever’  —  Undecided voters are concerned that if Donald Trump returns to the White House, he'll never leave.  —  As the rematch between Joe Biden and Donald Trump draws nearer, political professionals are detecting …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Jada Yuan / Washington Post:
Controversial Donald Trump movie ‘The Apprentice’ depicts him as rapist  —  A dark new biopic starring Sebastian Stan as a young Trump is the talk of Cannes.  —  CANNES, France — Had a movie called “The Apprentice” about a young Donald Trump's rise to power premiered in America …
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The Hill:
Trump campaign says it will sue filmmakers behind ‘The Apprentice’ movie for including ‘blatantly false assertions’
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Kat Rosenfield / The Free Press:
Harrison Butker is Catholic.  So What?  —  This is America: We need to tolerate a Catholic man saying Catholic things at a Catholic university.  —  Perhaps you have heard of Harrison Butker, the 28-year-old Kansas City Chiefs kicker at the center of the latest viral outrage.
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Aaron Rupar / Public Notice:
Biden quietly advances a range of progressive policies  —  He did so just before a deadline on his rule-making authority.  —  ∙ Paid … Congress, in case you're just back from Mars, has been so mired in gridlock that its main function — passing laws — has become about as common as hens teeth.
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Marcia Brown / Politico:   Biden's legacy long game: Rain regulations — now
Bobby Allyn / NPR:
Scarlett Johansson says she is ‘shocked, angered’ over new ChatGPT voice  —  Lawyers for Scarlett Johansson are demanding that OpenAI disclose how it developed an AI personal assistant voice that the actress says sounds uncannily similar to her own.  —  Johansson's legal team has sent OpenAI …
Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
An Alabama Trump appointee is threatening to jail LGBTQ civil rights lawyers  —  A forum-shopping dispute that been ongoing for two years briefly reached the Eleventh Circuit on Monday.  Also: More on Alito.  And: Law Dork in the news.  —  An “unprecedented judicial investigation” …
ABC News:
Special counsel suspected additional obstruction effort by Trump in classified docs case  —  The allegations were revealed in a newly unsealed court filing Tuesday.  —  Former President Donald Trump listens during a news conference after attending the wake of New York City police officer Jonathan Diller …
Matt Stout / The Boston Globe:
‘Millionaires tax’ has already generated $1.8 billion this year for Massachusetts, blowing past projections  —  Massachusetts' so-called “millionaires tax” appears primed to actually deliver billions.  —  State officials said Monday that the voter-approved surtax on high earners has generated …
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Trump Mode  —  How Trump gives his quislings room to defend him.  —  ∙ Paid  —  1. 12 Years a President  —  At the NRA convention this weekend Donald Trump floated, in an oblique way, the idea of a third term.  —  “You know, FDR 16 years—almost 16 years—he was four terms.
Discussion: IJR and WFLA-TV
Gina Chon / Semafor:
Imprisoned ex-Trump aide Peter Navarro predicts Fed Chair's ouster and ‘mass deportations’ in a second presidential term  —  The Scoop  —  Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell would be gone in the first 100 days of a second Donald Trump term that would also include mass deportations …
New York Times:
Biden and Big Oil Had a Truce.  Now, It's Collapsing.  —  Companies were enjoying record profits.  But the president's decision to pause permits for gas export terminals has whipped up industry support, and donations, for Donald Trump.  —  Early in his term, President Biden seemed …
Financial Times:
How sanctions played havoc with Iran's ageing helicopters  —  US-made Bell 212 carrying country's president was almost 30 years old when it crashed into a mountainside  —  The circumstances could hardly have been more difficult as the decades-old helicopter, which had clocked up thousands …
Jesse Wegman / New York Times:
There's No Sense of Shame at the Supreme Court  —  An earlier generation of Supreme Court justices seemed to possess the capacity for shame.  —  In 1969, Justice Abe Fortas resigned his seat for accepting a $20,000 consulting fee (which he returned) from a foundation led by a man who was convicted of securities fraud.
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United States Department of State:
On the Death of Iranian President Raisi and Others in a Helicopter Crash  —  The United States expresses its official condolences for the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Amir-Abdollahian, and other members of their delegation in a helicopter crash in northwest Iran.
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Politico:
The one thing US fears after Iranian president's death
Karen Townsend / HotAir:
Iranian Women Celebrate the Death of President Raisi
 
 
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Patricia Zengerle / Reuters:
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Washington Post:
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Noah Kirsch / The Daily Beast:
Spoiler Alert: Billionaire Trump Mega-Donor Gave Another $5M to RFK Jr.
Discussion: New Jersey Online and Breitbart
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emptywheel:
Hunter Biden Prosecutor Derek Hines Confesses He Failed To Do Basic Due Diligence, Again
Discussion: Raw Story and Associated Press
U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio:
Brown Calls for New Leadership at the FDIC
Emma Colton / Fox News:
Cohen's bombshell admission could lead to hung jury, if not acquittal: expert
The Atlantic:
New 9/11 Evidence Points to Deep Saudi Complicity
Discussion: Reason, Reuters and Boston Herald
 

 
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
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Bloomberg:
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