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David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:
The Scandal That Should Be the End for Fratboy Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth  —  BLOWING UP YOUR SPOT  —  If this massive Iran cover-up doesn't cost Pete Hegseth his job, nothing will.  —  OPINION  —  Not since Vietnam have we seen a more systematic effort by an administration to lie about the nature …
Charlie Sykes / To the Contrary:
Wait.  What?  A *$1 Billion* Ballroom?  —  Plus: A one-page TACO?  —  I try to keep up.  I really do. … This would be the very same ballroom that Trump told us overandoverandover would be paid for by his friends and cronies.  The Trump vanity project that would cost taxpayers nothing.
NBC News:
Trump's abrupt U-turn on a plan to re-open the Strait of Hormuz came after backlash from allies  —  Saudi Arabia, a key Gulf ally, suspended the U.S. military's ability to use its bases and airspace to carry out the operation, sources say.  The White House said the administration notified Middle East allies in advance.
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Exclusive: U.S. and Iran closing in on one-page memo to end war, officials say  —  The White House believes it's getting close to an agreement with Iran on a one-page memorandum of understanding to end the war and set a framework for more detailed nuclear negotiations, according to two U.S. officials …
Hugo Lowell / Wired:
Trump's Team Wants Him to Accept an Iran Deal He's Already Rejected
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Sarah Fitzpatrick / The Atlantic:
Kash Patel's Personalized Bourbon Stash  —  One of J. Edgar Hoover's greatest reforms at the FBI was his embrace of fingerprinting.  During the 1930s, visitors to the FBI offices in Washington, D.C., received souvenir fingerprint cards featuring his name.  The men who succeeded him as FBI director …
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
Associated Press:
FBI searches Virginia Senate leader's office as part of corruption probe, AP source says  —  The FBI searched the Virginia state Senate leader's office on Wednesday as part of a corruption investigation, a person familiar with the matter said.  —  The search at Virginia …
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New York Times:
Office of Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas Searched by F.B.I. Agents  —  Two people familiar with the case said the search of a lawmaker's business office was related to a Biden-era investigation of possible corruption and bribery related to marijuana dispensaries.
Elissa Salamy / WTTG-TV:
Virginia lawmaker Louise Lucas' office raided in FBI probe
Fox News:
FBI raids Spanberger ally office as federal corruption probe targets cannabis business
Ken Dilanian / MS NOW:
FBI probing leaks to journalist who wrote explosive article on Kash Patel, sources say  —  The FBI has launched a criminal leak investigation focusing on an Atlantic magazine journalist who wrote a deeply unflattering account last month of Director Kash Patel's work habits, two people familiar with the matter told MS NOW.
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David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
A Dangerous New Attack on Press Freedom
Discussion: The Wrap and twitchy.com
Duaa Eldeib / ProPublica:
Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth  —  They entered the world the way babies should, with piercing cries announcing their arrival.  They passed their newborn screening tests.  Some made it to their 2-week wellness visits without concern.
Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
Republicans Unveil Map Carving Up Tennessee's Majority-Black House District  —  The General Assembly is expected to quickly approve the map, which slices up Memphis, a majority-Black city that makes up most of the state's lone Democratic district.  —  Tennessee Republicans on Wednesday proposed …
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Ken Klippenstein:
Insane Pre-Crime Strategy Unveiled for Leftist “Extremists”  —  New national counterterrorism strategy vows to “cripple them before” crimes are committed  —  Subscriptions are declining; PLEASE becoming a paid subscriber so I can keep doing this work  —  The White House declared war …
Discussion: Breitbart
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Diana Nerozzi / Politico:
Trump counterterrorism strategy targets ‘violent left-wing extremists’ with ‘transgender ideology’
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Jeff Mordock / Washington Times:
White House counterterrorism strategy to target left-wing groups, transgender ideology
CNN:
CNN founder Ted Turner, a pioneer of cable TV news, dies at 87  —  Ted Turner, the media maverick and philanthropist who founded CNN, a pioneering 24-hour network that revolutionized television news, died peacefully Wednesday, surrounded by his family, according to a news release from Turner Enterprises.
Corinne Purtill / Los Angeles Times:
RFK Jr. clears path for minors' use of tanning beds, much to the dismay of dermatologists  — 6 min Click here to listen to this article  —  Days before the 2024 presidential election, future Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted a statement on X promising to end …
Robert Reich:
Sergey Brin Is Making the Case for Why We Need a Wealth Tax  —  He's convincing the public of the necessity of doing this  —  Google co-founder Sergey Brin, one of the three or four wealthiest people in the world, with a net worth hovering around $260 billion to $277 billion …
Discussion: USA Today and Salon
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Associated Press:
Trump, hoping for an eventual Supreme Court victory, seeks to halt $83M payment in sexual abuse case  —  President Donald Trump's lawyer, hoping for an eventual Supreme Court victory, has asked a federal appeals court in New York to temporarily block a longtime columnist from collecting an $83 million defamation award.
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Erica Orden / Politico:
DOJ seeks to take on Trump's E. Jean Carroll case
Discussion: MS NOW and Fox News
Christopher Hale / Letters from Leo:
“Would It Matter If I Told You I'm Pope Leo?”  — The Bank Teller Who Hung Up on Robert Prevost  —  Thank you for reading!  Letters from Leo is a reader-supported publication.  To receive new posts and support my work, become a free or paid subscriber.  —  Subscribe  —  Make A One-Time Gift to Support My Work
Discussion: New York Times
Oscar Lopez / The Guardian:
Mexico nightclub's $300 cover charge for US citizens captures popular mood  —  Owner of Japan nightclub says ‘This is a response to a year of insults directed at us - as a country - by the United States’  —  A Mexico City nightclub has gone viral for charging Americans a nearly $300 cover charge …
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
I Really Hope This Deadly Virus Doesn't Reach America, or We're Doomed  —  Surely we can't rely on Secretary Road Kill to protect us.  —  This is a truly frightening development.  From the BBC: … Hantavirus will kill you dead.  Thirty-eight percent of people who develop symptoms will die from it and there is no cure for it.
Erik Loomis / Lawyers, Guns & Money:
Colorize This Obituary  —  Ted Turner is dead.  Although not much in the news for the past two decades, Turner played an outsized role in creating twenty-first century America.  He wasn't the worst billionaire ever, not by a long shot.  But he was also very very billionaire.
New York Times:
Purported Epstein Suicide Note Is Released  —  A federal judge released the note on Wednesday, which Jeffrey Epstein's former cellmate said he found in a graphic novel.  The New York Times has not authenticated that Mr. Epstein wrote it.  —  A federal judge has released a suicide note purportedly written …
Washington Times:
Fetterman slams NYC protesters as ‘pro-Hezbollah/Hamas,’ challenges Democratic Party to condemn them  —  Add us as a preferred source on Google  —  Sen. John Fetterman, Pennsylvania Democrat, lit into anti-Israel demonstrators who clashed with police outside a Manhattan synagogue Tuesday night …
US Department of Justice:
Texas Man Charged in Shooting at Secret Service Agent Near the Washington Monument on the National Mall  —  For Immediate Release  —  U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia  —  Vice Presidential Motorcade Was Passing Nearby, Just South of the White House
Joshua Kurlantzick / Council on Foreign Relations:
After Hormuz, Southeast Asia Sees the Potential Value of Tolling the Strait of Malacca … Iran has suffered enormous infrastructure damage since the start of the war in late February, yet the country remains resilient.  As I noted in a prior article, the regime's survival has been due in part …
Discussion: Foreign Policy and Vox
US Department of Justice:
Justice Department Notifies Fairfax County, Virginia Commonwealth's Attorney of Investigation into His Plea Bargaining, Charging Decisions, and Sentencing Policy  —  For Immediate Release  —  Today, the Justice Department notified the Fairfax County, Virginia Commonwealth's Attorney Steve Descano …
Danny Hakim / New York Times:
A Look Inside the Case That Enshrined Political Power for Billionaires … For a brief moment in American history, the rich didn't control politics.  —  Back in 1974, in the wake of the Watergate scandal, Congress passed new campaign finance restrictions that would have largely eliminated …
Discussion: NextDraft
Kate Brumback / Associated Press:
Justice Department can keep 2020 election ballots seized from Georgia's Fulton County, judge rules  —  The federal government can keep the 2020 election ballots from Georgia's Fulton County that were seized by the FBI from a warehouse near Atlanta, a judge ruled Wednesday.
Max Tani / Semafor:
Old news: Why a former New York Times editor blocked Epstein Pulitzer  —  The Scoop  —  A years-old fight among the judges of one of the most coveted prizes in media over a major investigation into Jeffrey Epstein has spilled into view as the story of the late disgraced financier continues to ripple through American institutions.
Nicole Charky-Chami / Raw Story:
Kyle Rittenhouse hospitalized  —  Kyle Rittenhouse, who fatally shot two protesters during a social rights demonstration in 2020, was hospitalized on Wednesday after a venomous spider bite.  —  He shared a photo of himself in a hospital and where the apparent bite was located on his body.
US Department of Justice:
Justice Department Investigation Determines UCLA's Medical School Discriminated Based on Race in Admissions  —  For Immediate Release  —  The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division has completed a year-long investigation into the admissions policies and practices at the David Geffen School …
 
 
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US Department of Justice:
Man Pleads Guilty to “Doxxing” Home Address of United States Supreme Court Justice
Discussion: The Hill and NewsMax.com
Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
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Lutnick admits to having prolonged ties to Epstein in closed-door interview
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