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Jocelyn Noveck / Associated Press:
White House correspondents' dinner, redux: What will Trump have to say? — President Donald Trump returned to the rescheduled White House Correspondents' Association dinner Friday night, delivering a rambling, hour-long speech that praised some journalists, took potshots at others …
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Trump bombed at the White House Correspondents' Dinner — and proved its point — President Donald Trump bombed at the White House Correspondents' Dinner Friday night. He knew he was bombing, too, and he even tried to meta-joke his way out of it. — But no. Even the president's jokes …
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Shawn McCreesh / New York Times:
‘Is This Supposed to Be Fun?’ Trump Hurls Insults at Correspondents' Dinner
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Claire Jones / Financial Times:
Trump attacks journalists at awkward White House press dinner
Trump attacks journalists at awkward White House press dinner
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New York Times:
Trump Holds Off on Major Escalation Against Iran as Advisers Raise Concerns — Among the worries is that expanded hostilities could dangerously drain the diminished stockpile of air defense munitions in the Middle East. — President Trump has set aside, at least for now …
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Barak Ravid / Axios:
Trump ordered military not to conduct strikes in Iran Friday — President Trump directed the U.S. military not to conduct new strikes in Iran on Friday, breaking a nearly two-week streak of daily attacks, two sources with knowledge of the decision said.
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Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
The Dead End to Trump's ‘Perfect’ War
The Dead End to Trump's ‘Perfect’ War
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Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
In Maine, Democrats Pick Troy Jackson to Replace Platner in Senate Race — Mr. Jackson, a progressive former State Senate president, clinched the nomination at a hastily arranged state party convention. — Maine Democrats chose Troy Jackson, a progressive former state legislator …
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NBC News:
Democrats poised to nominate Troy Jackson in must-win Maine Senate race — Jackson is expected to be selected as the party's nominee at Saturday's state party convention after all of his major opponents dropped out of the race. — BANGOR, Maine — Former state Senate President Troy Jackson …
Reuters:
Appeals court rejects Trump bid to curb mail-in voting in 23 states — Judge rejects administration's request to lift injunction secured by several Democratic-led states on 25 June — A federal appeals court on Saturday declined to allow Donald Trump's administration to implement in 23 states …
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Brentin Mock / Democracy Docket:
Trump's anti-mail voting order gets blocked again, this time by federal appeals court — The U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals denied the Trump administration's request to pause a lower court order that blocks the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) from executing the president's March executive order attacking mail voting.
New York Times:
Inside the Rushed Effort to Get Trump His New Air Force One — A New York Times investigation found that President Trump's push to speed delivery of the aircraft led to ballooning costs and trade-offs in safety features. — TIMES INVESTIGATION — A New York Times investigation found …
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Theodoric Meyer / Washington Post:
McConnell faces growing questions about absence nearly six weeks after fall — Scant details have not quieted rumors and online speculation about the former Senate Republican leader's condition. — Summary — Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) is facing growing calls to be more transparent …
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Annabella Rosciglione / The Daily Beast:
McConnell Aide Drops New Claims About Vanished Senator
McConnell Aide Drops New Claims About Vanished Senator
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David Sirota / The Lever:
Whitmer's War Against Medicare For All — Michigan's Democratic governor is helping her healthcare donors try to stop Abdul El-Sayed's crusade. — Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has announced a last-minute endorsement of U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens in her Democratic Senate primary battle …
Associated Press:
Several people are injured at Berlin's LGBTQ+ march after a car drives into the crowd — A car drove into a crowd during Berlin's famed LGBTQ+ parade on Saturday and injured several people, prompting police to call off the event in the German capital hours after it had begun.
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Lydia Wheeler / Wall Street Journal:
A Fight Over Dirt Spans Two of Trump's Controversial D.C. Projects — Soil from White House ballroom construction is at center of litigation over president's plan to renovate public golf course — WASHINGTON—Litigants sometimes fight dirty. They don't often fight about physical dirt.
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Bloomberg:
Brazil Blocks Visas of US Envoys Over Election Interference — Brazil has denied visas to two senior US State Department officials whom the Trump administration planned to send to scrutinize the fairness and integrity of the country's electoral system before the October 4 presidential vote.
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Oliver Milman / The Guardian:
Former top US food safety official says US mismanagement of cyclospora is approaching ‘a catastrophic level’ — Frank Yiannas, formerly of the FDA, calls for an independent review of federal response to illness causing explosive diarrhea — Donald Trump's former top food safety official …
Andres Picon / Politico:
The Pentagon wants to build data centers. Congress would like a word. — The Department of Defense's leasing of land to private companies for artificial intelligence server farms is drawing bipartisan scrutiny from lawmakers worried about the impact on military installations and surrounding communities.
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Gabrielle Fahmy / New York Post:
Taxpayer-funded trans dolls with removable genitalia to hit classrooms this fall for kids as young as 4 to ‘learn about different options’ — They're dolling up the trans agenda — and taxpayers are footing the bill. — “First-of-their-kind” transgender dolls — complete with removable genitalia …
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Ian Schwartz / RealClearPolitics:
Video and Transcript: President Donald Trump's White House Correspondents' Dinner Speech — President Donald Trump attended the rescheduled White House Correspondents' Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria, months after the annual gathering was cut short by an assassination attempt against the president.
Sophia Tesfaye / Salon:
Andrew Tate's arrest causes trouble for Trump's youngest son — The manosphere influencer has lost the president's support — but he could pose a threat to Barron — The shift was as swift as it was cold. Standing before reporters in the briefing room on Thursday, White House press …
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Michael Phillis / Associated Press:
Heat dome expands across the central United States, creating dangerous conditions for millions — Dangerously hot weather will expand across much of the central United States this weekend and into next week, pushing temperatures above 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.8 degrees Celsius) …
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Mark Osborne / CBS News:
Zelenskyy accuses Russia of assisting Iran with satellite imagery of U.S. bases in Middle East — Add CBS News on Google — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday he will share evidence with the United States showing Russia is assisting Iran in targeting U.S. bases in the Middle East via satellite surveillance.
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Daniella Cheslow / Politico:
Gulf countries want the war to end, but can't agree on how — As the U.S. continues daily strikes on Iran, the Arab states battered by Tehran's retaliatory attacks are trying to unite to chart a path toward peace. Longstanding tensions are getting in the way.
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Liz Crampton / Politico:
In South Texas, Paxton tests the limits of Trump's Hispanic coalition — MCALLEN, Texas — Just miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, Ken Paxton is trying to inherit President Donald Trump's historic gains with Hispanic voters. — The Texas GOP Senate nominee, speaking to hundreds of supporters …
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