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Politico:
Max Miller's lawyer admits to accidentally releasing ‘private images’ of daughter — A lawyer for Rep. Max Miller took responsibility Tuesday for inadvertently releasing sensitive photos of the Ohio Republican's daughter in a trove of material Miller published Sunday in a bid to defend himself against domestic abuse claims.
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New Republic and Newsweek
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Axios:
“Things aren't looking good”: Trump tells Max Miller his candidacy is in trouble — President Trump phoned Rep. Max Miller Monday and expressed doubts about the Ohio Republican's candidacy amid reports he assaulted his ex-wife and their child, three sources familiar with the call said.
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Wall Street Journal, New York Post, CBS News, Breitbart, MS NOW, New Republic, NewsMax.com, HuffPost, The Hill, The Atlantic, Washington Examiner, Semafor and Joe.My.God.
Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
Reliably red Ohio suddenly a red-hot mess for GOP
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Joe.My.God., CBS News, NPR, MS NOW, Zeteo, Political Wire and Straight Arrow
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Scoop: Jim Renacci mulls House bid if Max Miller drops out
Scoop: Jim Renacci mulls House bid if Max Miller drops out
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Washington Examiner, CNN, NewsMax.com, CBS News and The Free Press
Bloomberg:
Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says — Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, greater oversight …
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NewsMax.com
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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / New Republic:
60 Minutes Quietly Killed Story About Epstein's Shady Banking Tactics — CBS's 60 Minutes had the scoop on Jeffrey Epstein's sketchy financials—before the Bari Weiss-run network fired the reporter fronting the investigation. — A new report by Democratic Senator Ron Wyden revealed that Deutsche Bank AG …
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Associated Press, Fox News and Deadline, more at Mediagazer »
Alayna Treene / CNN:
Furious Trump is considering removing Pirro over Reflecting Pool filing, sources say — President Donald Trump is considering removing Jeanine Pirro, the US attorney for the District of Columbia, over a Justice Department conclusion that problems with the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool stemmed …
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New York Times, MS NOW, Straight Arrow, NOTUS, The Guardian, Above the Law, The Independent, Deadline, KIFI-TV, HuffPost, TMZ.com, The Hill, ABC News, Media Matters for America, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Raw Story, Blaze Media, New York Post, New Republic, CNBC, Staff Stories, Forbes, Washington Examiner and Talking Points Memo
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Natalie Andrews / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Says Jeanine Pirro ‘Folded Like an Umbrella’ in Reflecting Pool Case
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Washington Post, NPR, Los Angeles Times, Poynter, CBS News, NewsMax.com, Washington Times, Newsweek, NOTUS and MS NOW
Jacob Rosen / CBS News:
More Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool charges dropped by Pirro's office
More Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool charges dropped by Pirro's office
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The Independent, The Daily Caller, emptywheel, Business Insider, The New Republic, The Daily Wire, NewsMax.com, TMZ.com and Politico
Clarence Williams / New York Times:
Prosecutor in D.C. Moves to Dismiss More Reflecting Pool Cases
Prosecutor in D.C. Moves to Dismiss More Reflecting Pool Cases
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Straight Arrow, Wonkette, The Gateway Pundit, Joe.My.God., UPI, FOX 32 Chicago, The Hill and Scripps News
CNBC:
U.S. has used ‘virtually all’ of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war: Reuters — The U.S. Army has used up much of its stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles during its five-month war with Iran, according to three people familiar with the data, raising concerns …
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New Republic and The American Conservative
Caroline Linton / CBS News:
What to know about primaries in 5 states today: Michigan, Virginia and more — Add CBS News on Google — Voters are going to the polls in five states, including Michigan, where Democrats are watching the expensive and contentious Senate primary contest between populist Abdul El-Sayed and moderate Rep. Haley Stevens.
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New York Times, Washington Post, Associated Press, UPI and ABC News
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Paul Waldman / Public Notice:
Moderate Democrats have a choice to make — This edition of PN is made possible by paid subscribers. Become one ⬇️ — 📊 Subscribe to PN 📊 — By the middle of next week, insurgent progressive Democrats may have defeated establishment candidates in two vital primaries …
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New York Times, The Hill, The Moderate Voice, The Post Millennial, PBS NewsHour, Reuters, NPR, Washington Monthly and Straight Arrow
Politico:
Bernie Sanders' circle is pretty clear on who his successor will be — The battle to become the country's next progressive leader in the mold of Bernie Sanders is heating up ahead of Democrats' direction-defining Michigan Senate primary. — Nowhere is the jockeying and strategy unfolding behind …
New York Times:
An Emerging Deal Between Iran and Oman to Reopen Hormuz Would Come at a Cost for Trump — The deal would address President Trump's most urgent political problem by allowing ships to move again. But it would give Iran strategic leverage it did not have before the war.
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The Times of Israel, Associated Press, Washington Examiner, The Hill, Just Security, Bloomberg, Middle East Monitor, The Guardian, Breitbart, New Republic and BBC
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Arsalan Shahla / Bloomberg:
Trump Tells Iran He Wants Deal on Hormuz Agreed to Immediately
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HotAir, Reuters, Talking Points Memo, CNBC, RTÉ and Associated Press
Axios:
Poll: Talarico has slim lead over Paxton in Texas Senate race — Three consecutive polls have now shown Democrat James Talarico narrowly ahead of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in that state's crucial race for the U.S. Senate. The latest, released Tuesday morning, has Talarico up 47%-45%.
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Washington Examiner, The Texas Tribune, NewsMax.com, Bloomberg, New Republic and New York Post
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Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
James Talarico Tests the Democratic Wilderness at the Texas Border
David Ellison / New York Times:
Let's Set the Record Straight on the Paramount-Warner Deal — Many people have weighed in on Paramount's agreement to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery — media analysts, power brokers, political commentators, competitors and, of course, lawyers. For a transaction of this size, that is expected and appropriate.
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The Wrap, The Hill, Deadline, The Independent, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter and Forbes, more at Mediagazer »
Chris Marquette / Politico:
Todd Blanche clears Judiciary Committee hurdle on party lines — Todd Blanche took a major step toward confirmation as attorney general Tuesday after the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 12-10 on party lines to advance his nomination, likely setting up a final vote within days.
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Washington Examiner, HuffPost, The Gateway Pundit and Legal Insurrection
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Wall Street Journal:
How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against Its Critics — Agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements — Tired_Thumb is far from alone. — In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour …
Maxine Kelly / Financial Times:
Oil falls after Bessent says deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz is imminent — Brent crude drops 4% as US Treasury secretary says Washington and Tehran could reach agreement on Tuesday or Wednesday — The US Treasury secretary signalled Washington and Tehran could reach a deal over the reopening …
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Fox News, CNBC, NewsMax.com, Reuters and Wall Street Journal
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Will Sommer / The Bulwark:
What the Hell Happened to Sean Duffy's Road-Trip TV Show? — Three months after it was announced, the secretary of transportation's summer show—funded by companies he regulates—hasn't aired a single episode. — SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION SEAN DUFFY and his family promised …
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Raw Story
Washington Post:
Trump keeps making threats. The world has stopped flinching. — The president's bombast has ceased to rattle world leaders, who have seen him fenced in by courts, rebuffed by Congress and strung along by Iran. — Summary — LONDON — When President Donald Trump strode into the Rose Garden …
Christopher Miller / Financial Times:
Ukrainian drones hit Wildberries warehouses in overnight strikes — Russian retailer has become key target for Kyiv as it aims to bring Putin's war closer to home — Ukrainian drones struck warehouses belonging to online retail group Wildberries and other targets across Russia overnight …
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Washington Times, Al Jazeera, Reuters, France 24, CBS News and Bloomberg
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Reuters:
Trump vowed to ‘bring free speech back.’ Judges in 75 cases ruled that he has stifled it — U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly campaigned for his second term as a champion of free expression, vowing in his January 2025 inaugural address to stop what he described as years of “government censorship.”
Politico:
Blanche assures anti-abortion supporters that Dobbs will be ‘permanent in every single state’ — As his confirmation to lead the Justice Department hung by a thread last week, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told faith leaders on a private call that he was preparing to take action to roll back abortion access nationwide.
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The Parnas Perspective and Joe.My.God.
Ken Sweet / Associated Press:
Trump accounts were closed in 2021 due to concerns over possible money laundering, Capital One says — Bank accounts held by President Donald Trump were closed by Capital One in 2021 after it flagged financial activity that had characteristics of money laundering, the bank disclosed in a court filing over the weekend.
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MS NOW, Washington Examiner, Adam Kinzinger, KIFI-TV, New York Magazine, Breitbart, Raw Story, UPI and The Hill
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Peter Charalambous / ABC News:
Capital One says it closed hundreds of Trump's bank accounts in 2021 ‘for anti-money laundering reasons’
Capital One says it closed hundreds of Trump's bank accounts in 2021 ‘for anti-money laundering reasons’
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American Greatness
Paul Krugman:
The Oligarchs are Doubling Down on Republicans — And Democrats should make the most of it — Inauguration Day 2025 looked and felt like a coronation, as Donald Trump was installed in a position of immense, unprecedented power. Since he had returned to office despite the Jan. 6 insurrection …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and Strength In Numbers
Piper Hudspeth Blackburn / CNN:
‘They are murder victims’: Senator suggests US strikes have killed people who weren't involved in drug trafficking — The US military's strikes on alleged drug boats have likely illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,” Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House on Monday …
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UPI, Blue Virginia, RedState and ABC News
Brian Beutler / Off Message:
Senate Democrats Dodge Last Pre-Election Opportunity To Fight Trump — They won't take a big stand to protect the election, or resist Trump's broader lawlessness, before the midterms. — ∙ Paid — This was expected, but it's madness. — Over the weekend, Patty Murray …
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Washington Examiner
Jason Lange / Reuters:
Voters prefer Democrats over Republicans on economy for first time in a decade, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds — Americans picked Democrats over Republicans as better stewards of the economy for the first time in nearly a decade in a Reuters/Ipsos poll, which also found their approval of President Donald Trump's performance falling to 35%.
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The Hill, Associated Press, committeetounleashprosperity …, Washington Examiner, The Independent, Semafor and Slow Boring
Ashleigh Fields / The Hill:
Darline Graham breaks with brother on nuking filibuster — Sen. Darline Graham (R-S.C.) on Monday broke with her brother, the late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), over abolishing the filibuster three weeks after stepping in to finish the rest of his term. — “One of the first things I did was co-sponsor the SAVE America Act.
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Joe.My.God., RedState, New York Post and The Gateway Pundit
Jeremiah Johnson / The Argument:
Who supports free trade? Everyone. — Welcome back to The Argument's poll series, where we survey Americans on the issues everyone's fighting about. Our full crosstabs are available for paying subscribers at the end of this post. You can see every single poll published by The Argument here.
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The Diplomat
