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NBC News reports: President Joe Biden’s campaign plans to host a major fundraiser in Los Angeles next month with former President Barack Obama and Hollywood superstars George Clooney and Julia Roberts, according to a campaign official. The star-studded lineup is expected to boost Biden’s fundraising efforts at a time when Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee are aiming to …

From the Justice Department: Louis LaPolla, age 78, of Utica, New York, pled guilty today in federal court in Syracuse to mail fraud for soliciting and then stealing donations intended for a scholarship fund in his late wife’s name. In pleading guilty, LaPolla admitted that he set up a scholarship fund in honor of his late wife, Andrea LaPolla, after …

Mediaite has the transcript: DANA BASH: Historically, the notion of saying to Jews, you should put Israel first and what happens in Israel first, and not sort of consider them American citizens first, has been used as an anti-Semitic trope. Do you do recognize that there and perhaps that language isn’t exactly on point when you’re talking about something that …

The Daily Mail reports: French officials are disputing a passage of South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s controversial new book that claimed she cancelled a meeting with Emmanuel Macron over his comments on the Israel-Hamas war. “While in Paris, I was slated to meet with French president Emmanuel Macron. However, the day before we were to meet he made what I …

CBS News reports: Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. once again reversed his stance on government limits for abortion access in a social media post Friday evening, prompted by criticism from within his own campaign. During an interview with podcaster Sage Steele, a former ESPN host, Kennedy Wednesday said he opposed any government restrictions on abortions, “even if it’s …

The Daily Beast reports: Sarah Sherman’s been making a habit of dressing up in animal costumes on “Weekend Update” lately, and the recent news—that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had a parasitic worm in his brain in 2010—gave her yet another big opportunity. “I mean, come on, look at this guy. What worm wouldn’t love this?” she told Colin Jost. “He …

The Independent reports: Jim Mattis, onetime secretary of defense for the Trump administration, described the former president as “a madman in a circular room screaming,” a new book reveals. The revelation was made by Tom Bossert, Donald Trump’s homeland security adviser from 2017 to 2018, and published in The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis. The new …

NBC News reports: North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum spoke before a large crowd of Donald Trump supporters Saturday in the latest sign that the competition to be the former president’s running mate is heating up among vice presidential hopefuls. Burgum, who was among Trump’s opponents in the Republican primary before dropping out, praised the presumptive nominee and bashed President Joe …

Politico reports: After spending the week sitting in silence as a parade of witnesses — from porn star Stormy Daniels to a former White House aide — testified in court, Donald Trump had to get a lot off his chest. Speaking before tens of thousands of people in Wildwood, New Jersey, Trump called the hush money case a “sham.” He …

The New Republic reports: Trump made explicit policy promises to a roomful of Big Oil executives—while urging them to raise $1 billion for his campaign. Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, who has been presiding over hearings into the oil industry as chair of the Budget Committee, says it’s “highly likely” that the committee will examine the new revelations. …