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Miami’s NBC News affiliate reports: Late last year, after years of delays and disputes, the Champlain Towers South Condominium Association began a desperate search for $16.2 million to fix major structural damage that was slowly threatening the Surfside high-rise — and that may have contributed to the building’s partial collapse June 24. “If the owners would have had a reserve …

The Miami Herald reports: Gov. Ron DeSantis said Wednesday that condominiums in Florida are “kind of a dime a dozen, particularly in southern Florida,” but he would not commit to any state action to address concerns about the aging buildings, suggesting that Champlain Towers South “had problems from the start.” Speaking after a briefing on Tropical Storm Elsa at the …

The Insider reports: The Value In Electing Women Political Action Committee has supported every GOP woman serving in the US House and Senate, with the “intentional exception” of the two Republican freshmen, according to Julie Conway, VIEW PAC’s executive director and a longtime fundraiser and political consultant. Conway said the PAC would not endorse them in 2022, either. “While we …

The Hill reports: Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs (D) is calling on state Attorney General Mark Brnovich (R) to look into reports that former President Trump and his allies attempted to make contact with election supervisors in Maricopa County in the weeks following the November election. Hobbs, in a request sent via email Wednesday and shared on Twitter, cited …

The Texas Tribune reports: Allen West’s final days as Texas GOP chairman are ending with an explosion of the kind of intraparty drama he has become known for throughout his tenure. On Wednesday, long-simmering tensions between West and the party’s vice chair, Cat Parks, boiled over as he called her a “cancer” and “delusional and apparently deranged” amid a dispute …

“At Turning Point USA we are going to give everything we have to make sure that students are not going to have to live in a medical apartheid because they don’t want to get the vaccine. It’s almost this apartheid-style open-air hostage situation, like you can have your freedom back if you get the jab. This is unacceptable, we’re going …

The City reports: Ex-Rep. Vito Fossella’s last-minute, game-changing endorsement from former President Donald Trump in the Staten Island borough president GOP primary got a paid, targeted Facebook boost from an unexpected source: conservative cable news outlet Newsmax. Like many other news organizations, Newsmax Media Inc. regularly spends money to promote its stories on the social media platform. But Newsmax’s $25,000 …

Politico reports: A Pennsylvania ally of former President Donald Trump announced that he would try to initiate a review of the 2020 election in the key battleground state, mirroring a controversial effort in Arizona to examine the results months after President Joe Biden was sworn in. State Sen. Doug Mastriano, a Republican who has repeatedly echoed Trump’s false claims about …

Talking Points Memo reports: Former Florida tax collector Joel Greenberg, who has pleaded guilty to sex trafficking in connection to the federal investigation into Gaetz, filed a motion on Tuesday to delay his sentencing hearing to give him more time to cooperate with prosecutors. Greenberg’s attorney argued that his client’s cooperation, which “could impact his ultimate sentence” in the case, …

Bloomberg News reports: Russian government hackers breached the computer systems of the Republican National Committee last week, around the time a Russia-linked criminal group unleashed a massive ransomware attack, according to two people familiar with the matter. The government hackers were part of a group known as APT 29 or Cozy Bear, according to the people. That group has been …

The Washington Post reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Tuesday used a Nazi-era comparison in opposing the Biden administration’s push to encourage all Americans to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, calling the individuals leading those efforts “medical brown shirts.” Members of the paramilitary organization that helped Hitler and the Nazi Party rise to power were known as “brownshirts.” Greene’s …

CNN reports: Sen. Ron Johnson insisted again last week that he is not a climate change denier, but CNN’s KFile found video of him from just weeks earlier telling a Republican group that it is “bullsh*t.” “I don’t know about you guys, but I think climate change is — as Lord Monckton said — bullsh*t,” the Wisconsin Republican said, without …

“There’s no good reason not to get vaccinated. We need to finish the job. And I know there’s some skepticism out there, but let me put it his way: It may not guarantee you don’t get it but it almost guarantees you don’t die from it if you get it. The only solution ultimately is the vaccine. We’re in the …

Media Matters reports: Fox’s Kayleigh McEnany, a liar who served as White House press secretary under former President Donald Trump, lied about slavery and the founders of the United States during Tuesday’s Outnumbered. “The haters never take a day off from hating, that is clear. And they never take a day off from getting the facts wrong. We know most …

The Hill reports: In an interview with The New York Times Magazine and its talk columnist David Marchese, Kinzinger was asked if he suspected that some members of Congress were aware of what would happen and supported it. “I won’t name names, but yes, I do have that suspicion,” the Illinois congressman said. “I will say, if you just looked …

The Tulsa World reports: Oklahoma Republican Party chairman John Bennett told reporters that Sen. James Lankford’s decision not to object to the results of the 2020 presidential election after the Jan. 6 insurrection was proof that the senator couldn’t keep promises made to constituents. Bennett reportedly also said being a Republican doesn’t necessarily make someone “the right pick.” “It’s more …

The Louisville Courier-Journal reports: Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., tweeted that members of the U.S. military have contacted him saying they will ‘quit’ if forced to get a COVID-19 vaccine. The tweet has caused controversy on Twitter as others on the platform informed Massie that members of the armed forces cannot simply “quit” the military. Once a member of the military …

The Birmingham News reports: Alabama Congressman Mo Brooks said in a court filing Friday that he should be dismissed as a defendant in the lawsuit brought by California Congressman Eric Swalwell. In citing why he should be dismissed as a defendant, Brooks said the messages he posted to Twitter and the speech he gave at the pro-Trump rally in Washington …

Mediaite has the transcript: Like a lot of people, I criticized Trump back in 2016. And I ask folks not to judge me based on what I said in 2016, because I’ve been very open that I did say those critical things and I regret them, and I regret being wrong about the guy. I think he was a good …

“There are two nations created for God’s glory – Israel and the United States of America. We stand strongly with Israel. We will not back down until we have everything God has promised us. “We are an army for everything that Jesus has purchased for us and our children, and our children’s children. “It’s not a coincidence that Independence Day …