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The Christian Post reports: Leading evangelist Franklin Graham has responded to critics of his “special day of prayer” on Sunday, a time when he’s urged Christians worldwide to ask God to protect President Trump as his political “enemies” seek impeachment. Since making the announcement last Sunday, Graham has faced backlash from fellow Christian leaders who argue that Graham’s call to …

The Sacramento Bee reports: Sun-Maid, the popular raisin company with deep roots in the central San Joaquin Valley, has terminated its partnership with the Fresno Grizzlies. Sun-Maid announced its termination Wednesday evening, citing the Grizzlies’ Memorial Day debacle when the minor league baseball club aired a video tribute that equated Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to the likes of North Korea dictator …

‘You’ve had two years of lies and hoaxes and conspiracy theories pedaled every second of every minute of every hour of every day. And it’s just one more round of lying tinfoil hat conspiracy theories, Trump bashing over a narrative that is totally dead and buried. Because tonight, well the fact remains, there was no Trump-Russia collusion. There was no …

Courthouse News reports: The Miami Herald and others sued Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his cabinet on Tuesday, claiming their planned meeting in Jerusalem on Wednesday will violate the open-meetings provision of the state’s Sunshine Law. The Tampa Bay Times, Gannett, and Gatehouse Media joined the Herald and the First Amendment Foundation in opposing the cabinet meeting planned for the …

“Mueller has said you can’t charge a president with a crime. Why is he saying that? He’s saying that because he wants the liberals and the talking heads, which you’ll see tonight, I guarantee it, you’ll see tonight on TV. He wants the liberals to go out and say, ‘Look, the president clearly committed a crime Mueller laid it out …

The Daily Beast reports: The NRA pays Ackerman McQueen to run NRATV programing, meaning that people at the network technically work for the ad firm. The agency’s announcement that it was severing ties with the gun lobby group caught NRATV staff off-guard on Wednesday morning. Many staffers and talent at all levels of NRATV had no idea this statement was …

“Today’s statement by Mr. Mueller reinforces the findings of his report. And as for me, the case is over. Mr. Mueller has decided to move on and let the report speak for itself. Congress should follow his lead. As Mr. Mueller said today, the report speaks for itself. The report shows that there was no collusion between the Trump campaign …

The Huffington Post reports: The family of a man who died of “profound dehydration” inside a jail run by prominent Trump supporter and former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke has settled with the county and a health care company $6.75 million, one of the largest settlements in connection with a jail death in the United States. Terrill Thomas died in …

The Hill reports: White House counselor Kellyanne Conway on Wednesday scoffed at a government office’s findings that she violated a decades-old law barring officials from weighing in on elections in their government capacity as she railed against Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s record. When reporters noted the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) found she violated the Hatch Act with two …

The Sacramento Bee reports: The Fresno Grizzlies have apologized to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for a scoreboard video shown during Monday night’s doubleheader that appeared to equate her with Kim Jong-un and Fidel Castro. The video was 3 1/2 minutes long, called a “Memorial Day Tribute – We Are Americans.” It’s mostly filled with patriotic-themed images playing behind excerpts from the …

The Huffington Post reports: Lynne Patton, a regional administrator for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, wrote last week that she may have broken a federal law meant to prevent officials from politicizing their government positions, but said that even if that were the case, she “honestly” didn’t care. “Just retweeted this amazing tweet from both of my Twitter …

The Hill reports: Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said on Sunday that statements by FBI agents investigating President Trump sounded “a whole lot like a coup and it could well be treason.” Cheney told Martha Raddatz on ABC’s “This Week” that the beginnings of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation were suspect and need to be investigated. “Think about the fact …

From the transcript of this morning’s Meet The Press: CHUCK TODD: Can you explain why Americans should not be concerned that the president of United States is essentially siding with a murderous authoritarian dictator over a former vice president in the United States? SARAH SANDERS: Chuck, the president’s not siding with that. But I think they agree in their assessment …

“Why does a commander-in-chief and his family have to automatically grant every demand made by the party that has spent the last two years mocking and deriding him as an illegitimate president in an unrelenting assault on his presidency as they look for any reason to impeach him. The president has had it. I don’t blame him. Every day the …

USA Today reports: On Friday night, the actor Jon Voight released a two-part video on Twitter calling President Donald Trump “the greatest president since Abraham Lincoln.” Voight started his video by saying, “our president has our utmost respect and our love. This job is not easy for he’s battling the left and their absurd words of destruction.” “I’m here today …

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump‘s lawyer Rudy Giuliani sent a bizarre late-night tweet Friday night asking people to check out a restaurant’s Yelp review. “Check out this Yelp review for Mama Lisa Restaurant!” Giuliani wrote. He did not include a link. As usual, Twitter had some thoughts. Giuliani’s “drunk Pelosi” video tweet has since been deleted. Giuliani’s “ivesssapology” and Mama …

The Daily Beast reports: Kanye West is bemoaning the treatment of Trump supporters, arguing in a new interview that liberals “bully” those who support the president. “Liberals bully people who are Trump supporters,” the rapper said on David Letterman’s Netflix show “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction.” The musician also said that Trump supporters are “treated like enemies of America …

Politico reports: Rep. Chip Roy became the man who delayed $19.1 billion in disaster aid to communities throughout the country on Friday. House leaders tried to pass a multibillion-dollar disaster assistance measure by unanimous consent, but the Texas Republican objected on the floor. Communities still severely damaged by wildfires, flooding, hurricanes, lava flow and even typhoons have waited for this …

The Washington Post reports: Distorted videos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), altered to make her sound as if she’s drunkenly slurring her words, are spreading rapidly across social media, highlighting how political disinformation that clouds public understanding can now spread at the speed of the Web. The video of Pelosi’s onstage speech Wednesday at a Center for American Progress …

Politico reports: Kellyanne Conway escalated a feud with Nancy Pelosi on Thursday, accusing the House speaker of treating her like “her maid” following the previous day’s disastrous meeting on infrastructure. “When she was finished I said, respectfully, ‘Madam Speaker, would you like to address some of the specifics the president talked about,’” Conway recounted in an interview on Fox News. …