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WURD-AM radio host leaves station after using questions provided by Biden campaign in interview
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WURD-AM radio host leaves station after using questions provided by Biden campaign in interview

By Mallory Wilson  | The Washington Times A radio host from Philadelphia has parted ways with her station after she admitted to using prewritten questions from the Biden campaign in an interview with President Biden. Andrea Lawful-Sanders and WURD “mutually agreed to part ways, effective immediately,” the company said in a statement Sunday. “The interview featured pre-determined questions provided by the White House, which violates our practice of remaining an independent media outlet accountable to our listeners,” Sara M. Lomax, president and CEO of WURD Radio, said in the statement. The statement said the interview Wednesday — the first interview with the president after his shaky debate performance on June 27— was “arranged and negotiated independent...
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Biden was asked questions in radio ‘interview’ his own campaign provided
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Biden was asked questions in radio ‘interview’ his own campaign provided

By Alex Miller | The Washington Times President Biden’s campaign came up with questions for a Philadelphia-based radio host who interviewed him this week. Andrea Lawful-Sanders, host of “The Source,” said she was sent the questions from Mr. Biden’s campaign ahead of her Q&A that was recorded Wednesday and aired Thursday. “I got several questions, eight of them, and the four that were chosen were the ones that I approved,” Ms. Lawful-Sanders told CNN’s Victor Blackwell on Saturday.  Mr. Blackwell noted that Ms. Lawful-Sanders and his other guest, Earl Ingram, a Milwaukee-based radio host who also interviewed Mr. Biden this week, asked basically the same questions.  READ THE FULL STORY AT THE WASHINGTON TIMES
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Supreme Court ducks ruling on whether AR-15s are protected by 2nd Amendment
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Supreme Court ducks ruling on whether AR-15s are protected by 2nd Amendment

By Stephen Dinan | The Washington Times The Supreme Court said Tuesday it was declining, for now, to hear challenges against an Illinois ban on assault weapons — cases that have quickly turned into a major test of the legality of the popular AR-15 rifle. Justice Clarence Thomas indicated that his colleagues thought the cases weren’t yet ripe for the high court and needed more development before lower judges. But he said the issue will have to be dealt with as the justices continue to figure out the extent of the Second Amendment and to what, whom, where and when it applies. “We have never squarely addressed what types of weapons are ‘Arms’ protected by the Second Amendment,” Justice Thomas wrote in a statement about the refusal. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE WASHINGTON TIM...
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White House photographer claims aides knew for months Biden was not fit for office
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White House photographer claims aides knew for months Biden was not fit for office

By The Washington Times After President Joe Biden’s recent dismal debate performance, concerns have emerged from both current and former aides about his health and leadership capabilities. The White House attributed Mr. Biden’s low and sometimes difficult-to-understand speaking voice to a cold. However, some insiders suggest this reflects the president’s day-to-day condition. Former White House deputy director of photography, Chandler West, shared on Instagram, “It’s time for Joe to go.” “I know many of these people and how the White House operates,” Mr. West said. “They will say he has a ’cold’ or just experienced a ’bad night,’ but for weeks and months, in private, they have all said what we saw last night — Joe is not as strong as he was just a couple of ...
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Post-debate poll shows voters lost confidence in Biden; Democrats’ confidence in him plummets
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Post-debate poll shows voters lost confidence in Biden; Democrats’ confidence in him plummets

By Jeff Mordock | The Washington Times The first post-debate poll amplified Democrats’ fears about President Biden’s reelection with 57% of registered voters saying they have “no real confidence” in his ability to lead the country after his halting, stumbling performance. Most striking, perhaps, was the percentage of registered Democratic debate watchers whose confidence in Mr. Biden to lead the country plummeted from 54% before the debate to just 39% after the debate at CNN headquarters in Atlanta.By contrast, 69% of registered Republicans said post-debate that they have a lot of confidence in former President Donald Trump to lead the nation, compared to 73% who held that opinion before the debate. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE WASHINGTON TIMES
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Supreme Court sides with Jan. 6 defendant against obstruction charge
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Supreme Court sides with Jan. 6 defendant against obstruction charge

By Alex Swoyer and Stephen Dinan | The Washington Times The Supreme Court ruled Friday for a Jan. 6 defendant challenging an obstruction charge used by federal prosecutors to ding people who entered the U.S. Capitol that day in 2021. The 6-3 ruling wasn’t ideologically divided, with Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Ketanji Brown Jackson switching wings of the court to join colleagues in their respective decisions. A majority of the court ruled that federal prosecutors couldn’t use an obstruction charge against a Jan. 6 defendant without showing the individual impeded or destroyed a document or evidence used in an official proceeding. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE WASHINGTON TIMES
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Not a toss-up: Polling guru Nate Silver gives Trump 66% chance of winning 2024 race
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Not a toss-up: Polling guru Nate Silver gives Trump 66% chance of winning 2024 race

By Valerie Richardson | The Washington Times Election prognosticator Nate Silver is no fan of Donald Trump, but he predicts that the former president will win the November election against President Biden, and what’s more, it won’t be particularly close. In his first 2024 presidential election model, the political-statistics guru gave the presumptive Republican nominee a 65.7% chance of winning the Electoral College vote versus 33.7% for the Democrat Biden. “The model gives Trump a 66 percent chance of winning the Electoral College, and Biden a 34 percent chance,” Mr. Silver said Thursday on the Silver Bulletin, his Substack account. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE WASHINGTON TIMES
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Senate Republicans propose bill slashing taxes from tips
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Senate Republicans propose bill slashing taxes from tips

By Kerry Picket | The Washington Times Senate Republicans recently crafted legislation off of former President Donald Trump’s proposal to eliminate federal taxes from tips off of wages. The “No Tax on Tips Act” exempts “cash tips” — cash, credit and debit card charges, and checks — from federal income tax by allowing taxpayers to claim a 100% above-the-line deduction at filing for tipped wages.  According to the IRS, cash tips include “those received directly from customers, electronically paid tips distributed to the employee by their employer and tips received from other employees under any tip-sharing arrangement. All cash tips must be reported to the employer.” READ THE FULL STORY AT THE WASHINGTON TIMES
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Gun rights groups sue to overturn ban on firearms at post offices
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Gun rights groups sue to overturn ban on firearms at post offices

By Stephen Dinan | The Washington Times Second Amendment advocates went to federal court Tuesday to challenge the federal government’s ban on carrying firearms in post offices, saying it’s an unconstitutional limit on the right to bear arms. The lawsuit, brought in federal court in Texas, argues that the ban cannot survive the Supreme Court’s new approach to gun litigation, which holds that only policies that would have been countenanced by the founding era can survive constitutional scrutiny. The Firearms Policy Coalition and the Second Amendment Foundation said the founders envisioned restrictions at polling places, legislative assemblies and courthouses — all places where the federal government already provides its own security. But none of those are analogous to post offices. ...
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Supreme Court strikes down Trump-era ban on bump stocks, gun accessories used in 2017 massacre
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Supreme Court strikes down Trump-era ban on bump stocks, gun accessories used in 2017 massacre

By Lindsay Whitehurst | The Washington Times The Supreme Court on Friday struck down a Trump-era ban on bump stocks, a gun accessory that allows semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns and was used in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. The high court found 6-3 the Trump administration did not follow federal law when it reversed course and banned bump stocks after a gunman in Las Vegas attacked a country music festival with assault rifles in 2017. He fired more than 1,000 rounds in the crowd in 11 minutes, leaving 60 people dead and injuring hundreds more. A Texas gun shop owner challenged the ban, arguing the Justice Department wrongly classified the accessories as illegal machine guns. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE WASHINGTON TIMES
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