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Politics: Pat Cipollone, former Trump White House counsel, faces a deadline today to appear before the House Jan. 6 panel. The Biden administration sued Arizona over its new voter law requiring proof of citizenship to vote for president. A special grand jury in Georgia is subpoenaing Rudy Giuliani, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) and others in a probe into efforts to overturn the state's 2020 electon. Economy: Republican-leaning states' economies recovered from the pandemic faster than Democratic-leaning ones. Hiring demand is expected to have stayed strong as summer began, economists estimate. The Labor Department is expected to report at 10 a.m. ET that the U.S. saw 11.1 million job openings in May, down from 11.4 million in April. The Federal Reserve releases minutes from its June 14-15 meeting at 2 p.m. Biden Administration: President Biden is set to depart the White House at 12:25 p.m. for Cleveland. At 3:15 p.m. Mr. Biden is set to announce the final rule implementing the Covid-19 relief package's Special Financial Assistance program, which aims to protect workers in multiemployer pension plans from seeing cuts to their benefits. |
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| Former White House counsel Pat Cipollone previously sat for an informal interview with the House panel investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol. PHOTO: J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE/ASSOCIATED PRESS |
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Pat Cipollone, Donald Trump’s former White House counsel, faces a Wednesday deadline to give sworn testimony before the House panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, reports Lindsay Wise. In a letter accompanying the subpoena to Mr. Cipollone last month, the panel noted that he had sat for an informal interview on April 13. In the weeks since, the committee said it had obtained information about which Mr. Cipollone was “uniquely positioned to testify,” but that he had refused to cooperate further, necessitating the subpoena. |
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The Biden administration on Tuesday sued Arizona, saying the state's new requirement of proof of citizenship to vote for president violates federal law, reports Sadie Gurman. State lawmakers who wrote the bill, which is set to take effect in January, said it is aimed at curbing fraud. |
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A special grand jury in Fulton County, Ga., is subpoenaing Rudy Giuliani and other advisers to former President Donald Trump, as well as Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.), a new development in a Democratic county prosecutor’s investigation into efforts to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election, reports Alexa Corse. Mr. Trump has criticized the investigation as politically motivated, calling the probe a witch hunt in a January 2022 statement. |
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▶️Video: The Biden administration is nearing a decision on student-loan forgiveness, an issue that could affect millions of Americans and reverberate in the coming midterm elections. Here are some of the key challenges complicating the final decision. |
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| ▶️Video: The suspect in a mass shooting at a July Fourth parade in a Chigago suburb was charged with seven counts of first-degree murder, authorities said. |
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A 21-year-old man who police said fired more than 70 rounds from a rooftop into a crowd gathered for a Fourth of July parade in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, Ill., was charged with seven counts of first-degree murder, report Douglas Belkin and Joe Barrett. The suspect, Robert E. Crimo III, allegedly planned the attack for weeks and dressed as a woman to hide his identity, officials said Tuesday. A Regular at the Parade Recalls Chaotic Scene Who Are the Victims Killed in the Highland Park Shooting? |
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| New homes under construction in Inlet Beach, on the Florida Panhandle. MIKE FENDER FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL |
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Red states are winning the post-pandemic economy, reports Josh Mitchell. States that lean Republican have recovered faster economically than Democratic-leaning blue ones, with workers and employers moving from the coasts to the middle of the country and Florida. |
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46 Million | Number of people who moved to a different ZIP Code in the year ended February, the most in any 12-month period in records going back to 2010, according to a Moody’s analysis of Equifax Inc. consumer-credit reports |
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Demand for workers remained robust early in the summer, according to private-sector estimates, as the labor market remained tight alongside signs of slowing economic growth, report Bryan Mena and Rita Torchinsky. |
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U.S. crude-oil prices closed below $100 for the first time since May, reports Matt Grossman. West Texas Intermediate fell 8.2% to $99.50 a barrel, as traders’ attention shifted to the possibility that a downturn in economic growth could cool demand for fuel. The growth outlook is darkening as central banks work to get inflation under control by cooling economic activity, pulling down traders’ forecasts for oil demand. |
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In other economic news... |
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The Price of Going Green Is Rising for American Companies |
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The Food and Drug Administration said it would suspend its ban on Juul Labs Inc.’s products while the e-cigarette maker appeals the agency’s decision, reports Jennifer Maloney. |
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| A gray wolf in New Mexico; a Trump administration move had made it more difficult to give protections to species threatened by anticipated future events. PHOTO: JIM CLARK/ASSOCIATED PRESS |
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A federal judge in California threw out Trump-era changes to the Endangered Species Act, including one that allowed economic factors to be considered on whether to list a species as threatened or endangered, reports Katy Stech Ferek. |
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In other legal news... Federal Judge Rules That Three Drug Distributors Aren't Liable for Opioid Crisis in West Virginia |
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Barack Obama won Iowa twice. Now Democrats are an endangered species there and Republicans don’t see any sign of the political atmosphere changing in the 2022 midterms. (The New Republic) Covid-19 was the third leading cause of death from March 2020 to October 2021, behind heart disease and cancer, accounting for one in eight deaths in the U.S. (JAMA) Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi this week called on Southeast Asian nations to join the International Lunar Research Station, a proposed project on or near the moon backed by China and Russia. The U.S. is having more success convincing countries to sign the Artemis Accords, principles designed to govern activity on the moon, Mars and beyond. (Bloomberg) |
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