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According to a report from Politico, the antics of Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) since she has been in Congress are turning off voters in one of the most important cities in her district and creating a groundswell to defeat her in the 2022 midterm election.

Politico's Jennifer Oldham reports that the city of Pueblo, Colorado could hold the key to whether Boebert is returned to Congress and, according to her report, "Among voters in Pueblo—the largest and most politically unpredictable city in Boebert's vast district—there is a growing sense of exasperation with the freshman representative not yet six months into her tenure."

JBS, one of the world's biggest meat processors, has paid bitcoin worth $11 million in ransom to hackers to prevent any further disruption after a paralyzing cyberattack believed to have originated in Russia.

This was the second multi-million-dollar payment to hackers in recent weeks, drawing attention to the broader threat posed by ransomware to essential infrastructure, services and businesses.

Blocked by US President Joe Biden, Canada's TC Energy said Wednesday it had officially terminated the Keystone XL Pipeline project, throwing in the towel on a controversial initiative opposed by environmental activists.

TC Energy will coordinate with regulators, indigenous groups and other stakeholders "to meet its environmental and regulatory commitments and ensure a safe termination of and exit from the project," the company said in a press release, confirming that it had notified the government of the province of Alberta.

For the second time in a month, the United States on Wednesday demanded Mexico look into a case of a company in the auto industry blocking worker efforts to unionize.

US President Joe Biden ran for office as a champion of American workers, and pledged to take action to ensure they are protected from unfair competition from cheap labor in other countries.

Joe Biden and Boris Johnson will hold their first face-to-face meeting Thursday, during which they will lay the foundations for a new pact, despite Brexit and its consequences in Northern Ireland casting a shadow on the old "special relationship".

Biden -- on his first overseas tour as US president -- and the British Prime Minister are set to agree a modern version of a charter signed by Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt, that set out post-war goals for democracy, trade and opportunity.

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Jobless Texans who refuse work offers because they feel like the job isn't safe during the pandemic won't be able to receive unemployment benefits as of June 26, the Texas Workforce Commission announced this week.

Tuesday night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow lectured Attorney General Merrick Garland for what she believed was a mistake defending Donald Trump in a private court battle. A key piece of her argument was that the Department of Justice faces many things that must be reworked to ensure no president can do what Donald Trump did ever again.

Wednesday, she cited what she called a groundbreaking report from the Boston Globe that is a six-part series walking through all of the things that President Joe Biden and the executive and legislative branches must do to protect the country from another Donald Trump.

On Wednesday, Axios published an analysis of the outsized role that the state of West Virginia is playing in national politics — despite its small size and its lack of any demographic resemblance to the country as a whole.

"The state has experienced the fastest rate of population decline in the nation, according to census data," wrote Stef Kight. "It looks completely different than the rest of the U.S.: 92% of the population is non-Hispanic white, making it the third-whitest state in a rapidly diversifying country. It also has the lowest percentage of people with a bachelor's degree or higher, and was the state that had the second-highest margin in favor of Donald Trump in the 2020 election."

Rep. Mondaire Jones of New York is among the Democrats who has been calling for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, now 82, to retire while his party is still in control of the White House and the U.S. Senate. But Breyer, according to the New York Times, has resisted calls for his retirement and seems to fear that doing so would further politicize the High Court.

Legal scholar and election law expert Richard L. Hasen weighs in on how Breyer's reluctance to retire could "backfire" in an article published by Slate this week, arguing that the Supreme Court could become even more politicized if Breyer doesn't retire.

The culture war" is so familiar I don't need to explain what it is. It has been part of the Republican Party's rhetorical repertoire since at least Robert Taft's time. What most people do not understand, however, is nearly every moment in which "the culture war" flares up—over abortion, guns, sexuality, etc.—is rooted in a lie. If more people understood the centrality of lying to "the culture war," more might understand the goal of the GOP's "cultural war" repertoire is making some Americans seem illegitimate.

Consider the case of Mara Gay, a member of the Times' editorial board.1 She was on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Tuesday. The subject of table discussion was Max Boot's new op-ed in the Post on how too many people in this country are still underestimating the dire threat posed by the Republican Party to democracy and the American union.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has navigated several scandals before and after taking office and now it's being reported that he's being investigated for possible sanctions by the state bar association.

"The investigation is yet another liability for the embattled attorney general, who is facing a years-old criminal case, a separate, newer FBI investigation, and a Republican primary opponent who is seeking to make electoral hay of the various controversies," said the Associated Press. "It also makes Paxton one of the highest-profile lawyers to face professional blowback over their roles in Donald Trump's effort to delegitimize his defeat."

Seven months after being voted out of office, former President Donald Trump remains the most influential figure in the Republican Party — much to the dismay of all the Never Trump conservatives who were hoping the GOP would abandon Trumpism after now-President Joe Biden's decisive victory in the 2020 election. Trump hasn't grown any less self-serving since leaving the White House, and in an article published by the National Journal on June 8, reporter Josh Kraushaar stresses that Trump's "erratic behavior" has the potential to hurt fellow Republicans in the 2022 midterms.

"Former President Trump could have been an important asset for the GOP, turning out voters as it seeks to regain control of Congress in next year's midterm elections," Kraushaar explains. "But out of office, he's continuing his destructive behavior, endorsing weaker candidates in contested primaries, squelching the campaigns of erstwhile allies, and elevating not-ready-for-prime-time contenders in must-win Senate contests."

In the state of Tennessee, the results of a new research survey suggest Republican and Democrat voters live in two totally different realities where critical issues are concerned.

According to The Times Free Press, a staggering 71% of Republican voters and 30% of independents agree with the claim "Joe Biden stole the 2020 presidential election."