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Today’s edition of quick hits.
* Cannon is predictable: “Aileen M. Cannon, the federal judge overseeing the prosecution of a man accused of trying to assassinate former President Donald J. Trump, rejected the man’s request that she remove herself from the case, saying on Tuesday that she has no relationship with Mr. Trump even though he appointed her to the bench and she has ruled in his favor in a separate criminal matter.”
* So much disinformation: “Russian, Chinese and Cuban operatives have tried to amplify false information about the two hurricanes that recently hit the United States, spreading lies about the government’s disaster response, according to declassified intelligence cited by a U.S. official.”
* Damage-control mode: “Jeff Bezos, the billionaire Amazon founder who owns The Washington Post, defended the newspaper’s decision to stop endorsing presidential candidates, arguing in part that the move is a way to shore up credibility and combat perceptions of political bias.”
* Rail matters: “The federal government is handing out $2.4 billion in railroad grants to help pay for 122 projects nationwide with more than half of the money going to smaller railroads. The grants announced Tuesday by the Federal Railroad Administration will go to projects across 41 states and Washington, D.C. Most of the money will go to track and bridge upgrades. But some of the grants will be used to bolster training and explore cleaner-burning alternatives to the diesel railroads have long relied on. Some small railroads will also get help upgrading to more efficient locomotives.”
* Biden’s ongoing moon shot: “The Biden administration took steps to alleviate shortages of cancer drugs for children, part of a final push for one of the president’s domestic priorities: reducing the nation’s cancer burden.”
* Life without parole: “A California judge on Tuesday sentenced David DePape, the man who broke into former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home and attacked her husband with a hammer, to life behind bars without the possibility of parole.”
* A day later, I’m still stunned this happened: “CNN has banned a conservative commentator from appearing on the network again after he told a Muslim journalist, ‘I hope your beeper doesn’t go off,’ an apparent reference to the spate of exploding pagers in Lebanon that killed members of the Hezbollah militant group last month. Ryan Girdusky made the comment during a heated debate with Mehdi Hasan, a prominent British-American broadcaster and an outspoken critic of Israel’s war in Gaza, on ‘CNN Newsnight’ with host Abby Phillip.”
See you tomorrow.