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  1. ELECTION RESULT from Alabama: Paul Prine, the former police chief of Mobile who was fired last year while facing a damning report about his department’s use of force against Black residents, has lost the mayoral race.

    He came in third, and will not move forward to the September runoff.

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  2. What's infuriating and has soured me on reporting in general is this whole thing could be over tomorrow if the White House press corp all agreed to simply ask him what year it is.

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  3. Lived in Nebraska; a great candidate wanted to run against the R in District 1. She called the DNC and they told her, "if we wanted that seat we'd move somebody there to run for it" -! That was 2018. Hope the DNC is thinking differently now.

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  4. A lesser-known part of the trade of enslaved people took place on the island of Saint Helena, which you may have learned about in school as the place where Napoleon was sent to live and die in exile after his defeat at Waterloo. No mention of its slave trade history

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