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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
JUSTICES: CAN'T MAKE EMPLOYERS COVER CONTRACEPTION — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Monday that some corporations can hold religious objections that allow them to opt out of the new health law requirement that they cover contraceptives for women.
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Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
Americans Losing Confidence in All Branches of U.S. Gov't — Confidence hits six-year low for presidency; record lows for Supreme Court, Congress — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans' confidence in all three branches of the U.S. government has fallen, reaching record lows for the Supreme Court …
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ThinkProgress:
Why Today's Hobby Lobby Decision Actually Hurts People Of Faith — In response to today's Supreme Court decision on Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, which allowed the the craft store giant and other “closely-held corporations” to be granted religious exemption from the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) …
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ThinkProgress:
The Bait-And-Switch Behind Today's Hobby Lobby Decision — Protesters hold signs in support of Obamacare's birth control mandate — For many years, the Supreme Court struck a careful balance between protecting religious liberty and maintaining the rule of law in a pluralistic society.
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ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Supreme Court Deals Sharp Blow To Public Sector Unions — In a 5-4 decision by Justice Samuel Alito, the Supreme Court dealt a serious blow to public sector unions on Monday, although the opinion fell short of the claim made by the anti-union litigation shop that argued that case …
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Stephanie Simon / Politico:
Harris v. Quinn ruling: Unions hit, but not fatally, by SCOTUS — The conservative majority on the Supreme Court on Monday signaled its distaste for state laws requiring public-sector workers to pay union dues — but stopped short of sweeping them away, handing organized labor a sweet but potentially short-lived victory.
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CNN:
Court rules for companies over Obamacare contraception mandate — Washington (CNN) — Some corporations have religious rights, a deeply divided Supreme Court decided Monday in ruling that certain for-profit companies cannot be required to pay for specific types of contraceptives for their employees.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Rejects Contraceptives Mandate for Some Corporations
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Conservative Supreme Court Majority Prevails In Two Key Cases
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Irin Carmon / msnbc.com:
Every way the Supreme Court could rule in Hobby Lobby
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Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Obamacare Rebuffed by High Court in Contraception Ruling
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Alexander Marquardt / ABC News:
Bodies of Three Missing Israeli Teens Found Near Hebron, Source Says … The bodies of three Israeli teenagers who were kidnapped in the West Bank earlier this month have been found north of the city of Hebron, a source confirmed to ABC News today. — Hamas, the Palestinian militant group accused …
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Isabel Kershner / New York Times:
Three Bodies Found Believed to Be Missing Israelis — JERUSALEM — Israeli military searchers found three bodies believed to be those of the missing Israeli teenagers who disappeared more than two weeks ago in the occupied West Bank, a senior government official said on Monday.
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James Risen / New York Times:
Before Shooting in Iraq, a Warning on Blackwater — WASHINGTON — Just weeks before Blackwater guards fatally shot 17 civilians at Baghdad's Nisour Square in 2007, the State Department began investigating the security contractor's operations in Iraq. But the inquiry was abandoned …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Charlatans, Cranks and Kansas — Two years ago Kansas embarked on a remarkable fiscal experiment: It sharply slashed income taxes without any clear idea of what would replace the lost revenue. Sam Brownback, the governor, proposed the legislation — in percentage terms …
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Robert Booth / Guardian:
Facebook reveals news feed experiment to control emotions
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Kashmir Hill / Forbes:
Facebook Manipulated 689,003 Users' Emotions For Science
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Neil Munro / The Daily Caller:
McDaniel Unveils Another Strategy Against Thad Cochran — Volunteers working for tea party challenger Chris McDaniel in Mississippi say they have already found 20 percent of the invalid double-votes they need to cancel Sen. Thad Cochran's business-funded runoff victory.
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Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:
How Hillary Won Over the Skeptical Left — The surprising source of Clinton's invincibility — Jay Brown is a blunt-talking doctor from Ames, Iowa, the kind of guy who believes the biggest threats to the republic are the Koch brothers, Rupert Murdoch, and the corporatization of politics.
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Bernie Becker / The Hill:
IRS staredown not going away — A top GOP investigator and former IRS official Lois Lerner's lawyer squared off on Sunday, underscoring that the battle over the agency's improper scrutiny of Tea Party groups isn't going anywhere this election year. — House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa …
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James Hamblin / The Atlantic Online:
Why We Can't Talk About Gun Control — When one writer suggested that guns can be regulated without anyone's rights being infringed, he lost his job. Dick Metcalf told his story this morning to a skeptical crowd. — ASPEN, Colo. — “I pose this question, Mr. Metcalf, as a hunter of birds.
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