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6:05 PM ET, June 1, 2015

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Vanity Fair:
Introducing Caitlyn Jenner  —  See Vanity Fair's July 2015 cover.  Shot by Annie Leibovitz, the cover features the first photo of Caitlyn Jenner, formerly known as Bruce.  —  Meet Caitlyn Jenner, Vanity Fair's July cover star.  Pulitzer Prize-winning contributing editor and author …
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Fox News Repeatedly Mocks And Misgenders Caitlyn Jenner  —  A segment on Fox Business' Cavuto repeatedly mocked Caitlyn Jenner, who debuted her new identity Monday on the cover of Vanity Fair, and misidentified her with male pronouns.  —  Neil Cavuto introduced the segment by asking in an exaggerated voice …
Politico:
GOP hits another roadblock on Obamacare repeal  —  After winning both chambers of Congress, they thought they could get a repeal bill to the president's desk.  It's turning out to be more complicated than that.  —  Yislaine Diaz sits with Amaury Garcia an insurance agent from Sunshine Life …
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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Meet The Man Pushing SCOTUS For A Monumental Change To Voting Laws  —  Edward Blum has been trying to take down “one person, one vote” — a tenet of modern voting rights law — since 1997.  Last week brought him his biggest breakthrough yet, with the Supreme Court surprising many election law experts …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Juan Williams / The Hill:
Supreme Court risks healthcare chaos  —  “This Congress, your honor?”  —  That snappy one-liner got a rare laugh from the packed crowd at the Supreme Court back in March.  —  Justice Antonin Scalia had asked Solicitor General Donald Verilli if there was any chance Congress could put aside politics …
Julian Zelizer / CNN:   Obamacare ruling a time bomb for Democrats?
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court throws out conviction for violent Facebook postings
Mark Sherman / ABC News:   Justices Rule for Muslim Denied Job Over Headscarf
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Muslim Woman Denied Job Over Head Scarf Wins in Supreme Court
Discussion: SCOTUSblog and Outside the Beltway
Politico:
GOP senators tear into Rand Paul  —  One fellow Republican accuses him of ‘lying’ about government surveillance to get more campaign donations.  —  Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and U.S. Sen. Dan Coats (R-IN) are pictured.  Getty  —  The Rand Paul pile-on session began a few hours before sunset Sunday evening.
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Dustin Volz / National Journal:
Rand Paul Won't Get Amendments on NSA Reform Bill—But Mitch McConnell Will
Discussion: Daily Kos and Techdirt
Al Weaver / The Daily Caller:
Rand Paul: My Opponents ‘Secretly Want’ Terror Attack ‘So They Can Blame It On Me’ [VIDEO]
Jose A. DelReal / Washington Post:
Lindsey Graham has a plan to win the GOP nomination.  If it works, it'd be a first.  —  As a native South Carolinian, GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham's candidacy could shake up that early-voting state's primary.  —  But that's not the same thing as shaking up the presidential race.
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Jonathan Heaf / GQ:
True Detective's Vince Vaughn covers British GQ  —  Forget the Frat Pack's fast-talking “so money” man: instead, he's America's plain-speaking superstar.  From calling time on the “assembly-line comedies” to his career-redefining role in TV's darker-than-noir detective thriller, True Detective …
Andrew Dugan / Gallup:
Once Taboo, Some Behaviors Now More Acceptable in U.S.  —  Story Highlights  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — While a select few actions remain deeply taboo for much of the country, there has been an increasing shift to moral acceptability for some of these over time.
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Judge digs deeper into House GOP's lawsuit against Obama  —  A federal judge who is hearing a lawsuit from House Republicans against President Obama is requesting more information about a funding dispute at the center of the case.  —  The House argues the president overstepped his executive authority …
Discussion: Instapundit
Avery Miller / ABC News:
The Biden Bond Built on Shared Tragedies  —  Vice President Joe Biden knows grief and has had more than his fair share.  On Saturday night, his son Beau died at the age of 46 after battling brain cancer, leaving his wife and two children without a husband and a father.
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David / Crooks and Liars:
Fox Psychoanalyzes Joe Biden After Son's Death Using Keith Ablow — Who Said VP Was A Drunk
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Week
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Hastert judge also donated to his campaigns  —  The donations could fuel questions about the judge's impartiality in the case.  —  The federal judge assigned to preside over the criminal case against former House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) donated at least twice to Hastert's congressional campaigns …
Discussion: Mediaite, Political Wire and Daily Kos
Patrick O'Connor / Wall Street Journal:
Dick Cheney Ramping Up New Policy Push  —  Former vice president to release book and mount lobbying campaign that is likely to play into 2016 presidential election  —  CASPER, Wyo.—Few people noticed the 74-year-old in the tan Stetson at a high-school rodeo here.  Dick Cheney was happy to blend in.
Garth Kant / WND:
WHY AMERICA IS MOVING LEFT  —  Trio of powerful conservative women explain reversible trend  —  Garth Kant is WND Washington news editor.  Previously, he spent five years writing, copy-editing and producing at “CNN Headline News,” three years writing, copy-editing and training writers at MSNBC …
Discussion: Raw Story and Right Wing Watch
Washington Post:
American journalist held by rebels in Yemen is freed  —  An American freelance journalist who was detained last month by rebel forces in Yemen has been freed, a family member said Monday.  —  Casey L. Coombs, who wrote for The Intercept among other publications, was one of at least four U.S. citizens …
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New York Times:
American Journalist Is Freed by Yemen's Houthi Rebels
Elizabeth Harrington / Washington Free Beacon:
Justice Department Studying ‘Far-Right’ Social Media Use  —  The Department of Justice is concentrating on “far-right” groups in a new study of social media usage aimed at combatting violent extremism.  —  The Justice Department's National Institute of Justice (NIJ) awarded Michigan State University $585,719 …
Journalism.org:
Millennials and Political News  —  Social Media - the Local TV for the Next Generation?  —  When it comes to where younger Americans get news about politics and government, social media look to be the local TV of the Millennial generation.  About six-in-ten online Millennials (61%) …
ABC News:
EXCLUSIVE: Undercover DHS Tests Find Security Failures at US Airports … An internal investigation of the Transportation Security Administration revealed security failures at dozens of the nation's busiest airports, where undercover investigators were able to smuggle mock explosives …
 
 
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Scott Bauer / Associated Press:
Gov. Walker backs 20-week abortion ban regardless of exemptions for rape, incest
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Elise Labott / CNN:
Qatar extends travel ban for ‘Taliban 5’
Discussion: mrctv.org/videos and Truth Revolt
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
What We Know About the Dennis Hastert Scandal
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