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Edward Helmore / The Guardian:
Mueller drew up obstruction indictment against Trump, Michael Wolff book says — A new book from Fire and Fury author Michael Wolff says special counsel Robert Mueller drew up a three-count obstruction of justice indictment against Donald Trump before deciding to shelve it …
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court compromise on Indiana abortion law keeps issue off its docket — The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to a compromise on a restrictive Indiana abortion law that keeps the issue off its docket for now. — The court said a part of the law dealing with disposal of the “remains” of an abortion could go into effect.
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
We just got the first Supreme Court abortion opinion of the Kavanaugh era
We just got the first Supreme Court abortion opinion of the Kavanaugh era
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Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Supreme Court leaves intact block on Indiana abortion restriction, but allows fetal burial to go into effect
Supreme Court leaves intact block on Indiana abortion restriction, but allows fetal burial to go into effect
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Law & Crime and Raw Story
David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times:
Supreme Court's Indiana abortion law ruling reflects conservative reluctance to tackle Roe
Supreme Court's Indiana abortion law ruling reflects conservative reluctance to tackle Roe
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Sidesteps Abortion Question in Ruling on Indiana Law
Supreme Court Sidesteps Abortion Question in Ruling on Indiana Law
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Indianapolis Star, Daily Wire and Political Wire
Wall Street Journal:
Transportation Secretary Still Owns Stock She Pledged to Divest — Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao has retained shares in a construction-materials company more than a year after the date she promised to relinquish them, federal disclosure forms show.
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Kate Smith / CBS News:
Missouri's last abortion clinic says it may lose its license this week — St. Louis, Missouri — The last remaining abortion clinic in Missouri says it expects to be shut down this week, effectively ending legal abortion in the state. — In a statement to be released later Tuesday …
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Sarah McCammon / NPR:
Missouri Could Soon Become First State Without A Clinic That Performs Abortions
Missouri Could Soon Become First State Without A Clinic That Performs Abortions
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Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
Ex-defense secretary Jim Mattis has book coming this summer — NEW YORK (AP) — Former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis has a book coming out this summer, but he warns that it will not be a “tell-all” about President Donald Trump. — “Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead” will be published July 16, Random House announced Tuesday.
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Megan Graham / CNBC:
Netflix says it will rethink its investment in Georgia if ‘heartbeat’ abortion law goes into effect — KEY POINTS — After Georgia earlier this month passed a law to ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, some in the entertainment industry are speaking out.
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Ashley Rodriguez / Business Insider:
Netflix says it would rethink its ‘entire investment in Georgia’ if an anti-abortion law is adopted
Netflix says it would rethink its ‘entire investment in Georgia’ if an anti-abortion law is adopted
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Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
Texas secretary of state resigns after leading botched voter purge that questioned the citizenship of almost 100,000 people — Texas's acting secretary of state David Whitley (R) resigned Monday just months after leading the botched voter purge of nearly 100,000 suspected noncitizens …
Marisa Iati / Washington Post:
Ocasio-Cortez featured among America's ‘enemies of freedom’ in baseball team's Memorial Day video — Among the “enemies of freedom” portrayed in a Memorial Day tribute video at a minor league baseball game: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, former Cuban president Fidel Castro and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.).
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New York Times:
Elizabeth Warren Gains Ground in 2020 Field, One Plan at a Time — NEWTON, Iowa — To the crowd of Iowans gathered in a school gym on Saturday night, Senator Elizabeth Warren made a request: They should pose a question to the other presidential candidates who come to Iowa seeking their vote.
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Kevin M. Kruse / USA Today:
Democrats need to get past impeachment jitters. It's not 1998 and Trump is no Clinton. — If Democrats think Trump committed impeachable acts, launch the process and stop assuming it will be a political loser. That misreads history. — CONNECT — As House Democrats consider impeaching …
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Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Amid censorship fears, Trump campaign ‘checking out’ alternative social network — Parler is like Twitter, but for Trump fans. — They've been banned from Facebook, purged from Twitter and blocked from Instagram. Some of them have been barred from setting foot on the continent of Australia.
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Caitlin Emma / Politico:
Supreme Court won't hear case on transgender school bathroom policy — The Supreme Court declined on Tuesday to hear a case challenging a Pennsylvania school district's bathroom policy allowing transgender students to use bathrooms of their choice. — The conservative Alliance Defending …
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Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Supreme Court leaves Pennsylvania school transgender student bathroom policy in place
Supreme Court leaves Pennsylvania school transgender student bathroom policy in place
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Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: Beto O'Rourke Apologizes to Campaign Staff for Being a ‘Giant Asshole’ — In a revealing exclusive clip from the HBO doc ‘Running With Beto,’ which premieres May 28, the Texas Senate candidate apologizes to his staffers for his domineering behavior. — 05.28.195:17 AM ET
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Annie Karni / New York Times:
Japan Rolled Out the Red Carpet. Trump Veered Off Into Personal Fixations. — TOKYO — It was just after 6 a.m. on the final day of a state visit to Japan designed to flatter and entertain him, and President Trump was in his comfort space: Twitter. — Hours earlier, he had been the honored guest …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Bernie's Pro-Sandinista Past Is a Problem, and His Response Is Not Good — A week ago, the New York Times reported on Bernie Sanders's 1980s-vintage foreign-policy stands, which at times crossed over from mere opposition to American policy to outright support for communist governments.
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Ivana Kottasová / CNN:
MacKenzie Bezos, worth nearly $37 billion, will give half her fortune to charity … The newly minted billionaire has signed the Giving Pledge, which encourages the world's richest people to dedicate a majority of their wealth to charitable causes, either during their lifetimes or in their wills.
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
‘My Rudy’: Trump's lawyer wants to be the campaign's No. 1 hatchet man — Get ready for more Rudy. — Done sparring with Robert Mueller, Donald Trump's personal attorney is training his attacks on the president's potential 2020 campaign rivals. Giuliani plans to meet with the president …
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Trump Character Ratings Improved, but Still a Weakness — WASHINGTON, D.C. — More Americans today (40%) than two years ago (33%) believe President Donald Trump has the personality and leadership qualities a president should have, although that still represents a minority of the public.
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Associated Press:
Knife-wielding man attacks schoolgirls in Japan, killing 2 — KAWASAKI, Japan (AP) — A man carrying a knife in each hand and screaming “I will kill you!” attacked a group of schoolgirls near a school bus parked at a bus stop just outside Tokyo on Tuesday, killing two people and injuring …
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Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post:
It's the middle of the night. Do you know who your iPhone is talking to? — Apple says, “What happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone.” Our privacy experiment showed 5,400 hidden app trackers guzzled our data — in a single week. — It's 3 a.m. Do you know what your iPhone is doing?
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CNN:
How Joe Biden worked with and praised a longtime opponent of civil rights — (CNN)In August 1985, 42-year-old Delaware Sen. Joe Biden was preparing for his first presidential bid. Courting southern support, Biden traveled to Mississippi to honor the 84th birthday of Democratic Sen. John Stennis …
Bloomberg Law:
Mulvaney Tightens Grip on Labor Chief After Trump Allies Grumble — President Donald Trump's acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, has seized power over the Labor Department's rulemaking process out of frustration with the pace of deregulation under Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta …
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Political Wire and Law & Crime
Masha Gessen / New Yorker:
How Nancy Pelosi's Tactics Affirm the Trumpian Style of Politics — The President of the United States is erratic, illiterate, and doesn't want to know what he doesn't know. The President has alienated former allies, befriended or courted murderous dictators, and has repeatedly brought …
The Local:
French Senate says Notre-Dame must be restored exactly how it was — french Senators have stipulated that Notre-Dame cathedral must be restored exactly how it was before the devastating fire that tore through the Paris landmark. — On Monday evening, the French Senate approved …
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Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Tony Horwitz, Prize-Winning Journalist and Author, Dies at 60 — Tony Horwitz, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and best-selling author known for embedding himself in the worlds he wrote about, whether joining a poultry slaughterhouse assembly line or an army of Confederate battlefield re-enactors …
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