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Heidi Przybyla / NBC News:
Joe Biden's long evolution on abortion rights still holds surprises  —  As a senator from Delaware, he once supported stripping exceptions for rape and incest from federal funding.  —  WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Joe Biden's decadeslong evolution on abortion rights has in many ways mirrored …
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Li Zhou / Vox:
Poll: a growing number of Democratic voters are prioritizing gender-related issues
Discussion: Politico, The Week, Political Wire and Slate
Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
Biden campaign confirms he supports controversial abortion rule
Discussion: National Review
Tim Starks / Politico:
Russia's manipulation of Twitter was far vaster than believed  —  Russia's infamous troll farm conducted a campaign on Twitter before the 2016 elections that was larger, more coordinated and more effective than previously known, research from cybersecurity firm Symantec out Wednesday concluded.
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Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Russian trolls who interfered in 2016 U.S. election also made ad money, report says  —  Some accounts were set up months in advance.  And some trolls used fake accounts to make money, researchers found, with one perhaps generating $1 million.  —  WASHINGTON — The effort …
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Gillian ClearySenior / Symantec Blogs:
Twitterbots: Anatomy of a Propaganda Campaign
Discussion: UPI
Nick Statt / The Verge:
YouTube decides that homophobic harassment does not violate its policies  —  The company sides with edgy commentator Steven Crowder  —  YouTube has at last formally responded to an explosive and controversial feud between Vox writer and video host Carlos Maza and conservative YouTuber Steven Crowder.
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Tom McKay / Gizmodo:
YouTube: No, We Won't Remove These Videos of Racist, Anti-Gay Harassment Because It's Just ‘Debating’  —  YouTube has chosen not to take action against right-wing video personality Steven Crowder after Vox host Carlos Maza posted clips of Crowder repeatedly harassing him with derogatory …
Discussion: Mediaite, The Resurgent and twitchy.com
Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
A right-wing YouTuber hurled racist, homophobic taunts at a gay reporter. The company did nothing.
New York Times:
Senate Republicans Warn White House Against Mexico Tariffs  —  WASHINGTON — Republican senators sent the White House a sharp message on Tuesday, warning that they were opposed to President Trump's plans to impose tariffs on Mexican imports, just hours after the president said lawmakers would be “foolish” to try to stop him.
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Fred Barbash / Washington Post:
Use of emergency declaration to impose tariffs on Mexico is legally questionable, scholars say
Politico:
Republicans threaten revolt, may block Trump's Mexico tariffs
Sam Levine / HuffPost:
Texas Governor Asked Officials To Hunt For Noncitizen Voter Records Before Botched Purge  —  New emails show the governor's office put in an “urgent” request to identify noncitizen voter records shortly before the 2018 midterm elections.  —  Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) pushed officials …
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RealClearInvestigations:
Policing Noncitizen Voting: What We Have Here Is a Failure of Data
Discussion: Real Clear Politics
Guillermo Contreras / ExpressNews.com:
Emails show Texas governor requested the voter purge that used flawed data
Detroit News:
Biden, Sanders other Democrats lead Trump in Michigan poll  —  Lansing — While most Michigan voters don't want Congress to impeach President Donald Trump, a majority said they would vote against him if the election were held today, according to a new statewide poll.  —  More:Potential Amash bid could hurt Biden in Michigan
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Melissa Nann Burke / Detroit News:
Potential Amash bid could hurt Biden in Michigan
Discussion: Political Wire
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Beto O'Rourke calls for term and donation limits in new voting rights plan  —  O'Rourke: Call to impeach Trump isn't a rushed decision  —  (CNN)Beto O'Rourke is proposing term limits for Supreme Court justices and members of Congress and far-reaching new restrictions on donations …
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Tim Reid / Reuters:
Democrat O'Rourke unveils voting rights plan to get 35 million more to the polls
Discussion: Political Wire
CNN:
How Donald Trump for years used the royal family to gin up publicity for his properties  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump was all smiles on Monday as he attended a state dinner at Buckingham Palace hosted by Queen Elizabeth II.  But the royal family has for years batted back stories that its members …
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
ProPublica:
How Payday Lenders Spent $1 Million at a Trump Resort — and Cashed In  —  At the Trump Doral outside Miami, payday lenders celebrated the potential death of a rule intended to protect their customers.  They couldn't have done it without President Donald Trump and his latest deregulator, Kathleen Kraninger.
Discussion: Splinter
David M. Halbfinger / New York Times:
New Palestinian Premier Warns of a ‘Very Hot Summer’  —  RAMALLAH, West Bank — Pressured by the Trump administration, confronted with Israeli talk of annexing the West Bank, increasingly isolated in the Arab world and running out of money, the beleaguered Palestinian Authority is staring …
Discussion: Lawfare
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Will Senate Republicans defy Trump this time? Will it matter?
Discussion: Political Wire
Lauren Chadwick / euronews:
Noa Pothoven: Raped girl, 17, dies by legal euthanasia in the Netherlands  —  A teenager who said she was raped by two men died by legal euthanasia in the Netherlands, it's emerged.  —  Noa Pothoven made a “sad last post” to social media last week in which she announced she would “die within 10 days”.
Joe Perticone / Business Insider:
Joe Biden's climate plan appears to directly copy multiple lines from other organizations — but his campaign says it was a mistake … - Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden released a climate change proposal on Tuesday.  — In at least three instances …
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Washington Post:
Joe Biden's campaign acknowledges lifting language from other groups for its policy plans
Christopher Rowland / Washington Post:
Pfizer had clues its blockbuster drug could prevent Alzheimer's.  Why didn't it tell the world?  —  A team of researchers inside Pfizer made a startling find in 2015: The company's blockbuster rheumatoid arthritis therapy Enbrel, a powerful anti-inflammatory drug, appeared to reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease by 64 percent.
Chris York / HuffPost UK:
Trump Interview: 7 Takeaway Moments From Piers Morgan's ITV Sit-Down  —  From his controversial comments on the NHS and Meghan Markle to climate change, nothing was off limits on Good Morning Britain.  —  In what appears to now be a tradition, Donald Trump has given his only TV interview …
Alexander Panetta / Politico:
Trump's trade war gobsmacks Mexico and Canada  —  It was a jubilant day for North America.  At least, it looked that way to leaders in Mexico City and Ottawa.  —  Steel tariffs had just been lifted across the continent.  Relieved Canadians had responded by introducing a bill to implement USMCA …
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Eric Boehm / Reason:
Trump's Trade War Turns 1. Here's What We've Lost.
Discussion: Washington Post
Diane Smith / Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
Board votes to fire teacher over tweets, but she remains employed pending possible appeal  —  An English teacher whose Twitter posts against immigration sparked a backlash on social media was recommended for termination by the Fort Worth school board over her use of racially insensitive language.
Discussion: Mediaite
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Alex Horton / Washington Post:
A teacher asked Trump to round up ‘illegal students’ — in tweets she says she thought were private
Rebecca Hamilton / Just Security:
EXCLUSIVE: Draft Charter of Pompeo's “Commission on Unalienable Rights” Hides Anti-Human Rights Agenda  —  On May 30, without fanfare, a notice of intent to establish a State Department Commission on Unalienable Rights was published in the Federal Register.  The stated purpose of the Commission …
Discussion: PassBlue and Quartz
OpenSecrets.org:
World of influence: A guide to Trump's foreign business interests  —  Two years into his presidency, Donald Trump continues to make money from properties and licensing deals in nearly two dozen countries around the world, fanning the flames of concerns that the Trump administration is subject …
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
House passes immigration bill to protect ‘dreamers,’ offer a path to citizenship  —  The House on Tuesday passed a bill that would offer a path to citizenship to more than 2 million undocumented immigrants, including “dreamers” who were brought to the United States as children.
Melanie Zanona / Politico:
‘It was a political lynch mob’: Steve King pledges to fight GOP over his exile  —  Rep. Steve King, hellbent on making a congressional comeback, is vowing to fight the GOP and force his way back on to the committees from which he was exiled.  —  But the Iowa Republican is finding little support …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Week
Julia Marsh / New York Post:
De Blasio says anti-Semitism is strictly a ‘right-wing movement’  —  Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday that anti-Semitism is a “right-wing movement” — while rejecting a claim that the left plays any role in discriminating against Jews.  —  “I think the ideological movement that is anti-Semitic …
Discussion: Front Page Magazine
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Censure rather than impeach?  Hell no, Democrats — that's inexcusable cowardice  —  There's a push to censure Trump instead of impeaching him.  Do Democrats actually want to look like waffling wimps?  —  The clamor to impeach Donald Trump is growing in the wake of the damning report …
Discussion: Hot Air, Pirate's Cove and The Hill
Adam Goldman / New York Times:
F.B.I., Pushing to Stop Domestic Terrorists, Grapples With Limits on Its Power  —  EVERETT, Wash. — Dakota Reed's mind brimmed with thoughts of mass murder.  In November, he wrote on Facebook, “I am shooting for 30 Jews.”  —  The next month, he uploaded a video of himself in his bedroom …
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Judge OK without public release of Flynn-Kislyak transcript  —  A federal judge reversed course on Tuesday and absolved the Justice Department of a demand to make public transcripts of recorded phone calls between former national security adviser Michael Flynn and a Russian official.
David Montanaro / Fox News:
Jim Jordan: Democrats focused on impeachment and ‘getting the president,’ not helping the country  —  Rep. Jim Jordan said Tuesday that Democrats are focused on “getting the president” through impeachment, not on helping the country, calling John Dean's upcoming testimony their “opening act.”
Discussion: Breitbart
 
 
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Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian:
Behold the Vanity Plates DC Rejected in 2018
Lee Smith / Tablet Magazine:
Spies Are the New Journalists  —  There are two sets of laws in the United States today.
Bryan Lowry / Kansas City Star:
Phone poll pits lobbyist with Trump ties against Kansas congressman for Senate race
Billy Binion / Reason:
San Francisco Police Got a Warrant to Monitor a Journalist's Phone Before Raiding His Apartment
New York Times:
Cory Booker's Housing Plan Offers Tax Credit to Millions of Renters
Discussion: Axios
Matt Walsh / Daily Wire:
LGBT People Are Not Oppressed Or Persecuted In This Country. Here's How We Know.
Discussion: The Guardian
Vanessa Grigoriadis / New York Times:
Madonna at Sixty  —  The original queen of pop on aging …
Discussion: Page Six
Jason Hancock / Kansas City Star:
Missouri's new abortion ban has Nicole Galloway leaning toward campaign for governor
 Earlier Items: 
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Trump to hit Biden as globalist on trade issues
Discussion: Washington Post
Meridith McGraw / ABC News:
Trump joins world leaders to commemorate 75th anniversary of D-Day
John D. Sutter / CNN:
Feds are still trying to stop the ‘climate kids’ lawsuit
Discussion: American Greatness and Splinter
Edward Fitzpatrick Globe / BostonGlobe.com:
Make that four political parties for Lincoln Chafee
Discussion: Splinter and Front Page Magazine
Phil Williams / WTVF-TV:
Tennessee prosecutor: Gay people not entitled to domestic violence protections
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Talks Between Democrats and Justice Dept. in Doubt Over Barr Contempt Vote
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Republicans ready to quash Cuccinelli
Discussion: Washington Post and Mediaite
Susan Page / USA Today:
Harry Reid changes opinion, says Pelosi-led House should open Trump impeachment inquiry
 

 
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The Hollywood Reporter:
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