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Cassie da Costa / The Daily Beast:
Jane Roe's Deathbed Confession: Anti-Abortion Conversion ‘All an Act’ Paid for by the Christian Right — REVEALING — The new FX documentary “AKA Jane Roe,” out May 22, contains a shocking revelation: Roe (of “Roe v. Wade” fame) played the part of an anti-abortion crusader in exchange for money.
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Meredith Blake / Los Angeles Times:
The woman behind ‘Roe vs. Wade’ didn't change her mind on abortion. She was paid — When Norma McCorvey, the anonymous plaintiff in the landmark Roe vs. Wade case, came out against abortion in 1995, it stunned the world and represented a huge symbolic victory for abortion opponents: “Jane Roe” had gone to the other side.
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Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
Trump administration declassifies full Susan Rice email sent on Inauguration Day — The email describes a Jan. 5, 2017 Oval Office meeting regarding Michael Flynn and Russian interference in the 2016 election. — Susan Rice. Win McNamee/Getty Images — On the day of President Donald …
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Mysterious Susan Rice email declassified, release is ‘imminent’: source — Former FBI Director James Comey suggested to then-President Barack Obama in a January 2017 meeting that the National Security Council might not want to pass “sensitive information related to Russia” …
Carol E. Lee / NBC News:
White House portrait ceremony may be the latest casualty of the political divide — Why traditional WH portrait unveiling may cease for now — WASHINGTON — It's been a White House tradition for decades: a first-term president hosts his immediate predecessor in the East Room for a ceremony …
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Jamie Ross / The Daily Beast:
Trump Won't Be Unveiling Obama White House Portrait, Says Report — BREAK FROM TRADITION — For decades, it's been a gesture of the peaceful transition of power from president to president, regardless of party politics. But, according to a report from NBC News, President Trump …
Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
Unlike Trump, Pence says he's not taking hydroxychloroquine
Unlike Trump, Pence says he's not taking hydroxychloroquine
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Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Pelosi slams Trump for taking hydroxychloroquine, calls him ‘morbidly obese’
Pelosi slams Trump for taking hydroxychloroquine, calls him ‘morbidly obese’
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Michael Flynn's lawyers try an end run around federal judge — Flynn's lawyers also accused a U.S. District Court judge of bias and asked that the case be reassigned for any future proceedings. — Former national security adviser Michael Flynn. Lawyers for former Trump national security …
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Michael Flynn's lawyers file petition to force judge to dismiss charges
Michael Flynn's lawyers file petition to force judge to dismiss charges
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Gregg Re / Fox News:
Flynn attorney files emergency appeal to shut down Judge Sullivan's orders, boot him from case
Flynn attorney files emergency appeal to shut down Judge Sullivan's orders, boot him from case
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Arizona Republic:
New poll shows Sen. Martha McSally losing ground to Mark Kelly and that's not even the bad news — From the Republican uh-oh department: Arizona Sen. Martha McSally is sliding in the polls, dropping four percentage points in a month. — McSally now trails Democrat Mark Kelly by 13 points …
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Sabrina Lolo / WPEC:
Woman who designed Florida's COVID-19 dashboard has been removed from her position — As Florida starts to reopen, the architect and manager of Florida's COVID-19 dashboard, announced she'd been removed from her position, Florida Today reported. Rebekah Jones said in an email to CBS12 News …
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Florida Today:
Coronavirus: As Florida re-opens, COVID-19 data chief gets sidelined and researchers cry foul — EDITORS NOTE: We chose to make this story broadly accessible because of the importance of its content. But quality, fact-checked reporting isn't free. Collecting and verifying news is a costly …
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Chad Livengood / Crain's Detroit Business:
Whitmer order bans ‘nonessential’ plant tours, but Trump's Ford visit still on; automaker will require mask — When Ford Motor Co. hosts President Donald Trump on Thursday for a tour of its Rawsonville Components Plant in Ypsilanti, the automaker will be doing so in technical violation …
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Natasha Turak / CNBC:
Wearing a mask can reduce coronavirus transmission by 75%, new study claims — Experiments by a team in Hong Kong found that the coronavirus' transmission rate via respiratory droplets or airborne particles dropped by as much as 75% when surgical masks were used.
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Andrew Feinberg / The Independent:
Trump almost got away with firing the guy who was investigating Mike Pompeo — but now it's all falling apart — After being questioned, the President threw Pompeo under the proverbial bus. Two dogs, some rumors about Saudi weapons and an ‘UberEats with guns’ later, the controversy is only getting worse
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Alex Koma / Washington, D.C. Business Journal:
Steve Salis has made up his mind: Kramerbooks is leaving Dupont — Coronavirus or no, Steve Salis has made up his mind: Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe is moving out of its Dupont Circle home. — Salis, the co-founder of &pizza who bought the Dupont retail institution in 2017, has been considering a move for some time.
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
How Ben Stiller Will Remember His Father — The actor and director on growing up with famous comedians as parents and how his father, Jerry Stiller, saw his son's career. — Jerry Stiller, the legendary comedian and entertainer, died this month, at the age of ninety-two.
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Bloomberg:
Covid Patients Testing Positive After Recovery Aren't Infectious, Study Shows — Result is a positive sign for regions reopening economies — Findings may also aid in the debate over antibody testing — Researchers are finding evidence that patients who test positive for the coronavirus …
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Georgia Senate poll: Ossoff leads Dems in Perdue matchup, Loeffler trails Collins — A poll released Tuesday shows Jon Ossoff leading other Democrats in a potential head-to-head matchup against U.S. Sen. David Perdue, the latest in a string of surveys that shows a tight race for the seat.
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Donald Trump Doesn't Want Authority — The coronavirus crisis offered the president an opportunity to consolidate power. It turns out he only wants attention. — For the last four years two Western political figures have loomed particularly large in the imaginations of anxious liberals.
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
Georgia Republicans cancel election for state Supreme Court, meaning governor can appoint a Republican — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp speaks during a press conference at the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta on April 27. Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images — Republicans will control a seat on the state Supreme Court for an extra two years.
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Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico:
‘Hard stop’: States could lose National Guard virus workers — More than 40,000 National Guard members currently helping states test residents for the coronavirus and trace the spread of infections will face a “hard stop” on their deployments on June 24 — just one day shy of many members becoming eligible …
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NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth:
Inventors Develop Mask to Let You Eat and Stay Safe — Inventors developed a coronavirus mask that lets you eat without taking it off. Here's how it works: You squeeze a lever and it opens a slot so you can go at it like Pac-Man. Inventors say the mask lets you dine out with friends without taking your mask off.
Amanda Borschel-Dan / The Times of Israel:
Living underground before the Romans? 2,000-year-old rooms found by Western Wall — Purpose of unique ancient complex still unclear, but indicates possible subterranean Second Temple-era life in Jerusalem's Old City prior to the Roman conquest in 70 CE — A singular two-millennia-old …
Adrian Carrasquillo / Newsweek:
A Trump-friendly, anti-AOC Democrat is poised to win a New York House seat—with some help from the pandemic — New York's 15th congressional district, with Yankee Stadium at its heart, is home to some of the country's poorest and most diverse people, an Obama oasis bordering AOC's neighborhood …
Jacob Kornbluh / Jewish Insider:
Biden: Israeli annexation ‘will choke off any hope for peace’ — FRIENDLY REMINDER — The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee says Trump ‘has been unequivocal on anything that Bibi [Netanyahu] does’ — Former Vice President Joe Biden doubled down on his strong opposition …
Sady Doyle / GEN:
The Tara Reade Saga Is a Failure of Journalism — Reporters haven't done their due diligence, and Reade is paying 100% of the price — Tara Reade deserved better than The Katie Halper Show. Reade came forward in the spring of 2019 with a credible allegation of sexual harassment …
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Roch Dunin-Wasowicz / LSE Covid-19:
The public do not understand logarithmic graphs used to portray COVID-19 — Mass media routinely portray information about COVID-19 deaths on logarithmic graphs. But do their readers understand them? Alessandro Romano, Chiara Sotis, Goran Dominioni, and Sebastián Guidi carried …
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Julie Carr Smyth / Associated Press:
Annie Glenn, 100, famed astronaut's widow, dies of COVID-19 — COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Annie Glenn, wife of the late astronaut and U.S. Sen. John Glenn who overcame a childhood stutter to become an advocate for others with speech disorders, died Tuesday of complications from COVID-19. She was 100.
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April Dembosky / Kaiser Health News:
Fewer Traffic Collisions During Shutdown Means Longer Waits For Organ Donations — On Day Two of the San Francisco Bay Area's stay-at-home orders in March, Nohemi Jimenez got into her car in San Pablo, California, waved goodbye to her 3-year-old son and drove to her regular Wednesday dialysis appointment.
Jacqueline Feldscher / Politico:
NASA's human spaceflight chief ousted just before big launch — Douglas Loverro has served as the associate administrator for the human exploration and operations mission directorate for just seven months. — The NASA seal is shown at Kennedy Space Center. Mark Wilson/Getty Images
Detroit Free Press:
Secretary of State: All Michigan voters will get absentee ballot applications at home — Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said Tuesday all of Michigan's 7.7 million registered voters will be mailed absentee ballot applications so they can take part in elections in August and November without …
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