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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court to hear major new gun control case next term on carrying weapons outside the home — The Supreme Court announced Monday it will hear a major new gun control case next term, accepting a National Rifle Association-backed challenge that asks the court to declare there is a constitutional right …
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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Supreme Court to take up right to carry gun for self-defense — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear an appeal to expand gun rights in the United States in a New York case over the right to carry a firearm in public for self-defense.
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The Supreme Court will hear a major Second Amendment case that could gut US gun laws
The Supreme Court will hear a major Second Amendment case that could gut US gun laws
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
A cheerleader's Snapchat rant leads to ‘momentous’ Supreme Court case on student speech
A cheerleader's Snapchat rant leads to ‘momentous’ Supreme Court case on student speech
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CNN:
Supreme Court agrees to take up major Second Amendment case
Supreme Court agrees to take up major Second Amendment case
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Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Liberal push to expand Supreme Court is all but dead among Hill Dems
Liberal push to expand Supreme Court is all but dead among Hill Dems
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Farnaz Fassihi / New York Times:
Iran's Foreign Minister, in Leaked Tape, Says Revolutionary Guards Set Policies — Mohammad Javad Zarif, the Iranian foreign minister, described a rivalry with a powerful and widely revered military leader, Qassim Suleimani. — In a leaked audiotape that offers a glimpse into the behind …
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Evie Fordham / Fox News:
Iran's foreign minister says John Kerry told him about Israeli covert operations in Syria — Kerry has previously been accused of colluding with Iranian leaders to undermine Trump administration — Fox News Flash top headlines for April 26 — Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif claimed …
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Scott Wong / The Hill:
Cheney breaks with McCarthy on scope of Jan. 6 panel — House GOP Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) broke Monday with Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), telling reporters that a proposed 9/11-style independent commission should narrowly focus on the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
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Juliegrace Brufke / New York Post:
Rep. Liz Cheney not ruling out 2024 presidential run — ORLANDO — House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney is not ruling out a potential presidential bid, The Post has learned. — “I'm not ruling anything in or out — I've been here a long time,” she told The Post when asked if she would ever consider running in the future.
Clare Foran / CNN:
Anti-Trump conservative group to grade GOP lawmakers on whether they uphold (or undermine) democracy — (CNN)An anti-Trump conservative group is launching an effort to track and evaluate whether Republicans in Congress, in the group's view, have acted to either undermine or uphold democracy …
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Peter Wehner / The Atlantic:
The GOP Is a Grave Threat to American Democracy — The hope of many conservative critics of Donald Trump was that soon after his defeat, and especially in the aftermath of the January 6 insurrection, the Republican Party would snap back into its former shape. The Trump presidency would end up being no more than an ugly parenthesis.
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New York Times:
‘Nomadland’ Makes History, and Chadwick Boseman Is Upset at the Oscars — Chloé Zhao's film about the damaged American dream won best picture, best director and best actress. In a surprise, Anthony Hopkins ("The Father") won best actor. — LOS ANGELES — “Nomadland,” …
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Marco Rubio / New York Post:
Corporations that undermine American values don't deserve GOP support — 'What's good for General Motors is good for the country. " This was a defining American adage in the last century, because it was true: US corporations helped to make our country the most prosperous in the history of the world.
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J.B. Shurk / American Thinker:
Bush Republicanism Must Go Away — The Democratic Party is actively trying to start a race war in the United States, and George Bush thinks it's Republican voters who need lessons in humanity and fellowship. — Bush is on the media circuit these days pushing amnesty (while calling it anything but! …
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The Daily Beast:
Trump Plots to Ruin GOP Guv Over Election Vendetta — Donald Trump has told associates he's so angry about Doug Ducey not overturning the Arizona election results that he'd campaign for the Democrat if Ducey ran for Senate — It's April 2021, and Donald Trump still can't get past his grudge …
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Peter Thiel makes $10M bet on associate in Arizona Senate race
Peter Thiel makes $10M bet on associate in Arizona Senate race
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James Brooks / Anchorage Daily News:
Alaska Airlines bans Eagle River lawmaker for violating COVID-19 mask policy — JUNEAU — Alaska Airlines said Saturday that it banned state Sen. Lora Reinbold, R-Eagle River, from its flights for continuing to refuse to follow mask-wearing requirements for travelers.
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Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Biden will announce new CDC mask guidance Tuesday, sources say — Poll shows slight majority approve of Biden's performance — (CNN)President Joe Biden is expected to announce Tuesday that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its guidance for wearing masks outdoors …
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Scott Gottlieb / Wall Street Journal:
Time to End Outdoor Mask Edicts
Time to End Outdoor Mask Edicts
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Axios:
Biden's next 100 days — President Biden spent his first 100 days trying to engineer the end of the coronavirus and start of a job boom. The next 100 are more audacious and risky: Try to re-engineer the very fundamentals of America — inequality, voting rights and government's role in directing economic growth.
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
How Biden anchored his first 100 days on two simple principles
How Biden anchored his first 100 days on two simple principles
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Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Census numbers expected to shift House power to the South, West — The U.S. Census Bureau will release the first results of its decennial survey on Monday after a decade of explosive growth in Sun Belt states that will shift power in the House of Representatives.
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Aram Roston / Reuters:
Exclusive-Before Jan. 6, FBI collected information from at least 4 Proud Boys — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Among the far-right groups whose members are suspected of planning the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol are the Proud Boys. In March, the Federal Bureau of Investigation's director told …
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Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: No, Biden is not trying to force Americans to eat less red meat — Washington (CNN)Republican members of Congress, Fox News personalities and other prominent right-wing figures are falsely claiming that President Joe Biden is trying to force Americans to eat far less red meat.
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New York Times:
Breaking Point: How Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook Became Foes — The chief executives of Facebook and Apple have opposing visions for the future of the internet. Their differences are set to escalate this week. — SAN FRANCISCO — At a confab for tech and media moguls in Sun Valley …
Dan Margolies / KCUR 89.3:
KCUR Reporter And Beloved Colleague Aviva Okeson-Haberman Dies At 24 — Aviva joined KCUR in 2019, impressing her colleagues with her work ethic and strength of purpose. — Aviva Okeson-Haberman, an accomplished KCUR reporter known for her thoughtful, aggressive and compassionate reporting …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Joe Biden's First 100 Days Reshaped America — During the first hundred days of Joe Biden's presidency, it has dawned on Republicans that the man their standard-bearer once mocked as “Sleepy Joe” is a formidable adversary. And the quality that has made him so effective up to this point is, well, his sleepiness.
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Washington Post:
The public's concerns over the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine are widespread, Post-ABC poll finds — Fewer than 1 in 4 Americans not yet immunized against the coronavirus say they would be willing to get the vaccine made by Johnson & Johnson, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll …
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Ben Smith / New York Times:
Is an Activist's Pricey House News? Facebook Alone Decides. — The New York Post has complained that Facebook is blocking and downplaying its stories. But the platform doesn't pay any special deference to journalists. — On Wednesday, I learned a new way to get a news article erased from much of the internet.
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