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Alexa Ura / The Texas Tribune:
Texas House set to consider GOP priority voting bill after sweeping changes made behind closed doors — Midnight was the deadline for the House to approve the legislation that would alter nearly the entire voting process, create new limitations to early voting hours, ratchet up voting-by-mail restrictions and curb local voting options.
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Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
Texas Democrats Stymie G.O.P. Voting Bill, for Now — Republicans hit a significant stumbling block in their push to enact some of the strictest voting laws in the nation. But they could yet pass the measures through a special session of the Legislature. — Democrats in the Texas …
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The Texas Tribune, Townhall, No More Mister Nice Blog, Jezebel, Raw Story, BizPac Review, IJR, New York Post, Greensburg Tribune-Review and Fox News
Daniel Politi / Slate:
Texas Democrats Walk Out, Block GOP's Sweeping Voting Restrictions Bill for Now — As the clock got closer to the midnight deadline, Democratic lawmakers in Texas decided it was time for dramatic action to block passage of a massive overhaul of the state's election laws.
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Reuters, Talking Points Memo, Dallas Morning News and Raw Story
Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
Texas Democrats block restrictive voting bill by walking off the floor to deny GOP-majority House a quorum
Texas Democrats block restrictive voting bill by walking off the floor to deny GOP-majority House a quorum
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CNN, The Root, CBS Dallas / Fort Worth, OutKick, NBC News, The Guardian, HuffPost, Dallas Morning News, Fox News, Raw Story and CBS News
Chuck Lindell / Austin American-Statesman:
‘Good trouble’: House Democrats walk, killing GOP elections bill, but Abbott vows special session
Paul J. Weber / Associated Press:
Dems walk, stop Texas GOP's sweeping voting restrictions
Dems walk, stop Texas GOP's sweeping voting restrictions
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RedState, Just The News, The Daily Caller, Washington Post, Associated Press, Al Jazeera, CBS News, 24matins.uk, Hackwhackers and CBS Dallas / Fort Worth
Charlotte Alter / New York Times:
How Young G.O.P. Leaders Sold Out Their Generation — Ms. Alter is a senior correspondent at Time and the author of “The Ones We've Been Waiting For: How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America.” — Once upon a time, a shiny new trio of young conservatives — Ryan Costello …
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Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Americans demand court-martial for Flynn after call for military coup: ‘Honor veterans — arrest this traitor’ — Lt. Gen Michael Flynn proclaimed that he thinks there should be a military coup to replace President Joe Biden with Donald Trump in the White House.
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Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost:
Trump's Ex-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn Calls For Myanmar-Type Coup In U.S. — “It should happen,” Flynn declared of the violent, deadly military coup at a wild QAnon conference in Dallas for “patriots.” — Avowed QAnon disciple and confessed felon retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn …
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Hackwhackers, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Mediaite and Insider
Mike Murphy / MarketWatch:
Ex-Trump adviser Michael Flynn says Myanmar-like coup ‘should happen’ in U.S.
Ex-Trump adviser Michael Flynn says Myanmar-like coup ‘should happen’ in U.S.
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Washington Examiner, Slate, The Time of Monsters and HotAir
Associated Press:
Turkish agents capture nephew of US-based cleric overseas — ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish agents have captured a nephew of U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen in an overseas operation and have brought him to Turkey where he faces prosecution, Turkey's state-run news agency said Monday.
Sui-Lee Wee / New York Times:
China Says It Will Allow Couples to Have 3 Children, Up From 2 — The move is the Communist Party's latest attempt to reverse declining birthrates and avert a population crisis, but experts say it is woefully inadequate. — China said on Monday that it would allow all married couples …
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Lily Kuo / Washington Post:
Facing a demographic crisis, China to allow three children per family
Facing a demographic crisis, China to allow three children per family
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Bloomberg, The Daily Caller and Xinhua News Agency
Juan Williams / The Hill:
GOP extremism is poisoning the nation — More and more fights breaking out on airplanes. Why? The short answer is that wearing masks to protect against COVID-19 remains a politically divisive statement. — Nine killed by gunfire in another mass shooting. — Hateful attacks on Jews and Asians rising.
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Wall Street Journal:
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice Is Personally Liable for $700 Million in Greensill Loans — His personal guarantee of the loans, which hasn't been reported, puts financial pressure on the popular Republican governor — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice is personally on the hook for nearly $700 million …
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Emily Jacobs / New York Post:
Biden says he'll urge Putin to respect human rights during Geneva meeting — President Biden will urge Russian President Vladimir Putin to respect human rights when they meet at next month's Geneva summit. — The commander-in-chief made the revelation while delivering remarks …
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USA Today:
Rare, secret 1-person grand jury being used in Flint water charges against Rick Snyder — Prosecutors call the one-person grand jury an essential tool. Defense attorneys decry its use, which they say is a denial of due process. — The ongoing Flint water case against former Gov. Rick Snyder …
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Cruise lines and Florida Gov. DeSantis square off over vaccine passports — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is on a collision course with one of the state's biggest industries over a law he signed banning businesses from asking customers whether they've been vaccinated against Covid-19.
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Forbes, New York Post and Mother Jones
The White House:
A Proclamation on Day Of Remembrance: 100 Years After The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre … One hundred years ago, a violent white supremacist mob raided, firebombed, and destroyed approximately 35 square blocks of the thriving Black neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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Spencer Hsu / Washington Post:
Four more indicted in alleged Jan. 6 Oath Keepers conspiracy to obstruct election vote in Congress — Four more Oath Keepers associates have been indicted and three were arrested in Florida in recent days in the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol, bringing the number of co-defendants charged …
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UPI, The Guardian, Raw Story, New York Post and CNN
Scott Wilson / Washington Post:
Anarchists and an increase in violent crime hijack Portland's social justice movement — PORTLAND, Ore. — The church, on the edge of this city, was built to hold thousands, and on this drizzly day the pews of Mannahouse were filled with hundreds of mourners, scattered throughout the broad …
Tyler Olson / Fox News:
Biden on Memorial Day asks Americans to remember ‘sacrifice,’ ‘valor’ and ‘humanity’ of fallen service members — Biden made remarks after participating in wreath-laying ceremony at Tomb of the Unknown Soldier — Fox News Flash top headlines for May 31 — President Biden in Memorial …
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Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:
For Biden, a deeply personal Memorial Day weekend observance
For Biden, a deeply personal Memorial Day weekend observance
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Politico, New York Daily News, IJR and The Stream
Amanda Holpuch / Yahoo News:
Covid summer: Fauci warns US not to ‘declare victory’ despite lowest rates in a year — Dr Anthony Fauci, the top infectious diseases expert in the US, has warned it is too early to declare victory against Covid-19 as cases fall in the country to the lowest rates since last June.
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HotAir and POLITICUSUSA
New York Times:
Biden Aims to Rebuild and Expand Legal Immigration — Documents obtained by The New York Times show far-reaching efforts by President Biden to remake the immigration system and undo much of his predecessor's legacy. — WASHINGTON — If President Biden gets his way, it will soon be far easier to immigrate to the United States.
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The Economist:
Israel's opposition has finally mustered a majority to dislodge Binyamin Netanyahu — NAFTALI BENNETT, the tech millionaire turned politician (pictured) who is poised to become Israel's next prime minister, began his political career in 2006 as chief of staff to Binyamin Netanyahu, then the leader of the opposition.
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Maayan Lubell / Reuters:
Naftali Bennett: The right-wing millionaire who may end Netanyahu era
Naftali Bennett: The right-wing millionaire who may end Netanyahu era
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CNN, Jerusalem Post, Reuters, Al Jazeera and Slate