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Fox News:
Supreme Court sides with Catholic foster agency that excludes same-sex couples in 9-0 ruling — Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion — Fox News Flash top headlines for June 17 — The Supreme Court sided unanimously with a Catholic foster agency in a dispute against the city …
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Washington Examiner, ABC News and The Daily Caller
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David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times:
Supreme Court upholds Obamacare again, rejecting GOP challenge from Texas — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld Obamacare for the third time and rejected a sweeping challenge backed by former President Trump and Republican state attorneys. — The 7-2 majority found the state of Texas …
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BuzzFeed News, Bloomberg, The Moderate Voice, Associated Press, Kaiser Health News and New York Post
Washington Post:
Federal employees to get Friday off as Biden signs legislation making Juneteenth a national holiday — President Biden, having returned to the White House from his first trip abroad as president, plans Thursday to sign into law a bill creating a federal holiday to commemorate Juneteenth, the day marking the end of slavery in Texas.
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Washington Free Beacon, UPI, Fox News, ARLnow.com, Raw Story, National Review and Political Wire
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Affordable Care Act survives third Supreme Court challenge, as case from Trump administration and GOP-led states is rejected — The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed the latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act, saying Republican-led states do not have the legal standing to try to upend the law.
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CNN, Digby's Hullabaloo, Marketplace and Kevin Drum
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Backs Catholic Agency in Case on Gay Rights and Foster Care
Supreme Court Backs Catholic Agency in Case on Gay Rights and Foster Care
Devin Dwyer / ABC News:
Supreme Court rules on fate of Obamacare health care law
Supreme Court rules on fate of Obamacare health care law
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HotAir, Washington Examiner, Washington Free Beacon, Talking Points Memo, Politico, National Review, Balloon Juice and Mother Jones
Nina Totenberg / NPR:
Obamacare Wins For The 3rd Time At The Supreme Court
Obamacare Wins For The 3rd Time At The Supreme Court
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Raw Story, Ordinary Times and CBS San Francisco
Nicholas Rowan / Washington Examiner:
Supreme Court sides with Nestle and Cargill in child labor case
Supreme Court sides with Nestle and Cargill in child labor case
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Washington Post
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Affordable Care Act Survives Latest Supreme Court Challenge
Affordable Care Act Survives Latest Supreme Court Challenge
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Associated Press, USA Today, Rolling Stone, CBS San Francisco and Deseret News
Sam Baker / Axios:
Supreme Court rejects Republican challenge to Affordable Care Act
Supreme Court rejects Republican challenge to Affordable Care Act
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National Review and Forbes
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Biden politely reads riot act to Putin — Modest goal of stabilising US relations with Russia conveys realism that eluded earlier presidents — Summitry, contrary to a former British prime minister, is nothing like tennis. The outcome is rarely “game, set and match”.
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William Saletan / Slate:
Trump Made the GOP More Friendly to Putin. It's Sabotaging Biden. — President Joe Biden wants to send Russian President Vladimir Putin a message: that the era of Donald Trump is over, that the United States won't ignore Putin's crimes anymore, and that the world's democracies are united against Russian aggression.
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Washington Examiner, Politico, Daily Kos and One America News Network
Bloomberg:
Putin Hails Biden After Russian Senator Questions U.S. Leader's Fitness
Putin Hails Biden After Russian Senator Questions U.S. Leader's Fitness
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NBC News, The Hill, Raw Story, Al Jazeera, Sputnik News and Louder With Crowder
CNN:
Biden finds his comfort zone on the world stage in first international trip as president
Biden finds his comfort zone on the world stage in first international trip as president
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Wall Street Journal, Fox News, Townhall, RedState, Twitchy, Ace of Spades HQ, The US Sun, One America News Network, justoneminute.typepad.com and KVIA-TV
Washington Examiner:
Joe Biden's silly Russia summit
Joe Biden's silly Russia summit
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Insider, The Guardian, spiked and CNN
Alexander Vindman / New York Times:
The Biden-Putin Meeting Was Progress, But Not Enough
The Biden-Putin Meeting Was Progress, But Not Enough
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CNN, Defense One, NOQ Report, The Register, Breitbart, Forbes and WTOP
Morgan Phillips / Fox News:
Biden-Putin summit: Who won and who lost? Experts offer key takeaways
Biden-Putin summit: Who won and who lost? Experts offer key takeaways
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One America News Network, CBS News, Crooks and Liars, WTOP and MyStateline.com
Marc Caputo / Politico:
In secret recording, Florida Republican threatens to send Russian-Ukrainian ‘hit squad’ after rival — MIAMI — A little-known GOP candidate in one of Florida's most competitive congressional seats was secretly recorded threatening to send “a Russian and Ukrainian hit squad” to a fellow Republican opponent to make her “disappear.”
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New York Magazine, Washington Post, The Hill, Talking Points Memo, The US Sun, Forbes, POLITICUSUSA, Mediaite, Florida Politics, Raw Story and Political Wire
Washington Post:
GOP congressman refuses to shake hands with D.C. police officer who protected the Capitol on Jan. 6 — Rep. Andrew S. Clyde (R-Ga.), who voted against awarding police officers the Congressional Gold Medal for their bravery in protecting the U.S. Capitol against violent, pro-Trump rioters on Jan. 6 …
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Axios:
GOP Rep. Paul Gosar's family calls Jan. 6 comments “despicable” — Tim and David Gosar, the brothers of Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), appeared on CNN Thursday to apologize “on behalf of the actual sane members of our family” for the GOP lawmaker's incendiary claims about Capitol Police and the Jan. 6 riot.
Melanie Zanona / Politico:
GOP hands Dems a new line of attack: They're for ‘Trump over the cops’
GOP hands Dems a new line of attack: They're for ‘Trump over the cops’
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NBC News, Vanity Fair, Forbes, HuffPost and The Atlantic
Paul LeBlanc / CNN:
Officer injured in Capitol riot blasts GOP lawmaker's behavior as ‘disgusting’ after tense exchange
Officer injured in Capitol riot blasts GOP lawmaker's behavior as ‘disgusting’ after tense exchange
Matt Ford / New Republic:
Republicans Are on the Brink of Embracing the Capitol Rioters
Republicans Are on the Brink of Embracing the Capitol Rioters
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Media Matters for America, Lawyers, Guns & Money, IJR and CNN
Politico:
House repeals 2002 Iraq War authorization — The House voted to repeal the 2002 authorization for the use of military force in Iraq on Thursday, a rare and historic effort by lawmakers to rein in presidential war powers. — Thursday's vote brings the U.S. one step closer to ending …
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Fox News, The Hill, USA Today, HotAir, Wall Street Journal and The American Independent
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Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
House votes to repeal 2002 authorization for military force with strong bipartisan support and a White House endorsement — The House voted Thursday to repeal a 19-year-old military authorization Congress passed to give legal backing to the Iraq War with the support of Democrats …
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New York Times, Bloomberg, Forbes, CBS San Francisco, CNBC and Inside Elections
Claudia Grisales / NPR:
In Historic, Bipartisan Move, House Votes To Repeal 2002 Iraq War Powers Resolution
In Historic, Bipartisan Move, House Votes To Repeal 2002 Iraq War Powers Resolution
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Insider, Mother Jones, The Daily Caller, Outside the Beltway, POLITICUSUSA and WTOP
Associated Press:
Disgraced lawyer Michael Avenatti deserves ‘very substantial’ prison time, prosecutors say — Prosecutors urged a judge Wednesday to impose a “very substantial” prison sentence on Michael Avenatti for trying to extort millions of dollars from Nike. — Prosecutors noted in a Manhattan …
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The Daily Beast
Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
Pennsylvania's Conspiracy Kiss-Up Contest — To win Donald Trump's endorsement, candidates for the state's two major 2022 races embrace his big election lie. — Former President Donald Trump is watching Pennsylvania. — Like every other campaign observer, Trump knows …
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
MSNBC employees are forming a union. — Employees at MSNBC, the 24-hour cable news channel with a slate of prominent liberal anchors, said on Thursday that they planned to form a union representing about 315 workers including producers, bookers, writers, and fact checkers.
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Carl Zimmer / New York Times:
A Pill to Treat Covid-19? The U.S. Is Betting on It. — A new $3.2 billion program will support the development of antiviral pills, which could start arriving by the end of this year. — The U.S. government spent more than $18 billion last year funding drugmakers to make a Covid vaccine …
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Associated Press, Honolulu Star-Advertiser and Newsy
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
On the Campaign Trail With Andrew Giuliani The Son of Rudy is working out his father issues on the road to Albany. — Andrew Giuliani was holding a silver spoon. He just was. There's no getting around it. Sitting in a booth at Mansion Diner on 86th and York — about a thousand feet …
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
Joe Manchin's sweeping new voting rights proposal, explained — The pivotal senator has released a potentially transformative plan to promote fair elections. — No voting rights bill will become law without Sen. Joe Manchin's (D-WV) approval, at least in the current Congress.
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Washington Examiner, CNN, Washington Post, Politico, NBC News, Vanity Fair and Talking Points Memo
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
Fox's anti-"critical race theory" parents are also GOP activists — One '"everyday American" '"parent" is a GOP consultant who worked for the RNC in 2020 — Nearly a dozen of the Fox News guests the network has presented as concerned parents or educators who oppose the teaching of so-called …
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The Daily Beast, The Wrap, Crooks and Liars, WFXRtv, Breitbart, BuzzFeed News, Daily Kos, Twitchy and Townhall
Politico:
Senate Democrats weigh $6T infrastructure bill, without GOP — Senate Democrats are weighing spending as much as $6 trillion on their own infrastructure package if the chamber's bipartisan talks fail, according to two sources familiar with the matter. — Majority Leader Chuck Schumer …
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New York Times, Insider, Common Dreams, HotAir, Forbes and Political Wire
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
The Trump Administration's Extraordinary Leak Investigations — A Times reporter on the news that Democrats' and reporters' phone data were seized by the Justice Department. — Last week, the Times reported that, during Donald Trump's Presidency, the Justice Department subpoenaed Apple …
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The Atlantic and Washington Post
Zen Soo / Associated Press:
Editors of Hong Kong newspaper arrested under security law — HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police used a sweeping national security law Thursday to arrest five editors and executives of a pro-democracy newspaper on charges of colluding with foreign powers — the first time the legislation …
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Frank Bruni / New York Times:
A Final Column on What it Means to Be a Columnist — This is the last of Frank Bruni's regular Opinion columns, but his popular weekly newsletter will live on. To keep up with his political analysis, cultural commentary and personal reflections, sign up here. — I owe Ted Cruz an apology.