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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 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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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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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, New Republic, 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
Nina Totenberg / NPR:
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
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Washington Post
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Affordable Care Act Survives Latest Supreme Court Challenge
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USA Today, Associated Press, Progress Pond, Rolling Stone, CBS San Francisco and Deseret News
Sam Baker / Axios:
Supreme Court rejects Republican challenge to Affordable Care Act
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Michael Schaub / NPR:
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's Rise Continues To Fascinate In ‘Dissent’
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New York Times and SCOTUSblog
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.
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Bloomberg:
Putin Hails Biden After Russian Senator Questions U.S. Leader's Fitness
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Washington Examiner:
Joe Biden's silly Russia summit
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Insider, The Guardian, spiked and CNN
CNN:
Biden finds his comfort zone on the world stage in first international trip as president
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Alexander Vindman / New York Times:
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
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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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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’
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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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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, Axios, The Hill, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and The American Independent
Claudia Grisales / NPR:
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
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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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Live Updates: House Votes to Curb Presidential War Powers — The House repealed an authorization it gave President George W. Bush in 2002 to invade Iraq that was repeatedly applied well beyond its original intent. The Senate will consider doing so as well, and President Biden has said he would sign it.
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Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Star Tribune and Insider
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 …
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Raw Story, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Politico
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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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 and Twitchy
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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Apple Daily:
Apple Daily accused of using journalism to endanger national security — Hong Kong's national security police have arrested two executives and three news staff of Apple Daily, the only pro-democracy newspaper in the city, for foreign collusion, and raided its office.
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