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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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Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
BREAKING: ObamaCare wins the SCOTUS hat trick 7-2 ... on standing — Profiles in Courage it ain't, but for Democrats, it will suffice. The removal of the individual-mandate penalty — the basis for the Supreme Court's 2012 upholding of ObamaCare — didn't get resolved in today's 7-2 Supreme Court dismissal of the challenge.
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Backs Catholic Agency in Case on Gay Rights and Foster Care
Nicholas Rowan / Washington Examiner:
Supreme Court sides with Nestle and Cargill in child labor case
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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
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Nina Totenberg / NPR:
Obamacare Wins For The 3rd Time At The Supreme Court
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Affordable Care Act Survives Latest Supreme Court Challenge
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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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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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CNN:
Biden finds his comfort zone on the world stage in first international trip as president
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USA Today:
Joe Biden, the U.S. president who in Geneva didn't shame America like Trump in Helsinki
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
The absurdity of Putin's lies should be obvious. Thanks to Trump, it isn't.
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Alexander Vindman / New York Times:
The Biden-Putin Meeting Was Progress, But Not Enough
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Morgan Phillips / Fox News:
Biden-Putin summit: Who won and who lost? Experts offer key takeaways
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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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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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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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Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
House votes to repeal 2002 authorization for military force with strong bipartisan support and a White House endorsement
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Claudia Grisales / NPR:
In Historic, Bipartisan Move, House Votes To Repeal 2002 Iraq War Powers Resolution
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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’ — Republicans often blast Democrats for wanting to defund the police. But Democrats have a new rebuttal: The GOP won't defend the police. — In the aftermath of the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol attack …
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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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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 …
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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Forbes, Associated Press, Honolulu Star-Advertiser and Newsy
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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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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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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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.
Charlie Warzel / Galaxy Brain:
What Newsrooms Still Don't Understand About the Internet — You can't report on a culture war and also be an invisible bystander … On Tuesday, Ed Zitron wrote an important piece on coordinated online attacks against reporters. His primary argument is that newsrooms still don't understand …
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