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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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BuzzFeed News, Bloomberg, The Moderate Voice, Kaiser Health News, New York Post and Associated Press
Nicholas Rowan / Washington Examiner:
Supreme Court sides with Nestle and Cargill in child labor case — The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with the chocolate companies Nestle and Cargill in an extraterritorial child labor case. — The case, which the court heard last year, was one of a series of cases in which noncitizens attempted …
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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, Talking Points Memo, Washington Examiner, Washington Free Beacon, National Review, Washington Post, Politico and Mother Jones
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Affordable Care Act survives third Supreme Court challenge, as case from Trump administration and GOP-led states is rejected
Affordable Care Act survives third Supreme Court challenge, as case from Trump administration and GOP-led states is rejected
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CNN, Digby's Hullabaloo, New Republic, National Review, Marketplace and Kevin Drum
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
Michael Schaub / NPR:
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's Rise Continues To Fascinate In ‘Dissent’
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's Rise Continues To Fascinate In ‘Dissent’
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New York Times and SCOTUSblog
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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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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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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Bloomberg:
Putin Hails Biden After Russian Senator Questions U.S. Leader's Fitness — Legislator asked about Russian reports on Biden health — Putin warmly praises Biden while getting a dig in at Psaki — Russian President Vladimir Putin slammed the door on state-media speculation …
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William Saletan / Slate:
Trump Made the GOP More Friendly to Putin. It's Sabotaging Biden.
Trump Made the GOP More Friendly to Putin. It's Sabotaging Biden.
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Washington Examiner, New York Times, Politico, Daily Kos and One America News Network
Washington Examiner:
Joe Biden's silly Russia summit
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
Biden finds his comfort zone on the world stage in first international trip as president
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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.”
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.
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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 …
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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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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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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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
Live Updates: House Votes to Curb Presidential War Powers
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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 …
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Biden to sign Juneteenth bill, creating first new federal holiday in decades — President Joe Biden is set to sign a bill establishing Juneteenth, the date marking the end of slavery in the United States, as a federal holiday. — Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are slated …
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Michael Hauser Tov / Haaretz:
Netanyahu Ordered Illegal Shredding of Docs at His Office Before Bennett Took Over, Sources Say — The material was kept in safes in the so-called ‘aquarium,’ where prime ministers and their most senior aides sit. It's unclear which, or how many, documents were destroyed at Netanyahu's orders
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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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.
Ronan Farrow / New Yorker:
Can Biden Reverse Trump's Damage to the State Department? — Reeling from the leadership of Rex Tillerson and Mike Pompeo, career officials wonder whether Secretary of State Antony Blinken can revitalize American diplomacy. — Last year, in the early hours of October 27th, Philip Walton …
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Maxine Bernstein / Oregonian:
Officers, sergeants resign en masse from Portland's Rapid Response Team crowd control unit — Officers who serve on the Portland Police Bureau's specialized crowd control unit, known as the Rapid Response Team, voted to resign from the team during a meeting Wednesday night then alerted the chief's office …
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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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