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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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Breitbart, Washington Examiner, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, ABC News and The Daily Caller
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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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Washington Free Beacon, Insider, Ordinary Times, New Republic, UPI, ARLnow.com, Fox News, Raw Story and Political Wire
Michael Schaub / NPR:
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's Rise Continues To Fascinate In ‘Dissent’ — The past 4 1/2 years have been a fever dream in American politics. — Donald Trump's administration was marked by unprecedented chaos and drama, with major stories crowding one another out of the news on a daily basis.
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New York Times and SCOTUSblog
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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Bloomberg, BuzzFeed News, The Moderate Voice, Associated Press and New York Post
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
‘Obamacare’ survives: Supreme Court dismisses big challenge — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court preserved insurance coverage for millions of Americans Thursday, rejecting the third major challenge to the national health care law known as “Obamacare.” — The justices, by a 7-2 vote …
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Media Matters for America, HuffPost, CBS News, Florida Politics, Metro.co.uk, IJR, Insider, Bloomberg, Deseret News, WebMD Health, Hackwhackers and The Progressive Pulse
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, Outside the Beltway, Digby's Hullabaloo, New Republic, National Review, Marketplace and Kevin Drum
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 and Associated Press
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
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
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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Progress Pond, Rolling Stone, USA Today, Kaiser Health News and CBS San Francisco
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
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
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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Washington Examiner, NBC News, TIME, The Moscow Times, Raw Story, Al Jazeera, Louder With Crowder, Sputnik News and The Hill
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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”.
Washington Examiner:
Joe Biden's silly Russia summit
Joe Biden's silly Russia summit
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Insider, The Guardian, spiked, Breitbart and CNN
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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USA Today, Fox News, Washington Examiner, New York Times, Politico, Daily Kos and One America News Network
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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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
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, The Atlantic and HuffPost
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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ABC News, Insider, Axios, The Hill, Fox News, USA Today, RedState, Rolling Stone, Roll Call, middleeastmonitor.com and The American Independent
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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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Wall Street Journal, Al-Monitor, Mother Jones, POLITICUSUSA, Outside the Beltway and The Daily Caller
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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Insider, HHS News releases, NBC Boston, Forbes, The Daily Caller, 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 …
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Washington Post, Insider, Politico and Mediaite
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 and The Daily Caller
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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Associated Press, Insider and ABC News
Washington Post:
The Washington Post's Karen Attiah named opinion columnist … Announcement from Deputy Editorial Page Editor Ruth Marcus, Op-Ed Editor Mike Larabee and Manager of Editorial Talent and Logistics Nana Efua Mumford: — We are excited to announce that Karen Attiah will be a Post columnist.
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 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
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Elise Stefanik's post on democracy group board sparked a staff uproar — New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, who questioned the legitimacy of the 2020 election and voted against certification of Joe Biden's win, currently serves as a board member for a revered U.S. organization dedicated to the promotion of democracy.
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, Crooks and Liars, WFXRtv, The Wrap, Breitbart, BuzzFeed News, Daily Kos and Twitchy
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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TVNewser, more at Mediagazer »
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
How to Hold Trump Accountable — A torrent of new revelations is filling in the picture of how Donald Trump used, and abused, his authority as president. But the disclosures may serve only to underscore how little remains known about all the ways in which Trump barreled through traditional limits …
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Washington Post, Talking Points Memo and Daily Kos
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.
Scott Calvert / Wall Street Journal:
One Failed Bridge in Memphis Is Costing Business Millions — Closure of cracked Interstate-40 span clogs local roads, hinders national supply chain — MEMPHIS—An emergency closure of the Interstate-40 bridge across the Mississippi River has jammed traffic for over a month …
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National Review