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Federal employees to get Friday off as Biden signs legislation making Juneteenth a national holiday — President Biden on Thursday signed into law a bill creating a federal holiday to commemorate Juneteenth, the day marking the end of slavery in Texas. Because June 19 falls on a Saturday this year …
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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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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 …
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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David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times:
Supreme Court saves Obamacare again, rejecting GOP challenge from Texas
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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
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Backs Catholic Agency in Case on Gay Rights and Foster Care
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Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
BREAKING: ObamaCare wins the SCOTUS hat trick 7-2 ... on standing
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Nina Totenberg / NPR:
Obamacare Wins For The 3rd Time At The Supreme Court
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
GOP crushes Manchin's hopes for elections compromise — Joe Manchin wants to remake Democrats' sweeping elections reform bill. Republicans plan to take it down before he can try. — Senate Republicans spent months praising Joe Manchin for his insistence on cross-party compromise.
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Stacey Abrams backs Manchin's voting rights compromise as Senate eyes vote — Voting rights advocate Stacey Abrams threw her support behind Sen. Joe Manchin's voting legislation compromise — including the component requiring a form of voter identification — handing the West Virginia Democrat …
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Ian Millhiser / Vox:
Joe Manchin's sweeping new voting rights proposal, explained
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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.”
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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Joe Biden's silly Russia summit
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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.
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Paul LeBlanc / CNN:
Officer injured in Capitol riot blasts GOP lawmaker's behavior as ‘disgusting’ after tense exchange
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
A GOP congressman's snub of a wounded Jan. 6 cop signals deeper GOP pathologies
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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.
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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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Dave Levinthal / Insider:
Here's what $15,000 will buy lobbyists on Sen. Mike Crapo's pay-for-access price list — Crapo is the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee. — He offers prospective donors three levels of access at different donation price points. — One reform advocate called …
Kristin Tate / The Hill:
Biden approaches economic point of no return — In our crowded media ecosystem, the biggest story of the week is one the White House is hoping you won't notice. Inflation grew by 5 percent last month, the sharpest increase in 13 years. American families have noticed, with prices of gas …
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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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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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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
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Stephen Fowler / Georgia Public Broadcasting:
Fact Check: Fulton County Is Not Missing Ballots Or Hundreds Of Drop Box Custody Forms — Contrary to reports from certain media outlets, there is no evidence of widespread fraud in Fulton County's elections. — For the past seven months, misinformation and false claims of fraud …
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:
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.
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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Kaelan Deese / Washington Examiner:
Arizona election analysis finds GOP voters disenchanted with Trump helped Biden win — An unofficial bipartisan election analysis conducted respectively to the Senate-led recount of 2.1 million ballots in Arizona's Maricopa County concluded that Republicans disenchanted with then-President Donald Trump …
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Politico:
Florida GOP under fire for tweet accusing Democrats of antisemitism — In this June 4, 2019, photo, Commissioner of Agriculture Nikki Fried speaks during a meeting of the Florida cabinet, in Tallahassee, Fla. — TALLAHASSEE — The Republican Party of Florida on Tuesday night tried …
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Nathan J. Robinson / Current Affairs:
How To End Up Serving The Right … Journalists Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi have a long track record of work that exposes the crimes of the powerful. Both were early intellectual heroes of mine; Taibbi was one of the first writers to see through Barack Obama's hollow rhetoric …
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.
Public Citizen:
Not Above the Law Coalition: Senate's Jan. 6 Oversight Report Underscores Urgent Need for Full Investigation — WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, members of the bipartisan Not Above the Law coalition released the following joint statement following the release last week of the Senate's joint oversight report …
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American Enterprise Institute
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 …
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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