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Burgess Everett / Politico:
GOP crushes Manchin's hopes for elections compromise — Senate Republicans spent months praising Joe Manchin for his insistence on cross-party compromise. Next week they will almost surely end his hopes for a bipartisan deal on elections. — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell …
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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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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Joe Manchin reaches out to Republicans, and they slap him in the face
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Bloomberg:
Schumer Set to Challenge GOP With Vote to Advance Election Bill
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Sanders: Democrats considering $6 trillion spending package
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Washington Post:
Biden signs bill making Juneteenth a national holiday; federal workers to get Friday off — 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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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 …
Libby Cathey / ABC News:
Biden signs bill making Juneteenth, marking the end of slavery, a federal holiday
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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
Libby Cathey / ABC News:
Lawmakers react to Supreme Court decision upholding Obamacare
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Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
BREAKING: ObamaCare wins the SCOTUS hat trick 7-2 ... on standing
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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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Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Biden politely reads riot act to Putin
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John Haltiwanger / Insider:
Putin says Biden is of ‘sound mind,’ walking back on Russian disinformation about the president's mental acuity
Marshall Cohen / CNN:
Fact-check: Fox News and Republican lawmakers push new false flag conspiracy that FBI orchestrated US Capitol attack
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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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Nicholas Rowan / Washington Examiner:
Supreme Court sides with Nestle and Cargill in child labor case
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Fox News:
Supreme Court sides with Catholic foster agency that excludes same-sex couples in 9-0 ruling
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Backs Catholic Agency in Case on Gay Rights and Foster Care
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Jeff Stein / The Daily Beast:
Rumors of U.S. Secretly Harboring Top China Official Swirl — Reports that a top Chinese official defected to the U.S. have swept Chinese-language media this week. The alleged reason? Sharing sensitive information about COVID-19 origins. — Chinese-language anti-communist media …
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
To push back against Chinese aggression, give Taiwan vaccines — At this week's Group of Seven summit, China was a hot topic, with the final communique calling out Beijing's atrocities against Uyghurs in Xinjiang and crackdowns in Hong Kong. But the world's top democracies were less vocal …
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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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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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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 …
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 …
Evie Fordham / Fox News:
Missouri gov, attorney general fire back at Biden DOJ over ‘federal overreach’ on 2nd Amendment rights — DOJ says that Missouri's law ‘conflicts with federal firearms laws and regulation’ — Gun rights shielded in Utah — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson and and state Attorney General (AG) …
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Michael Balsamo / Associated Press:
Justice Dept.: Missouri governor can't void federal gun laws
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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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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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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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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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Orlando Sentinel:
Records link big business group to Florida elections probe — Investigators searching for the source of more than half-a-million dollars spent last year in support of spoiler candidates that helped Republicans win three key state Senate races have obtained bank records for an organization tied …
Julia Marsh / New York Post:
Pack-a-day puffer Kathryn Garcia would be first cigarette-smoking mayor since '65 … City Hall hasn't had a cigarette smoker-in-residence since Mayor Robert Wagner left office in 1965 — but that would change if former Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia wins the June 22 Democratic primary.
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 …
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 …
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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