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Aria Bendix / NBC News:
Oklahoma abortion clinics turn patients away under new ban — a glimpse into a post-Roe future — On Wednesday morning, Andrea Gallegos answered a call from a patient who was running late for her appointment at the Tulsa Women's Clinic, one of four abortion clinics in Oklahoma.
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A 49-year crusade: Inside the movement to overturn Roe v. Wade — Antiabortion activists and their Republican allies are on the cusp of reaching a goal they have sought for decades in tossing out the 1973 Supreme Court ruling legalizing abortion. — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell still remembers …
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Ellie Silverman / Washington Post:
Outside Kavanaugh's home, a neighbor rallies for abortion rights — Lacie Wooten-Holway walked through Chevy Chase on Wednesday night, pausing to stick fliers on her fence, a tree and utility boxes. She was advertising an abortion rights protest here, in her neighborhood …
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
Bill Maher pushes back at pro-choice alarmists: 'We're not going back to 1973' if Roe v Wade is overturned
Bill Maher pushes back at pro-choice alarmists: 'We're not going back to 1973' if Roe v Wade is overturned
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Dillon Rosenblatt / Arizona Mirror:
GOP Senate candidate Blake Masters wants to allow states to ban contraception use
GOP Senate candidate Blake Masters wants to allow states to ban contraception use
Audrey Conklin / Fox News:
Activists lay out plans for Roe v. Wade protests outside Catholic churches on Mother's Day
Activists lay out plans for Roe v. Wade protests outside Catholic churches on Mother's Day
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What Does A “Post-Roe” Idaho Look Like? | Rep. Brent Crane and Rep. Lauren Necochea | Idaho Reports
What Does A “Post-Roe” Idaho Look Like? | Rep. Brent Crane and Rep. Lauren Necochea | Idaho Reports
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Rachel Scully / The Hill:
Justice Thomas on SCOTUS decisions: People need to 'live with outcomes we don't agree with'
Justice Thomas on SCOTUS decisions: People need to 'live with outcomes we don't agree with'
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James Politi / Financial Times:
CIA director says China ‘unsettled’ by Ukraine war — Bill Burns tells FT conference that invasion may have affected Xi Jinping's calculations over Taiwan — The director of the CIA said that Chinese president Xi Jinping has been “unsettled” by the war in Ukraine, which had demonstrated …
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Dean Kirby / The i Paper:
Putin sends Mariupol survivors to remote corners of Russia as investigation reveals network of 66 camps — Thousands of Ukrainians have been sent to remote camps up to 5,500 miles from their homes as Vladimir Putin's officials follow Kremlin orders to disperse them across Russia, i can reveal.
New York Times:
The Secrets Ed Koch Carried — To many New Yorkers, he was their brash and blustery mayor. But friends are now describing the private strain endured by a public man laboring to conceal his sexual orientation. — Edward I. Koch looked like the busiest septuagenarian in New York.
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David Siders / Politico:
Ohio was a test case for 2024. The GOP establishment looks screwed. — The conventional view of J.D. Vance's victory in Ohio's Senate primary this week was that it demonstrated the power of Donald Trump's endorsement. — But the election results also delivered something else …
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Associated Press:
Sinn Fein hails ‘new era’ as it wins Northern Ireland vote — BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — The Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein, which seeks unification with Ireland, hailed a “new era” Saturday for Northern Ireland as it captured the largest number of seats in the Northern Ireland Assembly for the first time in a historic win.
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Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Irish reunification? Sinn Féin win in Northern Ireland shakes up UK
Irish reunification? Sinn Féin win in Northern Ireland shakes up UK
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The Philadelphia Inquirer:
A South Philly GOP ward leader has been ousted over ‘ballot harvesting’ concerns — GOP ward leaders voted to oust one of their own Saturday, hours after an Inquirer story highlighted his role in diverting dozens of mail ballots for Republican voters in South Philadelphia to a P.O. box under his control …
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Washington Post:
Ukraine lays out peace-talk demands as the West braces for escalation — Zelensky says Ukraine must get E.U. membership, restoration of pre-invasion borders, Russian accountability and the return of refugees. — RIGA, Latvia — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky outlined his conditions Friday …
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Associated Press:
Afghanistan's Taliban order women to cover up head to toe — KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan's Taliban rulers on Saturday ordered all Afghan women to wear head-to-toe clothing in public — a sharp, hard-line pivot that confirmed the worst fears of rights activists and was bound …
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James Gordon / Daily Mail:
REVEALED: Elon Musk plans to FIRE 1,000 Twitter staff, quintuple revenue, get 69 million users paying $3 a month and cut reliance on advertising income, presentation to investors shows — Elon Musk plans to quintuple Twitter's revenue to $26.4 billion by 2028
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Washington Post:
White House alarmed that Commerce probe is ‘smothering’ solar industry — The investigation is examining allegations that China is illegally circumventing U.S. tariffs. — Top climate officials in the Biden administration are warning that a federal investigation into alleged dodging …
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Nicholas Riccardi / Associated Press:
Less immigrant labor in US contributing to price hikes — Just 10 miles from the Rio Grande, Mike Helle's farm is so short of immigrant workers that he's replaced 450 acres of labor-intensive leafy greens with crops that can be harvested by machinery. — In Houston, Al Flores increased …
Bloomberg:
Brazil's Lula Makes Presidential Candidacy Official at Event — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva officially launched his bid to return to Brazil's presidency on Saturday more than a decade after he left office. — The widely expected announcement, marked by an official event in Sao Paulo …
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