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12:50 PM ET, May 8, 2022

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Julia Cherner / ABC News:
‘Fall will be swift’ if Roe v. Wade is overturned: Sen. Amy Klobuchar  —  Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., appeared on ABC's “This Week” Sunday.  —  “The fall will be swift” if the Supreme Court rules to overturn Roe v. Wade, Sen. Amy Klobuchar said Sunday, adding that the Senate will do everything …
Discussion: The Hill, Townhall, Politico and Fox News
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Laura Crimaldi / The Boston Globe:
Abortion rights protesters, led by women dressed as handmaids, gather at State House  —  The demonstration opened with five minutes of silence before Carol Deanow, 79, spoke and described the illegal abortion she had in 1965.  —  Four years ago, a group of women upset over Brett Kavanaugh's nomination …
Tyler Pager / Washington Post:
First lady Jill Biden visits Ukraine in rare trip to war zone  —  The U.S. president's wife celebrated Mother's Day with the Ukrainian first lady as Russia continued to wage war in the country  —  UZHHOROD, Ukraine — First lady Jill Biden crossed the border into Ukraine on Sunday …
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Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
Jill Biden pays surprise visit to Ukraine, meets first lady  —  UZHHOROD, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. first lady Jill Biden made an unannounced visit to western Ukraine on Sunday, holding a surprise Mother's Day meeting with the nation's first lady, Olena Zelenska, as Russia presses its punishing war in the eastern regions.
Kate Bennett / CNN:
First lady Jill Biden makes unannounced trip to Ukraine  —  Uzhhorod, Ukraine (CNN)First lady Jill Biden made an unannounced trip on Sunday to Uzhhorod, Ukraine, a small city in the far southwestern corner of the country.  —  At a converted school that now serves as temporary housing for displaced citizens …
New York Times:
All women, children and elderly people have been evacuated from Mariupol's steel plant, Ukraine and Russia say.
Discussion: New York Post
Dara Horn / Common Sense:
At Harvard, Facts Are For Losers  —  It turns out that nobody's SAT scores can provide immunity to propaganda. … Twenty-five years later, I still remember the theatrics involved with becoming an editor at the Harvard Crimson, the newspaper produced by Harvard undergraduates every day for the past century and a half.
Discussion: Why Evolution Is True
David Folkenflik / NPR:
‘The New York Times’ can't shake the cloud over a 90-year-old Pulitzer Prize  —  The New York Times is looking to add to its list of 132 Pulitzer Prizes — by far the most of any news organization — when the 2022 recipients for journalism are announced on Monday.
The White House:
G7 Leaders' Statement  — Today, on 8 May, we, the Leaders of the Group of Seven (G7), alongside Ukraine and the wider global community, commemorate the end of the Second World War in Europe and the liberation from fascism and the National Socialist reign of terror, which caused immeasurable destruction …
Discussion: Axios
Politico:
Judge spares Clinton camp in Sussmann ruling  —  A federal judge has turned down a request from Special Counsel John Durham for a ruling that a lawyer facing trial on a false statement charge was part of a wide-ranging “joint venture” involving Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign …
Discussion: RedState and Raw Story
Jia Tolentino / New Yorker:
Can Motherhood Be a Mode of Rebellion?  —  In “Essential Labor,” Angela Garbes argues that care work should be public and universal.  —  “In our society, there seems a general rule that, the more obviously one's work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it,” …
Jazz Shaw / HotAir:
CIA: Putin believes he “can't afford to lose” in Ukraine  —  We still don't have any confirmation as to whether or not Vladimir Putin plans to “officially” declare war on Ukraine tomorrow as Russians celebrate the anniversary of their victory over Hitler's forces in World War 2 on Victory Day.
Discussion: Axios, Politico and Los Angeles Times
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James Politi / Financial Times:
CIA director says China ‘unsettled’ by Ukraine war
Discussion: rbc.ru, CBS News and Political Wire
NBC News:
Biden wants to sell infrastructure.  His problem: Few buyers.  —  WASHINGTON — As President Joe Biden ramps up his efforts to help Democrats in the midterm elections, he's focused on a selling point that, so far, voters aren't: his plan to rebuild the county's infrastructure.
Discussion: CNN
Ezra Klein / New York Times:
TikTok May Be More Dangerous Than It Looks  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  At the core of the frenzied interest in Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter is an intuition that I think is right: The major social media platforms are, in some hard-to-define way, essential to modern life.
Discussion: Althouse
Sky News:
Only disabled actors should play Richard III, says outgoing Royal Shakespeare Company boss Gregory Doran  —  Gregory Doran's late husband Sir Antony Sher played the notorious English king in a 1984 production of Richard III but the outgoing artistic director said that would “probably not be acceptable” now.
 
 
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consilium.europa.eu:
Hong Kong: Declaration by the High Representative on behalf of the European Union on the Chief Executive election held on 8 May
Discussion: Bloomberg
Nick Cohen / The Guardian:
Fox News deals in Kremlin propaganda. So why not freeze Rupert Murdoch's assets?
Todd Farley / New York Post:
Jewish gangsters once took on Nazis in the streets of NYC
Susannah George / Washington Post:
Taliban orders head-to-toe coverings for Afghan women in public
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Adrienne LaFrance / The Atlantic:
Liberty No More  —  How strange it is, the condition of having a body, of being a body.
 Earlier Items: 
Margaret Atwood / The Guardian:
‘Enforced childbirth is slavery’: Margaret Atwood on the right to abortion
Discussion: Uniic Media and Raw Story
Brian Melley / Associated Press:
Judge rejects Trump lawsuit challenging ban from Twitter
The Philadelphia Inquirer:
A South Philly GOP ward leader has been ousted over ‘ballot harvesting’ concerns
Discussion: Raw Story
Aria Bendix / NBC News:
Oklahoma abortion clinics turn patients away under new ban — a glimpse into a post-Roe future
Dean Kirby / The i Paper:
Putin sends Mariupol survivors to remote corners of Russia as investigation reveals network of 66 camps
Associated Press:
Sinn Fein hails ‘new era’ as it wins Northern Ireland vote