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Emma Brown / Washington Post:
Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court justice, pressed Ariz. lawmakers to help reverse Trump's loss, emails show — Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the conservative activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, pressed Arizona lawmakers after the 2020 election to set aside Joe Biden's …
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Bess Levin / Vanity Fair:
Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy: Our Maternal Death Rates Are Only Bad If You Count Black Women — “If you correct our population for race, we're not as much of an outlier as it'd otherwise appear.” — As conservatives across the country wage war on reproductive rights …
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Tal Kopan / San Francisco Chronicle:
S.F. archbishop says Pelosi will be denied communion over abortion — WASHINGTON — The San Francisco archbishop issued a notice Friday that he would no longer allow House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to receive Communion, an escalation of his feud with the Catholic Democrat over abortion politics.
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Luke Coppen / Catholic News Agency:
BREAKING: Archbishop Cordileone bars Nancy Pelosi from Communion until she ends abortion support — Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone announced on Friday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi should not be admitted to Holy Communion in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, nor should she present herself …
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Adam Shaw / Fox News:
San Francisco archbishop bars Pelosi from receiving Holy Communion due to abortion support — Pelosi has said she is a ‘devout’ Catholic despite her abortion advocacy — Fox News Flash top headlines for May 20 — San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone announced Friday …
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Jack Ewing / New York Times:
Tesla's Aura Dims as Its Plunging Stock Highlights the Risks It Faces — Investors are reassessing the premise that justified Tesla's astronomical stock price and made its founder, Elon Musk, the richest person in the world. — Tesla's $1 trillion valuation made sense only if investors believed …
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Jonathan Lai / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
A federal appeals court says undated Pa. mail ballots should be counted, a decision that breaks with state courts and could have immediate impact — Pennsylvania mail ballots that were submitted without a date on the envelope last year should be counted, a federal appeals court said Friday …
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Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
Pennsylvania GOP Senate race is likely headed to a recount
Pennsylvania GOP Senate race is likely headed to a recount
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CNN:
First on CNN: Giuliani meets with January 6 committee for more than 9 hours — (CNN)Rudy Giuliani, former President Donald Trump's onetime personal attorney and a lead architect of his attempt to overturn the 2020 election results, on Friday met with the House select committee investigating the January 6 …
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Washington Post:
Oracle's Larry Ellison joined Nov. 2020 call about contesting Trump's loss — The billionaire GOP donor participated along with Fox's Sean Hannity and Sen. Lindsey Graham, according to court filings and a participant — Larry Ellison, the billionaire co-founder and chairman …
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Dwight Garner / New York Times:
Roger Angell, Who Wrote About Baseball With Passion, Dies at 101 — In elegantly winding articles for The New Yorker loaded with inventive imagery, he wrote more like a fan than a sports journalist. — Roger Angell, the elegant and thoughtful baseball writer who was widely considered among …
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New York Times:
Judge Orders Government to Continue Migrant Expulsions on Border — LAFAYETTE, La. — A federal judge on Friday blocked the Biden administration from lifting a pandemic-related health order whose scheduled expiration on Monday would have reopened the doors of the United States to asylum seekers …
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Adam Shaw / Fox News:
Federal judge blocks Biden admin from ending Title 42 border expulsions
Federal judge blocks Biden admin from ending Title 42 border expulsions
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Karine Jean-Pierre's Unlikely Rise to the White House Lectern — The first Black and first openly gay press secretary was raised in an immigrant family with “so many secrets.” Now she occupies one of the most scrutinized jobs in American politics. — Karine Jean-Pierre began her debut briefing …
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Karen Townsend / HotAir:
Second look? John Kirby moves to White House communications job
Second look? John Kirby moves to White House communications job
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Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Inside McConnell's bid to quash GOP ‘isolationists’ — After their two-hour meeting in Kyiv on Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy handed Mitch McConnell a profanity-laden gift. — It was a camo-green hat, emblazoned in bright yellow letters with the iconic phrase that has come …
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Catie Edmondson / New York Times:
On Ukraine, McConnell Tries to Show the World This Isn't Trump's G.O.P.
On Ukraine, McConnell Tries to Show the World This Isn't Trump's G.O.P.
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Fox News:
Hillary Clinton approved dissemination of Trump-Russian bank allegations to media, campaign manager testifies — Clinton's former campaign manager said he took the idea of leaking Trump-Russia allegations to multiple senior campaign officials — Special counsel John Durham releases evidence …
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Marshall Cohen / CNN:
Hillary Clinton personally approved plan to share Trump-Russia allegation with the press in 2016, campaign manager says
Hillary Clinton personally approved plan to share Trump-Russia allegation with the press in 2016, campaign manager says
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CBS News:
2 killed, 8 wounded in mass shooting outside a Chicago McDonald's — A suspect is in custody after two people were killed and eight others wounded in a mass shooting in downtown Chicago late Thursday night. — Police said it happened just after 10:40 p.m. outside a McDonald's a few blocks …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Pete Davidson Expected to Exit ‘Saturday Night Live’ (EXCLUSIVE) … Chad, Li'l Baby Aidy, Barbara DeDrew and Baby Yoda are all leaving Studio 8H. — Pete Davidson, Aidy Bryant, Kate McKinnon and Kyle Mooney are all expected to leave “Saturday Night Live” after it ends its 47th season tomorrow evening …
Virginia Aabram / Washington Examiner:
Bernie-backed leftist Summer Lee wins Democratic House nod in Pittsburgh district — Progressive state Rep. Summer Lee has won the Democratic primary in Pennsylvania's 12th Congressional District despite aggressive campaigning against her for past anti-Israel statements.
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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders Prepares for ‘War’ With AIPAC and Its Super PAC
Bernie Sanders Prepares for ‘War’ With AIPAC and Its Super PAC
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Kate Sosin / The 19th:
A lesbian mom raised her son for two years. An Oklahoma judge erased that in 15 minutes. — For more stories like this, subscribe to our daily newsletter. — For the first two years of her son's life, Kris Williams read him the book “Love You Forever” before bedtime most nights.
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Flora Garamvolgyi / The Guardian:
Viktor Orbán tells CPAC the path to power is to ‘have your own media’ — Hungarian leader also tells Republicans at Budapest conference that shows like Tucker Carlson's should be broadcast ‘24/7’ — The Hungarian leader, Viktor Orbán, has told a conference of US conservatives …
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Kate Lý Johnston / Heartland Signal:
Sen. Ron Johnson's campaign communications director resigns — Sen. Ron Johnson's (R-WI) campaign for a third term is already getting messy, as his communications director quit three months into the job. — Jake Wilkins, who started working for Johnson last February …
Andrew Sullivan / The Weekly Dish:
The Sinister Symmetry Of CRT And GRT — The extremes of right and left on immigration are fueling each other. — The MSM rushed last weekend to explain the previously obscure conspiracy theory that motivated a mass-murderer on a shooting spree in a black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York.
Jennifer Benz / AP-NORC:
Increasingly negative views on national outlook and economy — Just 21% feel the county is headed in the right direction and the economic outlook at its lowest point in an AP-NORC poll since 2019. … Americans are increasingly negative about the direction of the country and the condition of the national economy.
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Andrew Miller / Fox News:
Biden approval rating plummets to 39%, down 24 points from last year: AP poll
Biden approval rating plummets to 39%, down 24 points from last year: AP poll
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Fenit Nirappil / Washington Post:
CDC tells doctors to be on alert for monkeypox as global cases rise — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an alert Friday urging doctors and state health departments to be vigilant for cases of monkeypox as an unprecedented global spread of the virus raises alarm among public health authorities.
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Justin Rohrlich / The Daily Beast:
Teen Rapist's High-Profile Lawyer Says He Violated Bond 50 Times Because He Was Depressed — COME AGAIN? — A privileged South Carolina teen who received an astonishingly light sentence of probation after he pleaded guilty to rape, violated the terms of his house arrest while awaiting trial …
Phillip Jackson / HuffPost:
Priscilla and Schacana Geter had a close brush with death on Saturday, and the racism that led to the tragedy is still around them. — BUFFALO, N.Y. ― Priscilla Geter was standing on the roof-deck of her home on Wednesday, which was draped with an American Flag, and next to it, a Buffalo Bills flag that read “Bills Country.”
Hailey Fuchs / Politico:
Eric Garcetti's parents register to lobby for their son's ambassador bid — The parents of Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti have enlisted the help of prominent lobbyists to aid their son's beleaguered nomination to serve as U.S. ambassador to India. — McGuireWoods Consulting registered …
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