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2:05 PM ET, June 19, 2022

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Cathy Young / Morning Shots:
Has the Tide Really Turned in Ukraine?  —  Plus: It's all about the gays  —  In the past month or so, the dominant Ukraine narrative in the media has shifted from “heroic Ukrainians repelling a mismanaged Russian invasion” to “badly outgunned Ukrainians unable to hold back Russian advances in the East” …
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The Texas Tribune:
Texas Republican Convention calls Biden win illegitimate and rebukes Cornyn over gun talks  —  Some 5,100 delegates and alternates voted on a party platform that also calls for ending the federal income tax, requiring education about fetal gestation and limiting the Legislature's right to regulate guns.
Sergio Martínez-Beltrán / KUT Radio …:
Texas Republican Party includes anti-LGBT ideology in its new platform
Discussion: Insider and The Ugly Duckling
Meredith Deliso / ABC News:
6 in 10 Americans say Trump should be charged for Jan. 6 riot: POLL  —  A majority of Americans also think the Jan. 6 committee has been fair.  —  Former President Donald Trump gives the keynote address at the Faith & Freedom Coalition during their annual “Road To Majority Policy Conference” …
Coral Davenport / New York Times:
Republican Drive to Tilt Courts Against Climate Action Reaches a Crucial Moment  —  A Supreme Court environmental case being decided this month is the product of a coordinated, multiyear strategy by Republican attorneys general and conservative allies.  —  WASHINGTON — Within days …
New York Times:
Apple Workers at Maryland Store Vote to Unionize, a First in the U.S.  —  Roughly two-thirds of employees at the store in Towson, Md., voted to join the union.  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  Apple employees at a Baltimore-area store have voted to unionize …
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Noam Scheiber / New York Times:
Why a Rhodes Scholar's Ambition Led Her to a Job at Starbucks
Discussion: WBOY-TV
Salvador Rodriguez / Wall Street Journal:
Apple Employees at Maryland Store Vote to Unionize
Discussion: Al Jazeera
Brian Chasnoff / San Antonio Express-News:
Source: Police never tried to open door to classrooms where Uvalde gunman had kids trapped  —  Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate  —  Surveillance footage shows that police never tried to open a door to two classrooms at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde in the 77 minutes between …
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Teresa Velasco / kens5.com:
Uvalde police never tried to open doors to classrooms where shooter was inside, Express-News reports
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Kelly Livingston / ABC News:
Recession isn't ‘inevitable’ but inflation remains ‘unacceptably high’: Janet Yellen  —  The treasury secretary expects “the economy to slow” to more “stable growth.”  —  Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen arrives to testifies before the House Ways and Means Committee at a hearing …
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Wall Street Journal:
Recession Probability Soars as Inflation Worsens
ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript 6-19-22: Secretary Janet Yellen & Rep. Adam Kinzinger
Discussion: Insider and CBS News
Wall Street Journal:
Democrats Expect Joe Biden to Run in 2024.  They're Less Sure If He Should.  —  Vice President Kamala Harris is seen as early front-runner should the president decide not to seek re-election  —  in Columbia, S.C.  —  Democratic insiders in Washington and key primary states expect President Biden …
Discussion: Power Line and Fox News
Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
Fox News paid $15 million to former host who filed pay disparity claim  —  Melissa Francis alleged her male colleagues made far more than women.  She won an unusually large settlement, according to documents viewed by The Post.  —  Fox News agreed to a roughly $15 million settlement …
Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
Peter Thiel helped build big tech.  Now he wants to tear it all down.  —  Inside the billionaire investor's journey from Facebook board member to an architect of the new American right  —  On a summer morning in 2019, Rep. Matt Gaetz was having breakfast at the Los Angeles mansion …
Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost:
An Elite Christian College Has Become The Latest Battleground In America's Culture Wars  —  The saga that unfolded after a professor officiated a same-sex wedding has exposed deep rifts over how the school treats members of the LGBTQ community — and how its church interprets the Bible.
Zack Colman / Politico:
Justice or overreach?:  As crucial test looms, Big Greens are under fire  —  When Aaron Mair ascended to the board presidency of the Sierra Club, he brought a new mission to the century-old environmental group: Where once it devoted itself solely to conservation issues …
Matt Dixon / Politico:
DeSantis draws huge cash haul from Trump donors  —  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — As Ron DeSantis gears up for a likely 2024 White House bid — with or without Donald Trump in the race — the Florida governor is winning over some of the former president's biggest benefactors.
Discussion: Raw Story
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
GOP member of Jan. 6 committee warns that more violence is coming  —  One of two Republican members of the House committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, starkly warned Sunday that his own party's lies could feed additional violence.
New York Times:
What Hundreds of Photos of Weapons Reveal About Russia's Brutal War Strategy  —  Reflecting a shockingly barbaric and old-fashioned wartime strategy, Russian forces have pummeled Ukrainian cities and towns with a barrage of rockets and other munitions, most of which can be considered relatively crude relics …
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Texas AG Paxton's shameful Uvalde cop-out: ‘God always has a plan’  —  When thoughts and prayers seem inadequate in the wake of a tragedy, you can always blame God.  —  That would seem to be how Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) sees it after a mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde …
Associated Press:
Inflation taking bite out of new infrastructure projects  —  The price of a foot of water pipe in Tucson, Arizona: up 19%.  The cost of a ton of asphalt in a small Massachusetts town: up 37%.  The estimate to build a new airport terminal in Des Moines, Iowa: 69% higher, with a several year delay.
Discussion: Insider
Glen Owen / Daily Mail:
WHO chief ‘believes Covid DID leak from Wuhan lab’ after a ‘catastrophic accident’ in 2019 despite publicly maintaining ‘all hypotheses remain on the table’  — Director-general Tedros Adhanom confided to a senior European official: source  — The Mail on Sunday first revealed concerns about Wuhan's Institute of Virology
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Here's what voters will get if they cast their ballots based on gas prices  —  Americans are mad about inflation.  They're especially outraged that gasoline averages $5 per gallon nationwide.  And history suggests they may act on that furor by voting the bums out.
Discussion: The Welcome Party, Townhall and Insider
Enrico Dela Cruz / Reuters:
Duterte's daughter sworn in as Philippines vice president  —  Sara Duterte-Carpio, daughter of outgoing Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, was sworn in as the country's 15th vice president on Sunday, calling for national unity following a divisive election campaign.
Manu Raju / CNN:
Arizona House speaker, who resisted Trump pressure campaign, testifying at January 6 hearing Tuesday  —  (CNN)Rusty Bowers, a Republican and Arizona state House speaker, will testify at a Tuesday hearing focusing on former President Donald Trump's pressure on state officials to overturn Joe Biden's victory …
NBC News:
Heat waves and high energy costs are hitting some communities hard  —  High temperatures and humidity hitting large parts of the U.S. last week collided with the ongoing challenges many people face from inflation and high energy costs.  —  In Macon, Georgia, where temperatures were expected …
 
 
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Wall Street Journal:
Biden's Long Deliberations Over Some Key Policy Decisions Frustrate Democrats
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Mike Pence and the Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations
Discussion: The Dispatch
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Liz Cheney Is Winning the January 6 Committee
Discussion: CBS News, The Atlantic and Raw Story
William Boston / Wall Street Journal:
Germany Steps Up Measures to Conserve Gas as Russia Slows Supply to Europe
Discussion: New York Times and Bloomberg
Jeremy Beaman / Washington Examiner:
Defense Production Act: How Biden is using emergency powers for green energy
The Hill:
Midwest Democrats jockeying to come out on top in primary calendar shakeup
Discussion: Political Wire
Max Fisher / New York Times:
Jan. 6 Hearings Underscore Hard Truths About Democracy
Gideon Levy / Haaretz:
Between Jamal Khashoggi and Shireen Abu Akleh
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Odesa Opera House Reopens, Defying Putin's Barbarism
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Lahav Harkov / Jerusalem Post:
Biden on the grill: Bennett looking for an iconic presidential photo op
Adrian Florido / NPR:
Former federal judge warns of danger to American democracy
Saabira Chaudhuri / Wall Street Journal:
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Caitlin Flanagan / The Atlantic:
Sheryl Sandberg and the Crackling Hellfire of Corporate America
Dhruv Khullar / New Yorker:
“We Have to Get Out of This Phase”: Ashish Jha on the Future of the Pandemic
CNBC:
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Mark Kleinman / Sky News:
Sources: CVC Capital Partners and a major European broadcaster, thought to be France's Groupe TF1, are among those considering a takeover of the UK's ITV

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Trade body data: copyrighted music revenue was $45.5B in 2023, above cinema box office spending of $33.2B in 2023 and $41.9B in 2019; record labels made $28.5B

Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
SCOTUS seeks the US government's views in the $1B copyright fight between Cox Communications and Sony, Warner Music, Universal Music, and other music companies

 
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