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8:30 PM ET, June 25, 2022

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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The End of Roe Is Just the Beginning  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  By any reasonable political science theory, any normal supposition about how power works in our republic, this day should not have come.  —  The pro-life movement has spent half a century trying to overturn …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
The lonely chief: How John Roberts lost control of the court  —  As the shock waves spread Friday from the Supreme Court's momentous decision striking down Roe v. Wade, one notable casualty of the ruling became evident: Chief Justice John Roberts.  —  After nearly seven months of deliberations …
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
The Constitution Is Whatever the Right Wing Says It Is  —  The Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe v. Wade, allowing state governments to force women to give birth, is the result of decades of right-wing political advocacy, organizing, and electoral victory.
New York Times:
Elizabeth Warren and Tina Smith: We've Seen What Will Happen Next to America's Women  —  Ms. Warren is a Democratic senator from Massachusetts.  Ms. Smith is a Democratic senator from Minnesota — and the only senator to have worked at Planned Parenthood.  —  The Supreme Court has spoken: Roe is gone.
NBC News:
Sens. Warren, Smith urge Biden to declare public health emergency following abortion ruling
Discussion: The Hill
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Live Updates: ‘Trigger Laws’ Set Off a Scramble for Abortion Services
Discussion: CBS News
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Decades Ago, Alito Laid Out Methodical Strategy to Eventually Overrule Roe
Discussion: RADAR
Alexa Gagosz / The Boston Globe:
Providence off-duty police officer on paid leave after allegedly assaulting political opponent at abortion rights rally  —  Rally organizer and R.I. Political Cooperative co-founder Jennifer Rourke was attempting to deescalate a conflict when Jeann Lugo, her Republican opponent for State Senate District 29 …
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Amy Russo / The Providence Journal:
Hundreds rally for abortion rights at RI State House; chaos erupts within crowd  —  PROVIDENCE — Hundreds of protesters demonstrated outside the State House on Friday, voicing rage, fear and resistance to the U.S. Supreme Court decision to end the constitutional right to abortion.
Liz Sly / Washington Post:
Russia will soon exhaust its combat capabilities, Western assessments predict  —  Small shifts in territorial control matter less than the overall balance of forces, which analysts say could shift back in favor of Ukraine in the coming months  —  The Russian military will soon exhaust …
Patrick Wintour / The Guardian:
Iran and US ready to restart talks on nuclear deal  —  EU foreign affairs chief says stalemate broken after meeting with Iranian foreign minister in Tehran  —  Josep Borrell, the EU foreign affairs chief, has said talks will restart on the Iran nuclear deal, averting a complete collapse …
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Washington Post:
Two killed in attack on Oslo LGBTQ club; Norway raises terror alert  —  At least two people were killed and 10 seriously injured early Saturday in a shooting attack on an LGBTQ nightclub in Oslo.  Norwegian authorities raised the country's terror threat to its highest level Saturday.
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New York Times:
Norway Mass Shooting Is Being Investigated as Terrorism, Police Say
New York Times:
How the House Jan. 6 Panel Has Redefined the Congressional Hearing  —  No bloviating speeches or partisan rancor.  Lots of video and a tight script.  The story of Donald J. Trump's efforts to hold on to power is being unspooled in a way totally new to Capitol Hill.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
Discussion: Raw Story and PoliticusUSA
DFRLab:
US right-wing influencers stoke fears of left-wing mass violence after Supreme Court ruling on abortion  —  Contextualizing narratives about political violence surrounding the Dobbs v Jackson ruling  —  Conservative US political figures pre-empted and reacted to the United States Supreme Court's rollback …
Discussion: Human Events and Townhall
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Supreme Court steps into a void left by congressional dysfunction  —  Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) paused for 10 seconds as he pondered whether the Supreme Court had simply become a more powerful branch of government than Congress.  —  Finally, the former constitutional law professor came to a verdict.
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Washington Post:
Many states with anti-abortion laws have pro-choice majorities
Sean Murphy / Associated Press:
Senator in 2010 deposition: 13-year-olds can consent to sex  —  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Before he became a leading voice for conservative causes on Capitol Hill, U.S. Senator James Lankford spent more than a decade as the director of youth programming at the Falls Creek Baptist Conference Center …
Jon Levine / New York Post:
Hunter Biden met with Russian oligarch now wanted for murder  —  When his father was the second most powerful man in the world, Hunter Biden met in Russia with at least four oligarchs closely aligned with Vladimir Putin — including one who is now wanted for murder in the country, The Post has learned.
Discussion: RedState and Washington Examiner
Kevin Rector / Los Angeles Times:
LAPD treatment of journalists denounced, again, after abortion rights protest downtown  —  Independent journalist Tina-Desiree Berg was standing on a sidewalk filming the arrest of an abortion rights protester in downtown Los Angeles on Friday night when a police officer hit her on the side of the head.
Discussion: Associated Press
Alissa Quart / Washington Post:
Traumatic pregnancies are awful.  Dobbs will make that so much worse.  —  Some pregnancies and births are difficult enough to give mothers PTSD.  When a pregnancy is unwanted, the physical and psychological strains will be even more severe.  —  Perspective by Alissa Quart
Discussion: New York Times
 
 
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Bloomberg:
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Nikkei Asia:
Japan needs to update sanctions laws to face future challenges
Discussion: Bloomberg
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Caitlin McFall / Fox News:
Biden signs gun control bill in wake of deadly mass shootings: ‘Lives will be saved’
Molly Hennessy-Fiske / Los Angeles Times:
Gasps, tears and fear: Inside a Texas abortion clinic the moment Roe was overturned
Washington Post:
The Dobbs decision looks to history to rescind Roe
Discussion: New York Times
Bryan Schott / Salt Lake Tribune:
GOP lawmaker says she trusts Utah women to control their ‘intake of semen’ as abortion trigger law goes into effect
Discussion: Mock Paper Scissors and Raw Story
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