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12:55 AM ET, June 28, 2022

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New York Times:
Live Updates: At Least 46 Migrants Found Dead in San Antonio  —  Three people were detained in what appeared to be one of the worst episodes of migrant death in recent years on the southern border.  A heat wave in Texas has brought record temperatures and drought.
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KSAT-TV:
46 people found dead in 18-wheeler on Southwest Side, multiple sources report  —  Several emergency vehicles also at the scene  —  SAN ANTONIO - Forty-six people were found dead inside a tractor-trailer on the Southwest Side, and 16 others were taken to area hospitals in varying conditions, according to San Antonio police.
Washington Post:   At least 40 migrants found dead inside tractor-trailer in Texas
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Federal Agents Seized Phone of John Eastman, Key Figure in Jan. 6 Plan  —  The action suggests that the criminal inquiry into efforts to help overturn the results of the 2020 election is accelerating.  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  Federal agents armed with a search warrant …
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
John Eastman searched and had phone seized by federal agents last week, he says  —  (CNN)The FBI seized the phone of former President Donald Trump's election attorney John Eastman last week, according to a new court filing from the lawyer.  —  Eastman disclosed the search and seizure …
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Rudy Giuliani gets caught in another lie — at a supermarket  —  Not for the first time, Americans face a conundrum over whom to believe: Rudy Giuliani, or their own lying eyes?  —  The former mayor and current election-lie propagator, campaigning Sunday in a Staten Island ShopRite supermarket for his son …
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Chelsia Rose Marcius / New York Times:
Man Accused of Hitting Giuliani Faces Lesser Charges After Video Emerges
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Mitch McConnell's Court Delivers  —  While Democrats seethe, the Senate Republican leader sees the fruits of his efforts to install an aggressive conservative majority on the Supreme Court.  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  WASHINGTON — When Speaker Nancy Pelosi refers …
Azi Paybarah / New York Times:
Republican Yesli Vega Falsely Suggests Rape Victims Are Unlikely to Get Pregnant
Discussion: Daily Kos, Washington Post and HotAir
Washington Post:
Frustration, anger rising among Democrats over caution on abortion  —  A growing number of Democrats are voicing anger at what they see as the passivity of Biden and other party leaders in the face of hard-hitting GOP tactics on abortion and other issues.  —  Just hours after the Supreme …
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Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Abortion deserves a sober debate.  Instead, it gets a war of unreason.  —  This is a difficult moment for Roe v. Wade to have fallen.  —  A complicated debate about life and death — involving science, law and moral philosophy —has been thrown into the middle of an escalating culture war.
New York Times:
Live Updates: Judges Block Utah and Louisiana Abortion Laws Amid Flurry of Legal Action  —  Abortion clinics in Utah and Louisiana have been granted temporary reprieves from “trigger” laws.  California lawmakers have placed a constitutional amendment on the ballot that would protect reproductive rights in the state.
Discussion: Washington Examiner, Vox and The 19th
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Emily Ashcraft / KSL-TV:
Judge issues restraining order, banning Utah abortion law from taking effect
Ashley Gold / Axios:
Scoop: Google moves to keep campaign messages out of spam  —  Google has asked the Federal Election Commission to green light a program that could keep campaign emails from ending up in spam folders, according to a filing obtained by Axios. … - Republican leadership introduced a bill …
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
January 6 committee focuses on phone calls among Trump's children and aides weeks before election  —  Footage captured by documentary film-maker understood to show former president's children privately discussing election strategies  —  The House select committee investigating …
Discussion: Balloon Juice
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Josh Boswell / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: 'I think you're clear': VOICEMAIL from Joe Biden to Hunter about NY Times report on his Chinese business dealings proves he DID speak to his son about his relationship with criminal dubbed the ‘spy chief of China’  — Joe Biden called Hunter in December 2018 saying he wanted …
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Andrew Kerr / Washington Examiner:
Joe Biden unwittingly helped finance Hunter's trysts with Russia-linked escorts
Samantha Cole / VICE:
The #1 Period Tracker on the App Store Will Hand Over Data Without a Warrant  —  Stardust Period Tracker was the most-downloaded free app on iOS over the weekend.  —  Samantha Cole  —  Update 6/27/22, 4:00 p.m. EST: Following Motherboard's request for comment, Stardust changed its privacy policy …
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Margi Murphy / Bloomberg:   Anti-Abortion Centers Find Pregnant Teens Online, Then Save Their Data
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Alex Wagner to Succeed Rachel Maddow at MSNBC  —  MSNBC President Rashida Jones said that Ms. Wagner's experience covering politics would be crucial as the network prepares to cover the midterm elections.  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  MSNBC has named Alex Wagner …
New York Times:
Biden Irked by Democrats Who Won't Take ‘Yes’ for an Answer on 2024  —  The White House is trying to tamp down speculation about plans to seek re-election, while aides say President Biden is bristling at the persistent questions.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The Supreme Court hands the religious right a big victory by lying about the facts of a case  —  Kennedy v. Bremerton School District is a big victory for the religious right, but only because Gorsuch misrepresents the facts of the case.  —  The Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision …
New York Post:
Harry Wilson calls Lee Zeldin, aide ‘scumbags’ in mistakenly sent text  —  Trailing in the polls appears to be getting to GOP gubernatorial candidate Harry Wilson.  —  Wilson bitterly blasted front-runner Lee Zeldin and a campaign aide as “scumbags” in a text message — and then accidentally sent it to his rival, The Post has learned.
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Ex-RNC chair: Republicans will ‘absolutely’ kill filibuster to pass nationwide abortion ban  —  Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele warned that Republicans will “absolutely” do away with the Senate filibuster in order to enact a federal abortion ban if they take over the chamber next year.
Discussion: HotAir and CNN
David Frum / The Atlantic:
Roe Is the New Prohibition  —  The culture war raged most hotly from the '70s to the next century's '20s.  It polarized American society, dividing men from women, rural from urban, religious from secular, Anglo-Americans from more recent immigrant groups.  At length, but only after a titanic …
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Thomas: When oh when will we finally revisit Sullivan?  —  On the twelfth of never, apparently, although perhaps it should.  Normally, the Supreme Court's orders list doesn't attract much attention, especially at the end of a term when blockbuster cases tend to congregate.
Discussion: Washington Post and Power Line
Ed Yong / The Atlantic:
America Is Sliding Into the Long Pandemic Defeat  —  In 2018, while reporting on pandemic preparedness in the Democratic Republic of Congo, I heard many people joking about the fictional 15th article of the country's constitution: Débrouillez-vous, or “Figure it out yourself.”
New York Post:
'It's bad': Eric Adams admits being ‘shocked’ by the sorry state of NYC  —  Mayor Eric Adams had no idea how rotten the Big Apple was at its core before taking office — telling The Post he was “shocked” to learn just “how bad this place is.”  —  During an exclusive interview conducted …
 
 
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Associated Press:
US officials back in Venezuela in a bid to rebuild ties
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Meg Cunningham / STLPR:
Missouri declines to extend postpartum health care, but moms say ‘we need more time’
Dylan Housman / The Daily Caller:
CDC Caught Using False Data To Recommend Kids' COVID Vaccine
Roberta Smith / New York Times:
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NBC News:
Ryan Kelley was arrested for his role in Jan. 6. Now he's a front-runner in Michigan's GOP primary for governor.
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NBC News:
Biden to announce extension of U.S. troop presence in Poland
Discussion: The Hill
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Gonzalez withdraws as Biden's ICE nominee
Casey Quinlan / The American Independent:
Experts on white nationalism say anti-trans rally in DC part of larger threat to democracy
New York Times:
Jan. 6 Panel Abruptly Sets Tuesday Hearing on ‘Recently Obtained Evidence’
Emily Yoffe / Common Sense:
Biden's Sex Police
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Matthew Goldstein / New York Times:
Trump's social network deal is under grand jury scrutiny.
 

 
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
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