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CNN:
The inside story of how John Roberts failed to save abortion rights — (CNN)Chief Justice John Roberts privately lobbied fellow conservatives to save the constitutional right to abortion down to the bitter end, but May's unprecedented leak of a draft opinion reversing Roe v. Wade made the effort …
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HotAir, Raw Story, Balloon Juice, Rolling Stone, PoliticusUSA, Talking Points Memo, Lawyers, Guns & Money and SCOTUSblog
Nancy Cook / Bloomberg:
Biden Considers New Pause on Paying Back Student Loans, $10,000 Relief — President Joe Biden is considering extending a pause on student loan repayments for several more months, as well as forgiving $10,000 in student loan debt per borrower, according to people familiar with the matter …
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Kate Bennett / CNN:
First on CNN: Jill Biden's press secretary leaving White House — (CNN)Michael LaRosa, the press secretary for first lady Dr. Jill Biden, is departing the White House, a White House official told CNN. — LaRosa began serving as Biden's spokesperson in 2019 during the presidential campaign …
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The Hill, Washington Post, Breitbart, RedState, IJR, Washington Times, Fox News, The Daily Caller and Just The News
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Ex-VP Chief Marc Short: ‘There Would Have Been A Massacre In The Capitol That Day’ If Rioters Had Gotten Closer to Pence — Former VP Chief of Staff Marc Short said if rioters had gotten any closer to then-Vice President Mike Pence on Jan. 6 “there would have been a massacre that day in the Capitol.”
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ABC News, Washington Post, Washington Examiner, Insider, PoliticusUSA, Washington Times, New York Post, CBS News and UPI
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Naomi Lim / Washington Examiner:
Pence and Trump to face off in opposing DC speeches
Pence and Trump to face off in opposing DC speeches
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Politico, Slate and Agence France-Presse
Natalie Allison / Politico:
Former Missouri governor's bid for Senate sinking amid domestic abuse ads — National and state Republicans have spent a year hoping someone — anyone — would prevent disgraced former Gov. Eric Greitens from becoming the Republican Senate nominee in Missouri.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch and April 16
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Andrew Beaton / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Says LIV Golf Has Been Worth ‘Billions of Dollars’ in Publicity for Saudi Arabia — In an interview with The Wall Street Journal before his Bedminster course hosts the Saudi-backed circuit, the former president said LIV Golf has been a ‘great thing’ for the kingdom's image
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Washington Examiner, The Hill, Raw Story, Forbes and Breaking News USA
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Ryan King / Washington Examiner:
Charles Barkley finds it ‘funny’ people are peeved by LIV instead of civil rights
Charles Barkley finds it ‘funny’ people are peeved by LIV instead of civil rights
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Washington Post, Yahoo Sports and OutKick
The Daily Beast:
Trump Returns to D.C. and His Minions Can't Wait to Knife Each Other — THE MORE THINGS CHANGE... “It's a mile wide and an inch deep,” a Trump adviser told The Daily Beast of the nonprofit where Trump will speak on Tuesday. — Former President Donald Trump's first return to Washington …
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Raw Story, Washington Times and Daily Kos
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Peter Navarro / American Greatness:
Trump's ‘Think Tank’ Prepares to Betray Him
Trump's ‘Think Tank’ Prepares to Betray Him
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Politico, The Hill, Ace of Spades HQ, WGN-TV, NBC News and C-SPAN.org
Wall Street Journal:
China Targeted Fed to Build Informant Network, Access Data, a Probe Says — The investigation by Senate Republicans found that the decadelong effort included detaining a Fed economist in China — China tried to build a network of informants inside the Federal Reserve system …
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Mary Ilyushina / Washington Post:
Russia to withdraw from International Space Station — Russia on Tuesday announced it will withdraw from the International Space Station (ISS) project after 2024, signaling an end of an era in one of the last remaining areas of cooperation between Russia and the United States.
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Washington Examiner and The Times of Israel
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Vladimir Isachenkov / Associated Press:
Russia to drop out of International Space Station after 2024
Russia to drop out of International Space Station after 2024
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Townhall, Politico, New York Times, The Daily Wire, Al Jazeera, New York Post, Fox News, The Verge, The Guardian, Ground News, Raw Story, TechCrunch and Just The News
Carrie Feibel / NPR:
Because of Texas abortion law, her wanted pregnancy became a medical nightmare — New, untested abortion bans have made doctors unsure about treating some pregnancy complications, which has led to life-threatening delays and trapped families in a limbo of grief and helplessness.
Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Democrats boost right-wing challenger to GOP Trump foe … National Democrats are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to boost a far-right, Trump-endorsed conspiracy theorist in one of the most closely watched House races in the country — further endangering one of the 10 House Republicans …
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Bloomberg, Insider, NPR, The Hill, Morning Shots, New York Times, Mediaite, Twitchy, National Review, Erick Erickson's Confessions …, The Newsletter, HotAir, Raw Story, The Daily Caller, Fox News, Balloon Juice and Politico
Damon Young / Washington Post:
Someone gave our daughter a White doll. How do we, um, ‘disappear’ it? — We still don't know how it got into our house. Maybe it was a present from my mother-in-law. (She regularly sneaks toys and snacks to our kids like they're prisoners and Cheetos gets them phone card minutes.)
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Althouse
Ross Barkan / New York Magazine:
Why Jessica Ramos Went After AOC — To the various moderate Democrats and outright conservatives in politics and media, the spectacle was too delicious to pass up — a self-identified progressive was going to war with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. — Jessica Ramos, a state senator who represents …
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HotAir, New York Post, The Daily Caller and Insider
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Ronald Brownstein / CNN:
Red states are building a nation within a nation — (CNN)It was a revealing sign of the times when the Supreme Court last week, in response to a lawsuit from the Republican state attorneys general in Texas and Louisiana, blocked President Joe Biden's administration from changing a key element of federal immigration policy.
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WKBN-TV, The Hartmann Report, Los Angeles Times, New Republic, Opinion Today and The Hill
The White House:
FACT SHEET: Department of Energy Releases New Notice of Sale as Gasoline Prices Continue to Fall — Treasury Department Estimates that Strategic Petroleum Reserve Releases by President Biden and International Partners Reduced the Price of Gasoline by up to 40 Cents Per Gallon
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
A repulsive new breed of Trumpist candidates poses a fresh threat — Donald Trump is delivering a speech Tuesday in which he proclaims to be for law and order. He is doing this a half a mile from the Capitol, where he incited numerous crimes on his behalf amid an extraordinarily corrupt …
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CNN
Peter Wehner / New York Times:
What in the World Happened to Elise Stefanik? — There was a time in 2016 when Elise Stefanik, now the third-ranking Republican in the House, was so disgusted by Donald Trump, she would barely mention his name. Today he proudly refers to her as “one of my killers.” — She proved that again last month.
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Washington Post
Joshua Solomon / Albany Times Union:
District attorney behind charges in Zeldin incident scrutinized for campaign ties — Also: State data shows charged offense in case of candidate's would-be attacker was rare, only filed once in Monroe County in 2021 — Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate
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Talking Points Memo and Spectrum News 1 Central NY
University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository:
Support for Biden Re-Election Bid Plummets Among NH Dems; Biden & Buttigieg Tied in NH 2024 Democratic Primary 7/26/2022 — Only one-fifth of Granite Staters want President Biden to seek another term in 2024 and support among Democrats has fallen dramatically since last summer.
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Washington Examiner and Twitchy
Claudia Aoraha / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: It's Alyssa! ABC is set to name Trump's WH comms director Alyssa Farah Griffin as Meghan McCain's replacement on The View and will join the panel full time in September for show's 26th season — Alyssa Farah Griffin, 33, will be the new permanent conservative co-host on The View, DailyMail.com can reveal
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New York Post
Zachary Schermele / NBC News:
GOP lawmaker attended gay son's wedding 3 days after voting against same-sex marriage — The gay son of Rep. Glenn Thompson, R-Pa., got married on Friday. A few days earlier, his father voted against the Respect for Marriage Act. — A Republican lawmaker attended his gay son's wedding …
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Jonathan Zimmerman / Inside Higher Ed:
My Amy Wax Problem — Jonathan Zimmerman writes that academic freedom protects Amy Wax's right to speak her mind—but not her reported discriminatory behavior toward students and colleagues. — (University of Pennsylvania) — “Jonathan, you may know by now that Penn has begun …
Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair:
Will Republicans Shut Out the Press in 2024? — GOP politicians are increasingly shirking sit-down interviews, barring journalists from 2022 events, and skipping debates—an aversion to media scrutiny that could upend how the next presidential election cycle is covered.
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New York Magazine
Brian Bushard / Forbes:
Thousands Of Cattle Reportedly Dumped Into Kansas Landfill After Dying From Extreme Heat — Thousands of cattle killed by excessive heat were dumped into a landfill this week by beef companies, Reuters reported Tuesday, where the decaying carcasses were flattened and mixed with household trash …
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Reuters and The Daily Caller
Elizabeth Williamson / New York Times:
Sandy Hook Parents to Testify Against Alex Jones, and a Culture of Lies — The families of 10 victims have waited years to hold the Infowars conspiracist and the political environment that enabled him to account. — Give this article- - - Read in app — AUSTIN, Texas …
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WTOP News, NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth, Rolling Stone and Associated Press, more at Mediagazer »
Joseph Gedeon / Politico:
'She's a Human Being Who Was Killed in Cold Blood': Shireen Abu Akleh's Family Demands U.S. Action — A Q&A with family members of the slain Palestinian American journalist. — The Palestinian flag-draped body of Shireen Abu Akleh was brought to the Al-Jazeera office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Wednesday, May 11, 2022.
Catherine Herridge / CBS News:
GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley alleges widespread effort in FBI, Justice Dept to downplay negative information about Hunter Biden — “Highly credible” whistleblowers have come forward to a senior Senate Republican alleging a widespread effort within the FBI to downplay or discredit negative information …
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HotAir, Townhall, Washington Free Beacon, Meaning In History, The Reactionary, U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley …, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Newsbusters, The Federalist, The Daily Caller, National Review, RedState, Breitbart, New York Post, JONATHAN TURLEY, American Greatness, Global Community Weekly, 2nd Smartest Guy in the World, Twitchy, TheBlaze, Instapundit, The Daily Wire, Washington Times, Washington Examiner and Fox News
FiveThirtyEight:
Why Democrats' Midterm Chances Don't Hinge On Biden's Approval Rating — Earlier this month, FiveThirtyEight editor-in-chief Nate Silver noted an interesting disconnect between two pieces of information most commonly used to predict the upcoming midterms: the president's approval rating …
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Washington Post and ABC News
Harold Meyerson / American Prospect:
Abolish State Senates — What the country needs is 50 majority-rule unicameral state legislatures. … At first glance, California state Sen. Richard Richards might have seemed an exceptionally powerful lawmaker in 1960. The just-completed census revealed that Los Angeles County …