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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Abortion Pill Ruling May Face Headwinds at the Supreme Court — Even justices hostile to abortion and the administrative state may think twice, legal scholars said, before embracing a Texas judge's decision. — WASHINGTON — The conservative legal movement has long had two key goals …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Dueling abortion pill rulings put Biden administration in legal pickle — As the Justice Department sought to keep one decision on hold, it asked for clarification on the other. — The Biden administration is asking a judge to clarify how the federal government is supposed to comply …
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NBC News:
Judge's abortion pill decision embraces extreme language and ideology of anti-abortion movement, experts say — Experts highlighted examples of the unprecedented nature of Judge Kacsmaryk's ruling on abortion pills, including his politicized language and nod to the idea of fetal personhood.
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Pressured by Their Base on Abortion, Republicans Strain to Find a Way Forward — Some in the party are urging compromise, warning of dire electoral consequences for 2024, while other stances, on guns and gay rights, also risk turning off moderates. — Republican leaders have followed …
Christina Jewett / New York Times:
Drug Company Leaders Condemn Ruling Invalidating F.D.A. Approval of Abortion Pill
Drug Company Leaders Condemn Ruling Invalidating F.D.A. Approval of Abortion Pill
Zoë Richards / NBC News:
GOP Rep. Nancy Mace says FDA should ignore judge's abortion pill ruling
GOP Rep. Nancy Mace says FDA should ignore judge's abortion pill ruling
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Lynn Sweet / Chicago Sun Times:
Chicago to host 2024 Democratic National Convention — The Democratic convention, to run from Aug. 19-22, 2024, is expected to draw up to 50,000 visitors to Chicago. Chicago last hosted a convention in 1996. — WASHINGTON — The Democratic National Committee selected Chicago to host …
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New York Times:
Chicago Will Host 2024 Democratic Convention as Party Returns to Midwest — For their flagship gathering, President Biden and Democrats chose a city in the heart of a battleground region, which had argued that it embodied the party's liberal values. — President Biden and his party …
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Natasha Korecki / NBC News:
Democrats choose Chicago as the site of the 2024 convention — Atlanta and New York were also finalists. Republicans will hold their convention in Milwaukee. — The Democratic Party has chosen Chicago as the site of its 2024 convention. — President Joe Biden called Illinois …
Reuters:
Tennessee Democrats push to bring second expelled lawmaker back to House — Tennessee Democrats on Tuesday will press for the reinstatement of the second of two state representatives who were expelled for leading a rule-breaking gun policy protest on the floor of the statehouse, after the first was reinstated on Monday.
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Tennessee Speaker admits his family lives hours away from the district he represents — Yesterday, Popular Information published an article that posed this question: Where does the Tennessee House Speaker actually live? — The issue is that Speaker Cameron Sexton (R) represents District 25 …
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Nouran Salahieh / CNN:
Reinstated Tennessee lawmaker Justin Jones says he'll continue to call for gun reform
Reinstated Tennessee lawmaker Justin Jones says he'll continue to call for gun reform
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Washington Post:
Egypt secretly planned to supply rockets to Russia, leaked U.S. document says — President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi in February planned to produce 40,000 rockets for Russia and instructed officials to keep production and shipment secret ‘to avoid problems with the West’
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New York Times:
Clues Left Online Might Aid Leak Investigation, Officials Say
Clues Left Online Might Aid Leak Investigation, Officials Say
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
The leaked documents on the Ukraine war are chilling
The leaked documents on the Ukraine war are chilling
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Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots:
Numbed America — Another mass shooting. Cue the doom loop. — Yesterday's murder of five Americans in Louisville was the 145th mass shooting here, so far this year. And it is only mid-April. Last year, there were 647 mass shootings in our country. — It is staggering that we are not staggered by this.
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Washington Post:
Popular handgun fires without anyone pulling the trigger, victims say … One warm afternoon in May, Dwight Jackson was getting dressed for a visit to his favorite cigar lounge. He slipped his holstered SIG Sauer P320 pistol onto his belt, put on a button-down shirt and leaned across his bed for his wallet.
Deidre McPhillips / CNN:
Gun violence has affected most families in the US, new survey finds — Worry and fear about gun violence are widespread in the United States, where most families have been affected by a gun-related incident, according to a new survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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Joan E Greve / The Guardian:
‘People will die’: why is Ron DeSantis loosening gun laws that most Floridians support?
‘People will die’: why is Ron DeSantis loosening gun laws that most Floridians support?
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Bearing Arms and WFLA-TV
Punchbowl News:
NEWS: Gang of Eight is getting classified docs from Trump, Biden, Pence homes — Breaking News: The Biden administration has started giving the congressional “Gang of Eight” access to the classified documents that were recovered from the homes of former President Donald Trump …
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Washington Post:
Meet the young Democrats waging war on MAGA from behind enemy lines — Catalyzing events in U.S. history have a tendency to shape generations of public officials. In the 1920s, Prohibition and the GOP's depression economics gave rise to the New Deal Democrats.
Adam Cohen / New York Times:
54 Years Ago, a Supreme Court Justice Was Forced to Quit for Behavior Arguably Less Egregious Than Thomas's — There are two distressing aspects to the scandal of Justice Clarence Thomas's years of accepting luxurious vacations and private jet trips from a billionaire, as revealed last week in a damning investigation by ProPublica.
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Kerry Byrne / Fox Business:
Bud Light suffers bloodbath as longtime and loyal consumers revolt against transgender campaign — 'In Bud Light's effort to be inclusive, they excluded almost everybody else,' says a St. Louis bar owner — Bud Light suffered a bloodbath this past weekend.
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Rep. Jennifer Wexton of Virginia announces Parkinson's disease diagnosis — The 54-year-old Democrat makes the announcement on World Parkinson's Day — Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D-Va.) announced Tuesday that she has Parkinson's disease, sharing her diagnosis on a day designated to raise awareness …
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Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
Citing Trump's attacks on ‘hush money’ judge, court keeps E. Jean Carroll rape jury completely anonymous — Some weeks after cloaking a jury in complete anonymity to preside over E. Jean Carroll's lawsuit accusing former President Donald Trump of rape, a federal judge refused to relax …
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Vladimir Kara-Murza / Washington Post:
Vladimir Kara-Murza's last statement to Russian court: A reckoning will come — Vladimir Kara-Murza delivered these remarks on Monday at the closing session of his trial in Moscow. — MOSCOW CITY COURT — Members of the court: I was sure, after two decades spent in Russian politics …
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Sovereign Citizens Turn on Each Other Over $200K Fake License Plates — A well-known member of the far-right movement who is known for his outlandish legal theories has been given the boot as two prominent branches turn on each other. — Members of the far-right sovereign citizen movement …
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Bloomberg:
Israel Generals Give a Stark Warning: Its Enemies Smell Blood — Israel's Passover holiday week has been a deadly one filled with rocket barrages, enemy drones, drive-by shootings and a car-ramming, prompting a deeply divided society to agree on one thing: its enemies smell blood.
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Amos Harel / Haaretz:
Washington's Mideast Pullout Sets Israel and Iran on a Collision Course
Washington's Mideast Pullout Sets Israel and Iran on a Collision Course
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Adam Zivo / National Post:
Pediatric trans care is often conversion therapy for gay children — There's clear evidence that, in many cases, pediatric gender identity services amount to conversion therapy for homosexual children. Young, gay children, particularly effeminate boys and masculine girls …
CNN:
An officer was shot in the head trying to stop a mass shooting at a Louisville bank. He graduated from the police academy just 10 days ago. — A 26-year-old rookie Louisville police officer - who graduated from the police academy just 10 days ago - was hospitalized after being shot in the head …
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Chelsea Simeon / WKBN-TV:
Truck carrying toxic soil from East Palestine overturns in Columbiana County — EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (WKBN) - A truck carrying toxic soil from the East Palestine train derailment site overturned just before 1 p.m. Monday in Columbiana County. — According to the Ohio State Highway Patrol …
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The Texas Tribune:
State Rep. Bryan Slaton retains criminal defense lawyer in possible ethics investigation — The complaint came after an incident in which Slaton and the staffer allegedly met up at his Austin apartment last weekend. A separate staffer told The Texas Tribune that Slaton drank alcohol with an intern under 21 years old.
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Slate:
The Effort to Suppress the Vote Is Spreading to the Republican Mainstream — They've been at it for a long time, and they're picking up steam. — It's bad enough when a trio of voter suppression groups led by charlatans gets together at an annual secret conference sponsored in part …
Summer Concepcion / Associated Press:
Former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters sentenced to home detention and community service in obstruction case — Peters, a prominent 2020 election denier, had faced up to six months in jail for allegedly obstructing government operations. — Former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters …
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Dan Zaksheske / OutKick:
Megan Rapinoe Among Prominent Female Athletes Petitioning Title IX Change Banning Men From Women's Sports … Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., introduced the bill in February. The bill seeks to clarify Title IX by classifying athletes by biology, rather than identity.
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