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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 …
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Right-wing judges may cripple the GOP  —  U.S. District Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk's widely panned ruling blocking the Food and Drug Administration's approval more than 20 years ago of an effective and safe medication, mifepristone, used both for medical abortions and to treat miscarriages …
Discussion: Raw Story
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.
Washington Post:
GOP isn't eager to enter the fray over abortion pill
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Occupy Democrats
Associated Press:
Judges block Tennessee move to cut Nashville council in half
Discussion: NBC News and Politico
Nouran Salahieh / CNN:
Reinstated Tennessee lawmaker Justin Jones says he'll continue to call for gun reform
Tressie McMillan Cottom / New York Times:
To See Where America Is Headed, Look to Tennessee
Discussion: The Triad and Insider
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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Marita Vlachou / HuffPost:
Trump Files Appeal To Stop Pence From Testifying In Jan. 6 Investigation: Reports  —  The former vice president indicated he would testify in the probe after a judge agreed that the Constitution's “speech and debate clause” applied to him.  —  Donald Trump is planning to fight an order …
CNN:
Stephen Miller returns to grand jury to testify about January 6 conversations with Trump
Discussion: Bloomberg
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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CNN:
Investigations of leaked Pentagon documents take shape as DOJ probes source of leak
Discussion: Washington Post
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.
Joan E Greve / The Guardian:
‘People will die’: why is Ron DeSantis loosening gun laws that most Floridians support?
Discussion: Bearing Arms and WFLA-TV
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 …
Discussion: Axios
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Neil Vigdor / New York Times:
Sinema's Senate Seat Draws First Major Republican Contender
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.
Discussion: Alternet.org
Associated Press:
Police: Louisville shooter legally bought gun a week ago  —  The shooter who opened fire at a Louisville bank legally bought the weapon from a local dealership a week ago, police said Tuesday.  Louisville Metro Police Department Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel said at a news conference …
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Melissa Brown / The Tennessean:
Gov. Bill Lee calls for ‘order of protection law’ to keep guns away from dangerous individuals  —  Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Tuesday will sign an executive order aimed at strengthening background checks for firearm purchases, in addition to calling for lawmakers to pass an order of protection law …
Discussion: WKRN-TV, Politico, WTVF-TV and WZTV
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.
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 …
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 …
Sam Karlin / The Advocate:
Another Louisiana House Democrat has switched parties to Republican  —  Democrats in the Louisiana House have lost another member, the second party switch in less than a month amid a yearslong decline in Democratic electoral fortunes.  —  State Rep. Jeremy LaCombe, a Democrat who was elected …
Andy Pavey / Stimson Center:
Red Cell: Is the US getting multilateralism wrong? … The Biden administration has dumped Trump's unilateralism and returned to a multilateral approach to foreign policy.  But at a moment when the Post-WW2 system is fraying and fragmenting, Biden's 'democracies vs. autocracies ideology …
Zoë Richards / NBC News:
Florida GOP legislator apologizes after calling transgender people ‘mutants’ and ‘demons’  —  State Rep. Webster Barnaby made the remarks at a hearing to discuss legislation known as the Safety in Private Spaces Act.  —  A Republican state legislator in Florida apologized Monday …
Andrew Perez / The Lever:
The Paid Pundits Defending Clarence Thomas And His Billionaire Benefactor  —  After ProPublica reported that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas had failed to disclose two decades worth of luxury trips provided by billionaire conservative mega-donor Harlan Crow, right-wing pundits …
Raw Story:
‘Devastating’: GOP Texas gov. moves to pardon man convicted of murdering Black Lives Matter protester  —  Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott says he is “working as swiftly” as possible to pardon a U.S. Army sergeant who was just convicted Friday of murdering a Black Lives Matter protester …
 
 
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Jason Rantz / MyNorthwest.com:
WA Democrats ban ‘hyper-masculine’ guns while freeing criminals
Discussion: The Hill
Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
U.S.-Born Children, Too, Were Separated From Parents at the Border
Discussion: America's Voice and ifstudies.org
Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico:
STDs are at record levels. It could get much worse.
Discussion: FOX8 WGHP and The Hill
Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
Biden ends COVID national emergency after Congress acts
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Rep. Jennifer Wexton of Virginia announces Parkinson's disease diagnosis
Slate:
The Effort to Suppress the Vote Is Spreading to the Republican Mainstream
Yaron Steinbuch / New York Post:
Charges dropped against dad in road-rage incident that injured both drivers' daughters
Discussion: PoliticusUSA
Adam Cohen / New York Times:
54 Years Ago, a Supreme Court Justice Was Forced to Quit for Behavior Arguably Less Egregious Than Thomas's
Discussion: ProPublica and Slate
Amos Harel / Haaretz:
Washington's Mideast Pullout Sets Israel and Iran on a Collision Course
 

 
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Peter Blumberg / Bloomberg:
X sues to block California's AB 2655, aimed at curbing AI-generated deceptive election content on social media, claiming it impinges on free speech

John Koblin / New York Times:
NBC names Craig Melvin as Hoda Kotb's successor on Today, teaming up with Savannah Guthrie, starting January 13; Melvin has been Today's news anchor since 2018

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