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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
The Supreme Court delivers a sigh of relief — and an outrageous dissent — Justice Clarence Thomas has gotten the attention of late due to questionable ethics. But it's high time Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. received the scrutiny he deserves. Alito's dissent in the mifepristone case …
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Joyce Vance / Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance:
Not Quite Midnight at the Supreme Court — I was happily knitting away on my flight home from New York this evening, certain that the Supreme Court would go down to the wire on the Mifepristone case. The deadline Justice Alito had imposed for the Court to reach a decision was 11:59 p.m. Friday night.
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Mark Leibovich / The Atlantic:
Chris Christie Doesn't Want to Hear the Name Trump — “How many different ways are you gonna ask the same fucking question, Mark?” Chris Christie asked me. We were seated in the dining room of the Hay-Adams hotel. It's a nice hotel, five stars. Genteel.
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Suzanne Bates / Deseret News:
Recent poll shows DeSantis ahead of Trump in Utah — The poll was provided to the Deseret News by a PAC that supports DeSantis — A poll conducted this week among Utah voters shows Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ahead of former President Donald Trump in a head-to-head match-up for the Republican nomination for president.
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
DeSantis Faces Republican Scrutiny on Issues While Trump Skates By
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Nick Robertson / The Hill:
44 percent of Republicans don't want Trump to run for reelection: poll
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Dani Anguiano / The Guardian:
A California journalist documents the far-right takeover of her town: 'We're a test case' — Doni Chamberlain's been a journalist in Shasta county for nearly 30 years. Now she's targeted by the extremists who are looking to reshape the region — The fight for democracy is supported by
Washington Post:
In a thriving Michigan county, a community goes to war with itself — Ottawa County offers a glimpse of what happens when one of the building blocks of American democracy is consumed by ideological battles — WEST OLIVE, Mich. — The eight new members of the Ottawa County Board of Commissioners …
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Washington Post:
Afghanistan has become a terrorism staging ground again, leak reveals — Less than two years after President Biden withdrew U.S. personnel from Afghanistan, the country has become a significant coordination site for the Islamic State as the terrorist group plans attacks across Europe and Asia …
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Katlyn Brieskorn / WFLA-TV:
Florida couple delivering Instacart groceries shot at after driving to wrong address — (WFLA) — A couple in Broward County said someone shot at them after they ended up at the wrong address while delivering groceries for Instacart. — Waldes Thomas told NBC affiliate WTVJ that he was delivering …
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Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
Bombshell revelation of Trump election texts is ‘more damning’ than his Georgia phone call: legal analyst — Reacting to a CNN report that Trump operatives were making plans to use breached voting data to not only undercut the 2020 presidential election results but also to give the GOP control of the Senate …
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Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Biden is running out of time to avoid calamitous debt ceiling outcomes — The GOP's willingness to court economic disaster without major spending cuts leaves White House aides in a bind — President Biden is running out of time and options to avert an unprecedented default on the federal debt …
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Biden's Second-Term Mistake
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Politico:
The GOP's new electability problem: North Carolina — Mark Robinson, North Carolina's highly controversial Republican lieutenant governor, is the latest test of firebrand politics in the GOP. — Republicans are on the verge of wiping out what remains of Democrats' political power in North Carolina.
Dara Kerr / NPR:
Twitter once muzzled Russian and Chinese state propaganda. That's over now — Dmitry Medvedev, a leading government official and former president of Russia, took to Twitter earlier this month to denigrate Ukraine in a post using language reminiscent of genocidal regimes. — And Twitter didn't stop him.
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Joseph Menn / Washington Post:
Twitter removes labels from state-controlled media, helping propaganda
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Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Chief Justice John Roberts punts on request to testify about Supreme Court ethics — Chief Justice John Roberts has declined to directly respond to a congressional request for his testimony at a Supreme Court ethics hearing next month about Justice Clarence Thomas' alleged ethical lapses.
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Azeen Ghorayshi / New York Times:
Many States Are Trying to Restrict Gender Treatments for Adults, Too — Missouri has imposed sweeping rules to limit health care for trans adults. Other states have banned Medicaid coverage or introduced bills outlawing care for young adults. — Missouri this month became the first state …
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Morgan Sung / TechCrunch:
Missouri trans ‘snitch form’ down after people spammed it with the ‘Bee Movie’ script
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Francis Wilkinson / Bloomberg:
‘Wrong Address’ Shootings Reflect America's Rising Paranoia — It takes a village to raise a frightened man with hair-trigger impulses and put a loaded gun in his hand. Our village has raised many, and we have armed them spectacularly. — Upstate New York resident Kevin Monahan …
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Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
It Is a Delusion to Think Having a Gun in the Home Makes Us Safer
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New York Times:
E.P.A. to Propose First Controls on Greenhouse Gases From Power Plants — If the regulation is implemented, it will be the first time the federal government has limited carbon emissions from existing power plants, which generate 25 percent of U.S. greenhouse gases.
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Minyvonne Burke / NBC News:
Jewish student with autism had swastika carved onto his back, mother says — The woman said she noticed the hate symbol after her nonverbal son came home from Clark High School in Las Vegas. — The FBI said it is in contact with authorities in Las Vegas after a woman said her Jewish son …
Associated Press:
Alabama governor ousts a top education official over a book's ‘woke concepts’ on race — MONTGOMERY, Ala. —Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Friday announced she replaced her director of early childhood education over the use of a teacher training book, written by a nationally recognized education group …
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Associated Press:
After Russia bombs own city, explosive found at same site — Seventeen apartment buildings were evacuated Saturday in a Russian city near the Ukrainian border after an explosive device was found at the site where a bomb accidentally dropped by a Russian warplane caused a powerful blast this week, authorities said.
Jon Schuppe / NBC News:
NAACP sues after Mississippi expands control over law enforcement in Jackson — Two new state bills that Gov. Tate Reeves signed into on Friday are discriminatory because they focus only on Jackson, a majority-Black city, the NAACP said. — The NAACP sued Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves …
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Christian Davenport / Washington Post:
SpaceX didn't want to blow up its launchpad. It may have done just that. — Videos show a war-like barrage of shrapnel blasting away from the launch site into nearby beaches, wetlands and at least one car — Big rockets emit tremendous amounts of energy — and none more than SpaceX's Starship …
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Livia Albeck-Ripka / New York Times:
SpaceX's Starship Kicked Up a Dust Cloud, Leaving Texans With a Mess
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