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Jessica Gresko / Associated Press:
The Supreme Court rules for a designer who doesn't want to make wedding websites for gay couples — In a defeat for gay rights, the Supreme Court's conservative majority ruled Friday that a Christian graphic artist who wants to design wedding websites can refuse to work with same-sex couples.
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Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost:
Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Discrimination Of Same-Sex Couple
Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Discrimination Of Same-Sex Couple
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USA Today, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian and Los Angeles Times
Melissa Quinn / CBS News:
Supreme Court sides with designer who declines to make same-sex wedding websites
Supreme Court sides with designer who declines to make same-sex wedding websites
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Washington Post, New York Times, The Hill, Washington Examiner, New York Daily News, Mercury News and National Review
ABC News:
Supreme Court rules for website designer in case involving free speech, LGBTQ+ protections
Supreme Court rules for website designer in case involving free speech, LGBTQ+ protections
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NPR, CNN, HotAir, Fox News, The Hill, Breitbart, The Federalist, CBS News, American Greatness, New York Post, Press Herald and Alliance Defending Freedom
Sam Levine / The Guardian:
Key document may be fake in LGBTQ+ rights case before US supreme court
Key document may be fake in LGBTQ+ rights case before US supreme court
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Insider, The Messenger, Raw Story and Digby's Hullabaloo
Tyler Austin Harper / New York Times:
I Teach at an Elite College. Here's a Look Inside the Racial Gaming of Admissions. — Dr. Harper is an assistant professor of environmental studies at Bates College. — When I was in graduate school several years ago, I spent my summers getting paid to help Asian American kids seem less Asian.
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Anemona Hartocollis / New York Times:
With Supreme Court Decision, College Admissions Could Become More Subjective
With Supreme Court Decision, College Admissions Could Become More Subjective
Erwin Chemerinsky / Los Angeles Times:
The Supreme Court's ultimate ‘judicial activism’: striking down affirmative action in college admissions
The Supreme Court's ultimate ‘judicial activism’: striking down affirmative action in college admissions
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Sherrilyn Ifill / Slate:
The Supreme Court's Conservatives Are Breaking History and Our Future
The Supreme Court's Conservatives Are Breaking History and Our Future
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Civil Discourse …, Letters from an American, Wall Street Journal, Talking Points Memo and Gothamist
Olatunde Johnson / TIME:
The Supreme Court's Decision on Affirmative Action Must Not Be the Final Word
The Supreme Court's Decision on Affirmative Action Must Not Be the Final Word
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Variety:
Alan Arkin, Oscar Winner for ‘Little Miss Sunshine,’ Dies at 89 — Alan Arkin, an Oscar-winning actor for “Little Miss Sunshine” with a body of work that spans seven decades of stage and screen acting, died June 29 at his home in Carlsbad, Calif, Variety has confirmed. He was 89.
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Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Republican candidate Chris Christie: ‘Trump wants to be Putin in America’ — The former New Jersey governor on his mission to stop the ex-president returning to power — I arrive a quarter of an hour early at the Tick Tock Diner to discover that Chris Christie is already there.
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Jake Lahut / The Daily Beast:
The Stunning Place Where Trump Is Beating DeSantis the Worst — There was supposed to be a deluge of support for the Florida governor in Congress. It hasn't worked out that way. … Not Quite Ron Demand — Before Ron DeSantis officially announced his 2024 run, one of the first members …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
DeSantis's ugly descent into ‘invasion’ hysteria can't go unanswered — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis released a plan for the southern border this week that uses the word “invasion” at least five times. He later took this rhetoric to hallucinogenic extremes, declaring on Fox News that anyone with drugs who …
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Washington Examiner
Miami Herald:
Ron DeSantis faces one setback after another in battle against LGBTQ rights — Multiple federal court decisions have frozen key portions of Ron DeSantis' campaign against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights in recent weeks, complicating the Florida governor's efforts to present himself …
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Political Wire
Andres Triay / CBS News:
Man with Jan. 6 warrant and weapons arrested after running toward Obamas' D.C. home — A man with weapons and an active Jan. 6-related warrant was arrested by law enforcement in former President Barack Obama's Washington, D.C., neighborhood, two sources briefed on the matter tell CBS News.
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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Trump Jan. 6 Mob Member Arrested Near Obama Home With Weapons — Bomb Materials
Trump Jan. 6 Mob Member Arrested Near Obama Home With Weapons — Bomb Materials
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CBS News, CNN, Crooks and Liars and Associated Press
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Jan. 6 participant, identified nearly two years ago, is arrested near Obama home
Jan. 6 participant, identified nearly two years ago, is arrested near Obama home
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ABC News, al.com, New York Times, Bloomberg and CBS News
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
The right's shameless Hunter Biden obsession — They won't let a lack of evidence get in the way of trying to minimize Trump's corruption. — ∙ Paid … Last week, Hunter Biden reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors. After a five-year investigation, the president's son admitted to failing to pay taxes for two years.
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Charlie Nash / Mediaite:
Nicolle Wallace Fails to Ask Biden About His Son Hunter's Guilty Plea During 20-Minute Interview
Nicolle Wallace Fails to Ask Biden About His Son Hunter's Guilty Plea During 20-Minute Interview
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Fox News, Twitchy and Instapundit
Rebecca Kaplan / NBC News:
Democrats say document from Trump impeachment probe rebuts GOP claims about a Biden bribery scheme
Democrats say document from Trump impeachment probe rebuts GOP claims about a Biden bribery scheme
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The Daily Beast, Puck, Washington Post and New York Magazine
CNN:
Former Trump campaign official cooperating with special counsel in 2020 election interference probe — Former Donald Trump campaign official Mike Roman is cooperating with prosecutors from special counsel Jack Smith's team in the ongoing criminal probe related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election …
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Andrew Feinberg / The Independent:
Prosecutors are prepared to hit Trump and his allies with new charges, sources say
Prosecutors are prepared to hit Trump and his allies with new charges, sources say
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The Status Kuo, Morning Shots, Washington Examiner, PoliticusUSA and Mock Paper Scissors
Washington Post:
Supreme Court rejects Biden student loan forgiveness plan — The Supreme Court on Friday said President Biden does not have the authority for his nearly half-trillion dollar plan to forgive student loan debt, the latest blow from a Supreme Court that has been dismissive of this administration's bold claims of power.
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Yuval Levin / National Review:
It's Time to End Legacy Admissions — The Supreme Court's decision in the UNC and Harvard cases was received, as most news is these days, in two quite different ways on the two sides of our political aisle. But one theme seemed to resonate with both supporters and opponents of affirmative action …
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CNN:
Biden's Iran envoy placed on leave after security clearance suspended amid investigation into possible mishandling of classified material, sources say — Rob Malley, the US special envoy on Iran, has been placed on leave without pay, which occurred after his security clearance was suspended earlier …
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US Department of Justice:
Member Of White Supremacist Group Charged for Allegedly Defacing Synagogue With Neo-Nazi Symbols — For Immediate Release — A Michigan man was indicted for conspiring with others and allegedly defacing Temple Jacob - a Jewish synagogue in Hancock, Michigan.
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Fox News and Bridge Michigan
Emma G. Fitzsimmons / New York Times:
Mayor Compares Housing Activist, Whose Family Fled Holocaust, to Plantation Owner — Mayor Eric Adams criticized the woman, whose family left Germany in the 1930s, after she questioned him about back-to-back rent increases. — The first question at a community conversation with Mayor Eric Adams …
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Jeff Berardelli / WFLA-TV:
‘Off the charts’: Earth's vital signs are going haywire — TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — In my 3 decade-long career being a weather forecaster, and now Chief Meteorologist and Climate Specialist, I have never observed so many of Earth's vital signs blinking red. Meteorologists and climate scientists …
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The Messenger and Reuters
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Coalition of the Distrustful — Before Covid, Gabe Whitney, a 41-year-old from West Bath, Maine, didn't think much about vaccines. He wasn't very political — he didn't vote in 2020, he said, because he thought Donald Trump was a “psycho” and Joe Biden was “corrupt.”
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Bradford Wilcox / Washington Examiner:
House Republican plan penalizes marriage — We just got more bad news about marriage. — A record-high 25% of 40-year-olds in the United States were never married in 2021, according to sobering new statistics from the Pew Research Center. That statistic compares to just 6% …
Abbie VanSickle / New York Times:
Clarence Thomas and Ketanji Brown Jackson Spar Over Affirmative Action Ruling — Even as Justices Clarence Thomas and Ketanji Brown Jackson appeared to agree over the policy's aim, they harshly criticized each other's conclusions on what to do. — Reporting from Washington
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Wall Street Journal:
Ethics Official Owned Meta Stock While Recommending FTC Chair Recuse Herself From Meta Case — Federal Trade Commission's designated ethics official says she acted properly, but faces questions from watchdog group — WASHINGTON—An ethics official owned Meta Platforms stock when she recommended …
Isabelle Khurshudyan / Washington Post:
Ukraine's top general, Valery Zaluzhny, wants shells, planes and patience — KYIV, Ukraine — For Ukraine's counteroffensive to progress faster, Gen. Valery Zaluzhny, the top officer in Ukraine's armed forces, says he needs more — of every weapon. And he is telling anyone who will listen …
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TASS, The Kyiv Independent, New York Times, Euromaidan Press and Reuters
News/Talk 94.9 WSJM:
New state budget includes money to restart Palisades — Michigan lawmakers have advanced the next state budget, and it includes money to restart the Palisades nuclear power plant. The $81.7 billion overall spending plan uses most of the state's surplus for education, road repairs, and other infrastructure.
Ewan Palmer / Newsweek:
Ron DeSantis the 'Worst Candidate I've Ever Seen'—Former GOP Strategist — A veteran GOP political strategist has described Florida Governor Ron DeSantis as the “worst” presidential candidate he has ever seen. — Jeff Timmer, a senior adviser at the Lincoln Project …
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