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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 — The court's conservatives used a dubious case to greatly expand the right of business owners to discriminate against same-sex couples. — The Supreme Court on Friday greatly expanded the rights of people who want to discriminate …
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ABC News:
Supreme Court rules for website designer in case involving free speech, LGBTQ+ protections — The conservative majority ruled 6-3 for the evangelical Christian creator. — The Supreme Court on Friday ruled for an evangelical Christian website designer in a case involving whether creative businesses …
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Melissa Quinn / CBS News:
Supreme Court sides with designer who declines to make same-sex wedding websites — Washington — The Supreme Court on Friday ruled in favor of a Colorado graphic artist who does not want to design wedding websites for same-sex couples, finding the First Amendment prohibits the state …
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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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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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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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Politico:
Supreme Court strikes down Biden's student debt relief plan — In a 6-3 decision, the court's conservative majority ruled that Biden's effort to erase roughly $400 billion of student debt was an illegal use of executive power. — The Supreme Court on Friday struck down President Joe Biden's plan …
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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
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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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Tom Phillips / The Guardian:
Judges ban Bolsonaro from running for office for eight years over ‘appalling lies’ — Former far-right leader will only be able to seek elected office again in 2030, when he will be 75 — The political future of Brazil's former president Jair Bolsonaro has been cast into doubt …
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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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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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Neal Lawson / The Guardian:
After 44 years, Labour is expelling me. And my MP and activist friends are asking: who will be next? — There seem to be bullies at the top who don't understand pluralism. They see only true believers and sworn enemies — ast Friday an email from the Labour party …
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court to weigh right of accused domestic abusers to own guns — A major new case tests the scope of the Supreme Court's ruling a year ago that expanded gun rights outside the home. — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to weigh whether people accused of domestic violence …
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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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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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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 …
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% …
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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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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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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 …
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
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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