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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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Ivana Saric / Axios:
Supreme Court rules businesses can refuse service to LGBTQ+ customers … - Colorado's civil rights law prohibited her, or any business that serves the general public, from turning away customers because of their sexual orientation. … - “The artwork that I create is speech,” …
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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 …
The White House:
Statement from President Joe Biden on Supreme Court Decision in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis — In America, no person should face discrimination simply because of who they are or who they love. The Supreme Court's disappointing decision in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis undermines that basic truth …
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NBC News:
Live updates: Supreme Court rules for web designer in LGBTQ protections case
Live updates: Supreme Court rules for web designer in LGBTQ protections case
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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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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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Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court rules for web designer who refused to work on same-sex weddings
Supreme Court rules for web designer who refused to work on same-sex weddings
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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
Supreme Court strikes down Biden's student debt relief plan
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ABC News:
Supreme Court strikes down Biden student loan debt forgiveness program
Supreme Court strikes down Biden student loan debt forgiveness program
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David Lawder / Reuters:
Student-loan ruling may be windfall for US deficit reduction
Student-loan ruling may be windfall for US deficit reduction
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court to Hear Major Guns Case Involving Domestic Violence — The court, which has decided very few Second Amendment cases, will consider whether the government may disarm people subject to restraining orders for domestic abuse. — Reporting from Washington
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Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court to weigh right of accused domestic abusers to own guns
Supreme Court to weigh right of accused domestic abusers to own guns
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Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The Supreme Court will decide if abusive spouses have a right to own guns
The Supreme Court will decide if abusive spouses have a right to own guns
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Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Supreme Court to decide whether Second Amendment protects gun owners subject to domestic violence restraining orders
Supreme Court to decide whether Second Amendment protects gun owners subject to domestic violence restraining orders
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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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Jack Nicas / New York Times:
Brazil Set to Bar Bolsonaro From Office for Election-Fraud Claims — Brazil's electoral court had enough votes to block former President Jair Bolsonaro from office until 2030 for spreading false claims about voting. — Jack Nicas, The Times's correspondent in Brazil …
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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 …
Marina Dias / Washington Post:
Court votes to bar Bolsonaro from running for office — BRASÍLIA — Brazil's top elections court voted Friday to bar Jair Bolsonaro from running for office for eight years — a period that covers the next presidential election — for making what members of the panel said were claims …
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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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Anemona Hartocollis / New York Times:
With Supreme Court Decision, College Admissions Could Become More Subjective — Colleges have a game plan, like emphasizing the personal essay, but so do conservative groups that promise to monitor and, if necessary, go back to court. — 阅读.体中文.閱讀.體中文.
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Linda Chavez / Bulwark+:
Affirmative Action Ruling: Actually a Win for Minority Students
Affirmative Action Ruling: Actually a Win for Minority Students
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Rebecca Traister / New York Magazine:
RFK Jr.'s Inside Job — How a conspiracy-spewing literal Kennedy posing as a populist outsider jolted the Democratic Party. — While waiting for his plate of meat loaf, gravy, and an iceberg wedge at an empty restaurant in Concord, New Hampshire, on the first day of June …
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Coalition of the Distrustful
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Coalition of the Distrustful
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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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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Trump Jan. 6 Mob Member Arrested Near Obama Home With Weapons — Bomb Materials — Taylor Taranto — a Trump supporter with a Jan. 6 warrant — was arrested near former President Barack Obama's home with guns and bomb materials. — Taranto was arrested Thursday on charges related …
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Julio Rivera / The Western Journal:
Op-Ed: Biden Just Failed America - It Could Be Years Before We Know the Extent of the Damage — Prior to new developments regarding a possible implosion in Russia amid the war with Ukraine, the news cycle had been dominated by the classified docs indictment of former President Donald Trump …
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court rejects challenge to Jim Crow-era Mississippi voting law — The 1890 state constitutional amendment was intended to disproportionately remove voting rights from Black people convicted of certain crimes. — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a challenge …
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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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The Hill:
Supreme Court lets stand gender dysphoria case in liberal win — The Supreme Court on Friday let a lower court ruling stand that sided with a transgender woman who contested that her rights were violated in jail when she was deprived of her hormone treatment.
Ben Smith / Semafor:
Eliot Spitzer: RFK Jr. asked about giving paid speeches in office — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. didn't run for office before in part because he couldn't afford it. — That's what Kennedy told then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, when Kennedy was considering running to replace him in 2006 …
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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Casey Smith / Indiana Capital Chronicle:
Indiana Supreme Court upholds abortion ban, but leaves door open for other legal challenges — Abortion rights advocates march up Capitol Avenue to surround the Indiana Statehouse on July 25, 2022. (Whitney Downard / Indiana Capital Chronicle) — Indiana's near-total abortion ban …
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Andreina Itriago Acosta / Bloomberg:
Venezuela Opposition Leader Machado Banned From Public Office for 15 Years — Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado is ineligible to participate in upcoming elections, the Comptroller's office said Friday, causing more tension in the lead-up to the 2024 presidential vote.
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 …