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5:05 PM ET, July 2, 2023

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Sally Jenkins / Washington Post:
Bitter rivals.  Beloved friends.  Survivors.  —  After 50 years, Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova understand each other like no one else can.  When cancer came, they knew where to turn.  —  Deep Reads features The Washington Post's best immersive reporting and narrative writing.
Hannah Demissie / ABC News:
Most Americans approve of Supreme Court decision restricting use of race in college admissions: POLL  —  52% of Americans support the Supreme Court decision.  —  A majority of Americans approve of the Supreme Court ruling restricting the use of race as a factor in college admissions …
Radley Balko / New York Times:
Half the Police Force Quit.  Crime Dropped.  —  Mr. Balko is the author of “Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces” and the criminal justice newsletter The Watch.  —  In a staggering report last month, the Department of Justice documented pervasive abuse …
Max Cotton / who13.com:
New Iowa laws take effect Saturday including overhaul of child labor rules  —  DES MOINES, Iowa — After a busy 2023 legislation session, Iowans will start feeling the effect of lawmakers' work.  Several new laws go into effect Saturday that will impact everyone across the state.
Discussion: Fox News
Josh Boswell / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Life in the fast lane!  How reckless Hunter Biden photographed himself driving at 172mph while behind the wheel of his Porsche en route to a days-long Vegas bender with prostitutes and pictured himself smoking CRACK while behind the wheel  — DailyMail.com can reveal Hunter …
Discussion: Twitchy and New York Post
Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post:
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's bold debut and independent streak  —  In her first year on the Supreme Court, the nation's first Black female justice broke at times with her liberal colleagues  —  In a rare public speech this spring, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson talked …
Discussion: NBC News
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Richard Luscombe / The Guardian:
DeSantis's stalling campaign: how to lose friends and alienate people  —  Florida governor launched his bid for the 2024 Republican presidential pick as Trump's main challenger but finds himself sinking in the polls  —  Among the books still available in Florida despite Ron DeSantis's ongoing purge of …
Discussion: Raw Story
Miami Herald:
Mayor for Hire: Francis Suarez's wealth boomed while he promoted Miami as tech capital  —  In his first term as mayor of Miami, Francis Suarez increased his personal net worth five-fold as he used his public office to court technology and real estate companies eyeing business opportunities in the Magic City.
Stephanie Saul / New York Times:
How Colleges Admissions Might Diversify Without Affirmative Action  —  To build a diverse class of students, the medical school at U.C. Davis ranks applicants by the disadvantages they have faced.  Can it work nationally?  —  For the head of admissions at a medical school …
Discussion: Althouse
Alaa Elassar / CNN:
Smoke will keep pouring into the US as long as fires are burning in Canada.  Here's why they aren't being put out  —  Another wave of wildfire smoke has drifted into the US, dimming blue summer skies and igniting troubling concerns regarding the increasing frequency of fires, and what they have to do with climate change.
Politico:
The first GOP debate is at risk of losing its draw  —  A debate stage that was once expected to be as sprawling as it was in 2016 may amount to a slimmed-down affair.  —  The GOP primary debate seemed originally like it could result in political fireworks.
Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Hunter Biden's Daughter and a Tale of Two Families  —  The story surrounding the president's grandchild in Arkansas, who has not yet met her father or her grandfather, is about money, corrosive politics and what it means to have the Biden birthright.  —  Katie Rogers reported from Batesville, Ark.; Little Rock, Ark.; and Washington.
NBC News:
‘Never apologize’: How Moms for Liberty teaches its members to spin the media  —  A media training at the organization's annual conference provided a rare look inside the effort to control the narrative.  —  PHILADELPHIA — Last week, a local Indiana chapter of Moms for Liberty attracted attention …
Dan Sabbagh / The Guardian:
British peers attended Russian ambassador's party in London  —  Lords Balfe and Skidelsky were at event in June where ambassador sought to justify Moscow's invasion of Ukraine  —  Two British peers were among 50 people who attended a party organised by the Russian ambassador to the UK …
Sandhya Dirks / NPR:
Affirmative action divided Asian Americans and other people of color.  Here's how  —  In 2015 Edward Blum, the conservative activist behind the push to end affirmative action, stood in front of a group of a dozen or so mostly Chinese Americans in a conference room in Houston.
 
 
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