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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 …
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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.
Collin Binkley / Associated Press:
Affirmative action for white people? Legacy college admissions come under renewed scrutiny
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.
Discussion: Denver Post, The Atlantic and ABC News
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
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 …
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.
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.
Discussion: RedState and Washington Examiner
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
New York Times:
U.S. Attorney in Hunter Biden Case Defends Investigation to House Republicans  —  David C. Weiss, a Trump appointee, denied that he had retaliated against an I.R.S. official who testified about divisions in the case.  —  The U.S. attorney in Delaware denied retaliating against an I.R.S. official …
Politico:
The Pentagon policy bill's next big stumbling block: Kevin McCarthy  —  If the speaker loads up the bill with conservative measures, he could lose crucial Democrats.  —  The Pentagon's must-pass policy bill has been signed into law each year for six decades.  House Democrats are worried Kevin McCarthy is about to muck it up.
The White House:
Statement from White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on President Biden's Upcoming Travel  —  President Biden is scheduled to travel to the United Kingdom, Lithuania, and Finland from July 9-13.  President Biden will first travel to London, United Kingdom for engagements …
Bob Montgomery / Greenville News:
Trump in SC: Crowd of 50,000 packs Pickens.  More than 50 treated for heat-related illness  —  Former President Donald Trump didn't have to do much convincing to impress a hometown crowd of mostly Trump supporters in Pickens Saturday.  —  Nearly 75 percent of Pickens County voters selected Trump …
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Natalie Allison / Politico:
Trump takes over small city in South Carolina show of force
Associated Press:
The man named in the Supreme Court's gay rights ruling says he didn't request a wedding website  —  A Colorado web designer who the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday could refuse to make wedding websites for gay couples cited a request from a man who says he never asked to work with her.
Discussion: The Stranger
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