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11:40 AM ET, July 2, 2023

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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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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: The Atlantic and ABC News
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.
Discussion: Twitchy, The Daily Caller and RedState
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.
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: New York Times
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New York Times:
DeSantis, Seeking Attention, Uses L.G.B.T.Q Issues to Attack Trump
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Amanda Katz / Washington Post:
I'm not a lawyer. But I see what the same-sex wedding website case will mean.
Discussion: The Hill
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 …
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New York Times:
Along With Conservative Triumphs, Signs of New Caution at Supreme Court  —  Chief Justice Roberts delivered both landmark victories for the right and significant rulings in which he forged alliances with the liberal justices.  —  By Adam LiptakGraphics by Alicia Parlapiano  —  Reporting from Washington
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
Ben King / BBC:
Shell still trading Russian gas despite pledge to stop  —  Shell is still trading Russian gas more than a year after pledging to withdraw from the Russian energy market.  —  The company was involved in nearly an eighth of Russia's shipborne gas exports in 2022, according to analysis from campaign group Global Witness.
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 …
Ben Taub / New Yorker:
The Titan Submersible Was “an Accident Waiting to Happen”  —  Interviews and e-mails with expedition leaders and employees reveal how OceanGate ignored desperate warnings from inside and outside the company.  “It's a lemon,” one wrote.  —  The primary task of a submersible is to not implode.
Discussion: New York Times
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 …
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Chris Christie Takes On Donald Trump  —  I offered to help prep Chris Christie for the debate with Donald Trump.  —  Christie helped prep Trump in 2016, saying he played Hillary Clinton very aggressively so that Trump would think the real thing was “a cakewalk.”
Discussion: Raw Story and New York Post
 
 
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