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Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Republicans hide their war on contraception in plain sight — Democrats call out the Trump-levels of lying by forcing Republicans to once again vote against birth control rights — Republicans know that their war on legal, accessible birth control is unpopular.
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Iowa Starting Line, Twitchy, Governor of California, WCAX-TV, NOTUS, USA Today, ABC News, Axios and Washington Post
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NBC News:
Senate Republicans block bill to protect Americans' access to contraception — Democrats expected the GOP to filibuster the legislation and brought it up to make a point to voters ahead of the 2024 election, viewing reproductive rights as a winning issue. — WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans …
Axios:
Schumer's 2024 “show vote” strategy targets GOP … - The approach provided political cover for President Biden, who unveiled an executive order cracking down on illegal border crossings only after Schumer forced Republicans to reject a bipartisan border bill for a second time.
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Washington Post, New York Post, Robert Reich, KTSM-TV, Florida Phoenix and USA Today
AJ McDougall / The Daily Beast:
Biden Campaign Names and Shames Republicans Who Voted to Block Contraception Bill
Biden Campaign Names and Shames Republicans Who Voted to Block Contraception Bill
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Civil Discourse …, Mediaite, ABC News, The Democracy Labs, Axios, New Republic, Raw Story, Washington Examiner, Fox News, Associated Press and Roll Call
Carter Sherman / The Guardian:
Senate Republicans block bill to recognize legal right to contraception
Senate Republicans block bill to recognize legal right to contraception
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New Republic, Must Read Alaska, New York Times, Politico, PennLive and Axios
Axios:
Scoop: DNC billboard tags Trump as “convicted felon” … - “Trump already attacked Arizona's democracy once. … In fact, Trump and the GOP he now controls is broadcasting are broadcasting their plot for retribution. — Trump is suggesting he might seek to imprison his political opponents if he wins in November.
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Sarah Longwell / The Atlantic:
The Two-Time Trump Voters Who Have Had Enough
The Two-Time Trump Voters Who Have Had Enough
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Raw Story, Cascade PBS News, New York Times and Fox News
Sareen Habeshian / Axios:
How Trump's guilty verdict could impact his travel
New York Times:
Clash Over Phone Hacking Article Preceded Exit of Washington Post Editor — Will Lewis, the chief executive of The Washington Post, objected to coverage of a legal development involving him in a phone hacking case. — Weeks before the embattled executive editor of The Washington Post abruptly resigned …
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Politico:
Playbook: Biden in Normandy, WaPo in deeper turmoil — With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine — DRIVING THE DAY — BIDEN SEEKS HIS ‘GIPPER’ MOMENT — Commemorations of the 80th anniversary of D-Day are underway in France, where President JOE BIDEN will speak today …
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Althouse
John Miller / CNN:
NYPD preparing to revoke Donald Trump's license to carry a gun after felony conviction in New York — The New York City Police Department is preparing to revoke former President Donald Trump's license to carry a gun, a senior police official told CNN. — Trump's New York concealed carry license …
Maegan Vazquez / Washington Post:
House speaker appoints Trump loyalists Perry, Jackson to Intelligence Committee — The move by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) grants Republican members who denied the results of the 2020 election oversight of the U.S. intelligence community and sensitive government material.
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CNN:
Judge Cannon expands hearing on Trump's request to declare special counsel's appointment invalid — Judge Aileen Cannon is planning on holding a sprawling hearing on Donald Trump's request to declare Jack Smith's appointment as special counsel invalid, signaling the judge could be more willing …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, New Republic, Raw Story, HuffPost, Election Law Blog and The Gateway Pundit
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Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Judge Reshuffles Hearings in Trump Documents Case
Judge Reshuffles Hearings in Trump Documents Case
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The Hill, Daily Caller News Foundation, HuffPost, Washington Times, New Republic, DNyuz and Business Insider
AJ McDougall / The Daily Beast:
Ex-NASCAR Driver and Son Arrested for Allegedly Assaulting Cops on Jan. 6 — NEED FOR SPEED — Jarret Scott went on an expletive-laden rant after officers shoved Tighe Scott away from them, calling them “vaginas” and shouting, “You knocked down my father!”
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WPMT, US Department of Justice, The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit, UPI, New York Daily News, WHTM-TV and PennLive
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Richard Eberwein / Heartland Signal:
Pennsylvania Republicans jeer, leave statehouse floor in protest of officers who defended Capitol on Jan. 6
Pennsylvania Republicans jeer, leave statehouse floor in protest of officers who defended Capitol on Jan. 6
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WHTM-TV
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
Dick Durbin needs to step up and do his damn job — PN is a reader-supported publication made possible by paid subscribers. Appreciate our independent journalism? Then please sign up to support us. — 🏛️ Subscribe to Public Notice 🏛️
emptywheel:
Judge Noreika Risks Narrowing Hunter Biden's Right to Confront His Accuser Even Further — Gordon Cleveland, the man who sold Hunter Biden a gun without seeing an ID with an address on it on October 12, 2018, did not finish testifying at the Hunter Biden trial yesterday.
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New York Post, Associated Press, Washington Examiner, NBC News, Breitbart, Bloomberg and JONATHAN TURLEY
Brakkton Booker / Politico:
Byron Donalds expresses nostalgia for the Jim Crow era, when ‘the Black family was together’ — The Trump surrogate's comments, made during a Black voter outreach event in Philadelphia, sparked outrage from Democrats. — PHILADELPHIA — Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) suggested that Black families …
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The Philadelphia Inquirer, New York Times, Mediaite, Raw Story, Democrats, PoliticusUSA, Axios and The Daily Beast
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Fritz Farrow / ABC News:
Exclusive: Biden tells Muir US weapons will not be used to strike Moscow, Kremlin — Biden is in Normandy commemorating the 80th anniversary of D-Day. — ABC News' David Muir sat down exclusively with President Joe Biden in Normandy, France, on the 80th anniversary of D-Day on June 6, 2024.
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Bloomberg, USA Today, WCMH-TV, The Kyiv Independent and Associated Press
John T. Seward / NOTUS:
'It's Really Shameful': House Republicans Accuse Rep. Troy Nehls of Stolen Valor Over Military Award Pin … House Republicans are accusing Rep. Troy Nehls of “stolen valor” for continuing to wear a lapel pin for infantrymen or Special Forces who fought in active combat. — “It matters.
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Raw Story
António Guterres / The United Nations:
Secretary-General's special address on climate action “A Moment of Truth” — Today is World Environment Day. — It is also the day that the European Commission's Copernicus Climate Change Service officially reports May 2024 as the hottest May in recorded history.
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Breitbart, Associated Press and DNyuz
Justin Jouvenal / Washington Post:
Alito's account of the upside-down flag doesn't fully add up. Here's why. — A look at the major discrepancies in Justice Samuel Alito's comments about controversial flags flown at his property and what he still has not fully answered. — Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr …
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New Jersey Online, Raw Story and The Daily Beast
Mitch McConnell / New York Times:
D-Day's Lesson Impels Us to Deter Russia and China — On this day in 1944, the liberation of Western Europe began with immense sacrifice. In a tribute delivered 40 years later from a Normandy cliff, President Ronald Reagan reminded us that “the boys of Pointe du Hoc” were “heroes who helped end a war.”
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Washington Examiner and Digby's Hullabaloo
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
A win for the white grievance industry — Black women make up about 8% of the population in the United States. But, according to a report by Project Diane, firms founded by Black women received 0.0006% of total funding from venture capitalists between 2009 and 2017.
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Black America Web and Breitbart
Sam Tobin / Reuters:
Trade union says UK's Rwanda deportation policy makes officials break law — Government officials would be acting unlawfully by implementing Britain's plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda in breach of an order from Europe's human rights court, a civil servants' trade union told London's High Court on Thursday.
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Bloomberg
Associated Press:
Election certification disputes in a handful of states spark concerns over presidential contest — In Michigan's Upper Peninsula, two Republican members of a county canvassing board last month refused to sign off on the results of an election that led to the recall of three GOP members of the county commission.