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5:45 PM ET, June 24, 2024

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Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
Special counsel probed Trump Mar-a-Lago trip that aides ‘kept quiet’ weeks before FBI search: Sources  —  One witness was told Trump was “checking on the boxes,” sources said.  —  In this June 9, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump is shown at the White House in Washington, D.C.
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Garrett Ross / Politico:
Playbook PM: Biden-Trump debate week begins with spin  —  BIDEN CONDEMNS SYNAGOGUE VIOLENCE — President JOE BIDEN this morning forcefully condemned violent clashes between pro-Palestine demonstrators and pro-Israel counterprotesters that occurred outside a Los Angeles synagogue on Sunday, saying he was “appalled” by the incident.
Isabella Ramírez / Politico:
Days before debate, Trump spokesperson clashes with CNN anchor on air  —  “We're going to stop this interview if you're going to keep attacking my colleagues,” Kasie Hunt said.  —  A Donald Trump spokesperson got into a tense exchange with CNN's Kasie Hunt over debate hosts Dana Bash …
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Asher Notheis / Washington Examiner:
Kasie Hunt kicks Karoline Leavitt off interview ahead of debate
Nicole Narea / Vox:
What two years without Roe looks like, in 8 charts  —  For 49 years after Roe v. Wade, Americans had the right to obtain an abortion if they became pregnant.  Then, two years ago, with Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the Supreme Court put an end to it.
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Will Weissert / Associated Press:
Planned Parenthood announces that it will spend $40 million ahead of November's election
Discussion: Twitchy
Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:
Conservative-backed group is creating a list of federal workers it suspects could resist Trump plans  —  From his home office in small-town Kentucky, a seasoned political operative is quietly investigating scores of federal employees suspected of being hostile to the policies of Republican Donald Trump …
Dave Collins / Associated Press:
Bankruptcy trustee discloses plan to shut down Alex Jones' Infowars and liquidate assets  —  A U.S. bankruptcy court trustee is planning to shut down conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' Infowars media platform and liquidate its assets to help pay the $1.5 billion in lawsuit judgments Jones owes …
NBC News:
Texas abortion ban linked to 13% increase in infant and newborn deaths  —  “This might foreshadow what is happening in other states,” said Johns Hopkins public health researcher Alison Gemmill.  “Texas is basically a year ahead.”  —  A Texas law that banned abortions in early pregnancy …
Neil Irwin / Axios:
How Trump and Biden compare on running up debt … - Both candidates bear a share of the responsibility, as each added trillions to that tally while in office.  — But Trump's contribution was significantly higher, according to the fiscal watchdogs at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget …
Washington Post:
Tennessee ban on gender transition care to be reviewed by Supreme Court  —  More than 20 states have passed bans or restrictions on gender transition care for minors since 2021.  —  The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review a Tennessee law that bans gender transition care for people younger than 18.
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Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court to weigh state restrictions on gender-affirming care for youths
Léonie Chao-Fong / The Guardian:
Journalist shot by Minneapolis police at George Floyd protest in hospice care  —  Linda Tirado 'is at life's end' due to eye injury sustained while covering a protest in 2020  —  A journalist who was shot in the eye by Minneapolis police while covering the 2020 protests following the murder …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Associated Press:
Netanyahu says he won't agree to a deal that ends the war in Gaza, testing the latest truce proposal  —  The Israeli leader said in a lengthy TV interview that while the army is close to completing its current ground offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, that would not mean the war against Hamas is over.
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Barak Ravid / Axios:
Netanyahu walks back proposal for Gaza hostage-ceasefire deal endorsed by Biden
Discussion: The Times of Israel
Josephine Harvey / HuffPost:
Liz Cheney Taunts Trump With Clip Of Taylor Swift's Crowd Size  —  The former congresswoman is definitely not a Trumper, but she might be a Swiftie.  —  LOADING  —  Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) trolled former President Donald Trump over the size of the crowd at Taylor Swift's latest concert tour stop.
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Joe Biden's Climate Law Has Created More Than 300,000 Clean Energy Jobs  —  Donald Trump wants to gut the Inflation Reduction Act, which provides more than $369 billion in clean energy incentives.  —  LOADING  —  WASHINGTON ― U.S. companies have created more than 300,000 clean energy …
BBC:
Nineteen dead in attacks on churches and synagogue in southern Russia  —  Attacks on police posts, churches and a synagogue in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Dagestan have left 19 people and five gunmen dead.  —  At least 16 people were taken to hospital with injuries after the Sunday evening attack.
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New York Times:
Gunmen Attack Synagogues and Churches in Russian Republic
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
Louisiana Republicans write a guide for Alito and Thomas  —  Their Ten Commandments law has a small but powerful audience. … On its own, Louisiana's new law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom is bad enough, a victory for evangelicals who want to push …
Discussion: Bossier Press-Tribune
The Hill:
Young voters backing Biden over Trump by 23-point margin: Poll  —  President Biden has a comfortable lead over former President Trump among voters under the age of 30, according to a new poll.  The CBS News/YouGov poll found 61 percent of likely voters under the age of 30 surveyed support Biden while 38 percent support Trump.
Discussion: Mediaite, Alternet.org and CBS News
Mimi Montgomery / Axios:
Melania Trump might not return to D.C. full-time for a second term … Melania was so atypically reclusive for a first lady that a long-running whisper campaign questioned whether she lived at the White House or with her parents in the 'burbs.  — So the prospect of her rolling in for a second full-time stint in the East Wing?
 
 
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Associated Press:
Supreme Court will take up Hungary's bid to end lawsuit from Holocaust survivors
Mark Olalde / ProPublica:
How America's “Most Powerful Lobby” Is Stifling Efforts to Reform Oil Well Cleanup in State After State
Politico:
Russia started Berlin factory fire as part of hybrid war on Europe, report says
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
 Earlier Items: 
Megan Brenan / Gallup:
Same-Sex Relations, Marriage Still Supported by Most in U.S.
Miranda Devine / New York Post:
Washington Post's editor drama only exposes its lack of ‘ethics’ after debasing Trump for years
Discussion: Instapundit
emptywheel:
An Egyptian Bank Claimed Details of a Suspected $10 Million Payment to Trump Might be in China
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
South Carolina poised to impose draconian censorship regime on school libraries
Adam Wren / Politico:
Trump is on a fundraising blitz. But there are other warning signs for Republicans.
Discussion: Reason and Raw Story
 

 
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