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12:00 PM ET, June 25, 2015

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Sarah Wheaton / Politico:
Obama's healthcare legacy sealed  —  The Supreme Court cemented President Barack Obama's signature achievement on Thursday by affirming that the Affordable Care Act intended to help all Americans who need help paying for their insurance.  —  In their 6-3 majority in King v. Burwell …
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Amy Fried / Talking Points Memo:
What A Maine Tea Party Battle Tells Us About Obamacare's Future  —  If you want a glimpse of what may happen when the Supreme Court decides the big Obamacare case of the year, King v. Burwell, you might want to take a look up to America's Northeastern corner.  Mainers like to say “As Maine goes, so goes the nation.”
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
BREAKING: Supreme Court Upholds Nationwide Obamacare Subsidies  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the nationwide tax subsidies under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, in a ruling that preserves health insurance for millions of Americans.
Jonathan Cohn / The Huffington Post:
Supreme Court Rejects Obamacare Lawsuit, Preserving Insurance For Millions  —  WASHINGTON — The latest and possibly the last serious effort to cripple Obamacare through the courts has just failed.  —  On Thursday, for the second time in three years, the Supreme Court rejected a major lawsuit …
Discussion: Slantpoint and Taylor Marsh
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
The Supreme Court's Obamacare Decision Is The Biggest Possible Win For The Obama Administration  —  The Supreme Court's 6-3 decision in King v. Burwell is not simply a victory for the Obama administration — and for the millions of Americans who depend upon the Affordable Care Act for their health coverage.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Supreme Court approves Obamacare subsidies on HealthCare.gov  —  High court backs White House on health law  —  CNBC's Bertha Coombs reports the latest developments and action in the health care space after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Obamacare subsidies are legal.
Discussion: ACASignups.net and EconLog
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Scalia Lashes Out: ‘We Should Start Calling This Law SCOTUScare’  —  In his dissent from the Supreme Court's decision upholding Obamacare subsidies in 34 states, Justice Antonin Scalia accused the six-vote majority of engaging in “interpretive jiggery-pokery.”
Margot Sanger-Katz / New York Times:
Obamacare Ruling May Have Just Killed State-Based Exchanges  —  Now that the Supreme Court has ruled that health insurance consumers can receive federal subsidies regardless of their state's role in running their insurance market, fewer states may stay in the game.
Politico:
Anti-Obamacare senator braces for court ruling  —  The Supreme Court may give Wisconsin Republican Ron Johnson more than he bargained for.  —  Ron Johnson won his Senate seat in 2010 on an anti-Obamacare campaign, railing against the law as “the greatest assault on our freedoms in my lifetime.”
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Affordable Care Act survives Supreme Court challenge  —  The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a key provision of the Affordable Care Act and agreed with the Obama administration that government subsidies that make health insurance affordable for millions of Americans should be available to all.
Discussion: Progress Pond
Associated Press:   Supreme Court upholds key tool for fighting housing bias
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
A Big Victory for Obamacare
Discussion: Off the Kuff
New York Times:
Measuring Health Insurance Subsidies' Success
Discussion: Common Dreams, NBC News and Reuters
Peter Wehner / Commentary Magazine:
A Welcome Tipping Point for Republicans and the Confederate Flag  —  As everyone knows by now, in the wake of the massacre at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina lasted week, allegedly perpetrated by a racist, Dylann Roof, there have been renewed calls to remove the Confederate flag from state grounds.
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Tasos Lazarides / Touch Arcade:
Apple Removes All American Civil War Games From the App Store Because of the Confederate Flag
Discussion: Business Insider
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Tearing Down the Confederate Flag Is Just a Start
Ian Hanchett / BREITBART.COM:
Farrakhan: I Don't Get Debate Over Confederate Flag, ‘We Need to Put the American Flag Down’
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
John McCormick / Bloomberg Business:
Bernie Sanders Gains on Hillary Clinton in Bloomberg Early-State Polling  —  Bernie Sanders is gaining on Hillary Clinton in Iowa and New Hampshire, with an appeal as an issue-oriented protest vehicle potentially capable of slowing any coronation of the popular front-runner.
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Former Advisers Caution Obama on Iran Nuclear Talks  —  Five former members of President Obama's inner circle of Iran advisers have written an open letter expressing concern that a pending accord to stem Iran's nuclear program “may fall short of meeting the administration's own standard of a ‘good’ agreement” …
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John Koblin / New York Times:
Citing Ben Affleck's ‘Improper Influence,’ PBS Suspends ‘Finding Your Roots’  —  PBS said on Wednesday that it was postponing a future season of “Finding Your Roots” after an investigation revealed that the actor Ben Affleck pressured producers into leaving out details about an ancestor of his who owned slaves.
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Daily Mail:
Harvard professor who covered up Ben Affleck's slave roots could be dropped from PBS …
Business Wire:
Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes Signs New Multi-Year Contract with 21st Century Fox  —  Mr. Ailes to Continue Leading America's Most Successful and Most-Watched News Channel … NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)—21st Century Fox (NASDAQ: FOXA, FOX) today announced that Roger Ailes has signed …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Poynter.
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
Sarah Palin is the REO Speedwagon of Politics
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The Hill:
Boehner doles out new punishment  —  Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and his allies are charging ahead with their effort to punish conservatives who have been a thorn in leadership's side — a purge that is roiling the GOP conference.  —  The latest victim is Colorado Rep. Ken Buck …
Detroit Free Press:
Last Slide  —  Famed street artist Shepard Fairey, who visited Detroit last month to create the largest mural of his career, now faces felony charges that he tagged other properties across the city on his own time.  —  A warrant for his arrest was filed in 36th District Court on Friday.
Discussion: Politico, NBC News and The PJ Tatler
Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
The story of Bobby Jindal and an apparent exorcism you probably haven't heard  —  On Wednesday, Bobby Jindal became the first Indian-American to be a serious candidate for president.  —  The Louisiana Republican governor's bid also adds another little-known first: He's the first presidential candidate …
 
 
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
In Hostage-Terrorist Policy Shift, Obama Admits Failures
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New York Post:
Pro wrestling diva Nicole Bass busted for stealing groceries
Discussion: UPROXX and Daily Mail
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Are Donald Trump's poll numbers too good to be true?
Discussion: Business Insider
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
For the South, Against the Confederacy
Al Jazeera English:
ISIL re-enters Syrian Kurdish town Kobane
Discussion: WYPR
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Hannity On Confederate Flag Bans: Should We Stop Selling Rap Music?
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Melissa Boughton / Post and Courier:
S.C. Supreme Court replaces Charleston County Chief Magistrate Gosnell
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Small Ohio Town Is Focus of FBI Probe After Strange Deaths and Disappearances
Discussion: fox8.com
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