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Washington Post:
A 49-year crusade: Inside the movement to overturn Roe v. Wade  —  Antiabortion activists and their Republican allies are on the cusp of reaching a goal they have sought for decades in tossing out the 1973 Supreme Court ruling legalizing abortion.  —  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell still remembers …
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Ellie Silverman / Washington Post:
Outside Kavanaugh's home, a neighbor rallies for abortion rights  —  Lacie Wooten-Holway walked through Chevy Chase on Wednesday night, pausing to stick fliers on her fence, a tree and utility boxes.  She was advertising an abortion rights protest here, in her neighborhood …
Discussion: HotAir, Raw Story and Twitchy
Dillon Rosenblatt / Arizona Mirror:
GOP Senate candidate Blake Masters wants to allow states to ban contraception use  —  After the U.S. Supreme Court overturns women's constitutional right to abortion this summer, one Arizona Republican candidate for U.S. Senate thinks judges should also take aim at the right to buy and use contraception.
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
Bill Maher pushes back at pro-choice alarmists: 'We're not going back to 1973' if Roe v Wade is overturned  —  Maher casts doubt that reversing Roe v Wade would affect other rights like interracial, same-sex marriage  —  Protests of Supreme Court justices may flout US code
Aria Bendix / NBC News:
Oklahoma abortion clinics turn patients away under new ban — a glimpse into a post-Roe future  —  On Wednesday morning, Andrea Gallegos answered a call from a patient who was running late for her appointment at the Tulsa Women's Clinic, one of four abortion clinics in Oklahoma.
YouTube:
What Does A “Post-Roe” Idaho Look Like? | Rep. Brent Crane and Rep. Lauren Necochea | Idaho Reports
Discussion: Jezebel
James Politi / Financial Times:
CIA director says China ‘unsettled’ by Ukraine war  —  Bill Burns tells FT conference that invasion may have affected Xi Jinping's calculations over Taiwan  —  The director of the CIA said that Chinese president Xi Jinping has been “unsettled” by the war in Ukraine, which had demonstrated …
Discussion: Al Jazeera, Reuters and Political Wire
New York Times:
The Secrets Ed Koch Carried  —  To many New Yorkers, he was their brash and blustery mayor.  But friends are now describing the private strain endured by a public man laboring to conceal his sexual orientation.  —  Edward I. Koch looked like the busiest septuagenarian in New York.
Discussion: New York Post and Joe.My.God.
David Siders / Politico:
Ohio was a test case for 2024.  The GOP establishment looks screwed.  —  The conventional view of J.D. Vance's victory in Ohio's Senate primary this week was that it demonstrated the power of Donald Trump's endorsement.  —  But the election results also delivered something else …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Politico:
Idaho GOP riven by primary civil war
Discussion: Raw Story
Associated Press:
Sinn Fein hails ‘new era’ as it wins Northern Ireland vote  —  BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — The Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein, which seeks unification with Ireland, hailed a “new era” Saturday for Northern Ireland as it captured the largest number of seats in the Northern Ireland Assembly for the first time in a historic win.
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Associated Press:
Afghanistan's Taliban order women to cover up head to toe  —  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan's Taliban rulers on Saturday ordered all Afghan women to wear head-to-toe clothing in public — a sharp, hard-line pivot that confirmed the worst fears of rights activists and was bound …
Dean Kirby / The i Paper:
Putin sends Mariupol survivors to remote corners of Russia as investigation reveals network of 66 camps  —  Thousands of Ukrainians have been sent to remote camps up to 5,500 miles from their homes as Vladimir Putin's officials follow Kremlin orders to disperse them across Russia, i can reveal.
Washington Post:
White House alarmed that Commerce probe is ‘smothering’ solar industry  —  The investigation is examining allegations that China is illegally circumventing U.S. tariffs.  —  Top climate officials in the Biden administration are warning that a federal investigation into alleged dodging …
Discussion: Forbes and Press Herald
Washington Post:
Ukraine lays out peace-talk demands as the West braces for escalation  —  Zelensky says Ukraine must get E.U. membership, restoration of pre-invasion borders, Russian accountability and the return of refugees.  —  RIGA, Latvia — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky outlined his conditions Friday …
Discussion: RedState and Newsweek
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Washington Post:
Opinion Our democracy at home depends on preserving freedom in Ukraine
Discussion: The Hill
James Gordon / Daily Mail:
REVEALED: Elon Musk plans to FIRE 1,000 Twitter staff, quintuple revenue, get 69 million users paying $3 a month and cut reliance on advertising income, presentation to investors shows  — Elon Musk plans to quintuple Twitter's revenue to $26.4 billion by 2028
Rebecca Traister / The Cut:
The Limits of Privilege  —  The new abortion regime is going to affect everyone.  —  In 2015, the Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said, “We will never see a day when women of means are not able to get a safe abortion in this country.”  If you have paid attention …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and Eschaton
Nicholas Riccardi / Associated Press:
Less immigrant labor in US contributing to price hikes  —  Just 10 miles from the Rio Grande, Mike Helle's farm is so short of immigrant workers that he's replaced 450 acres of labor-intensive leafy greens with crops that can be harvested by machinery.  —  In Houston, Al Flores increased …
 
 
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Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Jan. 6 defendant, who prosecutors say chased Officer Goodman, has cooperated with committee
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Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
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Wall Street Journal:
Jared Kushner's New Fund Plans to Invest Saudi Money in Israel
Discussion: The Times of Israel
Shawn Boburg / Washington Post:
GOP donor described botched vote fraud probe in recording, prosecutors say
Ukraine world:
“The Ukrainian garrison in Mariupol can still be saved”: urgent address to European leaders
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
In Nebraska, a Trump-Inspired Candidate Cracks Open Divide in the G.O.P.