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11:15 PM ET, May 11, 2022

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Annie Karni / New York Times:
Republicans who support abortion rights have come up with their own bill.  —  Senate Democrats press forward on a bill to protect abortion rights, with failure all but certain.  —  Senate Democrats are pushing forward on Wednesday to force a test vote on legislation that would enshrine abortion rights …
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Kate Scanlon / Washington Examiner:
Senate Democrats fail in effort to codify Supreme Court Roe decision into law
Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal:
Elon Musk's Belated Disclosure of Twitter Stake Triggers Regulators' Probes  —  SEC is investigating Tesla CEO for tardy notification after buying 5% of Twitter's stock; FTC has separate probe under way of purchase reporting  —  WASHINGTON—Federal regulators are investigating Elon Musk's late disclosure …
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Associated Press:
Elon Musk, an erratic visionary, revels in contradiction  —  As the uproar over Elon Musk's $44 billion buyout of Twitter reaches a crescendo, another Musk drama, still chaotic four years after it began, has been back in court.  —  Ironically, that spectacle started with a Musk tweet about doing an audacious deal.
Michael Isikoff / Yahoo News:
Roberts may face roadblocks in probe of Roe leak, reporter who published it says  —  WASHINGTON — One of the two Politico reporters who obtained the Supreme Court draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade questions whether Chief Justice John Roberts has the legal authority to order his fellow justices …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Yes, experts say protests at SCOTUS justices' homes appear to be illegal  —  As Republicans and others cry foul over pro-Roe v. Wade protests at Supreme Court justices' private homes, Democrats have been forced into a tough spot.  The White House has taken to saying that such protests …
Politico:
Alito's draft opinion overturning Roe is still the only one circulated inside Supreme Court
New York Daily News:
Sen. Schumer downplays peaceful protests targeting anti-abortion Supreme Court judges: 'That's the American way'
Axios:
GOP panics over ‘ultra-MAGA’ Pennsylvania Senate wild card  —  Influential Republicans in Washington and among the nationwide party elite are having a belated “oh s—t” moment over the previously unimaginable prospect that Kathy Barnette could win their party's nomination for the open Senate seat in Pennsylvania.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Kathy Barnette is the surprise Pa. Senate candidate who just might win.  Now she's getting new scrutiny.  —  Wearing a bright smile, Kathy Barnette shook hands and introduced herself around the patio of a Montgomery County country club: “I'm Kathy, and I'm running for United States Senate,” she said.But many already knew that.
Chuck Ross / Washington Free Beacon:
Barnette Campaign Manager Hangs Up on Reporter After Request for Military Records
Discussion: HotAir
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Opinion Leaked emails from Trump's lawyer show blueprint for a 2024 coup  —  The House committee examining the insurrection attempt has obtained new emails from the lawyer who helped concoct Donald Trump's plot to overturn the 2020 election.  They reveal a whole new level of scheming behind that effort …
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Washington Post:
Intelligence-sharing with Ukraine designed to prevent wider war  —  The United States is sending billions of dollars in military equipment to Ukraine, including heavy artillery, drones and antitank missiles.  Administration officials have publicly enumerated those contributions, practically down to the number of bullets.
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CNN:   'It's shameful': Russian-linked billionaires have given enormous sums of money to the West's leading educational and cultural institutions
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:   World War II Is All That Putin Has Left
Michelle Ye Hee Lee / Washington Post:
North Korea says it has detected its first covid case of the pandemic  —  TOKYO — North Korea says it has detected a case of the BA.2 omicron subvariant in its capital, Pyongyang, the first time the country has acknowledged a positive coronavirus infection since the pandemic began more than two years ago.
Sarah Ferris / Politico:
Inflation's biting.  Roe's fraying.  Dems are still trying to connect with voters.  —  Only after Rep. Katie Porter put bacon in her cart at her local grocery store recently did she notice that its price had spiked to $9.99 a pound.  Reluctantly, she put the package back.
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Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Biden waives executive privilege for new set of Trump records  —  The president has authorized the National Archives and Records Administration to hand over an eighth tranche of presidential records from the Trump White House to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack
Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic:
The Democrats Really Are That Dense About Climate Change  —  Sign up for The Weekly Planet, Robinson Meyer's newsletter about living through climate change, here.  —  MIAMI BEACH, Fla.—On Monday night, I saw one of the most despair-inducing performances about the hope of climate action that I've witnessed in years.
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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Did Rick Scott just hand Democrats an *actual* message?
Discussion: Raw Story
Jonathan O'Connell / Washington Post:
Trump sells D.C. hotel lease to Miami investment group  —  Record-setting price will allow Trump to pay off $170 million loan to Deutsche Bank.  The property will become a Waldorf Astoria hotel.  —  Donald Trump is leaving Pennsylvania Avenue again.  —  The Trump name at the former …
Daniel Boguslaw / American Prospect:
Susan Rice Criticized for Creating ‘Abusive and Dehumanizing’ Workplace  —  Current and former White House officials say that Rice routinely berates colleagues, including Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra.  —  White House Domestic Policy Adviser Susan Rice speaks at an event …
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Ryan King / Washington Examiner:
Judge to strike down DeSantis's preferred congressional map as unconstitutional
Discussion: Politico and Common Dreams
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
Is Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism?  —  In a recent speech, the head of the Anti-Defamation League unequivocally equated the two.  —  Since 2015, Jonathan Greenblatt has served as the director of the Anti-Defamation League, an organization devoted to chronicling and fighting anti-Semitism in American society.
Rick Broadbent / The Times:
'We've all made mistakes' - Greg Norman's gaffe over killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi  —  Greg Norman attempted to brush off questions about the murder of the dissident Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi by saying “we've all made mistakes”.  —  The Australian former golfer …
Isabella Cota / EL PAÍS:
El Salvador expected to default as bitcoin plummets  —  The Central American country made the cryptocurrency legal tender last year, but since then, it has continued to fall, raising concerns about whether it will be able to meet its next debt payment  —  The Salvadoran experiment to make bitcoin legal currency has hit a wall.
Katie Pavlich / Townhall:
Biden's Incoming Press Secretary Laughs When Asked Who Is Handling Baby Formula Crisis  —  Incoming White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked onboard Air Force One Wednesday afternoon about the ongoing baby formula shortage rattling American parents.
Daniel Bates / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Bill Clinton's special advisor who let Jeffrey Epstein into the White House seven times and flew on the Lolita Express dies at 59 - the latest associate of the former President to suffer an early demise  — Mark Middleton was Bill Clinton's special advisor who admitted Jeffrey Epstein …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Ashton Pittman / Mississippi Free Press:
Sharing LGBTQ Identity A Fireable Offense, Mississippi High School Warned Teacher  —  Mere weeks into the 2021-2022 school year, Pearl River Central High School art teacher Catherine Bass was already exhausted.  Students at the rural South Mississippi school in Carriere, Miss. …
CBS News:
Biden administration cancels Alaska oil and gas lease sale  —  The Biden administration has canceled one of the most high-profile oil and gas lease opportunities pending before the Interior Department.  The decision, which halts the potential to drill for oil in over 1 million acres …
Discussion: The Hill
Brian Melley / Associated Press:
Court: California's under-21 gun sales ban unconstitutional  —  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A U.S. appeals court ruled Wednesday that California's ban on the sale of semiautomatic weapons to adults under 21 is unconstitutional.  —  In a 2-1 ruling, a panel of the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court …
Jerod Macdonald-Evoy / Arizona Mirror:
‘Audit’ records show Cyber Ninjas went deep into debt, despite pro-Trump donations  —  Newly released documents by the watchdog group American Oversight show that the Arizona Senate's partisan review of the 2020 presidential election in Maricopa County went over its proposed budget and spent more money than it had available to it.
 
 
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Rebecca Rivas / Missouri Independent:
Democrat filibuster derails GOP measure to change initiative petition process
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Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair:
Newsroom Managers Urge Journalists to Keep Abortion Views Under Wraps
Full Stack Economics:
Why the government took home prices out of its main inflation index
Graham Kates / CBS News:
Judge lifts $10,000-a-day contempt ruling against Trump, with conditions
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
‘I Want My F-king Street Fighters’: Top Oath Keeper's Call for Violence Revealed
Discussion: Raw Story
Charlie Andrews / Democrats:
DNC Launches Signature Latino Outreach Program “Adelante” and Spanish Language Ads Across the Country
Discussion: The Hill
Vaughn Hillyard / NBC News:
Gender pay gap is just a ‘left-wing narrative,’ Ariz. Senate candidate said
Discussion: MSNBC and Insider
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Matthew Daly / Associated Press:
Democrats seek criminal charges against Trump Interior head
Discussion: Raw Story
Kelly Jensen / BOOK RIOT:
Nampa, Idaho, Schools Permanently Remove 24 Books from Library
New York Times:
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