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9:35 AM ET, May 21, 2022

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Jonathan Lai / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
A federal appeals court says undated Pa. mail ballots should be counted, a decision that breaks with state courts and could have immediate impact  —  Pennsylvania mail ballots that were submitted without a date on the envelope last year should be counted, a federal appeals court said Friday …
Discussion: Election Law Blog
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Politico:
Court ruling could upend Pa. Senate race
Discussion: Raw Story, WITF and Washington Post
Bess Levin / Vanity Fair:
Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy: Our Maternal Death Rates Are Only Bad If You Count Black Women  —  “If you correct our population for race, we're not as much of an outlier as it'd otherwise appear.”  —  As conservatives across the country wage war on reproductive rights …
Discussion: NewsOne, Raw Story and Washington Post
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Emma Brown / Washington Post:
Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court justice, pressed Ariz. lawmakers to help reverse Trump's loss, emails show  —  Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the conservative activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, pressed Arizona lawmakers after the 2020 election to set aside Joe Biden's …
CNN:
First on CNN: Giuliani meets with January 6 committee for more than 9 hours  —  (CNN)Rudy Giuliani, former President Donald Trump's onetime personal attorney and a lead architect of his attempt to overturn the 2020 election results, on Friday met with the House select committee investigating the January 6 …
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Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
Giuliani Meets With Jan. 6 Committee for Over 7 Hours
Discussion: WTOP News and HuffPost
Tal Kopan / San Francisco Chronicle:
S.F. archbishop says Pelosi will be denied communion over abortion  —  WASHINGTON — The San Francisco archbishop issued a notice Friday that he would no longer allow House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to receive Communion, an escalation of his feud with the Catholic Democrat over abortion politics.
Discussion: LifeNews.com and Political Wire
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Adam Shaw / Fox News:
San Francisco archbishop bars Pelosi from receiving Holy Communion due to abortion support
Washington Post:
San Francisco archbishop denying Pelosi Communion over abortion rights
Jack Ewing / New York Times:
Tesla's Aura Dims as Its Plunging Stock Highlights the Risks It Faces  —  Investors are reassessing the premise that justified Tesla's astronomical stock price and made its founder, Elon Musk, the richest person in the world.  —  Tesla's $1 trillion valuation made sense only if investors believed …
Discussion: Raw Story
Dwight Garner / New York Times:
Roger Angell, Who Wrote About Baseball With Passion, Dies at 101  —  In elegantly winding articles for The New Yorker loaded with inventive imagery, he wrote more like a fan than a sports journalist.  —  Roger Angell, the elegant and thoughtful baseball writer who was widely considered among …
Damien Cave / New York Times:
Australia Election Live Updates: Scott Morrison's Coalition Headed for Defeat  —  With polls closed, the opposition Labor Party was projected to win.  During the campaign, Australians voiced concern about inflation and climate change, but the race turned into more of a personality contest.
New York Times:
Judge Orders Government to Continue Migrant Expulsions on Border  —  LAFAYETTE, La. — A federal judge on Friday blocked the Biden administration from lifting a pandemic-related health order whose scheduled expiration on Monday would have reopened the doors of the United States to asylum seekers …
Discussion: HotAir and Washington Examiner
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Adam Shaw / Fox News:
Federal judge blocks Biden admin from ending Title 42 border expulsions
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Pete Davidson Expected to Exit ‘Saturday Night Live’ (EXCLUSIVE) … Chad, Li'l Baby Aidy, Barbara DeDrew and Baby Yoda are all leaving Studio 8H.  —  Pete Davidson, Aidy Bryant, Kate McKinnon and Kyle Mooney are all expected to leave “Saturday Night Live” after it ends its 47th season tomorrow evening …
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Georgia electrical vehicle factory becomes Kemp, Perdue campaign battle  —  RUTLEDGE, Ga. — There are few things politicians love more than creating jobs and cutting ribbons.  —  But what if those jobs are on the wrong side of the culture war?  —  Plans to build a massive electric vehicle factory …
Discussion: HuffPost and The Hill
Wall Street Journal:
Garcetti Ambassador Nomination Stalled in Senate Over Questions About Former Aide's Conduct  —  Biden's pick for ambassador to India hasn't secured enough Senate confirmation votes  —  WASHINGTON—Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti's nomination to be ambassador to India has stalled in the U.S. Senate …
New York Times:
The Root of Haiti's Misery: Reparations to Enslavers  —  Lire en français Li an Kreyòl  —  DONDON, Haiti — Adrienne Present steps into the thin forest beside her house and plucks the season's first coffee cherries, shining like red marbles in her hands.  —  The harvest has begun.
Karen Townsend / HotAir:
Second look?  John Kirby moves to White House communications job  —  Is this an admission that Karine Jean-Pierre has not exactly risen to her new position as White House press secretary?  Yes, if you ask me.  Pentagon spokesman John Kirby is a consummate professional, regardless of your political party of choice.
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Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Inside McConnell's bid to quash GOP ‘isolationists’  —  After their two-hour meeting in Kyiv on Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy handed Mitch McConnell a profanity-laden gift.  —  It was a camo-green hat, emblazoned in bright yellow letters with the iconic phrase that has come …
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Wall Street Journal:
Princeton Targets a Dissenting Professor  —  The school may purge Joshua Katz after he criticized a faculty letter.  —  1x  —  Everyone knows American universities are dangerous places these days if you dare to express unpopular views.  But Princeton University's handling …
Discussion: Simple Justice
Wills Robinson / Daily Mail:
Hillary Clinton APPROVED sharing debunked ‘covert’ communications between Trump and Kremlin-backed bank with press - even though she wasn't ‘totally confident’ in the legitimacy, ex-campaign manager tells Durham trial  — Robby Mook testified on Friday about the campaign meeting on the data
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Marshall Cohen / CNN:
Hillary Clinton personally approved plan to share Trump-Russia allegation with the press in 2016, campaign manager says
Kate Lý Johnston / Heartland Signal:
Sen. Ron Johnson's campaign communications director resigns  —  Sen. Ron Johnson's (R-WI) campaign for a third term is already getting messy, as his communications director quit three months into the job.  —  Jake Wilkins, who started working for Johnson last February …
Politico:
National Dems are calling in a new communications expert: Eric Adams  —  NEW YORK — When New York City Mayor Eric Adams was asked whether he sees a place for himself on the 2024 presidential ticket, he gave an answer that fetes his current position without removing himself from the potential field.
Discussion: PIX11
 
 
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Washington Post:
Voting is surging in Georgia despite controversial new election law
Discussion: Election Law Blog
Eric Cortellessa / TIME:
'I'm Sorry. I've Got Your Sister.' A Family Grieves After the Buffalo Shooting
Financial Times:
Joe Biden waters down Indo-Pacific Economic Framework to win more support
Discussion: SupChina
John Sexton / HotAir:
Report confirms White House had advance knowledge of the NSBA's ‘domestic terrorism’ letter and promised ‘we have your back’
Discussion: Breitbart and Fox News
Fenit Nirappil / Washington Post:
CDC tells doctors to be on alert for monkeypox as global cases rise
Discussion: MSN, New York Times and Deseret News
Justin Rohrlich / The Daily Beast:
Teen Rapist's High-Profile Lawyer Says He Violated Bond 50 Times Because He Was Depressed
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Bill McKibben / New Yorker:
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Isabela Dias / Mother Jones:
Meet the Muslim Mom Who Has Mobilized Asian American Parents in the War on Public Schools
Phillip Jackson / HuffPost:
Priscilla and Schacana Geter had a close brush with death on Saturday, and the racism that led to the tragedy is still around them.
Andrew Sullivan / The Weekly Dish:
The Sinister Symmetry Of CRT And GRT
Casper Star-Tribune:
Wyo GOP chairman quietly assumed power as party fractured
Discussion: Mediaite
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Viktor Orbán tells CPAC the path to power is to ‘have your own media’
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