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Chicago shooting person of interest left online trail of violent imagery — Robert “Bobby” E. Crimo III, the person of interest identified by police after Monday's shooting in a Chicago suburb left 6 dead and 38 hurt, left a long trail of tributes to mass shootings and public killings …
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Highland Park shooting suspect was ‘known to law enforcement’ — Robert “Bobby” Crimo III, the suspect in the Highland Park parade shooting Monday was taken into custody around Monday evening. — WGN Investigates looked into Crimo's background. — Crimo was a prolific poster online …
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GOP Guv Candidate Darren Bailey Says 'Let's Move On' After Parade Shooting — SAY WHAT? — Following the mass shooting at a July 4 parade in Highland Park, Illinois, a Trump-backed gubernatorial candidate bluntly urged the community to “move on.” Standing next to supporters at a different parade …
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Portrait of a victim: a 76-year-old grandfather who hadn't wanted to attend the parade.
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Man in custody after Highland Park parade mass shooting
Man in custody after Highland Park parade mass shooting
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Health experts see rise in maternal mortality post-Roe … Each had “trigger” laws, or abortion bans that took effect in the immediate aftermath of the Supreme Court eliminating a federal right to the procedure. — Maternal death rates in states with “trigger” laws are on average almost …
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Interest in vasectomies surges after fall of Roe v. Wade
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Woke employee who refused to work while ‘mourning’ Roe v. Wade fired
Woke employee who refused to work while ‘mourning’ Roe v. Wade fired
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Doug Mastriano's Election-Takeover Plan — Stop the Steal is only a pretense for seizing control. — By now, political junkies are familiar with the rucksack of election-denying baggage that Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano schleps around: He organized …
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Democrats look to raise $10M for key governors' races with abortion access fund
Democrats look to raise $10M for key governors' races with abortion access fund
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New Jan. 6 Trump documentary footage revealed — POLITICO has exclusively obtained a trailer for Alex Holder's “Unprecedented,” the British filmmaker's upcoming Discovery+ docuseries about the Trump family. — The two-minute-plus trailer was included among the hours of footage that Holder turned …
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Confidence in U.S. Institutions Down; Average at New Low — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans are less confident in major U.S. institutions than they were a year ago, with significant declines for 11 of the 16 institutions tested and no improvements for any. The largest declines in confidence …
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With pressures mounting, Biden thinks GOP will make his midterm case for him — Little is going President Joe Biden's way as the summer lull sets in before the crush of midterm elections. — Gas prices are up; his approval rating is down. A conservative Supreme Court majority is hacking away …
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Democrats Are Headed for a Disaster with Unfilled Judicial Vacancies

WNBA star Brittney Griner makes direct appeal to President Biden for her freedom, asks in letter to 'please don't forget about me' — Brittney Griner made a direct appeal to President Joe Biden for her freedom Monday in a letter passed on through her representatives, writing, “I'm terrified I might be here forever.”
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'I'm terrified': Brittney Griner sends Biden handwritten letter amid trial in Russia
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Abortion fight strains Democratic alliance with Gen Z — A debate is raging inside the Democratic Party about whether it's giving its base — especially those under 30, the generation that most strongly supports abortion rights — enough motivation to keep voting for the party …

Christian Nationalists Are Excited About What Comes Next — Ms. Stewart has reported on the religious right for more than a decade. She is the author of “The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism.” — The shape of the Christian nationalist movement …

Despite rebukes, Trump's legal brigade is thriving — Juli Haller was part of Donald Trump's legal brigade in Michigan, filing a lawsuit alongside the ubiquitous Sidney Powell that claimed absentee vote counts were likely manipulated by a computer algorithm developed by allies of deceased Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez.
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While consumers and travelers suffer, Buttigieg focuses on ‘racist’ roads — A gallon of gas is almost $5, hundreds of airline flights are being canceled every day, and a possible strike by West Coast port unions is threatening to make an already unreliable supply chain even worse.

Officers Wounded, Masses Scatter After Shooting Near Parkway Concert — “I didn't hear the shots, but the cops were like, ‘Run, run, run,’” one woman told NBC10. The police union released a photo that showed a bullet lodged in the cap of a police officer. — Lee esta historia en español aquí.
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As gunfire explodes in Chicago suburb, ‘nowhere is safe’ — HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. — At first, Gabriela Martinez-Vicencio thought the “pop-pop-pop” sound was fireworks. — She and her 9-year-old daughter were standing along a downtown street in this leafy Chicago suburb, watching a Fourth of July parade on Monday when they heard it.
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After invasion of Ukraine, a reckoning on Russian influence in Austria — VIENNA — “Polizei!” barked the officers who stormed a third-floor apartment in the Austrian capital, moving to intercept a thickset man standing near a kitchen nook. The suspect — a long-serving official …