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Jen Rice / Democracy Docket:
Supreme Court greenlights 11th-hour Alabama redistricting plan for 2026 election — The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has allowed Alabama to select a different map for this year's congressional elections in a stunning, last-minute move to interfere with another state primary election that has already begun.
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Associated Press:
Supreme Court halts order for Alabama to use US House map with 2 largely Black districts — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday set the stage for Alabama to get rid of one of two largely Black congressional districts before this year's midterm elections, creating an opening for Republicans …
Washington Post:
Supreme Court hands Alabama major boost in redistricting fight
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New York Times:
Virginia Officials Ask Supreme Court to Restore Voting Map Drawn by Democrats
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Politico:
Trump officials pitch GOP on ballroom funds — Presented by IN TODAY'S EDITION: — Trump's gas tax holiday faces headwinds — Dems grasp for redistricting silver lining — MAHA's junk food assault stalls on the Hill — Administration officials are trying …
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Ben Geman / Axios:
Trump's uphill climb on gas taxes — President Trump's endorsement of suspending federal gas taxes pushes the idea higher on the political radar, but it still faces long odds. … - The federal tax is 18.3 cents for gasoline and 24.3 cents for diesel (with another .1 cent fee for addressing leaking underground tanks).
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James LaPorta / CBS News:
Pakistan allowed Iran to park military aircraft on its airfields despite mediator role in conflict with U.S. — Add CBS News on Google — Washington — As Pakistan positioned itself as a diplomatic conduit between Tehran and Washington, it quietly allowed Iranian military aircraft to park …
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Wall Street Journal:
The U.A.E. Has Been Secretly Carrying Out Attacks on Iran
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Sudarsan Raghavan / New Yorker:
The Art of the Ceasefire — How President Trump's approach to the war in Iran …
US Department of Justice:
Arcadia Mayor Federally Charged with Acting as Illegal Agent of the People's Republic of China — For Immediate Release — U.S. Attorney's Office, Central District of California — LOS ANGELES - The mayor of Arcadia has been charged in federal court with acting as an illegal agent …
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Marc Sternfield / KTLA:
Arcadia mayor resigns, to plead guilty to working as an agent for China
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Lydia DePillis / New York Times:
Inflation Accelerates After Weeks of War in Iran — The Consumer Price Index rose 3.8% in April from a year earlier as higher energy costs replaced tariffs as the driver of higher prices for Americans. — Consumer prices in the United States rose at the fastest rate since May 2023 last month …
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Chao Deng / Wall Street Journal:
Inflation Soared to 3.8% in April, Driven by Gasoline Prices — Prices were up 0.6% from the previous month; energy accounted for over 40% of that increase — Created with Highcharts 9.0.1Consumer-price index, change from a year earlierSource: Labor DepartmentNote: Data for October 2025 is unavailable.
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Andy Craig / The UnPopulist:
The VRA Ruling Might Have Handed Republicans a Weapon to Attempt a Jan. 6-style Midterm Coup — An outlandish scenario to refuse to seat newly elected blue state representatives just became more plausible — Republicans have been throwing everything they can at the 2026 midterms …
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Complaints About Iran War Leaks Prompt Aggressive DOJ Investigations — President Trump privately complained to acting Attorney General Todd Blanche about media leaks in the wake of the Iran war last month, according to administration officials familiar with the matter …
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Devlin Barrett / New York Times:
Justice Dept. Subpoenas Wall Street Journal in Leak Investigation
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Key Republican faces Democratic calls to resign over radio interview — Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-Va.) is facing calls to resign from Democratic colleagues who say she expressed agreement with a radio host's remark that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) should get his “cotton-picking hands off of Virginia.”
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Alex Griffing / Mediaite:
House Republican Agrees With Radio Host Slamming Hakeem Jeffries's ‘Cotton-Picking Hands’
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Samuel Benson / Politico:
This moderate Republican senator is already eyeing the exits 16 months into his term … Curtis, who replaced former Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) last year, has a reputation as a pragmatic dealmaker and moderate voice from his three terms in the U.S. House. But after seeing Washington grow …
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Li Yuan / New York Times:
China Increasingly Views Trump's America as an Empire in Decline — For decades, many Chinese viewed the United States with a mix of admiration, envy and resentment. President Trump's volatile second term shattered that image. — When President Trump visited China in late 2017 …
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Paige Winfield Cunningham / NOTUS:
One in Five HealthCare.gov Enrollees Dropped Insurance Coverage This Year — More Americans are dropping out of health care marketplaces than usual, after Congress let pandemic-era Affordable Care Act subsidies lapse. — Copy — The numbers are bearing out what many lawmakers feared …
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Washington Free / The Washington Free Beacon:
Abigail Spanberger's Faceplant — Has there ever been a more overhyped politician than Virginia governor Abigail Spanberger? — Flash back a few months, when the “moderate” pol, boosted by endless media profiles describing her competence and pragmatic leadership, swept into office vowing she would …
Reuters:
Exclusive: FBI questions CIA officers over Russia assessment in Brennan probe, sources say — The FBI has begun interviewing current and former CIA employees as part of the Department of Justice's investigation into ex-CIA director John Brennan over his role in an intelligence finding …
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Oliver Darcy / Status:
The Major Trouble at ‘60’ … On Sunday evening, “60 Minutes” aired an interview with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. During the wide-ranging sit-down, Netanyahu's first with a broadcast television outlet since the Iran War began, the prime minister discussed the prospects for peace …
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The White House:
Nominations and Withdrawal Sent to the Senate — NOMINATIONS SENT TO THE SENATE: — Francis Brooke, of Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary of the Treasury. — Cameron Hamilton, of Virginia, to be Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security.
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Associated Press:
Survey work begins for contested Trump Triumphal Arch project in Washington — Workers began preliminary surveys and testing Monday of the proposed site of a Triumphal Arch sought by President Donald Trump, the latest step in plans for the contentious project in the nation's capital.
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Minho Kim / New York Times:
Kari Lake, Who Led Effort to Shutter Voice of America, Is Named Ambassador to Jamaica — Ms. Lake tried and failed to fire hundreds of Voice of America journalists and to cut funding for other federally funded news groups like Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
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Politico, NewsMax.com and The Gateway Pundit
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump Wins Big as Virginia Dems Won't Go Nuclear to Save 4 House Seats — Top Virginia Democrats have decided against exercising a controversial procedural end run around last week's state Supreme Court ruling that struck down their redistricting, which wiped away a gain of four House seats …
Axios:
Behind the Curtain: Scaling sin — Las Vegas has long been known as Sin City for its 24/7 access to all kinds of indecencies. — America is quickly becoming Sin Nation. … - Governments didn't turn a blind eye to most of this behavior. … This shift in American governance …
New York Times:
Steel Tariffs Are Harming Tin Can Makers and Lifting Food Prices … The simple tin can is proving to be one of the toughest tests for President Trump's tariffs. — Just over a year ago, Mr. Trump imposed high tariffs on steel to try to stifle imports of the metal and bolster domestic production.
Toby Buckle / Liberal Currents:
Respecting Reform Voters Means Telling Them They're Wrong and Immoral — Understand politics with this one weird trick: just tell the truth about the far right. — We are living through a global reassurance of fascism. This is shocking. And, when shocked, there is a tendency for people to revert to their basest impulses.
Sarah Rumpf / Mediaite:
Trump Says the White House ‘Was a Sh*t House’ With Columns ‘Falling Down’ When He Moved Back In — President Donald Trump complained that the White House was a “sh*t house” when he moved back in for his second term, claiming that the columns were “falling down” and plaster “falling off.”
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