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Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
South Carolina's redistricting effort fails in the state Senate amid GOP opposition — Some Republican lawmakers changed their stance on enacting a new map before the midterms when early voting for the June primary began on Tuesday. — The Republican-led South Carolina Senate on Tuesday voted …
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Nick Reynolds / Post and Courier:
Redistricting effort in SC Senate dies as 12 Republicans cross party line on 1st day of early voting — [+] Add Post and Courier News on Google — COLUMBIA — The South Carolina Senate effectively killed an effort to redraw the state's congressional lines to eliminate longtime Democratic …
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Associated Press:
Early voting begins in South Carolina as senators weigh scrapping primary for congressional races — Early in-person voting began Tuesday in South Carolina's primaries, as state senators considered whether to cancel the congressional votes and instead schedule a new primary under revised districts designed …
Brentin Mock / Democracy Docket:
Texas runoff: Election denier Ken Paxton wins GOP nod for U.S. Senate — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has won the state's U.S. Senate Republican primary runoff over the four-term incumbent Sen. John Cornyn, boosted by an endorsement from President Donald Trump, according to multiple news outlets.
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Bridget Bowman / NBC News:
Ken Paxton defeats GOP Sen. John Cornyn in Texas primary runoff
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Bloomberg:
Paxton Trounces Cornyn in Texas Runoff After Winning Trump Nod
Paxton Trounces Cornyn in Texas Runoff After Winning Trump Nod
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Associated Press:
Texas live updates: Ken Paxton wins Senate primary runoff, defeats incumbent Sen. John Cornyn
Texas live updates: Ken Paxton wins Senate primary runoff, defeats incumbent Sen. John Cornyn
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Joshua Keating / Vox:
Trump still thinks he's winning in Iran — There's an old line, sometimes attributed to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, that the best way to solve a difficult problem is to make it bigger. That might be the most generous interpretation of how the Trump administration is approaching its ongoing peace talks with Iran.
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New York Times:
Iran Begins Lifting Monthslong Internet Blackout, Officials Say — Organizations that track online traffic confirmed an uptick in activity on Tuesday, as Iranians reconnected to the global internet after a government-imposed shutdown. — Iran began restoring internet access for tens …
Associated Press:
Iran deal progress is murky after US says it carried out ‘self-defense’ strikes
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NBC News:
Deal or no deal? Trump's social media posts add confusion to Iran conflict
Deal or no deal? Trump's social media posts add confusion to Iran conflict
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Zach Schonfeld / The Hill:
Court blocks Alabama Republicans' congressional map — A three-judge panel on Tuesday blocked Alabama Republicans' congressional map that would've given the party a potential pickup opportunity in the midterms. — The judges ruled the Supreme Court's recent blockbuster decision narrowing …
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Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
Court Rejects Alabama House Map, Calling It Unfair to Black Voters
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Caroline Vakil / The Hill:
Florida judge blocks effort to halt new GOP House map
Florida judge blocks effort to halt new GOP House map
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Associated Press:
Federal court blocks Alabama plan for new congressional districts that could help Republicans
Federal court blocks Alabama plan for new congressional districts that could help Republicans
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Andrew Pantazi / Axios:
Florida congressional map survives first court test
Florida congressional map survives first court test
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Washington Post:
Trump administration proposes NDAs for all federal workers — The rule, aimed at cracking down on leaks to media organizations, would expand nondisclosure agreements instituted at the Pentagon and other agencies. — Summary — The Trump administration is planning a government-wide …
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Cameron Peters / Vox:
Trump's new plan to quash leaks
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Ramsey Khalifeh / Gothamist:
Exclusive renderings of Penn Station overhaul show Trump's name with presidential seal — Gothamist is funded by sponsors and member donations — The winning plan to rebuild Penn Station features renderings of a new train hall with American flags at the entrance, gold-accented railings …
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Brian Beutler / Off Message:
The Revisionist History Of Trump's Impeachments — No, they did not help him.... but they could've hurt him more. — ∙ Paid — Democrats remain favored to win back control of the House in November, but after state-level GOP officials stole several seats on Donald Trump's orders …
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Alec Schemmel / Fox News:
House Dem who repeatedly tried to impeach Trump toppled in heated Texas race
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Emily Goodin / New York Post:
Trump to make rare trip to Camp David as Iran tensions rise over US strikes — See more of our coverage in your search results. — Add The New York Post on Google — President Trump will make a rare trip to Camp David Wednesday to hold a cabinet meeting as peace talks with Iran near crunch time, The Post has learned.
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Monica Hesse / Washington Post:
RFK Jr. is now handling snakes. What does this mean? — Decoding the latest manly video from our secretary of health and human services. — Summary — It is time to stop whatever you are doing, take off your shoes, leave on your dress socks, and wrestle two snakes on the patio of a house owned by Mehmet Oz.
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Rick Wilson / Rick Wilson's Against All Enemies:
Trump Is Dying — This post is brought to you free by Incogni. — Let me say what the White House press corps cannot bring itself to say, what the Sunday shows have agreed to murmur around rather than at: — Donald John Trump is dying. — He is dying in the ordinary biological sense …
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Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
Scoop: Trump appoints Bondi to White House AI panel — President Trump has appointed former Attorney General Pam Bondi to an advisory committee focused on AI policy, Axios has learned. … - The panel is chaired by former White House AI adviser David Sacks and White House science adviser Michael Kratsios.
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Siddhi Mahatole / Reuters:
US to set up quarantine facility in Kenya for Americans exposed to Ebola, WSJ reports — The Trump administration is expected to deploy U.S. public health officers to Kenya to staff a potential quarantine facility there amid the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
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Ken Dilanian / MS NOW:
FBI fires analyst who worked 2017 case of shooting at congressional baseball practice — FBI Director Kash Patel last week fired a senior intelligence analyst who played a role in the FBI's 2017 assessment of the motives of the gunman who attacked a House Republican baseball practice …
David Smith / The Guardian:
‘The avalanche of slime has been unbelievable’: E Jean Carroll shares life post-Trump in new film — In the documentary Ask E Jean, the journalist and author provides an unflinching account of her life, career and groundbreaking legal victories — The Guardian's journalism is independent.
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Noah Shachtman / Vanity Fair:
Todd Blanche Is Trump's Legal Enforcer. But There's One Wild Case From His Past He Can't Seem to Escape. — A fake Mossad agent. Twin grifters. The nation's top lawman. A head-spinning legal drama has the attorney general fighting off accusations of forgery, malpractice, and more.
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Ian Millhiser / Vox:
A new Supreme Court opinion is terrible news for federal workers — Remember DOGE, the Elon Musk-led “government efficiency” project that spread chaos during President Donald Trump's first few months back in office, fired tens of thousands of federal employees, and then vanished almost as abruptly as it began?
Torrence Banks / NOTUS:
Republican Rep. Mike Flood Jeered at Another Contentious Nebraska Town Hall — It was the second time in less than a year that Flood has faced angry constituents. — Copy — Rep. Mike Flood, a Republican from Nebraska, was jeered and backpedaled from several of President Donald Trump's …
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
As Trump Politicizes Justice Dept., Prosecutors Struggle With Grand Juries — Judges and grand juries have increasingly lost faith in the Justice Department as the president uses it to reward his friends and go after his opponents. — Grand juries are the heart of the criminal justice system …
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Paul Krugman:
The Dumpster Fire of the Vanities — On Memorial Day the New York Times published an article with the headline “Trump is the only person who can save America, according to his cabinet.” The article offered a quantitative analysis of senior-official sycophancy.
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Jessica Elgot / The Guardian:
Tony Blair tells Starmer and rivals: abandon net zero and move closer to Trump — In highly unusual intervention, ex-PM says his party's ‘almost infinite capacity for self-delusion’ makes it likely to lose next election — Tony Blair has accused Keir Starmer, Andy Burnham and Wes Streeting …
Tom Dreisbach / NPR:
Trump DOJ mass-deletes info on Jan. 6 riot cases, including violent assaults on cops — The Trump administration has mass-deleted information about prosecutions tied to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, including cases of defendants who assaulted police officers.
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