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Lizzo blasts Nebraska bill banning abortion access and gender-affirming care: ‘You deserve to be protected’

Opponents ‘actively exploring’ legal options after lawmakers pass restrictive legislation following months-long filibuster

The Independent UK

Debt limit talks seem to make little headway as Biden, world leaders watch from afar for progress

Debt limit talks between the White House and House Republicans stopped, started and stopped again heading into a weekend where President Joe Biden and world leaders watched from afar, hoping high-stakes negotiations would make progress on avoiding a potentially catastrophic federal default

The Independent UK

Santos files to serve as own treasurer

Prior to Friday's filing, a mysterious man named Andrew Olson was listed as Santos' treasurer — who may not exist

Salon

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LBJ picked up his dog by the ears

Lyndon Johnson is beloved by liberals for his domestic programs — but not so much for his treatment of his dogs

Salon

US debt default threatens global chaos making 2008 recession 'look like tea party'

The US has raised its debt ceiling limit multiple times in the last decade up to $13.4 trillion but a deal must be struck before the end of the month to avoid default which could spark a terrible recession

Daily Mirror

Will Biden's hard-hat environmentalism bridge the divide on clean energy future?

Perhaps the most unlikely feature of high-stakes budget negotiations going on in Washington is a debate over permitting

The Independent UK

Biden and McCarthy's shared debt ceiling math problem

“It’s one thing to strike a deal, then you got to pass it."

Axios

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DeSantis super PAC tackles tricky task of organizing support for him in Iowa without the candidate

The super political action committee promoting Ron DeSantis plans to shoulder the load of organizing support for him in Iowa while the Florida governor moves toward launching a 2024 presidential campaign

The Independent UK

NFL great Jim Brown sought solutions in a lifetime devoted to activism

In many ways, Jim Brown used his platform as one of the greatest football players of all time to fight for people very much like him

The Independent UK

Biden's ace up his sleeve against Kevin

GOP threatens unconstitutional and catastrophic move if Biden refuses to cave to McCarthy's Big Oil blackmail

Salon

It’s easy to see white supremacy as the thinking of extremists. We know that’s not true

It was good to see Joe Biden address the issue, but there is more he needs to know, says writer and broadcaster Nels Abbey

The Guardian - UK

Jay Ambrose: Please don’t hide Trump’s faults

Journalism used to be about getting the truth out there, but recently we were told it shouldn’t happen if Americans could be swayed the wrong way by seeing and hearing it. Bunches of journalists themselves were upset by a live, CNN, 70-minute, New Hampshire town hall session in which a…

Tribune News Service

Debt limit talks halt as Republicans, White House face 'serious differences'

Debt limit talks between the White House and House Republicans stopped, started and stopped again Friday at the US Capitol, a dizzying series of events in high-stakes negotiations to avoid a potentially catastrophic federal default.

France 24

A ban on Texas public universities’ diversity offices inches closer to becoming law

Texas could become the second state in the country after Florida to ban diversity, equity and inclusion offices in higher education.

The Texas Tribune

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Fulton County DA teases possible August charges in Trump probe

ATLANTA — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis hinted that she might seek indictments in early to mid-August in her long-running inquiry of former President Donald Trump and his allies.

Chicago Sun-Times

State lawmakers fail to finish budget, school district map, so they plan to try again next week

The General Assembly had planned to adjourn Friday, but Democratic leaders blew that self-imposed deadline. So lawmakers will return to Springfield on Wednesday to wrap up unfinished business, which includes the state budget and the elected school board map.

Chicago Sun-Times

Vivek Ramaswamy came to South Shore to talk migrants. South Shore mostly stayed away

I guess for Ramaswamy, the Republican presidential candidate supposedly bent on “out-Trumping” Donald Trump, watching a clip of Chicagoans shouting “We don’t want them here” and “Close the border” was incentive to rush back to the city, like his immigrant mother and father did years ago when they…

Los Angeles Times

Gustavo Arellano: Dodgers shouldn't side with homophobic Catholics — invite the drag nuns

LOS ANGELES — If you're a right-wing Catholic in the United States who professes to follow the way of Christ, what should you do in these troubled days?

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The Philadelphia Inquirer

Bruce Castor dumps Rudy Giuliani as a client: 'He's not cooperating, and he's not paying me'

PHILADELPHIA — Bruce Castor, the former Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, district attorney and county commissioner who represented former President Donald Trump during his second impeachment trial, filed an eight-page motion in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court on Tuesday, asking to no longer represent former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani in a civil…

Zenger

McCaffery Defeats Kunselman In Democratic Primary For Pennsylvania Supreme Court Seat

Daniel McCaffery defeated Deborah Kunselman in the Democratic primary for one seat on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on May 16.

Axios

Nebraska set to restrict abortion, gender-affirming care for trans minors

The bill, likely the first to combine limits on abortion and gender-affirming care, heads to the governor's desk next.

Zenger

Daniel Cameron Wins The Republican Primary For Governor Of Kentucky

Daniel Cameron will face incumbent Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear in the general election this coming November.

The Texas Tribune

Texas may soon have a process to remove local prosecutors who won’t pursue abortion, election cases

The bill would allow for the removal of prosecutors who adopt any policy to not pursue certain crimes, including some low-level theft and drug charges. The Senate’s version will need to be reconciled with the House, which had carved out some exemptions.

Axios

Debt ceiling deadlock centers on 2024 spending levels

"This kind of a pause is a real problem given the tight timeframe."

Chicago Sun-Times

Financial transaction tax for Chicago? Forget it

A Chicago tax on financial transactions, a proposal that’s been repeatedly floated from some progressives, is off the table in Springfield.

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