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Rhetoric against transgender people plays repeated role in GOP speeches at Kentucky political gathering

FANCY FARM, Ky. — Republicans went hard on a controversial, hot-button topic in appearances at the Fancy Farm picnic on Saturday: transgender people in sports.

Tribune News Service

Senate Democrats approve big Biden deal; House to vote next

The estimated $740 billion package heads next to the House, where lawmakers are poised to deliver on Biden’s priorities.

Chicago Sun-Times

Senate Democrats pass $740 billion tax, climate and health care bill

The 51-50 passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, just three months before the midterm elections, is a massive victory for Democrats.

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Chris Christie says ‘50-50’ shot Donald Trump will run for president in 2024

Christie was once in the former president’s inner circle and considered for attorney general

The Independent UK

GOP blocks private insurance insulin cap

The $35 price cap on insulin was removed by GOP senators for users of private insurance, but remains for Medicare

Salon

GOP seeking power over elections in Wisconsin, Minnesota

Republicans who are running to be secretary of state in Wisconsin and Minnesota in primaries Tuesday are repeating Donald Trump’s false claims about the last presidential election and they've suggested they want more authority over how elections are run, especially in Democratic-leaning counties

The Independent UK

A Republican and a Democrat walk into a room and … switch votes?

DENVER — Two state senators, a Republican and a Democrat, sit down on a dais in a dimly lit conference room at the Colorado Convention Center here and start talking. The two men are friends — they tease each other, call each other “dude” — and they’re sick of partisan…

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Celebrity candidates threaten GOP's hopes of a Senate majority

Trump-backed candidates are sliding in the polls.

Axios

Biden steps out of the room and finds legacy-defining wins

Over five decades in Washington, Joe Biden knew that the way to influence was to be in the room where it happens

The Independent UK

Republicans have long feuded with the mainstream media. Now many are shutting them out

A trend of GOP candidates ignoring or actively avoiding legacy media — particularly national outlets — is building this year. That can hamper voters' ability to make informed choices.

WEKU

Dems push Biden climate, health priorities toward Senate OK

Democrats are driving their election-year economic package toward Senate approval

The Independent UK

Barr refers to Trump as a lame duck

Barr had a lot to say about Trump in a recent interview with CBS

Salon

At CPAC, conservative Texans show Donald Trump loyalty and support for another presidential run

A straw poll conducted at the conference found that Trump is still the overwhelming favorite among attendees. Sen. Ted Cruz, who spoke at the conference on Friday, came in third with 2% of the straw poll vote, coming up short to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

The Texas Tribune

Donald Trump at CPAC Dallas complains, ‘I’m always being persecuted’

WASHINGTON – Donald Trump brought his dark views of Joe Biden’s presidency to Dallas on Saturday night, warning that “American civilization will collapse” if he’s not returned to power and reciting his oft-peddled falsehoods about the 2020 election.

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In wake of floods, typical barbs at Kentucky political event

Republicans running for governor in 2023 took the stage at Kentucky’s biggest political event

Tribune News Service

Abrams sees Kansas abortion vote as new hope for Georgia Democrats

ATLANTA — The decisive vote in Kansas to protect abortion rights was quickly embraced by Georgia Democrats as evidence that the backlash to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade could alter a midterm election climate that favors the GOP.

WEKU

In Kansas and Arizona, voters defy expectations to chart their own course

People bristle and resist when told what they can or cannot do. We knew this about guns, vaccinations and masks. And we are seeing some of that with regard to abortion rights, even in red states.

Los Angeles Times

Jackie Calmes: The abortion vote in Kansas shows that populism can work for Democrats too

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. seemed to enjoy the yucks he got from a friendly audience abroad when he recently mocked foreign leaders by name, and Prince Harry, too, for criticizing the Supreme Court opinion he wrote robbing Americans of their federal constitutional right to abortion.

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The Independent UK

Indiana lawmakers pass anti-abortion bill as protesters chant ‘shame on you’

The governor signed the bill into law, making Indiana the first state to approve new legislation to end legal abortion after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v Wade

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Nurse faces charges in fiery LA crash that killed 5

The Texas Tribune

Texas Republicans rally their base at CPAC, but draw criticism over Hungarian prime minister’s appearance

Viktor Orbán appeared at the convention in Dallas after saying last week that Europeans “do not want to become peoples of mixed race.” Texas officials attending, though, stayed focused on criticizing Democrats.

Tribune News Service

Democrats line up behind budget bill while GOP pledges ‘hell’

WASHINGTON — The Senate is “on track” to start debating a roughly $300 billion deficit-reducing budget package Saturday after Democrats reached agreement late Thursday on changes to the bill needed to secure 50 votes, Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer said.

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Senate Democrats iron out details as they ready climate and spending bill for a Saturday vote

Democrats were putting the finishing touches Friday on a massive climate and spending package that they expect to pass on a party-line vote to deliver a significant political victory for President Joe Biden ahead of the midterm elections.

The Independent UK

Dems change some tax provisions as they ready economic bill

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says Democrats have made changes in their giant economic bill that include paring part of their proposed minimum tax on huge corporations

The Philadelphia Inquirer

What the Kansas abortion vote means for a constitutional amendment effort in Pennsylvania

PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania Democrats are pointing to this week’s victory for abortion rights in Kansas as a harbinger for the Keystone State, where a similar ballot question could be considered by voters as early as next year.

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