NYTIMES (Edward Wong) - As Stockpiles Fall, U.S. Sells More Missiles Worth $17 Billion to Gulf Nations
The United States and its partners have burned through an enormous amount of air defense missiles in the Iran war, and production is slow.
NYTIMES (John McWhorter) - The Voting Rights Act Changed America. Now, It Can Change.
Do we care when other groups can’t elect their favorite candidates?
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NPR (Selena Simmons-Duffin) - Confused about the abortion pill news? Here's where things stand
The courts are considering ending telemedicine access to mifepristone, one of the two pills used in a medication abortion. Here's what's happened this week and what's to come.
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NYTIMES (Kelley Manley and Jack Healy) - Mohamed Sabry Soliman Is Sentenced to Life in Prison for Colorado Attack
Mohamed Sabry Soliman pleaded guilty to 101 charges, including one count of murder, after the firebombing attack in Colorado last June.
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NYTIMES (Megan Mineiro) - Appeals Court Looks Unlikely to Allow Hegseth to Punish Mark Kelly for Video
A three-judge panel in Washington heard arguments in the lawsuit aimed at stopping the Pentagon from disciplining Senator Mark Kelly for a video warning about illegal military orders.
NPR (Lauren Sommer) - A Trump council recommends overhauling FEMA. Here are 3 key changes
A group of emergency experts wants the Trump administration to raise the bar for federal help after disasters, and also make it easier for survivors to get money quickly.
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ABCNEWS - Some Democratic donors frustrated with DNC chair Ken Martin amid fundraising woes
The RNC outraised the DNC by $9.8 million, according to March FEC filings.
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NPR (Benjamin Swasey) - Tennessee Republicans pass a map to break up the state's lone Democratic House seat
Tennessee Republicans' map would crack Shelby County — home to majority-Black Memphis — into three different districts, in an effort to eliminate the state's lone remaining Democratic-held seat.
NPR (Rachel Treisman) - A judge unsealed Epstein's purported 2019 suicide note. More documents could follow
At the request of the New York Times, a judge unsealed a goodbye note that Jeffrey Epstein's former cellmate says he found after the convicted sex offender's first suicide attempt in July 2019.
NPR (Ximena Bustillo) - DHS blames funding lapse for shutdown of internal detention oversight
The office investigates detainee deaths and access to medical care, among other issues. It's being wound down, even as the number of detention deaths and length of detention stays has grown.
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