Rubio's name rises toward top of Trump's VP shortlist

BY JARED GANS

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In 2016, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) made headlines for sparring with Donald Trump, then his opponent in the race for the GOP nomination for president. Eight years later, he’s in a prime position to be Trump’s running mate.

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GOP faces political minefield on IVF, life at conception

BY NATHANIEL WEIXEL

In vitro fertilization (IVF) has become a political minefield for GOP Senate candidates as they seek to balance their stated support for IVF access with their beliefs that life begins at conception.  

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How Trump's Florida residency complicates Rubio's path to VP

BY JULIA MANCHESTER

Former President Trump’s relatively new status as a Florida resident is complicating the potential of him choosing the state’s senior Sen. Marco Rubio (R) to run on the same ticket as him in November. 

The 12th Amendment maintains that presidential and vice presidential candidates running on the same ticket “shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves." And theoretically, Florida electors would be blocked from voting for a Trump-Rubio ticket.

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Bowman primary reignites civil war among Democrats

BY HANNA TRUDO

Eight years after the 2016 election, Democrats are reliving the infamous Clinton-Sanders battle — this time in the race for New York’s 16th Congressional District. 

Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.), a "squad" member favored by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), is facing a rocky path to reelection against Westchester County Executive George Latimer, a centrist who earned Hillary Clinton’s support this week.

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Eyeing Trump presidency, conservatives want to delay funding fight

BY ARIS FOLLEY 

Bullish of former President Trump’s chances of winning back the White House in November, some conservatives are pitching a funding stopgap that would extend into next year rather than expire during a lame duck session when President Biden would still be in office.

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George Conway predicts Trump will ‘lose big’ in Supreme Court immunity case

BY LAUREN IRWIN

Conservative attorney George Conway said Friday that he thinks former President Trump will “lose big” in his presidential immunity case that is before the Supreme Court.

Conway joined CNN’s Jim Acosta to talk about the highly anticipated decision from the nation’s highest court. The justices are expected to issue their ruling in the case by the end of June but have had their own set of controversies causing concern about the rulings they’ll hand down.

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Farah Griffin: Trump talked about executing people at several White House meetings

BY LAUREN IRWIN

Former White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin said former President Trump talked about executing people multiple times at White House meetings.

Farah Griffin joined Mediaite’s Aidan McLaughlin to discuss her time in the Trump administration and what she thinks a second Trump term could look like.

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Trump denies Milwaukee ‘horrible’ city comment: ‘Democrats are making up stories’

BY YASH ROY

After his campaign said that former President Trump was referring to election integrity and crime when he reportedly made disparaging comments about Milwaukee at a meeting with Congressional Republicans, Trump took to Truth Social to say that “Democrats are making up stories that I said Milwaukee is a ‘horrible city.’

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Crockett calls Thomas ‘corrupt’ after Supreme Court decision to upend bump stocks ban

BY YASH ROY

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) slammed Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as “corrupt” during an interview with MSNBC on the court’s recent decision to overturn a Trump-era bump stock ban. Thomas has come under increasing scrutiny for gifts he has received from Republican super donors, including billionaire Harlan Crow. 

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Cuba-Russian relations come full circle — why US policy must reflect this reality

BY CRISTINA LOPEZ-GOTTARDI

OPINION | In September 1960 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev gave Fidel Castro a resounding bear hug. The setting was the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, and the hug marked the beginning of a long and storied history between Cuba and the Soviet Union. According to James G. Hershberg, this encounter symbolized “the creation of a sturdy Soviet-Cuban political, economic, and military alliance, and the island’s incorporation into the communist world.”

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Russia is now a Chinese colony — while still foolishly dreaming of empire

BY ALEXANDER J. MOTYL

OPINION | Putin’s Russia rests on an unsustainable contradiction. It is, at one and the same time, both a colony and an aspiring empire. It can’t be both, however, and sooner rather than later Russia will be forced into one or the other direction.

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The New York Times: The Resistance to a New Trump Administration Has Already Started

BY CHARLIE SAVAGE, REID J. EPSTEIN, MAGGIE HABERMAN AND JONATHAN SWAN

An emerging coalition that views Donald Trump’s agenda as a threat to democracy is laying the groundwork to push back if he wins in November.

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The Wall Street Journal: Investors Fear Long Stretch of Calm in Markets Can’t Last

BY JACK PITCHER

With stock indexes at record highs, market volatility has been exceptionally low.

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Associated Press: Trump challenges Biden to a cognitive test but confuses the name of the doctor who tested him

BY WILL WEISSERT

Donald Trump has suggested President Joe Biden “should have to take a cognitive test,” only to confuse who administered the test to him in the next sentence.

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The Washington Post: With Rafah crossing closed by Israel, Gazans have no way out

BY MIRIAM BERGER AND HAJAR HARB

Israel’s offensive in Rafah, aimed at eliminating Hamas’s last battalions, has dashed any hope of escape for ill and injured Palestinian civilians.

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