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The Hill reports: Texas Republicans are rolling ahead with a controversial bill that seeks to further restrict abortion access in the state, while making it impossible for it to be challenged in state courts, despite Democratic objections. Senate Bill 2880 advanced through the state Senate and is now heading for a House vote, after being moved Friday out of the …

The New York Times reports: The $1.5 billion golf complex outside the capital, Hanoi, as well as plans for a Trump skyscraper in Ho Chi Minh City, are the Trump family’s first projects in Vietnam — part of a global moneymaking enterprise that no family of a sitting American president has ever attempted on this scale. And as that blitz …

The Daily Beast reports: Texas Republicans are cheering at the erosion of the separation of church and state as their proposal to require all public school classrooms in the Lone Star State to display the Ten Commandments inches closer and closer to the finish line. On Saturday, the Republican-controlled House gave its preliminary approval for the bill, which is expected …

Axios reports: The Treasury told WSJ businesses will need to start rounding up or down to the nearest 5 cents when there’s not enough pennies to use in everyday cash transactions. Cashless transactions will still be priced at exact change. State and local governments should provide guidance to retailers so that sales taxes are properly collected, WSJ reports. This is …

The Associated Press reports: The U.S. Justice Department’s new pardon attorney said he is going to take a “hard look” at two men who are serving long prison terms for leading a conspiracy to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. “On the pardon front, we can’t leave these guys behind,” Ed Martin Jr. said this week. “In my opinion these are …

Politico reports: In 2021, like many Cubans and Cuban Americans that summer, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio was jamming to “Patria y Vida,” the Grammy-winning protest anthem that became a rallying cry for dissidents in Cuba. The hip-hop song, whose title translates to “Homeland and Life,” directly rebuked Fidel Castro’s revolutionary slogan, “Patria o Muerte” — “Homeland or Death.” That was …

The Times reports: JD Vance takes pride in declaring himself to be a “Scots-Irish hillbilly at heart” but a trawl of genealogy records has found no evidence linking the US vice-president to Ireland. In an attempt to link Vance to Ulster, a DUP minister commissioned researchers to dig into the ancestral past of the controversial Republican Party politician. A glossy …

Variety reports: Bringing a turbulent world together through cinema, the 78th Cannes Film Festival closed with its most political moment, as Iranian director Jafar Panahi accepted the Palme d’Or for “It Was Just an Accident,” a film directly inspired by his time in prison. Filled with equal helpings of absurdist humor and ire, Panahi’s film follows five characters who think …

Hartford’s ABC affiliate reports: Former President Joe Biden told News 8 he was “feeling great” as he walked into Bradley International Airport on Friday afternoon. Biden’s brief response to News 8’s questions were the first public remarks he’s made since he disclosed on Sunday that he had been diagnosed with an aggressive prostate cancer. The former president told a small …

NBC News reports: If enacted, Texas’ bill would put in place vast new restrictions that explicitly bar every Texas resident under 18 years old from signing up for and using “a social media platform.” The legislation would require all social media platforms to verify the age of all people setting up an account. It would allow parents to request that …