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From the Democratic National Committee: DNC Chair Jaime Harrison and LGBTQ Caucus Chair Earl Fowlkes issued the following statement on the eighth anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting: “Eight years ago today, we witnessed the deadliest attack on the LGBTQ+ community in American history. Forty-nine innocent lives, some as young as 19, were cut short in the Pulse nightclub shooting …

“I’m often reminded that the most important thing in my life – which is my marriage, and my family and the two beautiful children that my husband Chasten and I are raising – that that marriage only exists by the grace of the single vote on the United States Supreme Court. That expanded our rights and freedoms back in 2015 …

Florida Politics reports: Former U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson has ended his U.S. Senate candidacy and will run for a Florida Senate seat instead. The Orlando Democrat enters an already competitive Democratic Primary in Senate District 25, assuming he qualifies before noon on Friday. The Orlando Democrat was first elected to a term in the U.S. House in 2008, unseating Republican …

“As I said last week, I am the President, but I am also a Dad. Jill and I love our son, and we are so proud of the man he is today. “So many families who have had loved ones battle addiction understand the feeling of pride seeing someone you love come out the other side and be so strong …

“All they hear from Donald Trump is a whole bunch of whining about this country. And I think Donald Trump’s got to quit whining, go to quit trying to divide us. I mean, consider this, Jen. “We’re producing more energy than anyone before in this nation. We have the strongest economy in the world and we are beating China for …

The Texas Tribune reports: U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar’s corruption trial will take place next year after Election Day, according to a court order Friday. The Laredo Democrat was indicted last month on charges of bribery, money laundering and illegally working on behalf of the Azerbaijani government. His trial was scheduled to kick off in July, but now will not begin …

The Hill reports: Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) announced new legislation this week that would help combat abuse against elderly LGBTQ Americans by establishing a task force within the Department of Justice (DOJ) to focus on solutions for the issue. The legislation, dubbed the “Elder Pride Protection Act,” was developed with Rep. Angie Craig (D-Minn.). Both are members of the Congressional …

CBS News reports: A key witness in the corruption trial of Sen. Bob Menendez is testifying Friday about what he says was an attempt to bribe the New Jersey Democrat by buying his wife, Nadine Menendez, a new Mercedes-Benz convertible. Jose Uribe, a New Jersey insurance broker who was indicted with Menendez, pleaded guilty in March and confessed to buying …

ABC News reports: President Joe Biden said he would not pardon his son Hunter amid an ongoing felony gun trial during a wide-ranging exclusive interview with ABC News anchor David Muir at the Normandy American Cemetery on the 80th anniversary of D-Day. Muir asked Biden on Thursday if he would accept the outcome of his son’s trial in Wilmington, Delaware, …

CBS News reports: President Biden and key U.S. allies were in Normandy Thursday to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the U.S.-led allied forces’ D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France. The brazen air and sea invasion would mark the beginning of the end of World War II, leading to the defeat of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi German forces in Europe less than a …

USA Today reports: The Right to Contraception Act, introduced by Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., seeks to codify people’s right to use and protect health care providers’ right to distribute contraceptives. The forced vote will require representatives in the chamber take a clear side on an issue known to mobilize to voters nationwide ahead of the November election. Two years after …

The New York Times reports: Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York announced on Wednesday that she was indefinitely shelving the long-awaited tolling scheme known as congestion pricing, just weeks before it was to go into effect. Ms. Hochul said that her decision was not an easy one, but she felt it was crucial in light of the lingering effects of …

Via press release from the ACLU: Yesterday, the Biden administration announced executive actions that will legally restrict people’s right to seek asylum. Among the measures announced, the administration will effectively shut off asylum for the overwhelming majority of people arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border. Biden’s executive action takes the same basic approach as the Trump administration’s “entry ban,” which the …

Reuters reports: A bill to safeguard access to contraceptives faces a U.S. Senate vote on Wednesday, part of a push by congressional Democrats to focus public attention on reproductive rights ahead of the November election but with little chance of passage. The Right to Contraception Act, which would protect birth control access nationwide, is unlikely to meet the 60-vote threshold …

The Washington Post reports: President Biden arrives in France on Wednesday to join world leaders in commemorating the 80th anniversary of D-Day, an election-year visit where he plans to draw on the memory of allies united against tyranny to highlight the stakes of his campaign and draw a pointed comparison with Donald Trump. Biden will join more than two dozen …

The Washington Examiner reports: The late New Jersey Democratic Rep. Donald Payne Jr. won the primary posthumously in the 10th Congressional District on Tuesday as the only Democrat on the ballot. State and party officials are already preparing for a competitive special election to fill Payne’s seat later this summer. Payne, 65, died on April 24 from a “cardiac episode” …

The New York Times reports: Representative Andy Kim, a lawmaker who has turned New Jersey politics on its head since entering the race to unseat Senator Robert Menendez, won the Democratic nomination for Senate on Tuesday after a campaign marked by a watershed ballot-access ruling. The victory makes Mr. Kim, 41, a favorite to become New Jersey’s next senator. He …

The Texas Tribune reports: With more than four months left before Election Day 2018, Democrat Beto O’Rourke had campaigned in all of Texas’ 254 counties in his bid to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz. It was a novel strategy central to breaking through in a Republican-controlled state that national Democrats had largely written off. Six years later, U.S. Rep. …

NBC News reports: The federal gun case against Hunter Biden in Delaware began Monday morning, with jury selection the first step in the process. Joe Biden released a statement at the beginning of the trial. “I am the President, but I am also a Dad. Jill and I love our son, and we are so proud of the man he …

Axios reports: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced the chamber will vote on a bill to protect a person’s ability to access contraceptives this Wednesday. Schumer wrote in a “Dear Colleague” letter released Sunday: “Democrats will be putting reproductive freedoms front and center.” Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in concurring opinion overturning Roe v. Wade that the bench should reconsider …