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    Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s 2022 midterm forecast!

    Note that they are ALSO forecasting each party's chances of winning the 36 GOVERNORSHIPS UP FOR ELECTION

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    AIR TRAVEL: Buttigieg says there are going to be challenges

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    African brain drain: '90% of my friends want to leave'

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    [Abortion fight in the states] Kentucky abortion ban on pause; judge to block Florida ban

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    The Supreme Court’s Faux ‘Originalism’

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    [CRIME News] Cities with the highest homicide rates in 2020

    Previous thread here, covering June 5-20. Also see thread on police shortage here, with articles from June 14-28

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    [Where's the GOP headed?] House Republicans privately stunned over testimony

    Previous thread on topic here, covering stories June 8 -27

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    US officials travel to Venezuela for discussions about detained Americans

    By Jennifer Hansler, Stefano Pozzebon and Kylie Atwood @ CNN, 10:21 PM EDT, June 27

    A US government delegation quietly traveled to Venezuela “for discussions about the welfare and safety of US nationals in Venezuela,” a State Department spokesperson told CNN on Monday.

    The visit by Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs Roger Carstens and US Ambassador Jimmy Story, who heads the Venezuelan Affairs Unit, to the capital city of Caracas comes about a week after Matthew Heath, an American unlawfully detained there, attempted suicide.

    Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro acknowledged the visit by the delegation, which was first reported by The Associated Press, in a televised address Monday [....] 

    Heath is one of at least eight Americans currently known to be wrongfully detained in Venezuela. Five of the six American oil executives known as the “CITGO 6” – Tomeu Vadell, Jorge Toledo, Alirio Jose Zambrano, Jose Luis Zambrano and Jose Angel Pereira – who were arrested in Venezuela more than four years ago, remain detained there, as do Americans Luke Denman and Airan Berry.

    Two Americans who had been detained there, including one of the CITGO 6, were released in March following the visit of two top US government officials to Caracas [....]

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    At least 44 migrants have been found dead inside a semi-truck in San Antonio, councilwoman says

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    South Africa's immigration bureaucracy inflicting damage on economy

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    Major Amtrak derailment in Missouri

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    ‘Joker’ goes to prison for 2020 riot allegations — and others are pleading guilty, too

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    Tesla dominates the list of most American-made cars

    By Fred Lambert @ electrek.co, Jun. 21st 2022 11:18 am PT

    [....] Cars.com runs an annual American Made-Index to determine what cars made in the US are the most American-made:

    • Location of final assembly
    • Percentage of U.S. and Canadian parts
    • Country of origin for available engines
    • Country of origin for available transmissions
    • U.S. manufacturing employees relative to the automaker’s footprint

    Tesla already took the first place last year with the Model 3, but they have now released their 2022 list, and Tesla dominates it this year with the number 1 and 2 spots and four vehicles in the top 10: [....]

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    Shooting at Oslo gay bar leaves at least 2 dead, 10 wounded, ahead of Pride parade

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    "The Democrats’ Progressive Organization Problem"

    They’re an Albatross Around the Party’s Neck by Ruy Teixeira

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    Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade; states can ban abortion

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    'He's a Liar': Orange Co. Jury Blames Avenatti for $5.4M Attorney Fee Dispute, Clears Ex-Clients

    The verdict is in: Michael Avenatti is a liar. He's also charismatic and smart. So said jurors in a civil trial over a longstanding dispute between Avenatti and former co-counsel over a $5.4 million fee. Full story here: https://t.co/INSSlHv5HS

    — Meghann Cuniff (@meghanncuniff) June 23, 2022
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    Mick Lynch

    Not so much person of the year, but of the last three decades. Who knew that the Tories and British establishments biggest nightmare would not be a pompous vacillating bourgeois quisling of ‘the left’ but a cool, articulate working class guy? Bring us more Mick’s.

    — Irvine Welsh (@IrvineWelsh) June 22, 2022
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    The retail industry is facing a potential wave of bankruptcies – here’s why

    Last week, Revlon filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, making it the first household consumer-facing name to do so in months. Now the questions are: Which retailer will be next, and how soon? After a nearly two-year reprieve, the retail industry could start seeing an increase in bankruptcies later this year, experts say.

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    Supreme Court strikes down New York law limiting guns in public.

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    Juul’s Vaping Products Are Ordered Off the Market in the US

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    Andrew Gillum, 2018 Florida governor candidate, charged with fraud

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    Gustavo Petro wins the Colombian election, becoming the country’s first leftist president.

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    Garland, Visiting Ukraine, Names Prosecutor to Investigate Russian War Crimes

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    The Gospel of Man, in Church and Gang

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