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Oklahoma’s legislature passed a bill that denies medical licenses to doctors who perform abortions, which essentially bans abortions.
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The U.S. Senate tabled Mike Lee’s amendment to the Department of Housing and Urban Development appropriations bill that would have blocked the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) regulations. Instead they voted for a toothless amendment by Susan Collins that prohibits HUD from dictating local zoning regulations. HUD doesn’t do that directly – instead it threatens to withhold federal funds until it thinks a municipality has done enough to arrange the racial mix that HUD deems appropriate for the municipality’s neighborhoods.
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The Obama administration told the Senate that it won’t cease its efforts to help Iran gain backdoor access to U.S. dollars outside the U.S. financial system.
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Federal district court judge Andrew Hanen blasted Department of Justice lawyers for lying to him in writing and in court regarding President Obama’s DAPA and DACA programs. He ordered the Department of Justice to provide him a list of every illegal immigrant who benefited from the programs in the 26 states that are suing to stop DAPA, and he’s requiring Department of Justice lawyers who work in those states to attend legal ethics training.
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Rob Natelson published an updated version of his guide to an Article V convention for state legislators.
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New York City will charge people and businesses with harassment if they refuse to use the pronouns preferred by “gender non-conforming people,” i.e. people must use made-up words like ze instead of him/her. Businesses can be held liable for harassment if their patrons intentionally use the “wrong” pronoun, opening them up to $250,000 penalties.
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Donald Trump’s Supreme Court candidate list didn’t last 12 hours.
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Libertarian Party candidate for president Gary Johnson picked the Massachusetts version of himself, William Weld, as his running mate. Johnson’s stance on religious liberty isn’t going to appeal to conservatives looking for an alternative to Donald Trump.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pulling the right wing Yisrael Beitenu party into his government by making Avigdor Lieberman his defense minister.
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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan anointed Binali Yildirim as the new prime minister. Yildirim is currently Turkey’s transportation minister, and he has been an Erdogan ally for around 20 years.
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Hillary Clinton lying for 13 minutes:
