Less than two years out from Dobbs, Louisiana criminalizes the abortion pill—teeing up the surveillance, arrest, and prosecution of individuals who share or possess a medication that's approved by the FDA.

Fun fact for the day: The average unemployment rate under Biden is lower than the lowest unemployment rate during the Reagan 'boom.'

NEW: Justice Dept. expected to announce antitrust action against Live Nation as soon as tmw, three sources tell me and Perry Stein. The feds have been probing the Ticketmaster parent, which has a sprawling biz in concert promotion, ticket sales and more.

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DOJ and a group of states will sue seeking to breakup Live Nation, over alleged antitrust violations related to Ticketmaster's control of concert tickets: bloomberg.com/news/articles/… Leah AntiTrustButVer1fy Nylen Kartikay Mehrotra Chris Strohm

The story called out here doesn't rely 'almost entirely on anonymous sources.' It cites group text messages; sources got anonymity to hand them over, but the Post confirmed the names/messages.
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New: Fat Leonard bribery cases fall apart because of prosecution blunders.
One Navy officer confessed to leaking military secrets for $105K in bribes and prostitutes. But now he may get away scot-free.
No paywall 👇
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New: Police in Austin and San Francisco are banned from using facial recognition, but some officers have repeatedly asked police in neighboring towns to run facial recognition searches for them, according to documents obtained by the Washington Post wapo.st/3V6hP3l

NEW: Supreme Court rules that the CFPB's funding is indeed constitutional, rejecting a challenge brought by a lobbying group for payday lenders, who long have been targets of agency scrutiny for alleged predatory practices. Here's the opinion: supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf…

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Congratulations to all the journalists who won #PulitzerPrizes today. They all did great work. But besides awards for breaking news reporting and photography, I think awards should be given for other categories as well. Things like: (1/5)

The murder rate is down 19% in 2024 thus far, per data collected directly from 236 cities across the US.

(Some major cities — like San Francisco, Baltimore, and Philidelphia — have seen much larger decreases.)

Washington Post wins three Pulitzer Prizes : washingtonpost.com/style/media/20…

NEW: The Conservative Partnership Institute— a cash-flush nonprofit that serves as a nerve center for Trump’s allies — has paid millions to companies run by insiders, documents show.
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Confused about plastic recycling?

Here’s 12 plastic items we can recycle in DC (and for most of these, the vast majority of American communities) 🧵

adios to RFK washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/…

Axios Local is one of the most interesting experiments in local news and this interview has some great tidbits of info on it.

'How Far Trump Would Go.' Eric Cortellessa scores two interviews with Donald Trump for TIME, asking him to explain what he'd do in a second term. Read here: time.com/6972021/donald…

A synopsis:

Popular right-wing blog The Gateway Pundit, a prolific promoter of election fraud conspiracy theories, is filing for bankruptcy. washingtonpost.com/style/media/20…

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We're mere weeks away from our 2024 #ShadidAward ceremony in Washington, DC. Join us as we honor this year's winners and hear from special guest Manu Raju, in convo w/ Katie Harbath. It's always a warm, energizing and thoughtful night! Join us: ethics.journalism.wisc.edu/2024-shadid-aw…