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The week in five lines

By Lauren Dezenski, CNN Here are the must-read lines from a top story each day this week. Monday Trump allies are seeking election jobs up and down the ballot: “As former President Donald Trump prepares for a potential comeback bid in 2024, his allies are flocking to election jobs all the way down to the

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Supreme Court ruling on Texas law was the result of decades of pressure from anti-abortion groups to shape the court

By Tierney Sneed, CNN The anti-abortion movement has won its biggest returns yet on its decades-long investment on reshaping the courts, with a Supreme Court order that allowed the country’s second most populous state to cut off almost all access to the procedure. For a generation, abortion foes have employed a multi-pronged strategy of electing

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These lawmakers' districts are at highest risk of flooding. Here's where they stand on the climate crisis.

These lawmakers’ districts are at highest risk of flooding. Here’s where they stand on the climate crisis.

By Ella Nilsen and John Keefe, CNN UN scientists were unequivocal in a landmark report published this summer: Human-caused climate change is intensifying extreme weather events. No region is spared from extreme weather, but America’s coasts are overwhelmingly at risk to flooding caused by rising seas, stronger hurricanes and torrential rain. As the climate crisis

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