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Opinion: The Republican Party has a rape problem
CNN
Recent comments by Republican candidates and elected officials about rape victims seeking abortions -- and the increasing disappearance of rape exceptions from abortion bans and regulations -- show the GOP's fundamental embrace of hostile misogyny, argues Jill Filipovic.
The conservative moment scored a major victory on Friday when the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, overturning Roe v. Wade -- ending the era of federal protection for legal abortion in the United States and instituting one of the most significant rollbacks of civil rights in US history. But a number of Republican candidates and elected officials don't seem content with simply stripping women of our right to control our own reproductive organs. They're also taking aim at rape victims.
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The CIA has sent the White House an unclassified email listing all new hires that have been with the agency for two years or less in an effort to comply with an executive order to downsize the federal workforce, according to three sources familiar with the matter – a deeply unorthodox move that could potentially expose the identities of those officers to foreign government hackers.
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Trump administration officials are hurrying to catch up to the president’s audacious and improbable plan for the United States to take ownership of Gaza and redevelop it into a “Middle Eastern Riviera,” trying to wrap their heads around an idea that some hope might be so outlandish it forces other nations to step in with their own proposals for the Palestinian enclave.