The Week (US)

Good week for:

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European unity, after Ukrainian band Kalush Orchestra won the Eurovision Song Contest, defeating 24 other European performers with the largest number of fan votes in the contest’s 66-year history. The winning song includes the line “I’ll always find my way home, even if all roads are destroyed.”

Pay equity, after the U.S. Soccer women’s and men’s national teams agreed to new contracts that will pay male and female players equally, with the women’s team getting a 54 percent increase.

Sen. Ted Cruz, after the Supreme Court’s six conservati­ve justices sided with the Texas Republican, ruling his free speech rights were violated by a federal ban on influence-seeking donors repaying a candidate’s campaign loan to himself.

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