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Jennifer Agiesta / CNN:
CNN Poll: Trump maintains lead over Biden in 2024 matchup as views on their presidencies diverge — Donald Trump continues to hold an advantage over President Joe Biden as the campaign - and the former president's criminal trial - move forward, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS.
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CBS News:
CBS News poll finds Biden-Trump race tight in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin — For years, they've been three of the handful of states that decided presidential elections. In the summer of 2020, amid the COVID pandemic and lockdown debates, sizable majorities in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania rated state economies badly.
New York Times:
Trump's Trial Could Bring a Rarity: Consequences for His Words — The former president has spent decades spewing thousands and thousands of words, sometimes contradicting himself. That tendency is now working against him in his Manhattan criminal case. — “So that's not true? That's not true?”
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Raw Story
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Washington Post:
Trump on trial: Personal anguish, political defiance and a loss of control
Trump on trial: Personal anguish, political defiance and a loss of control
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The Guardian, Raw Story and Axios
Charles Homans / New York Times:
How Trump's Rhetoric at Rallies Has Escalated
How Trump's Rhetoric at Rallies Has Escalated
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The Moderate Voice, Outside the Beltway, Washington Examiner and Raw Story
Roxanne Roberts / Washington Post:
Biden roasts Trump (in a serious way) at annual press dinner — At the White House correspondents' dinner, the president chuckled at his opponent's expense but made it clear Donald Trump is no joke — There were some 2,600 people at Saturday's White House Correspondents' Association dinner.
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Associated Press:
Biden will give election-year roast at annual correspondents' dinner as protests await over Gaza war — An election-year roast of President Joe Biden before journalists, celebrities and politicians at the annual White House correspondents' dinner Saturday butted up against growing public discord …
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Edith Olmsted / The Daily Beast:
Pro-Israel Agitator Shouts ‘Kill the Jews,’ Gets Everyone Else Arrested — HATE SPEECH — Around 100 protesters were arrested on Saturday at a pro-Palestine encampment at Northeastern University, but not the one whose hate speech got everything shut down.
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The Times of Israel, Jewish Journal, SWAMY WORLD, The Hill, New York Times, UPI and The Daily Caller
Gregory Svirnovskiy / Politico:
Dems, GOP bash Kristi Noem for shooting her dog — The South Dakota governor has seen her political caché skyrocket in recent years and is reportedly a top contender to become Donald Trump's 2024 running mate. — Both Democrats and Republicans are piling on after South Dakota …
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Axios:
Scoop: Gov. Doug Burgum moves up Trump's VP ladder … - In recent weeks, the sources said, Trump frequently has brought up Burgum's name in discussions with allies. — Spokespeople for Trump and Burgum declined to comment. … - Those are similar to the traits Trump cited in 2016 …
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Mediaite and New Republic
Dan Rather / CBS News:25 minutes ago
Dan Rather, at 92, on a life in news — It's been almost 20 years since Dan Rather signed off as anchor and managing editor of the “CBS Evening News,” at the network where he spent 44 years covering wars, politics, and the assassination of JFK - and where he mentored a young correspondent named Lee Cowan.
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Steady
Riley Rogerson / The Daily Beast:
GOP Campaign Aide's X Account Shared and Liked Racist Posts — RECEIPTS — Tim Sheehy, GOP candidate for Senate in Montana, hired a campaign staffer with social media accounts and public statements emblematic of the fringe far right. … At first glance, Caleb Oriet's social media accounts look typical …
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Raw Story
Amanda Yen / The Daily Beast:
Kremlin Disputes Report Putin Didn't Order Navalny's Death — OWNING UP? — Dmitry Peskov said the report had “very empty reasoning.” — Russia has dismissed a report claiming Vladimir Putin did not order the killing of famed dissident Alexei Navalny, who died in an Arctic prison in February.
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John L. Dorman / Business Insider:
Arizona Dem says state is bluer ‘not because Arizona is necessarily a blue state,’ but from distaste for GOP ‘extremism’ — An Arizona lawmaker says GOP “extremism” has led many state voters to increasingly back Democrats. — “The Republican party has become extreme in the age of Trumpism,” the state senator told Politico.
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Arizona Public Media and Politico
Alex / Freedom Flotilla:
Press Conference: Under Israeli Pressure, Guinea Bissau Moves to Withdraw Flotilla Flags — ISTANBUL, TÜRK&Iabove;YE: — On Thursday afternoon, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition was contacted by the Guinea Bissau International Ships Registry (GBISR), requesting an inspection of our lead ship - Akdenez.
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Associated Press, Breitbart, Washington Examiner, The Hill, Reuters and The Times of Israel
Paul Waldman / MSNBC:
Fox News' abrupt silence on the Biden impeachment crusade speaks volumes — Now that Republicans have failed to prove Biden is corrupt, they want you to forget they tried. — Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., no doubt hoped that House Republicans' efforts to impeach President Joe Biden would end in a glorious victory.