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Tina Nguyen / Politico:
MAGA world pans Stefanik — Donald Trump has called Elise Stefanik “a new Republican star,” a “smart communicator” and — perhaps his highest praise — “tough.” — But the MAGA faithful aren't so sure. — Within minutes of Trump's endorsement of the New York congresswoman …
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Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
Liz Cheney Has Only Herself to Blame — Liz Cheney, the representative of Wyoming, the daughter of a former vice president, and a lifelong conservative Republican, is facing a purge. — Cheney's transgression? She has continued to insist, truthfully, that former President Donald Trump's claims …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
When Trump's Next Coup Happens, the Republican Party Will Fully Support It — Throughout the Trump era, Republican Party officials and its professional class have gone through a constant and frequently vicious internecine struggle, pitting the small, but well-placed, bloc of anti-Trump elites …
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Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Biden once asserted Republicans would have an ‘epiphany.’ Now he admits he doesn't understand them. — Joe Biden was speaking in a barn to a sparse campaign crowd in Iowa when he offered a prediction. “If we defeat Donald Trump,” he said that summer day in 2019, “you're going to see, as we say in southern Delaware, an altar call.
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Catie Edmondson / New York Times:
Auditioning to replace Cheney, Stefanik calls Trump ‘the strongest supporter’ of the Constitution. — Representative Elise Stefanik, campaigning to oust Representative Liz Cheney as the Republican Party's No. 3 leader in the House for calling out President Donald J. Trump's election lies …
Dan McLaughlin / National Review:
Ignoring Trump Is the Least-Bad Republican Approach
Ignoring Trump Is the Least-Bad Republican Approach
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Politico and Power Line
Insider:
Scientists have taught bees to smell the coronavirus. They can identify a case within seconds. — Dutch scientists have trained bees to smell COVID-19. — Every time the bees were exposed to an infected sample, they stuck out their tongues. — The animals could be a low-tech solution for identifying COVID-19 cases.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
BREAKING: Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms won't run for reelection — By J.D. Capelouto - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Wilborn P. Nobles III - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Greg Bluestein - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution — In a stunning announcement Thursday night …
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Twitter suspends account that was posting Trump statements — Twitter suspended an account on Thursday that appeared to be circumventing their ban on former President Donald Trump by posting messages he shared on his own website. — The move was more evidence that the social media behemoth …
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Shirin Ghaffary / Vox:
Here's just how much people have stopped talking about Trump on Facebook and Twitter
Here's just how much people have stopped talking about Trump on Facebook and Twitter
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Associated Press:
1 in custody, 3 injured after active shooter incident at Rigby Middle School — WATCH NOW: KIFI LOCAL NEWS 8 — RIGBY, Idaho (KIFI) - UPDATE 5:30 p.m. Idaho Falls Police and the Bonneville County Sheriff's Office are assisting the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office serving a search warrant …
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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
F.E.C. Drops Case Reviewing Trump Hush-Money Payments to Women — The case had examined whether Donald Trump violated election law with a $130,000 payment shortly before the 2016 election to a pornographic-film actress by his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen.
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Bloomberg, CNN, Washington Examiner and Law & Crime
Jen Fifield / Arizona Republic:
Department of Justice asks Arizona Senate to respond to concerns about election audit — The U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division is asking Arizona Senate President Karen Fann to respond to concerns the department has about the security of ballots and potential voter intimidation …
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Ben Giles / NPR:
Justice Department: Arizona Senate Audit, Recount May Violate Federal Law
Justice Department: Arizona Senate Audit, Recount May Violate Federal Law
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Bob Christie / Associated Press:
US Justice Department worried about Arizona Senate recount
US Justice Department worried about Arizona Senate recount
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Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: Elise Stefanik tried to get election overturned, promoted election lies — Stefanik previously called out Trump, now she mirrors his rhetoric — Washington (CNN)House Republicans are moving to oust Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney from a party leadership position over her vocal repudiation …
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New York Times:
Long March 5B, a Chinese Rocket, Expected to Tumble Back to Earth — The chances of it hitting a populated area are small, but not zero. That has raised questions about how the country's space program designs its missions. — No, you are almost certainly not going to be hit by a 10-story …
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Insider, Breitbart, The Verge, The Western Journal and Gizmodo
Shannon Vavra / CyberScoop:
Russian agent accused of interfering in US elections is back meddling online, Facebook says — A man the U.S. intelligence community has assessed is an active Russian agent who interfered in U.S. elections is back stirring the pot on Facebook, the company announced Thursday.
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littlegreenfootballs.com, About Facebook, New York Times and Washington Post
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Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
Facebook told to investigate its role in insurrection
Facebook told to investigate its role in insurrection
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Digby's Hullabaloo, Raw Story and Hackwhackers
Olivia Messer / Study Hall:
The COVID Reporters Are Not Okay. Extremely Not Okay. — An underprepared industry is losing a generation of journalists to despair, trauma and moral injury as they cover the story of a lifetime. — When I told my editors at The Daily Beast that I needed to quit my job …
David Voreacos / Bloomberg:
‘We Build The Wall’ Co-Founder Kolfage Indicted in Tax Case — Kolfage charged in Florida after facing New York indictment — Trump pardoned Bannon in ‘We Build the Wall’ fraud case — Brian Kolfage, whose work with Stephen Bannon to raise money for a U.S.-Mexico border wall resulted …
NY State Attorney General:
Attorney General James Takes Legal Action Against Conspiracy Theorists For Threatening Robocalls to Suppress Black Voters — Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman Orchestrated a Large-Scale Robocall — Campaign to Intimidate Black Communities Ahead of the 2020 Election
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Stephen Rex Brown / New York Daily News:
NY State AG James seeks fines against far right trolls Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman for voter suppression scheme
NY State AG James seeks fines against far right trolls Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman for voter suppression scheme
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Raw Story
Eric Felten / RealClearInvestigations:
The Washington Post's ‘Toy Weapons’ vs. Cops — Can you tell which of the pistols above is the “toy,” in the usage of the Washington Post's Pulitzer-winning “Fatal Force” database on killings by police, and which is the real deal? Answers below. — On Monday, April 19 …
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Breitbart, Real Clear Politics and National Review
Pete Williams / NBC News:
FBI still after ‘worst of the worst’ in Capitol riot as new arrests come at steady pace — Four months after the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, FBI agents maintain a steady pace of arresting people accused of taking part, as one of the largest criminal investigations in American history keeps growing.
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Raw Story, Cowboy State Daily and Hackwhackers
Greg Price / The Daily Caller:
Biden's National Day Of Prayer Proclamation Forgoes ‘God’ For ‘Climate Change’ And ‘Racial Justice’ — President Joe Biden's National Day of Prayer proclamation has come under criticism for excluding any mention of God. — Like previous presidents, President Biden issued a proclamation …
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David Scheer / Bloomberg:
Dimon on Raising Taxes: 'Just Throwing Money, It Doesn't Work' — JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon urged lawmakers to spell out — very specifically — targets for building roads, funding college degrees and creating jobs if they embark on a massive spending spree to bolster the economy.
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KIFI-TV and Balloon Juice
Charlie LeDuff / Deadline Detroit:
Whitmer Mooches Billionaires' Plane As Father Makes Miraculous Recovery — When Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was outed last month for a secretive trip to Florida in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, her office claimed Michigan taxpayers did not foot the bill. — What they did not tell us …
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Fox News, RedState, Breitbart, The Gateway Pundit, Twitchy, Detroit News and The Federalist
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
The Secret Papers of Lee Atwater, Who Invented the Scurrilous Tactics That Trump Normalized — An infamous Republican political operative's unpublished memoir shows how the Party came to embrace lies, racial fearmongering, and winning at any cost. — It's a Washington axiom …
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Raw Story
Robin Bravender / Insider:
Florida Democrat Nikki Fried and Matt Gaetz are pals. Political insiders are dishing about how that could complicate her bid to unseat Gov. Ron DeSantis. — Florida's agriculture commissioner, Democrat Nikki Fried, is a close friend of Matt Gaetz. — They even hung out at the Trump hotel …
Jordan Weissmann / Slate:
Joe Biden Is Starting to Sound Hawkish About the Deficit. Uh-Oh. — Suddenly, Joe Biden is beginning to sound a little bit hawkish about the deficit. On Wednesday, reporters asked the president whether he was willing to accept a lower corporate tax hike than the one he proposed to pay for his infrastructure and jobs plan.
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Washington Post, FOX40 and The Hill
Christopher Miller / BuzzFeed News:
An Ex-Blackwater Employee Tied To Erik Prince Provided Security For Rudy Giuliani In Ukraine, Sources Said — A former Blackwater employee connected to Erik Prince, the billionaire security magnate who served as an informal adviser to the Trump administration, provided security …
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POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
CNN:
The Axe Files with David Axelrod — David Axelrod, the founder and director of the University of Chicago Institute of Politics, brings you The Axe Files, a series of revealing interviews with key figures in the political world. Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
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Washington Post:
Chris Ruddy and Newsmax went all-in on Trump. Now they might pay a price for it. — One night last month at Mar-a-Lago, Chris Ruddy positioned himself in a familiar spot: right next to Donald Trump. — The occasion came just days before a Republican National Committee fundraiser …
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Raw Story
New York Times:
Nearly one million people signed up for Obamacare coverage this spring. — Nearly one million Americans have signed up for Affordable Care Act coverage during the first 10 weeks of a special open enrollment period the Biden administration began in February.
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Joe.My.God.
New York Times:
Nuclear Talks With Iran Could Reach Agreement Within Weeks, U.S. Says — Significant hurdles remain. But it was an optimistic signal by the Biden administration that an American return to the accord between Iran and world powers could be within reach. — WASHINGTON — The United States …
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CNN, Raw Story, The National Interest and Bloomberg
Chris Otts / WDRB:
University of Louisville rebukes McConnell over 1619 Project comments — LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) - The University of Louisville has issued a rare rebuke of one of its most famous and powerful graduates, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, over McConnell's comments on Monday …
Abigail Shrier / The Truth Fairy:
Has Censorship Become Our Baseline Expectation? — For America's Journalistic Inquisitors—it's free speech that's surprising — Want proof that our norms are shifting? Look no further than our headlines: “Amazon won't stop selling book questioning transgender youth” noted a surprised New York Daily News on Tuesday.
Tom Ley / Defector:
What's Happening At ‘The Believer’ Is About More Than Just A Zoom Incident — On Feb. 5, a media reporter for The New York Times called me. She'd received a tip that the day before, my boss at The Believer magazine, Josh Wolf Shenk, had exposed himself on camera during an all-staff Zoom meeting.
George Conway / Washington Post:
What Trump has to fear from Rudy Giuliani — Opinion by — To borrow the infamous line of his ex-presidential ex-client, it looks like Rudolph W. Giuliani is “going to go through some things.” Like possibly being charged with a crime. Worse, some people who might have tried to save …
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Raw Story and The Guardian
David K. Li / NBC News:
U.S. Army trainee uses rifle to hijack school bus full of children, S.C. sheriff says … A rifle-toting U.S. Army trainee hijacked a busload of children in South Carolina on Thursday before letting the kids off, abandoning the vehicle and surrendering, officials said.
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Occupy Democrats, Raw Story and Insider
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
By wrecking state universities, GOP crushes American Dream for its own communities | Will Bunch — You can't destroy the American Dream without building it up first. At the dawn of the 1960s, amid a Camelot of post-World War II can-do optimism, Pennsylvania injected academic steroids …