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11:00 PM ET, March 29, 2022

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Washington Post:
Jan. 6 White House logs given to House show 7-hour gap in Trump calls … Internal White House records from the day of the attack on the U.S. Capitol that were turned over to the House select committee show a gap in President Donald Trump's phone logs of seven hours and 37 minutes …
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Dennis Aftergut / Slate:
The Clearest Evidence Yet of Donald Trump's Criminal Intent on Jan. 6  —  On Tuesday, Bob Woodward and Robert Costa reported in the Washington Post that the House select committee investigating Jan. 6 has the White House presidential phone log, and it shows a seven-hour gap in the record of his communications that fateful day.
John Stoehr / The Editorial Board:
Is Ginni Thomas a paranoid conspiracy theorist with prior knowledge of the J6 ‘coup in search of a legal theory’?
Discussion: Fox News, RedState and HuffPost
Olivia Beavers / Politico:
Cawthorn's orgies-and-drugs comment stirs trouble within Freedom Caucus  —  Kevin McCarthy isn't the only senior Republican who wants to have a talk with Rep. Madison Cawthorn about his claim that some of his colleagues invited him to orgies and used cocaine.
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John Solomon / Just The News:
Exclusive: Trump calls on Putin to release info on Hunter Biden's dealings with oligarchs  —  “I think we should know that answer,” America's 45th president says.
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Jordan Boyd / The Federalist:
Senators Release Receipts Showing Direct Payments From Foreign Oligarchs To Hunter Biden  —  Shortly after The New York Times quietly admitted that Hunter Biden's laptop is legitimate even though it was smeared as “disinformation” to protect then-candidate Joe Biden during the 2020 election …
Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
What Is Ginni Thomas?  —  “Activist” is a euphemism for “silly woman with a powerful spouse.”  —  1. An Open Secret  —  Here is a secret no one in Washington is willing to say out loud: Ginni Thomas is an idiot.  The only reason she was texting the president's chief of staff instead …
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
‘Significant’ evidence suggests Trump Organization misstated asset values for more than a decade, NY AG says  — The New York Attorney General's probe of the Trump Organization “uncovered significant evidence” suggesting that the company's financial statements for more than a decade relied …
Discussion: UPI and Raw Story
Roxane Gay / New York Times:
Will Smith Was Wrong, but Being Thin-Skinned Is Not  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  Dr. Gay, a contributing Opinion writer, is the editor of “The Selected Works of Audre Lorde” and the author of the memoir “Hunger,” among others.  Her book “How to Be Heard” is forthcoming.
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Poll: Trump leads Biden, Harris in 2024 match-ups  —  Former President Trump is leading President Biden in a hypothetical 2024 match-up, according to a new Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll survey released exclusively to The Hill on Monday.  —  If the 2024 presidential election were held right now …
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Poll finds GOP favored to win House; has 6-point lead over Democrats
Discussion: Townhall and Conservative Brief
Thom Dunn / New York Times:
A Heat Pump Might Be Right for Your Home.  Here's Everything to Know.  —  Heat pumps are good for your wallet—and the world.  —  They're the cheapest and most efficient way to handle both heating and cooling for your home, no matter where you live.  They're also better for the environment.
Kurt Erickson / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
St. Louis beer heiress joins race for U.S. Senate  —  JEFFERSON CITY — St. Louis beer heiress Trudy Busch Valentine joined the heated race for Missouri's U.S. Senate seat Monday.  —  The move triggered former state Sen. Scott Sifton, who had represented south St. Louis County …
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
What if Putin Didn't Miscalculate?  —  The conventional wisdom is that Vladimir Putin catastrophically miscalculated.  —  He thought Russian-speaking Ukrainians would welcome his troops.  They didn't.  He thought he'd swiftly depose Volodymyr Zelensky's government.  He hasn't.  He thought he'd divide NATO.
Kurt Bardella / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed: CBS News giving Mick Mulvaney a paid contributor gig is an act of journalistic malpractice  —  From mid-December 2018 through early March 2020, Mick Mulvaney, a former member of Congress from South Carolina, served as President Trump's acting chief of staff.
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Errol Louis / New York Magazine:
AOC's Warning for Democrats: 'We're in Trouble'  —  Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez thinks President Biden got played by Senator Joe Manchin — and that the president's nostalgia for a bygone era of backroom dealmaking could prove disastrous for Democrats in the midterms.
John Sexton / HotAir:
Larry Summers: ‘the situation continues to resemble the 1970s’  —  Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers has been saying for quite a while now that inflation was coming and that it would not be transitory.  Last October the consensus seemed to be that inflation was largely the result …
Discussion: Instapundit and Ace of Spades HQ
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
David Perdue says he misunderstood ‘lock him up’ chants about Brian Kemp  —  Republican David Perdue said he “misunderstood” the Donald Trump supporters who chanted about imprisoning Gov. Brian Kemp when he smiled and flashed them a thumbs-up sign at the former president's rally.The former U.S. senator …
Cora Engelbrecht / New York Times:
Accounts of Russian Rapes Are Growing, Ukraine Officials Say  —  The crime first came to light last week, when Ukraine's prosecutor general, Iryna Venediktova, said in a Facebook post that a Russian soldier had killed an unarmed civilian and then repeatedly raped his wife.
Discussion: The Times and CNN
Jerusalem Post:
Five killed in Bnei Brak shooting  —  Five people were killed in at least two locations in Bnei Brak.  11 Israelis have been killed in the past week, making it the bloodiest in recent memory.  —  Five people were killed in a shooting spree in Bnei Brak on Tuesday evening.
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Bloomberg:
U.S. Households Face $5,200 Inflation Tax This Year  —  Paying More  —  Inflation means the average U.S. household has to spend an extra $5,200 this year  —  Notes: This chart shows our estimate of the inflation cost for each income quintile assuming differential inflation rates facing each income group …
Wendell Steavenson / The Economist:
“I see their faces”: a saboteur hunter in Kyiv remembers his victims  —  Sasha worries that killing Russians is corroding his soul  —  On the first day of the war, Sasha woke up to the sound of bombing at 4am.  It was roughly “the same time that Hitler began his invasion” of the Soviet Union in 1941, he told me.
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Andrew Giuliani Brings Up Baby Daughter in Gross Anti-Trans Remarks  —  The New York gubernatorial candidate made the off-color comments as he and fellow Republican Lee Zeldin attended a far-right rally.  —  New York gubernatorial hopeful—and son of disgraced Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani …
Patrice Taddonio / FRONTLINE:
Who Fueled Donald Trump's Stolen Election Myth?  —  In partnership with:  —  In the days and weeks after the November 2020 U.S. presidential election, correspondent A.C. Thompson, who has been reporting on far-right extremism for FRONTLINE and ProPublica for years, was in Washington, D.C., covering clashes in the streets.
Discussion: Democracy Now, ProPublica and Raw Story
Sarah N. Lynch / Reuters:
EXCLUSIVE Two former U.S. officials help ethics probe of Trump ally Clark, source says  —  The top two U.S. Justice Department officials in the waning days of Donald Trump's presidency are cooperating with a Washington legal body's ethics probe of their former colleague Jeffrey Bossert Clark …
Washington Post:
Biden officials bracing for unprecedented strains at Mexico border if pandemic restrictions lifted  —  Biden administration officials who are coping with record numbers of migrants crossing the southern border said Tuesday they are making contingency plans for an even bigger surge …
David Kihara / Politico:
DeSantis says Disney ‘crossed the line’ in calling for 'Don't Say Gay' repeal  —  Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday lashed out at the Walt Disney Co. and “California corporate executives” after the company said Florida's “Parental Rights in Education bill” — dubbed “Don't Say Gay” by opponents — should be repealed.
Jonathan Edwards / Washington Post:
An ex-college football player admitted to rape.  He was given probation.  —  Derek Nygaard wanted to go into his ex-girlfriend's Butte, Mont., home in the fall of 2020, and because he was drunk and struggling to walk, she let him in, a prosecutor said in court documents.
Discussion: Raw Story
CIS.org:
Estimating the Illegal Immigrant Population Using the Current Population Survey  —  Data shows number fell from 2019 to 2021 but rebounded by more than one million by early 2022 … Among the findings of our analysis: … Overview  —  The Foreign-Born and Illegal Immigrants.
Discussion: Breitbart
 
 
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Once the Children Got Hungry, ‘the Fire Was Gone From Their Eyes’
Matthew Kassel / Jewish Insider:
Republican Jewish Coalition PAC endorses Marjorie Taylor Greene opponent Jennifer Strahan
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Manchin shoots down Biden's new billionaire tax plan
Discussion: National Review, WTOP News and CBS News
WTOP News:
Work starts to free Ever Forward stranded in Chesapeake Bay
Discussion: Associated Press
Politico:
Garcetti on the ropes as Dems privately raise concerns
Discussion: Breitbart and Bloomberg
Dan Stone:
Commentary's Cash Crash
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Annie Linskey / Washington Post:
Covid creeps closer to Biden as restrictions fall
Discussion: Washington Examiner and The Hill
Scott Lanman / Bloomberg:
‘Whopping’ Golf Club Fees Cited as Example of Hidden Inflation by Philly Fed President
Kevin Seifert / ESPN:
NFL says all teams must add minority offensive coach, expands Rooney Rule to include women
Melissa Brown / USA Today:
Tennessee legislature passes residency bill that would disqualify Trump-backed candidate
Discussion: Raw Story and Joe.My.God.
US Food and Drug Administration:
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Authorizes Second Booster Dose of Two COVID-19 Vaccines for Older and Immunocompromised Individuals
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Bloomberg:
A look at the challenges facing Crunchyroll, as current and ex-staffers say its management is out of touch, amid Disney and Netflix's expansion into anime

Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Trump may erode press protections but the ABC case is not evidence of that as the decision to settle appears reasonable given Stephanopoulos' imprecise remarks

 
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