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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.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Three big takeaways from Trump's missing Jan. 6 phone logs — In another bid for the “Worse than Watergate” files, it turns out there is a seven-hour gap in Donald Trump's phone logs on the day of the insurrection attempt. According to documents obtained by The Post and CBS News …
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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 …
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Quint Forgey / Politico:
Trump calls on Putin to release dirt on Hunter Biden — Former President Donald Trump in a new interview called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to release information regarding alleged dealings between Eastern European oligarchs and Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden's son.
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Marshall Cohen / CNN:
Trump brazenly asks Putin to release dirt about Biden's family — When asked about Ukraine, Trump ranted about windmills — Washington (CNN)In a new interview published Tuesday, former President Donald Trump called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to release any damaging information …
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John Solomon / Just The News:
Exclusive: Trump calls on Putin to release info on Hunter Biden's dealings with oligarchs
Exclusive: Trump calls on Putin to release info on Hunter Biden's dealings with oligarchs
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HuffPost:
Putin May Be Accused Of War Crimes In Ukraine, But Trump's Still Asking For His Help
Putin May Be Accused Of War Crimes In Ukraine, But Trump's Still Asking For His Help
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Tucker Carlson / Fox News:
Now is the time to invoke the 25th Amendment
Now is the time to invoke the 25th Amendment
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Niela Orr / BuzzFeed News:
Will Smith Carefully Edited His Image For Years. It Has All Come Undone Now. — For whatever it's worth, I think The Slap was unnecessary and wrong, and shouldn't have happened. For a couple who has been in the public eye for 30 years, and who, in recent years at least …
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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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Maia Niguel Hoskin / Forbes:
While Talking About Will Smith's Behavior, Don't Forget To Also Talk About The System That Helped Create It
While Talking About Will Smith's Behavior, Don't Forget To Also Talk About The System That Helped Create It
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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.
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John Kruzel / The Hill:
Ocasio-Cortez to Clarence Thomas: Resign or face impeachment
Ocasio-Cortez to Clarence Thomas: Resign or face impeachment
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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Clarence Thomas faces growing pressure to step aside from Jan. 6 cases
Clarence Thomas faces growing pressure to step aside from Jan. 6 cases
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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 …
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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 …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Future of Trumpism … In late February, as daily deaths from COVID-19 tallied in the thousands across the country, Florida governor Ron DeSantis announced his latest effort to dismantle his state's response to the coronavirus pandemic. Private businesses, he insisted, should stop requiring their employees to wear masks at work.
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David Kihara / Politico:
DeSantis says Disney ‘crossed the line’ in calling for 'Don't Say Gay' repeal
DeSantis says Disney ‘crossed the line’ in calling for 'Don't Say Gay' repeal
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Steve Contorno / CNN:
DeSantis vetoes new Florida congressional map and calls for special session
DeSantis vetoes new Florida congressional map and calls for special session
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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 …
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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
Poll finds GOP favored to win House; has 6-point lead over Democrats
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Townhall and Conservative Brief
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.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Manchin shoots down Biden's new billionaire tax plan — Centrist Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Tuesday shot down President Biden's new plan to raise $360 billion in revenue by imposing a 20 percent minimum tax on billionaires, a proposal the president formally unveiled Monday in his budget request to Congress.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Manchin: GOP treatment of Jackson ‘disgraceful,’ ‘embarrassing’
Manchin: GOP treatment of Jackson ‘disgraceful,’ ‘embarrassing’
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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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Allahpundit / HotAir:
Hot water: GOP colleagues want Madison Cawthorn to say who invited him to an orgy — It's not even April and this is already a sure bet to be the funniest political story of the year. — Especially since there's a high probability that Cawthorn made the whole thing up.
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Emily Brooks / The Hill:
McCarthy to speak to Cawthorn after orgy comment sparks GOP frustration
McCarthy to speak to Cawthorn after orgy comment sparks GOP frustration
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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 …
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Ezra Klein / New York Times:
I Keep Hoping Larry Summers Is Wrong. What if He's Not?
I Keep Hoping Larry Summers Is Wrong. What if He's Not?
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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 …
US Food and Drug Administration:
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Authorizes Second Booster Dose of Two COVID-19 Vaccines for Older and Immunocompromised Individuals — For Immediate Release: — Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized a second booster dose of either the Pfizer-BioNTech …
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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 …
Andrew Kerr / Washington Examiner:
Kristi Noem blasts lawmakers for voting against impeachment of attorney general — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem accused a top Republican state lawmaker of “covering” for state Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg after a committee recommended against impeaching him for his involvement in a fatal car crash.
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