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9:15 AM ET, April 6, 2022

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CNN:
January 6 committee obtains emails that former Trump attorney John Eastman sought to keep secret  —  Washington (CNN)The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol has obtained a cache of emails that right-wing lawyer John Eastman had sought to keep secret.
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Hunter Walker / Rolling Stone:
Exclusive: Jan. 6 Committee Interviews Longtime Steve Bannon Associate Alexandra Preate  —  Bannon's so-called “consigliere” and “shadow press secretary” was among those in attendance at the pre-attack rally in front of the White House on Jan. 6, 2021  —  Alexandra Preate …
Politico:
Court orders Jan. 6 defense lawyer disbarred  —  A Virginia state court has disbarred Jonathon Moseley, an attorney who has represented a slew of high-profile Jan. 6 defendants, including a member of the Oath Keepers charged with seditious conspiracy, as well as several targets …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
FBI has names of hundreds more Jan. 6 rioters. DOJ needs more lawyers to prosecute them.
Discussion: Raw Story and Hackwhackers
New York Times:
Justice Dept. Investigation of Jan. 6 Confronts Sprawling Cast of Characters
Discussion: Raw Story
Antony J. Blinken / United States Department of State:
$100 Million in Additional U.S. Security Assistance for Ukraine  —  The world has been shocked and appalled by the atrocities committed by Russia's forces in Bucha and across Ukraine.  Ukraine's forces bravely continue to defend their country and their freedom, and the United States …
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Washington Post:
A weary Zelensky challenges U.N. to act with graphic video for diplomats … Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of war crimes Tuesday in a remote appearance before the United Nations Security Council that included gruesome video of dead bodies, challenging diplomats …
Washington Post:
Worried Democrats poised to pin blame for high gas prices on oil companies  —  Good morning, Early Birds.  Send all tips and fox news to earlytips@washpost.com.  Thanks for waking up with us.  —  In today's edition: Alabama is once again the battleground over Black voting rights …
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Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Michigan Democrats to lobby to be first in 2024 presidential contest
Discussion: Just The News
Matt Egan / CNN:
Deutsche Bank is the first big bank to forecast a US recession  —  New York (CNN Business)The Federal Reserve's fight against inflation will spark a recession in the United States that begins late next year, Deutsche Bank warned on Tuesday.  —  The recession call — the first from a major bank …
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William A. Galston / Wall Street Journal:
How Will Inflation End?  —  Larry Summers forecasts a major recession and high unemployment.
Discussion: Wide World of News
Wall Street Journal:
Oklahoma Legislature Passes Near-Total Ban on Abortion  —  Abortion providers could face up to 10 years in prison if the bill is signed by Gov. Kevin Stitt  —  Oklahoma's Legislature on Tuesday passed a near-total ban on abortion, one of the most sweeping bans passed this year …
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Donald Moynihan / Washington Post:
The QAnon catchphrases that took over the Jackson hearings … Republican senators questioning Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson at her Supreme Court nomination hearing didn't explicitly mention QAnon or its putative oracle, Q. They didn't mention the child sex trafficking ring run by a global cabal …
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Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
2020 election claims dominate lively night for Trump, allies at Mar-a-Lago  —  PALM BEACH — Former president Donald Trump and a coterie of his top allies, donors and paying club members gathered at his palatial beachfront club Tuesday night for a reunion of sorts: to sip Trump-branded wine …
Katie S. Phang / MSNBC:
Ginni Thomas, Trump and America's worst-kept secret  —  The Ginni Thomas saga gets even more interesting  —  With so much wild and crazy news inundating us each day, it can be easy to quickly move from one shocking and outrageous story on to the next.  But in the case of Ginni Thomas …
Discussion: Raw Story, The Hill and The Similitude
James Marson / Wall Street Journal:
Execution of Village Mayor Becomes Symbol of Russian Brutality in Ukraine  —  A beloved mayor and her family helped townspeople resist Russian occupation.  They paid for it with their lives.  ‘Why were they killed?  Because they were Ukrainians’
Discussion: The Daily Caller
CNN:
'We're not finding soldiers, just innocent people': The horror of Russian occupation revealed in Borodianka  —  This story contains graphic imagery.  —  Borodianka, Ukraine (CNN)Oksana Kostychenko walks down a narrow pathway, leading to her back garden in Borodianka.
Discussion: The Daily Beast
John Daniel Davidson / The Federalist:
Faced With A Coming Wave Of Illegal Immigration, Biden's Plan Is Simply To Open The Border  —  Federal border authorities are already overwhelmed, and Title 42 is still in place.  As bad as things are, they're about to get much worse.  —  The southern border is about to explode …
Joshua Green / Bloomberg:
The Bridgewater CEO Who Went Full MAGA  —  If you were to pick the high point of David McCormick's career in finance, it might've come on a bright summer day in 2019 at the Belle Haven Club, a Gatsby-esque waterside retreat in Greenwich, Conn., that's popular with local billionaires.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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David Weigel / Washington Post:
The Trailer: ‘Socialism.’ ‘Beijing Dave.’ In primary stretch, Pennsylvania's Senate contenders go after the front-runners.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Charles R. Davis / Insider:
63 Republicans vote against resolution expressing support for NATO  — The House overwhelmingly approved a resolution expressing support for NATO on Tuesday.  — The resolution passed 362-63, with support from 143 Republicans and 219 Democrats.  — Sixty-three members of the GOP caucus voted against the measure.
Zach Montellaro / Politico:
May governor primaries pose big test for Trump's control over the GOP  —  Donald Trump is about to learn how much clout he still has in the Republican Party.  —  A series of Republican gubernatorial primaries in more than half a dozen states, all scheduled for May, has turned into mini-referendums on the former president.
Politico:
Trouble in Khan's corner  —  Welcome to POLITICO's West Wing Playbook, your guide to the people and power centers in the Biden administration.  With help from Allie Bice.  —  JEN HOWARD often wears a silver necklace emblazoned with one word in a delicate, cursive script: “Fuck.”
Lawrence Freedman / Comment is Freed:
The Russo-Ukraine War: Phase Two  —  On 24 February as they began their invasion of Ukraine, Russian forces began shelling Mariupol, a port city of over 400,000 inhabitants.  The next day they began to advance to its outskirts.  By 2 March the city was surrounded and the shelling had become routine and deadly.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
BuzzFeed News:
Worldcoin Promised Free Crypto If They Scanned Their Eyeballs With “The Orb.”  Now They Feel Robbed.  —  As Kudzanayi strolled through the mall with friends, a small crowd caught his attention.  At its center, three men held up an otherworldly silver sphere that spoke in a brisk, business-like voice.
Sebastian Murdock / HuffPost:
Illinois Police Officer Resigns After White Supremacist Posts Surface Online  —  “When I seize power, ‘hate crimes’ will be encouraged,” read a social media post linked to veteran officer Aaron Paul Nichols.  He resigned Tuesday.  —  A veteran police officer in Illinois resigned Tuesday …
Discussion: Raw Story and FOX 2
New York Post:
Here's the $6 million mansion BLM reportedly bought with donated funds  —  The sprawling $6 million mansion bought by Black Lives Matter in Los Angeles once hosted Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe as house guests — and comes complete with a sound stage, music studio, pool and a two-bedroom guest house.
Reuters:
Biden launches U.S. plan to help Americans struggling with long COVID  —  President Joe Biden on Tuesday tasked the U.S. health department with developing a national action plan to tackle the looming health crisis of long COVID, a complex, multi-symptom condition that leaves many of its sufferers unable to work.
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Associated Press
Sam Stanton / Sacramento Bee:
Sacramento mass shooting suspect had early prison release  —  Smiley Allen Martin, the second man arrested in the wake of Sunday's mass shooting in Sacramento that killed six, has a criminal record stretching to 2013 and last year was the subject of a plea by Sacramento County District Attorney …
 
 
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Discussion: Mediaite
Reuters:
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Discussion: The Daily Beast
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