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6:30 PM ET, April 12, 2022

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New York Post:
Multiple people shot in Brooklyn subway stop during rush hour  —  Multiple people were shot Tuesday morning in a gruesome shooting in a Brooklyn subway station during rush hour, officials said.  —  The bloody incident broke out around 8:30 a.m. at the 36th Street station for the D, N, R lines in Sunset Park.
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NBC New York:
Gun Used to Shoot 10 in Brooklyn Subway Attack May Have Jammed, Source Says; Bag, Weapon Recovered  —  At least 10 Brooklyn subway riders were shot Tuesday by a man wearing a gas mask and a green construction vest who tossed a smoke canister in the train car to distract the rush hour crowd …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Big cuts coming for CNN+ after slow start  —  Investment and projections for CNN+ are expected to be cut dramatically in response to a low adoption rate, two sources tell Axios. … - Hundreds of millions of dollars are expected to be cut from that original investment total.
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
CNN+ struggles to lure viewers in its early days, drawing fewer than 10,000 daily users  — Fewer than 10,000 people are using CNN+ on a daily basis two weeks into its existence, sources said.  — The paltry number casts doubt on the future of the application following …
Eliana Johnson / Washington Free Beacon:   Watch the Corporate Puff Piece Chris Cuomo Aired To Silence an Accuser
New York Times:
Lt. Gov. Benjamin Arrested in Campaign Finance Scheme  —  Brian A. Benjamin, New York's No. 2 official to Gov. Kathy Hochul, will face a federal charge that he conspired to commit bribery while a state senator.  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  Lt. Gov. Brian A. Benjamin of New York …
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New York Times:
Lt. Gov. Benjamin Resigns Following Campaign Finance Indictment  —  Brian A. Benjamin, New York's second in command to Gov. Kathy Hochul, was charged with bribery, fraud and falsification of records while a state senator.  —  Lt. Gov. Brian A. Benjamin of New York resigned on Tuesday …
Ross Barkan / Political Currents:
Kathy Hochul's Massive Mistake
Washington Post:
Pentagon looks to vastly expand weapons for Ukraine  —  The Biden administration is poised to dramatically expand the scope of weapons it's providing Ukraine, U.S. officials said Tuesday, with the Pentagon looking to send Mi-17 helicopters that can be equipped to attack Russian vehicles, armored Humvees and a range of other arms.
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BBC:
Ukraine War: US ‘deeply concerned’ at report of Mariupol chemical attack
Politico:
Team Biden scrambles to respond to claims of Russia chemical weapon use
Discussion: nationalinterest.org and The Hill
Washington Post:
Case of duped Secret Service agents called an alarming agency breach … Secret Service leaders are downplaying any risk to national security after four of its employees — including an agent assigned to protect first lady Jill Biden — were allegedly hoodwinked by two men i mpersonating federal agents …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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Sarah N. Lynch / Reuters:
U.S. judge declines to jail two men accused of impersonating federal agents
Discussion: Washingtonian
Lee Smith / Tablet Magazine:   Was the Infiltration of the Secret Service Part of an Iranian Plot to Kill John Bolton?
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Alan Feuer / New York Times:
In Conference Call Before Riot, a Plea to ‘Descend on the Capitol’  —  Days before Jan. 6, a onetime aide to Roger J. Stone Jr. told Trump backers to make lawmakers meeting to finalize the 2020 election results feel that “people are breathing down their necks.”  — Give this article- - - Read in app
Discussion: Raw Story, Politico and Political Wire
Robert Kuttner / American Prospect:
Summers Watch  —  Larry Summers is not only a self-promoter who is often wrong on his economics.  He is disdainful of who suffers if his recommendations are taken seriously.  —  Larry Summers, spurned for a Biden administration post, is famously vindictive.
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Annie Karni / New York Times:
House G.O.P., Banding Together, Kills Bid to Honor Pioneering Black Judge  —  A right-wing congressman persuaded fellow Republicans to abruptly turn against a routine measure to name a federal courthouse in Florida for a Black State Supreme Court justice.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
J. David Goodman / New York Times:
Angry Drivers, Lots of Guns: An Explosion in Road Rage Shootings  —  Dozens have been reported in Texas alone amid a pandemic surge in gun purchases and a country increasingly on edge.  —  HOUSTON — The trouble started with an argument between two drivers merging in slow traffic after an Astros baseball game last summer.
New York Times:
These Men Think You Won't Like Their Views.  But They Want to Feel Free to Express Them.  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  There was no talk of a stolen election, no conspiracy theories about voter fraud or rants about President Biden's legitimacy.
Washington Post:
DOJ rebuffs Democrats' request for inventory of Trump's boxes  —  The Justice Department this week rebuffed a request from the House Oversight Committee for more details about the 15 boxes of White House records that former president Donald Trump improperly removed to Mar-a-Lago …
Discussion: CNN and Raw Story
Shannon Pettypiece / NBC News:
Biden suggests Putin is a ‘dictator’ who has committed ‘genocide half a world away’  —  WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden bemoaned the spike in gas prices as being driven by a “dictator” who committed “genocide half a world away” in a speech Tuesday that was an apparent reference …
Grant Stern / Occupy Democrats:
VIDEO: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sends cops to eject our journalists for NO reason  —  The governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, sent police to expel two of our journalists from an official press conference at Miami Dade College today for no reason.  —  NBC News and The Miami Herald reported …
Associated Press:
US inflation jumped 8.5% in past year, highest since 1981  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation soared over the past year at its fastest pace in more than 40 years, with costs for food, gasoline, housing and other necessities squeezing American consumers and wiping out the pay raises that many people have received.
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Jeanna Smialek / New York Times:
Inflation Continued to Worsen in March, as Gas and Rent Costs Rose: Live Updates
Voice of America:
Photos Indicate Russian Looting of Radioactive Materials from Ukraine's Chernobyl  —  The scale of Russia's looting of Ukraine has become clearer with new photos indicating Russian theft of hazardous materials from a site near Chernobyl's nuclear power plant, and another image from Belarus adding …
Washington Post:
Washington Post columnist arrested in Moscow after criticizing Putin  —  Russian authorities on Monday arrested Vladimir Kara-Murza — a prominent Kremlin critic and politician who has written columns for The Washington Post protesting Russia's war in Ukraine and violations of human rights.
Jenny Jarvie / Los Angeles Times:
A transgender psychologist has helped hundreds of teens transition.  But rising numbers have her concerned  —  Day after day, emails pour into Erica Anderson's inbox from parents struggling to support their teenagers coming out as transgender.  —  “He's been depressed and anxious since the pandemic began …
Discussion: HotAir and The US Re-Constitution
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Trump ‘authorized’ assault on Capitol, Jan. 6 defendant argues at trial  —  WASHINGTON — An attorney for a man who took a coat rack and a bottle of liquor during the U.S. Capitol attack argued to a jury on Tuesday that former President Donald Trump “authorized” the Jan. 6 assault on the building …
Discussion: Political Wire
Eliot A. Cohen / The Atlantic:
This Is the War's Decisive Moment  —  The relatively brief but bloody war in Ukraine is entering its fourth phase.  In the first, Russia tried to depose Volodymyr Zelensky's government and sweep the country into its embrace in a three-day campaign; in the second, it attempted to conquer Ukraine …
 
 
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Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Iranian ‘Ghost Armada’ Ferries $22 Billion Worth of Illicit Oil to China
Adam Barnes / The Hill:
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William Saletan / The Bulwark:
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Sam Dean / Los Angeles Times:
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Mike Brest / Washington Examiner:
Pentagon does ‘not object’ to potential transfer of jets from Slovakia to Ukraine
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Bruce Golding / New York Post:
Biden shared anti-Hillary Clinton column with aides, family amid 2016 campaign
Discussion: RedState
Insider:
Lindsey Graham is ‘unrecognizable’ and ‘sycophant in chief’ to Trump, Joe Biden's sister Valerie says in a new book
Discussion: Raw Story
Matt Taibbi / TK News:
Give War A Chance
Discussion: The Hill
John Yoo / Newsweek:
Clarence Thomas' Vote on Trump Documents Had Nothing to do With His Wife
James DeHaven / Reno Gazette-Journal:
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