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4:35 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
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
BBC:
Ukraine War: US ‘deeply concerned’ at report of Mariupol chemical attack  —  The US and Britain say they are looking into reports that chemical weapons have been used by Russian forces attacking the Ukrainian port of Mariupol.  —  Ukraine's Azov regiment said three soldiers were injured by …
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Politico:
Team Biden scrambles to respond to claims of Russia chemical weapon use
Discussion: The Hill
Oleg Sukhov / The Kyiv Independent:
Azov says Russia used chemical weapons in besieged Mariupol
New York Times:
What Happened on Day 47 of the War in Ukraine
Washington Post:
Hubris and isolation led Vladimir Putin to misjudge Ukraine
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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Stephen Groves / Associated Press:
South Dakota attorney general impeached over fatal crash  —  PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota House on Tuesday impeached state Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg over a 2020 fatal crash in which he initially told authorities he thought he had struck a deer or another large animal.
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Jeanna Smialek / New York Times:
Inflation Continued to Worsen in March, as Gas and Rent Costs Rose: Live Updates  —  Here's what you need to know:  —  Prices were 8.5% higher in March than a year earlier.  —  Inflation  —  +8.5% in  —  March  —  +6.5%  —  without  —  food and energy  —  Year-over-year percent change in the Consumer Price Index
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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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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.
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.
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 …
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: Raw Story
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.
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
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 …
Matt Taibbi / TK News:
Give War A Chance  —  More and more, we're told outright war isn't just necessary and right, but the thing that will solve America's existential problems  —  Robert Kagan, neoconservative writer and husband to Deputy Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland, wrote a piece called …
Discussion: The Hill
William Saletan / The Bulwark:
Putin Wants to Break NATO.  Republicans Want to Help Him.  —  He's losing the war against Ukraine but making advances in his campaign to dissolve NATO.  —  Vladimir Putin's central objective in Europe isn't to capture Kyiv, the Donbas, or any other part of Ukraine.
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
Sam Dean / Los Angeles Times:
As inflation soars, how is AriZona iced tea still 99 cents?  —  Gas is nearly six bucks a gallon.  Groceries are 8% higher than last year.  Dollar stores: now dollar-and-a-quarter stores.  —  But a giant, 23-ounce can of AriZona iced tea still costs 99 cents, the same price it has been since it hit the market 30 years ago.
 
 
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
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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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Biden shared anti-Hillary Clinton column with aides, family amid 2016 campaign
Discussion: RedState
Lee Smith / Tablet Magazine:
Was the Infiltration of the Secret Service Part of an Iranian Plot to Kill John Bolton?
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Insider:
Lindsey Graham is ‘unrecognizable’ and ‘sycophant in chief’ to Trump, Joe Biden's sister Valerie says in a new book
Discussion: Raw Story
Sam Levine / The Guardian:
The Republican judge blocking her party from rigging electoral districts
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