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Manu Raju / CNN:
Book details tension with McConnell over Trump's bid to reverse Biden's electoral win — In the weeks after he lost the 2020 election, then-President Donald Trump had a plan to stay in office - and he wanted Mitch McConnell to know about it. — If Trump could successfully pressure Republican …
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Digby's Hullabaloo, Talking Points Memo, POLITICUSUSA, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Insider, Raw Story and Political Wire
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump pours money into a midterm race for the first time — Former President Donald Trump's political operation is plowing cash into Georgia's Republican gubernatorial primary — his organization's first major financial investment in a midterm race and an indication that he's willing to dig …
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CBS News, HotAir, Breitbart, Bloomberg, Washington Examiner, The Gateway Pundit, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Hill, Mediaite, Ballotpedia, Insider, Raw Story and IJR
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Expands Flow of Intelligence to Ukraine as White House Sends More Arms — Extra U.S. aid comes as Ukrainian forces try to hold off a major Russian offensive in the eastern part of Ukraine — The Biden administration is moving to significantly expand the intelligence it is providing …
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New York Times and Politico
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New York Times:
Ukraine Live Updates: Evidence of Abuses Mount as Biden Promises More Aid
Ukraine Live Updates: Evidence of Abuses Mount as Biden Promises More Aid
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Wall Street Journal
Politico:
U.S. weighs sending top-level official to meet Zelenskyy in Kyiv
U.S. weighs sending top-level official to meet Zelenskyy in Kyiv
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New York Times, РИА … and ABC News
Andrew Duehren / Wall Street Journal:
Yellen Warns Nations Staying Neutral in Russia's War With Ukraine
Yellen Warns Nations Staying Neutral in Russia's War With Ukraine
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New York Times, Radio Free Europe/Radio … and Political Wire
Victoria Kim / New York Times:
President Biden accuses Russia of committing genocide in Ukraine.
President Biden accuses Russia of committing genocide in Ukraine.
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Associated Press:
Man arrested in Brooklyn subway attack, charged with terror — NEW YORK (AP) — The man accused of shooting 10 people on a Brooklyn subway train was arrested Wednesday and charged with a federal terrorism offense after a daylong manhunt and a tipster's call brought police to him on a Manhattan street.
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
'We're actually about to experience doomsday!' NYC subway suspect's racial ramblings — 'WE'RE ACTUALLY ABOUT TO EXPERIENCE DOOMSDAY!' NYC SUBWAY SUSPECT'S RACIAL RAMBLINGS. New York City police have arrested 62-year-old Frank James as the suspect in Tuesday's subway shooting.
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Fox News, NBC New York, THE CITY, The Daily Caller, Washington Free Beacon, CBS News and NPR
Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
First Texas bus drops off migrants blocks from US Capitol in Washington, DC — The buses are part of Gov. Greg Abbott's plan to counter the Biden administration's approach to illegal immigration — Texas agencies preparing for wave of illegal immigrant crossings in late May
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Jeremy Wallace / Houston Chronicle:
Gov. Greg Abbott eases truck inspections at key border crossing in Laredo
Gov. Greg Abbott eases truck inspections at key border crossing in Laredo
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Greg Abbott eagerly fills the border-politics void left by Trump
Greg Abbott eagerly fills the border-politics void left by Trump
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Fox News, HuffPost, Media Matters for America, Zandar Versus The Stupid, CNN and IJR
Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Biden White House waives executive privilege for more Trump records — President Biden has authorized the National Archives and Records Administration to hand over a new tranche of Trump White House documents to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
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Washington Examiner, The Hill and Vanity Fair
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Brianne Pfannenstiel / Des Moines Register:
DNC panel strips Iowa of guaranteed first vote for president; state party can still apply for coveted spot … Iowa Democrats are no longer guaranteed a place at the front of the presidential nominating calendar after a panel of Democratic National Committee members voted Wednesday …
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Insider, New York Times and HotAir
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Joel Burgess / Asheville Citizen Times:
Mark Meadows removed from NC voter roll amid election fraud investigation — ASHEVILLE - Mark Meadows has been removed from North Carolina's voter rolls, a move made as the State Bureau of Investigation continues a probe into allegations the former White House Chief of Staff committed election fraud.
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WRAL-TV, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, The Root, CNBC, Overtime, Bipartisan Report, Daily Kos, Rolling Stone, Talking Points Memo, CNN, Mediaite, Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA
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Roger Cohen / New York Times:
Le Pen Backs NATO-Russia Reconciliation and Reduced French Role in Alliance — PARIS — Rejecting a “herd-like conformity” with the Biden administration, Marine Le Pen, the French far-right candidate for the presidency, said Wednesday that France would quit NATO's integrated military command …
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Al Jazeera
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Alan I. Abramowitz / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Are Democrats Headed for a Shellacking in the Midterm Election? — What the generic ballot model predicts — KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — Presidential party midterm losses are a regular feature of American politics. — President Biden's numbers are weak as well.
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Roll Call, Insider, Sacramento Bee and National Journal
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The Hill:
Democrats blame messaging for their political problems
Democrats blame messaging for their political problems
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Breitbart, Mock Paper Scissors and NPR
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
US Democrats are facing a world of electoral pain
US Democrats are facing a world of electoral pain
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The Latest from Seton Motley, Breitbart and One America News Network
Katie King / Virginian-Pilot:
Democrats ‘stunned’ as Youngkin vetoes 25 bipartisan bills — including 3 from Hampton Roads lawmakers — Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed 25 bills this week — all from Democrats — that received bipartisan support in the General Assembly, a move some lawmakers viewed as an act of retaliation.
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The Virginia Public …, The Root and Associated Press
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
How to Make Sense of the New L.B.G.T.Q. Culture War — To understand the contours of the renewed culture wars over sex education, sexual orientation and gender identity, start with a Rorschach test. — According to Gallup, the share of younger Americans who identify as lesbian, gay …
Quinnipiac University Poll:
74% Of Americans Think Worst Of War In Ukraine Is Yet To Come, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; More Than 8 In 10 Think Vladimir Putin Is A War Criminal — mail_outline — As the world witnesses the atrocities in Ukraine committed by Russian troops, the vast majority of Americans …
MSNBC:
How Jared Kushner and the Trump admin traded U.S. foreign policy for $2 billion — Chris Hayes: “Essentially, the Trump administration sold U.S. foreign policy, Jamal Khashoggi's life, and American principles on liberal democracy and freedom of the press for $2 billion that went straight into Jared Kushner's pocket.”
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
CNN+ Is Said to Surpass 100,000 Subscribers in Its First Week — Under pressure from new owner Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. to justify its costs, CNN's streaming service eclipsed 100,000 subscribers in its first week, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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Puck, The American Spectator and Trending Politics, more at Mediagazer »
Cameron Joseph / VICE:
Democrats Are Doing Basically Nothing to Counter the GOP's ‘Pedophile’ Attacks — Democrats are rolling their eyes at GOP attacks that they're, as Marjorie Taylor Greene put it, the “party of pedophiles.” Should they be? — CJ — Republicans are increasingly accusing Democrats …
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As I See It and The Guardian
Asha Rangappa / CAFE:
Note from Asha: When the Right-Wing Eye of Sauron Landed on Me … - Show Notes — A couple of weeks ago, I was heading to bed close to midnight on a Sunday night when I decided to check Twitter (always a mistake). It was Oscars night, and the twitterverse was buzzing with shock …
CISA:
Alert (AA22-103A) — APT Cyber Tools Targeting ICS/SCADA Devices — Summary — Actions to Take Today to Protect ICS/SCADA Devices: — The Department of Energy (DOE), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the National Security Agency (NSA) …
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CNN, Al Jazeera, Wired, Bloomberg and 2nd Smartest Guy in the World, more at Techmeme »
Will Oremus / Washington Post:
TikTok created an alternate universe just for Russia — The Chinese-owned social media giant weathered Putin's information crackdown by muzzling its users there and cutting them off from the outside world, while allowing state propaganda — Last month, as many tech companies sided …
Shefali Luthra / The 19th:
Kentucky is the first state to end virtually all in-state abortions — Clinics are challenging the strict new abortion law, known as House Bill 3, in federal court. — Kentucky is the first state where clinics will completely stop providing abortions. The state legislature enacted …
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CNN, CBS News and MyNorthwest.com
Fox News:
Durham probe: Judge denies Sussmann motion to dismiss case; trial to begin next month — The trial for former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussman is set to begin on May 16 — Special counsel John Durham releases evidence against Clinton lawyer: ‘The same lie in writing’
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New York Post, CNN, Insider, Washington Post, The Daily Caller, Forbes, The Federalist, Washington Examiner, The Hill and Talking Points Memo
U.S. Department of Justice:
Justice Department Announces Civil Settlement in Lafayette Square Cases — Agencies to Implement Changes to Policies Governing Demonstrations — Today, the Department of Justice announced that it has reached an agreement to settle claims in four civil cases arising from the June 1, 2020 …
Tom Vanden Brook / USA Today:
Army's suicide crisis in Alaska spurs bipartisan call for action … WASHINGTON - A bipartisan group of lawmakers called on the Army to address its alarming problem of suicide in Alaska, requesting plans to improve living conditions and ensure soldiers have timely access to mental health counselors …
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The Hill