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CNN Exclusive: 'We need ammo. We need fraud examples. We need it this weekend.' What the Meadows texts reveal about how two Trump congressional allies lobbied the White House to overturn the election. — The texts, which have not been previously reported, were sent by Republican Sen. Mike Lee …
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READ: Mark Meadows' texts with Mike Lee and Chip Roy — (CNN)CNN has obtained text messages of separate conversations that then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows had with Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah and Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas after the 2020 presidential election and through early January 2021.
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Bryan Schott / Salt Lake Tribune:
‘Please tell me what I should be saying.’ Text messages show Sen. Mike Lee assisting Trump efforts to overturn 2020 election — Newly released text messages show Lee knew of scheme to send alternate electors to Congress nearly a month earlier than he claimed.
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Lauren Feiner / CNBC:
Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk's $43 billion bid to buy company — Twitter adopted a limited duration shareholder rights plan, often called a “poison pill,” a day after billionaire Elon Musk offered to buy the company for $43 billion, the company announced Friday.
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Washington Post:
Elon Musk's Twitter bid frustrates employees. That's a risk for him … As news of Elon Musk's hostile takeover bid spread throughout Twitter on Thursday, employees expressed concern that their workplaces might suffer under the leadership of the incendiary tech mogul, as well as exhaustion over the company's uncertain future.
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Elon Musk Demonstrates How Little He Understands About Content Moderation — from the not-how-any-of-this-works dept — Lots of talk yesterday as Elon Musk made a hostile takeover bid for all of Twitter. This was always a possibility, and one that we discussed before in looking …
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Matt Levine / Bloomberg:
Sure Elon Musk Might Buy Twitter
Sure Elon Musk Might Buy Twitter
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PR Newswire:
Twitter Adopts Limited Duration Shareholder Rights Plan, Enabling All Shareholders to Realize Full Value of Company
Twitter Adopts Limited Duration Shareholder Rights Plan, Enabling All Shareholders to Realize Full Value of Company
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Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
Liberation Without Victory — Kyiv is halfway normal now. Burnt-out Russian tanks have been removed from the roads leading into the city, traffic lights work, the subway runs, oranges are available for purchase. A cheerful balalaika orchestra was performing for returning refugees …
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Jeremy Herb / CNN:
Exclusive: Zelensky says world should be prepared for possibility Putin could use nuclear weapons — You can see more of the interview on ‘The Lead’ at 4pm ET and the full interview will run on Sunday at 9am ET on ‘State of the Union’ — (CNN)Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told CNN Friday that …
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Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Ukraine is scanning faces of dead Russians, then contacting the mothers … Ukrainian officials have run more than 8,600 facial recognition searches on dead or captured Russian soldiers in the 50 days since Moscow's invasion began, using the scans to identify bodies and contact hundreds …
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Randy Krehbiel / Tulsa World:
Scott Pruitt, former Oklahoma AG, files for U.S. Senate seat — Former Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt is running for U.S. Senate. — Also the former head of the Environmental Protection Agency appointed by Donald Trump, Pruitt has filed to campaign for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Jim Inhofe.
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Sean Murphy / Associated Press:
Ex-EPA head Scott Pruitt to run for US Senate in Oklahoma — OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Republican Scott Pruitt, the scandal-ridden former head of the Environmental Protection Agency, filed Friday to run for Oklahoma's open U.S. Senate seat, making a return to politics in a state with deep ties to the oil and gas industry.
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Tess Owen / VICE:
A High-Ranking Proud Boy Is Now Snitching for the Feds — A Proud Boy chapter leader has flipped for the U.S. government, and that's trouble for dozens of members facing charges over the Jan. 6 insurrection. — TO — Federal prosecutors appear to have made their biggest breakthrough yet …
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Jaclyn Peiser / Washington Post:
An author was set to read his unicorn book to students. The school forbade it. — Jason Tharp wants to write books for weird kids — because he was one. — Growing up in Ohio, the 45-year-old children's author, illustrator and inspirational speaker sometimes felt invisible.
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David Pitt / Associated Press:
Iowa Supreme Court: Finkenauer qualifies for Senate ballot — DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Supreme Court ruled Friday that Democratic Senate candidate Abby Finkenauer qualifies for the primary ballot, rejecting a lower court decision and allowing her to continue her campaign for the nomination …
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Stephen Gruber-Miller / Des Moines Register:
U.S. Senate candidate Abby Finkenauer will appear on primary ballot, Iowa Supreme Court rules
U.S. Senate candidate Abby Finkenauer will appear on primary ballot, Iowa Supreme Court rules
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Vladimir Kara-Murza / Washington Post:
Vladimir Kara-Murza from jail: Russia will be free. I've never been so sure. — Editor's note: On Monday, Russian human rights activist and Post contributing columnist Vladimir Kara-Murza gave an interview in Moscow to CNN in which he harshly criticized the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
New York Daily News:
Amid NYPD manhunt, subway shooting suspect Frank James ate lunch at Katz's Deli, walked NYC in plain view of surveillance cameras — As the NYPD and federal law enforcement scoured the city for the accused Brooklyn subway shooter on Wednesday, the burly suspect enjoyed some of Manhattan's culinary delights.
Collin Anderson / Washington Free Beacon:
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: You'll Never Believe The Journo Who Just Filed To Run for Congress — Former Washington Free Beacon journalist Matthew Foldi filed to run for Congress on Friday morning in western Maryland, the Free Beacon has learned. — Foldi filed to enter the Republican primary …
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Politico:
Biden picks Barr as Fed bank czar — Editor's Note: Morning Money is a free version of POLITICO Pro Financial Services morning newsletter, which is delivered to our subscribers each morning at 5:15 a.m. The POLITICO Pro platform combines the news you need with tools you can use to take action on the day's biggest stories.
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Kyle Hooten / Alpha News:
EXCLUSIVE: New details emerge from DFL's Farmfest rollover — Two high-ranking Democrats were involved in a rollover crash last summer. A “cold” and “pretty full” White Claw was found in the car, according to police reports, and the chair of their party was quickly called to the scene.
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CNN:
JD Vance said in 2016 the Republican Party's three-decade strategy was antagonizing Black voters — Campaigning for the Senate in Ohio in recent weeks, J.D. Vance has ridiculed claims that advocates of a border-wall were “racist.” But in multiple appearances in 2016, he made a similar argument …
ABC News:
Gov. Abbott sends 2nd bus of migrants to Washington DC to protest end of Title 42 — The Biden administration will lift Title 42 restrictions in May. — A second group of asylum seekers arrived in Washington, D.C., Thursday on a charter bus after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott directed …
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Democrats in tough races revolt over Biden administration border move
Democrats in tough races revolt over Biden administration border move
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Derek Brouwer / News + Opinion, Seven Days:
Wilder Man Charged After Pipe Bombs, ‘White Power’ Rifle Discovered — A gun found at Hillard's residence — A man charged with making pipe bombs in his mother's house in Wilder owned Nazi paraphernalia and spoke about killing Black people and Democrats, federal prosecutors allege.
Virginia Bridges / Raleigh News & Observer:
‘It is offensive’ — One of Howard's attorneys, Brad Bannon, contends the facts of the case were available to the city from the beginning. — When the city decided to represent Dowdy, Bannon said, it agreed to defend his conduct. — “They go through that whole process. They pay all of that money.
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Cecilia Nowell / Mother Jones:
The Long, Scary History of Doctors Reporting Pregnant People to the Cops — Lizelle Herrera was jailed for allegedly self-inducing an abortion. She's not alone. … When news broke last Friday that Lizelle Herrera, a 26-year-old resident of the Rio Grande Valley in southern Texas …
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