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Melanie Zanona / CNN:
New audio reveals McCarthy said Trump admitted bearing some responsibility for Capitol attack — (CNN)In the days following the January 6 insurrection, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told Republican lawmakers on a private conference call that then-President Donald Trump had admitted bearing …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Is Kevin McCarthy toast? — DRIVING THE DAY — For years now, through controversy after controversy, House Minority Leader KEVIN MCCARTHY has bent over backward to stay in former President DONALD TRUMP's good graces, all to serve one major purpose: He wants to be speaker someday.
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Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots:
The Humiliation of Kevin McCarthy — Lordy, there were tapes — Watching Kevin McCarthy over the last 24 hours has been like peeling an onion of humiliation. And there is no reason to think we are anywhere close to being done. — The story so far: — In the wake of the January 6 Insurrection …
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Rachel Maddow / MSNBC:
Audio contradicts McCarthy's denial that he said he would recommend that Trump resign — Rachel Maddow shares audio of House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy saying that he would call Donald Trump and recommend that he resign in the wake of the January 6th attacks and with a second impeachment looming …
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Tom Porter / Insider:
NYT reporters say they have more damaging tapes of Kevin McCarthy after releasing audio of him planning to ask Trump to resign over Jan. 6
NYT reporters say they have more damaging tapes of Kevin McCarthy after releasing audio of him planning to ask Trump to resign over Jan. 6
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Punchbowl News:
4/22/22 ☀️ Punchbowl News AM.
4/22/22 ☀️ Punchbowl News AM.
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Nick Papantonis / WFTV:
End of Reedy Creek: Disney won't pay more taxes, but you will — ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — One of the biggest myths circulating on the internet is that the end of Reedy Creek will finally force Disney to pay its fair share of taxes, boosting the economies of Florida and the counties its resorts are located in.
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Robert Frank / CNBC:
Florida taxpayers could face a $1 billion Disney debt bomb if its special district status is revoked
Florida taxpayers could face a $1 billion Disney debt bomb if its special district status is revoked
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Kyle Morris / Fox News:
White House says it opposes DeSantis taking action against Disney
White House says it opposes DeSantis taking action against Disney
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Washington Post:
Trump says he threatened not to defend NATO against Russia — Former president Donald Trump on Thursday offered his most explicit statement to date that he threatened not to defend NATO allies from attacks by Russia. — Appearing at an event held by the Heritage Foundation in Florida …
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Mediaite and Political Wire
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Mark Meadows was simultaneously registered to vote in three states — “I don't want my vote or anyone else's to be disenfranchised. ... Do you realize how inaccurate the voter rolls are, with people just moving around? ... Anytime you move, you'll change your driver's license …
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Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Jan. 6 revelations will ‘blow the roof off the House,’ Rep. Jamie Raskin says — WASHINGTON — Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., suggested that the House Jan. 6 committee's upcoming hearings will be dramatic and include explosive revelations that the panel has been piecing together behind the scenes for months.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Jan. 6 committee's bombshells hiding in plain sight
Jan. 6 committee's bombshells hiding in plain sight
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Thomas Beaumont / Associated Press:
Iowa GOP open to non-Trump prospects as 2024 gets underway
New York Times:
A Look Inside the Textbooks That Florida Rejected — The state rejected dozens of math textbooks. The New York Times reviewed 21 of them to figure out why. — Give this article- - - Read in app — After the Florida Department of Education rejected dozens of math textbooks last week, the big question was, Why?
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Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Democrats, You Can't Ignore the Culture Wars Any Longer
Democrats, You Can't Ignore the Culture Wars Any Longer
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Are Biden and Putin agreeing on limits to the war? Just read their statements. — Take a careful look at presidential statements from Russia and the United States this week, and you'll see that the leaders of the two countries appear to be clarifying their goals in Ukraine …
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New York Times, Yahoo News, The White House and WCMH-TV
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Jamie McIntyre / Washington Examiner:
Five battalions worth of American howitzers heading to eastern front of Ukraine
Five battalions worth of American howitzers heading to eastern front of Ukraine
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Matt Seyler / ABC News:
The battle for Donbas: Why the weapons the US is rushing to Ukraine are so critical
The battle for Donbas: Why the weapons the US is rushing to Ukraine are so critical
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Politico, Washington Examiner, Associated Press, Bloomberg and Common Dreams
Politico:
Biden White House stands behind Title 42 decision amid party revolt — Facing a growing rebellion from within the Democratic Party, the White House is standing behind its decision to end on May 23 a Trump-era deportation policy for migrants encountered at the southern border.
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Scoop: DHS chief concerned about lifting Title 42
Scoop: DHS chief concerned about lifting Title 42
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MeidasTouch / YouTube:
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Zoë Richards / NBC News:
‘We Build the Wall’ leaders who worked with Bannon plead guilty to fraud — “We Build the Wall” campaign crowd-funders Brian Kolfage and Andrew Badolato pleaded guilty Thursday for their roles in pocketing donations solicited to help build a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico.
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Shayna Jacobs / Washington Post:
Disabled vet pleads guilty in border-wall scheme that included Bannon
Disabled vet pleads guilty in border-wall scheme that included Bannon
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New York Post, Law & Crime, emptywheel, Raw Story and CNN
Erick-Woods Erickson / Erick Erickson's Confessions …:
Dear Taylor Lorenz, Brian Stelter, and the Rest of the Press— why not show the videos? — Taylor Lorenz is a reporter for the Washington Post who wrote a scathing piece about the lady who runs the LibsofTikTok account. She claims the account has wrongly and falsely shaped narratives that have guided the right to act in homophobia.
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Biden Job Approval Stuck in Low 40s — Average approval rating essentially unchanged from fourth quarter — All prior elected presidents except Trump had higher fifth quarter averages — Presidents' approval ratings usually decline in their second year
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Washington Post:
As the pandemic exploded, a researcher saw the danger. China's leaders kept silent. — The morning of Dec. 26, 2019, began as usual at Vision Medicals in Guangzhou in southern China. This commercial laboratory, a private start-up barely a year and a half old, was also known by its Chinese name, Weiyuan Gene Technology.
Andrew Miller / Fox News:
Obama says he regrets not doing more to stop the spread of ‘disinformation’, people ‘dying’ because of it — Obama's initiative against disinformation has been widely slammed by conservatives — A walk down bad memory lane: Obama-style — Former President Barack Obama railed against what he called …
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Casey Newton / Platformer:
Obama rallies against disinformation
Obama rallies against disinformation
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Gina Kolata / New York Times:
Tucker Carlson Has a Cure for Declining Virility — A promo for an upcoming Fox show describes a testosterone “calamity” among American men, along with an unlikely treatment. — Give this article- - - Read in app — Are you a man worried about your testosterone levels? Hoping to give them a boost?
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Fusion GPS's ‘Attorney-Client Privilege’ Cover — The opposition-research firm tries to dodge a subpoena by claiming it contributed to legal advice. — 1x — America, meet Simpson, Fritsch, & Oppo—the country's newest, if not its most prestigious, law firm.
Virginia Hume / The Dispatch:
Our Failed COVID Response — If, God forbid, we face another pandemic, we cannot use our COVID strategy as the baseline. — A February headline in the Washington Post read, “Mask Mandates didn't make much difference anyway.” A month later, the New York Times gave us this: “Do Covid restrictions work?
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Politico:
‘You only win if you fight’: Will Gallego unseat Sinema? — This week Playbook co-author Ryan Lizza is in Arizona to dig into a few big plotlines ahead of this year's elections. Trump narrowly lost the state in 2020, Senator Mark Kelly — the Democratic incumbent — is one of the most vulnerable senators …
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Insider and The Daily Caller
Aria Bendix / NBC News:
In a first, firearms were leading cause of death for U.S. children and teens in 2020 — Guns became the leading cause of death among children and teens in 2020, killing more people ages 1 to 19 in the U.S. than vehicle crashes, drugs overdoses or cancer. — More than 4,300 died …
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