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9:40 AM ET, April 23, 2022

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Politico:
GOP lawmakers were deeply involved in Trump plans to overturn election, new evidence suggests  —  Republican members of Congress were heavily involved in calls and meetings with former President Donald Trump and his top aides as they devised a strategy to overturn the election in December 2020 …
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Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Meadows was warned of violence before Jan. 6, new court filings show  —  White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows was warned before Jan. 6, 2021, about the threat of violence that day as supporters of President Donald Trump planned to mass at the U.S. Capitol, according to new testimony released late Friday …
Blake Hounshell / New York Times:
'It's Time to Head for the Lifeboats': Democratic Fatalism Intensifies  —  Strategists and pollsters are increasingly talking about limiting the party's expected losses in November rather than how to gain new seats.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
Annie Karni / New York Times:
McCarthy's Lie Puts G.O.P. Hypocrisy on Trump on Display
Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
Jan. 6 panel gets inconsistent testimony on key Trump family conversation
Discussion: Raw Story
Michael Kruse / Politico:
Exclusive: Madison Cawthorn photos reveal him wearing women's lingerie in public setting  —  Photographs obtained by POLITICO appear to show Madison Cawthorn, the embattled Republican congressman from North Carolina who recently accused his GOP colleagues of inviting him to orgies, wearing lingerie in what appears to be a party setting.
Robert Schlesinger / New Republic:
Republicans Give Up on the Free Market and Put Their Faith in Vindictive Governance  —  “The market is rational and government is dumb,” Dick Armey, one of the leaders of the 1994 Republican Revolution, liked to say.  That used to be a cornerstone of conservatism.  Today, it's increasingly the reverse.
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Katie Glueck / New York Times:
Punishing Disney, DeSantis Signals a Lasting G.O.P. Brawl With Business
Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal:
Florida Gov. DeSantis Signs Bill Stripping Disney of Special Tax Status
Bill Chappell / NPR:
DeSantis wanted to punish Disney. Repealing its tax status may hurt taxpayers instead
Ariana Garcia / Laredo Morning News:
Gov. Greg Abbott truck inspections turned up zero drugs, migrants but cost Texas $4.2 billion  —  The costly policy, which experts estimate cost hundreds of millions of dollars over the course of a single week, did not result in any migrant detentions or illegal substance seizures.
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«Пере д нами задач а — сдела ть так, будт о Украи ны пр …
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Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
Seeking to Prevent Her Disqualification, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Claims Under Oath That She Can't Remember Much About Talks Before Jan. 6
BBC:
Gun deaths were the leading killer of US children in 2020  —  Guns overtook car crashes to become the leading cause of death for US children and teenagers in 2020, new research shows.  —  Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that over 4,300 young Americans died of firearm-related injuries in 2020.
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Dustin Jones / NPR:   Firearms overtook auto accidents as the leading cause of death in children
Justice News:
California Man Arrested and Charged with Making Threats Against LGBTQ Community  —  Defendant allegedly targeted Springfield-based Merriam-Webster, Inc. and other institutions and individuals with threats to commit anti-LGBTQ violence  —  BOSTON - A California man was arrested on Tuesday …
Discussion: The Wrap, Raw Story, Pharyngula and HuffPost
Naomi Nix / Washington Post:
Twitter bans climate change propaganda ads as deniers target platforms  —  The social media company says ads can't contradict “scientific consensus” on the environmental crisis  —  Twitter is banning advertisements that promote climate change denial in an effort to curb the reach of groups seeking …
Chris Smyth / The Times:
Sajid Javid inquiry into gender treatment for children … Vulnerable children are wrongly being given gender hormone treatment by the NHS, Sajid Javid believes, as he prepares to launch an urgent inquiry.  —  The health secretary thinks the system is “failing children” …
Discussion: The Guardian
New York Times:
What Happened on Day 58 of the War in Ukraine  —  Here's the latest on the war in Ukraine.  —  Ukrainian officials acknowledged Friday that Russian forces had taken more than three dozen small towns in their initial drive this week to seize eastern Ukraine, offering the first glimpse …
Discussion: The Hill, UPI and Portland Mercury
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The Moscow Times:
Kremlin Critic Kara-Murza Faces Prison on War ‘Fakes’ Charges
Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
Starbucks Is Sued by U.S. Labor Board Over Retaliation Claims  —  U.S. labor officials are asking a federal court to force Starbucks Corp. to reinstate a group of activists, escalating the legal battle over the company's response to the union campaign sweeping through its stores.
Sam Levine / The Guardian:
Prosecutor drops all charges against Pamela Moses, jailed over voting error  —  Moses, convicted last year, was granted new trial in February after Guardian revealed files that had not been given to her defense  —  A Memphis prosecutor has dropped all criminal charges against Pamela Moses …
Steve Rosenberg / BBC:
Ukraine war: The Russia I knew no longer exists  —  There are no shells exploding in Moscow.  There are no foreign forces encircling the city.  What Muscovites are experiencing now is nothing compared to the horrors in Ukraine.  —  At first glance life here even looks normal.
Jessica Schneider / CNN:
Person sets self on fire at Supreme Court plaza  —  Washington (CNN)Someone set themself on fire Friday at the plaza in front of the US Supreme Court building, a court spokesperson said.  —  Supreme Court Police, US Capitol Police and the DC Metropolitan Police Department responded to the incident …
James McAuley / New Yorker:
The French Far Right Comes on Little Cat Feet  —  After years of seeing Marine Le Pen as a dangerous extreme, many voters now see her as a politician like any other.  —  In the early spring of 2017, before France's previous Presidential election, I took a taxi from my apartment in Paris to Saint-Cloud …
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Matthew Dalton / Wall Street Journal:
Marine Le Pen's Far-Right French Party to Pay Nearly $13 Million to Russian Military Contractor
Discussion: Bloomberg
 
 
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Pamela Constable / Washington Post:
Taliban vows crackdown on ISIS as violence surges in Afghanistan
Timothy Snyder / New York Times:
The War in Ukraine Has Unleashed a New Word
Discussion: NPR and BBC
Gabriel Hays / Fox News:
Hillary Clinton ripped over tweet urging EU to police ‘disinformation’ and ‘extremism’ online
Discussion: NOQ Report
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Police Raid MAGA ‘King of Toxic Masculinity’ in Human-Trafficking Investigation
Discussion: Raw Story
Lwvfl / League of Women Voters of Florida:
League of Women Voters of Florida and Others Sue Over Gov. DeSantis' Congressional Map
Arpan Rai / The Independent:
Nearly 3,000 of Russia's notorious Wagner mercenary group have been killed in the war, UK MPs told
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Timothy Nerozzi / Fox News:
Randi Weingarten says parental rights bills are ‘the way in which wars start’
CNN:
‘Trump is fine’: McCarthy quietly moves to tamp down fallout after damaging audio reveals January 6 views
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Son of Far-Right Group Leader Charged with Child Sex Abuse
Reuters:
Special Report: How crypto giant Binance built ties to a Russian FSB-linked agency
Discussion: Gizmodo
Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
Why is Biden polling so poorly on Ukraine?
Washington Post:
As the pandemic exploded, a researcher saw the danger. China's leaders kept silent.
Discussion: HotAir