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2:20 PM ET, April 26, 2022

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WSOC-TV:
Sources: Rep. Madison Cawthorn cited for having a gun at Charlotte Douglas  —  CHARLOTTE — Rep. Madison Cawthorn was cited for having a gun at Charlotte Douglas International Airport Tuesday morning, three sources tell Channel 9.  —  According to the TSA, a 9 millimeter handgun was discovered …
Discussion: Insider, Forbes and Raw Story
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
A Billionaires' World  —  The world's richest person didn't like Twitter.  So he's buying it.  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  Two years ago, the economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman published a statistic that you don't normally see.  It was the share of wealth owned by the richest 0.00001 percent of Americans.
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Shira Ovide / New York Times:
Buying Twitter, Elon Musk Will Face Reality of His Free-Speech Talk  —  Tech's big shots have learned again and again that free speech isn't so simple.  What happens when Mr. Musk owns Twitter?  —  A decade ago, Twitter executives, including the chief executive, Dick Costolo …
Javier Espinoza / Financial Times:
EU warns Elon Musk over Twitter moderation plans  —  EU commissioner Thierry Breton tells Tesla chief executive: ‘Elon, there are rules’  —  Brussels has warned Elon Musk that Twitter must comply with the EU's new digital rules under his ownership, or risk hefty fines or even a ban …
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Republicans to Trump: Stay away from Twitter  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  The news that ELON MUSK is buying Twitter has thrown Washington into a tizzy over one major question: Will DONALD TRUMP return to his old favorite social media platform and start tweeting again?
New York Times:
New Details Underscore House G.O.P. Role in Jan. 6 Planning  —  A court filing and newly disclosed text messages provide additional evidence of how closely some fervent pro-Trump lawmakers worked with the White House on efforts to overturn the election.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
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ProPublica:
Building the “Big Lie”: Inside the Creation of Trump's Stolen Election Myth  —  Co-published with FRONTLINE … By the time Leamsy Salazar sat down in front of a video recorder in a lawyer's office in Dallas, he had grown accustomed to divulging state secrets.
Discussion: Daily Kos and CNN
Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
‘Yes sir’: New texts show Hannity promising on-air Trump campaign push  —  Fox News host Sean Hannity promised Donald Trump's chief of staff, Mark Meadows, that he would push an Election Day get-out-the-vote message to his radio show listeners, according to communications within a cache of more than 2,000 text messages obtained by CNN.
Lee Moran / HuffPost:
Rick Perry's Election Lie Undone — By His Own Text Message
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
AJC poll: Kemp has strong shot to knock out Perdue without a runoff  —  Gov. Brian Kemp has a chance of landing an outright victory against former U.S. Sen. David Perdue, according to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll that shows the Republican incumbent with a hefty advantage over his Donald Trump-backed challenger.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
A leading Trump sycophant may soon get the humiliation he deserves
Discussion: NBC News
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Fears mount inside White House that Manchin won't agree to any deal  —  Biden aides have tried gauging the senator's interest in a potential agreement, but time is running out  —  President Biden last spring proposed spending more than $4 trillion to transform the American economy.
Discussion: HotAir, Bloomberg and Political Wire
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Erik Wasson / Bloomberg:
Manchin and Schumer Discuss New Tax Hike, Deficit Cut Proposal
Discussion: Politico and Slow Boring
Jacob Schumer / Bloomberg Tax:
The Contractual Impossibility of Unwinding Disney's Reedy Creek  —  There's been a lot of talk about whether Florida lawmakers can legally dissolve Disney's Reedy Creek Improvement District, but there's one basic reason why Florida can't dissolve it—it promised bond purchasers that it wouldn't …
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Sarah Rumpf / Law & Crime:
Florida's Contractual Obligations to Bond Holders Block Repeal of Disney's Special Taxing District, Says Reedy Creek in New Statement
Discussion: The Duckpin
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Jeremy Beaman / Washington Examiner:
Biden team put on defensive by environmentalist anger
Discussion: Washington Post
Anders Hagstrom / Fox News:
Vice President Kamala Harris tests positive for COVID-19
BBC:
Germany to send tanks to Ukraine in U-turn  —  Watch: BBC News coverage of UN chief's Ukraine talks in Moscow  —  Updates from BBC correspondents: Yogita Limaye, Sarah Rainsford, Joe Inwood, Joel Gunter and Anna Foster in Kyiv, Andrew Harding in Donbas, Catherine Byaruhanga in Zaporizhzhia …
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New York Times:
Ukraine Live Updates: U.S. Military Leaders Meet With Allies in Germany
Casey Michel / CNN:
Seizing yachts was a good start.  Here are some other places Russian oligarchs stash their cash  —  Inside the 280-foot yacht seized by the French government 02:54  —  Casey Michel is a writer and investigative journalist covering kleptocracy and dark money networks across the globe.
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Amber Coakley / One America News Network:
Rep. Biggs: Alleged Rep. McCarthy comments raise huge trust issue for me  —  Arizona congressman Andy Biggs says taped comments of Republican leader Kevin McCarthy about President Donald Trump are “a huge trust issue” for him.  One America's John Hines has more from Washington.
Discussion: Political Wire
Ben Gittleson / ABC News:
ABC News Exclusive: Dr. Birx speaks to Trump disinfectant moment, says colleagues had resignation pact  —  White House COVID response coordinator reveals details before book release.  —  The coronavirus response coordinator for President Donald Trump's COVID task force, Dr. Deborah Birx …
Techno Fog / The Reactionary:
Durham's latest: He has hundreds of e-mails between Fusion GPS and reporters  —  Special Counsel John Durham just filed this motion in response to the efforts of Hillary for America, Fusion GPS, et al. to keep secret (by use of the attorney-client and work product privileges) communications involving Fusion GPS.
Christopher Hooks / Texas Monthly:
Cancel Culture Comes for Beto O'Rourke  —  The Democratic gubernatorial candidate says he wants to have a dialogue with Texans of all persuasions.  But in one rural community, Republicans worked to make sure he would have no place to talk or listen.  —  When Democratic candidates …
Discussion: Dallas Morning News
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Most Americans have been infected with the coronavirus at least once, the C.D.C. says.  —  The common perception that nearly everyone in America seemed to have been infected with the Omicron variant last winter may not have been far from the truth.  By February 2022, nearly 60 percent …
Discussion: Politico
NBC News:
U.S. intel helped Ukraine protect air defenses, shoot down Russian plane carrying hundreds of troops  —  As Russia launched its invasion, the U.S. gave Ukrainian forces detailed intelligence about exactly when and where Russian missiles and bombs were intended to strike …
Cameron Joseph / VICE:
Beyoncé, Yoga, Billie Eilish: Trump-Backed Candidate Thinks Everything Is Satanic  —  Michigan GOP Secretary of State nominee Kristina Karamo also thinks Cardi B is a “tool of Lucifer.”  —  CJ  —  Republicans' newest statewide nominee isn't just obsessed with the Big Lie and aligned with QAnon.
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE:
Facebook Doesn't Know What It Does With Your Data, Or Where It Goes  —  “We do not have an adequate level of control and explainability over how our systems use data,” Facebook engineers say in leaked document.  —  Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai  —  Facebook is facing what it describes internally as a …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Ex-senator and top GOP operatives launch ‘conservative’ credit card alternative  —  Top Republican operatives and a former GOP senator are behind a new Visa credit card catering to conservative consumers with plans to funnel a portion of its profits to right-of-center causes.
 
 
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David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Winners and losers in Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis-driven Florida redistricting
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Blake Brittain / Reuters:
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Washington Post:
Harvard leaders and staff enslaved more than 70 people, report finds
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Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
Loeffler Said Her Private Jet Saved Taxpayers Money. It Didn't.
Discussion: Raw Story
Leslie Josephs / CNBC:
Delta, facing a union drive, says it will start paying flight attendants during boarding
Discussion: The Hill and UPI
Molly Beck / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Trump turns up the heat on Wisconsin Republican leader Robin Vos to keep Gableman election probe alive
Discussion: WCCO | CBS Minnesota
John E. McDonough / Politico:
Republicans Have Stopped Trying to Kill Obamacare. Here's What They're Planning Instead.
Discussion: Raw Story
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Biden grants three pardons, 75 commutations for individuals serving for nonviolent drug crimes
Evan Simko-Bednarski / New York Post:
Russia appears to confuse ‘The Sims’ for SIM cards in possible staged assassination attempt
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Mediaite
 

 
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Bloomberg:
The DOJ's proposal would require Google to divest from AI partnerships, like with Anthropic, and ban Google from offering exclusive deals to content providers

Guthrie Scrimgeour / Wired:
Hawaii's The Garden Island stops using AI-generated newscasters on YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram after two months, likely due to the negative public response

Evan Drellich / New York Times:
The MLB is planning national packages for streaming companies to bid on in 2028, when its national TV deals with ESPN, Fox, and Turner expire

 
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