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Ukraine war: Rockets hit Kyiv as UN chief admits failings — Rockets hit Kyiv during the UN Secretary General's visit to the city, in which he criticised his own organisation's Security Council. — Antonio Guterres said the council had failed to prevent or end the war in Ukraine.
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Tyler O'Neil / Fox News:
Marine veteran dies fighting alongside Ukrainians; Widow calls him ‘hero’
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CNN:
Russia making ‘slow and uneven’ progress as military tries to fix problems that plagued early invasion, US officials say
Washington Post:
Covid deaths no longer overwhelmingly among unvaccinated as toll on elderly grows … Unvaccinated people accounted for the overwhelming majority of deaths in the United States throughout much of the coronavirus pandemic. But that has changed in recent months, according to a Washington Post analysis of state and federal data.
Max Tani / Politico:
The Rise and Fall of the Star White House Reporter — Washington reporters have long considered the role of White House correspondent to be the crown jewel of American political journalism. It has launched high-profile television careers, scored countless reporters book deals and been bestowed …
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Twitchy
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Elon Musk's uneasy relationship with the left explodes over Twitter takeover — Musk has helped expand America's use of electric vehicles. The left has found a lot of other things to dislike about him. — WASHINGTON — A climate hawk who immigrated to the U.S. in his 20s just struck …
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Bloomberg:
Musk's Twitter Pitch Featured Job Cuts, Other Ways to Make Money
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
What Elon Musk's polarization graph gets wrong
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Louder With Crowder, Bloomberg, The Daily Caller, Big League Politics, HotAir, Althouse and HotAir
Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast:
Roger Stone Tries to Come Back to Twitter, Is Immediately Re-Banned
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Daily Mail, HuffPost, HotAir, TheBlaze, Insider, Twitchy, Mercury News, The Gateway Pundit and New York Post
Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
Republicans have the advantage with voters in 2022 elections, poll finds — All signs are pointing to a difficult midterm election for President Biden and Democrats, and a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll has fresh evidence of that. — Of the 1,162 registered voters surveyed …
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PBS NewsHour and Political Wire
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David Brooks / New York Times:
Seven Lessons Democrats Need to Learn — Fast — We all make mistakes; the question is, do we learn from them? Over the past couple of years people on the left side of the political and cultural spectrum have made their share. These have contributed to the Democrats' extremely bleak political prospects going into the midterms.
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Wide World of News, The Daily Beast, Althouse and The Hill
Mary Ellen Klas / Miami Herald:
Rating agency warns Disney debt conflict could ‘weaken’ other Florida government bonds — One of the nation's leading bond rating agencies warned Thursday that if the state of Florida doesn't resolve a conflict over its decision to repeal Walt Disney World's Reedy Creek Improvement District …
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Nick Allen / Telegraph:
Volodymyr Zelensky refused to be evacuated from Kyiv as Russian hitmen parachuted into capital — The Ukrainian President also made a secret visit to the front line, according to the account — Volodymyr Zelensky refused to be evacuated from his compound in Kyiv even as Russian assassination …
Washington Post:
Inside the Republican drift away from supporting the NATO alliance — The isolationist posture of some Republicans is in line with the ‘America First’ ethos of Trump, the GOP's de facto leader who has long railed against NATO — In early 2019, several months after President Donald Trump threatened …
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New York Times:
Likelihood of Trump Indictment in Manhattan Fades as Grand Jury Wraps Up — The Manhattan district attorney is continuing to investigate Mr. Trump, but knowledgeable people say charges are unlikely to occur in the foreseeable future, if ever. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Insider and Washington Times
Olivia Beavers / Politico:
Inside the House Freedom Caucus' identity crisis — Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert look from the outside like MAGA twins, both loathed by Democrats for their incendiary right-wing rhetoric. But inside the House GOP, they're not quite buddy-buddy.
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Rolling Stone, LGBTQ Nation and Raw Story
CNN:
A frustrated Joe Biden will go on the attack against Republicans in the midterms - and into 2024 — President Joe Biden has been letting loose in private conversations in recent weeks, railing about the factors bogging down his approval ratings and the people he thinks aren't helping …
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Politico, nationalinterest.org, NBC News, The Nation, Regular Order and The Daily Wire
Natalie Allison / Politico:
Republican who refuses to bend the knee to Trump surges in Ohio Senate race — The field of candidates chasing Ohio's GOP Senate nomination has pledged allegiance to former President Donald Trump and beaten a path to Mar-a-Lago. — But not Matt Dolan. The state senator has declined to kiss the ring …
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CNN, Vox, Plain Dealer, Washington Post and New York Times
Dan Diamond / Washington Post:
Trump officials muzzled CDC on church covid guidance, emails confirm — The documents offer new details about how the White House delivered on the priorities of religious communities that were key to the president's base — Trump White House officials in May 2020 overrode public health …
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Insider, The Daily Beast, House Select Subcommittee …, The Hill, The Guardian, UPI, Raw Story, Boston.com and POLITICUSUSA
Hannah Natanson / Washington Post:
Fla. law made school book bans easier. So one man challenged the Bible. — The man petitioning to ban the Bible says it is just as sexually explicit and violent as other books facing challenges — It was Florida's move to reject 54 math textbooks for “prohibited subjects” …
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Insider
Cathy Young / The Bulwark:
The Redpill Grifter Who Became an Anti-Ukraine Propagandist — And the wacko tale of his supposed murder. — Last week, on April 21, Scott Ritter—whom older readers might remember as a former U.N. weapons inspector turned ferocious foe of American and Western foreign policy …
Jonathan Edwards / Washington Post:
Ohio lawmaker calls pregnancies from rape an ‘opportunity’ for victims — An Ohio lawmaker proposing a near-total abortion ban was given a hypothetical: A 13-year-old girl is raped and becomes pregnant as a result. Would the Republican's bill force that teenager to have her rapist's baby?
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and Ohio Capital Journal
The Boston Globe:
Blueprint for a coup comes into focus — The Jan. 6 House committee needs to connect the dots and show how democracy was imperiled. — The steady drip, drip, drip of e-mails and tapes before, during, and after the Jan. 6 insurrection may look like the usual Washington, D.C. …
New York Post:
Biden blasted for policing free speech with ‘dystopian’ disinformation bureau — Oh, (Big) Brother! — President Biden came under fire Thursday for the creation of a “dystopian” disinformation bureau created under his Homeland Security department, which critics are blasting …
Tyler Kingkade / NBC News:
She told her Christian college she was raped. Then she was banned from campus. — When Mara Louk told an administrator at Visible Music College, where she was a senior, that a male classmate had choked and raped her last November, she expected that school officials would help her file a police report and arrange a safety plan.
Alisha Ebrahimji / CNN:
Texas high school policy banning braided or twisted hair has stopped a teen from attending school, his mom says — (CNN)Nothing makes Dyree Williams feel more like himself than his hair, which he has proudly worn in twists, braids and locks all his life — it's part of his identity and a direct connection to his ancestors.
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Click2Houston.com and The Root
Stephanie Saul / New York Times:
G.O.P. Lawmakers Subverted U. of North Carolina, Professors' Group Says — In a new report, the group says that the Republicans created a hostile climate on campuses. The administration called the charges absurd. — Give this article- - - Read in app
Laura Collins / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: ‘I would like to see a naked body beneath my hands.’ GOP Rep Madison Cawthorn is caught on video with male scheduler's hand on his crotch as new ethics complaint claims the congressman gave him thousands of dollars in loans and gifts, — Footage obtained exclusively …
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HotAir, Punchbowl News, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Insider
Mathew Foresta / The Daily Beast:
Meet the Sneakiest Defenders of Putin's Invasion of Ukraine — COUNTING THE COST … Propaganda peddlers rake in cash and followers at the expense of the truth and oppressed people in Ukraine, Xinjiang, and Syria. — Misinformation is a profitable racket. Just ask Lee Camp.
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