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Ivan Pereira / ABC News:
White House Correspondents' Dinner returns with president in attendance  —  The show goes on despite COVID-19 concerns.  —  The White House Correspondents' Dinner makes its grand return Saturday night, two years after the pandemic shut it down and six years since the last time a commander-in-chief attended the event.
Washington Post:
Biden ticks up, but GOP holds advantage on economy, Post-ABC poll finds  —  Republicans lose ground when it comes to which party voters see themselves casting ballots for in November and the parties are now at rough parity.  —  President Biden's standing with Americans has improved slightly …
Discussion: The Hill, CNN, ABC News and Political Wire
Farnoush Amiri / Associated Press:
Evidence mounts of GOP involvement in Trump election schemes  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Rioters who smashed their way into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, succeeded — at least temporarily — in delaying the certification of Joe Biden's election to the White House.
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Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Marjorie Taylor Greene accused of lying in hearing in Capitol attack case
Discussion: Raw Story
Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
Meadows says 1/6 panel has sought to publicly ‘vilify’ him
Discussion: Fox News
Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
Pelosi, Congressional Delegation Statement on Visit to Kyiv, Ukraine  —  Rzeszow, Poland - Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Members of a Congressional delegation issued this statement following their visit to Kyiv, Ukraine.  This visit is the first official Congressional delegation to have visited Ukraine following Russia's invasion.
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Matthew Luxmoore / Wall Street Journal:
Nancy Pelosi Visits Ukraine's President Zelensky in Kyiv  —  Congressional trip comes as Russia's attempted military push into Ukraine's east is stalling  —  KYIV, Ukraine—House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and a delegation of U.S. lawmakers met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv …
Lloyd Green / The Guardian:
This Will Not Pass: Trump-Biden blockbuster is dire reading for Democrats  —  Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns have made waves with tapes of Kevin McCarthy and other Republicans - but the president's party has more to fear from what they reveal  —  his Will Not Pass is a blockbuster.
Nick Timiraos / Wall Street Journal:
Fed Prepares Double-Barreled Tightening With Bond Runoff  —  Officials' plans for their $9 trillion asset portfolio reflect many similarities—and differences—from earlier experiment to shrink holdings  —  To support financial markets and the economy during the pandemic …
Oriana Gonzalez / Axios:
Connecticut passes bill to make state safe haven for abortion providers  —  The Connecticut state Senate passed a bill late Friday night to protect abortion providers from bans in other states that are enforced via civil lawsuits.  —  Driving the news: The unique legislation is a direct response …
Discussion: CBS News
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Caroline Kitchener / Washington Post:
Conn. lawmakers pass bill to be ‘place of refuge’ for abortion patients
Discussion: Breitbart, CNN and Washington Examiner
Francis Fukuyama / Wall Street Journal:
The Long Arc of Historical Progress  —  A democratic world order is not the inexorable outcome of historical forces, but even amid setbacks, societies are clearly evolving toward equality and individual freedom.  —  1x  —  In a recent article in the Atlantic, the historian Anne Applebaum wrote that …
Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
How Tucker Carlson Stoked White Fear to Conquer Cable  —  Tucker Carlson burst through the doors of Charlie Palmer Steak, enfolded in an entourage of producers and assistants, cellphone pressed to his ear.  On the other end was Lachlan Murdoch, chairman of the Fox empire and his de facto boss.
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New York Times:
Inside the Apocalyptic Worldview of ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’
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Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:   How Tucker Carlson Reshaped Fox News — and Became Trump's Heir
Patrick Marley / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Days after Robin Vos extended Wisconsin's election review, Michael Gableman stands with the Assembly speaker's critics in the GOP  —  MADISON - Michael Gableman got a reprieve a few days ago, when Assembly Speaker Robin Vos announced the former state Supreme Court justice could continue …
Discussion: Raw Story
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
Bill Maher rips Twitter for flagging Babylon Bee amid Elon Musk takeover: ‘You do need a new sheriff’  —  Maher says Twitter has ‘failed’ for banning the Hunter Biden laptop story, Wuhan lab-leak theory  —  The left's response to Musk's Twitter buyout says ‘we are power-hungry control-freaks’: Watters
Discussion: The Daily Wire, TheBlaze and RedState
Al Jazeera:
Dutch dockers refuse to unload ship with Russian diesel cargo  —  Dutch dock workers are refusing to unload a tanker with a consignment of Russian diesel in the port of Amsterdam, a day after a similar action by dockers kept the ship from entering Rotterdam port.
New York Times:
How Twitter's Board Went From Fighting Elon Musk to Accepting Him  —  It's highly unusual to move from a “poison pill” to a $44 billion deal in under two weeks.  But Twitter's board ran out of options.  —  Twitter's board had reached the end of the road.  —  It was April 24.
 
 
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