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The College Board Strips Down Its A.P. Curriculum for African American Studies — After criticism from Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, the official course looks different: No more critical race theory, and the study of contemporary topics — like Black Lives Matter — is optional.
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Advanced Placement Program Releases Official AP African American Studies Framework
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Jack Stripling / Washington Post:
DeSantis aims to cut college diversity efforts; New College ousts president
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP senators rally to defend DeSantis from Trump attacks — Republican senators are rallying to defend Ron DeSantis from former President Trump's attempt to keep the popular Florida governor out of the 2024 presidential race. — At the same time, Trump is picking up more formal endorsements within …
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David Frum / The Atlantic:
The GOP Is Just Obnoxious — This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. — Let's say you're a politician in a close race and your opponent suffers a stroke.
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DeSantis bets on Trump being his own worst enemy
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Henry J. Gomez / NBC News:
Michigan Republicans are in turmoil as their leaders navigate tricky Trump terrain
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Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
Are Republicans Ready to Move On from Donald Trump?
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Arizona Republicans fear they may blow it again
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Zach Montellaro / Politico:
Election officials ready themselves for the next wave of Trump followers
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Max Tani / Semafor:
Justice Department arrests former ABC News journalist on child pornography charges — The Department of Justice on Wednesday announced the arrest of an award-winning investigative reporter on charges related to child pornography. — In a statement, the DOJ said that it was charging James Gordon Meek …
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Man Arrested for Transporting Images of Child Sexual Abuse — A Virginia man was arrested last night on criminal charges related to his alleged transportation of images depicting the sexual abuse of children. — According to court documents, the investigation into James Gordon Meek, 53 …
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Mother Jones:
George Santos Relative Says They Never Gave $5,800 Reported by the Campaign: “I'm Dumbfounded” — Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. — Last week, Mother Jones reported that more than a dozen top donors to Rep. George Santos …
Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
Trump Is Losing the Grifter Class to DeSantis — And they matter more than you might think. — 1. Hungry Dogs Have To Eat — There was bad news for the Trump 2024 campaign yesterday and it wasn't Nikki Haley's pre-announcement of her campaign to challenge the former president.1
Kara Scannell / CNN:
Trump Org. controller to testify to Manhattan grand jury investigating hush money payments — A top executive of the Trump Organization is expected to appear Thursday before a Manhattan grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump's alleged role in a hush money payment scheme, people familiar with the matter said.
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Cohen says DA took phones for renewed Trump hush-money probe — Donald Trump's long-estranged former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, says Manhattan prosecutors recently took his cellphones to preserve evidence related to a hush-money payment he made to porn actress Stormy Daniels in the waning weeks of the 2016 presidential campaign.
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Ryan Cooper / American Prospect:
Joe Manchin's Dumb Budget Idea Already Failed Before — In 2011, Congress created a ‘super committee’ to come to a bipartisan compromise on austerity. It didn't work. — The congressional Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, aka the “super committee,” meets on Capitol Hill …
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Voter fraud at a GOP stronghold leads to another light sentence — Quite a few Republican voters were caught casting illegal ballots in the 2020 elections. In each case, judges didn't exactly throw the book at them. — To the extent that the United States has a retirement community known …
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4th resident of The Villages admits to voting twice in the 2020 election
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FBI finds no classified documents at Biden's Delaware vacation home — The FBI has completed its search of President Joe Biden's Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, home and no documents with classified markings were found, according to a source familiar with the matter.
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FBI searches Biden's beach house amid classified documents investigation
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David Dayen / American Prospect:
Mortgage Bankers Scrambling Over Conservative Court Ruling — Faced with the potential invalidation of CFPB's funding structure, the top lobbyist for mortgage companies asks Congress to write the agency's rules into law. — The Mortgage Bankers Association, a trade group for mortgage companies …
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‘Go on offense’: Inside Democrats' strategy to try to undercut GOP investigations and protect Biden — Congressional Democrats are betting that a coordinated offense is their best defense against the coming Republican investigative onslaught. — Democrats on Capitol Hill, at the White House …
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
The House GOP's sham hearings are fizzling before they even begin
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CNBC:
White House likely to tap Brainard, Bernstein as top economic advisors, sources say — The White House will likely tap Lael Brainard and Jared Bernstein to lead the National Economic Council and Council of Economic Advisers, respectively, sources told CNBC.
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‘They come to me’: Jane Roberts' legal recruiting work involved officials whose agencies had cases before the Supreme Court — Jane Roberts, the wife of Chief Justice John Roberts, acknowledges having represented a wide variety of public officials — including senior Justice Department officials …
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New York Times:
Bias and Human Error Played Parts in F.B.I.'s Jan. 6 Failure, Documents Suggest — The F.B.I. appeared to be blinded by a lack of imagination, a narrow focus on “lone wolf” offenders and a misguided belief that the threat from the far left was as great as that from the far right, new congressional documents show.
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Trump's Fund-Raising in First Weeks of '24 Race Is Relatively Weak — After announcing presidential runs, Mitt Romney, Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush all raised more per day in their out-of-the-gates fund-raising periods. — Donald J. Trump's knack for generating millions of dollars simply …
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Joann Muller / Axios:
Scoop: Biden's EV surprise — The Biden administration's plan to jump-start a domestic supply chain for electric vehicles (EVs) is on track to shatter expectations. … - Some experts say the value of those tax credits may be four times higher than Congress' budget experts anticipated.
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Jenny Strasburg / Wall Street Journal:
BP's CEO Plays Down Renewables Push as Returns Lag — Bernard Looney seeks to sharpen strategic focus, with less emphasis on environmental goals — How Much Would It Cost to Reduce Global Warming? $131 Trillion Is One Answer — YOU MAY ALSO LIKE — Created with sketchtool.
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Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
How Much Longer Can ‘Vote Blue No Matter Who!’ Last? — Over the past four decades, the percentage of white Democrats who identify themselves as liberal has more than doubled, growing at a much faster pace than Black or Hispanic Democrats. — In 1984, according to American National …
Francois Murphy / Reuters:
IAEA chides Iran for undeclared change to Fordow uranium enrichment setup — The U.N. nuclear watchdog criticised Iran on Wednesday for making an undeclared change to the interconnection between the two clusters of advanced machines enriching uranium to up to 60% purity, close to weapons grade, at its Fordow plant.
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