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Politico:
Joe may not run — and top Dems are quietly preparing — Joe Biden's closest advisers have spent months preparing for him to formally announce his reelection campaign. But with the president still not ready to make the plunge, a sense of doubt is creeping into conversations around 2024: What if he decides not to?
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Michael Luciano / Mediaite:
‘Wincing’ Anderson Cooper and Elie Honig Blast Trump Grand Jury Forewoman's Media Blitz: ‘Horrible Idea’ — Anderson Cooper and Elie Honig discussed the multiple awkward media appearances by the forewoman of the grand jury that will reportedly recommend indictments in a case involving Donald Trump.
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Danny Hakim / New York Times:
Jury in Georgia Trump Inquiry Recommended Multiple Indictments, Forewoman Says — She would not discuss specific indictments in the special grand jury's report but noted that its recommendations were “not going to be some giant plot twist.” — A special grand jury that investigated election interference …
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Spent $10 Million From His PAC on His Legal Bills Last Year
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David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:
10 Surprising Lessons of the Ukraine War So Far — From revealing Putin's weaknesses to new ways to wage war to intriguing new power centers, the war in Ukraine has served up one surprise after another—and we can expect many more. … In the year since Russia escalated its war against Ukraine …
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Wall Street Journal:
America's Choice in Ukraine — As long as Putin wants war, seeking a peace settlement is a fantasy. — By The Editorial Board — WSJ Opinion: The Known Unknowns of Joe Biden's UFO Silence — YOU MAY ALSO LIKE — Created with sketchtool. — 1x
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Axios, Washington Examiner, Wide World of News, New York Post, TASS and New York Times
Fiona Hill / UnHerd:
'Absolute victory over Russia isn't possible' — Trump's former advisor on the West's mistakes in Ukraine — Few people better understand the West's fraught relationship with Russia than Fiona Hill. Born in Bishop Auckland, she went on to study History and Russian at St Andrews before a scholarship at Harvard took her to America.
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NBC News:
Why China's Ukraine balancing act might be tilting in Putin's favor
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Cathy Young / The Bulwark:
Year One of the Ukraine War: The Big Lessons and Questions
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BBC, The Guardian and Financial Times
Al Jazeera:
Ukraine war will ‘never be a victory for Russia’, Biden says
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Chandelis Duster / CNN:
Jennifer McClellan will win special election and become Virginia's first Black congresswoman, CNN projects — Virginia state Sen. Jennifer McClellan will win the special election for Virginia's 4th Congressional District and will become the first Black woman to represent the commonwealth in Congress, CNN projected Tuesday.
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Zoë Richards / NBC News:
Polls close in Virginia's 4th Congressional District special election
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CNN:
US believes Russia had failed intercontinental ballistic missile test around when Biden was in Ukraine — Russia carried out a test of an intercontinental ballistic missile that appears to have failed around the time President Joe Biden was in Ukraine on Monday, according to two US officials familiar with the matter.
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Steve Contorno / CNN:
DeSantis gets 7-figure checks from top GOP donors as he soft launches presidential campaign
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Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Two Starkly Different Judges Advance in Wisconsin Supreme Court Election — Janet Protasiewicz, a liberal, and Daniel Kelly, a conservative, will face off on April 4 in a race that could tilt the balance of the court, with abortion rights, gerrymandered maps and more in the balance.
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Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Montana Sen. Jon Tester to seek reelection in major boost for Democrats — Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) announced Wednesday that he will seek reelection, bolstering Democratic hopes as the party faces a tough Senate map in 2024. — Casting himself as a fighter who can hold Washington accountable …
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Sean Maguire / Anchorage Daily News:
Rep. Eastman sparks outrage after asking about the potential economic benefits of the deaths of abused Alaska children — JUNEAU - Wasilla Republican Rep. David Eastman sparked outrage online after asking whether there could be economic benefits from the death of abused children.
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Raw Story, New York Post and Politico
Dan Alexander / Forbes:
Donald Trump Has Been Lying About Trump Tower For Decades — As the former president tries to fend off authorities, new revelations about Trump Tower suggest that the building is—and always was—something of a fraud. — For decades, Trump Tower has embodied the various stages of Donald Trump.
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Raw Story and Political Wire
Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair:
Dozens of ‘New York Times’ Journalists Hit Staff Union for Its Defense of Trans Coverage Criticism — Some of the paper's top reporters signed a letter objecting to the Guild's response to newsroom leaders. “We ask that our union work to advance, not erode, our journalistic independence,” they wrote.
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Joseph Menn / Washington Post:
Russian propagandists said to buy Twitter blue-check verifications — The verifications mean their tweets, mostly opposing U.S. aid to Ukraine, are given added prominence — SAN FRANCSICO — Accounts pushing Kremlin propaganda are using Twitter's new paid verification system to appear …
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Political Wire
Harry Litman / Los Angeles Times:
Why Fox News' lies about Trump's defeat probably aren't protected by the 1st Amendment — Fox News responded to an incendiary court filing in Dominion Voting System's $1.6-billion defamation suit last week by asserting that “the core of this case remains about freedom of the press and freedom of speech …
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New York Daily News, Just The News and HotAir
Melissa Quinn / CBS News:
Supreme Court skeptical of limiting powerful legal shield for internet companies — Washington — The Supreme Court appeared resistant on Tuesday to limiting the scope of a federal law that has served as a powerful legal shield for internet companies, expressing concerns about the ramifications …
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Ella Nilsen / CNN:
Biden administration announces first-ever wind energy lease sale in Gulf of Mexico — The Biden administration on Wednesday announced the first-ever US offshore wind energy lease sale for the waters in the Gulf of Mexico, an area long dominated by oil and gas production.
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The White House, Washington Examiner and The Hill
Jessica Piper / Politico:
George Santos reported spreading campaign cash to other Republicans. The money never showed up. — One of George Santos' first acts as a candidate for Congress in 2019, according to his campaign finance filings, was making a series of four-figure donations from his campaign to a pair …
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New York Daily News, New York Post, The Hill and CNN
Katie McKellar / KSL-TV:
Mitt Romney: Call for ‘national divorce’ is ‘insanity’ — SALT LAKE CITY — Sen. Mitt Romney on Tuesday firmly denounced Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's recent call for a “national divorce,” harkening back on what happened in the U.S. during the Civil War. — “You know, I think Abraham Lincoln dealt …
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Washington Examiner, Salt Lake Tribune, Raw Story and HuffPost
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
The Forces Tearing Us Apart Aren't Quite What They Seem — A toxic combination of racial resentment and the sharp regional disparity in economic growth between urban and rural America is driving the class upheaval in American partisanship, with the Republican Party dominant …
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Nikki Haley defended right to secession, Confederate History Month and the Confederate flag in 2010 talk — Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley defended states' rights to secede from the United States, South Carolina's Confederate History Month and the Confederate flag in a 2010 interview …
HuffPost:
‘Political Opportunity’: After Weakening Critical Rail Safety Rules, Trump Heads To East Palestine — The GOP is showing little interest in reforms despite a catastrophic derailment, drawing the ire of Democrats and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. — A wave of Republican criticism …
Deborah B. Solomon / New York Times:
U.S. Could Default on Debt as Early as Summer, New Estimate Says — The Bipartisan Policy Center said the nation could run out of cash this summer or early fall if Congress did not raise the debt limit. — WASHINGTON — The United States faces a default sometime this summer or early fall …
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The Hill, CNN, Roll Call and Political Wire
Maxwell Strachan / VICE:
Companies Can't Ask You to Shut up to Receive Severance, NLRB Rules — The board reverses two previous decisions that held that such severance agreements were lawful. Limits on free speech have become increasingly common aspect of many severance agreements.
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The 21 Hats Morning Report, Insider and Axios
Bill Lueders / The Bulwark:
A Catalogue of the GOP's Paranoid Preoccupations — From COVID vaccines, to unsecured borders, to commie public schools, to an abusive executive branch, the right is scaring itself silly. — The world, according to MAGA Republicans, is a dark and dangerous place. There are constant existential threats.
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