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Politico:
Biden 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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Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
Poll: Biden's standing improves, while Trump slumps with Republican voters — President Biden is seeing his highest approval ratings in almost a year, while former President Donald Trump, who is hoping to take the job back, is getting his worst scores among potential Republican voters in years …
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Fox News, Morning Consult, National Review, PBS NewsHour, Political Wire and Washington Post
Politico:
Biden builds a new team to carry him across landmines — Joe Biden's choices for his economic team reflect the new reality for the president as he prepares to launch his re-election bid: The historic legislative part of his first term is over. — The next two years will be dominated …
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Revolving Door Project …
Wall Street Journal:
America's Choice in Ukraine — A year of war in Ukraine hasn't changed Vladimir Putin, and we hope Western politicians preaching “peace” were listening to his speech on Tuesday. The Russian promised nothing but more war and blamed the West for it. His choice in turn means …
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Cathy Young / The Bulwark:
Year One of the Ukraine War: The Big Lessons and Questions — Plus: With no victories to report, Putin fulminates about Western perfidy, supposed Ukrainian Nazis, and a gender-neutral God — A year after the start of Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine, it is often difficult to remember what the early days were like.
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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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NBC News:
Why China's Ukraine balancing act might be tilting in Putin's favor
Why China's Ukraine balancing act might be tilting in Putin's favor
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European Council on Foreign Relations:
United West, divided from the rest: Global public opinion one year into Russia's war on Ukraine
United West, divided from the rest: Global public opinion one year into Russia's war on Ukraine
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The Guardian, Bloomberg and Politico
James Stavridis / Bloomberg:
Getting Pummeled in War Is a 200-Year Russian Tradition
Getting Pummeled in War Is a 200-Year Russian Tradition
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CNN:
US believes Russia had failed intercontinental ballistic missile test around when Biden was in Ukraine
US believes Russia had failed intercontinental ballistic missile test around when Biden was in Ukraine
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Reuters:
Russia says it will play by nuclear treaty rules despite suspending deal with U.S.
Russia says it will play by nuclear treaty rules despite suspending deal with U.S.
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Yvonne Wingett Sanchez / Washington Post:
Arizona's top prosecutor concealed records debunking election fraud claims — Newly released documents show how Republican Mark Brnovich publicized an incomplete account of his office's probe of the 2020 election in Maricopa County — By Yvonne Wingett Sanchez and Isaac Stanley-Becker
Politico:
Trump's visit to Ohio derailment gives Biden's team some breathing room — Donald Trump's visit to the site of a toxic train derailment in Ohio is offering a political opening to battered Biden administration officials — by calling new attention to the former president's record of rolling …
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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 …
Christopher Wilson / Yahoo News:
Trump set to visit East Palestine after cutting rail regulations as president
Trump set to visit East Palestine after cutting rail regulations as president
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Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Trump ally with ties to ‘fake elector’ scheme advances in Wisconsin Supreme Court race — A Donald Trump ally who advised Republicans on legal efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential race has advanced to the Wisconsin Supreme Court general election, putting him one step closer to a seat on the powerful bench.
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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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David Folkenflik / NPR:
NPR says it's cutting jobs by 10% as ad revenue drops — NPR's chief executive announced the network would lay off roughly 10% of its current workforce - at least 100 people - and eliminate most vacant positions. CEO John Lansing cited the erosion of advertising dollars, particularly for NPR podcasts …
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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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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, Digby's Hullabaloo and Politico
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
David Waldstreicher / The Atlantic:
The Forgotten Ron DeSantis Book — The Florida governor's long-ignored 2011 work, Dreams From Our Founding Fathers, reveals a distinct vision of American history and how it should influence the present. History works for Ron Desantis as an argument. It would be a mistake, though …
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RedState, The Free Press and Washington Examiner
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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Washington Post, Raw Story, Political Wire and New York Times
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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Bret Stephens / New York Times:
The Mask Mandates Did Nothing. Will Any Lessons Be Learned? — The most rigorous and comprehensive analysis of scientific studies conducted on the efficacy of masks for reducing the spread of respiratory illnesses — including Covid-19 — was published late last month.
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Vox, HotAir and Florida's Voice
Daniel Bates / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Arkansas cops rule suicide in death of Clinton aide linked to Jeffrey Epstein - who was found shot and tied to a tree with an electrical cord around his neck - despite no sign of weapon — Bill Clinton's special advisor Mark Middleton, who signed Jeffrey Epstein …
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Louder With Crowder
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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Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
The Forces Tearing Us Apart Are Not 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 …
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Sen. Jon Tester to seek reelection in major boost for Democrats — The party faces a tough Senate map in 2024, so the Montanan's announcement Wednesday drew sighs of relief from many on the left — Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) announced Wednesday that he will seek reelection to a fourth term …
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Mike Pence breaks with Trump on Medicare and Social Security — WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Mike Pence said Wednesday that cuts to Medicare and Social Security should be “on the table for the long term,” differentiating himself from former President Donald Trump as he considers a run for the Oval Office.
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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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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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Valentine Faure / The Atlantic:
The Children of the Nazis' Genetic Project — Across Europe, some adoptees have had to face a dark realization about their origins. — t the small elementary school in Jouy-sous-les-Côtes, in northeastern France, Gisèle Marc knew the rumor about her: that her parents …
Associated Press:
Supreme Court rules for Arizona inmate in death penalty case — The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a man on Arizona's death row should be resentenced because jurors in his case were wrongly told that the only way to ensure he would never walk free was to sentence him to death.
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.