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New York Times:
Trump Says He Would Stay in 2024 Race if Indicted — Donald Trump says he “wouldn't even think about” dropping out of the race for the White House if he's indicted. The former president has increasingly used his campaign as a cudgel against investigators.
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Vanity Fair, The Western Journal and The Gateway Pundit
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Laura Jedeed / New Republic:
The Sad, Desolate Scenes of CPAC 2023 — “It's so great to see everyone here, and it's so great to see a packed house, too!” — It is approximately 11:15 AM in Washington DC, and investigative reporter Sara Carter is lying. The house is never crowded this early on the first day of CPAC …
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Washington Times, The Hill and The Mahablog
David Smith / The Guardian:
‘I am your retribution’: Trump rules supreme at CPAC as he relaunches bid for White House — Former president claims Biden is leading America into ‘oblivion’ and that he could end the war between Russia and Ukraine — Donald Trump turned back the clock to the darkest elements of his presidency …
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PJ Media, The Daily Signal, ABC News, Human Events and PBS NewsHour
S.V. Date / HuffPost:
Trump To His Followers: ‘I Am Your Retribution’ — OXON HILL, Md. — Donald Trump returned to a Conservative Political Action Conference recast in his image Saturday, capping a three-day agenda heavy with adoration for the coup-attempting former president but considerably less-well attended …
Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
Trump Promises to Continue Presidential Campaign if Indicted, Then Delivers a Snoozy CPAC Speech — “I wouldn't even think of leaving,” Trump said when asked whether he would drop out of the presidential race if he is charged criminally … “I wouldn't even think of leaving [the race],” Trump responded.
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Politico, Vox, Raw Story, Washington Times, Washington Examiner, The Post Millennial, The Guardian and CBS News
Linda Qiu / New York Times:
Fact-Checking Trump's Speech at CPAC — The former president made inaccurate claims about the murder rate in New York, the withdrawal from Afghanistan and windmills at a conservative conference. — WASHINGTON — Former President Donald J. Trump revived familiar falsehoods and returned …
New York Times:
Eyeing DeSantis, Trump Readies for a Long Primary Battle
Eyeing DeSantis, Trump Readies for a Long Primary Battle
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Politico, Axios, NBC News, The Atlantic, Twitchy, Election Law Blog, Digby's Hullabaloo, Raw Story and Bloomberg
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Inside the Panic at Fox News After the 2020 Election — “If we hadn't called Arizona,” said Suzanne Scott, the network's chief executive, according to a recording reviewed by The New York Times, “our ratings would have been bigger.” — WASHINGTON — A little more than a week …
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Insider and Raw Story, more at Mediagazer »
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Francis Wilkinson / Bloomberg:
Fox News Is Trapped by Its Own Zealotry
Fox News Is Trapped by Its Own Zealotry
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Oregonian, Fortune, Let's Fix This Country, Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality and Politico, more at Mediagazer »
Christopher Mathias / HuffPost:
At CPAC, A Call For Trans People To Be ‘Eradicated’ Gets Big Cheers — The conservative movement's annual confab was creepily obsessed with trans kids and showcased the GOP's alarming and intensifying anti-trans rhetoric. — NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Thousands of conservatives …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, Raw Story, Relativization, Mother Jones, RedState and Advocate
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Katie Hawkinson / The Daily Beast:
Michael Knowles Says Transgenderism Must Be ‘Eradicated’ at CPAC
Michael Knowles Says Transgenderism Must Be ‘Eradicated’ at CPAC
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Raw Story and The Daily Caller
Kyle Hopkins / ProPublica:
Alaska Says It's Now Legal “in Some Instances” to Discriminate Against LGBTQ Individuals — On the advice of the state's attorney general, Alaska's civil rights agency quietly deleted language promising equal protections for LGBTQ Alaskans against most categories of discrimination, and it began refusing to investigate complaints.
WDTN-TV:
Residents told to shelter in place after Norfolk Southern train derails in Springfield — Editor's Note: The intersection of the road closed has been corrected. We apologize for the error. — SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (WDTN) — A Norfolk Southern train derailed in Clark County on Saturday …
Riley Snyder / The Nevada Independent:
Monroe-Moreno elected NV Dems chair, ousts democratic socialist incumbent — Assemblywoman Daniele Monroe-Monroe (D-Las Vegas) was elected chair of the Nevada State Democratic Party Saturday, ousting incumbent chair Judith Whitmer in a vote of 314-99 — a rebuke of Whitmer's leadership ahead …
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The Hill
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Natasha Korecki / NBC News:
Democratic socialists swept out of power in Nevada
Democratic socialists swept out of power in Nevada
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The Hill, LewRockwell and The Daily Beast
Esme Stallard / BBC:
Ocean treaty: Historic agreement reached after decade of talks — Nations have reached a historic agreement to protect the world's oceans following 10 years of negotiations. — The High Seas Treaty aims to place 30% of the seas into protected areas by 2030, to safeguard and recuperate marine nature.
NBC News:
Two Ukrainian pilots are in the U.S. for training assessment on attack aircraft, including F-16s — Two Ukrainian pilots are currently in the United States undergoing an assessment to determine how long it could take to train them to fly attack aircraft, including F-16 fighter jets …
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New York Post, The Guardian and Voice of America
Edward-Isaac Dovere / CNN:
Pete Buttigieg starts to rethink how he does his job in wake of Ohio train disaster — Pete Buttigieg admits he got it wrong on the Ohio train derailment response. — But while the criticism is fair, he says, the critics are mostly not. — “It's really rich to see some of these folks …
Michael R. Bloomberg / New York Times:
Israel Is Courting Disaster — In more than 20 years of public life, I have steadfastly supported Israel and its people in both word and deed, including by building medical facilities there, co-founding a leadership center, supporting its innovative local programs and funding other good causes.
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Asks Judge to Block Pence's Testimony to Grand Jury — The former president's lawyers cited executive privilege, a tactic they have used with other ex-Trump aides. — Former President Donald J. Trump has filed a motion asking a federal judge to prevent his former vice president …
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CNN, Mediaite and L.A.'s Newsletter
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Democrats vow fierce fight if GOP cuts Medicaid — House Democrats are vowing a fierce fight over Medicaid as Republicans eye plans to curb spending for the low-income health care program in the name of deficit reduction. — Joining President Biden, the Democrats are warning that Medicaid cuts …
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Political Wire
Luke McGee / CNN:
Turkey is blocking NATO's expansion. It could backfire and hand Putin a propaganda coup — When Sweden and Finland declared their intention to join NATO last May, it was seen by many as a poke in the eye for Russia and evidence of a shift in European thinking.
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The Guardian and The Sun
Judy Heumann:
The World Mourns the Passing of Judy Heumann, Disability Rights Activist — Judith “Judy” Heumann (1947-2023) — Judith “Judy” Heumann—widely regarded as “the mother” of the disability rights movement—passed away in Washington, D.C. on the afternoon of March 4, 2023.