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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Former Trump lawyer admits post-election misrepresentations — One of Donald Trump's high-profile lawyers pushed his post-election lies. She's now acknowledged that many of her claims simply weren't true. — As recently as 2016, Jenna Ellis was not a Donald Trump admirer.
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Quentin Young / Colorado Newsline:
Former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis censured in Colorado for false election claims — Jenna Ellis, the Colorado attorney who was former President Donald Trump's senior legal advisor as he tried to overturn his 2020 election loss, has been censured by a Colorado judge for misconduct.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump 2020 lawyer admits misrepresenting stolen election claims — Jenna Ellis, an attorney for Donald Trump who helped drive his false claims about the 2020 election results, has admitted in a Colorado disciplinary proceeding that she misrepresented evidence at least 10 times during Trump's frantic bid to subvert his defeat.
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Tierney Sneed / CNN:
Ex-Trump attorney admits statements about 2020 election were false and is censured by judge — Jenna Ellis was censured by a disciplinary judge in Colorado Wednesday, in the latest effort to hold accountable attorneys who boosted former President Donald Trump's 2020 election reversal gambits.
Wall Street Journal:
Biden's Budget Would Cut Deficits by $3 Trillion Over 10 Years, Raise Taxes on Businesses — Proposal will kick off talks on government spending with Republicans — WASHINGTON—President Biden will outline a plan to reduce federal budget deficits by nearly $3 trillion over the next decade …
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Laura Davison / Bloomberg:
In Biden's Tax-the-Rich Budget, Capital-Gains Rates Near 45%
In Biden's Tax-the-Rich Budget, Capital-Gains Rates Near 45%
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Biden lays down first marker in fiscal talks with McCarthy
Biden lays down first marker in fiscal talks with McCarthy
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Tamara Keith / NPR:
Biden is using his budget as a cudgel in the debt ceiling fight — and for 2024
Biden is using his budget as a cudgel in the debt ceiling fight — and for 2024
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NBC News:
Republicans launch an investigation into the Jan. 6 committee that examined the riot — WASHINGTON — A Republican-controlled House committee launched an inquiry Wednesday into the Democratic-controlled Jan. 6 committee, which a staff member said will review whether pertinent information …
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NBC News:
Jan. 6 rioters trashed a GOP senator's office, and he hasn't acknowledged it — WASHINGTON — Two years ago, a mob of rioters who believed former President Donald Trump's lies about the 2020 election viciously assaulted police, smashed out widows, stormed into an office …
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Miranda Devine / New York Post:
An egregious denial of due process for Jan. 6 protesters
An egregious denial of due process for Jan. 6 protesters
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ProPublica:
Inside the “Private and Confidential” Conservative Group That Promises to “Crush Liberal Dominance” — A few months ago, Leonard Leo laid out his next audacious project. Ever since the longtime Federalist Society leader helped create a conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court …
The Daily Beast:
Fox News Journalists Sound Off on ‘Soul-Crushing’ Dominion Filings — “It's just a really bad time to be working here,” one news producer told The Daily Beast in the wake of bombshell legal filings on the network's inner machinations. … “I think no regular person could read this and look …
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Matthew Sheffield / TYT Network:
Republican Elites and Their Fox Counterparts Hate Trump, But They Can't Get Rid of Him
Republican Elites and Their Fox Counterparts Hate Trump, But They Can't Get Rid of Him
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Washington Post:
Inside the simmering feud between Donald Trump and Fox News
Inside the simmering feud between Donald Trump and Fox News
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
The Tucker Carlson Schtick Melts Away
The Tucker Carlson Schtick Melts Away
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Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
The Topic Biden Keeps Dodging — President Joe Biden is following a strategy of asymmetrical warfare as the 2024 presidential race takes shape. — Through the early maneuvering, the leading Republican candidates, particularly former President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis …
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Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Biden zeroing in on candidates to be his 2024 campaign manager — President Biden has narrowed down his choices on candidates to run his 2024 presidential reelection campaign. — While the president has yet to formally announce he's running for a second term, he is widely expected …
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Washington Examiner and Insider
Collin Binkley / Associated Press:
Jaded with education, more Americans are skipping college — When he looked to the future, Grayson Hart always saw a college degree. He was a good student at a good high school. He wanted to be an actor, or maybe a teacher. Growing up, he believed college was the only route to a good job, stability and a happy life.
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Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
Dafna Linzer abruptly steps down as Politico's executive editor — The award-winning journalist had clashed with another top executive amid a new corporate owner's plans for global expansion. — Dafna Linzer is leaving her role as executive editor of Politico a year after she took the job.
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Caitlin Gibson / Washington Post:
The fear and fury of these Florida parents — The state has introduced new laws that affect nearly every stage of parenting. Some families are choosing between fight and flight. — One afternoon a few weeks ago, Alicea Hotchkiss's 14-year-old son, Eli, came home from his high school …
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Exclusive: Trump publishing private letters from Oprah, other celebrities — Former President Trump, in a new book, plans to reveal 150 private letters sent to him — including one from Oprah Winfrey in 2000 in which she says: “Too bad we're not running for office. What a team!”
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Alexander Burns / Politico:
A Startling Document Predicted Jan. 6. Democrats Are Missing Its Other Warnings. — Weeks before the 2020 election, a secret 87-page document outlined in matter-of-fact language the threat posed by Donald Trump's still-to-come campaign of election denial.
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Michael Worobey / Los Angeles Times:
I called for more research on the COVID ‘lab leak theory.’ Here's what I found out — Recent reports that Department of Energy and FBI officials think the COVID-19 pandemic originated with a so-called lab leak appear to have provided all the “evidence” many require.
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Washington Post:
Catholic group spent millions on app data that tracked gay priests — A group of philanthropists poured money into a Denver nonprofit that obtained dating and hookup app data and shared it with bishops around the country, a Post investigation has found — A group of conservative Colorado Catholics …
New York Times:
Newly Empowered Michigan Democrats Move on Labor, Gay Rights and Guns — Despite Republican objections, the Michigan House of Representatives voted to repeal a right-to-work law, codify L.G.B.T.Q. rights and expand gun background checks. — LANSING, Mich. — Democrats in Michigan pressed ahead …
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Beth LeBlanc / The Detroit News:
Michigan House passes right-to-work repeal, prevailing wage restoration
Michigan House passes right-to-work repeal, prevailing wage restoration
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Rachel Pannett / Washington Post:
Mitch McConnell hospitalized after falling at hotel — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has been hospitalized following a fall at a hotel in Washington, his spokesperson said late Wednesday. — The 81-year-old Senator was attending a private dinner at a local hotel when he tripped …
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Bloomberg:
Putin Is Losing His Ex-Soviet Backyard — Signs of President Vladimir Putin's waning power in what the Kremlin calls its “near abroad” of former Soviet republics are visible all around Russia's borders. — Georgia offers the latest evidence after the ruling party today abandoned controversial …
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Associated Press:
Russian missiles target cities across Ukraine, officials say
Russian missiles target cities across Ukraine, officials say
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Justin Kanew / THE TENNESSEE HOLLER:
Anti-LGBTQ Tennessee Lt. Gov. McNally Comments On Racy Instagram Pics of Young Gay Male — UPDATE TO THIS STORY: Lt. Governor Randy Mcnally has issued a statement blaming us for calling out his hypocrisy - but, importantly, not denying he's the one who made these comments, not claiming he was hacked, and not blaming an underling.
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Details in a lawsuit against Texas's abortion ban shock the conscience — Five pregnant women and two doctors filed suit in Texas this week claiming that the state's six-week abortion ban violates the state constitution's due process and equal protection guarantees.
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Tatiana Siegel / Variety:
Oscars Reject Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's Bid to Appear on Telecast (EXCLUSIVE) … For the past year, Volodymyr Zelensky has been greeted with open arms by awards shows, film festivals and even the New York Stock Exchange. But when it comes to landing airtime on the most coveted telecast …
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Wall Street Journal:
Special Counsel Set to Ask Judge to Reject Trump's Privilege Claims in Mar-a-Lago Probe — WASHINGTON — A federal judge is set to hear arguments Thursday over special counsel Jack Smith's push to extract more grand-jury testimony from a lawyer for Donald Trump, according to people familiar …
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Greg Woodfield / Daily Mail:
Cocaine cowboys: American man killed in Mexico border kidnap was jailed in 2015 for ‘drugs manufacture’ - while the other three ALL have lengthy drug raps — Four U.S. citizens kidnapped by the Gulf Cartel - Latavia McGee, Eric Williams, Zindell Brown and Shaeed Woodard - had lengthy rap sheets
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Matthew Desmond / New York Times:
Why Poverty Persists in America — A Pulitzer Prize-winning sociologist offers a new explanation for an intractable problem. — In the past 50 years, scientists have mapped the entire human genome and eradicated smallpox. Here in the United States, infant-mortality rates and deaths …
Brad Miller / American Prospect:
The Government Does a Bad Job Assessing Toxic Exposures — The history of the captured federal agencies that reassure the public after chemical disasters should give East Palestine residents pause. — Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan speaks at a press conference in East Palestine, Ohio, February 28, 2023.
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Cloistered at Walter Reed, Fetterman Runs His Senate Operation From Afar — A dozen miles from the Capitol, the first-term Democrat from Pennsylvania is keeping up with his work while being treated for severe clinical depression. — WASHINGTON — In a cheerfully decorated common room …
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