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DeSantis, Backing Away From Ukraine, Angers G.O.P. Hawks — The Florida governor, who joined Donald Trump in declaring that defending Ukraine from Russia was not a vital interest, drew swift condemnations from establishment Republicans. — Declaring this week that defending Ukraine …
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A Republican ‘civil war’ on Ukraine erupts as Reagan's example fades — GOP leaders and voters are increasingly skeptical of an extended commitment, part of a broader shift away from conservative support for foreign interventions — When Ronald Reagan addressed a brand new organization …
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Matthew Kassel / Jewish Insider:
DeSantis' Ukraine flip alarms pro-Israel Republicans … In declaring his belief that protecting Ukraine from Russian aggression is a “territorial dispute” and not a vital interest to the United States, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, who is widely expected to run for president in 2024 …
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Julia Ioffe / Puck:
Putin's Boy from Tallahassee — In the zero-sum world of rightward Republicanism, politicians are using a yearning to confront China as a veil to abandon Ukraine. … The Fox News host, who had solicited answers from anyone considering tossing their hat in the ring, was clearly impressed.
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Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Putin holds a trump card in the 2024 US election — The Russian leader's best hope of winning the war in Ukraine lies in American politics — This year's oddest moment was when Vladimir Putin attacked the Church of England. Its sin was to consider the idea of a gender neutral God.
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Alexander Burns / Politico:
Former NATO Chief: Trump Could Sabotage the War — Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former secretary-general of NATO, packs his prognosis for Donald Trump's 2024 campaign into one loaded word. — “I think President Trump will be a loser,” he tells me. — It is a notoriously triggering term …
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Josh Kraushaar / Axios:
The GOP's stunning realignment on foreign policy — Ron DeSantis' claim that protecting Ukraine isn't in the “vital” interest of the U.S. highlights a remarkable divide in the GOP over foreign policy — pitting its top two presidential candidates against the party's more hawkish establishment.
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Nick Catoggio / The Dispatch:
The Schism Is Here … What would you get if you asked ChatGPT to craft a Ukraine policy optimized to pander to Tucker Carlson viewers rather than to maximize American interests? — This. You'd get this. … Even if we didn't know already that Ron DeSantis was moving toward …
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Matt Dixon / NBC News:
Ron DeSantis hit with an ethics complaint from Trump super PAC — TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Donald Trump's allies are stepping up their battle with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, formally accusing him of violating state ethics and election laws with his “shadow presidential campaign.”
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Meridith McGraw / Politico:
Trump prepares an extensive opposition file on ‘Ron DeSanctimonious’ — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has not yet officially entered the 2024 presidential arena but former President Donald Trump's campaign is preparing a grenade to launch his way. — Trump's team and his allied PAC are preparing …
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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Federal investigators examined Trump Media for possible money laundering, sources say — Exclusive: New York prosecutors expanded criminal inquiry of company last year and examined acceptance of $8m with suspected Russian ties — Federal prosecutors in New York involved in the criminal investigation …
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Julia Love / Bloomberg:
Donald Trump's Truth Social Cuts Staff as SPAC Languishes
Donald Trump's Truth Social Cuts Staff as SPAC Languishes
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Holman W. Jenkins, Jr / Wall Street Journal:
Silicon Valley Bank and Joe Biden's $19 Trillion Monday — His latest bailout is a solution for him now and a problem for us later. — WSJ Opinion: The President Drops a Totally Political Budget — Your bank deposits are safe from bank failures. They aren't safe from inflation.
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White House eyes accountability for Silicon Valley Bank collapse
White House eyes accountability for Silicon Valley Bank collapse
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Todd Phillips / Roosevelt Institute:
How 2018 Regulatory Rollbacks Set the Stage for the Silicon Valley Bank Collapse, and How to Change Course
How 2018 Regulatory Rollbacks Set the Stage for the Silicon Valley Bank Collapse, and How to Change Course
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Bloomberg:
Signature Bank Faced Criminal Probe Ahead of Firm's Collapse
Signature Bank Faced Criminal Probe Ahead of Firm's Collapse
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Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
Exiled Chinese Billionaire Charged in New York With Financial Conspiracy — Guo Wengui, a fugitive financier and associate of Steve Bannon, is accused by federal prosecutors of engaging in a complex scheme to bilk thousands of online followers. — Guo Wengui, a fugitive Chinese billionaire …
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Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Chinese business tycoon and Bannon ally Ho Wan Kwok arrested in $1bn fraud conspiracy — US attorney says Kwok, known to many as Miles Guo, used stolen money to buy a $3.5m Ferrari and finance a $37m luxury yacht — Ho Wan Kwok, a Chinese tycoon with close links to prominent Trumpist …
New York Times:
George Santos's Role in Sale of $19 Million Yacht Attracts F.B.I. Interest — Just before his House election, Mr. Santos helped two of his largest donors reach a private deal on a $19 million boat, mixing his political and personal interests. — A $19 million luxury yacht deal brokered …
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Politico:
Playbook: The GOP faces its ‘candidate quality’ issues — With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross — DRIVING THE DAY — FIRST IN PLAYBOOK — Senate Majority Leader CHUCK SCHUMER this morning is asking National Transportation Safety Board Chair JENNIFER HOMENDY to expand the agency's probe …
The Economist:
Russia's allies are a motley—and shrinking—crew — “The West's plans to isolate Russia by surrounding us with a sanitary cordon have been a fiasco,” Sergei Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, gloated recently. “We are strengthening good neighbourly relations...with the international majority.”
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Charlotte Alter / TIME:
Exclusive: Effective Altruist Leaders Were Repeatedly Warned About Sam Bankman-Fried Years Before FTX Collapsed — Leaders of the Effective Altruism movement were repeatedly warned beginning in 2018 that Sam Bankman-Fried was unethical, duplicitous, and negligent in his role as CEO of Alameda Research …
Russell Contreras / Axios:
First look: Young and unaffiliated Latino voters surge across U.S. — First-time Latino voters are outpacing first-time non-Latino voters in Arizona, California, Florida, Nevada, New York, and Texas, according to a report first obtained by Axios. … - The 2022 election showed …
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Thom Hartmann / The Hartmann Report:
Now that Hate has Become the GOP's Main Political Weapon, What Can Americans Do? — Now is the time for Republicans to show the courage of Mandy Connell and loudly and publicly leave their party. As Germans learned by the late 1930s, if they don't act now it may soon be too late...
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
How an Offer to Testify Before a New York Grand Jury Signals Trouble for Trump — The Manhattan District Attorney offered to let Donald Trump speak to a grand jury—but only if he waived the immunity that would come with his testimony. That's bad news for Trump.
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CNBC:
Apple, Amazon, Google will likely get a reprieve from GOP-controlled House on antitrust legislation — The new Republican leadership in the U.S. House doesn't appear to have the appetite to impose tougher antitrust rules on the tech giants. — An antitrust bill Buck introduced …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
A viral moment reinforces the hollowness of ‘woke’ as an attack — One of conservative writer Bethany Mandel's least disputable comments during her appearance on The Hill's streaming show “Rising” was a prediction she made as she fumbled a reply to host Briahna Joy Gray: “This is going to be one of those moments that goes viral.”
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
As Biden mulls family detentions, warnings from inside grow louder — When news leaked last week that the Biden administration is considering detaining migrant families who cross the border illegally, the reaction was swift and harsh. Democrats and immigration advocates denounced the idea as …
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The Princetonian:
Princeton senior arrested in connection with Jan. 6 Capitol riot — On March 14, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Larry Giberson '23 was arrested in relation to the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. — Giberson did not immediately respond to The Daily Princetonian's request for comment.
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Margery A. Beck / Associated Press:
Nebraska lawmaker 3 weeks into filibuster over trans bill — It was a mundane, unanimously supported bill on liquor taxation that saw state Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh take to the mic on the Nebraska Legislature floor last week. She offered her support, then spent the next three days discussing everything …
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Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
BuzzFeed Encourages Reporters to Write More Stories in Attempt to Turn Profit — ‘What we can control is how many stories we publish each day,’ BuzzFeed News editor in chief tells newsroom — BuzzFeed Inc. BZFD -.65%decrease; red down pointing triangle is encouraging its newsroom to produce …