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CNN:
Trump attorney ordered to testify before grand jury investigating former president — In a monumental ruling Friday, a federal judge has ordered Donald Trump attorney Evan Corcoran to provide additional testimony as part of an investigation into the former president's handling of classified documents …
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Judge rules Trump lawyer Corcoran must testify, people familiar say — Chief U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell ruled there were grounds for a “crime-fraud exception” to attorney-client privilege, the people said — A federal judge has at least partially granted a request …
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Mediaite and Talking Points Memo
New York Times:
Judge Rules Trump Lawyer Must Testify in Documents Inquiry — The ruling found that the government had met the threshold for the crime-fraud exception, which allows prosecutors to get around attorney-client privilege if they believe a crime has been committed.
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Jonathan Dienst / NBC News:
Law enforcement agencies are prepping for a possible Trump indictment as early as next week — Local, state, and federal law enforcement and security agencies are preparing for the possibility that former president Donald Trump could be indicted as early as next week, according to five senior officials familiar with the preparations.
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TMZ.com:
‘The Wire’ Star Lance Reddick Dead at 60 — EXCLUSIVE — 87K … Lance Reddick, famous for his work on HBO's “The Wire” and the “John Wick” movie franchise has died ... TMZ has learned. — Law enforcement sources tell TMZ ... Lance's body was discovered at his Studio City home Friday morning around 9:30 AM.
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New York Times:
Lance Reddick, Star of ‘The Wire’ and ‘John Wick,’ Dies at 60 — He also branched out into video games, notably Horizon Zero Dawn and its sequel, and the Destiny franchise. — Lance Reddick, a prolific actor who gained fame playing a police commander on the Baltimore crime drama “The Wire” …
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Associated Press:
ICC issues arrest warrant for Putin over Ukraine war crimes — The International Criminal Court said Friday it has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for war crimes because of his alleged involvement in abductions of children from Ukraine.
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Claire Parker / Washington Post:
ICC issues arrest warrant for Putin over war crimes in Ukraine — Judges from the International Criminal Court in The Hague issued on Friday the court's first arrest warrants related to the war in Ukraine, for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, Russia's commissioner for children's rights.
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Spencer Ackerman / The Nation:
The Unlearned Lessons From the War in Iraq
The Unlearned Lessons From the War in Iraq
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Karl Ritter / Associated Press:
China leader Xi to visit Moscow in show of support for Putin
China leader Xi to visit Moscow in show of support for Putin
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Molly Crane-Newman / New York Daily News:
Trump won't refuse to surrender if indicted in NYC, lawyer says: 'There won't be a standoff at Mar-a-Lago' — Former President Donald Trump will not refuse to surrender if the Manhattan district attorney criminally indicts him, his lawyer told the Daily News Friday.
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Fox News:
Manhattan DA's office ‘asked for a meeting’ with law enforcement ahead of possible Trump indictment … The Manhattan District Attorney's office has asked for a meeting with law enforcement ahead of a possible indictment of former President Donald Trump next week, according to a court source.
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Olivia Beavers / Politico:
'You think I'm crazy?' Florida GOP sweats Trump vs. DeSantis — Most of Congress' Sunshine State Republicans have a line ready if you ask whether they prefer Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis: “The next president will be from Florida.” — Ask them who that president will be, though, and you rarely get a firm answer.
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Jack Forrest / CNN:
Federal appeals court leaves DeSantis' anti-'woke' law blocked in Florida public colleges
Federal appeals court leaves DeSantis' anti-'woke' law blocked in Florida public colleges
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NBC News, Democracy OTL, New York Post and American Greatness
Stuart Kyle Duncan / Wall Street Journal:
My Struggle Session at Stanford Law School — A dean voices pride that students are being taught to stage tantrums rather than make a reasoned case. — Stanford Law School's website touts its “collegial culture” in which “collaboration and the open exchange of ideas are essential to life and learning.”
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Washington Post:
Two gifts to Trump family from foreign nations are missing, report says — More than 100 gifts worth nearly $300,000 were not properly reported to the government, a new report finds. — Federal officials cannot find two gifts received by President Donald Trump and his family from foreign nations …
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Politico:
House GOP ignored Capitol Police requests to review public Jan. 6 footage, lawyer says — House Republicans ignored the Capitol Police's repeated requests to review and approve all Jan. 6 security footage they planned to release publicly, the force's top lawyer asserted in a sworn affidavit filed Friday.
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Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Hunter Biden sues laptop repair shop owner, citing invasion of privacy — The lawsuit, a counter-move against John Paul Mac Isaac, escalates the legal battle surrounding the president's son at a sensitive moment. — Hunter Biden has filed a sweeping countersuit against the computer repair shop owner …
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Steven Nelson / New York Post:
Biden jokes he's ‘really not Irish’ because he's sober, doesn't have relatives ‘in jail’ — WASHINGTON — President Biden told a series of cringe-worthy jokes about his Irish ancestry to mark St. Patrick's Day, cracking that he's surprised his distant Irish relatives aren't “in jail” …
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Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Trump-commissioned report undercut his claims of dead and double voters — A report buried by the former president's campaign and obtained by The Post did not back up his claims of fraud and did not provide evidence to overturn the 2020 election — When Donald Trump called Georgia Secretary …
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New York Times:
Justice Dept. Investigating TikTok's Owner Over Possible Spying on Journalists — The inquiry appears to be tied to an admission by the app's owner, ByteDance, that employees had inappropriately obtained Americans' data. The company said it had fired the workers involved.
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Hailey Fuchs / Politico:
TikTok's plan to stave off government intervention: Flood D.C. with influencers
TikTok's plan to stave off government intervention: Flood D.C. with influencers
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Bloomberg:
Trump Posts on Facebook for First Time Since 2021 After Ban Ends — Donald Trump posted a message on Meta Platforms Inc.'s Facebook social-media platform for the first time since 2021 as the former president intensifies his comeback campaign for the White House. — Trump posted a message that simply said “I'M BACK!”
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Scoop: YouTube restores Trump's channel
Scoop: YouTube restores Trump's channel
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Richard Hall / The Independent:
Former Guantanamo prisoner: Ron DeSantis watched me being tortured — Mansoor Adayfi says the brutal force-feeding methods employed on Guantanamo prisoners like him amounted to torture. He tells Richard Hall that Ron DeSantis watched it happen — A former detainee of the Guantanamo Bay prison camp …
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Joshua Nelson / Fox News:
Dr. Rachel Levine says changing kids' genders will soon be fully embraced: ‘Wheels will turn on this’ … Assistant Secretary for Health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Rachel Levine promised that medically changing kids' genders will soon be normalized.
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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Trump Media executives worried over murky $8m loans, emails reveal — Exclusive: financing with suspected Russian ties came at a critical time as company was running out of cash after a planned merger — Top executives at Donald Trump's social media company started to become concerned …
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Associated Press:
Derek Chauvin, ex-officer convicted of killing George Floyd, pleads guilty to federal tax evasion — Disgraced former police officer Derek Chauvin pleaded guilty to tax evasion in Minnesota on Friday admitting he hid tens of thousands of dollars from the state.
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Reuters:
Slovakia sends MIG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine - PM — Slovakia on Friday became the second of Ukraine's allies to provide MIG-29 fighter jets which Kyiv believes are crucial to repel Russia's year-long invasion. — Slovakia joined Poland, which announced its delivery of the planes on Thursday.
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Bloomberg:
NATO Edges Closer to Expansion as Turkey Backs Finland's Bid — Turkey and Hungary both signaled they plan to ratify Finland's entry into NATO, bringing the military alliance a step closer to welcoming its 31st member as the ripples from Russia's invasion of Ukraine spread across the European security landscape.
Jack Shafer / Politico:
The Ousted Reporter Was Right to Call Out Ron DeSantis' Propaganda — Reporters have been brawling with public relations flacks since the late 1800s when railroads and other corporations established press bureaus to wrangle their relationships with the media. These face-offs can be as light and collegial as a garden party.
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Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Jan. 6 rioter who was accused of urging the mob to steal police guns scheduled to be sentenced — WASHINGTON — Samuel Lazar, a Donald Trump supporter and Jan. 6 rioter who was accused of urging his fellow rioters to steal officer's guns and assaulting officers with pepper spray …
Reid Wilson / Pluribus News:
Longtime Wisconsin Secretary of State resigns — La Follette was first elected in 1974. — Wisconsin Secretary of State Doug La Follette (D) resigned on Friday, marking an unexpected end to one of the longest-tenured careers in American politics. — La Follette, 82, has served …
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The White House:
Statement from President Joe Biden on Holding Senior Bank Executives Accountable — This week, we took decisive action to stabilize the banking system without putting taxpayer dollars at risk. That action was necessary to protect jobs and small businesses, and no losses will be borne by the taxpayers.
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Kimberlee Kruesi / Associated Press:
Ex-Tennessee lawmaker asks judge to withdraw guilty plea — A former Tennessee state senator accused of violating federal campaign finance laws is seeking to withdraw his guilty plea, arguing that he initially did so with “unsure heart and confused mind.” Brian Kelsey had entered a guilty plea …
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Tennessee Lookout
Dan Friedman / Mother Jones:
Steve Bannon Is Neck-Deep in Guo Wengui's Allegedly Fraudulent Business Empire — In late November 2021, Steve Bannon appeared in a live broadcast on GTV, a media outlet that he'd helped his friend Guo Wengui launch a year earlier. Bannon used the appearance to celebrate HCoin, a supposed cryptocurrency that Guo was selling.
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