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New York Times:
DeSantis Calls Putin a ‘War Criminal,’ Clarifying Earlier Comment on Ukraine — The Florida governor and presumed G.O.P. presidential candidate previously described the Russia-Ukraine conflict as a “territorial dispute” and did not mention the Russian president.
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Piers Morgan / New York Post:
DeSantis brands Putin ‘a war criminal’ who should be ‘held accountable’ for Ukraine invasion — Florida's Gov. Ron DeSantis has branded Vladimir Putin a “war criminal” and demanded he be “held accountable” for his barbaric invasion of Ukraine. Taking a tougher tone from his statement …
New York Times:
The DeSantis Foreign Policy: Hard Power, but With a High Bar — The Florida governor has never been the internationalist that some old-guard Republicans wanted or imagined him to be. A close reading of his record reveals how he might lead the U.S. abroad.
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
DeSantis-aligned PAC staffs up, brings on Ted Cruz's campaign manager — The move is the latest indication of a run to come, and a bruising one at that. — A super PAC closely aligned with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is making a major expansion, bringing on a top Republican strategist and establishing its headquarters in Atlanta, Ga.
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Jonathan Martin / Politico:
Sinema Trashes Dems: ‘Old Dudes Eating Jell-O’ — The Arizona senator courts GOP donors by ridiculing her former Democratic colleagues. … Ever since Senator Kyrsten Sinema became an independent in December, her Democratic colleagues have been restrained about the shift …
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Politico:
Court rejects Trump's urgent bid to keep lawyer's records from special counsel — The ruling effectively permits the Justice Department to circumvent Trump's attorney-client privilege after a lower-court judge found that the documents likely contain evidence of a crime.
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Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Appeals Court Orders Trump Lawyer to Hand Over Records in Documents Inquiry
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Sommer Brugal / Miami Herald:
Mental health curriculum is the latest target in Miami-Dade schools — Invoking Florida's new parents' rights law, the Miami-Dade School Board is embarking on a review of how students learn about managing their emotions, collaborating with others and developing their identities …
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Hayes Brown / MSNBC:
Florida's crackdown on LGBTQ issues in schools is getting worse — It should come as no surprise to longtime readers that Florida legislators are moving to expand the so-called “Don't Say Gay” law far beyond its original framework. Three bills have been introduced in the Legislature …
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Los Angeles Times
Associated Press:
Biden approval dips near lowest point: AP-NORC poll — Approval of President Joe Biden has dipped slightly since a month ago, nearing the lowest point of his presidency as his administration tries to project a sense of stability while confronting a pair of bank failures and inflation that remains stubbornly high.
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Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
How to Pay Off a Porn Star (If You Really Must) — There are so many ways Trump could have paid off Stormy Daniels without running afoul of the law—including through his campaign! — We've all been there. — You're running for federal office, the race is hot, the polls are tight, but you're doing OK.
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Chris Stokel-Walker / BuzzFeed News:
A Journalist Believes He Was Banned From Midjourney After His AI Images Of Donald Trump Getting Arrested Went Viral
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Mary Ellen Klas / Miami Herald:
Where is DeSantis traveling on state business? Legislature wants to make it a secret — Citing an increase in public records requests for the governor's travel schedule, Florida legislators are advancing a bill that would shield from the public any information about how and where Gov. Ron DeSantis and other state officials go.
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Washington Post:
Most trans adults say transitioning made them more satisfied with their lives — The Washington Post and KFF surveyed one of the largest randomized samples of U.S. transgender adults to date about their childhoods, feelings and lives — Transgender Americans experience stigma …
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Federal Trade Commission:
Federal Trade Commission Proposes Rule Provision Making it Easier for Consumers to “Click to Cancel” Recurring Subscriptions and Memberships — Proposal seeks to make it as easy to cancel enrollment as it was to sign up — Tags: - Consumer Protection - Bureau of Consumer Protection …
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Aimee Picchi / CBS News:
Subscriptions can be hell to cancel. Now, the FTC wants a new “click to cancel” rule.
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Matt Taibbi Can't Comprehend That There Are Reasons To Study Propaganda Information Flows, So He Insists It Must Be Nefarious — from the not-how-any-of-this-works dept — Over the last few months, Elon Musk's handpicked journalists have continued revealing less and less with each new edition of the …
CNN:
Searchers find a body a short distance from vehicle of student suspected of shooting 2 staff members at Denver high school — After a shooting of two faculty members at a Denver high school Wednesday, authorities have found a male body about two-tenths of a mile from a vehicle connected to the suspect …
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AJ McDougall / The Daily Beast:
Fox Reporter Reunites With Son During Live Broadcast at Scene of School Shooting
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Nina Golgowski / HuffPost:
Video Shows ‘Heroic’ Security Guard Wrestle Gun From Masked Man Entering Strip Club — Michael Rudman was wearing a devil mask and had “kill” and “darkk one” written on his arms as he attempted to enter the Florida venue, police in Tampa said. — Security guards at a Florida strip club …
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Stacey Barchenger / Arizona Republic:
Arizona Supreme Court rejects most of Kari Lake's election challenge — Arizona's top court has declined to hear Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake's challenge to her election loss, but kept the case alive by sending one of Lake's claims back to a county judge to review.
Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg:
Nigerian Senator Found Guilty of Organ Harvesting Plot in UK — A Nigerian politician and his wife were found guilty by a London jury of plotting to bring a Lagos street trader to the UK in order to harvest one of his organs for their sick daughter. — Ike Ekweremadu, a senior Nigerian senator …
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Jay Cohen / Associated Press:
AP source: Blackhawks will not wear Pride-themed jerseys — The Chicago Blackhawks will not wear Pride-themed warmup jerseys before Sunday's Pride Night game against Vancouver because of security concerns involving a Russian law that expands restrictions on activities seen as promoting LGBTQ rights in the country.
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Emily Stewart / Vox:
What it looks like when a country doesn't trust its banks — I went to Argentina and the US did a bank run. — I've been in Buenos Aires, Argentina, for the last month, including through the recent turmoil in the banking industry in the United States and Europe.
Quinn Slobodian / The Guardian:
The Ciskei experiment: a libertarian fantasy in apartheid South Africa — In the 1980s, South African libertarians set up a deregulated zone that they sold to the world as 'Africa's Switzerland'. It was a sham, but with its clusters of sweatshops, it was very modern - and in some ways it anticipated the world we live in today
CNN:
Israel passes law shielding Netanyahu from being removed amid protests over judicial changes — The Israeli parliament on Thursday passed a law that would limit the ways a sitting prime minister can be declared unfit for office as part of a package of bills the government is pushing through in its controversial judicial overhaul.
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Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
China Says It Opposes a Forced Sale of TikTok — Biden administration has demanded that video app divest itself from its Beijing-based parent or face nationwide ban — SINGAPORE—China said it would strongly oppose any forced sale of TikTok, responding for the first time to a Biden administration demand …
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Gina Kolata / New York Times:
DNA From Beethoven's Hair Unlocks Medical and Family Secrets — By analyzing seven samples of hair said to have come from Ludwig van Beethoven, researchers debunked myths about the revered composer while raising new questions about his life and death. — It was March 1827 and Ludwig van Beethoven was dying.
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Anthony Izaguirre / Associated Press:
DeSantis to expand 'Don't Say Gay' law to high schools — The administration of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is moving to forbid classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in all grades, expanding the controversial law critics call “Don't Say Gay” as the Republican governor continues …
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International Criminal Court:
Ukraine and International Criminal Court sign an agreement on the establishment of a country office — On 23 March 2023, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Kostin Andriy, and the Registrar of the International Criminal Court ("ICC" or “the Court"), Peter Lewis, signed a cooperation agreement …
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Sakshi Venkatraman / NBC News:
California could become the 1st state to ban caste discrimination — A bill introduced Wednesday in the California Senate could be a historic win in the fight against caste discrimination in the U.S. If it is signed into law, it would make the state the first to explicitly name caste as a protected category.
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New York Times:
The Times Switches to C.D.C. Covid Data, Ending Daily Collection — As local data sources become less reliable, The Times will instead report information collected by the C.D.C. on its virus tracking pages. — After more than three years of daily reporting on the number of Covid-19 cases …
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Washington Post:
White House disbanding its covid-19 team in May — Ashish Jha is likely to depart as pandemic that engulfed Biden's early presidency takes a lower profile — The White House will shut down its covid response team after the public health emergency ends in May, with some staffers already departing …
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Ann Coulter / Unsafe:
Heavy D Don't Tweet, He Acts — This is why DeSantis Scares Them. — Isn't it great to have the media complaining about what a Republican is doing, instead of what he's tweeting? — The New York Times recently did a major investigation into Gov. Ron DeSantis' suspension last August …
Maya Shimizu Harris / Casper Star-Tribune:
Abortion legal again in Wyoming after judge blocks ban — Abortion is legal again in Wyoming after a Teton County judge Wednesday temporarily blocked a new ban on the procedure while a new legal challenge winds through the courts. — “Wyomingites voted into law that they have a fundamental right …
Sarah Fowler / New York Times:
A Broken Pipe in Jackson Left Residents Without Drinking Water — As a water shortage ballooned into a crisis in Jackson, Miss., the leak grew bigger and bigger, gouging out a swimming pool-size crater in the earth. — Sarah Fowler is reporting on the water crisis in Jackson, Miss. …
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