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Ben Samuels / Haaretz:
Thousands Take to Streets After Netanyahu Fires Defense Minister — Supreme Court gives Netanyahu a week to respond to petition — Movement for Quality Government in Israel calls on court to punish Netanyahu — Agriculture Minister plans to vote for overhaul legislation
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Fox News, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Associated Press
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Shira Rubin / Washington Post:
Netanyahu fires defense minister who called for halt to judicial overhaul — TEL AVIV — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Sunday, a day after Gallant called for a halt to the judicial reform that has spurred a national crisis.
Patrick Kingsley / New York Times:
Netanyahu Fires Defense Minister Who Urged Delay in Court Overhaul — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel removed the defense minister, Yoav Gallant, after he called for a halt to the government's plan to limit judicial authority. — Reporting from Jerusalem
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Bloomberg, Haaretz, CNN, The Forward, Just The News, middleeastmonitor.com, Associated Press, Reuters, The Times of Israel, Financial Times and Digby's Hullabaloo
Haaretz:
Netanyahu Fires Defense Minister Gallant for Calling to Stop Judicial Overhaul — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Likud's Yoav GallantCredit: Avi Ohayon/GPO — Supreme Court gives Netanyahu a week to respond to petition — Movement for Quality Government in Israel calls on court to punish Netanyahu
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The Times of Israel, Washington Examiner and Washington Post
Steve Hendrix / Washington Post:
Netanyahu's political touch eludes him as Israel spirals into chaos
Netanyahu's political touch eludes him as Israel spirals into chaos
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Reuters, The Times of Israel, middleeastmonitor.com, USA Today and Political Wire
Politico:
Playbook: The return of ‘crazy town’ — Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross — DRIVING THE DAY — WACKO IN WACO — It was everything that supporters of DONALD TRUMP love about the former president — and everything his GOP critics absolutely abhor.
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Caleb Howe / Mediaite:
Trump Rally Crowd Eerily Quiet As He Acts Out Ron DeSantis Crying and Begging for His Help — GOP primary candidate Donald Trump held a campaign rally in Texas on Saturday and attacked Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis at length, as he has spent many weeks doing, but his own MAGA crowd was noticeably under-enthused by the remarks.
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BizPac Review, Politico and The Hill
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Hating the people who hate Trump is the only force that moves GOP voters
Hating the people who hate Trump is the only force that moves GOP voters
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Washington Press
Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
2024 Watch: Chris Christie ‘trying to figure out’ if there's a pathway to beating Trump, DeSantis
2024 Watch: Chris Christie ‘trying to figure out’ if there's a pathway to beating Trump, DeSantis
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National Review, Digby's Hullabaloo, The Hill, Washington Examiner, BizPac Review and Washington Post
Mike Copeland / Waco Tribune-Herald:
Trump draws thousands to Waco rally, sticks with familiar themes
Trump draws thousands to Waco rally, sticks with familiar themes
New York Times:
Trump Puts His Legal Peril at Center of First Big Rally for 2024
Trump Puts His Legal Peril at Center of First Big Rally for 2024
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New Republic, USA Today, BizPac Review, No More Mister Nice Blog, CBS News, Washington Examiner, Althouse, The Hill, The Guardian, The Daily Caller, NewsNation and Breitbart
David Smith / The Guardian:
Trump describes 2024 election as ‘the final battle’ from podium in Waco
Trump describes 2024 election as ‘the final battle’ from podium in Waco
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PolitiFact, Rolling Stone, New York Times, Washington Examiner, Raw Story, Mediaite, Los Angeles Times, CNBC, RedState, Politico, Washington Press, Forbes, PIX11, HuffPost, New York Magazine, USA Today, The Post Millennial, WFLA-TV, Bloomberg, Associated Press, MSNBC and The Texas Tribune
David French / New York Times:
The Potential Trump Indictment Is Unwise — For the first time in American history, a hotly anticipated indictment of a former American president may actually be handed up. Manhattan's district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, seems set to bring charges related to Donald Trump's allegedly paying off …
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CNN, The Hill and Washington Post
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Sophia Cai / Axios:
Trump suggests DA “dropped” Stormy case … - “I think they've already dropped the case,” Trump told reporters aboard his plane after appearing at a campaign rally in Waco, Texas. … - Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's office has declined to comment on the case, which appears …
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Fox News, The Daily Beast, Breitbart, New York Post, Rolling Stone, BizPac Review and New York Daily News
John Blake / CNN:
What's ‘digital blackface?’ And why is it wrong when White people use it? — Maybe you shared that viral video of Kimberly “Sweet Brown” Wilkins telling a reporter after narrowly escaping an apartment fire, “Ain't nobody got time for that!” — Perhaps you posted that meme …
New York Times:
Elon Musk Values Twitter at $20 Billion — The billionaire bought the social media company for $44 billion in October and took it private. — SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk said Twitter is now worth about $20 billion, according to an email he sent the company's employees on Friday …
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Deadline, The Information, Fortune, Mediaite, The Verge, TMZ.com, Rolling Stone and The Wrap, more at Techmeme »
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Why we're still stuck in Trump's world — There is a madness running through our nation's public life. Our country seems nearly powerless to counteract it because it's built into the structure of American politics, the belief system of Republican voters and the polarization of opinion in Congress.
Patrick Reilly / New York Post:
Trans woman left sobbing in JFK airport after TSA agent hit her testicles: report — A transgender woman was left in tears at JFK Airport after she claimed a TSA agent punched her in the testicles while going through security, The Daily Mail reported. — The unidentified flyer took …
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Daily Mail, The Gateway Pundit, BizPac Review, The Post Millennial and Twitchy
Institute for the Study of War:
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, March 25, 2023 — Click here to see ISW's interactive map of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This map is updated daily alongside the static maps present in this report. — Click here to access ISW's archive of interactive time-lapse maps of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Bloomberg
New York Times:
Steve Cohen's Amazin', Maddening, Money-Losing Bid to Own New York — Once a symbol of Wall Street excess, Cohen has invested lavishly in the Mets, becoming the most beloved billionaire in Queens. Is that enough to reverse team history? — PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Around early 2020 …
Brian Klaas / The Atlantic:
Rule By Law in Florida — Would President DeSantis be worse for American democracy than President Trump? — After donald trump sabotaged the 2022 midterm elections for Republicans by endorsing unelectable extremists, a comforting narrative took root among GOP elites.
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Wired
Joseph Menn / Washington Post:
Indicted Chinese exile controls Gettr social media site, ex-employees say — Guo Wengui, arrested March 15 on fraud charges, was known to have invested, but the extent of his influence on the site has not been previously reported. — NEW YORK — An exiled Chinese tycoon indicted …
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Political Wire
Reuters:
Lebanon wakes up in two time zones as clock change row deepens divisions — Lebanon woke up in two time zones on Sunday amid an escalating dispute between political and religious authorities over a decision to delay the clock change by a month. — Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati decided …
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Reuters, Associated Press and The Sun
Joshua Rhett Miller / New York Post:
Hollywood's top Native American producer is a fake, activists claim — One of Hollywood's leading Native American figures is being accused of faking her claims of Cherokee heritage, The Post can reveal. — Award-winning Heather Rae, 56, serves on the Academy of Motion Pictures' Indigenous Alliance …
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Breitbart and The Gateway Pundit
Albert Hunt / The Hill:
Pundit of venom and division: Newt Gingrich has not changed — Newt Gingrich is having another rebirth: reported whisperer to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), quoted hundreds of times as the supposed wise man to all things Congress and Washington, an off-Broadway version of Jim Baker or Leon Panetta.
Michael M. Phillips / Wall Street Journal:
Al Qaeda Closes In on a Stalwart U.S. Ally in Africa — In a city in Ghana, a fight between ethnic groups is the kind of bitter local dispute Islamist militants often exploit — BAWKU, Ghana—The good news according to Salifu Bashru, an elder of the Mamprusi people, is that if al Qaeda militants attack …
NBC News:
How did a police chase in Mississippi end with an innocent woman shot in her bedroom? — NBC News analyzed more than 25 hours of surveillance video appearing to show a Mississippi Capitol Police officer opening fire in an apartment complex in Jackson. — JACKSON, Miss. …