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ProPublica:
Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire  —  IN LATE JUNE 2019, right after the U.S. Supreme Court released its final opinion of the term, Justice Clarence Thomas boarded a large private jet headed to Indonesia.  He and his wife were going on vacation: nine days of island-hopping in a volcanic archipelago …
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Justice Thomas accepted luxury travel for years from GOP donor, report says  —  Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted luxury trips around the globe for more than two decades, including travel on a superyacht and private jet, from a prominent Republican donor without disclosing them, according to a new report.
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Ocasio-Cortez Calls For Clarence Thomas To Be Impeached Over Gifts From GOP Megadonor  —  “This degree of corruption is shocking — almost cartoonish,” said the Democratic lawmaker.  —  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Thursday called for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas …
Discussion: The Hill
Alex Henderson / Alternet.org:
‘Rank corruption’: AOC calls for Clarence Thomas' impeachment following bombshell report on megadonor gifts  —  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York City has not been shy about calling for the impeachment of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.  The progressive Queens/Bronx Democrat …
Discussion: The Guardian
Sarah Elbeshbishi / USA Today:
Thomas Clarence accepted luxury gifts from GOP megadonor for decades without disclosing them
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
NBC News:
Trump judge and his family receive threats after New York arrest  —  Judge Juan Merchan, his family and the Manhattan court where Trump was arraigned Tuesday have already received numerous threats, sources told NBC News.  —  In the 24 hours since former President Donald Trump's arraignment …
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Lucien Bruggeman / ABC News:
Inside the 3 so-called ‘catch and kill’ payments in Trump's indictment  —  Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg detailed the alleged scheme on Tuesday.  —  In August 2015, shortly after announcing his candidacy for president, Donald Trump convened a meeting at his namesake Manhattan skyscraper to hatch a plan to …
Peter Laffin / Washington Examiner:
MAGA sacrilege makes a mockery of faith
Discussion: Rolling Stone
Ashley Oliver / Breitbart:
Exclusive: Jim Jordan Subpoenas Manhattan Prosecutor Who Resigned over Suspended Trump Probe
Discussion: CBS News and National Review
Sophia Cai / Axios:
How Trump could talk himself into a gag order
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo, CNN and VICE
Dennis Aftergut / The Bulwark:
Trump's Moment of Accountability
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
Republicans Vowed to Grill Bragg About Trump, but It's Not So Simple
Reuters:
Special Report: Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars  —  Tesla Inc assures its millions of electric car owners that their privacy “is and will always be enormously important to us.”  The cameras it builds into vehicles to assist driving, it notes on its website …
New York Times:
Staring Down a Debt Crisis, McCarthy Toils to Navigate G.O.P. Divisions  —  The House speaker has little trust in his Budget Committee chairman or his No. 2 as he works to unite the fractious Republican majority around a spending plan.  —  WASHINGTON — It was midway through Representative …
Vivian Jones / The Tennessean:
Expulsion vote thrusts Tennessee politics onto the national stage, could set precedent  —  The Democrats could become political martyrs if expelled from the legislature.  The move shows the power the GOP holds and could set a precedent for the future.  —  Tennessee's Republican supermajority …
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Associated Press:
GOP lawmakers consider expelling Democrats over gun protest
CNN:
FBI and Army members raided the wrong hotel room during a training exercise and detained a guest inside  —  Members of the FBI and the US Army Special Operations Command who were conducting a training exercise in downtown Boston raided the wrong hotel room and detained the person inside …
NBC News:
Ron DeSantis' long-haul strategy against Trump comes into view  —  Although he hasn't yet announced a presidential bid, the Florida governor's team has already had internal discussions about delegate strategy.  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' team is already plotting out a strategy to run against Donald Trump for the long haul.
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Brandon Girod / Pensacola News Journal:
Rebekah Jones' 13-year-old son arrested in Navarre, Florida for ‘digital threats of terrorism’  —  Embattled former state of Florida employee Rebekah Jones announced on Twitter Wednesday night that her 13-year-old son had been arrested for “digital threats of terrorism.”
Discussion: Twitchy
Jennifer Agiesta / CNN:
CNN Poll: One-third of Americans say Biden deserves to be reelected in 2024  —  Just a third of Americans say President Joe Biden deserves to be reelected, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS, as a majority in his party say they would like to see someone else as the Democratic nominee for president next year.
Associated Press:
Biden review of chaotic Afghan withdrawal blames Trump  —  A U.S. review led by the National Security Council of the chaotic 2021 withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan largely lays the blame on former President Donald Trump, saying President Joe Biden was “severely constrained” by the decisions of his predecessor.
Washington Post:
Wisconsin Supreme Court election sends message on abortion rights  —  MILWAUKEE — In overturning a national right to abortion last summer, the U.S. Supreme Court gave conservatives a policy they'd been seeking for nearly half a century.  In the process, the justices also angered millions …
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Wall Street Journal:
The Left Wins Big in Midwest Elections
San Francisco Chronicle:
‘A child of dreams.’ Friends mourn Cash App founder Bob Lee, stabbed to death in S.F.  —  San Francisco's tech community mourned the violent death of one of their own Wednesday, calling Cash App founder Bob Lee a standout among Silicon Valley geniuses, someone idolized as a brilliant thinker …
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Shaylee Ragar / Montana Public Radio:
Republicans back bill to change election rules — only for the upcoming Senate race  —  A Republican-backed bill to create a “jungle primary” that would box-out third party candidates in the next U.S. Senate race in Montana has advanced.  —  Senate Bill 566 would create a primary system …
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
How Fox Chased Its Audience Down the Rabbit Hole  —  Rupert Murdoch built an empire by giving viewers exactly what they wanted.  But what they wanted — election lies and insurrection — put that empire (and the country) in peril.  —  On the evening of Nov. 19, 2020, Rupert Murdoch …
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
The GOP's ‘Abusive Relationship’ With Trump  —  The former president's ability to surmount this latest tumult continues one of the defining patterns of his political career.  —  It's a measure of Donald Trump's hold on the Republican Party that his unprecedented criminal indictment is strengthening, not loosening, his grip.
Reuters:
Rockets from Lebanon hit northern Israel  —  Rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israel on Thursday and answered by a burst of cross-border artillery fire, officials said, amid escalating tension following Israeli police raids on the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem.
Luis Chaparro / VICE:
Migrants Died In Detention Fire Because They Couldn't Pay $200 Bribe to Be Released  —  The facility operated as an “extortion center,” according to three survivors and two guards who spoke to VICE World News.  —  Luis Chaparro  —  CIUDAD JUÁREZ, México …
Discussion: America Magazine and FOX8 WGHP
Nicholas Wu / Politico:
Freedom Caucus and progressives lock arms — and that could be bad news for McCarthy  —  The speaker's immediate headache is a growing right-left alliance on Iraq war powers.  But House liberals and conservatives are linking up on other issues, too.  —  The House's most conservative Republicans …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Emily Rauhala / Washington Post:
How progressive Denmark became the face of the anti-migration left  —  KAERSHOVEDGAARD, Denmark — Zero asylum.  Send them back to Syria.  Claims should be sorted somewhere else.  It may sound like the rhetoric of the far right, but in this wealthy, Scandinavian welfare state, it has become the political center.
Discussion: Insider
Aaron Katersky / ABC News:
Judge in Trump's criminal case has received dozens of threats, police sources say  —  The former president himself lashed out at Judge Juan Merchan.  —  The judge overseeing  —  the criminal case against former President Donald Trump  —  has received dozens of threats in recent days, police sources told ABC News.
Discussion: ABC7
Richard Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
IRS Plan to Spend $80 Billion Includes Real-Time Tax Alerts, Audits of Wealthy People  —  Tax agency promises digital improvements but no audit-rate increase for most households  —  WASHINGTON—The Internal Revenue Service unveiled its strategic plan Thursday for revamping …
 
 
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Ruth Bashinsky / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Peter Thiel's Instagram model boyfriend plunged to his death WEEKS after witnessing messy showdown between the billionaire mogul and his husband …
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Joyce Vance / Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance:
Civil Discourse?  —  During weeks like this one, we can all be forgive for wondering whether …
Courtney Subramanian / Los Angeles Times:
A once reluctant Harris embraces her biracial identity in Africa
Discussion: The 19th
Alexander Tin / CBS News:
Marburg virus outbreak: CDC issues alert as 2 countries in Africa battle spread of deadly disease
Discussion: The Sun
Nicole Lafond / Talking Points Memo:
Democrats Cannot Let DeSantis Define Himself To Latino Voters Nationwide
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
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CNN:
$35 political contribution to Democrats raises fresh scrutiny of Judge Merchan
Discussion: Raw Story
Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
White House pulls its punches over GOP judicial nomination blockade
Jennifer A Dlouhy / Bloomberg:
Biden Is Set to Propose Toughest-Ever Rules on Car Pollution to Spur EVs
Zachary Hansen / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
VP Harris to announce huge solar panel deal during Georgia visit
KCUR:
Kansas lawmakers override governor's veto, enacting ban on transgender athletes
NBC News:
‘Just the way the Nazis did’: Evidence suggests Russians are stealing art from Ukraine on a World War II scale
 

 
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Apple reports Q4 revenue from Services, which includes the App Store, Apple TV+, and Apple Music, up 12% YoY to $24.97B, a new quarterly record, but below est.

Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Amazon reports Q3 ad revenue up 19% YoY to $14.33B, vs. $14.25B est., amid its push to insert ads into Prime Video, and subscription sales up 11% YoY to $11.3B

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Search to let users search for timely information using GPT-4o, after testing the feature in July 2024, a direct challenge to Google

 
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