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Washington Post:
Leaker of U.S. secret documents worked on military base, friend says — The man behind a massive leak of U.S. government secrets that has exposed spying on allies, revealed the grim prospects for Ukraine's war with Russia and ignited diplomatic fires for the White House is a young …
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New York Times:
New Leaked Documents Show Broad Infighting Among Russian Officials — The additional documents also suggest the breach of American intelligence agencies could contain far more material than previously believed. — The depth of the infighting inside the Russian government appears broader …
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Mediaite, The Guardian, Al Jazeera and CNN
CNN:
Pentagon leak leads to limits on who gets access to military's top secrets
Pentagon leak leads to limits on who gets access to military's top secrets
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USA Today
CNN:
Biden suggests US government is close to identifying intel leaker
Biden suggests US government is close to identifying intel leaker
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Just Security and The Hill
Erin Banco / Politico:
Why the U.S. didn't notice leaked documents circulating on social media
Why the U.S. didn't notice leaked documents circulating on social media
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Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post
MSNBC:
Audio with Fox News shows Trump team privately admitted lacking evidence on Dominion claim — Alex Wagner shares exclusive audio recordings made by former Fox News producer Abby Grossberg while she was a producer for Maria Bartiromo that show members of Donald Trump's team being less confident …
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Josephine Harvey / HuffPost:
‘Such An Idiot’: Nicolle Wallace Bursts Out Laughing Over Trump Comment On Fox News — The MSNBC anchor took aim at the former president's embrace of authoritarian leaders. — MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace laughed in disbelief after showing viewers an excerpt from Donald Trump's recent interview …
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New York Times:
Judge Imposes Sanction on Fox for Withholding Evidence in Defamation Case
Judge Imposes Sanction on Fox for Withholding Evidence in Defamation Case
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Associated Press:
Appeals court preserves partial access to abortion pill, but with tighter rules — A federal appeals court preserved access to the abortion pill mifepristone for now but reduced the period of pregnancy when the drug can be used and said it could not be dispensed by mail.
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Chris Geidner / Law Dork with Chris Geidner:
Fifth Circuit says mifepristone stays approved during appeal, but questions remain
Politico:
Appeals court keeps abortion pill on the market but sharply limits access
Appeals court keeps abortion pill on the market but sharply limits access
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Pam Belluck / New York Times:
Court Says Abortion Pill Can Remain Available but Imposes Temporary Restrictions
Court Says Abortion Pill Can Remain Available but Imposes Temporary Restrictions
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Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — North Carolina Sen. Ted Budd Endorses Donald Trump for President — Sen. Ted Budd (R-NC), the freshman U.S. Senator who just won in the 2022 midterm elections, is formally endorsing former President Donald Trump for president in 2024, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.
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Matt Dixon / NBC News:
Ron DeSantis' team tries to stop Florida Republicans from endorsing Trump
Ron DeSantis' team tries to stop Florida Republicans from endorsing Trump
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Washington Examiner, Insider, The Guardian and Raw Story
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
DeSantis to head to D.C. as he nears presidential bid
New York Times:
Trump to Face Questioning Thursday in N.Y. Attorney General's Lawsuit — Letitia James, the attorney general, has sued Donald J. Trump and three of his children, accusing them of a “staggering” fraud. — Donald J. Trump is set to be questioned under oath on Thursday in a civil fraud lawsuit brought …
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Annie Karni / New York Times:
Feinstein, Under Pressure to Resign, Asks to Step Down From Judiciary Panel — The 89-year-old California Democrat, who has been absent from the Senate for more than a month after being diagnosed with shingles, said she would seek a temporary replacement on the powerful committee.
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Punchbowl News:
4/13/23 ☀️ Punchbowl News AM — There are a few behind-the-scenes developments happening on the debt limit that we want to share with you. … The legislation would lift the debt limit until May 2024. Leadership is considering either a cap on non-defense discretionary spending …
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Insider, Washington Examiner, RedState, Roll Call and HuffPost
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Steve Clemons / Semafor:
Principals — with Steve Clemons — Some Democrats are calling for Senator Dianne Feinstein …
Principals — with Steve Clemons — Some Democrats are calling for Senator Dianne Feinstein …
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Washington Post:
Special counsel focuses on Trump fundraising off false election claims — A new batch of subpoenas seeks to compare public claims of voter fraud after the 2020 election versus private texts and emails — Federal prosecutors probing the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol …
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Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Dramatic realignment swings working-class districts toward GOP — Nine of the top 10 wealthiest congressional districts are represented by Democrats, while Republicans now represent most of the poorer half of the country, according to median income data provided by Rep. Marcy Kaptur's (D-Ohio) office.
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Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Trump steps into center of youth-led “Tennessee Three” backlash — Former President Trump will travel this week to Nashville, the epicenter of a growing youth-led backlash over the Tennessee House's expulsion of two Black Democratic state lawmakers for joining protests against gun violence.
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Politico, Semafor, CBS News and Washington Post
Amanda Carpenter / Bulwark+:
Tim Scott Looks at Joe Biden and Thinks Civil War — SOUTH CAROLINA SENATOR TIM SCOTT, one of those affable Republicans often touted as “the future” of an optimistic, inclusive GOP, carefully selected the timing and location for the announcement of his exploratory committee for his party's 2024 presidential nomination.
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall / Pretty Ok Maggie:
Scholastic, and a Faustian Bargain — Recently, I got an email with an offer from Scholastic's Educational Division to license Love in the Library for an AANHPI narratives collection, I was thrilled. If you've been in kids' books for more than ten minutes then you are aware of the staggering reach of Scholastic.
Politico:
The RNC chose Fox for first debate but rankled conservatives by entertaining CNN — The committee got the easy debate decision out of the way. The ones after that are a lot harder. — A line of TV network executives made a pilgrimage to the Republican National Committee's headquarters …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Jim Jordan's new stunt reveals the folly of ‘governing by Fox News’ — Who could have predicted that structuring congressional hearings around the overriding goal of generating content for Fox News would prove to be a recipe for buffoonish failure? — After winning the House last November …
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Raw Story
Axios:
Josh Green's new book on the populist left — Josh Green of Bloomberg Businessweek will be out Jan. 9 with “The Rebels,” a book about the populism on the left that was galvanized by the 2007-08 financial crisis. … - “The Rebels,” he says, is “about the rise of left-wing populism …
The Post Millennial:
BREAKING: Video shows reinstated TN State Rep Justin Jones stopping cars and assaulting drivers in summer of 2020 — Footage has been unearthed of disgraced Tennessee state representative Justin Jones stopping cars and assaulting drivers in 2020. — Minute Read
Popular Information:
If at first you don't succeed, defund the public library — Across the country, right-wing activists and politicians are pushing to ban hundreds of books from public school libraries. While this is often described as an effort to remove “pornography” from school libraries …
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J. Michael Luttig / The Atlantic:
The Court Is Likely to Reject the Independent State Legislature Theory — And that offers hope for American democracy — It is often difficult, if not impossible, to tell what the Supreme Court is thinking about a case from the questions the justices ask counsel.
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Record Party Gap on Environment-Economic Growth Tradeoff — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Though Democrats and Republicans have long come down on different sides when considering the tradeoffs between economic growth and environmental protection, the gap between the parties has never been larger.
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The Hill
Alex Gangitano / The Hill:
Investigators ‘getting close’ to identifying US intelligence leaker: Biden — President Biden on Thursday said that investigators are “getting close” to identifying the source of a U.S. intelligence leak that revealed details about the war in Ukraine and U.S. spying efforts on some of its closest allies.
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Josephine Harvey / HuffPost:
Tucker Carlson Might Have Just Delivered His Most Racist Fox News Rant Yet — The Fox News host suggested Tennessee lawmaker Justin Pearson, who is Black, talks like a “sharecropper.” — Tucker Carlson went on an overtly racist tirade against a Tennessee state lawmaker on Wednesday night …
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Alternet.org, The Daily Beast and Rolling Stone
Ben Giles / NPR:
The Arizona House expels a Republican lawmaker for her role in baseless testimony — PHOENIX — An Arizona Republican legislator has been expelled from the state House of Representatives for inviting a witness to present false charges about lawmakers and other state officials — and then …
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Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
Trump accidentally admits Michael Cohen told the truth in his new lawsuit: Legal expert — Former President Donald Trump is launching a $500 million lawsuit against his former attorney and fixer Michael Cohen, alleging that he violated attorney-client privilege when he issued a tell-all book …
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Hans Nichols / Axios:
Scoop: Biden's pick for Labor looking doubtful — President Biden's nomination of Julie Su as Labor secretary is in serious danger, as Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) has told the Biden administration he has deep reservations about her, according to people familiar with the situation.
Sam Levin / The Guardian:
Man with schizophrenia was left naked in jail cell for weeks before death, video shows — Joshua McLemore died of malnutrition after 20 days in windowless Indiana jail cell with no medical treatment — New surveillance video from inside an Indiana jail shows how a 29-year-old man who died …
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John Daniel Davidson / The Federalist:
For $80 Billion (And Counting) U.S. Taxpayers Have Bought A Bloody Stalemate In Ukraine — At some point the bipartisan Washington consensus in favor of funding the Ukraine war has to tell the American people what we're buying. — The trove of recently leaked intelligence documents related …