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New York Times:
Why Joe Biden Has Slow-Walked His Way to a 2024 Run — Closed-door meetings about when to roll out the president's campaign are intensifying. Still, with no serious primary challenge and Republicans infighting, he feels little pressure. — Closed-door planning meetings involving White House officials …
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Sarah Longwell / Bulwark+:
You Have to Think of Trump's Election as Year Zero — THERE ARE EVENTS SO EPOCHAL that they create clear periods of before and after: Hiroshima; the fall of the Berlin Wall; 9/11. Eight years after he declared his intention to run for president, it's now clear that we should consider Donald …
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Alternet.org
Doug Sosnik / New York Times:
The ‘Diploma Divide’ Is the New Fault Line in American Politics — The legal imbroglios of Donald Trump have lately dominated conversation about the 2024 election. As primary season grinds on, campaign activity will wax and wane, and issues of the moment — like the first Trump indictment …
Alex Roarty / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
New poll: DeSantis — not Trump — leads Biden in battleground states — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis narrowly leads President Joe Biden in the battleground states of Arizona and Pennsylvania, according to a poll of a hypothetical matchup between the two men in the 2024 presidential race.
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Kevin Igoe / Washington Examiner:
Revenge is not a winning election message
Revenge is not a winning election message
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Mediaite, ABC News, Washington Times and USA Today
Lee Moran / HuffPost:
GOP Megadonor Pulls Plug On Ron DeSantis, Cites Abortion And Book Bans
GOP Megadonor Pulls Plug On Ron DeSantis, Cites Abortion And Book Bans
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The Hill, The Guardian, The Wrap, Insider and RedState
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Fiscal crisis nears as McCarthy takes debt ceiling plan to Wall Street — The House speaker is set to outline the party's new proposal at the New York Stock Exchange, more than a decade after a similar GOP-led standoff hammered U.S. markets — NEW YORK — Nearly 40 years ago …
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Billy House / Bloomberg:
McCarthy Pledges Vote on US Debt Limit — With Spending Cuts — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy told a Wall Street audience on Monday that the US House will vote in coming weeks on a plan to lift the nation's borrowing limit, but not without new curbs on spending.
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Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
McCarthy's pitch to shrink food aid drawing skepticism from fellow Republicans — The House Speaker will propose new restrictions on the nutrition program formerly known as food stamps as part of House Republicans' debt limit negotiations with the White House.
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Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
House Speaker McCarthy opens next phase of debt ceiling fight with direct pitch to Wall Street
House Speaker McCarthy opens next phase of debt ceiling fight with direct pitch to Wall Street
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Punchbowl News:
NEWS: What McCarthy will say in NYC
NEWS: What McCarthy will say in NYC
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Washington Examiner, NPR, Washington Times and NBC News
New York Times:
Judge Delays Fox and Dominion Trial by a Day — Opening statements in the $1.6 billion defamation case against Fox News were set to begin on Monday. — A Delaware judge on Monday said that he had delayed by a day the start of a highly anticipated defamation trial over the spread of misinformation in the 2020 presidential election.
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Michael Tomasky / New Republic:
Don't Settle, Dominion! Drag Fox News Across the Hot Coals — Here's an instructive and telling little exercise for you, one that I engaged in myself this past Sunday morning. — Head over to Google and search for “NBC defamation lawsuits by former employees.”
Washington Post:
Dominion v. Fox trial delayed for settlement talks, people familiar with the matter say
Dominion v. Fox trial delayed for settlement talks, people familiar with the matter say
Wall Street Journal:
Fox News, Dominion Defamation Trial Delayed Amid Network's Push to Settle
Fox News, Dominion Defamation Trial Delayed Amid Network's Push to Settle
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Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Clarence Thomas to amend financial disclosure forms to reflect sale to GOP megadonor — Justice Clarence Thomas intends to amend his financial disclosure forms to reflect a 2014 real estate deal he made with a GOP megadonor - an acknowledgment that the transaction should have been disclosed almost …
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Cheryl Hall / Dallas Morning News:
Harlan Crow: There's nothing wrong with my friendship with Clarence Thomas
Harlan Crow: There's nothing wrong with my friendship with Clarence Thomas
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James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
The Truth About Clarence Thomas's Disclosures
The Truth About Clarence Thomas's Disclosures
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The Daily Caller and Cafe Hayek
Robyn Dixon / Washington Post:
Russia sentences Kara-Murza, Putin critic and Post contributor, to 25 years — RIGA, Latvia — A Russian court sentenced Vladimir Kara-Murza, a longtime opposition politician and Washington Post Opinions contributor, to 25 years in prison on Monday on charges of treason for criticizing Russia's war on Ukraine.
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Kathryn Armstrong / BBC:
Vladimir Kara-Murza: Russian opposition figure jailed for 25 years
Vladimir Kara-Murza: Russian opposition figure jailed for 25 years
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Lee Moran / HuffPost:
Del. Stacey Plaskett Exposes Rep. Jim Jordan's Glaring Hypocrisy — The Virgin Islands delegate hit the Donald Trump-loving Ohio Republican with a blunt reminder of the former president's own conduct. — Del. Stacey Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands) slammed Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) for hypocrisy on Sunday's broadcast of MSNBC's “Ayman.”
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Eric Hananoki / Media Matters for America:
Rep. Paul Gosar promotes pro-Hitler and Holocaust-denying site after it praised him for attacking “Jewish warmongers” — Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) used his House.gov newsletter to direct people to a story posted on a Holocaust-denier website that praised him for attacking “Jewish warmongers” for their support of Ukraine.
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Joe.My.God. and Political Wire
Juan Perez Jr / Politico:
Why GOP culture warriors lost big in school board races this month — “Don't assume that a blanket message on critical race theory or transgender issues is going to claim every district,” one GOP activist said. — Amid all the attention on this month's elections in Wisconsin and Illinois …
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Raw Story
Isaac Schorr / Mediaite:
Trump Implores Rupert Murdoch to Say 2020 Election Was Rigged During His Testimony at Dominion Trial — Former president Donald Trump offered some unconventional legal advice to Fox Corporation Chairman Rupert Murdoch on the eve of the Fox News-Dominion Voting Systems trial.
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Meet the Murdochs' newest star
Rose Horowitch / NBC News:
U.S. ambassador visits Evan Gershkovich in Russian prison — U.S. Ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy said that Gershkovich is “in good health and remains strong.” — U.S. Ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy made her first visit to Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich on Monday …
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Sexton responds, constituents call for resignation — On Thursday, Popular Information reported that Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton (R) secretly purchased a $600,000 home in Nashville. Sexton and his family live in the Nashville home year-round, raising questions about whether Sexton …
KC Defender / Kansas City Defender:
“This Is A Hate Crime”: Kansas City Black Family Demanding Justice After A White Man Shoots Black Boy, Ralph Yarl, In The Head Twice For Ringing Doorbell Of The Wrong Home, White Man Released By Police Hours Later — Community members are demanding justice after a white man in Kansas City shot a black boy …
American Prospect:
Potential U.S. Attorney Nominee Has Demonstrated Disregard for Constitutional Rights — If Keva Landrum were chosen, it would serve as yet another example of the Biden administration betraying its promises to reform the criminal legal system. … This week, NOLA.com reported that Keva Landrum …
Ellen Mitchell / The Hill:
Senior ISIS leader suspected killed in US raid — U.S. forces believe they killed a senior Islamic State leader on Monday in an early morning helicopter raid in northern Syria, according to U.S. Central Command. — The raid sought the senior ISIS Syria leader, an unnamed operational planner responsible …
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Aaron Sibarium / Washington Free Beacon:
How Walmart Pushed Arkansas Public Schools to Go Woke — Documents reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show a private company's unprecedented effort to inject DEI into classrooms — In January 2020, Walmart approached public school administrators in Bentonville, Arkansas …