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10:50 AM ET, April 17, 2023

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Cheryl Hall / Dallas Morning News:
Harlan Crow: There's nothing wrong with my friendship with Clarence Thomas  —  The billionaire, in an exclusive interview, explains his relationship with Thomas, his love of American history and wanting to stay out of the limelight.  —  Harlan Crow believes he and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas …
Discussion: Daily Camera and Raw Story
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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 …
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
The Truth About Clarence Thomas's Disclosures  —  He reported carefully on his inherited real estate.  ProPublica's reporting was slipshod and incurious.  —  Clarence Thomas lost his beloved maternal grandparents barely a month apart in the spring of 1983.
Politico:   Playbook: No GOP favors for Feinstein
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 …
Discussion: Alternet.org
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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 ebb and wane, and issues of the moment — like the first Trump indictment …
New York Times:
Why Joe Biden Has Slow-Walked His Way to a 2024 Run
Discussion: New York Times and Political Wire
Washington Post:
Dominion v. Fox trial delayed for settlement talks, people familiar with the matter say  —  Two people familiar with the case said the sides are scheduled to meet Monday to determine if a last-minute deal can be brokered  —  The beginning of the much-anticipated defamation case between …
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Wall Street Journal:
Fox News, Dominion Prepare for Battle in $1.6 Billion Defamation Trial  —  Jury set to consider if network is liable for broadcasting false election-fraud claims; Fox is pushing to settle dispute  —  Fox News is set to find itself Monday in a place it has spent two years trying to avoid …
New York Times:
Judge Delays Fox and Dominion Trial by a Day
Deadline:
Fox News False Election Claims Trial Start Pushed Back To Tomorrow, Judge Confirms; Settlement Talk Speculation Swirls; Fox Claims Dominion Has Reduced Its Claim Of Damages - Update
Dennis Romero / NBC News:
Start of trial in Dominion lawsuit against Fox News delayed
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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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.
Punchbowl News:
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Discussion: Washington Examiner and NBC News
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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Sky News:
Vladimir Kara-Murza: Russian opposition leader jailed for 25 years after treason conviction
Matthew Luxmoore / Wall Street Journal:
Russian Court Sentences Putin Critic Vladimir Kara-Murza to 25 Years for Treason
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
Social-Media Account Overseen by Former Navy Noncommissioned Officer Helped Spread Secrets  —  An American administrator of the Donbas Girl blogger network uses a pro-Russian persona across online platforms  —  A social-media account overseen by a former U.S. Navy noncommissioned officer …
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Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Pentagon leak promoted by pro-Russian network run by former Navy noncommissioned officer on US soil
Discussion: Just Security
Malcontent News:   A Russian Disinformation Empire in Oak Harbor, Washington
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.”
Discussion: New York Daily News
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Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
How Jim Jordan, a Fighter Aligned With Trump, Wrestled His Way to Power
Discussion: PoliticusUSA
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 …
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 …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Ron Klain rejoins law firm O'Melveny as partner  —  Ron Klain, two months after leaving as White House chief of staff, today will “return home” to the global legal giant O'Melveny as partner in its Litigation Department, based in Washington and New York, and as a member of the firm's Executive Committee.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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 …
Megan Brenan / Gallup:
Concern About Several Environmental Problems Dips in U.S.  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — A majority of Americans, 55%, express “a great deal” of worry about the pollution of drinking water in the U.S., which remains their top environmental concern of six problems tested.
Discussion: The Hill
Axios:
Exclusive: Hikvision internal review found contracts targeted Uyghurs  — Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian- Ina Fried  —  Chinese surveillance giant Hikvision has repeatedly denied reports that the company is complicit in human rights abuses targeting Uyghurs in China's northwestern region of Xinjiang.
 
 
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Aaron Sibarium / Washington Free Beacon:
How Walmart Pushed Arkansas Public Schools to Go Woke
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
The day the book banners lost in Pennsylvania's culture wars
FOX 32 Chicago:
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Jonathan Turley / New York Post:
Disney's financial fairy tale in Florida is coming to an end thanks to Ron DeSantis
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DA's Secret Weapon May Be Lawyer Who's Dogged Trump for Years
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MSN:
Republican state officials in Louisiana ask lawmakers to ban the study of racism at universities, citing divisive ‘inglorious aspects’ of US history
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