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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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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
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Kevin Igoe / Washington Examiner:
Revenge is not a winning election message
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Lee Moran / HuffPost:
GOP Megadonor Pulls Plug On Ron DeSantis, Cites Abortion And Book Bans
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Julia Mueller / The Hill:
Trump picks up two more endorsements from Senate Republicans
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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
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Punchbowl News:
NEWS: What McCarthy will say in NYC
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Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
McCarthy pledges a vote on one-year debt limit hike - without clear GOP support
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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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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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Washington Post:
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
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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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Chris Panella / Insider:
GOP megadonor Harlan Crow isn't charging Clarence Thomas' mother rent. Zillow estimates suggest that would have saved her $155,000 since 2014.
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The Dean's Report
Cheryl Hall / Dallas Morning News:
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
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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
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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 and Diane Ravitch's blog
New York Times:
G.O.P. to Attack Bragg on Crime at a Hearing in New York — Republicans argue Alvin Bragg, the district attorney, has allowed a crime crisis to flourish in New York. But data shows that, after a pandemic spike, crime is down slightly in the city. — House Republicans are descending …
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Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
DA's Secret Weapon May Be Lawyer Who's Dogged Trump for Years
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Raw Story
New York Times:
F.B.I. Arrests Two on Charges Tied to Chinese Police Outpost in New York — Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn charged the men with conspiring with the People's Republic of China and destroying evidence in connection with a Chinese police outpost in Lower Manhattan.
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Hannah Dreier / New York Times:
U.S. Was Warned of Migrant Child Labor, but 'Didn't Want to Hear It' — The White House and federal agencies were repeatedly alerted to signs of children at risk. The warnings were ignored or missed. — In the spring of 2021, Linda Brandmiller was working at an arena in San Antonio …
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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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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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 …
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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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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New York Daily News
Mike Corder / Associated Press:
Dutch intel agency paints grim picture of multiple threats — The Dutch national intelligence agency painted a grim picture Monday of a growing number of internal and external threats to the rule of law in the Netherlands compounded by Russia's war in Ukraine, international cyberattacks and espionage.
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Bloomberg, TASS and Political Wire
Liz Goodwin / Washington Post:
Senate Republicans will try to block Feinstein's Judiciary replacement — Their objections complicate Democrats' path out of the judicial nomination slowdown caused by the California senator's lengthy absence — A second Republican senator on the Judiciary Committee announced their opposition …
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