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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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Bloomberg, Insider, Insider Paper, Semafor and NewsNation
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CNN:
FBI arrests two alleged Chinese agents and charges dozens with working inside US to silence dissidents — The FBI has arrested two alleged Chinese agents and federal prosecutors have charged dozens of others with working to silence and harass dissidents within the United States …
US Department of Justice:
Two Arrested for Operating Illegal Overseas Police Station of the Chinese Government
Two Arrested for Operating Illegal Overseas Police Station of the Chinese Government
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Washington Examiner, New York Daily News, The Daily Caller and National Review
Associated Press:
US brings charges over secret Chinese police outpost in NYC
US brings charges over secret Chinese police outpost in NYC
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Raw Story, MyNorthwest.com, NBC New York and PIX11
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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Washington Examiner, Insider, Alternet.org, Democrats, The Hill, Politico, Daily Kos, Wide World of News, Reuters, CBS News and Washington Times
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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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ABC News, HuffPost, NPR, Roll Call, Florida Phoenix and NewsNation
Punchbowl News:
NEWS: What McCarthy will say in NYC
NEWS: What McCarthy will say in NYC
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HuffPost, Vanity Fair, NBC News, NPR and Washington Examiner
Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
McCarthy pledges a vote on one-year debt limit hike - without clear GOP support
McCarthy pledges a vote on one-year debt limit hike - without clear GOP support
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Politico, Washington Examiner, USA Today, HuffPost, Insider, ABC News, Fox News, CBS News, The Hill, Associated Press, Reuters, New York Post, NBC News, E&E News, New York Times, Financial Times, UPI, Washington Times, CNN, Raw Story, Insider Paper and Just The News
Andrew Duehren / Wall Street Journal:
McCarthy Says House GOP Plans to Vote on Debt Limit, Spending Cuts
McCarthy Says House GOP Plans to Vote on Debt Limit, Spending Cuts
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Raw Story, The Daily Signal and The Daily Caller
Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
McCarthy's pitch to shrink food aid drawing skepticism from fellow Republicans
McCarthy's pitch to shrink food aid drawing skepticism from fellow Republicans
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Raw Story, Digby's Hullabaloo, Talking Points Memo, Iowa Starting Line, Alternet.org and Washington Post
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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Erick Erickson's Show Notes and Political Wire
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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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Morning Shots, Raw Story and Alternet.org
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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Washington Examiner, NBC News, Erick Erickson's Show Notes, Morning Consult, RedState, Breitbart, New York Post and Opinion 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 Guardian, The Hill, Jezebel, The Wrap and Insider
Doug Sosnik / New York Times:
The ‘Diploma Divide’ Is the New Fault Line in American Politics
The ‘Diploma Divide’ Is the New Fault Line in American Politics
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Bloomberg and Washington Examiner
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Trump urges Murdoch to embrace false 2020 election claims in Dominion trial — Former President Trump is urging Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of Fox Corp., to embrace his false allegations of voter fraud if the media mogul is to give testimony during a jury trial in the defamation lawsuit facing Fox News this week.
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Mediaite, Raw Story, CNN, BuzzFeed News and New York Times
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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.
New York Times:
Judge Delays Fox and Dominion Trial by a Day
Judge Delays Fox and Dominion Trial by a Day
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Michael Tomasky / New Republic:
Don't Settle, Dominion! Drag Fox News Across the Hot Coals
Don't Settle, Dominion! Drag Fox News Across the Hot Coals
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Associated Press
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
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NBC News, Mediaite, New York Times, CNN, The Guardian, The Hill, Reuters, PolitiFact, Washington Press, Talking Points Memo, Axios, Vanity Fair, New York Daily News, Raw Story, Joe.My.God., Los Angeles Times, The Western Journal, BizPac Review, Rolling Stone, Mock Paper Scissors, Deadline, Fortune, HuffPost, Insider, CNBC, Hartford Courant and Political Wire
CNN:
Accused shooter in Kansas City shooting of Black teen who went to the wrong house is White man in his 80s — A white man in his 80s is the individual who apparently shot and seriously wounded Ralph Yarl, a Black teen, on April 13 in Kansas City, Missouri, according to a CNN review of property records …
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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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Reuters, Financial Times, Washington Examiner, Wall Street Journal, CNN, Associated Press, Metro.co.uk, The Sun, Al Jazeera, NPR and Politico
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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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The Guardian, The Moscow Times, Washington Examiner, New York Times, Freedom House, Washington Free Beacon, CBS News, GOV.UK, Bloomberg, Joe.My.God., Semafor, Raw Story, UPI and Just The News
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
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Julia Mueller / The Hill:
Trump picks up two more endorsements from Senate Republicans
Trump picks up two more endorsements from Senate Republicans
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Florida Politics, Breitbart, Fox News, TNJ, Sean Hannity, The Daily Caller, Washington Times, Washington Examiner and Twitchy
Michael R. Sisak / Associated Press:
Trump's House GOP allies take fight to Manhattan DA's turf
Trump's House GOP allies take fight to Manhattan DA's turf
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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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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
Austin Linfante / Heartland Signal:
FBI investigating GOP Okla. officials caught on tape talking about lynching Black people, murdering newspaper reporters — GOP officials from McCurtain County, Okla. are being investigated by the FBI after they were caught on tape expressing their frustration about it not being socially acceptable beat …
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KXII-TV, The Oklahoman, Raw Story, Joe.My.God., The Daily Caller and The Black Wall Street Times
David Millward / Telegraph:
Pro-Russia propagandist unmasked as New Jersey tropical fish seller — Sarah Bils identified as the woman behind ‘Donbas Devushka’ social media accounts, notorious for spreading disinformation about the war — To her devoted followers, “Donbas Devushka” - or Donbas Girl …
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Raw Story
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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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Washington Press, Joe.My.God. and Political Wire
NBC News:
Secret Service investigates possible shot fired near vice president's residence — A Secret Service spokesman said “there is currently no indication that this incident was directed towards any protectees or the Naval Observatory. ” — WASHINGTON — The Secret Service was investigating reports …