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12:35 PM ET, April 17, 2023

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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 …
Discussion: 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 …
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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.
Discussion: ABC News
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.
Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
House Speaker McCarthy opens next phase of debt ceiling fight with direct pitch to Wall Street
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
Wall Street Journal:
Fox News, Dominion Defamation Trial Delayed Amid Network's Push to Settle
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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Politico:
Playbook: No GOP favors for Feinstein
Discussion: Washington Examiner
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
The Truth About Clarence Thomas's Disclosures
Discussion: 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
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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Michael R. Sisak / Associated Press:
Trump's House GOP allies take fight to Manhattan DA's turf
Luke Broadwater / New York Times:   How Jim Jordan, a Fighter Aligned With Trump, Wrestled His Way to Power
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.
Discussion: 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 …
Discussion: 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.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Max Tani / Semafor:   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 …
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 …
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 …
 
 
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Mike Corder / Associated Press:
Dutch intel agency paints grim picture of multiple threats
Discussion: Bloomberg, TASS and Political Wire
Kamal Sultan / Daily Mail:
As Walmart shuts down four stores in crime-ridden Dem-led Chicago, DailyMail.com lists all the big box shops …
Discussion: Breitbart
Wall Street Journal:
Saudi Arabia, U.A.E. Scoop Up Russian Oil Products at Steep Discounts
Discussion: TASS, Just The News and Financial Times
Dhruv Mehrotra / Wired:
ICE Records Reveal How Agents Abuse Access to Secret Data
Discussion: S.T.O.P.
Financial Times:
‘Transformational change’: Biden's industrial policy begins to bear fruit
Financial Times:
China starts ‘surgical’ retaliation against foreign companies after US-led tech blockade
Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Ron Klain rejoins law firm O'Melveny as partner
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Megan Brenan / Gallup:
Concern About Several Environmental Problems Dips in U.S.
Discussion: The Hill
 Earlier Items: 
Axios:
Exclusive: Hikvision internal review found contracts targeted Uyghurs
Shelby Talcott / Semafor:
Why Tim Scott thinks he has a lane in 2024
The Guardian:
‘A weapon of war’  —  Protesters in at least 100 US cities were met with teargas attacks in 2020 …
Discussion: Raw Story
FOX 32 Chicago:
Hundreds of teenagers flood into downtown Chicago, smashing car windows, prompting police response
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
DA's Secret Weapon May Be Lawyer Who's Dogged Trump for Years
Discussion: Raw Story
Chris Geidner / Law Dork with Chris Geidner:
Clarence Thomas's problems are also a John Roberts problem
Discussion: The Hill and Mock Paper Scissors
MSN:
Republican state officials in Louisiana ask lawmakers to ban the study of racism at universities, citing divisive ‘inglorious aspects’ of US history
Discussion: Joe.My.God.