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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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Punchbowl News:
NEWS: What McCarthy will say in NYC
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
McCarthy pledges a vote on one-year debt limit hike - without clear GOP support
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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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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 and The Daily Caller
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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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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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 …
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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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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Kevin Igoe / Washington Examiner:
Revenge is not a winning election message
Revenge is not a winning election message
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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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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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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
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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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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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.
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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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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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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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
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 Times:
G.O.P. to Attack Bragg on Crime at a Hearing in New York
G.O.P. to Attack Bragg on Crime at a Hearing in New York
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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 …
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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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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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 …
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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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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