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2:40 PM ET, April 17, 2023

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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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Michelle Cottle / New York Times:
Speaker McCarthy Is Feeling the Heat
Discussion: Raw Story and The Hill
Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
McCarthy pledges a vote on one-year debt limit hike - without clear GOP support
Andrew Duehren / Wall Street Journal:
McCarthy Says House GOP Plans to Vote on Debt Limit, Spending Cuts
Discussion: Raw Story and The Daily Caller
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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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  —  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.
Michael Tomasky / New Republic:   Don't Settle, Dominion! Drag Fox News Across the Hot Coals
Washington Post:
Dominion v. Fox trial delayed for settlement talks, people familiar with the matter say
Max Tani / Semafor:   Meet the Murdochs' newest star
Wall Street Journal:
Fox News, Dominion Defamation Trial Delayed Amid Network's Push to Settle
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: Raw Story and Alternet.org
Doug Sosnik / New York Times:
The ‘Diploma Divide’ Is the New Fault Line in American Politics
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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.
Discussion: The Dean's Report
Cheryl Hall / Dallas Morning News:
Harlan Crow: There's nothing wrong with my friendship with Clarence Thomas
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
USNI News:
FEDs Investigating Former Sailor Behind Pro-Russian ‘Donbass Devushka’ Accounts  —  The Department of Justice is investigating a former Navy non-commissioned officer for her role in spreading a series of leaked Pentagon documents, two U.S. defense officials told USNI News on Monday.
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David Millward / Telegraph:
Pro-Russia propagandist unmasked as New Jersey tropical fish seller
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
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 and Diane Ravitch's blog
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.
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 …
Katherine Stewart / New Republic:
The Bigger Story Behind the Charter School That Requires Girls to Wear Skirts  —  The dress code at the Charter Day School, a supposedly nonsectarian, publicly funded K-8 charter school in Leland, North Carolina, requires that female students wear skirts, jumpers, or “skorts.”
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 …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
 
 
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