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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 …
Discussion: ABC News and ABC7
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.
Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
McCarthy pledges a vote on one-year debt limit hike - without clear GOP support
Michelle Cottle / New York Times:
Speaker McCarthy Is Feeling the Heat
Discussion: Raw Story and The Hill
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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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.
Doug Sosnik / New York Times:
The ‘Diploma Divide’ Is the New Fault Line in American Politics
Discussion: 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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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.
Michael Tomasky / New Republic:
Don't Settle, Dominion! Drag Fox News Across the Hot Coals
Discussion: Associated Press and HuffPost
New York Times:
Judge Delays Fox and Dominion Trial by a Day
Washington Post:
Dominion v. Fox trial delayed for settlement talks, people familiar with the matter say
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 …
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
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
“Stop the Steal” Organizer Apologizes After Being Accused of Asking Teen Boys for D*ck Pics  —  “I apologize for any inappropriate messages sent over the years,” said Ali Alexander, an ally of former President Trump and white nationalist Nick Fuentes.  —  A key figure in the pro-Trump …
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Political Wire
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
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USNI News:
FEDs Investigating Former Sailor Behind Pro-Russian ‘Donbass Devushka’ Accounts
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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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 …
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 …
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.
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
Bryan Metzger / Insider:
Pelosi campaign pays Illinois man $7,500 after he sued over ‘invasive and harassing’ fundraising texts  — An Illinois man sued Nancy Pelosi's campaign for more than $31,500 over unwanted fundraising texts.  — The campaign appears to have settled with the man out of court, paying him $7,500.
Bloomberg Law:
Berkeley Ban on Natural Gas Hookups Tossed by Ninth Circuit  —  Share To:  —  A California city's ordinance banning natural gas hookups in new buildings was toppled Monday by the Ninth Circuit, which said that the ordinance is preempted by federal law.  —  The panel's decision was a win …
 
 
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