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9:40 AM ET, April 21, 2023

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Alex Leary / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Tops Ron DeSantis in Test of GOP Presidential Field, WSJ Poll Finds  —  No candidate beyond the two leaders draws substantial support in the still-developing primary race  —  WASHINGTON—Donald Trump has gained command of the GOP presidential-nomination race over Ron DeSantis …
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Associated Press:
Biden 2024 splits Dems but most would back him: AP-NORC poll  —  Only about half of Democrats think President Joe Biden should run again in 2024, a poll shows, but a large majority say they'd be likely to support him if he became the nominee.  The poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center …
New York Times:
Biden 2024 Re-election Announcement Could Come as Soon as Tuesday  —  A campaign video is said to be in production, and donors are being mobilized, for a run that could be announced early next week.  —  President Biden is nearing a final decision to formally enter the 2024 presidential race …
Politico:
Playbook: How to lose friends and alienate people, by Ron DeSantis
New York Times:
I.R.S. Official Is Said to Assert Political Meddling in Hunter Biden Inquiry  —  An agent overseeing the agency's portion of the investigation into the president's son is asking Congress for whistle-blower protection to discuss what he says is misconduct in the case.
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Miranda Devine / New York Post:
Ex-CIA chief spills on how he got spies to write false Hunter Biden laptop letter to ‘help Biden’
NBC News:
Federal prosecutors have considered four possible charges against Hunter Biden
Discussion: RedState and Political Wire
Steven Nelson / New York Post:
Attorney General Merrick Garland is ‘senior’ Biden official in Hunter Biden IRS whistleblower claim
Todd Spangler / Variety:
BuzzFeed News Is Shutting Down, Company Laying Off 180 Staffers  —  BuzzFeed is shutting down BuzzFeed News because it is not able to turn a profit, according to a memo CEO Jonah Peretti sent to company staff Thursday.  The digital publisher is laying off 15% of its employees, or about 180 people …
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Hillary Frey / Slate:
BuzzFeed News Is Dead  —  I heard about BuzzFeed News shutting down right before it hit Twitter.  Word travels fast among industry old-timers like myself, and we try to keep each other in the loop.  The consensus in this little group chat was that this is really sad, but not surprising.
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Arthur Delaney / HuffPost:
House GOP Hard-Liners Push For Changes To Debt Ceiling Bill
Politico:   Inside McCarthy's split with Scalise
Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:
Leaving drama behind, GOP warms to McCarthy in debt fight
Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
Top Trump adviser Boris Epshteyn to be questioned for 2nd day by special counsel: Sources  —  Epshteyn met with prosecutors for multiple hours on Thursday, sources say.  —  After meeting with  —  special counsel Jack Smith's  —  office for multiple hours Thursday, top Trump adviser Boris Epshteyn …
ABC News:
Charges dropped against Alec Baldwin in fatal on-set ‘Rust’ shooting: Sources  —  Baldwin was charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter.  —  Charges against Alec Baldwin have been dropped in the  —  fatal on-set “Rust” shooting  —  , according to sources familiar with the matter.
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Deadline:
Alec Baldwin Not Absolved In Fatal ‘Rust’ Shooting Despite Planned Dropping Of Charges, Prosecutors Say - Update
Phil Williams / WTVF-TV:
REVEALED: GOP leader, who voted to expel TN Three, resigns; found guilty of sexually harassing interns  —  A member of GOP leadership in the Tennessee House of Representatives was recently found guilty of sexually harassing at least one legislative intern, likely two, by an ethics subcommittee acting in secret,
Washington Post:
Trump touts authoritarian vision for second term: ‘I am your justice’  —  The former president is proposing deploying the military domestically, purging the federal workforce and building futuristic cities from scratch  —  Mandatory stop-and-frisk.  Deploying the military to fight street crime, break up gangs and deport immigrants.
Discussion: Associated Press and The Guardian
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Marshall Cohen / CNN:
Smartmatic wants more than Dominion's $787 million payout, plus a retraction from Fox for its 2020 election lies, lawyer says  —  A top lawyer for Smartmatic, the voting technology company whose defamation lawsuit against Fox News is still pending, said Thursday that he won't accept …
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New York Times:
How Hard Lines in Fox-Dominion Deal Talks Suddenly Softened
Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic:
The Internet of the 2010s Ended Today  —  BuzzFeed News was more than a website: It defined an era.  —  If you're curious to know what it was like to work at BuzzFeed News in the salad days of the mid-2010s, here is a representative anecdote: I was sitting at my desk one morning …
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Shania Shelton / CNN:
Larry Elder announces 2024 White House bid  —  Conservative talk radio host Larry Elder announced Thursday that he's launching a 2024 presidential campaign, joining a growing list of Republicans vying for the GOP nomination.  —  Elder will speak at the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition this weekend.
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Julia Shapero / The Hill:
McDaniel announces California will host second GOP debate for 2024
Discussion: Washington Times, Politico and Fox News
Washington Post:
Ukraine defended Bakhmut despite U.S. warnings in leaked documents  —  BAKHMUT, Ukraine — Months after dire warnings from Washington that Ukraine would not be able to hold Bakhmut against an onslaught of Russian mercenaries, Ukrainian forces still cling to the city's western edge …
Discussion: Insider and TASS
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NBC News:
Capitol rioter shot at local deputies after FBI informed him of Jan. 6 charges  —  Nathan Donald Pelham, of Texas, now faces an additional felony count, on top of the four misdemeanor charges stemming from the attack on the Capitol.  —  A Texas man facing charges in the Jan. 6 riot opened fire …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Jan. 6 defendant fired on deputies ahead of expected arrest, court records show
Discussion: CNN and The Hill
Brian Lopez / The Texas Tribune:
Public schools would have to display Ten Commandments under bill passed by Texas Senate  —  The Senate also passed a bill that would set prayer and Bible reading times during the school day.  —  Public schools in Texas would have to prominently display the Ten Commandments …
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Uwa Ede-Osifo / NBC News:
Widow of man who died in custody of deputies in Oklahoma county where officials talked about lynching Black people files suit  —  A Tulsa woman has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the McCurtain County Sheriff and other local officials.  —  A Tulsa woman filed a wrongful death lawsuit …
Discussion: Raw Story and MyNorthwest.com
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Corky Siemaszko / NBC News:   McCurtain Gazette-News releases entire audio of county leaders talking about killing reporters, lynching Black residents
The Verge:
LeBron James didn't pay for his Twitter checkmark, but Elon Musk gave it to him anyway … Twitter has started getting rid of legacy blue checks for those who don't pay up.  Well, unless you're LeBron James and a couple of other celebrities.  —  The Verge has confirmed that an employee …
E&E News:
GOP targets clean energy laws despite boons back home  —  Earlier this year, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene heralded the expansion of a South Korean solar panel production company in her district — a $2.5 billion cash infusion.  —  “QCells, the solar company ... I think they're fantastic,” she said.
Politico:
Trump killed the ‘values voter’ wing of the GOP.  It isn't coming back in 2024.  —  On the eve of a Christian cattle call in Iowa, the two 2024 contenders who talk the most about their faith aren't gaining traction.  —  Mike Pence has spent nearly a half dozen of his Sundays in recent months speaking …
CBS News:
Russia admits its own warplane accidentally bombed Russian city of Belgorod, near Ukraine border  —  Moscow — When a powerful blast shook a Russian city near the border of Ukraine residents thought it was a Ukrainian attack.  But the Russian military quickly acknowledged …
Gideon Rubin / Raw Story:
‘Self-infatuated extremist’: Marjorie Taylor Greene hit with brutal op-ed after rushing to defend a ‘reckless brat’  —  Shortly after federal authorities announced the arrest of Jack Douglas Teixeira on allegations the 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guard member leaked sensitive …
Discussion: New York Times
Brian Melley / Associated Press:
UK deputy prime minister quits after bullying investigation  —  U.K. Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab resigned Friday after an independent investigation into complaints that he bullied civil servants.  Raab's announcement on Friday came the day after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak received findings …
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
Why so many top Republicans want to go to war in Mexico  —  An astonishingly bad idea that's gotten popular very quickly.  —  One of the hottest new ideas in Republican politics is, apparently, launching a war in Mexico.  —  Three recent articles — in Rolling Stone, Politico, and Semafor …
 
 
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Daniel De / The Hill:
Americans bought almost 60 million guns during the pandemic
Discussion: Political Wire and FOX8 WGHP
Politico:
The Threat of Civil Breakdown Is Real
Discussion: Raw Story
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
April 20, 2023  —  There were a whole bunch of seemingly unrelated stories in the news …
Financial Times:
China building cyber weapons to hijack enemy satellites, says US leak
Discussion: Euractiv and Political Wire
Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
‘A Quick Death or a Slow Death’: Prisoners Choose War to Get Lifesaving Drugs
Christina Paxson / New York Times:
The Gravest Threats to Campus Speech Come From States, Not Students
 Earlier Items: 
Washington Post:
Kremlin tries to build antiwar coalition in Germany, documents show
Discussion: TASS
Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:
US to begin training Ukrainian troops on Abrams tank
Associated Press:
Former Pennsylvania congressman, ‘King of Asphalt’ Bud Shuster dead at 91
James Call / Tallahassee Democrat:
Prosecutor's memo said Hispanics get tougher plea deals; state attorney calls it a mistake
Discussion: Insider
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Our new terror: The ‘law-abiding’ gun owner who is ready to kill
Discussion: New York Times and VICE
Remy Tumin / New York Times:
Republicans Call for Censure of Transgender Lawmaker Who Condemned Care Ban
Katelynn Richardson / The Daily Caller:
‘Double Standard’: Legal Experts Slam Dems For Ignoring Liberal Justice's Failure To Disclose Spouse's Consulting Work
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
 

 
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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Amazon joins the Motion Picture Association, after a long courtship; the lobbying group's other members are Disney, Netflix, Paramount, Sony, Universal, and WBD

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon's new competition TV show, debuting October 30, will have entrepreneurs pitch judges, including Amazon execs; finalists' product will be sold on Amazon

Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Ted Sarandos calls on streaming rivals to release their viewership numbers, says Netflix can double its viewership with live events and Christmas Day NFL games
 
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