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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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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.
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Eric Cortellessa / TIME:
Top DeSantis Donor Says He's Ready to Put His Fortune Behind 2024 Bid — It's been a rough two weeks for Ron DeSantis. Members of Congress from his own state have been endorsing Donald Trump in droves. A crippling gas shortage in South Florida coincided with the governor's travel …
Politico:
Playbook: How to lose friends and alienate people, by Ron DeSantis — Presented by The U.S. Chamber of Commerce — With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross — DRIVING THE DAY — NEW 2024 POLLS — “Donald Trump Tops Ron DeSantis in Test of GOP Presidential Field, WSJ Poll Finds,” …
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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 …
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Raw Story, Washington Times and Just The News
Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
Former Colleagues Rip Ron DeSantis' Rude Behavior
Former Colleagues Rip Ron DeSantis' Rude Behavior
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The Daily Beast, Talking Points Memo, Raw Story and New York Times
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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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Fox News Doesn't Do Apologies — Rupert Murdoch may have to pay for Donald Trump's 2020 election lies, but who's going to reimburse American democracy? — Throughout the Trump era in American politics—which began in 2015 with that escalator ride and, 2020 election results notwithstanding …
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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Ben Smith / Semafor:
The end of the BuzzFeed era in news
The end of the BuzzFeed era in news
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Hillary Frey / Slate:
BuzzFeed News Is Dead
BuzzFeed News Is Dead
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Los Angeles Times, The Daily Beast, Talking Points Memo, Vanity Fair and One America News Network
Politico:
McCarthy builds a kitchen Cabinet ahead of debt showdown — without his No. 2, Scalise — The House GOP is working to unify after a dramatic stretch that saw its budget chief sidelined. But the speaker and majority leader still have trust issues. — After his brutal battle to lead the House …
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Juliegrace Brufke / Axios:
McCarthy at risk of falling short on GOP votes for debt ceiling bill
McCarthy at risk of falling short on GOP votes for debt ceiling bill
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The Hill, Washington Examiner, NBC News, Breitbart, Bloomberg, Political Wire and Politico
Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:
Leaving drama behind, GOP warms to McCarthy in debt fight
Leaving drama behind, GOP warms to McCarthy in debt fight
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Washington Examiner, Reuters and Los Angeles Times
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 …
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Rolling Stone, New Republic, Talking Points Memo and Joe.My.God.
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 …
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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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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 …
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PoliticusUSA and Just The News
Madison Alder / Bloomberg Law:
Justice Thomas Is ‘Man of Integrity’ Says Ex-Colleague Breyer — Share To: — Retired Justice Stephen Breyer said Clarence Thomas is a “man of integrity,” as his former US Supreme Court colleague faces ethics questions over ties to a Republican donor. — “As far as I'm concerned, I sat next to him on the bench for 28 years.
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Washington Post
Washington Post:
Abortion ban states see steep drop in OB/GYN residency applicants — States that have enacted abortion bans saw a 10.5 percent drop in applicants for obstetrics and gynecology residencies in 2023 from the previous year, according to new data from the Association of American Medical Colleges.
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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 …
Susan Rinkunas / Jezebel:
Let's Look at Senator Josh Hawley's Connections to the Abortion Pill Case — Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk donated to his campaign in 2018, but that donation has since been scrubbed from Open Secrets. Hawley's wife represents the plaintiffs. — Alerts — The Supreme Court is set to weigh …
Politico:
The Threat of Civil Breakdown Is Real — National security officials are still not prepared for a far-right revolt. — The MAGA fever has yet to break for some voters. Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images — The Manhattan district attorney's indictment of former President Donald Trump …
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Raw Story
Miranda Devine / New York Post:
Ex-CIA chief spills on how he got spies to write false Hunter Biden laptop letter to ‘help Biden’ — Joe Biden's presidential campaign prompted former acting CIA director Mike Morell to “help Biden” by organizing 50 colleagues to sign a letter in October 2020 falsely claiming that damning emails …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Is DeSantis Just Not Dumb Enough for Republicans? … A little over four years ago, Elizabeth Warren's presidential campaign appeared to be, if not inevitable, then at least like the most strongly positioned candidacy to win her party's nomination. The former Harvard professor had won …
Richard North Patterson / Wall Street Journal:
Why My New Novel About Racial Conflict Ran Into Trouble — Today's identity politics has led many in the publishing industry to insist that writers can only tell stories about people like themselves. That's bad for fiction and for our democracy. — Resize
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 …
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
RFK Jr.? No Thank You, American Politics Is Crazy Enough As Is — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. begins his campaign for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination with 14 percent in a survey of Democratic primary voters conducted by USA TODAY/Suffolk University.
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Fox News
Sareen Habeshian / Axios:
“Unprecedented” wave of fake threats at schools causes terror — “Swatting” calls — fake reports of shootings or bombs that draw an onslaught of SWAT teams and cause schools to lockdown — are rising nationwide. … - “Swatting” is the act of placing a fake emergency call to 911 …
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Raw Story
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.
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BlueGreen Alliance, New Republic, Semafor, Wall Street Journal and Inside Climate News
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 …
Associated Press:
Once-a-week nightmare: US mass killings on a record pace — The U.S. is setting a record pace for mass killings in 2023, replaying the horror on a loop roughly once a week so far this year. The carnage has taken 88 lives in 17 mass killings over 111 days. Each time, the killers wielded firearms.
Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
‘A Quick Death or a Slow Death’: Prisoners Choose War to Get Lifesaving Drugs — An estimated 20 percent of Russia prisoner recruits are H.I.V. positive. To some, the front lines seemed less risky than prisons where they said they were denied effective treatments.
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The Sun
Erin Doherty / Axios:
Poll: GOP voters say fighting “woke” ideology more important than stopping Social Security cuts — Most Republican primary voters say fighting “woke” ideology in schools and businesses is more important to them than protecting Medicare and Social Security from cuts, a new Wall Street Journal poll out today showed.
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Washington Post:
Kremlin tries to build antiwar coalition in Germany, documents show — Marrying Germany's far right and far left is a Kremlin goal, according to a trove of Russian documents reviewed by The Washington Post — BERLIN — When 13,000 demonstrators gathered at the Brandenburg Gate on Feb. 25 …
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TASS
Ben Makuch / VICE:
Rightwing Edgelords Are the Real Threat to National Security — “The amount of Three Percenters and Boogaloo guys I work with is untenable,” said one Department of Defense worker. — Ben Makuch — Since the beginning of the Biden Administration, the GOP has painstakingly attacked the Pentagon as a …
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Raw Story