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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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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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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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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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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 …
Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
Former Colleagues Rip Ron DeSantis' Rude Behavior
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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
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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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Madison Alder / Bloomberg Law:
Justice Thomas Is ‘Man of Integrity’ Says Ex-Colleague Breyer — 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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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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House Committee on the Judiciary:
New Testimony Reveals Secretary Blinken and Biden Campaign Behind the Infamous Public Statement on the Hunter Biden Laptop
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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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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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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. Last January, my agents began submitting …
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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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 …
NBC News:
Federal prosecutors have considered four possible charges against Hunter Biden — Possible charges include two misdemeanor counts for failure to file taxes, a single felony count of tax evasion and a felony related to a gun purchase. — Federal prosecutors have considered charging Hunter Biden …
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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 …
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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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Republicans follow their new leader, Marjorie Taylor Greene — This is the price America pays for Kevin McCarthy's ambition. — To understand the consequences of the many concessions the House speaker made to get his job, look at what has happened to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
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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.
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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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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Politico:
The Threat of Civil Breakdown Is Real — The Manhattan district attorney's indictment of former President Donald Trump for 34 felonies so far has not resulted in the “death and destruction” that the former president warned of and may have desired. The protests near the courthouse …
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Raw Story
New York Times:
The Obscure GOP Bookkeeper at the Center of the George Santos Mess — Nancy Marks, Mr. Santos's former campaign treasurer, has her own history of questionable dealings that have aroused interest from federal investigators. — When George Santos was a political neophyte struggling to launch …
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Raw Story
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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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 …
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. The Supreme Court is set to weigh …
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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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 …
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Elizabeth Elkind / Fox News:
Cruz backs Alex Mooney in West Virginia Senate race as GOP works to unseat Joe Manchin — Cruz is the second senator to endorse conservative Mooney — EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is throwing his support behind Rep. Alex Mooney, R-W.Va., in what's shaping up to be a high-profile GOP primary race …
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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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