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10:30 AM ET, April 22, 2023

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Abbie VanSickle / New York Times:
Both Sides in Abortion Debate Vow to Keep Fighting  —  The order halts a sweeping ruling by a federal judge in Texas as an appeal moves forward in a case that could have profound implications for abortion access and the F.D.A.'s regulatory authority.  —  Here's what you need to know about the abortion ruling.
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NBC News:
Supreme Court allows abortion pill to stay on the market for now  —  The Justice Department and Danco Laboratories, which makes the brand version of mifepristone, Mifeprex, had asked the court to step in immediately.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will allow the most commonly used abortion pill …
Chris Geidner / Law Dork with Chris Geidner:
Supreme Court keeps medication abortion drug available, with eased access, during appeals  —  The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday evening issued a full stay of U.S District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk's order purporting to remove approval of the medication abortion drug mifepristone during appeals of the ruling …
Melissa Quinn / CBS News:
Supreme Court maintains FDA approval of abortion pill, preserving access for now
Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Supreme Court protects access to abortion pill
New York Times:
Airman Shared Sensitive Intelligence More Widely and for Longer Than Previously Known  —  A Discord user matching the profile of Jack Teixeira distributed intelligence to a larger chat group, days after the beginning of the Ukraine war.  —  The Air National Guardsman accused …
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Washington Post:
FBI leak investigators home in on members of private Discord server  —  Investigators have spoken to online friends of alleged leaker Jack Teixeira, who hung out and viewed secret documents in a gaming chatroom  —  The FBI has been interviewing members of a private Discord server …
Discussion: CNN
John Poulos / New York Times:
Dominion's C.E.O.: We Settled the Lawsuit Against Fox News, but We're Not Done Yet  —  Vindication.  Shame.  Triumph.  Tragedy.  Surrender.  These are a few of the characterizations I've heard following our recent settlement with Fox News in our historic defamation case against the network …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Christian Davenport / Washington Post:
SpaceX didn't want to blow up its launchpad.  It may have done just that.  —  Videos show a war-like barrage of shrapnel blasting away from the launch site into nearby beaches, wetlands and at least one car  —  Big rockets emit tremendous amounts of energy — and none more than SpaceX's Starship …
Discussion: The Drive, Space, The Wrap and CNN
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Joseph Menn / Washington Post:
Twitter removes labels from state-controlled media, helping propaganda  —  The move comes the same week that Russia and China were revealed to be operating armies of fake profiles  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter has removed labels designating global media accounts as government-controlled or funded …
CNN:
Ex-Manhattan prosecutor set to testify before GOP-led House Judiciary Committee in May  —  The Manhattan District Attorney's Office and the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee have settled a court dispute where the prosecutor's office tried to block congressional testimony …
Discussion: Breitbart
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Associated Press:
House Republicans, Manhattan DA end fight over Trump inquiry
Jon Springer / Ad Age:
Bud Light's marketing leadership undergoes shakeup after Dylan Mulvaney controversy  —  Alissa Heinerscheid, who has led the brand since June, takes leave of absence and is replaced by Budweiser global marketing VP Todd Allen  —  Anheuser-Busch InBev has changed marketing leadership …
Kansas City Star:
Claims that fueled Missouri GOP crackdown on trans care ‘unsubstantiated,’ university says  —  A St. Louis transgender center's internal review of allegations that it harmed children found them to be unfounded, after the explosive claims from a former employee fueled an aggressive effort …
Discussion: Missouri Independent
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Morgan Sung / TechCrunch:
Missouri trans ‘snitch form’ down after people spammed it with the ‘Bee Movie’ script
Discussion: New York Times and Joe.My.God.
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Biden is running out of time to avoid calamitous debt ceiling outcomes  —  The GOP's willingness to court economic disaster without major spending cuts leaves White House aides in a bind  —  President Biden is running out of time and options to avert an unprecedented default on the federal debt …
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Jason Easley / PoliticusUSA:
Jim Jordan Just Got Busted With Evidence Of His Hunter Biden Lies  —  Jim Jordan and House Judiciary Republicans got caught editing witness interviews to smear the Sec. of State and push their Hunter Biden laptop scandal.  —  Here is what Rep. Jordan's House Judiciary Republicans tweeted.
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Michael Daly / The Daily Beast:
Retired Navy Officer Takes on Florida's Book-Ban ‘Fascism’  —  “I didn't sacrifice 21 years of my life to stand idly by while religious fanatics and other fanatics try to impose fascism on my country.”  —  A retired Navy officer who was aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt …
Discussion: Raw Story
MSN:
Trump Wants to End DeSantis's 2024 Campaign Before It Even Begins  —  (Bloomberg) — Former President Donald Trump is girding to take a swing at Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on one of the things his chief rival is proudest of: his handling of his state's economy.
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CNN:
Details about multimillion-dollar stock holding concealed in abortion pill judge's financial disclosures  —  The federal judge who issued a nationwide ruling blocking the approval of a common abortion medication redacted key information on his legally mandated financial disclosures …
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Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post:   Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk's financial reports include an unusual redaction
Matt Binder / Mashable:
Dril and other Twitter power users begin campaign to ‘Block the Blue’ paid checkmarks  —  After Elon Musk removed legacy verified users' checkmarks, Twitter's biggest users are blocking everyone who pays.  —  On Thursday, April 20, Elon Musk made a rare move: He delivered on a promise.
John Paul Schmidt / KOLR:
Springfield man charged with demanding meat at gunpoint  —  REPUBLIC, Mo. — On April 18, Republic Police Department officers were called to a Price Cutter to respond to a call about a robbery in which a man held an employee at gunpoint so that he would be served meat.
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Washington Post:
In a thriving Michigan county, a community goes to war with itself  —  Ottawa County offers a glimpse of what happens when one of the building blocks of American democracy is consumed by ideological battles  —  WEST OLIVE, Mich. — The eight new members of the Ottawa County Board of Commissioners …
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
A Gun in the Home Makes Murder More Likely, Not Less  —  In most of the world, going to the wrong house is not a deadly risk.  —  But in the United States it is, because we're awash in an estimated 450 million guns and suffer from a mass delusion that a gun in the home makes us safer.
Discussion: Bloomberg
Dani Anguiano / The Guardian:
A California journalist documents the far-right takeover of her town: 'We're a test case'  —  Doni Chamberlain's been a journalist in Shasta county for nearly 30 years.  Now she's targeted by the extremists who are looking to reshape the region  —  The fight for democracy is supported by
Christina Cauterucci / Slate:
Birth Control Is Next  —  At first glance, what's happening right now in Iowa looks like a rosy vision for the future of reproductive rights.  —  The Republican-controlled state Senate recently passed a bill that would increase access to certain types of contraception by allowing pharmacists …
Politico:
Jim Justice plans Senate launch for next week  —  Justice will challenge Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia.  —  Gov. Jim Justice is planning to launch a long-awaited campaign against Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) next week, handing Republicans a well-funded and popular recruit in their best opportunity to flip a Senate seat.
 
 
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MSNBC:
A new clue in the Fani Willis investigation
Discussion: Raw Story
ProPublica:
Senate Committee Probes Top Universities, Museums Over Failures to Repatriate Human Remains
Discussion: Wisconsin Examiner
Anthony L. Fisher / The Daily Beast:
America's Tragedy Is Its Culture of Fear—Armed With Millions of Guns
Discussion: The Atlantic, Insider and WGN-TV
Tom Jackman / Washington Post:
U.S. agrees to $5 million settlement over police killing of Bijan Ghaisar
 Earlier Items: 
NBC News:
Biden admin leaning toward evacuating U.S. personnel from Sudan, sources say
Associated Press:
Montana transgender lawmaker silenced: What to know
Jake Sheridan / Chicago Tribune:
Chicago police investigating officers' response to mob attack in Loop after witness says police declined to help
Discussion: The Daily Signal, Breitbart and WGN-TV
CNN:
EXCLUSIVE: Hunter Biden lawyers to meet with Justice Department officials next week as scrutiny of investigation intensifies
Nancy Scola / Politico:
Washington's Angriest Progressive Is Winning Over Conservatives - and Baffling Old Allies
Adam Gabbatt / The Guardian:
Rightwing extremists defeated by Democrats in US school board elections
Discussion: Political Wire
 

 
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: NBCUniversal Vice Chairman Bonnie Hammer plans to leave the company at the end of the year; she has been with the company since 2004

 
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