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Alex Thompson / Axios:
First look: RNC slams Biden in AI-generated ad … - The video features AI-created images appearing to show Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris celebrating at an Election Day party, followed by a series of imagined reports about international and domestic crises that the ad suggests would follow a Biden victory in 2024.
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Biden Announces Re-election Bid, Defying Trump and History  —  While the president once pitched himself as “a bridge” to a new generation of Democratic leaders, he has decided that he is not ready to turn the torch over yet.  —  WASHINGTON — President Biden formally announced on Tuesday …
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Biden's never-Trump campaign for '24 … But Biden sees Trump as a lethal threat to America — the reason to run and the issue to build his campaign around. … - “When I ran for president four years ago, I said we are in a battle for the soul of America - and we still are,” Biden says in the video announcing his reelection.
NBC News:
Biden announces he is running for re-election, framing 2024 as a choice between ‘more rights or fewer’  —  Biden, who at 80 is already the oldest commander-in-chief, said “MAGA extremists are lining up” to take away the social safety net and personal freedoms.
Katie Glueck / New York Times:
Biden names Julie Chávez Rodríguez as his campaign manager.  —  Ms. Chávez Rodríguez, a veteran of Vice President Kamala Harris's political orbit, also worked on the president's 2020 campaign before becoming director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.
Discussion: Politico
Washington Post:
Biden team plans television ads after Tuesday reelection announcement  —  He has selected political veterans Julie Chavez Rodriguez and Quentin Fulks to run his campaign operation  —  President Biden will buy television ad time later this week to push his re election message after announcing …
Washington Post:
Biden announces he is running for reelection in 2024
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Tucker Carlson's Exit Shows Who's the Real Star at Fox  —  No one is irreplaceable at the network.  It was designed that way.  —  If you're wondering did Tucker Carlson jump, was he pushed or were he and Fox News wrestling on the ledge of a skyscraper, and the two of them fell 57 stories …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Tucker Carlson, Fake Populist and Genuine Racist … The most incisive comment ever made about Tucker Carlson was actually made about Bill O'Reilly, and the person who said it was Tucker Carlson, at the time a lesser cable-television personality gazing upward at the reigning giant of his field.
Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots:
Tucker's Demise  —  Fox “parts ways” with a uniquely toxic voice.  —  It was as abrupt as it was shocking.
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Tucker Carlson's ouster is another sign that MAGA is shrinking
Michael Tomasky / New Republic:
Why Fox News Is Going to Get Worse—a Lot Worse
Discussion: The Atlantic and Raw Story
Jeffrey Lord / The American Spectator:
Fox Dumps Tucker to Go Woke
Julia Davis / The Daily Beast:   Hysterical Putin Pals Claim the Deep State Took Out Tucker Carlson
Dylan Byers / Puck:
Black Monday: Inside the Carlson-Lemon Double Shocker
Discussion: CNN, more at Mediagazer »
Heidi Przybyla / Politico:
Law firm head bought Gorsuch-owned property  —  The Supreme Court justice did not report the identity of the purchaser, whose firm has had numerous cases before the court.  —  For nearly two years beginning in 2015, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch sought a buyer for a 40-acre tract of property he co-owned in rural Granby, Colo.
David Wallace-Wells / New York Times:
Dr. Fauci Looks Back: ‘Something Clearly Went Wrong’ … It was, perhaps, an impossible job.  Make one man the face of public health amid an unprecedented pandemic, in a country as fractious as the United States, and there were bound to be disappointments and frustrations, and they were bound to get personal.
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Washington Post:
A closer look at the U.S. pandemic response reached an unsettling conclusion  —  Looking back at the U.S. response to the pandemic, many setbacks and mistakes are well-known.  But a closer examination by a team of seasoned experts has brought to the surface a profoundly unsettling conclusion.
Discussion: USA Today
New York Times:
Major G.O.P. Donor's Commitment to DeSantis Is Murkier Than Thought  —  The hedge fund billionaire Kenneth Griffin, who seemed set to be a powerful financial backer of the Florida governor, is said to still be evaluating the Republican primary race.  —  Nearly six months ago, Kenneth Griffin …
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Daniel W. Drezner / Drezner's World:
The Ron DeSantis Bubble Deflates  —  You know it's hard out there for a Florida governor...  Remember six months ago?  The Republican Party had just massively underperformed in the midterm elections, and a lot of GOP power brokers were grousing that the blame lay with one Donald J. Trump.
Orlando Sentinel:
Democrats slam DeSantis for taking trip around the world with work at home
Discussion: Florida Politics and New York Post
New York Times:
Harry Belafonte, 96, Dies; Barrier-Breaking Singer, Actor and Activist  —  In the 1950s, when segregation was still widespread, his ascent to the upper echelon of show business was historic.  But his primary focus was civil rights.  —  By Peter Keepnews  —  Harry Belafonte …
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Adam Bernstein / Washington Post:
Harry Belafonte, barrier-smashing entertainer and activist, dies at 96
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
Trump Is Losing the E. Jean Carroll Rape Case Even Before It Starts  —  Trump tried to prevent jurors from hearing about another incident when he allegedly forced himself on another journalist.  It didn't work.  —  With the rape trial of former President Donald Trump just days away …
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Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
Trump Faces Rape Allegation as E. Jean Carroll's Suit Goes to Trial
Ava Sasani / New York Times:
North Dakota Governor Signs Near-Total Abortion Ban  —  The governor approved the state's prohibition on Monday, just a month after the State Supreme Court blocked an earlier ban.  —  North Dakota became the latest state on Monday to enact a near-total ban on abortion …
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CNN:
Haley courts moderates with anti-abortion speech as GOP struggles with the issue
Discussion: Washington Post
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Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Company with ties to GOP megadonor and longtime friend of Justice Thomas had business before Supreme Court
Discussion: Bloomberg
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate GOP bemoans McCarthy plan to punt debt ceiling to election year  —  Senate Republicans are trying to maintain solidarity with Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), but they are not thrilled with his proposal to extend the debt ceiling for only a year, setting up another standoff …
Discussion: Insider, Roll Call, Just The News and NPR
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
As Carlson and Lemon Exit, a Chapter Closes on Cable's Trump War  —  The two hosts took very different approaches, but the decisions by Fox News and CNN to shed the stars marks at least a temporary shift in the excesses of Trump-era coverage.  —  They were on very different networks …
Allison Quinn / The Daily Beast:
Russian Lawmaker: Let's Bring Back ‘Stalinist Repressions’  —  HOT TAKE  —  A Russian lawmaker has openly called for the return of Stalinist methods to crack down on dissent.  “It's time to introduce the concept of the ‘enemy of the people’: there's no need to be shy about this,” …
Tamar Hallerman / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Trump probe: DA urges law enforcement to prep for indictments this summer  —  Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on Monday said she would announce this summer whether former President Donald Trump and his allies would be charged with crimes related to alleged interference in Georgia's 2020 election.
Bill Lueders / The Bulwark:
Tearing Down Art to Spare Republican Snowflakes' Feelings?  —  In advance of the 2024 RNC, a Milwaukee convention center director decided to destroy a potentially MAGA-triggering public display of literary art.  —  Marty Brooks is evidently not the literary type.
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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The Baltimore Banner:
Black residents are leaving Baltimore in large numbers, heading to suburbs
Bill Bowden / Arkansas Online:
Judge orders Hunter Biden to appear in Arkansas paternity court hearings
John Hewitt Jones / FedScoop:
Congress gets 40 ChatGPT Plus licenses to start experimenting with generative AI
Pablo Manríquez / New Republic:
You Know Who Won't Miss Susan Rice? Immigration Advocates
Amanda Holpuch / New York Times:
Statue Is Defaced in England After Children Were Given Crayons
Discussion: NDTV
Politico:
An affiliate of House Democrats' top super PAC is launching new TV ads hitting Republicans on their debt ceiling proposal, tying the GOP to the threat of default.
Discussion: The Hill
 Earlier Items: 
Washington Post:
Seven arrested in Montana after protesting silencing of trans lawmaker
Mia Ashton / The Post Millennial:
Trans teen died from vaginoplasty complications during landmark Dutch study used to justify child sex changes
New York Times:
Trump Endorsed by Senator Daines of Montana, a Key Republican Fund-Raiser
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January
 
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