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12:40 PM ET, April 25, 2023

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Washington Post:
Biden announces 2024 reelection bid, saying he wants to ‘finish the job’  —  President formalizes his intent to seek another term, setting the stage for a tumultuous election  —  President Biden officially announced his bid for reelection Tuesday morning, saying in a solemn launch video that he wants to …
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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.
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.
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.
CBS News:
CBS News poll finds Democrats meet Biden reelection bid with acceptance, more than excitement  —  Ahead of his reelection announcement Tuesday, Democrats liked and approved of President Biden.  They said they would greet that announcement, though, with more acceptance than excitement.
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: The Hill and 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 …
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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Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots:
Tucker's Demise  —  Fox “parts ways” with a uniquely toxic voice.  —  It was as abrupt as it was shocking.  No goodbyes, no real attempts to make it look amicable, negotiated, or especially well planned.  —  Tucker Carlson was fired.  And he didn't see it coming.
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Julia Davis / The Daily Beast:   Hysterical Putin Pals Claim the Deep State Took Out Tucker Carlson
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
Dylan Byers / Puck:
Black Monday: Inside the Carlson-Lemon Double Shocker
Discussion: Forbes and 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.
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
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
Discussion: Axios and USA Today
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
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
Jack Dura / The Bismarck Tribune:
Burgum signs off on revisions to North Dakota abortion laws
Discussion: New Republic
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
Lauren Steussy / Insider:
Clarence Thomas didn't recuse himself from a 2004 appeal tied to Harlan Crow's family business, per Bloomberg  — But a case involving Trammell Crow Residential made its way to the Supreme Court in 2005, per Bloomberg.  — Thomas didn't recuse himself at the time, per the report.
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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
Washington Post:
Mallory McMorrow has a ‘bench’ warning for Democrats  —  Welcome to The Daily 202!  Tell your friends to sign up here.  On this day in 1983, the U.S.S.R. made public a reply from Soviet Premier Yuri Andropov to 10-year-old Samantha Smith of Maine, inviting her to visit his country.
Silja J.A. Talvi / The Appeal:
Women Report ‘Rampant’ Sexual Abuse at Federal Prison Where Ghislaine Maxwell Is Held  —  Content warning: This story contains graphic descriptions of sexual abuse.  —  The word spread like wildfire in July 2022 throughout FCI Tallahassee, a low-security federal women's prison in Florida: Ghislaine Maxwell had arrived.
Anand Giridharadas / The.Ink:
Biden's “freedom” pitch and the coming political realignment  —  As the right retreats from the theme of “freedom,” the left sees an opening  —  In the final days of the 1964 presidential campaign, a profesional pitch man and public speaker named Ronald Reagan recorded a video on behalf …
Grant Stern / Washington Press:
EXCLUSIVE: Democrat becomes first senator calling for Justice Thomas' resignation  —  A Democratic senator just called on the Supreme Court's justice caught jet-setting on his billionaire friend's dime to resign at the kickoff of a national tour to demand a fair and ethical Supreme Court.  (video below)
Discussion: Forbes
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,” …
 
 
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Gallup:
Russia Suffers Global Rebuke After Invasion
Discussion: The Hill and Semafor
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
Pablo Manríquez / New Republic:
You Know Who Won't Miss Susan Rice? Immigration Advocates
Discussion: The Federalist, Reuters and HotAir
Bill Lueders / The Bulwark:
Tearing Down Art to Spare Republican Snowflakes' Feelings?
Discussion: Raw Story
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
As Carlson and Lemon Exit, a Chapter Closes on Cable's Trump War
 Earlier Items: 
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate GOP bemoans McCarthy plan to punt debt ceiling to election year
Discussion: Insider, Roll Call and Just The News
Amanda Holpuch / New York Times:
Statue Is Defaced in England After Children Were Given Crayons
Discussion: NDTV
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
Tamar Hallerman / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Trump probe: DA urges law enforcement to prep for indictments this summer