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9:40 PM ET, April 26, 2023

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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Disney Sues DeSantis Over Control of Its Florida Resort  —  The company claimed “a targeted campaign of government retaliation,” which it said stemmed from its criticism of a contentious state education law.  —  The fight between Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida and the Walt Disney Company is headed to court.
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NBC News:
Ron DeSantis is set to jump into the 2024 presidential fray in mid-May  —  The Florida governor is poised to launch his presidential exploratory committee next month.  —  TALLAHASSEE — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is poised to jump into the presidential fray as soon as mid-May …
Discussion: ABC News and Fox News
Aaron Gregg / Washington Post:
Disney sues Gov. Ron DeSantis, alleging political retaliation  —  The Florida governor is working with the legislature to overturn the entertainment giant's latest oversight agreement.  —  Disney is suing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) over what it called a “relentless campaign to weaponize government power …
Gabe Kaminsky / Washington Examiner:
Republican billionaire rules out supporting DeSantis: 'Doesn't even return phone calls'
Discussion: Washington Post
Tim Miller / Bulwark+:   Ron DeSantis Has an Elizabeth Warren Problem
Curt Anderson / Associated Press:
DeSantis-backed New College board scraps 5 professors tenure
Shaylee Ragar / NPR:
Montana House votes to formally punish transgender lawmaker, Rep. Zooey Zephyr  —  HELENA, Mont. - Republicans, who dominate the Montana House of Representatives, have voted Wednesday to formally punish Democratic Rep. Zooey Zephyr.  —  Zephyr, who is transgender, has been blocked …
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Associated Press:
Montana transgender lawmaker barred by GOP from House floor  —  Montana Republicans on Wednesday barred transgender lawmaker Zooey Zephyr from the House floor for the rest of the 2023 session in retaliation for her participation in protests after she was silenced for rebuking colleagues …
Mara Silvers / Montana Free Press:
Gianforte's son one of many lobbying governor against trans bills
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Montana House Republicans ban Rep. Zooey Zephyr from House chamber for remainder of legislative session
Kiara Alfonseca / ABC News:
Transgender lawmaker faces expulsion by Montana House Republicans
Discussion: Associated Press, The Hill and WCMH-TV
David Frum / The Atlantic:
The Coming Biden Blowout  —  Republicans thought about running without Trump in 2024—but lost their nerve.  They're heading for electoral disaster again.  —  The Republican plan for 2024 is already failing, and the party leadership can see it and knows it.
Discussion: Washington Post and Politico
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Trump still top 2024 Republican preference, DeSantis slipping  —  Poll also shows President Biden with a strong lead over his Democratic challengers  —  Former President Donald Trump maintains his advantage in the 2024 Republican presidential nomination race …
Reuters:
Exclusive: Peter Thiel, Republican megadonor, won't fund candidates in 2024 - sources  —  Tech billionaire and Republican megadonor Peter Thiel, an early backer of former President Donald Trump who later broke with him, has told associates he is not planning to donate to any political candidates in 2024 …
Aaron Katersky / ABC News:
‘Trump raped me,’ E. Jean Carroll testifies in battery, defamation case  —  E. Jean Carroll has sued Trump for defaming her when he denied her rape claim.  —  Former Elle columnist E. Jean Carroll, on the first day of testimony in her civil defamation and battery case against former President Donald Trump …
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Rachel Frazin / The Hill:
Senate votes to overturn Biden truck pollution limit  —  The Senate on Wednesday passed a Republican-led effort to undo a Biden administration rule that aims to cut pollution from heavy-duty trucks.  —  The vote was 50-49.  Sen Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) voted with Republicans to get rid of the rule.
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CNN:
House votes to pass debt ceiling bill in win for McCarthy
Washington Post:
House to debate debt ceiling bill as GOP confronts last-minute holdouts
Ted Barrett / CNN:
Senate votes to revoke tougher EPA emissions regulation for trucks
Josh Christenson / New York Post:
Biden cheat sheet shows he had advance knowledge of journalist's question  —  A cheat sheet held by President Biden during a Wednesday press conference revealed that the 80-year-old commander in chief had advance knowledge of a question from a journalist.  —  “How are YOU squaring …
ProPublica:
As Rail Profits Soar, Blocked Crossings Force Kids to Crawl Under Trains to Get to School  —  When crossings are blocked for hours, kids risk their lives to get to school by crawling through trains that could start at any moment.  Ambulances and fire trucks can't get through.  The problem has existed for decades.
Slate:
John Roberts Is Acting Like Justices Are Kings  —  Last Thursday, Sen. Dick Durbin invited Chief Justice John Roberts to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee about, well, to put it directly—the Supreme Court's diaphanous ethics regime.  On Tuesday evening, in his letter to Durbin …
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CNN:
Trump lawyers rail against DOJ in letter, reveal foreign leader briefings may be among classified documents taken from White House  —  Two of Donald Trump's defense lawyers now believe that classified briefings of phone calls with foreign leaders were among “all manner of documents” …
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Ben Terris / Washington Post:
The Washington gambler  —  Sean McElwee, a young Democratic insider with friends in high places, bet on himself in the post-Trump era.  But that wasn't all he was betting on. … It was poker night at Sean McElwee's Logan Circle bachelor pad.  In the living room, a big‐ …
Discussion: The Spectator World and Politico
Sam Borcia / Lake and McHenry County Scanner:
79-year-old man charged with ‘senselessly’ murdering his neighbor who was doing yard work near Antioch  —  Police say a 79-year-old man has been charged with murder for allegedly fatally shooting his neighbor, who was performing yard work, in the head near Antioch.
Discussion: Law & Crime, ABC7 and Raw Story
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Trump loses appeal to block Pence from testifying about direct communications  —  Former President Donald Trump has lost an emergency attempt to block former Vice President Mike Pence from testifying about their direct conversations, in the latest boost to a federal criminal investigation examining Trump's …
Discussion: NBC News and Raw Story
NBC News:
Far-right laments Tucker Carlson's ouster, and loss of their shot at the mainstream  —  Carlson's show echoed conspiracy theories and disinformation that gained traction on extremist forums like 4chan — and that would otherwise not have appeared on Fox News.
Discussion: Los Angeles Times and Twitchy
Zach Everson / Forbes:
Ivanka Trump Ditches Attorneys In Fraud Suit, Splitting From Don Jr. And Eric  —  Ivanka Trump replaced the lawyers defending her in a fraud suit against the New York attorney general on Friday.  Her former attorneys are still representing her brothers, Don Jr. and Eric.
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Erik Uebelacker / The Daily Beast:   Ivanka Hires Jeffrey Epstein Lawyer, Ditches Don Jr. and Eric Trump in Fraud Case
Sara Fischer / Axios:
WSJ, WaPo, NYT leaders run joint ad demanding reporter's release  —  The publishers and top editors at the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and New York Times on Thursday will run a joint letter as a full-page, color advertisement in all three of their papers urging support …
AJ McDougall / The Daily Beast:
Texas Woman Who Nearly Died Tears Into Ted Cruz at Abortion Hearing  —  Amanda Zurawski said she was denied an abortion until her pregnancy went septic as “a direct result of the policies” that her senators support.  —  A Texas woman testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee …
Ben Ashford / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: ‘Appetizers plus entrée!’  Looks like Tucker Carlson doesn't give two Fox about his ouster from network - gleefully telling DailyMail.com his future plans while tooling off to a romantic date night with wife Susan  — Tucker Carlson was ‘blindsided’ by the news …
Philip Klein / National Review:
How Tucker Carlson Will Lose Influence without Fox  —  Regardless of their views on Tucker Carlson, most people assume that he will land on his feet when the dust settles on his departure from Fox.  I think this assumption is largely correct.  With his devoted following …
David Zipper / Slate:
The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature  —  Automakers are starting to admit that drivers hate touchscreens.  Buttons are back!  —  You don't see a lot of good news about road safety in the United States.  Unlike in most peer countries, American roadway deaths surged during the pandemic, and have barely receded since.
Charlie Nash / Mediaite:
JUST IN: Tucker Carlson Drops First Video After Fox News Ouster  —  Tucker Carlson released a video on Wednesday addressing his firing from Fox News several days prior. … During the video, which was published to Carlson's Twitter account, the former Fox News host said he realized after stepping …
Devan Cole / CNN:
Missouri judge temporarily blocks limits on gender-affirming care for trans youth and adults from going into effect  —  A state judge in Missouri temporarily blocked the state's limits on gender-affirming care for minors and adults in the state on Wednesday, putting them on hold just hours before they were set to go into effect.
Discussion: Associated Press and STLPR
Washington Post:
For the Murdochs, Tucker Carlson became more trouble than he was worth  —  Precise reasons for the top-rated host's dismissal remain clouded, but the move reflected a reversal for the exasperated family that once championed him  —  Tucker Carlson had dinner with his ultimate boss …
Leor Sapir / City Journal:
Oregon's Reckless Medicine  —  Democrats are muscling through a bill on “gender-affirming care” that they may come to regret.  —  / Eye on the News / Health Care, Politics and law, The Social Order  —  Earlier this month, Democrats on the Oregon House Committee on Behavioral Health …
Eleanor Watson / CBS News:
Air Force suspends leaders of alleged Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira's unit  —  The Air Force has temporarily suspended two leaders of the unit where accused Pentagon document leaker Jack Teixeira worked, according to the Air Force.  —  The commander of the 102nd Intelligence Support Squadron …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
 
 
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Anthony L. Fisher / The Daily Beast:
Nobody Sold Out Harder Than Tucker Carlson
Associated Press:
Founder of the We Build The Wall group linked to Steve Bannon is sentenced to 4 years
Kadia Goba / Semafor:
Congress wants to stop robots from detonating nuclear bombs
Discussion: Alternet.org
Dave Jamieson / HuffPost:
Florida Republicans Pass Bill To Weaken Public-Sector Unions, Send It To DeSantis
Axios:
Bud Light pours at bars take a dive amid boycott calls
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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Lindsay Whitehurst / Associated Press:
Fugees rapper Pras found guilty in political conspiracy
Joshua Green / Bloomberg:
One Neat Trick to Raise the Debt Limit
Discussion: The Hill and USA Today
Lee Brown / New York Post:
Trans marathoner Glenique Frank offers to give back medal after beating 14K in female category
Discussion: spiked and Breitbart
Reem Nadeem / Pew Research Center:
Nearly a Year After Roe's Demise, Americans' Views of Abortion Access Increasingly Vary by Where They Live
Discussion: UPI, Politico and Mercury News
New York Times:
He Calls the Shots for New York's Governor. He Lives in Colorado.
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Jolt: Top Trump lawyer never saw proof of Dominion fraud claims
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