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Shelby Talcott / Semafor:
Sometimes Back Down: Key DeSantis allies viewed anti-Trump tweet as a “massive mistake” — The News — The leading pro-DeSantis PAC surprised the political world with a single tweet after Donald Trump's CNN town hall last week. It bluntly called out the former president for his answers on January 6th …
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4 New Hampshire Republicans who endorsed Trump 19 days ago are now backing Ron DeSantis — The Florida governor rolled out a list of more than 50 endorsements from New Hampshire GOP state legislators ahead of his expected presidential bid. — In late April, Juliet Harvey-Bolia …
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Matthew Cunningham-Cook / The Lever:
DeSantis Allows Anti-"Woke" Giveaway To Big Wall Street Donors — Florida governor and Republican presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis has been crusading against “woke” investments for allegedly threatening his state employees' retirement funds. But the most imminent threat …
New York Times:
Pence Looks Toward 2024 Run, Using Reagan's Playbook, Not Trump's
Pence Looks Toward 2024 Run, Using Reagan's Playbook, Not Trump's
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David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
The Worst Part Of The Durham Report Is What's Not In It — A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM's Morning Memo. — Bill Barr's Trusty Stooge — Special Counsel John Durham got spun so many different ways by Bill Barr that by the time he released …
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Karen Townsend / HotAir:
Trump reacts to Durham report: “The American Public was scammed”
Trump reacts to Durham report: “The American Public was scammed”
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Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
Trump claimed the Durham probe would uncover the ‘crime of the century.’ Here's what it really found
Trump claimed the Durham probe would uncover the ‘crime of the century.’ Here's what it really found
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Politico:
Centrist Dems are plotting a save-McCarthy strategy for the debt fight — If the speaker cuts a deal that alienates conservatives, some Democrats are willing to help save his gavel. — Kevin McCarthy faces a clear challenge as he tries to strike a debt limit deal: Any compromise he makes …
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Washington Post:
DeSantis's celebration of vigilantism is a new low in MAGA extremism — When Ron DeSantis defended Daniel Penny, the former Marine accused of killing a man suffering from mental illness on a New York City subway, the Florida governor didn't just laud Penny as a hero.
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John Knefel / Media Matters for America:
Conservative pundits are increasingly open about who they think should be killed — Right-wing media cheer DeSantis' expansion of the death penalty and try to justify the extrajudicial homicide of Jordan Neely — Right-wing media figures are celebrating both Florida's expansion …
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Jay Kuo / The Status Kuo:
A Bombshell Sexual Abuse Complaint Against Rudy Giuliani Contains Some Big, Buried Ledes — We need to talk about Rudy. — Honestly, I wish we didn't, at least not under these lurid and frankly gross circumstances. Rudy Giuliani, the former attorney to ex-president Trump …
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Alex Thompson / Axios:
Scoop: Inside the Biden split with NY Mayor Eric Adams — New York Mayor Eric Adams, the highest profile Black mayor in the country, has gotten so crossways with the White House that he was dropped from Biden's 2024 campaign advisory board before it was announced last week.
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Reuters:
Biden maintains edge over Trump in 2024 US election -Reuters/Ipsos poll — President Joe Biden continues to hold an edge over potential Republican challengers Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis as the 2024 U.S. presidential election draws closer, according to the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll.
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Kamala Harris Is the Reason Biden Is Running
Kamala Harris Is the Reason Biden Is Running
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
CNN's CEO stands by Trump town hall but acknowledges production weaknesses, sources say — After re-watching Donald Trump's town hall from last week, CNN CEO Chris Licht would have liked to do certain things differently from a production standpoint. — The lessons could be used by CNN …
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Bill Press / The Hill:
Bad deal — how did CNN get rolled by Trump?
Tatiana Siegel / Variety:
Inside Tucker Carlson's Battle to Trade His $20 Million Fox News Salary for a Twitter Show (EXCLUSIVE) … On April 26, Carlson spoke by phone with one of Fox Corp.'s eight board members, who told the host that his recent benching was a condition of Fox News' settlement with Dominion Voting Systems …
Katy Blakey / NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth:
12-Year-Old Charged With Murder, Accused of Killing Sonic Employee — A 12-year-old and a 20-year-old are both facing a murder charge after a restaurant employee was gunned down during an altercation with a customer Saturday night in Keene. — Flowers and a cross now stand outside the Sonic Drive-In on Old Betsy Road in Keene.
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Jonathan Edwards / Washington Post:
A high-schooler filmed her teacher using the n-word, then got suspended — The geometry teacher said the n-word twice in a 55-second video captured by the 15-year-old — Mary Walton thought her teacher repeatedly saying a racist slur in class last week was wrong, so the 15-year-old sophomore …
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Elizabeth Wolfe / CNN:
Florida teacher under investigation for showing Disney movie with gay character says she didn't know LGBTQ restriction applied to her class — A Florida teacher under a state investigation for showing a Disney movie featuring a gay character said she wasn't aware the state's controversial …
Shawna Mizelle / CNN:
Sarah Hughes, Olympic gold medalist, now running for Congress — Sarah Hughes, who won an Olympic gold medal for figure skating in the 2002 Winter Olympics, is now leaping into the political world as she starts a bid for Congress. — Hughes, who was a high school student in Long Island …
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Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Schwarzenegger: Newsom White House bid ‘a no-brainer’ — Arnold Schwarzenegger says it's a “no-brainer” for California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) to eventually make a White House bid. — “Every governor from a big state wants to take that shot,” the “Terminator” actor and California's former Republican governor …
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Lauren Sforza / The Hill:
Bipartisan group calls for investigation into Comer's remarks about missing whistleblower — A bipartisan organization is calling for an investigation into Rep. James Comer's (R-Ky.) comments about a missing whistleblower connected to the House GOP's ongoing investigation of President Biden and his family.
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Gal Beckerman / The Atlantic:
Masha Gessen Resigns in Protest From PEN America Board — What happens when free-speech absolutists flinch — Since the earliest days of the war in Ukraine, much of the Western world has become squeamish about Russian art. Tchaikovsky would not be played. Russian literature was kept high on the shelf.
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Douglas MacMillan / Washington Post:
Eyes on the poor: Cameras, facial recognition watch over public housing — Surveillance cameras purchased with federal crime-fighting grants are being used to punish and evict public housing residents, sometimes for minor rule violations, a Washington Post investigation found
Lauren Feiner / CNBC:
OpenAI CEO wows lawmakers at closed dinner: ‘Fantastic...forthcoming’ — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman spoke to an engaged crowd of around 60 lawmakers at a dinner Monday about the advanced artificial technology his company produces and the challenges of regulating it.
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Kevin Collier / NBC News:
OpenAI CEO embraces government regulation in Senate hearing
OpenAI CEO embraces government regulation in Senate hearing
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Pew Research Center:
Americans' Largely Positive Views of Childhood Vaccines Hold Steady — Fewer than half in U.S. rate COVID-19 vaccines as having high health benefits, low risk of side effects — Fewer than half in U.S. rate COVID-19 vaccines as having high health benefits, low risk of side effects — How we did this
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Samya Kullab / Associated Press:
Russia launches ‘exceptional’ air attack on Kyiv as Europe, China look to exert influence — Ukrainian air defenses thwarted an intense Russian air attack on Kyiv early Tuesday, shooting down all 18 missiles aimed at the capital, officials said. Loud explosions boomed over Kyiv …
David Corn / Mother Jones:
With a Softball Interview of Trump, “The Messenger” Launches by Legitimizing Extremism — Sorry, but this is not “impartiality.” — Democracy dies in the darkness—so goes the slogan of the Washington Post. It can also perish when authoritarianism is normalized with a thousand nicks.
Matt Berg / Politico:
Trump's a ‘laughing fool’ to world leaders, Bolton says — “I have been in those rooms with him when he met with those leaders, I believe they think he's a laughing fool,” he said. — Former President Donald Trump has long touted what he says are strong relationships with high profile leaders …
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US Department of Justice:
Justice Department Announces Five Cases as Part of Recently Launched Disruptive Technology Strike Force — Cases Mark Strike Force's First Enforcement Actions Since Established — The Justice Department today announced criminal charges in five cases and four arrests from five different U …
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Washington Post:
Musk says George Soros ‘hates humanity,’ compares him to Jewish supervillain — The CEO of the Anti-Defamation League condemned Elon Musk's comparison of Soros to Magneto — a Marvel villain who opposes humanity — Elon Musk made a series of attacks on George Soros overnight …
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Nina Burleigh / New Republic:
Who Is Leonard Leo's Mysterious Dark Money King? — A few months before the midterms, with pollsters spewing red wave predictions and post-Roe conservatives planning to force raped children to give birth, a bit of political news added to progressives' gloom.
Arian Campo-Flores / Wall Street Journal:
Kentucky Republicans to Pick Challenger to Popular Democratic Governor — Parties to scrutinize race for voter sentiment ahead of 2024 presidential election — Kentucky Republicans are heading to the polls Tuesday to pick the party's nominee to take on incumbent Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear …
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