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Washington Post:
Concerns about Biden's reelection swamped by fear of Trump in swing voter focus groups — “Whatever the step above panicked is, that is what I feel about Trump,” said one of the voters, who picked Trump in 2016 then Biden in 2020 — Nearly all of the 15 gathered swing state voters described …
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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
GOP Rep. James Comer Implies Biden Family Probe Is Really About Helping Trump In 2024 — Oops! — Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) on Monday inadvertently implied that House Republicans' high-profile investigation into President Joe Biden's family members and their finances is actually about helping Donald Trump win the presidency in 2024.
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Dennis Aftergut / The Bulwark:
Why Trump Wants U.S. to Default on Debt — And why Biden now says he's “looking at” invoking the Fourteenth Amendment. — Late last week, amid the on-again/off-again White House negotiations with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on raising the debt ceiling, Donald Trump lobbed a grenade.
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Politico:
Key Republican recruits hesitate to jump in if Trump is the nominee — Potential Republican candidates in swing states and districts are reluctant to throw hats into ring. — Less than a month after the midterms, Republican recruiters were already plotting how to persuade …
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Michael Nienaber / Bloomberg:
Germany's Scholz Backs Biden Over Trump in Tight US Race
Germany's Scholz Backs Biden Over Trump in Tight US Race
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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Trump was warned about retaining classified documents, notes reveal — Exclusive: Unreported warning contained in notes taken by lawyer Evan Corcoran that prosecutors have viewed in recent months — Federal prosecutors have evidence Donald Trump was put on notice that he could not retain …
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Reuters:
Exclusive: Texts tie DeSantis closely to Trump insider Lev Parnas in 2018 race — Ukrainian-American businessman Lev Parnas and his business partner were arrested in 2019, accused by the U.S. government of funneling a Russian oligarch's money into American political campaigns.
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Alex Roarty / Miami Herald:
'We've got a real dilemma': How ‘Never Trump’ Republicans view DeSantis vs Trump — Fergus Cullen is wary of Ron DeSantis' conflict with Disney, dislikes how the governor once used his kids in a campaign ad, and doubts he'd support the Florida Republican's presidential candidacy if it were any other election.
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Henry J. Gomez / NBC News:
Ron DeSantis is learning that not every state wants to be Florida
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Why Can't Progressive Writers Defend the Law? — Rich points to a column by Ezra Klein in the New York Times, in which Klein objects to President Biden taking the “14th Amendment option.” Rich notes that Klein has a practical objection to the idea — namely that “if the administration declares …
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David Dayen / American Prospect:
The President Is Already in Litigation Over the Debt Ceiling
The President Is Already in Litigation Over the Debt Ceiling
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Joseph Zeballos-Roig / Semafor:
The central question for Monday's debt ceiling talks
The central question for Monday's debt ceiling talks
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Biden Flirts with Triggering ‘Constitutional Crisis’
Biden Flirts with Triggering ‘Constitutional Crisis’
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Mary Margaret Olohan / The Daily Signal:
EXCLUSIVE: Leaked Policy Exposes Fox News Stances on Woke Ideology — FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Fox News employees are allowed to use bathrooms that align with their gender identity, rather than their biological sex, and permitted to dress in alignment with their preferred gender.
Brittany Gibson / Politico:
Marianne Williamson loses top two campaign officials in a matter of days — The campaign director and deputy director for the longshot Democratic presidential candidate quit over the weekend. — The top two campaign officials for longshot Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson resigned over the weekend.
Cheyanne M. Daniels / The Hill:
NAACP president on Florida warning: We shouldn't use race to ‘weaponize against people’ — NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson on Monday defended the organization's decision to issue a travel advisory to Florida for Black Americans and communities of color.
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Jesus Jiménez / New York Times:
N.A.A.C.P. Issues Florida Travel Advisory, Joining Latino and L.G.B.T.Q. Groups
N.A.A.C.P. Issues Florida Travel Advisory, Joining Latino and L.G.B.T.Q. Groups
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Julia Mueller / The Hill:
Bowman says he will ‘stay as far away’ from Greene as possible — Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) says he will “stay as far away...as possible” from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) after a contentious exchange between the two stemming from an encounter outside the Capitol last week.
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Christopher Flavelle / New York Times:
A Breakthrough Deal to Keep the Colorado River From Going Dry, for Now — The agreement on cuts, aided by a wet winter and $1.2 billion in federal payments, expires at the end of 2026. — Reporting from Washington — The Biden administration has negotiated a hard-fought agreement among California …
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Graeme Wood / The Atlantic:
Inside the Garden of Evil — Harlan Crow wants to stop talking about Clarence Thomas. — When you collect statues of lenin, Harlan Crow told me, “you get to be a bit of a snob.” The first Lenin I had seen that morning was a brass likeness in the entryway to Crow's Dallas mansion …
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Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Harlan Crow on buying house of Justice Clarence Thomas' mother: 'I don't see the foot fault'
Harlan Crow on buying house of Justice Clarence Thomas' mother: 'I don't see the foot fault'
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Christopher Rowland / Washington Post:
Seniors are flooding homeless shelters that can't care for them — Cities are building special shelters for the old, and shelters are hiring trained staff to handle a wave of aging baby boomers — PHOENIX — Beatrice Herron, 73, clutched a flier offering low-cost cable TV …
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Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
Bob Woodward roasts Trump's ‘everything is mine’ take in ‘unprecedented’ copyright suit: Interview tapes ‘belong to the People’ — From George Washington to Joe Biden, U.S. presidents have harnessed the power of the press to reach the populace. Investigative journalist Bob Woodward argues …
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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
I Know One Way the Supreme Court Got to How It Is. I Watched It Happen for Years. — This is a part of Disorder in the Court, a weeklong series on the legal press and the most explosive Supreme Court in generations: how we cover it, how we've failed, and how we can do better.
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Li Cohen / CBS News:
Trevi Fountain water turned black by climate activists protesting fossil fuels — Rome's historic and iconic Trevi Fountain became the site of a protest Sunday when climate activists turned its water black in protest of the fossil fuel industry. — Activist group Ultima Generazione …
The Nib:
The Future of The Nib — I'm afraid I have some bad news. After ten years of publishing, The Nib is going to close down this summer. The new issue of our magazine, the Future issue, will be our last. We will continue to publish online every weekday through August and then shut down.
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Randall Chase / Associated Press:
Democratic Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware won't seek reelection, opening up seat in liberal state — Democratic Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware announced Monday that he will not seek reelection to a fifth term in the U.S. Senate. Carper's announcement paves the way for a wide-open contest …
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Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
Uber suspends diversity chief over 'Don't Call Me Karen' events — Bo Young Lee faced criticism for Zoom sessions that focused on white women's experience of ‘Karen’ stereotype of entitlement — Uber has suspended its head of diversity, equity and inclusion after Black and Hispanic employees complained …
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Zoe Tillman / Bloomberg:
Sidney Powell's Tossed Ethics Case Appealed by Texas Bar Panel — Attorney ethics enforcers in Texas are appealing the dismissal of their complaint against Donald Trump ally Sidney Powell over her failed legal efforts to undermine the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Paul Wiseman / Associated Press:
What it would mean for the global economy if the US defaults on its debt — If the debt crisis roiling Washington were eventually to send the United States crashing into recession, America's economy would hardly sink alone. The repercussions of a first-ever default on the federal debt would quickly reverberate around the world.
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Thomas Gibbons-Neff / New York Times:
Why Bakhmut? It's a Question as Old as War. — The twists and turns of a war are rarely easy to predict. In Ukraine, they landed on a city in the east that few had ever heard of. And then the whole world watched for months. — Just weeks before President Volodymyr Zelensky …
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New York Times:
Spying in Mexico Strikes a New Victim: the President's Ally — While looking into abuses by the armed forces, the country's top human rights official was targeted with Pegasus, the world's most notorious spyware, The Times found. — Natalie Kitroeff reported from Mexico City and Ronen Bergman from Tel Aviv.
Rachel M. Cohen / Vox:
One state just became a national leader on child care. Here's how they did it. — Inside the winning fight in Vermont. — Action in Congress to support child care has been stalled for years. But in Vermont, lawmakers have just approved an ambitious plan that would pour tens of millions …
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