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Patrick Smith / NBC News:
Driver arrested and Nazi flag seized after truck crashes into security barriers near the White House — The driver of the U-Haul truck faces multiple charges after the Monday night incident, which the Secret Service said may have been intentional. — A driver was arrested and a Nazi flag …
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Nathan Howard / Reuters:
Driver detained as truck crashes near White House; Nazi flag found — The U.S. Secret Service said it had detained the driver of a rented box truck that crashed into security barriers near the White House on Monday night, perhaps intentionally, but that there were no injuries or ongoing danger.
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CNN:
U-Haul driver faces multiple charges after crashing into a security barrier near White House in Lafayette Square, police say — The driver of a U-Haul who crashed into a security barrier in Lafayette Square near the White House Monday night was arrested on multiple charges …
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Troy Pope / wusa9.com:
U-Haul truck smashes into security barrier near White House, driver arrested
U-Haul truck smashes into security barrier near White House, driver arrested
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Brad Reed / Raw Story:
Florida school bans poem read at Biden inauguration after objection of just one parent — The poem that was read by poet Amanda Gorman at President Joe Biden's inauguration has been banned from elementary schools in Miami-Dade County, Florida after the objections of just one parent.
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Sommer Brugal / Miami Herald:
Miami-Dade K-8 bars elementary students from 4 library titles following parent complaint
Miami-Dade K-8 bars elementary students from 4 library titles following parent complaint
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Washington Post:
GOP extortion has backed Biden into a corner. He still has a way out. — As America hurtles toward default on its debts and the subsequent economic cataclysm, it's looking as if President Biden is running out of options. He still has a way out — remaining prepared to invoke the 14th Amendment …
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Wall Street Journal:
Biden Tries to Close Debt-Ceiling Deal Democrats Sought to Avoid
Biden Tries to Close Debt-Ceiling Deal Democrats Sought to Avoid
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Alex Shephard / New Republic:
The Democrats Have Already Lost the Debt Ceiling Fight
The Democrats Have Already Lost the Debt Ceiling Fight
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Joe Duhownik / Courthouse News Service:
Kari Lake loses election challenge — A county judge says Lake provided no evidence that mail-in ballot signature verification wasn't conducted during the 2020 Arizona General Election. — MESA, Ariz. (CN) — Katie Hobbs is rightfully Arizona's 24th governor, a county judge ruled for the second time Monday.
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Here's How Bad CNN's Post-Trump Town Hall Ratings Have Been — This reporting is featured in this week's edition of Confider, The Daily Beast's media newsletter. Subscribe here and send your questions, tips, and complaints here. — More than a week after CNN's disastrous town hall …
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Ruth Graham / New York Times:
Sex Abuse in Catholic Church: Over 1,900 Minors Abused in Illinois, State Says — A new report by the attorney general of Illinois covering decades names more than 450 credibly accused sexual abusers, including priests and lay religious brothers. — The Latest
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Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
As funds run short, Treasury asks agencies if payments can be made later — Senior Biden aides are rummaging through the nation's books, looking for new ways to conserve cash while Washington battles over the debt ceiling — The Treasury Department has asked federal agencies whether …
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Hannah Knowles / Washington Post:
DeSantis envisions shaping ‘7-2 conservative majority’ on Supreme Court — The Florida governor suggested that Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, John G. Roberts Jr. and Sonia Sotomayor could all retire over the next two presidential terms — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis previewed …
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Lauren Sforza / The Hill:
DeSantis suggests next President could shape ‘7-2 conservative majority’ on Supreme Court
DeSantis suggests next President could shape ‘7-2 conservative majority’ on Supreme Court
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Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Free Advice for Ron DeSantis: Don't Run for President
Free Advice for Ron DeSantis: Don't Run for President
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
The looming existential crisis for cable news — The number of cable subscribers, dropping for years, just took a record-breaking plunge. Sooner or later, it will hurt news channels' bottom line. — After a week of promotion and controversy, CNN staged a live town hall telecast …
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Perry Bacon Jr / Washington Post:
7 news outlets reimagining political journalism in smart ways — Political journalism is in crisis. Over the past few months, BuzzFeed News, FiveThirtyEight, Vice and a number of other outlets that specialize in political news have substantially cut staffing and coverage.
Axios:
Scoop: Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin reconsiders 2024 bid — Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin is reconsidering a bid for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, after earlier taking himself out of the race as polls made former President Trump look increasingly formidable, top Republican sources tell Axios.
Olivia Beavers / Politico:
House GOP auctions off McCarthy's used chapstick as debt talks intensify — The fundraiser, which Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) won with a $100,000 bid, is set to benefit Republicans' campaign arm. — House Republicans are bidding for steep spending cuts in exchange for raising the debt ceiling.
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Olivia Beavers / Politico:
The debt talks are about to test McCarthy's hold on his party
The debt talks are about to test McCarthy's hold on his party
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New York Times:
Prosecutors Sought Records on Trump's Foreign Business Deals Since 2017 — The special counsel scrutinizing the former president's handling of classified documents issued a subpoena to the Trump Organization seeking records related to seven countries. — Federal prosecutors overseeing …
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Ann M. Simmons / Wall Street Journal:
Russian Court Extends Evan Gershkovich's Pretrial Detention by Three Months — WSJ reporter was detained on March 29 while on a reporting trip in the Urals — A Russian court extended until at least Aug. 30 the pretrial detention of Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter deemed …
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
How Vivek Ramaswamy helped make Martin Shkreli the ‘pharma bro’ — Ramaswamy's hedge fund firm invested with the since-infamous Shkreli. Later, he would say he was “pathologically incapable of telling the truth.” — Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican presidential candidate who made a fortune in biotech …
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Charlie Kirk's ‘Turning Point’ Pivots to Christian Nationalism — The organization founded to promote the free market sure is spending a lot of time promoting attacks on the separation of church and state … Its mission, as recorded with the IRS since 2012, is to enlighten students about …
Jared Gans / The Hill:
Trump Organization finishes last in brand reputation survey for second straight year — The Trump Organization, the company led by former President Trump and his family, finished last in an Axios Harris survey of brand reputations for the second year in a row.
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Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
E. Jean Carroll Seeks New Damages From Trump for Comments on CNN — The former president's repeated denials that he sexually abused Ms. Carroll “show the depth of his malice” and merit heavy damages, her lawyer wrote. — E. Jean Carroll, who this month won $5 million in damages …
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Hannah Natanson / Washington Post:
Objection to sexual, LGBTQ content propels spike in book challenges — An analysis of book challenges from across the nation shows the majority were filed by just 11 people — Books about LGBTQ people are fast becoming the main target of a historic wave of school book challenges …
Curbed:
How Much Does It Cost to Live Like This? — We asked young New Yorkers about their dream futures. Then we calculated exactly how much each would cost. — You begin shopping for your future the moment you become an adult in New York City. Rich and well-furnished lives are aggressively paraded about.
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Brian Fung / CNN:
How Meta got caught in tensions between the US and EU — Facebook-parent Meta has perhaps become the most high-profile casualty of a long-running privacy dispute between Europe and the United States — but it may not be the last. — Meta has been fined a record-breaking €1.2 billion …
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Matthew Kassel / Jewish Insider:
Former Rep. Suozzi looks to reclaim old House seat, now held by George Santos — While a special election seems increasingly likely at this stage, the race remains highly unpredictable — and it could become even more convoluted should Santos leave office sooner than later
Zach C. Cohen / Bloomberg Government:
Carper Exit Could Pave Way for First Transgender Congress Member — Lisa Blunt Rochester likely to leave House seat for Senate bid — First transgender state senator Sarah McBride eyes House run … Sen. Tom Carper's decision not to seek a fifth term has set off a domino effect …
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Mika Westwolf matters — In the early morning of March 31, Mika Westwolf, a 22-year-old Indigenous woman, was walking on the shoulder of U.S. Highway 93, which passes through the Flathead reservation in Montana. Westwolf was struck by a Cadillac Escalade and declared dead at the scene.
Rich Lowry / National Review:
The Busing of Migrants Has Worked — The ire of Democratic mayors and governors would be best directed at the author of this mess, President Biden. — B — uild the wall" hasn't been a sentiment often heard in South Side Chicago. — But someone held a sign calling for the barrier …
Rachel Aviv / New Yorker:
The Tortured Bond of Alice Sebold and the Man Wrongfully Convicted of Her Rape — Anthony Broadwater spent sixteen years in prison and twenty-two more as a registered sex offender. For him and for the author of “The Lovely Bones,” justice is a difficult dream.
Steve Henson / Los Angeles Times:
Dodgers apologize and invite Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to Pride Night — Less than a week after removing the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence from their lineup, the Dodgers on Monday re-invited the organization to Pride Night amid backlash from LGBTQ+ and civil rights groups as well as local politicians and even Dodgers employees.
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Emily Brooks / The Hill:
Draft Tucker PAC ceases activities after legal threat from Carlson — A recently launched political action committee that sought to push former Fox News host Tucker Carlson to run for president has ceased activities after a legal threat from Carlson's lawyer.
Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
Family of Man Shot Dead by Cops After Calling 911 Gets Record $19M Settlement — Christian Glass, 22, died in the front seat of his car last year after calling cops in the midst of a mental health crisis. — The family of a man shot dead in the midst of a mental health crisis by a sheriff's deputy …
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