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Jonathan Martin / Politico:
Are the Anti-Trump GOP Forces Starting to Implode? — A mission-control breakdown for DeSantis and smooth launch for Scott bode ill for those hoping to thwart the former president. — NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — Will this go down as the week that the grand plan to deny Donald Trump the nomination fell apart?
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Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
‘Trump has the charisma of a mortician’: Donald Jr confuses dad with DeSantis — In online show, former president's son also accidentally says father's energy ‘makes Jeb Bush look like an Olympian’ — Donald Trump Jr accidentally insulted his father on Thursday night …
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Shelby Talcott / Semafor:
DeSantis, Day One: Trump ‘turned the country over to Fauci’ — The News — MIAMI, FL - If day one of Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign showed the country anything, it's that COVID is here to stay. — At least in the Republican primaries. — On his first day in the ring …
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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
DeSantis Campaign Says It Raised $8.2 Million in First 24 Hours
DeSantis Campaign Says It Raised $8.2 Million in First 24 Hours
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Platformer:
Inside Twitter's failed Space launch — How a decimated team and shrinking server capacity rained on Ron DeSantis' parade — Programming note: Platformer will be off Monday for Memorial Day. — At around 5PM PT on Wednesday, Elon Musk and David Sacks joined a call with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' campaign manager, Generra Peck.
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Twitter engineering boss Foad Dabiri quits day after DeSantis launch glitches — An engineering chief at Twitter says he is leaving the company a day after the launch of Ron DeSantis' US presidential campaign on the platform was hit with technical glitches.
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Charisma Madarang / Rolling Stone:
DeSantis Signs Bill Shielding Musk's SpaceX From ‘Spaceflight Entity Liability’ — The Florida governor's signature comes a day after his 2024 presidential campaign announcement on Twitter … The law exempts “spaceflight entity from liability for injury to or death of a crew resulting …
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Charlie Nash / Mediaite:
‘Not a Big Social Media Guy’: DeSantis Tells Newsmax He'd Rather Watch Cable News ‘Than Be on Some App’ After Disastrous Twitter Launch — 2024 Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis told Newsmax host Eric Bolling that he's “not a big social media guy” and “would rather watch” …
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Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
The DeSantis Doctrine — Column: Ron DeSantis and the battle for the New Right
The DeSantis Doctrine — Column: Ron DeSantis and the battle for the New Right
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Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast:
Inside the Push to Make an Obscure Congressman Trump's VP Pick
William Vaillancourt / The Daily Beast:
DeSantis Suffers Yet ANOTHER Technical Issue as Newsmax Feed Cuts Out
DeSantis Suffers Yet ANOTHER Technical Issue as Newsmax Feed Cuts Out
Joseph Zeballos-Roig / Semafor:
Deal with it: Negotiators may be zeroing in on a debt ceiling agreement — The News — The details aren't final, and the parties are still clashing on a few major issues, but the contours of a potential debt ceiling deal are finally coming into view. — So far, it looks little …
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Lauren Sforza / The Hill:
Bowman on debt ceiling talks with GOP: ‘Why are we gonna negotiate with the economic terrorists’
Bowman on debt ceiling talks with GOP: ‘Why are we gonna negotiate with the economic terrorists’
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Politico:
Where the debt talks stand six days before default deadline
Where the debt talks stand six days before default deadline
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NBC News:
Ron DeSantis administration officials solicit campaign cash from lobbyists — The practice raises ethical and legal questions about state employees trying to raise campaign cash from lobbyists who have business currently before the governor. — TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Officials who work …
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Politico:
Playbook: Inside the brewing debt limit deal — Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross — DRIVING THE DAY — STAT OF THE DAY — As the X-date approaches, the U.S. Treasury's cash balance has now dipped below $49.5 billion. That means “there are 24 individuals …
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Dennis Aftergut / Bulwark+:
Four Messages in the Big Sentence for Oath Keeper Stewart Rhodes — A FEDERAL COURT IN WASHINGTON yesterday sent a message to the country: There is a serious price in prison time to be paid for taking the law into your own hands to achieve political ends. — District Court Judge Amit Mehta …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Evidence grows that Trump hoarded documents — and showed them to people — We have reached one of those points in reporting on Donald Trump's post-presidency retention of documents when it's useful to take a step back. — On Thursday, The Washington Post teased out another aspect of this complicated situation.
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New York Times:
Mar-a-Lago Worker Provided Prosecutors New Details in Trump Documents Case — A maintenance worker for the former president recounted helping to move boxes into a storage room a day before a Justice Department official came seeking the return of classified material.
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The Texas Tribune:
Attorney General Ken Paxton faces impeachment. Here's how that works in Texas. — The Texas Legislature has never removed an attorney general. If the House votes to impeach, the Senate will hold a trial. — Attorney General Ken Paxton, who has been at the center of several scandals, faces a possible impeachment.
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The Texas Tribune:
Aide to Ken Paxton calls investigation into attorney general “illegal,” says Paxton can't be impeached for current allegations
Aide to Ken Paxton calls investigation into attorney general “illegal,” says Paxton can't be impeached for current allegations
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J. David Goodman / New York Times:
Texas Panel Recommends Impeachment of Attorney General Ken Paxton
Texas Panel Recommends Impeachment of Attorney General Ken Paxton
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Bob Zeidman / Politico:
How I Won $5 Million From the MyPillow Guy and Saved Democracy — A software forensics expert investigated Mike Lindell's claims that China hacked the 2020 election. He was stunned by what he found. — If you watch TV, especially conservative TV, you know Mike Lindell.
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John McCormick / Wall Street Journal:
North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum Poised to Enter GOP Presidential Race — Wealthy former software entrepreneur is planning a June 7 announcement in Fargo — North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum is poised to enter the Republican presidential nomination race and is planning a June 7 event in Fargo …
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Kim Bellware / Washington Post:
Doctor in 10-year-old rape victim's abortion could lose license — Indiana's medical licensing board will determine as soon as Thursday whether to take any disciplinary action against a doctor who made headlines last year for performing an abortion for a 10-year-old Ohio rape victim …
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Washington Post:
How Supreme Court's EPA ruling will affect U.S. wetlands, clean water — The decision could affect tens of thousands of acres of wetlands, including in the Everglades and the Mississippi River basin — Bogs. Marshes. Swamps. Fens. All are examples of wetlands.
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Chris Geidner / Law Dork with Chris Geidner:
Brute force and the reactionary SCOTUS majority's assault on clean water
Brute force and the reactionary SCOTUS majority's assault on clean water
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Hurubie Meko / New York Times:
The Precarious, Terrifying Hours After a Woman Was Shoved Into a Train — Emine Yilmaz Ozsoy has been partially paralyzed and is in critical condition, surrounded by an improvised web of support. Her story embodies New York's post-pandemic fears and challenges.
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Jeffrey Collins / Associated Press:
Judge halts South Carolina's new stricter abortion law until state Supreme Court review — A judge on Friday put a temporary halt to South Carolina's new law banning most abortions around six weeks of pregnancy until the state Supreme Court can review the measure.
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Members of a No Labels-allied caucus erupt at No Labels — The group is under fire for its unity presidential bid and for an attack on a Problem Solvers Caucus member. — A group of House Democrats with ties to No Labels is turning on the centrist group after it attacked one of their founding members.
BBC:
Ukraine war: Russia destroys hospital in latest missile attack — At least two people have been killed and 23 injured in a missile strike on a medical clinic in the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro, the regional governor says. — Of the 23 injured, 21 are in hospital and three are in a serious condition.
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Washington Post:
Israeli agents conducted targeted killings in civilian area, killing a child — Videos from a March 16 raid in Jenin show increasingly deadly tactics by Israeli officers — The traffic was barely moving on March 16 in central Jenin, an unusually busy Thursday afternoon in the West Bank.
David Kissinger / Washington Post:
My father, Henry Kissinger, is turning 100. This is his guide to longevity. — David Kissinger is president of the television production company Conaco. — On Saturday, my father, Henry Kissinger, celebrates his 100th birthday. This might have an air of inevitability for anyone familiar …
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