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Khaleda Rahman / Newsweek:
Exclusive: Trump Made Shocking Comments About Ivanka, Says Ex-Staffer — Donald Trump's “naked sexism,” including toward his own daughter, is described in a new book by Miles Taylor, the former Trump administration official who famously wrote a scathing op-ed about the former president under the pen name “Anonymous.”
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Adam Nichols / Raw Story:
Ex-staffer describes Trump fantasizing about sex with Ivanka — Former President Donald Trump made sexual comments about his daughter Ivanka that were so lewd he was rebuked by his Chief of Staff, former Trump official Miles Taylor writes in a new book. — The comments are used by Taylor …
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Quinnipiac University Poll:
Biden vs. Trump: Toss Up In Pennsylvania, Trump Leads GOP Primary, Quinnipiac University Pennsylvania Poll Finds; Voters Give Gov. Shapiro High Marks, Especially On I-95 Handling — mail_outline — In a state considered key to presidential elections, former President Donald Trump is leading …
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Biden opens up wide lead on RFK Jr. in New Hampshire poll — President Biden holds a strong lead over his long-shot 2024 Democratic primary challengers Robert Kennedy Jr. and Marianne Williamson in New Hampshire, according to a poll released Tuesday. — The survey conducted …
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Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
More Democrats than Republicans are open to a third-party presidential candidate
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Kevin McCarthy scrambles after accidentally speaking his mind — Kevin McCarthy occasionally slips, tells accidental truths, and then scrambles to deal with the consequences of his unintended candor. — One of the most important things to know about House Speaker Kevin McCarthy …
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Politico:
Inside Trump world's fury at McCarthy — Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross — DRIVING THE DAY — MY, KEVIN — Former President DONALD TRUMP has catapulted the career of many a Republican over the past eight years, elevating backbenchers into stars and breathing new relevance into more than a few GOP has-beens.
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Trump world fumes over McCarthy's 2024 slight
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German Lopez / New York Times:
Conservative Court, Moderate Decision — A bipartisan Supreme Court majority preserved democratic checks and balances. — Yesterday, the Supreme Court took a step in a high-profile case to preserve democratic checks and balances. — The details of the case, Moore v. Harper, can sound technical.
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New York Times:
How Migrants Flown to Martha's Vineyard Came to Call It Home — Florida flew 49 migrants from Texas to the liberal enclave last year. Since then, a few of them have found work, friends and a new life on the wealthy island. — Reporting from Edgartown, Mass.
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Polina Ivanova / Financial Times:
Putin freezes out hardliners after Wagner mutiny — Russian president's security forces ‘have started shaking down sympathisers’ of exiled warlord — Vladimir Putin has moved to shake up Russia's security services in the wake of the Wagner group's failed insurrection …
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Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Biden world wants Republicans to feel the pain for voting no while taking the dough — Unlike past attempts to sell the public on its work, the administration seems intent to inflict a modicum of political pain for those who opposed it. — WEST COLUMBIA, S.C.— Jennifer Granholm came …
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Bloomberg:
Biden Has Begun Using CPAP Machine to Aid With Sleep Apnea — President Joe Biden has begun using a continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, machine to treat longstanding sleep apnea, according to two people familiar with the matter. — As Biden departed the White House on Wednesday …
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Molly Nagle / ABC News:
Biden using CPAP machine to deal with sleep apnea, White House says
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Reuters:
For Ketanji Brown Jackson, a self-assured and forceful US Supreme Court debut — In December, during a heated U.S. Supreme Court oral argument involving a collision between free speech protections for business owners and LGBT rights, liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson …
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Melissa Gira Grant / New Republic:
The Christian Right Is Making Up Wedding Websites to Attack LGBTQ People
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Katie Daviscourt / The Post Millennial:
BREAKING: Hunter Biden settles with baby mama under condition child can't use his last name — Roberts, who was initially receiving $20,000 monthly child support payments from Hunter, agreed to have the monthly payments cut to $5,000. … Minute Read — Hunter Biden and Lunden Roberts …
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Michael Mitsanas / NBC News:
Arizona county elections director resigns, citing politicization and ‘intimidation’ — Geraldine Roll, the Pinal County elections director, wrote that “you idly stood by when I was attacked” in an email to the county's manager. — An Arizona county elections director quit Tuesday …
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NBC News:
Body camera footage from Allen, Texas, mall shooting shows officer chase and kill gunman — The video showed the officer by his car in the mall parking lot having a pleasant chat with children and a woman when gunshots suddenly rang out. — Police release bodycam footage of Texas mall shooting
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New York Times:
Death Toll Climbs in Kramatorsk Restaurant Hit by Russian Missile — The Ria Lounge eatery, known to many as Ria Pizza, was a long-running haunt popular with Ukrainian soldiers, foreign journalists and aid workers. — KRAMATORSK, Ukraine — Rescuers were combing through the rubble …
Caitlin Byrd / Post and Courier:
US Rep. Nancy Mace endorses Charleston bus project. But she voted against its funding — NORTH CHARLESTON — A routine press conference on a federal grant for Charleston's bus system put Republican U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace on the defensive after Democrats pounced on the fact she actually voted against the bill that made it happen.
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Mark Pazniokas / CT Mirror:
Lowell Weicker, Connecticut governor and U.S. senator, dies at 92 — Lowell P. Weicker Jr., who swaggered through three terms as Connecticut's last Republican senator, challenging Richard Nixon over Watergate and the GOP's rightward shift under Ronald Reagan, then willed the state's income tax …
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Ryan Cooper / American Prospect:
The Death Cult of the American Car — It's obvious how to make the roads safer for cyclists, pedestrians, and drivers alike. We just don't do it. — There are too many cars and trucks that are too heavy and tall, driving too fast on streets that are too wide, with too many points of conflict.
A.G. Gancarski / Florida Politics:
Poll: Clear majority of women voters disapprove of Ron DeSantis … A.G. Gancarski — A.G. Gancarski has written for FloridaPolitics.com since 2014. He is based in Northeast Florida. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski
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Sydney Kashiwagi / CNN:
Exonerated Central Park Five member Yusef Salaam poised to win New York City Council seat — An exonerated member of the Central Park Five, Yusef Salaam, is poised to win a Democratic primary race for a New York City Council seat in Harlem. — Salaam declared victory at a campaign event …
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Democrats Reach Milestone: 100 New District Court Judges — Democrats have filled more seats on that level than the Senate had by this point in Donald J. Trump's presidency, but some progressives want leaders to pick up the pace. — Carl Hulse has tracked federal judicial appointments …
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Reem Nadeem / Pew Research Center:
Gun Violence Widely Viewed as a Major - and Growing - National Problem — U.S. public evenly split on whether gun ownership does more to increase or decrease safety — U.S. public evenly split on whether gun ownership does more to increase or decrease safety — How we did this
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Timothy Noah / New Republic:
Your Boss Wants to Dope You — Before the Nazi invasion of France in the spring of 1940, the Wehrmacht distributed to German troops the drug Pervitin, a pill form of methamphetamine that could keep soldiers awake for days. As Norman Ohler explains in his 2017 book Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich …
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Wall Street Journal:
Putin Moves to Seize Control of Wagner's Global Empire — The Kremlin assured nations in Africa and the Middle East that it would manage Wagner forces, which have spread Russian power at little cost to Putin — In the hours after Yevgeny Prigozhin's army of ex-convicts and mercenaries halted …
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David Frum / The Atlantic:
The New Republican Litmus Test Is Very Dangerous — Candidates who do not speculate about war with Mexico may be perceived as weak. — War with Mexico? It's on the 2024 ballot, at least if you believe the campaign rhetoric of more and more Republican candidates.
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Bojan Pancevski / Wall Street Journal:
Wagner's Prigozhin Planned to Capture Russian Military Leaders — Western intelligence officials say Russian domestic intelligence agency learned of plot in advance — Mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin planned to capture Russia's military leadership as part of last weekend's mutiny …
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New York Times:
Giuliani Sat for Voluntary Interview in Jan. 6 Investigation — The one-time personal lawyer for Donald Trump answered questions from federal prosecutors about the former president's efforts to remain in power after his 2020 election loss. — Rudolph W. Giuliani, who served …
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The White House:
Bidenomics Is Working: The President's Plan Grows the Economy from the Middle Out and Bottom Up—Not the Top Down — President Biden and Vice President Harris came into office determined to rebuild our economy from the middle out and the bottom up, not the top down—and that strategy is working.
Fox News:
IRS whistleblower defends claims Hunter Biden got special treatment from the Justice Department — IRS agent Gary Shapley has come forward with claims the Justice Department stalled its Hunter Biden investigation — Internal Revenue Service whistleblower Gary Shapley defended his claims …
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Philip Klein / National Review:
Indictment Didn't Boost Trump, but It Froze Race He's Already Winning — There was a lot of debate when Donald Trump was indicted in the classified-documents case as to whether the prosecution would boost him as Republican voters rallied in solidarity, or hurt him by adding to questions about his electability.
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NBC News:
Have you heard the one about the old president? Well, Biden has a joke for you — In the past two weeks, Biden has increasingly made his age the punchline, an NBC News analysis of his remarks found. — 'I know I'm 198 years old': Biden cracks jokes about his age in speeches — WASHINGTON — He's been 198.
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