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Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Inside Biden's unusual hidden campaign — The president is gambling that using Democratic and outside groups will work better than a big, centralized effort — President Biden's campaign manager, Julie Chavez Rodriguez, has spent her first months on the job planning a sweeping national reelection effort …
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Akayla Gardner / Bloomberg:
Biden Approves Monument to Honor Emmett Till in Civil Rights Win — Biden greenlights years-long effort to preserve sites — Race, Black history education is lightning rod in 2024 race — President Joe Biden will fulfill a years-long effort by conservationists to establish …
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Myah Ward / Politico:
Biden looks to put North Carolina on '24 map — Without the Tar Heel state, Democrats say, Republicans don't have a path to the White House. — President Joe Biden is eyeing redemption in North Carolina next year. — Biden lost the Tar Heel state to Donald Trump by just 1.4 percentage points in 2020 …
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Washington Post:
DeSantis doubles down on claim that some Blacks benefited from slavery — GOP presidential candidate draws renewed criticism after suggesting slavery helped African Americans develop skills such as being a blacksmith — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is intensifying his efforts to de-emphasize racism …
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Sarah Mervosh / New York Times:
DeSantis Faces Swell of Criticism Over Florida's New Standards for Black History
DeSantis Faces Swell of Criticism Over Florida's New Standards for Black History
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Washington Post:
Before Jan. 6, Mark Meadows joked about Trump's election claims — In a text, Meadows wrote that his own son was unable to find more than a handful of votes potentially cast in the name of dead voters, people familiar with message say — Mark Meadows joked about the baseless claim …
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Axios:
GOP's crumbling case against Biden on crime, immigration and inflation — Dave Lawler- Stef W. Kight- Courtenay Brown — Republicans are hammering “Joe Biden's America” as a land of rising violent crime, surging immigration and out of control inflation, but there's just one problem …
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Trump's GOP rivals open door to cutting Social Security for younger people — Ron DeSantis, Mike Pence and Nikki Haley propose curbing spending on the program without affecting seniors — Three of Donald Trump's rivals for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination are pushing for cuts …
Jill Cowan / New York Times:
San Diego Library Protest Against Pride Books Draws a Backlash — Two San Diego residents cleared out the Pride month display at their library and said such materials shouldn't be available to children, one of several recent clashes over L.G.B.T.Q. issues in California. — Reporting from San Diego
Andrew Zhang / Politico:
Sununu: Most New Hampshire voters are ‘not with Trump’ — The New Hampshire said GOP contenders can topple Trump in his state, but they have to take him on directly. — New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu insisted Republican presidential candidates can take down frontrunner Donald Trump …
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Suzanne Bates / Deseret News:
Ahead of DeSantis' visit to Utah, a new poll shows him losing ground to Trump among the state's GOP voters
Ahead of DeSantis' visit to Utah, a new poll shows him losing ground to Trump among the state's GOP voters
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New York Times:
The Steep Cost of Ron DeSantis's Vaccine Turnabout — Once a vaccine advocate, the Florida governor lost his enthusiasm for the shot before the Delta wave sent Covid hospitalizations and deaths soaring. It's a grim chapter he now leaves out of his rosy retelling of his pandemic response.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, Iowa Capital Dispatch and Florida Politics
Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
Democrats scramble to reach voters after Florida cancels mail-in ballot requests — More than a million mail-in ballot requests were canceled in three counties in January. Democrats say they're working to stem the effects of the change. — Florida Democrats say they're spending …
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Salon
Dave Kindy / Washington Post:
Tony Bennett saw racism and horror in World War II. It changed him. — What were the chances? Thousands of miles from home, in a foreign land devastated by war, old friends bumped into each other on the street. — It was Thanksgiving Day, 1945, when two U.S. Army soldiers met unexpectedly in Mannheim, Germany.
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Daniel Arkin / NBC News:
Tony Bennett, enraged by racism, championed civil rights alongside MLK
Tony Bennett, enraged by racism, championed civil rights alongside MLK
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Washington Post:
Fox News hosts are pushing Trump to join the Fox News GOP debate — The former president's refusal to commit to the first debate of the 2024 cycle could make it a ratings wash-out. Aides say he's unlikely to change his mind. — Fox News personalities Steve Doocy, Brian Kilmeade …
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BBC:
Climate records tumble, leaving Earth in uncharted territory - scientists — A series of climate records on temperature, ocean heat, and Antarctic sea ice have alarmed some scientists who say their speed and timing is unprecedented. — Dangerous heatwaves in Europe could break further records, the UN says.
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