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Republican Voters Can — and Should — Rethink Nominating Trump — To say Donald Trump is the front-runner for the Republican nomination is an understatement. He is above 60 percent in national polling averages and leads by roughly 30 points in Iowa. His lead is much narrower in New Hampshire …
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Craig Mauger / The Detroit News:
Biden struggling in Michigan as Trump grabs strong lead, poll shows — President Joe Biden's support is on shaky ground in Michigan, and he trails Republican Donald Trump by 8 percentage points in a head-to-head matchup 10 months before the Nov. 5 election, according to a new statewide poll commissioned …
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Mick Mulvaney / The Hill:
Democrats play a dangerous game with dire warnings about Trump — Democrats would have you believe that our very democracy is at risk in the 2024 election. They may be right, but not for the reason they say. — That's because in the past, the low-level demagoguery of American politics was never really existential.
Politico:
Playbook: The vibes have not improved — With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine — DRIVING THE DAY — THE GENERATION GAP — “'You're not the boss of me': Former White House aides slam current staffers' tendency to protest,” by Eugene: “Protest letters, like those over Israel, were rare in past administrations.
Isaac Arnsdorf / Washington Post:
Trump warns of ‘bedlam,’ declines to rule out violence after court hearing — The former president spoke after his lawyers argued he should be immune from prosecution for trying to overturn the 2020 election — Republican polling leader Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened unrest …
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Ali Swenson / Associated Press:
Trump suggests unauthorized migrants will vote. The idea stirs his base, but ignores reality
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Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
Trump team argues assassination of rivals is covered by presidential immunity — Former President Trump's legal team suggested Tuesday that even a president directing SEAL Team Six to kill a political opponent would be an action barred from prosecution given a former executive's broad immunity to criminal prosecution.
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ABC News:
Trump intends to deliver part of closing himself, say sources — Former President Trump intends to personally deliver part of the defense's closing argument at the conclusion of his civil fraud trial in New York on Thursday, sources familiar with the former president's strategy tell ABC News.
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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
How Trump's Unhinged Immunity Demand Could Unleash a Second-Term Crime Spree — Donald Trump and his lawyers are making an extraordinary demand in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals: They want Trump granted immunity from criminal charges related to his subversion of the 2020 election …
Associated Press:
Key moments in the arguments over Donald Trump's immunity claims in his election interference case
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Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
Lauren Boebert's Ex-Husband Arrested on Weapons and Assault Charges — In addition to the assault and weapons counts, Boebert was also charged with harassment ("strikes shoves, kicks"), disorderly conduct, and trespassing, jail records show. — Jayson Boebert, the former husband of Rep. Lauren Boebert …
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Marcia Dunn / Associated Press:
More delays for NASA's astronaut moonshots, with crew landing off until 2026 — Astronauts will have to wait until next year before flying to the moon and at least two years before landing on it, under the latest round of delays announced by NASA on Tuesday.
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Abbey A. Donaldson / NASA:
NASA Shares Progress Toward Early Artemis Moon Missions with Crew
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Athena Thorne / PJ Media:
Looks Like the Georgia RICO Case Against Trump Just Imploded — Co-incidental to her zeal for prosecuting front-running presidential candidate Donald Trump, Fulton County, Ga., DA Fani Willis hired herself a special prosecutor with benefits, according to a new court filing.
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Slate:
Republican Officials Openly Insult Women Nearly Killed by Abortion Bans — Red states would rather let a patient die than let her terminate a dangerous pregnancy. And they're barely pretending otherwise. — For many years before S.B. 8 passed in Texas and was then swept into existence …
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Florida school district removes dictionaries from libraries, citing law championed by DeSantis — The Escambia County School District, located in the Florida panhandle, has removed several dictionaries from its library shelves over concerns that making the dictionaries available to students would violate Florida law.
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Kat Tenbarge / NBC News:
X's fresh temporary ban of several prominent journalists raises alarm — “We do sweeps for spam/scam accounts and sometimes real accounts get caught up in them,” Elon Musk wrote on X, responding to the temporary ban of at least 8 accounts, including those of a handful of journalists.
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Svea Herbst-Bayliss / Reuters:
Exclusive: Investor Ackman backs bid by dissidents for Harvard board seats — Billionaire hedge fund manager William Ackman, who joined other Harvard graduates in successfully calling for the university's president Claudine Gay to resign, is pressing forward with his efforts to reshape …
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Associated Press:
US Rep. Greg Pence of Indiana, former VP Mike Pence's older brother, won't seek reelection — Republican U.S. Rep. Greg Pence of Indiana said Tuesday he will not seek reelection this year to a fourth term, becoming the latest House member to announce that they won't run for reelection.
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Associated Press:
Investigation into why a panel blew off a Boeing Max 9 jet focuses on missing bolts — A woman aboard the Alaska Airlines plane that had a hole blown out of its fuselage recounts the experience, including talking to one of the passengers seated on the row where it happened (Jan. 8)
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Paul Demko / Politico:
‘It was a mirage’: States face budget woes as huge infusions of federal cash run out — Huge buckets of pandemic funding allowed states to boost spending and cut taxes, but now the windfall has run out — The pandemic boom times are over for state lawmakers — and so is their ability …
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Associated Press:
Blinken urges Israel to engage with region on postwar plans that include path to Palestinian state — Palestinians continue to flee to southern Gaza — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday called on Israel to work with moderate Palestinians and neighboring countries on plans for postwar Gaza …
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NBC News:
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin diagnosed with prostate cancer — Austin was diagnosed with prostate cancer in December and underwent a minimally invasive procedure, officials from Walter Reed said in a statement Tuesday. — WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was diagnosed …
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Gustaf Kilander / The Independent:
The Electoral College is a ‘bad’ and ‘undemocratic’ system. So why does the US still use it? — In the most powerful democracy in the world, two of its last four leaders have been chosen by a minority of voters. The US's Electoral College system is now functioning far …
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Jonathan Martin / Politico:
Why Haley Won't Break Through — Today's GOP is split along class lines, and her college-grad supporters aren't the majority. — WAUKEE, Iowa — Nikki Haley's Tuesday rally outside Des Moines was a fittingly pedestrian event in this desultory excuse of a presidential primary.
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Eugene Daniels / Politico:
Bosses in the Biden admin are pressed over young staffers' anonymous letters — Protest letters, like those over Israel, were rare in past administrations. White House veterans can barely contain their disdain over how times have changed. — Protest culture is shattering the last remaining barriers …
Lauren Irwin / The Hill:
RFK Jr. won't attend birthday party fundraiser after celebrity blowback — Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. won't attend a birthday party fundraiser, his campaign said, after multiple celebrities who had been announced as attendees denied that they ever planned to attend.
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Chris Perez / Denver Westword:
Lauren Boebert's Ex-Husband Gives His Side of Restaurant Fight Story: “I Was Telling Her I Want Her Back” — Jayson Boebert says that he regrets calling the police Saturday following his public spat with Colorado's most infamous lawmaker. … “I wish this all hadn't happened.”
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