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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
As Supreme Court weighs Trump's eligibility, the ‘10th justice’ stays mum — The solicitor general would typically file arguments on an issue of this magnitude — but the upcoming Trump case is a political lightning rod. — As the Supreme Court prepares to hold arguments next month …
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Josephine Harvey / HuffPost:
‘A Warning Shot’: Maggie Haberman Explains Why Trump Attacked Kayleigh McEnany
‘A Warning Shot’: Maggie Haberman Explains Why Trump Attacked Kayleigh McEnany
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Mediaite, RedState, Washington Examiner, BizPac Review, Raw Story, The Daily Beast, Daily Kos, The Hill and The Messenger
Ian Ward / Politico:
The Tired Monotony of a Trump Rally in 2024
The Tired Monotony of a Trump Rally in 2024
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New York Times, The Gateway Pundit, Raw Story and Washington Post
Washington Post:
After two Trump wins, congressional Republicans again fall in line
After two Trump wins, congressional Republicans again fall in line
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Joe Gould / Politico:
Trump wants to send troops to the inner cities. A top senator wants to rein him in.
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Pelosi sounds warning over Trump's attacks on ObamaCare
Pelosi sounds warning over Trump's attacks on ObamaCare
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UPI, KFF Health News and Breitbart
HuffPost:
Trump Privately Pressuring GOP Senators To ‘Kill’ Border Deal To Deny Biden A Win — The former president is telling Republicans he “doesn't want Biden to have a victory” in 2024, said a source familiar with the bipartisan negotiations. — LOADING — WASHINGTON - Donald Trump …
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Washington Examiner, CNN and PoliticusUSA
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Riley Rogerson / The Daily Beast:
Democrats Are Having a Blast Making a Circus of the GOP's Hunter Biden Probe
Democrats Are Having a Blast Making a Circus of the GOP's Hunter Biden Probe
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Stephen Neukam / The Messenger:
Republicans Turn on Their Impeachment Chairman: ‘Parade of Embarrassments’ (Exclusive)
Republicans Turn on Their Impeachment Chairman: ‘Parade of Embarrassments’ (Exclusive)
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Raw Story, MeidasTouch, Digby's Hullabaloo, PoliticusUSA and Democrats
Megan Lebowitz / NBC News:
64K women and girls became pregnant due to rape in states with abortion bans, study estimates — The research letter, published by JAMA Internal Medicine, estimated that nearly 520,000 rapes were associated with 64,565 pregnancies across 14 states. — More than 64,000 women and girls became pregnant …
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Selena Simmons-Duffin / NPR:
Raped, pregnant and in an abortion ban state? Researchers gauge how often it happens — As an abortion provider in Montana, Dr. Samuel Dickman has seen patients routinely who tell him they became pregnant after a rape. His sense was the patients who were telling him were only a fraction of the true number.
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Axios, New York Post, HuffPost, Abortion, Every Day, Digby's Hullabaloo, The Messenger and JAMA Network
Tesnim Zekeria / Popular Information:
Oklahoma enlists notorious right-wing zealot to guide school library policy — Ellen Ochoa Elementary School, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was among the dozens of schools that received bomb threats last year after being targeted by the far-right Libs of TikTok account.
Associated Press:
Who are No Labels' donors? Democratic groups file complaints in an attempt to find out — For months, the centrist group No Labels has stockpiled cash and diligently worked to secure ballot access for a potential third-party presidential bid, striking fear among allies of President Joe Biden …
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Washington Examiner, The Hill and Accountable US
Peter Baker / New York Times:
The Looming Contest Between Two Presidents and Two Americas — The general election matchup that seems likely between President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump is about fundamentally disparate visions of the nation. — Each of them has sat behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office …
CNN:
Exclusive: House ethics probe of Gaetz seeks information from DOJ and woman who allegedly had sex with congressman as a minor — The House Ethics Committee investigating Rep. Matt Gaetz has reached out to the woman whom the congressman allegedly had sexual relations with when she was a 17-year-old minor …
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Kelby Vera / HuffPost:
Alina Habba Spotted At Trump Victory Party After Delaying Defamation Trial Over Illness — The former president's legal team requested a trial delay, saying Habba had been exposed to COVID and had a fever. She attended the party one day later. — LOADING
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Tobi Raji / Washington Post:
Clerks for hire: The Supreme Court recruiting race — Supreme Court clerks are offered bonuses of up to $500,000 to join law firms — Last spring, as the Supreme Court wrapped up oral arguments for what was shaping up to be a blockbuster term, the law firm Jones Day invited a group …
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The Messenger and Political Wire
Jennifer Ludden / NPR:
Housing is now unaffordable for a record half of all U.S. renters, study finds — Over the past two years, Genuine Campbell was shocked at how rent for her two-bedroom apartment in Philadelphia just kept going up — from $1,300 a month to $1,600. She's a single mom of four …
Tim Grierson / Cracked.com:
Penn Jillette Wants to Talk It All Out — Penn Jillette has a large, framed French-language poster of Renaldo and Clara behind him. Most people wouldn't know what that is, but as a Bob Dylan fan, I do — it's his largely forgotten, widely panned 1978 film that he wrote, directed and starred in.
Stephen Gruber-Miller / USA Today:
An Iowa bill would make students sing the national anthem every day. One lawmaker sang it — When it came time for her closing comments at Wednesday's Iowa House subcommittee meeting, Rep. Sue Cahill stood — and began singing the national anthem. — “O say can you see, by the dawn's early light …
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Political Wire and Iowa Capital Dispatch
Adrian Carrasquillo / The Messenger:
The RNC Shuttered Most of the Hispanic Community Centers It Touted as Critical to Winning Over Latino Voters — JWPlayer — During the 2022 cycle, the Republican Party made a commitment to Latino voters that hadn't been seen before, touting nearly two dozen RNC Hispanic Community Centers …
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Washington Examiner and Raw Story
Andrew Schneider / Houston Public Media:
Governor Abbott signals potential defiance of Supreme Court's border ruling — Governor Greg Abbott issued a “Statement on Texas' Constitutional Right to Self-Defense,” following calls by numerous Republican lawmakers to resist the high court's order, including three state representatives from Houston.
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Anthony Adragna / Politico:
How life is going for this former McCarthy deputy: Not great — Republicans in the Bayou State are privately speculating if Garret Graves made too many enemies, both in Washington and back home. — Louisiana is enjoying outsized control over House GOP leadership these days …
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Sabato's Crystal Ball and The Advocate
Joann Muller / Axios:
Biden to announce $5 billion in new infrastructure projects — President Biden will announce $5 billion in funding for major transportation projects during a visit Thursday to Superior, Wisconsin — part of an effort to tout his administration's investments in long-overdue infrastructure projects.
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Myah Ward / Politico:
Democrats win challenge to North Carolina voter election law — A federal judge blocked a specific provision of the law's same-day voter registration requirements. — Joe Biden quietly scored a legal victory in North Carolina this week, in what could prove to be a consequential development in a closely divided state.
The White House:
Statement from NSC Spokesperson Adrienne Watson on Reported Strikes at UNRWA Facility in Southern Gaza — We are gravely concerned by reports today of strikes hitting a UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) facility — with subsequent reports of fires in the building—in a neighborhood …
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump's super PAC raised $46 million in 6 months — But they have only half of that still in the bank — A pro-Donald Trump super PAC raised over $46 million in the second half of 2023 and ended the year with just over $23 million in cash on hand, as it gears up for the general election.
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