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Alexandra Ulmer / Reuters:
Exclusive: Hotelier Robert Bigelow gives Trump $1 million for legal fees  —  Hotelier Robert Bigelow told Reuters on Tuesday he gave Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump $1 million for his legal fees and agreed to donate another $20 million to a pro-Trump outside group for campaign purposes.
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New York Times:
Trump's PACs Spent Roughly $50 Million on Legal Expenses in 2023  —  The former president is facing four criminal indictments and potential trials that could drive his legal bills even higher as he seeks to lock up the Republican presidential nomination.  —  Donald J. Trump piled up legal expenses …
New York Times:
Trump Has Devoured the Republican Establishment  —  It was almost 15 months ago that The New York Post published a full-page cover photo of Ron DeSantis with the headline “DeFUTURE.”  His 19-point victory in the Florida governor's race was one of the few bright spots of the 2022 elections …
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Trump Spent $50 Million in Donor Money on Legal Bills Last Year: Report  —  The former president's PAC are operating as slush funds to help him fight off a mountain of civil and criminal cases … According to two sources who spoke to the Times, the former president's massive legal bills …
Discussion: CNN, KRDO, Political Wire and Politico
Adam Klasfeld / The Messenger:
Discrepancies in a $48 Million Loan Involving Trump and His Chicago Tower Should be Criminally Investigated: Legal Experts
Discussion: Salon
Rolling Stone:
Trump Allies Pledge ‘Holy War’ Against Taylor Swift  —  Taylor Swift hasn't even endorsed Joe Biden's 2024 campaign, but Trump is already privately grousing he's “more popular” than her  —  Singer-songwriter Taylor Swift hasn't even endorsed President Joe Biden for reelection yet.
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Kimberly Leonard / Politico:
Biden mocks Trump during Florida fundraiser  —  He lamented that Florida had faced a “real dose of Trumpism.”  —  MIAMI — President Joe Biden came to South Florida to cash in and dump all over Donald Trump.  —  During a fundraiser in Jupiter, Florida, on Tuesday, Biden rallied donors …
Washington Post:
Judge orders Tesla to undo Elon Musk's $56 billion pay package  —  The ruling by a Delaware court stems from a Tesla shareholder lawsuit over the tech billionaire's 2018 compensation package  —  A Delaware judge on Tuesday ruled that Elon Musk's generous 2018 compensation package …
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
If It Walks Like an Insurrection and Talks Like an Insurrection ...  While we await oral argument in Trump v. Anderson — the Supreme Court case that will evaluate the Colorado Supreme Court's decision to exclude the former president from the state's Republican primary ballot …
Discussion: MeidasTouch, HuffPost and Breitbart
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Isabella Murray / ABC News:
Trump can stay on Illinois 2024 ballot after 14th Amendment challenge, officials say
Associated Press:
Illinois election board to consider whether to boot Trump from ballot over insurrection amendment
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Steve Reilly / The Messenger:
Hunter Biden Got Charged in Gun Case ‘For Partisan Political Reasons’ by Prosecutors Who ‘Succumbed’ to Trump: Court Filings
Discussion: Washington Examiner and KRDO
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Syphilis Is Soaring in the U.S.  —  Cases have risen by 80 percent since 2018, the C.D.C. reported.  But chlamydia remains by far the most common sexually transmitted infection.  —  Syphilis, once nearly eliminated in the United States, continues to resurge, reaching the highest rate …
Discussion: Fox 8 Cleveland WJW, KRDO and CBS News
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Justin Rohrlich / The Daily Beast:
Disturbing Bill Would Let Arizona Legislators Ignore Election Results  —  The proposed bill would give the legislature absolute power to control the state's electoral college votes, disenfranchising millions of citizens.  —  An Arizona lawmaker who signed on to be a “fake elector” …
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David Gilbert / Wired:
The ‘Take Our Border Back’ Convoy Is Already a Complete Mess  —  Instead of immigrants, the group of extremists mostly battled each other, paranoia, and their GPS systems.  —  On Monday morning, the organizers of the Take Our Border Back convoy kicked off their road trip to the Texas-Mexico border in Virginia Beach.
Brandon Morse / RedState:
Montana's Governor Defends Stealing a Teenager From Parents Over Not Conforming to Transgender Agenda  —  As RedState previously reported, Montana's state child protective services came and took away the 14-year-old girl of a family in Glasgow.  The parents, Krista and Todd Kolstad …
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Anna Slatz / Reduxx:
EXCLUSIVE: Montana Family Loses Custody Of Teenage Daughter After Expressing Opposition To Her Gender Transition
Washington Post:
Prosecutor in Trump Georgia case settles divorce ahead of testimony  —  The lead prosecutor in the Georgia election interference case against former president Donald Trump and his allies settled a contentious divorce dispute on Tuesday, canceling a hearing scheduled for Wednesday morning …
Henry Rodgers / The Daily Caller:
Ron DeSantis Calls For Ilhan Omar To Be Expelled From Congress, Denaturalized And Deported  —  Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis called Tuesday for Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar to be expelled from Congress, denaturalized as a U.S. citizen and deported back to Somalia in response …
Jerusalem Post:
Israeli commandos, dressed as doctors, foil terror attack in Jenin hospital  —  The Israeli commando forces entered the hospital dressed as doctors and nurses, as seen in CCTV footage shared on social media.  —  Israeli counterterrorism forces foiled an October 7-inspired terror attack overnight on Tuesday …
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The Times of Israel:
IDF says it killed 3 terrorists planning Oct. 7-like attack hiding in Jenin hospital
Cory Doctorow / Pluralistic:
Pluralistic: My McLuhan lecture on enshittification (30 Jan 2024)  — My McLuhan lecture on enshittification: Live from Berlin.  — Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.  — This day in history: 2014, 2019, 2023  — Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Discussion: The Register
Jonathan Edwards / Washington Post:
Man sentenced to 18 years for bombing church that was hosting drag event  —  Aimenn Penny grew angrier and angrier late on March 24, as he watched online videos about drag shows, prosecutors said.  —  Committed to stopping one near his home in northeastern Ohio, he got in his vehicle and …
Axios:
House Democrats close ranks against “bulls**t” Mayorkas impeachment  —  House Democrats are expecting their caucus to stay unified against a Republican vote to impeach Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas that could come as soon as next week.
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The historically familiar subtext to fears about immigrants to the U.S.  —  There are very real pressures that exist because of the recent increase in immigrants to the United States.  The number of immigrants who have been released into the country to await legal proceedings is over 2 million since 2021 …
Heather Vogell / ProPublica:
We Found That Landlords Could Be Using Algorithms to Fix Rent Prices.  Now Lawmakers Want to Make the Practice Illegal.  —  After a ProPublica investigation, U.S. senators introduced a bill to curb “price fixing” linked to rent-setting software.  “Setting prices with an algorithm is no different …
Timour Azhari / Reuters:
Iraq's Kataib Hezbollah suspends attacks on US forces  —  Iran-aligned Iraqi armed group Kataib Hezbollah announced on Tuesday the suspension of all its military operations against U.S. troops in the region, in a decision aimed at preventing “embarrassment” of the Iraqi government, the group said.
Brooke Migdon / The Hill:
Florida bars transgender residents from changing gender on driver's licenses  —  Transgender Floridians will no longer be able to change their gender on state-issued driver's licenses, according to a Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles memo addressed to county tax collectors.
Ashraf Fahim / Reuters:
Explorer may have found wreckage of Amelia Earhart's plane in Pacific  —  A former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer says he believes he has found the wreckage of Amelia Earhart's plane, which disappeared nine decades ago, on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean using sonar data from a deep-sea drone.
 
 
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Nick Robertson / The Hill:
Jeffries raised more than $113M for House Democrats in 2023
Discussion: Political Wire
Patpicha Tanakasempipat / Bloomberg:
Thai Election Winner Faces Crucial Verdict Over Royal Insult Law
Discussion: KRDO and Reuters
Associated Press:
Justice Department investigating Democratic Rep. Cori Bush over alleged misuse of campaign funds
ABC News:
US readies retaliatory strikes for drone attack by Iran-backed militants
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Abrams-founded Fair Fight lays off staff, pares back services amid mounting debt
Sen. Rick Scott / The Hill:
The voters are rejecting Washington's failed border deal
Discussion: HuffPost, Washington Examiner and WUSA
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Paul Farhi / The Atlantic:
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Washington Post:
Inside Kyrsten Sinema's reelection decision: Will ‘voters even care’ about her record?
Discussion: Politico
Politico:
New US-made longer-range bomb expected to arrive as soon as Wednesday in Ukraine
Discussion: Political Wire
Adam Klasfeld / The Messenger:
E. Jean Carroll Lawyer Threatens to Seek Sanctions Against Trump Attorney for ‘Utterly Baseless’ Claims Judge Was Her ‘Mentor’
 

 
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David Gilmour / Mediaite:
Elon Musk appears to confirm that posts containing links in their main text are deprioritized on X, saying it is to stop “lazy linking”

Bill Donahue / Billboard:
Drake launches legal action against UMG and Spotify for allegedly using bots, payola, and more to inflate Kendrick Lamar's Not Like Us, a track attacking Drake

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Trade body data: copyrighted music revenue was $45.5B in 2023, above cinema box office spending of $33.2B in 2023 and $41.9B in 2019; record labels made $28.5B

 
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