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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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Politico:
Playbook: Election-year politics hampers the Hill  —  With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  ONE STEP CLOSER — The House Homeland Security Committee voted shortly after 1 a.m. to advance impeachment articles against DHS Secretary ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS on an 18-15 party-line vote.
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: KRDO, Political Wire and Politico
Jessica Piper / Politico:
DeSantis super PAC quietly funnelled money into anti-Trump group
Discussion: New York Post and Political Wire
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 …
Bloomberg:
Biden Faces Blame for Border Crisis, Swing-State Voter Poll Shows  —  The president trails Trump in each of seven battleground states as a larger share of voters say immigration is their top issue in the 2024 election.  —  Six in 10 swing-state voters say President Joe Biden bears responsibility …
Discussion: Axios and Benzinga
Jessica Piper / Politico:
RFK Jr. is still drawing more backing from Trump donors, even as an independent
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 …
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Randall Chase / Associated Press:
Elon Musk cannot keep Tesla pay package worth more than $55 billion, judge rules  —  Elon Musk is not entitled to landmark compensation package awarded by Tesla's board of directors that is potentially worth more than $55 billion, a Delaware judge ruled Tuesday.
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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, CBS News and KRDO
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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.
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” …
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 …
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Maegan Vazquez / Washington Post:
Illinois elections board dismisses effort to remove Trump from ballot
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
Tom Sofield / LevittownNow.com:
Beheading Suspect Justin Mohn: Called For Attacks, Had Past Police Interactions & Sang That Dad Was Jealous Of Him  —  Approximately an hour before 9-1-1 received a call from a distraught woman stating that her husband's head was found inside her home, a man self-identified as 33-year-old Justin Mohn posted …
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 …
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.
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 …
Adam Klasfeld / The Messenger:
Discrepancies in a $48 Million Loan Involving Trump and His Chicago Tower Should be Criminally Investigated: Legal Experts  —  The court-appointed monitor overseeing Trump's business empire added new intrigue on Friday to the Chicago loan amid disputes over its size, the parties to the agreement, or whether it even exists
Discussion: Salon
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.
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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Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Scoop: Democratic governors rake in record cash ahead of 2024
Discussion: Political Wire
Nick Robertson / The Hill:
Jeffries raised more than $113M for House Democrats in 2023
Discussion: Political Wire
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
Sen. Rick Scott / The Hill:
The voters are rejecting Washington's failed border deal
Discussion: WUSA, HuffPost and Washington Examiner
 Earlier Items: 
Jerusalem Post:
Israeli commandos, dressed as doctors, foil terror attack in Jenin hospital
Paul Farhi / The Atlantic:
Is American Journalism Headed Toward an ‘Extinction-Level Event’?
Washington Post:
Inside Kyrsten Sinema's reelection decision: Will ‘voters even care’ about her record?
Discussion: Politico
Cory Doctorow / Pluralistic:
Pluralistic: My McLuhan lecture on enshittification (30 Jan 2024)
Discussion: The Register
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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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Memo: WaPo CEO Will Lewis tells staff they'll be expected to work from the office five days a week, instead of three, by June 2, and by February 3 for managers

Sean Burch / The Wrap:
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
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