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Tristan Snell / CNN:
Congress has already disqualified Trump from the ballot  —  Editor's Note: Tristan Snell is author of the new book “Taking Down Trump: 12 Rules for Prosecuting Donald Trump by Someone Who Did it Successfully.”  He is a lawyer and legal commentator who has appeared on MSNBC and CNN …
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Zach Schonfeld / The Hill:
What to know about the lawyers arguing the Trump ballot case at Supreme Court  —  The Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments Thursday as former President Trump's lawyers appear before the justices in an attempt to knock down lawsuits challenging the Republican front-runner's ballot eligibility under the 14th Amendment.
Stephen Robinson / Public Notice:
What Nikki Haley isn't saying about Trump
Discussion: CBS News and Fox News
The Hill:
Trump's 14th Amendment case reaches Supreme Court: What to expect
Danielle Wallace / Fox News:
Gaetz says McCarthy would be ‘terrific’ RNC chair after ousting him as Speaker: ‘Matt sure knows how to troll’
ABC News:
US Supreme Court hears Trump 14th Amendment case: What to know
Associated Press:
Supreme Court hears landmark election case seeking to kick Trump off ballot over Capitol attack
Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post:
Meet the lawyers arguing Trump's Supreme Court Colorado ballot case
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Trump's ‘Knock on the Door’  —  Confrontations over immigration and border security are moving to the center of the struggle between the two parties, both in Washington, D.C., and beyond.  And yet the most explosive immigration clash of all may still lie ahead.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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Washington Post:
GOP leaders face unrest amid chaotic, bungled votes
Washington Post:   Biden and Trump jockey for an edge amid the rubble of the border deal
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
Joe Biden is currently losing the election  —  I try not to spend my days being a doomer or a catastrophist, but in both casual and formal conversations I've come to think that there is one very basic point about politics in 2024 that is being broadly underrated — Joe Biden is currently …
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Will Weissert / Associated Press:
Marianne Williamson suspends her presidential campaign, ending long-shot primary challenge to Biden
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NBC News:
Senate advances Ukraine and Israel aid after GOP blocked larger border bill
Roll Call:
House GOP had lowest win rate on ‘party unity’ votes since 1982
Brian Fung / CNN:
FCC votes to outlaw scam robocalls that use AI-generated voices  —  The Federal Communications Commission said Thursday it is immediately outlawing scam robocalls featuring fake, artificial intelligence-created voices, cracking down on so-called “deepfake” technology that experts …
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Ryan Heath / Axios:
FCC outlaws AI voices in robocall fraud  —  The Federal Communications Commission has declared the use of AI-generated voices in scam robocalls illegal, with immediate effect. … - While using AI to perpetrate a scam or fraud was already illegal, now using AI to generate voices in such calls is itself illegal.
Media Matters for America:
Fox News praises vigilante group for a takedown of migrant “shoplifter.”  Law enforcement say the man was neither a shoplifter nor a recent migrant.  —  Update: Fox guest Curtis Sliwa told the AP that he had believed the man was a migrant because he was “speaking Spanish”
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Jon Passantino / CNN:
An NYC vigilante group tackled what they claimed was a shoplifting ‘migrant’ live on Fox News.  They were wrong.  —  Fox News host Sean Hannity on Tuesday night was interviewing the founder of a New York City-based vigilante group known for its targeting of migrants when a disturbance suddenly broke out behind the live shot.
Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Biden Confuses European Leaders, Swaps Kohl and Merkel  — Mistake comes days after confusing France's Macron, Mitterrand  — Biden, 81, battling concerns over his age in reelection bid  —  President Joe Biden once again mixed up European leaders, twice conflating former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl …
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NBC News:
In his second mix-up this week, Biden talks about meeting with dead European leaders
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Biden classified document case ends without charges
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Alex Woodward / The Independent:
Bounced cheques and Trump's ‘unpaid fees’: Rudy Giuliani lays bare his finances in bankruptcy hearing  —  Over three hours in the fifth-floor room of a court building, Donald Trump's one-time attorney reeled off a list of assets that revealed the strained state of his finances, from a Bronx storage unit to a $1m tax bill.
Robert Draper / New York Times:
How Mark Meadows Became the Least Trusted Man in Washington  —  The untold story of the rise and fall of Trump's former chief of staff — and his role in the prosecutions that may determine the 2024 election.  —  On most Monday mornings, Mark Meadows commutes from his home in South Carolina to his workplace in Washington.
Discussion: Raw Story and Mock Paper Scissors
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Angela Dewan / CNN:
Scientists just set a nuclear fusion record in a step toward unleashing the limitless, clean energy source  —  Scientists and engineers near the English city of Oxford have set a nuclear fusion energy record, they announced Thursday, bringing the clean, futuristic power source another step closer to reality.
Discussion: The Guardian
Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
Zelensky Removes His Top General, in Major Shake-Up of Ukraine Military  —  Gen. Valery Zaluzhny led the effort that thwarted Russia's initial assault on Kyiv.  But his troops have struggled to make progress recently, and tensions have mounted with the civilian leadership.
Mia Cathell / Townhall:
America's Favorite Cookie Takes a Hard Left Turn  —  Nothing is immune to woke ideology, not even cookies.  —  Oreo's latest partnership signifies a disturbing trend in U.S. corporations advancing the LGBTQ+ agenda, as far-left ideologues impose it on children through programs …
Discussion: HotAir and acecomments.mu.nu
 
 
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