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Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
The Truth About Trump's RNC Shakeup—and Why the GOP Will Suffer — A shakeup at the RNC may mean less money for anyone not named Donald Trump. And that's terrible news for state parties desperate for cash. … Donald Trump doesn't want his snowballing legal troubles to just be his problem …
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Raw Story, Digby's Hullabaloo and Deseret News
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Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine:
Republicans Are Acting Like 2024 Is Their Last Campaign — It's understandable that Donald Trump regards the 2024 election as his final shot at redemption after a 2020 defeat he still cannot admit. In August, he will very likely become a three-time presidential nominee at the age of 78.
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HuffPost, Benzinga, The Daily Beast and NBC News
Michelle Cottle / New York Times:
Spare Us Lara Trump — Well, that was fast! Donald Trump is not yet the Republican nominee for president, but already we're witnessing a resurgence of the in-your-face nepotism that brought us last decade's cringe-worthy reality show: Javanka in the West Wing.
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Raw Story, Salon, Daily Kos, HuffPost, New Republic, Fox News, USA Today, Washington Post, BizPac Review, Associated Press, MeidasTouch, Benzinga, The Hill and RedState
Politico:
Senior Republicans fear Trump will tap the RNC to cover legal bills again
Senior Republicans fear Trump will tap the RNC to cover legal bills again
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Raw Story, Bloomberg, Washington Examiner and Patterico's Pontifications
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Special counsel Jack Smith urges Supreme Court to reject Trump bid to delay election trial
Special counsel Jack Smith urges Supreme Court to reject Trump bid to delay election trial
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The Hill, New York Daily News, SCOTUSblog, Mediaite, Twitchy, PoliticusUSA, Talking Points Memo, The Daily Beast, Law Dork, UPI, Fox News, Benzinga, Washington Times, Forbes, Axios, Raw Story, Law & Crime, Washington Examiner, Politico, ABC News, New York Times, Mercury News, USA Today, Daily Caller News Foundation and emptywheel
Manu Raju / CNN:
McConnell defends push for Ukraine aid amid attacks from Trump wing of GOP: ‘Every argument against this is wrong’ — Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell strongly defended his handling of a foreign aid package and bipartisan border security deal under heavy criticism from his right flank …
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Business Insider, The Western Journal, USA Today, Washington Examiner, Pravda EN and Axios
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Michael Gold / New York Times:
After Fighting Ukraine Aid, Trump Says Biden Will ‘Give’ Ukraine to Putin
After Fighting Ukraine Aid, Trump Says Biden Will ‘Give’ Ukraine to Putin
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Associated Press, Business Insider, DNyuz, Bloomberg, TASS, Pravda EN and The Japan Times
Joe Stanley-Smith / Politico:
Putin says Biden would be better for Russia as president than Trump
Putin says Biden would be better for Russia as president than Trump
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Axios, Reuters, Los Angeles Times, Breitbart, Benzinga, DNyuz, Power Line, Frontpage Mag, Pravda EN, The Gateway Pundit, New York Post, Forbes, RedState, Sputnik News, BizPac Review, San Diego Jewish World and 570 KVI
Pjotr Sauer / The Guardian:
Putin says he prefers Biden to Trump and mocks Tucker Carlson's questions
Putin says he prefers Biden to Trump and mocks Tucker Carlson's questions
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DNyuz, Business Insider, UnHerd, Pravda EN and Politico
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
Judge Rules Full Speed Ahead on Trump's Manhattan Criminal Trial — Donald Trump tried to avoid trial in Manhattan for covering up his hush money payment to Stormy Daniels, but a judge on Thursday said it's going forward in March as planned. — Donald Trump will face trial next month …
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Erica Orden / Politico:
Trump's first criminal trial will start March 25, judge says — The schedule means Trump will spend weeks in court instead of on the campaign trail. — Former President Donald Trump's first criminal trial will start on March 25 as scheduled, a judge said in New York on Thursday as he denied Trump's attempts to throw out the charges.
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New York Times:
The investigation that led to the charges spanned nearly five years. — Ruling that the case against Donald J. Trump can proceed, Justice Juan M. Merchan said he planned to begin the trial on March 25. — A judge rejected a bid to toss the hush-money case. Here's the latest.
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Wall Street Journal, Law & Crime and The Post Millennial
Alex Thompson / Axios:
Scoop: Hur making plans to testify to GOP panel about Biden … - Biden, his White House and his personal lawyer have been bashing Hur over his report, which cleared Biden of criminal wrongdoing but painted the president, 81, as having “diminished faculties” and a “poor memory.”
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Raw Story, Washington Examiner, Fox News, Pravda EN, Vanity Fair and National Review
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Pamela Paul / New York Times:
Biden Must Win. But How? — Like many Democrats, I'm stuck on a doomsday merry-go-round: Joe Biden shouldn't be running for president. Joe Biden is running for president. Donald Trump shouldn't be running for president. Donald Trump is running for president. — But this isn't 2020.
Punchbowl News:
2/15/24 ☀️ Punchbowl News AM … Just this week, Speaker Mike Johnson has: … This is the most chaotic, inefficient and ineffective majority we've seen in decades covering Congress. It started this way under former Speaker Kevin McCarthy and has gotten worse under Johnson.
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Raw Story, Political Wire and Washington Examiner
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ABC News:
White House to brief lawmakers as House chairman warns of ‘serious national security threat’
White House to brief lawmakers as House chairman warns of ‘serious national security threat’
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RTÉ, The Bulwark, Sputnik News, Outside the Beltway, BBC, FOX8 WGHP, The Daily Beast, The Sun, BizPac Review, The Federalist, Pravda EN, Business Insider, PBS NewsHour, Roll Call, Benzinga, DNyuz, Metro, HotAir, Al-Monitor, Associated Press, Fox News, The White House, HuffPost, Twitchy, Slate, WTTG-TV, The Daily Caller, Washington Times, RedState, Raw Story, One America News Network, Breitbart, WUSA, The Post Millennial, Euromaidan Press, New York Post, Axios, Bloomberg, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Examiner, Daily Caller News Foundation, PoliticusUSA, USA Today, Mediaite, KLFY.com, Reuters and UPI
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Republicans admit it. Kevin McCarthy has never looked so good.
Republicans admit it. Kevin McCarthy has never looked so good.
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HuffPost, The Moderate Voice, Raw Story, National Review, The American Conservative and HotAir
Russ Bynum / Associated Press:
Conservative group tells judge it has no evidence to back its claims of Georgia ballot stuffing — A conservative group has told a Georgia judge that it doesn't have evidence to support its claims of illegal ballot stuffing during the the 2020 general election and a runoff two months later.
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Digby's Hullabaloo, Crooks and Liars, Raw Story and Breakfast At Ralf's
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The final repudiation of ‘2000 Mules’ — Since Donald Trump left office in January 2021, there has been no more influential presentation of his theory that the election was stolen than the film “2000 Mules,” created by activist — and Trump pardon recipient — Dinesh D'Souza.
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Election Law Blog
Arizona Daily Star:
Tucson school district drops instructor after OnlyFans exposure — The woman who resigned as head of an NAACP chapter in 2015 after mispresenting herself as Black, Rachel Dolezal, was working for the Catalina Foothills Unified School District until its officials learned Tuesday of social media content under her current name.
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
The Trauma of the Trump Years Is Being Rewritten — Americans rehabilitate ex-presidents all the time. — It was fascinating to see the rebranding of George W. Bush — the man who took us into the disastrous Iraq war and horribly bungled the response to Hurricane Katrina …
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Constitutional … and Daily Kos
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Democrats look to Nebraska to shore up Biden's blue wall — Population shifts since 2020 have decreased the power of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania to guarantee Democratic victory — The Democratic Party's blue wall around the Great Lakes has sprung a leak since the 2020 Census.
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CNN
Politico:
Adam Schiff steps out on climate — He's the first of the leading candidates for California's open Senate seat to release a detailed platform. — Rep. Adam Schiff on Thursday proposed ending federal subsidies for oil and gas production, offering federal wildfire insurance …
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Los Angeles Times, Raw Story and Daily News
Washington Post:
Trump hearings in N.Y., Georgia on Thursday as trial schedule comes into focus — The former president is expected at a pre-trial conference in Manhattan, while some of his lawyers will be at Atlanta hearing focused on D.A. Fani Willis — Donald Trump is expected at the defendant's table …
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New York Times, CNBC, The Hill, Digby's Hullabaloo, The Guardian and Press Herald
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Will Oremus / Washington Post:
The biggest online threat to 2024 elections isn't AI — Happy Valentine's Day. Remember when asking AI to generate candy hearts resulted in delightfully incoherent messages like “U hack” and “Sweat poo?” Those were simpler times. Send news tips and ersatz love letters to: will.oremus@washpost.com.
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National Archives:
Updated: Incident at National Archives Rotunda Closes Galleries to Public — Press Release — The National Archives Rotunda and galleries in Washington, DC, closed to the public today after two individuals dumped red powder on the encasement protecting the U.S. Constitution at approximately 2:30 pm.
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