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10:30 AM ET, February 15, 2024

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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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Michelle Cottle / New York Times:
Spare Us Lara Trump
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
The Trauma of the Trump Years Is Being Rewritten
Discussion: Constitutional … and Daily Kos
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Special counsel Jack Smith urges Supreme Court to reject Trump bid to delay election trial
Maureen Groppe / USA Today:
Special Counsel asks Supreme Court not to delay Trump's election interference trial
Discussion: Roll Call and The Mahablog
Joe Stanley-Smith / Politico:
Putin says Biden would be better for Russia as president than Trump  —  Russian president also dismissed criticism of Joe Biden's mental fitness.  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday Joe Biden would be better for Russia as president than Donald Trump, ahead of a potential rematch between …
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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.
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.
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
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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ABC News:
White House to brief lawmakers as House chairman warns of ‘serious national security threat’
Reuters:
US warned allies about Russian space, nuclear capabilities, source says
New York Times:
Russia's Advances on Space-Based Nuclear Weapon Draw U.S. Concerns
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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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.
Discussion: Election Law Blog
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Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Biden attacked Hur for asking him when Beau died. That didn't happen, sources say.
Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
Arizona GOP introduces resolution to declare Trump 2024 winner regardless of the vote  —  Republicans in the Arizona House of Representatives have introduced a resolution that would seek to declare former President Donald Trump the winner of the 2024 presidential election …
Discussion: Arizona Mirror
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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.
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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Kaia Hubbard / CBS News:
National Archives closes to public after activists dump red powder on case holding Constitution
Discussion: The Post Millennial
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.
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 …
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Kristen Stewart fires back at old Trump posts encouraging Robert Pattinson to ‘dump’ her  —  Kristen Stewart is blasting former President Trump as “such a little baby” for tweeting about her then-relationship years before he became commander in chief.  —  In 2012, Trump weighed …
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.
Discussion: CNN
Edith Olmsted / The Daily Beast:
Huma Abedin Reveals Relationship with George Soros' Son Alex  —  Hilary Clinton's longtime aide reshared a photo showing the two cuddled-up in a booth at a restaurant in Paris.  —  Hilary Clinton's longtime aide Huma Abedin has apparently moved on from her scandal-scarred ex-husband Anthony Weiner …
Courtenay Brown / Axios:
America's poorer counties are new investment boomtowns: study  —  There's an unprecedented building boom underway in America.  With it has come a less-noticed phenomenon: a surge of investment into communities left behind in the last economic expansion.
 
 
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