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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Trump's $91.6 million question — New York juries have found, by a preponderance of the evidence, that former President Donald Trump sexually assaulted writer E. Jean Carroll in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid-90s and then repeatedly defamed her, falsely accusing Carroll of lying about the incident.
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CNBC, Civil Discourse …, New Jersey Online, Newsweek, New York Magazine and The Moderate Voice
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Stephen Robinson / Public Notice:
The media is still selling a fantasy version of Trump — We should all know better by now. … Nikki Haley spent the dying days of her presidential campaign reminding anyone who'd listen that Donald Trump is unhinged and unfit. But when she ended her candidacy last week after Super Tuesday …
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No More Mister Nice Blog and New York Times
Washington Post:
Trump's freewheeling speeches offer a dark vision of a second term — A close examination of one appearance in Rock Hill, S.C., offers an anatomy of a signature rally by the former president — A Donald Trump rally is a freewheeling extravaganza. A festival of grievance and retribution.
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Los Angeles Times, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Georgia Recorder and Associated Press
Claudia Chiappa / Politico:
Donald Trump won't give ‘a penny’ to Ukraine if elected, Orbán says — Hungarian leader praised Republican front-runner as a “man of peace.” — Donald Trump will totally stop funding Ukraine if he wins the U.S. election in November, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán …
John Hendrickson / The Atlantic:
Trump Finds Another Line to Cross — Former President Donald Trump, perhaps threatened by President Joe Biden's well-received State of the Union address, mocked his opponent's lifelong stutter at a rally in Georgia yesterday. “Wasn't it—didn't it bring us together?” Trump asked sarcastically.
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Washington Post, New Jersey Online, DNyuz, New York Times and Raw Story
NBC News:
Trump says TikTok is a national security threat, Facebook is ‘enemy of the people’ — Trump recently reversed his support of a ban on TikTok. — Former President Donald Trump said he believes TikTok is a national security threat, but that he couldn't support Congress banning the popular app …
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The Hill, Bloomberg, Axios, Forbes, CNBC, BizPac Review and Louder With Crowder
Jim Sciutto / CNN:
Former advisers sound the alarm that Trump praises despots in private and on the campaign trail — To Donald Trump, Hungarian strongman Viktor Orbán is “fantastic,” Chinese leader Xi Jinping is “brilliant,” North Korea's Kim Jong Un is “an OK guy,” and, most alarmingly …
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The Guardian, The Bulwark, Mediaite and Raw Story
CNN:
Sex trafficking victim says Sen. Katie Britt telling her story during SOTU rebuttal is ‘not fair’ — The woman whose story Alabama Sen. Katie Britt appeared to have shared in the Republican response to the State of the Union as an example of President Joe Biden's failed immigration policies told CNN …
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Salon, The Hill, MeidasTouch, Letters from an American, Mediaite, The Guardian, al.com, Wonkette, Rolling Stone, The Daily Beast, Diane Ravitch's blog and Business Insider
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Maria Bustillos / Flaming Hydra:
There should be newspapers that we work at where we do this — Katie Britt, the Republican junior United States senator from Alabama, became a national punchline Thursday night by delivering a deeply bizarre and disastrous State of the Union rebuttal. Social media was already going nuts …
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Columbia Journalism Review, Poynter, Talking Points Memo, DNyuz, USA Today, CBS News, Washington Examiner and The Status Kuo
Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
Fox News Confronts Katie Britt on Falsely Connecting Biden to Sex-Trafficking Story
Fox News Confronts Katie Britt on Falsely Connecting Biden to Sex-Trafficking Story
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American Greatness, CNN, PoliticusUSA, The Guardian, Off Message, New York Times, Washington Post, DNyuz, NBC News, HuffPost, Rolling Stone, CNBC, ABC News, New York Post, al.com, The Hill and Breitbart
Ella Lee / The Hill:
Peter Navarro ordered to prison on March 19 — Peter Navarro, once an economic adviser to former President Trump, has been ordered to report to a Miami prison on March 19 to begin serving a four-month sentence for refusing to comply with a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol.
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Washington Examiner, MeidasTouch, The Daily Beast, Axios, The Daily Caller, Washington Times and Political Wire
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Biden marks start of Ramadan by recognizing ‘moment of immense pain’ for Muslims — President Biden marked the start of Ramadan on Sunday with a statement recognizing the “moment of immense pain” for many Muslim Americans and pledging to lead international efforts to deliver humanitarian aid into Gaza.
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The White House, Breitbart, New York Times, ABC7, Israpundit, Al-Monitor, JNS.org, Al Jazeera, The Times of Israel and Los Angeles Times
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Politico:
Netanyahu vows to defy Biden's ‘red line’ on Rafah
Netanyahu vows to defy Biden's ‘red line’ on Rafah
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HotAir, Washington Examiner, Forbes, The Daily Caller, NewsNation, Outside the Beltway, Instapundit, New York Post, New York Times, JNS.org, Just Security, The Dispatch, The Guardian, The Times of Israel, The Gateway Pundit, National Review, Daily Mail, Rolling Stone, RedState, The Forward, Associated Press, Power Line, Caitlin Johnstone, Bloomberg, NBC News, Wall Street Journal, Political Wire, MSNBC and DNyuz
Associated Press:
Palestinians in Gaza begin Ramadan with hunger worsening and no end in sight to the Israel-Hamas war
Palestinians in Gaza begin Ramadan with hunger worsening and no end in sight to the Israel-Hamas war
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NPR, The Times of Israel, JNS.org, Al-Monitor, NBC News, WUSA, DNyuz and Wall Street Journal
Nick Robertson / The Hill:
NYT columnist calls Biden SOTU speech a ‘comeback’ after saying he should not run
NYT columnist calls Biden SOTU speech a ‘comeback’ after saying he should not run
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Reason, BizPac Review, The Guardian, Political Wire and New York Times
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Conservatives are furious, but they're not threatening Speaker Johnson's job — For a small but passionate band of Republicans, reality appears to be setting in that they won't be able to bend a divided Congress to their will through the election of a speaker.
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Washington Examiner
Washington Post:
Forget the presidential race. Statehouses are where it's at. — Good morning, Early Birds. Today is the first full day of Ramadan. Ramadan Mubarak to all those who observe. Tips: earlytips@washpost.com. Was this forwarded to you? Sign up here. Thanks for waking up with us.
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Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Democratic Senate group reserves $239 million in ads to defend seats in seven states
Democratic Senate group reserves $239 million in ads to defend seats in seven states
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The Hill and Political Wire
Chauncey DeVega / Salon:
The GOP can't leave MAGA — “Americans must electorally mercy-kill the Republican Party” — An ex-MAGA activist warns “no civic savior is coming” as Donald Trump's cognitive decline becomes undeniable — Power not used is power wasted. Fascism is corrupt power.
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert / Business Insider:
The Trump campaign paid an expert $750,000 to find fraud in the 2020 election, only for him to dismiss their complaints in minutes — A new book sheds light on the lengths Trump's campaign went to find fraud in the 2020 election. — Ken Block, a software engineer, revealed he was paid about $750,000 to help conduct the search.
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Slate and Bernard Goldberg's Commentary
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Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Trump campaign insider recounts failed hunt for 2020 fraud in new book
Trump campaign insider recounts failed hunt for 2020 fraud in new book
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Raw Story
Emily Stewart / Business Insider:
The one man who could save Joe Biden — Jay Powell would very much like to stay out of politics, especially in an election year. The Federal Reserve chair doesn't want to be perceived as having a horse in the race come November, especially when one of said horses — Donald Trump …
Megan Brenan / Gallup:
A Third of Americans Satisfied With U.S. Global Position — Just over four in 10 think the U.S. has a favorable global image, and 37% say Biden is respected by world leaders — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans' satisfaction with the nation's position in the world is at its lowest since 2017, with 33% satisfied.
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Washington Examiner and The Hill
Lauren Helkowski / WSLS-TV:
Five dead after private jet crashes at Ingalls Field Airport in Hot Springs — One of the passengers was a child, VSP says — Lauren Helkowski, Digital Content Producer — BATH COUNTY, Va. - Five people are dead after a small, private jet crashed at Ingalls Field Airport, according to Virginia State Police.
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The Daily Beast, WRIC-TV, CBS News, UPI, Washington Examiner and Fox News
Natalie Daher / Axios:
Conservatives seize counselor shortage to press school chaplains … - Since Texas introduced it own blueprint last year, allowing schools to use safety funds to hire chaplains who do not have the same licensing as counselors, similar bills have ricocheted across more than a dozen states including Florida …