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Andrew Feinberg / The Independent:
Robert Hur will testify as private citizen with help from Trumpworld figures  —  EXCLUSIVE: Ex-Special Counsel arranged to leave Justice Department the day before his appearance with the House Judiciary Committee  —  Special Counsel Robert Hur to testify on Biden's handling of classified documents
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Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Full transcript of Biden's special counsel interview paints nuanced portrait  —  The president doesn't seem as absent-minded as Hur has made him out to be — and Hur doesn't appear as crass as Biden has portrayed him  —  President Biden was in the early stages of his interview …
Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Special Counsel Who Investigated Biden to Defend Report by Saying He Needed to ‘Show My Work’  —  Republicans are likely to pepper Robert K. Hur about his justifications for not charging the president.  Democrats will almost certainly slam him for making broad assertions about Mr. Biden's memory.
Larry Neumeister / Associated Press:
Trump's renewed attacks against E. Jean Carroll open the door for new lawsuit, lawyer says  —  An attorney for a longtime advice columnist who won an $83.3 million defamation award against Donald Trump suggested Monday that a new defamation lawsuit was possible against the ex-president …
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Dan Rather / Steady:
Calling Out a Would-Be Bully In Chief  —  To ignore bad behavior is to normalize it.  Here at Steady we will continue to publicize Donald Trump's outrageous conduct as long as he exhibits it.  —  Insecurity Parading as Strength  —  At a Saturday campaign rally in Georgia, Trump mocked President Biden's stutter.
Deepak Puri / The Democracy Labs:
Who posted the $91 million bond for Trump? Follow the Russian connections.
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Political Wire
Lauren Sforza / The Hill:
Meta's stock drops after Trump calls Facebook ‘an enemy of the people’
New York Times:
For Trump, a Blizzard of Court Action Is Just Another Monday
Theo Leggett / BBC:
Boeing whistleblower found dead in US  —  Prior to his death, whistleblower John Barnett was testifying against Boeing over concerns about standards.
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Biden pounces as Trump eyes cuts to Social Security and Medicare  —  Democrats want nothing more than to see Donald Trump talk about cutting Social Security and Medicare.  Fortunately for them, that's exactly what happened.  —  At a time when so much of American politics seems radical …
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Reuters:
Enthusiasm wanes among Black voters who powered Biden's 2020 Georgia win
Washington Post:
RNC fires dozens of employees after Trump-backed leadership takes over  —  About 60 people were told they were no longer employed, according to a person with direct knowledge  —  The new leadership team at the Republican National Committee — handpicked by former president Donald Trump …
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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
‘Absolute bloodbath’ at RNC as new leadership loyal to Trump purges staff  —  Chair Michael Whatley and co-chair Lara Trump move to reorganize the party, with an expected cull of 60 members  —  Donald Trump's new leadership team at the Republican National Committee started the process …
Washington Post:
Trump asked Elon Musk if he wanted to buy Truth Social  —  The idea went nowhere, but the former president and the billionaire X owner have continued to communicate more than was previously known  —  Former president Donald Trump asked Elon Musk last summer whether the billionaire industrialist …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Republicans say Britt being treated like Sarah Palin 2.0  —  Alabama Sen. Katie Britt's (R) debut on the national political stage is prompting comparisons to another fiery conservative mom: former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R).  —  The comparisons took a new life late Saturday …
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Britt backlash stokes GOP fears about losing women voters
Discussion: Washington Times
Bill Press / The Hill:
Does telling the truth matter anymore?  —  To say that this nation is hopelessly politically divided is the understatement of the year.  It shouts out at you in every political poll.  We no longer have two competing political parties but two armed enemy camps.
Discussion: HuffPost
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Consumer prices rose 0.4% in February and 3.2% from a year ago  — The consumer price index, a broad measure of goods and services costs, increased 0.4% for the month and 3.2% from a year ago.  The monthly measure was in line with expectations while the 12-month reading was slightly higher.
CNN:
Exclusive: ‘Trump Employee 5,’ who unknowingly helped move classified documents, speaks out  —  Watch the full interview with Kaitlan Collins at 9 p.m. ET Monday on “The Source.”  —  CNN —  A longtime Mar-a-Lago employee who is a central witness in the investigation …
NPR:
Biden unveils a budget that would cut costs for families and hike taxes for the rich  —  The White House unveiled a new $7.3 trillion federal budget proposal on Monday, a plan that would hike taxes on billionaires and large corporations to pay for programs that would cut costs for families.
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Josh Christenson / New York Post:
Biden unveils massive $7.3T budget with $5.5T in tax hikes, plans for ‘highest burden’ in US history
Andrew Solender / Axios:
House GOP report aims to undermine Jan. 6 committee … - A senior Democratic congressional aide called the report “yet another attempt to rewrite the history of January 6th and whitewash the events of that horrible, bloody, and violent day.”  — Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) …
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Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
Ex-Trump adviser Peter Navarro ordered to report to jail on March 19
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
New data explodes myth of crime wave fueled by migrants  —  Republican politicians and sympathetic media outlets are claiming that America is in the midst of a violent “crime wave,” driven in part by undocumented immigrants.  New data, however, demonstrates that there was not a spike in violent crime in 2023.
Steve Kennedy / Slate:
It Sure Seems Like the Courts Have Placed Christianity Above Other Faiths  —  “Religious freedom” is having a moment in federal courts.  One of the big successful goals of the conservative legal movement was that religious freedom would be advanced in a way that it supposedly had not been before.
Patrick Svitek / Washington Post:
Group submits signatures to recall Wisconsin Assembly speaker targeted by Trump  —  The speaker, Robin Vos, resisted Trump's pressure to find a way to reverse the former president's reelection loss in the critical battleground state in 2020  —  A group seeking to oust the Republican speaker …
 
 
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
On the Tripwire of a ‘Red Line,’ It's Often Presidents Who Trip
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Robert Jimison / New York Times:
Senators Urge Biden to Stop Arming Israel, Citing Violation of U.S. Aid Law
Reese Gorman / The Daily Beast:
GOP Challenger Ridicules Barron Trump During YouTube Show
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Nick Robertson / The Hill:
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Mike Schneider / Associated Press:
Florida teachers can discuss sexual orientation and gender ID under 'Don't Say Gay' bill settlement
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Virginia Governor Vetoes Bill to Rejoin Voter Data Organization ERIC
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