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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
Calling Out a Would-Be Bully In Chief
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Deepak Puri / The Democracy Labs:
Who posted the $91 million bond for Trump? Follow the Russian connections.
Who posted the $91 million bond for Trump? Follow the Russian connections.
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Theo Leggett / BBC:
Boeing whistleblower found dead in US — Prior to his death, whistleblower John Barnett was testifying against Boeing over concerns about standards.
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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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Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Republican Voters Against Trump Plans $50 Million Ad Campaign
Republican Voters Against Trump Plans $50 Million Ad Campaign
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Maggie Astor / New York Times:
Trump's Biden Mockery Upsets People Who Stutter: 'We've Heard This Before'
Trump's Biden Mockery Upsets People Who Stutter: 'We've Heard This Before'
Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
Georgia 2024 Poll: Trump 46%, Biden 42%
Georgia 2024 Poll: Trump 46%, Biden 42%
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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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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.
Matt Margolis / PJ Media:
Everything Is Fine: Joe Biden Thinks John McCain Was His Predecessor
Everything Is Fine: Joe Biden Thinks John McCain Was His Predecessor
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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
Britt backlash stokes GOP fears about losing women voters
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 …
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Jeremiah Poff / Washington Examiner:
The US DEI regime failed Haiti — The National Palace of Haiti was once among the most recognizable and beautiful architectural landmarks of one of the world's poorest countries. — Today, the site where it stood is empty. The building was demolished in 2012 after sustaining severe damage …
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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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Mark Walker / New York Times:
FAA Audit of Boeing's 737 Max Production Found Dozens of Issues — The company failed 33 of 89 audits during an examination conducted by the Federal Aviation Administration after a panel blew off an Alaska Airlines jet in January. — 阅读.体中文.閱讀.體中文.
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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.
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
Ex-Trump adviser Peter Navarro ordered to report to jail on March 19
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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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