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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
How the Special Counsel's Portrayal of Biden's Memory Compares With the Transcript — The special counsel, Robert K. Hur, accused the president last month of “significant” memory problems. The interview transcript offers context to his report. — A transcript of a special counsel's hourslong interview …
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Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
News outlets that trumpeted Hur's story now discover “context” and “nuance” in transcript — Major news outlets that ran dozens of stories hyping then-special counsel Robert Hur's claim that President Joe Biden evinced a “poor memory” during their interview are now acknowledging that Hur's depiction …
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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Associated Press:
Robert Hur stands by assessments on Biden's age during hearing
Robert Hur stands by assessments on Biden's age during hearing
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Greg Norman / Fox News:
Former Special Counsel Robert Hur testifies on findings from Biden classified documents probe
Former Special Counsel Robert Hur testifies on findings from Biden classified documents probe
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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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Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Special Counsel Who Investigated Biden to Defend Report by Saying He Needed to ‘Show My Work’
Special Counsel Who Investigated Biden to Defend Report by Saying He Needed to ‘Show My Work’
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Andrew Feinberg / The Independent:
Robert Hur will testify as private citizen with help from Trumpworld figures
Robert Hur will testify as private citizen with help from Trumpworld figures
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Alex Gangitano / The Hill:
Trump renews call to debate Biden ‘any time, any place’
Trump renews call to debate Biden ‘any time, any place’
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Brian Beutler / Off Message:
Trump's Corruption-Policy Nexus Comes Into Focus — Did the disgraced former one-term president sell Social Security and Medicare the same way he sold his position on TikTok and Bud Light? — ∙ Paid — It didn't escape the Biden campaign's notice that Donald Trump abruptly changed …
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Filip Timotija / The Hill:
Republican group planning $50M campaign to block Trump from reelection
Republican group planning $50M campaign to block Trump from reelection
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Why Trump Might Cut Social Security and Medicare in a Second Term
Why Trump Might Cut Social Security and Medicare in a Second Term
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Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
The case against TikTok — And Donald Trump's corrupt flip-flop
The case against TikTok — And Donald Trump's corrupt flip-flop
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Biden pounces as Trump eyes cuts to Social Security and Medicare
Biden pounces as Trump eyes cuts to Social Security and Medicare
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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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Mychael Schnell / The Hill:
Buck to retire next week, narrowing House GOP majority — Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) will retire from Congress next week, he announced on Tuesday, a move that will narrow the House GOP's razor-thin majority even further. — Buck — who has become known for breaking from his party on a number of issues …
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Clare Foran / CNN:
GOP Rep. Ken Buck to leave Congress at end of next week — Republican Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado, a hardline conservative who has clashed with his own party at times, announced on Tuesday that he will leave Congress at the end of next week. — Buck criticized dysfunction on Capitol Hill …
Jesse Paul / The Colorado Sun:
Ken Buck announces he will leave Congress on March 22, scrambling race to replace him that includes Lauren Boebert — U.S. Rep. Ken Buck will leave Congress on March 22, the Windsor Republican announced Tuesday in a surprise decision that's sure to scramble the already highly contentious …
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David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
Aileen Cannon Continues To Make A Mess Of The MAL Case — A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM's Morning Memo. — What Cannon Hath Wrought — Two developments yesterday that show what an absolute mess U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon is making of the Mar-a-Lago case.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
There's new reason to think Trump still has classified documents — The central reason that Donald Trump was indicted for retaining documents marked as classified but President Biden was not is that Trump tried to retain the documents once the government sought their return.
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Karen Townsend / HotAir:
Bloodbath at the RNC as Team Trump Takes Over — There's a new team in town and the RNC is experiencing an overhaul. Trump has installed his leadership team. Monday the process of letting about 60 staffers go began. — The RNC staffers being let go are from the political, communications, and data departments.
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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.
Aleks Phillips / Newsweek:
Donald Trump Stung as New Poll Shows How Unpopular He Is — Donald Trump continues to have a low favorability score among Americans, new polling shows, despite being the likely Republican nominee after winning the lion's share of primaries and seeing off his only remaining rival.
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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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CNN:
Uvalde police chief abruptly announces resignation days after report cleared officers in massacre at Robb Elementary School — Hours before the Uvalde City Council was expected to reject a report clearing local police officers of wrongdoing in the Robb Elementary School massacre, the city's police chief told CNN he is resigning.
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Justin Rohrlich / The Daily Beast:
Kristi Noem Hypes Texas Dentist in Very Weird ‘Infomercial’ — The South Dakota governor promoted an out-of-state dental practice in a lengthy video on Twitter, saying she started to cry when she first saw her new veneers. — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem and potential Donald Trump running …
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Republican women don't care about rape victims — Forget the theatrics of Katie Britt, Nancy Mace and Marjorie Taylor Greene — supporting Trump means backing abusers — It can be confusing, tracking the multiple lawsuits journalist E. Jean Carroll filed against Donald Trump …
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Ellen Mitchell / The Hill:
US sending Ukraine first weapons package since December — The Biden administration on Tuesday announced it will send Ukraine a new emergency military aid package worth $300 million, the first such weapons tranche Washington has sent an increasingly desperate Kyiv since late December.
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Brad Reed / Raw Story:
Former Texas GOP official sentenced to 4 centuries in prison for child sex abuse — Bo Michael Dresner, a former precinct chairman for the Hays County, Texas Republican Party, was sentenced to more than four centuries in prison after pleading guilty to multiple counts of child sexual abuse …
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Tovah Lazaroff / Jerusalem Post:
Diplomatic source to ‘Post’: Gaza maritime route was Netanyahu's idea - exclusive — According to the source, on October 22, two weeks following the war's outbreak, Netanyahu discussed with President Biden the concept of “delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza via the sea”
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Robert Jimison / New York Times:
Senators Urge Biden to Stop Arming Israel, Citing Violation of U.S. Aid Law
Senators Urge Biden to Stop Arming Israel, Citing Violation of U.S. Aid Law
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