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10:40 AM ET, March 19, 2024

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Associated Press:
Trump is making the Jan. 6 attack a cornerstone of his bid for the White House  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Donald Trump has launched his general election campaign not merely rewriting the history of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, but positioning the violent siege and its failed attempt …
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Bloomberg:
Trump Rules Out Vivek Ramaswamy as Running Mate as He Eyes New Team  — Former president eyeing loyalty, ideological agreement in pick  — Trump team aiming for smooth transition should he win election  —  Donald Trump has ruled out Vivek Ramaswamy as his running mate and is instead eyeing …
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
March 18, 2024  —  It seems to me that the news tends to be slow on weekends during the Biden administration, while Mondays are a firehose.  (In contrast, Trump's people tended to dump news in the middle of the night, after Fox News Channel personality Sean Hannity's show was over, which may or may not have been a coincidence.)
Discussion: Daily Kos
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Cannon tells lawyers to weigh if Trump conduct can't be reviewed by courts  —  In classified documents case, legal arguments over jury instructions seem to take precedence over numerous other pretrial issues  —  The judge overseeing Donald Trump's classified-documents case issued …
Discussion: CNN, Raw Story and Civil Discourse …
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
Context collapse  —  On Saturday, Donald Trump spoke at a rally in Ohio.
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Donald Trump has been all over the map on Social Security and Medicare
Luc Cohen / Reuters:
Trump loses bid to block Michael Cohen, Stormy Daniels testimony at hush money trial
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
‘Bloodbath’ aside, Trump's violent rhetoric is unambiguous
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
Trump Golf Club Settlement Hangs Alina Habba Out to Dry  —  The former president's lawyer may still face fallout for her involvement in an ex-employee's hush money deal over harassment claims at Trump's Bedminster club. … Donald Trump's golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey …
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
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Timothy Noah / New Republic:
Is Donald Trump About to Go Bankrupt?  —  Debt is becoming a major campaign issue in 2024.  I don't mean the national debt, which today stands at 99 percent of gross domestic product and which, the Congressional Budget Office projects, will total 116 percent of GDP 10 years from now.
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Trump can't find anyone to spot him $464 million.  Would you?  —  Of course no one will lend Donald Trump the half-billion dollars he needs to put up while appealing his fraud case.  Would you?  —  In recent months, the former president has racked up a series of costly legal judgments for his many misdeeds.
Miranda Nazzaro / The Hill:
Grisham lists properties that would ‘devastate’ Trump if seized  —  Former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham proposed a list of properties former President Trump would be most disappointed to have seized if he cannot pay the damages in his civil fraud case.
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Maureen Groppe / USA Today:
Supreme Court says Trump White House official Peter Navarro must begin prison sentence
Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post:
Supreme Court refuses to delay prison time for Trump aide Peter Navarro
Zach Schonfeld / The Hill:
Trump sues ABC and Stephanopoulos, alleging defamation over Mace interview  —  Former President Trump sued ABC News and George Stephanopoulos, alleging defamation over the anchor's questioning of Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) about her endorsement of Trump.  —  The March 10 interview on “This Week” …
Chris Cameron / New York Times:
Trump Says Jews Who Support Democrats ‘Hate Israel’ and ‘Their Religion’  —  The comments, on a conservative radio program, echo an antisemitic trope and escalate claims he made as president that were widely criticized.  —  Former president Donald J. Trump accused Jewish voters of hating …
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Nick Visser / HuffPost:
Trump Says Jews Who Vote For Democrats ‘Hate Israel’ And Should Be ‘Ashamed’
The Detroit News:
Pro-Trump lawyer arrested on bench warrant in Washington, D.C.  —  Stefanie Lambert, a Michigan lawyer who has championed dubious claims of election fraud, was arrested in Washington, D.C., Monday afternoon because of a bench warrant, according to a spokesman for the U.S. Marshals Service.
David Frum / The Atlantic:
The Ego Has Crash-Landed  —  Donald Trump dominated the news cycle this weekend.  Everybody's talking about the outrageous things he said at his rally in Dayton, Ohio—above all, his menacing warning of a “bloodbath” if he is defeated in November.  To follow political news is to again be immersed in all Trump, all the time.
Rebecca Picciotto / CNBC:
Biden to target ‘rent gouging’ landlords as high housing costs factor into 2024 race  — President Biden plans to target landlords he claims are keeping rents artificially high.  — Biden's attack on ‘rent gouging’ seeks to shift the blame for stubbornly high housing costs partly onto …
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Elizabeth Stauffer / Washington Examiner:
The Left turns on Fani Willis after judge finds ‘an odor of mendacity remains’ in her case against Trump  —  Many of us were demoralized by Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee's decision on Friday to allow District Attorney Fani Willis to continue prosecuting the RICO case against former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants.
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Andrew Goudsward / Reuters:
Trump seeks appeal of Georgia prosecutor disqualification ruling
Nate Raymond / Reuters:
US Supreme Court justices, judges face new rules for disclosing free trips  —  U.S. Supreme Court justices and federal judges can no longer avoid disclosing the value of travel-related gifts they receive by classifying such free trips as “reimbursements” on their financial disclosure forms under new regulations now in effect.
Richard Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
Business Tax Breaks Face ‘Now or Never’ Moment in Senate  —  Republicans not budging amid warnings of dire consequences for small companies  —  WASHINGTON—U.S. businesses, big and small, have united behind a bipartisan bill to revive expired tax breaks for research and equipment spending …
Discussion: National Review
Miranda Nazzaro / The Hill:
Tuberville says GOP leadership should have vetted claims in Katie Britt's speech  —  Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) said GOP leadership should have more carefully reviewed the claims in Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.)'s response to President Biden's State of the Union address as she faces criticism …
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Congress' stock trading addiction  —  On March 12, Bloomberg reported that the Department of Defense was canceling a $2.5 billion grant to chip-maker Intel.  The money was supposed to make Intel “a dedicated supplier of chips for military and intelligence needs, designating a so-called Secure Enclave within the company's factory.”
 
 
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NBC News:
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Sopan Deb / New York Times:
Supreme Court Lets Public Office Ban Stand for ‘Cowboys for Trump’ Founder
Mychael Schnell / The Hill:
Congressional leaders strike deal on Homeland Security funding ahead of shutdown deadline
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Matthew Daly / Associated Press:
EPA bans asbestos, a deadly carcinogen still in use decades after a partial ban was enacted
Associated Press:
Lawsuit accuses NYC Mayor Eric Adams of sexually assaulting a woman in a vacant lot in 1993
Stacey Barchenger / Arizona Republic:
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoes bipartisan housing bill, citing ‘unclear outcomes’
Alanna Vagianos / HuffPost:
Arizona Lawmaker Shares On State Senate Floor Why She Plans To Get An Abortion
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez / CBS News:
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