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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 …
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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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Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Trump says he'd have to hold ‘fire sale’ of properties to meet $464M bond
Trump says he'd have to hold ‘fire sale’ of properties to meet $464M bond
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Trump can't find anyone to spot him $464 million. Would you?
Trump can't find anyone to spot him $464 million. Would you?
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Timothy Noah / New Republic:
Is Donald Trump About to Go Bankrupt?
Is Donald Trump About to Go Bankrupt?
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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 …
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Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
Mar-a-Lago Judge's Stark Ruling: Jury Sees Secret Files or Trump Wins — Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon handed the jury in his Mar-a-Lago case a shocking ultimatum on Monday. — The MAGA-friendly federal judge who keeps siding with Donald Trump in his Mar-a-Lago classified records case …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Why Won't Rich Republicans Loan Money to Upstanding Businessman Donald Trump? … The Republican Party is united in its belief that Donald Trump's court-ordered financial distress is the product of Democratic Party “lawfare.” Liberal prosecutors and courts have set out to persecute …
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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” …
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Isabel Keane / New York Post:
Trump sues ABC, George Stephanopoulos for defamation after host accused him of rape in Mace interview — Former President Donald Trump has filed a defamation lawsuit against ABC News and George Stephanopoulos, claiming his reputation was tarnished by the anchor saying multiple times on-air …
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Eileen AJ Connelly / The Wrap:
Donald Trump Sues ABC, George Stephanopoulos for Defamation Over Use of Term ‘Rape’
Andrew Howard / Politico:
Trump laments $464M judgment, sues ABC News and George Stephanopoulos for defamation
Trump laments $464M judgment, sues ABC News and George Stephanopoulos for defamation
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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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Timothy Snyder / Thinking about:
The Bloodbath Candidate — In Context, Trump is Worse — At a rally in Vandalia …
The Bloodbath Candidate — In Context, Trump is Worse — At a rally in Vandalia …
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Patrick Wintour / The Guardian:
Jared Kushner says Gaza's ‘waterfront property could be very valuable’ — Donald Trump's son-in-law also says Israel should bulldoze an area of the Negev desert and move Palestinians there — Jared Kushner has praised the “very valuable” potential of Gaza's “waterfront property” …
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Mauricio Savarese / Associated Press:
Brazil's Bolsonaro is indicted for first time over alleged falsification of his own vaccination data — Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was formally accused Tuesday of falsifying his COVID-19 vaccination data, marking the first indictment for the embattled far-right leader, with more allegations potentially in store.
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Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Nebraska lawmaker faces calls to resign after invoking colleague's name in book's rape scene passage — Republican Nebraska state Sen. Steve Halloran later defended reading the graphic text but apologized for adding his colleague's name to it. — Republican Nebraska state Sen. Steve Halloran …
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CNN:
Ex-Trump aide Peter Navarro heads to prison after historic contempt prosecution — Peter Navarro, an ex-White House aide to former President Donald Trump, is scheduled to turn himself in Tuesday to a federal prison in Miami, making history as the first former White House official to be imprisoned for a contempt of Congress conviction.
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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.
Hanna Trudo / The Hill:
Porter regrets saying California Senate primary race was ‘rigged’ — Progressive Rep. Katie Porter says she regrets calling the recent California Senate primary “rigged” after losing the closely watched Democratic contest to Rep. Adam Schiff. — Porter sparked backlash for using the word …
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Washington Post:
Drone footage raises questions about Israeli justification for deadly strike on Gaza journalists — JERUSALEM — On Jan. 7, the Israeli military conducted a targeted missile strike on a car carrying four Palestinian journalists outside Khan Younis, in southern Gaza.
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Michael Goldberg / Associated Press:
Mississippi ex-deputy gets 20-year sentence in racist torture of two Black men — A former Mississippi sheriff's deputy was sentenced Tuesday to about 20 years in prison for his part in torturing two Black men last year. Hunter Elward was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Tom Lee …
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Associated Press:
Pro-Trump Michigan attorney arrested after hearing in DC over leaking Dominion documents — An attorney facing criminal charges for illegally accessing Michigan voting machines after the 2020 election was arrested Monday after a hearing in a separate case in federal court in Washington, D.C.
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Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court allows Texas to enforce immigration law — The Biden administration sued to block the law, saying it tramples on the federal government's exclusive authority to oversee immigration issues. — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed Texas to enforce a contentious …
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Mara Silvers / Montana Free Press:
Montana Supreme Court allows abortion ballot proposal to proceed — The ruling says Attorney General Austin Knudsen erred in finding the proposal for the 2024 ballot ‘legally insufficient.’ — Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) — Thank you for being a member of Montana Free Press.
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Allison Hantschel / Dame Magazine:
Bad Journalism Is Giving Life to the “Fetal Personhood” Lie — For years, reproductive-justice activists have been warning that the GOP's “fetal personhood” bills would endanger access to birth control and fertility treatment—especially IVF. Why hasn't the media taken them to task?
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Zach Schonfeld / The Hill:
Supreme Court unanimously rules against government in No Fly List case — The Supreme Court unanimously ruled Tuesday that a man's challenge to his former placement on the No Fly List can move forward, finding the government failed to show his lawsuit is moot.
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Guttmacher Institute:
Despite Bans, Number of Abortions in the United States Increased in 2023 — Isaac Maddow-Zimet, Guttmacher Institute — Reproductive rights are under attack. Will you help us fight back with facts? — New findings from the Monthly Abortion Provision Study show that an estimated 1,026 …
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NBC News:
Potential 2024 candidates keep saying no, but No Labels is pressing forward anyway — More than a dozen prominent potential presidential candidates have said no after approaches from the group, which is behind its stated ballot access goal. — No Labels is still working to find …
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Erin Pearson / The Age:
‘Message must be sent’: Jail terms almost tripled for climate activists who shut down West Gate Bridge — Two climate activists who blocked peak-hour traffic on the West Gate Bridge, causing a woman to give birth on the side of the road, have had their jail terms almost tripled on appeal.
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
Fox News buried Mike Pence's refusal to endorse Donald Trump — Fox gave the news 4 minutes of airtime. CNN and MSNBC each provided more than an hour. — Former Vice President Mike Pence announced on Friday that he would not endorse his former running mate Donald Trump's bid to return to the White House in 2024.
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