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Lauren Irwin / The Hill:
Alina Habba mocks New York AG after appeals court reduces Trump bond  —  Alina Habba, attorney to former President Donald Trump, mocked New York Attorney General Letitia James, after an appeals court significantly reduced the cost of a bond he must pay while he appeals his multimillion-dollar civil fraud penalty.
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Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
No One Is Above the Law, Except, Apparently, Donald Trump  —  As the week began, it looked as though Donald Trump would finally face consequences — or at least, a consequence — for his actions.  —  Last month, a New York state trial court found the former president liable for inflating …
Discussion: Mediaite, CBS News and The Daily Signal
Ryan Bort / Rolling Stone:
Team Biden Roasts ‘Feeble, Confused, Tired’ Trump After Unhinged Presser  —  The president has been going after his presumptive 2024 opponent with a little more venom than usual … The president's campaign responded to Trump's wild press conference in New York on Monday by slamming the former president as …
Alexandra Ulmer / Reuters:
Billionaires sought to help fund Trump bond in civil fraud case, sources say  —  Some major Republican donors were working together to help U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump fund the original bond amount needed to cover his $454 million civil fraud judgment ahead of Monday's deadline …
Baltimore Sun:
Key Bridge collapses into Patapsco River in Baltimore after vessel hits support column; state of emergency declared  —  Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed early Tuesday after a container ship struck a support column, sending at least seven cars into the Patapsco River …
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Lea Skene / Associated Press:
Cargo ship hits Baltimore's Key Bridge, bringing it down.  Rescuers are looking for people in water  —  Watch live views from Baltimore where a major bridge snapped and collapsed after a container ship rammed into it early Tuesday, and several vehicles fell into the river below.
David Moye / HuffPost:
Chuck Todd Elaborates On Why NBC Shouldn't Have Hired Ronna McDaniel  —  In a social media post, the NBC newsman said honest journalists shouldn't have to “lend their credibility to someone who intentionally tried to ruin ours.”  —  LOADING  —  Chuck Todd is elaborating on why NBC News …
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Josephine Harvey / HuffPost:
Lawrence O'Donnell Invites Ronna McDaniel On His Show To Answer A Few Blunt Questions  —  The MSNBC host said his network will not use the former RNC chief as a political analyst, “but I do have a few questions for her.”  —  LOADING  —  MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell said he gave up on interviewing …
Mark Jacob / Stop the Presses:
NBC stands for Now Boosting the Coup
Gregory Korte / Bloomberg:
Biden Gains Ground Against Trump in Six Key States, Poll Shows  —  The move in the president's direction comes after five months of mostly consistent Trump leads.  —  President Joe Biden has gained ground against Republican Donald Trump in six of seven key swing states, and significantly so in at least two of them.
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Alex Thompson / Axios:
Scoop: GOP group privately warns against all-in Biden attacks
Discussion: Pluribus News
Laura Davison / Bloomberg:   Tax the Rich is Actually a Popular Bipartisan Stance, Poll Shows
Jacques Billeaud / Associated Press:
Ohio man gets 2.5 years in prison for death threats made in 2022 to Arizona's top election official  —  An Ohio man who acknowledged making death threats in voicemails left for then-Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs during the 2022 election season was sentenced Monday to 2 1/2 years in prison.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Washington Post:   Federal officials say 20 have been charged for threatening election workers
Tom Maloney / Bloomberg:
Trump's Net Worth Hits $6.5 Billion, Making Him One of World's 500 Richest People  — Former president joins Bloomberg's list of 500 richest people  — Trump Media merger adds billions of dollars to paper fortune  —  Trump Bond Cut to $175 Million Amid Appeal of NY Fine
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Trump loves to play the victim — NY appeals court bailout shows he's the most coddled person alive  —  There appears to be no end of breaks for a spoiled rich boy who has never done a decent thing in his 77 years  —  As anyone who listens to him can attest, Donald Trump may be the most self-pitying person on planet Earth.
Discussion: Fox News
Jeremy Duda / Axios:
What we know about Arizona's 2020 fake elector investigation … The big picture: Indictments could send shockwaves through the state as the false elector slate includes elected officials and other high-profile Republicans.  They would also reverberate nationally.
Ja'han Jones / MSNBC:
Jeff Yass just bought Trump.  Here's what he stands to gain.  —  The right-wing billionaire and TikTok investor is about to help the former president add billions of dollars to his net worth.  This is what oligarchy looks like.  —  Billionaire investor Jeff Yass is playing his Trump card.
Nick Robertson / The Hill:
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs's homes raided by Homeland Security  —  The Los Angeles and Miami homes of renowned musician and producer Sean “Diddy” Combs were raided by authorities as part of a federal investigation, officials said.  —  The action is related to a sex trafficking probe in New York …
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Kabc / ABC7:
Homeland Security raids Holmby Hills home associated with Diddy film company
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate GOP cautions Trump on 15-week national abortion ban  —  Senate Republicans are warning former President Trump that restrictions on abortion should be left to the states and that proposing a 15-week national abortion ban ahead of this year's election would be a major political blunder.
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Inside the squatting hysteria  —  On March 17, a provocateur named Leonel Moreno posted a video on TikTok where he purports to give instructions on how people can successfully “squat” in other people's houses.  It was one of many videos he made about how to exploit American law.
Discussion: Denver Post
Maria Sacchetti / Washington Post:
Records confirm Trump's mother-in-law came to U.S. through process he derided  —  Melania Trump sponsored her mother to immigrate to the United States through a family-based process that former president Donald Trump aggressively sought to end, according to federal immigration records released Monday.
Ed Mazza / HuffPost:
‘Feeble, Confused And Tired’: Donald Trump Torched After Bizarre Gaffe-Filled Appearance  —  The former president delivered a rambling performance as his legal battles heat up.  —  LOADING  —  President Joe Biden's campaign on Monday released an unusually blunt statement tearing into Donald Trump as …
Sam Biddle / The Intercept:
Elon Musk Fought Government Surveillance — While Profiting Off Government Surveillance  —  Ten years ago, the internet platform X, then known as Twitter, filed a lawsuit against the government it hoped would force transparency around abuse-prone surveillance of social media users.
Discussion: X
New York Times:
Why Abortion Is Back at the Supreme Court  —  In his majority opinion in the case overturning Roe v. Wade, Justice Samuel Alito insisted that the high court was finally settling the vexed abortion debate by returning the “authority to regulate abortion” to the “people and their elected representatives.”
Hans Nichols / Axios:
McCormick hits the mat with first ad in Pennsylvania Senate race … - McCormick hopes to draw on his years as a high school competitor — which helped propel him to West Point — to avoid getting pinned down as a Connecticut carpetbagger by Sen. Bob Casey (D-Penn.), who's seeking his fourth term.
Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
Elon Musk has fully bought into the ‘great replacement’ … For months, Elon Musk has been dropping decidedly unsubtle hints that he believes in the great replacement, a conspiracy theory that liberal elites are “importing” immigrants into the United States, Europe, and Australia to wage political …
Discussion: acecomments.mu.nu
 
 
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Rudy Giuliani telling Mar-a-Lago pals he's trapped in ‘nightmare world,’ 'can't believe it's real' as he faces bankruptcy, legal woes
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Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
DOJ looked at transactions linked to Jim Biden as part of criminal investigation
Michael Tomasky / New Republic:
It's the Biden vs. Trump Economy—and Hell No, It's Not Even Close
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
Politico:
Could Murkowski's dislike for Trump remake the Senate?
Discussion: Axios and New Jersey Globe
Kenny Stancil / Slate:
The Whistleblower Who Leaked Trump's Taxes Is About to Go to Prison. Biden Should Pardon Him Now.
Stephen Neukam / Axios:
Scoop: GOP candidate wants to ax Homeland Security agency
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The goofy origins of Trump's ‘too big to rig’ mantra
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Wall Street Journal:
Florida Passes Law Banning Social Media for Minors Under 14
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The other failure of the Republican investigation into Biden
Discussion: Fox News
Julia Johnson / Fox News:
New census data analysis suggests Pennsylvania advantage for Trump and GOP in 2024
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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Trump to Israel Hayom: Only a fool would have not acted like Israel on Oct. 7
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