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10:40 AM ET, March 29, 2024

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New York Post:
Anti-Israel protesters disrupt Biden's lavish NYC fundraiser with Obama, Clinton, where tickets went for up to $500K: ‘War pig’  —  Several waves of protesters disrupted President Biden's grandiose fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall Thursday, where he kicked it with former Presidents Barack Obama …
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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:   Beating Trump in the Money Wars, Biden Gathers Top Donors
ABC News:
Biden fundraiser with Obama, Clinton sees jokes and some protests over war
Associated Press:
3 presidents. Many stars. 1 New York fundraiser
Sam Levine / The Guardian:
Crystal Mason: Texas woman sentenced to five years over voting error acquitted  —  Appeals court rules Mason, now 49, did not know she was ineligible when she voted in 2016 and throws out conviction  —  The fight for democracy is supported by  —  A Texas appeals court has thrown …
Discussion: WXIA-TV
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Orlando Mayorquín / New York Times:
Woman Who Received 5-Year Sentence in Voter Fraud Case Is Acquitted  —  A Texas appeals court reversed its earlier opinion that had upheld the conviction of Crystal Mason, who was found guilty of illegally casting a provisional ballot in 2016, even though she claimed she hadn't known she was ineligible to vote.
Stephen Robinson / Public Notice:
Trump's actual record comes back to haunt him  —  This isn't 2016 anymore. … Donald Trump continued his Nazi-style rhetoric at his most recent campaign rally in Dayton, Ohio, warning that if he didn't win the presidential election, “it's going to be a bloodbath for the country.”
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CNN:
Byron Donalds, potential VP pick, once attacked Trump and praised outsourcing, privatizing entitlements
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Washington Post:
Many GOP billionaires balked at Jan. 6.  They're coming back to Trump.  —  Elite donors are rediscovering their affinity for the former president over taxes — even as he vows to free Jan. 6 defendants, promises mass deportations and faces 88 felony charges
Discussion: Raw Story
Beth Harris / Associated Press:
Louis Gossett Jr., 1st Black man to win supporting actor Oscar, dies at 87  —  Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar and an Emmy winner for his role in the seminal TV miniseries “Roots,” has died.  He was 87.  —  Gossett's first cousin Neal L. Gossett told …
The Daily Beast:
Trump Has a Big Problem With GOP Voters  —  NOT DONE YET  —  The GOP primary has been effectively over for weeks, but voters are still showing up to cast their ballots for anyone but Donald Trump. … ZOMBIE PRIMARY  —  Donald Trump may believe the 2024 Republican presidential primary is done—but clearly, it's not done with him.
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Associated Press:
Georgia lawmakers pass new election rules that could impact 2024 presidential contest  —  ATLANTA — Georgia lawmakers on Thursday approved new rules for challenging voters and qualifying for the state's presidential ballot that could impact the 2024 presidential race in the battleground state.
Politico:
The real D.C. crime wave  —  Welcome to POLITICO's West Wing Playbook, your guide to the people and power centers in the Biden administration.  —  In a sense, it's a daring crime given that the aircraft and the individual traveling in its executive cabin are among the most heavily secured entities in the world.
Discussion: The Guardian and New Jersey Online
Andrew Picken / BBC:
Scotland was ‘hoodwinked’ by Donald Trump, says former aide  —  Donald Trump flanked by his children and pipers on the official opening day of the Trump International Golf Links course in Aberdeenshire in 2012  —  The man who helped broker the deal for Donald Trump's first Scottish golf resort …
Discussion: Raw Story
Maureen Tkacik / American Prospect:
Suicide Mission  —  What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane  —  A Boeing Dreamlifter sits on the tarmac at their campus in North Charleston, South Carolina, May 30, 2023.  —  John Barnett had one of those bosses who seemed to spend most of his waking hours scheming to inflict humiliation upon him.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Trump can't remember much.  He hopes you won't be able to, either.  —  The Very Stable Genius is glitching again.  —  This week, he announced that he is not — repeat, NOT — planning to repeal the Affordable Care Act.  He apparently forgot that he had vowed over and over again to do exactly that …
Jonathan Martin / Politico:
Why Hasn't Biden Called Chris Christie?  —  The man who never misses a funeral seems to have lost his personal touch when it comes to Republicans he needs — badly — in the fall.  —  Chris Christie's extended flirtation with No Labels should be a wake-up call — for President Joe Biden.
Discussion: New Jersey Online
Gregory S. Schneider / Washington Post:
Va. Gov. Youngkin arrived like a GOP star, but arena failure clouds legacy  —  RICHMOND — No Virginia governor has come into office with a deeper dealmaking background than Glenn Youngkin, who as former co-chief executive of the Carlyle Group made a fortune acquiring and merging companies around the globe.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and WUSA
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
March 28, 2024  —  Yesterday the National Economic Council called a meeting of the Supply Chain Disruptions Task Force, which the Biden-Harris administration launched in 2021, to discuss the impact of the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge and the partial closure of the Port of Baltimore on regional and national supply chains.
Patrick Svitek / Washington Post:
U.S. updates how it classifies people by race, ethnicity for first time in decades  —  The changes, announced Thursday by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, aim to better capture an increasingly diverse country and give policymakers a fuller view of Americans
Discussion: KDFX-TV, GovExec.com, Axios and NPR
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The White House:
OMB Publishes Revisions to Statistical Policy Directive No. 15: Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity
Daniella Diaz / Politico:
Marylanders plot a Hill bridge response  —  With assists from POLITICO's Congress team  —  SPAN AND DELIVER  —  As if lawmakers didn't have enough to address when they return next month from their two-week recess, they're going to have to add a response to the collapse of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge to their to-do list.
Discussion: The Hill, HuffPost and Business Insider
Tori Otten / New Republic:
A Judge Finally Found Fraudulent Votes.  They're All From a Republican.  —  A prominent Georgia state Republican, who has repeatedly claimed the 2020 election was stolen, was found to have voted illegally nine times.  —  Brian Pritchard, the first vice chairman of the state Republican Party …
The White House:
Statement from President Joe Biden on the Wrongful Detention of Evan Gershkovich  —  Today we mark a painful anniversary: one year of American journalist Evan Gershkovich's wrongful detention in Russia.  —  Journalism is not a crime, and Evan went to Russia to do his job as a reporter …
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
A ship crashed into a Baltimore bridge and demolished the lies about immigration  —  From the day in the mid-2000s when a then-20-year-old Maynor Yassir Suazo Sandoval crossed the border into America, he never stopped working.  The youngest of eight children, Suazo was fleeing numbing poverty …
John-John Williams IV / The Baltimore Banner:
Racists called Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott a ‘DEI mayor.’ Here's how he responded  —  Mayor Brandon Scott has come to expect overt and not-so-overt racism.  —  The latest example came in the aftermath of Tuesday night's Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse.
The Guardian:
Taliban edict to resume stoning women to death met with horror  —  Afghan regime's return to public stoning and flogging is because there is ‘no one to hold them accountable’ for abuses, say activists  —  The Taliban's announcement that it is resuming publicly stoning women to death …
Miranda Nazzaro / The Hill:
GOP Biden impeachment witness sues Fox News co-host Tarlov  —  Tony Bobulinski, a former associate of Hunter Biden, filed a $30 million defamation lawsuit against Fox News host Jessica Tarlov over her comments about his legal fees, which she corrected a day later.
James Rogan / Washington Examiner:
Biden's green economy will break the energy grid  —  The United States economy is in danger of running out of power.  After a decade of flat demand, electricity demand is set to grow by 80% by 2034.  The grid and the Biden administration are not prepared.  The sudden increase in demand …
 
 
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Emily Peck / Axios:
Boeing union wants a board seat and a say on plane safety
Discussion: American Prospect and Reuters
Juliegrace Brufke / Axios:
House GOP misses “Fire Pelosi” on 2024 campaign trail
Discussion: New Jersey Online
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Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
Pro-Trump fake electors in Arizona have pleaded the Fifth before grand jury
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Raw Story
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Hostage families told Netanyahu they get better treatment from the White House
Discussion: The Times of Israel
ABC News:
Trump attends NYPD officer's wake as he highlights crime on the campaign trail
Nick Robertson / The Hill:
GOP Michigan state rep mistakenly claims Gonzaga team buses are for ‘illegal invaders’
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
RNC weighs limiting NBC's access at this summer's convention