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Stephen Robinson / Public Notice:
Trump's actual record comes back to haunt him  —  This free edition of PN is made possible by paid subscribers.  If you aren't one, please click the button below to support our independent journalism.  —  🇺🇸 Subscribe to Public Notice 🇺🇸
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CNN:
Byron Donalds, potential VP pick, once attacked Trump and praised outsourcing, privatizing entitlements  —  Florida Republican Rep. Byron Donalds, a Donald Trump loyalist and one of the former president's most trusted surrogates, is widely viewed to be on Trump's short list of vice presidential contenders.
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.
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 …
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Jay Stahl / USA Today:
Louis Gossett Jr., 1st Black man to win best supporting actor Oscar, dies at 87
Discussion: Associated Press and The US Sun
Daniel Han / Politico:
Andy Kim defeats NJ's ‘county line’ boss system in court  —  The judge ordered the use of office block ballots for the June primary, where candidates are placed together by the office they are seeking.  —  New Jersey's controversial ballot design that gives party-backed candidates an advantage …
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Jared Gans / The Hill:
New Jersey ballot design scrapped by judge in win for Andy Kim
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 …
Discussion: ABC News, Raw Story, The Hill and Forbes
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Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Americans Really Don't Like Trump's Health-Care Plans
Discussion: The Status Kuo and The Dispatch
Kanishka Singh / Reuters:
Biden threatens Russia with costs on Evan Gershkovich arrest anniversary  —  President Joe Biden said on Friday the U.S. will impose costs for Russia's “appalling attempts” to use Americans as bargaining chips in a statement to mark the one-year anniversary of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich's arrest in Russia.
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The White House:
Statement from President Joe Biden on the Wrongful Detention of Evan Gershkovich
Eliot Brown / Wall Street Journal:
Evan Gershkovich's Stolen Year in a Russian Jail
Colin Lecher / The Markup:
NYC's AI Chatbot Tells Businesses to Break the Law  —  The Microsoft-powered bot says bosses can take workers' tips and that landlords can discriminate based on source of income … In October, New York City announced a plan to harness the power of artificial intelligence to improve the business of government.
Discussion: Quartz
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Did Trump actually appoint Jeffrey Clark to lead the Justice Department?  Clark's lawyer just said yes.  —  In the days leading up to Jan. 6, Trump believed Clark would harness the department to buttress false claims of voter fraud.  —  It's one of the lingering mysteries of the Jan. 6 investigation …
Discussion: Raw Story
Bailee Hill / Fox News:
Trump sends message to Biden, Obama for missing NYPD officer's wake: Have to go ‘whether they like it or not’  —  Trump talks to Brian Kilmeade in exclusive interview after attending wake for officer Jonathan Diller  —  Former President Trump slammed President Biden during an exclusive interview with …
Justin Rohrlich / The Daily Beast:
Lara Trump Taunts Her ‘YUGE Fans in the Liberal Media’ With New Song  —  ‘THE SONG IS SH*T’  —  The internet has not been kind.  —  Look out, Beyoncé.  —  The newly installed co-chair of the Republican National Committee debuted a new single at midnight on Friday …
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
'They all say he's bad': Morning Joe astonished by number of Trump appointees who hate him  —  President Joe Biden was joined by two of his Democratic predecessors for a fundraiser that raked in more than $26 million, and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough pointed out that Donald Trump would never be able …
Discussion: PJ Media
CBS News:
Cesar Chavez's family to endorse Biden after RFK Jr. claims civil rights leader would've voted for him  —  President Biden is set to be endorsed Friday by members of Cesar Chavez's family — a mostly symbolic gesture, but one meant to send a signal to independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. …
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
Julia Terruso / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
All three of John Fetterman's top communications staffers have resigned in the last month  —  Clout learns there's been some serious turnover in Sen. John Fetterman's office.  In the last month, all three of Fetterman's top communications staffers have left Capitol Hill.Nick Gavio …
Discussion: New Republic and RedState
US EPA:
Biden-Harris Administration Finalizes Strongest Ever Greenhouse Gas Standards for Heavy-Duty Vehicles to Protect Public Health and Address the Climate Crisis While Keeping the American Economy Moving  —  WASHINGTON - Today, March 29, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced final …
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New York Times:
New Pollution Rules Aim to Lift Sales of Electric Trucks
Discussion: BatBoyBlog, NRDC and CleanTechnica
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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ABC News:
Biden fundraiser with Obama, Clinton sees jokes and some protests over war
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.
Scharon Harding / Ars Technica:
Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy: Lawsuit  —  Facebook Watch, Netflix were allegedly bigger competitors than they let on.  —  Last April, Meta revealed that it would no longer support original shows, like Jada Pinkett Smith's Red Table Talk talk show, on Facebook Watch.
Discussion: Quartz
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.
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Alex Gangitano / The Hill:
Biden fires longtime railroad official after probe into toxic work environment
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Ian James / Los Angeles Times:
Hay grown for cattle consumes nearly half the water drawn from Colorado River, study finds
Discussion: The Colorado Sun
Craig Mauger / The Detroit News:
Democrats say they're opening 30 campaign offices, tout ‘ground game’
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Raw Story
James Rogan / Washington Examiner:
Biden's green economy will break the energy grid
 Earlier Items: 
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
March 28, 2024  —  Yesterday the National Economic Council called a meeting …
Jonathan Martin / Politico:
Why Hasn't Biden Called Chris Christie?
Andrew Picken / BBC:
Scotland was ‘hoodwinked’ by Donald Trump, says former aide
Discussion: Raw Story and KDFX-TV
The Guardian:
Taliban edict to resume stoning women to death met with horror
Brian Calvert / Vox:
AI already uses as much energy as a small country. It's only the beginning.
Associated Press:
Georgia lawmakers pass new election rules that could impact 2024 presidential contest
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Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Filing: Trump asks SCOTUS to pause the law that could ban TikTok, saying the court should give him time to “pursue a political resolution” of the dispute

A.J. Vicens / Reuters:
The US plans to update HIPAA with new cybersecurity rules to protect patients' private data, including mandatory encryption and multifactor authentication

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