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 …

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 …

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 …

Kentucky bill strips governor of power to appoint senator  —  The Kentucky Senate sent a bill to Gov. Andy Beshear (D) Thursday that would strip him of his power to appoint people to the U.S. Senate.  —  The bill seeks to hold special elections for Senate vacancies in Kentucky, according to The Associated Press.

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 …

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.

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.

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

Trump attends NYPD officer's wake as he highlights crime on the campaign trail  —  President Biden will also be in the state for a fundraiser with Obama, Clinton.  —  Former President Donald Trump arrives for the wake for New York Police Department (NYPD) Officer Jonathan Diller in Massapequa, Long Island, N.Y., March 28, 2024.

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.

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.

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.

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 …

RNC weighs limiting NBC's access at this summer's convention  —  It is the latest fallout from Ronna McDaniel's ouster from the network.  —  The Republican National Committee is weighing whether to restrict NBC's access to this summer's convention, following the network's decision …

Statement from President Joe Biden on the Stabbing Attack in Rockford, Illinois  —  Jill and I were horrified to learn of the brutal attack carried out in Rockford last night, which took the lives of four people, including one fifteen-year-old.  Seven others were tragically wounded as a result of this senseless violence.

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.

Pro-Trump fake electors in Arizona have pleaded the Fifth before grand jury  —  Requiring the targets of the probe to invoke their rights in front of grand jurors is an unusual tactic that raises a risk of bias, legal experts say.  —  Arizona Republicans who falsely posed as electors …

Biden restores some, but not all, ESA protections  —  Energy & Environment  —  The Big Story  —  The Biden administration finalized a rule on Thursday that reverses some Trump-era rollbacks of protections for endangered species — but left others in place.  —  © Charlie Neibergall, Associated Press file

GOP Michigan state rep mistakenly claims Gonzaga team buses are for ‘illegal invaders’  —  A Republican state legislator in Michigan railed against buses of “illegal invaders” landing at his local airport Wednesday, but garnered criticism after it was discovered the buses carried a college basketball team.

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