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Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Republican-appointed judges raise alarm over Trump attacks on law — Federal D.C. Judge Reggie B. Walton warned Trump's attacks on hush-money trial judge and others could lead to violence. Reagan, Bush-appointed judges decry Jan. 6 revisionism, threats. — A Republican-appointed judge …
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CNN:
Federal judge warns of Trump's attacks in extraordinary rebuke — A sitting federal judge on Thursday harshly criticized Donald Trump's attacks on the judge overseeing the former president's criminal case tied to alleged hush money payments, telling CNN that such statements threaten the viability of the American legal system.
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The Hill, New Republic, Salon, NBC News, Forbes, The Dispatch, Washington Times, PoliticusUSA, Washington Examiner, MeidasTouch, Balloon Juice, Law & Crime, The Gateway Pundit, Raw Story and Mediaite
Brandi Buchman / Law & Crime:
The Trump Docket: A forgotten legal battle is about to rear its ugly head — Ghosts from Donald Trump's presidential past are coming back to haunt him personally and in just a few short weeks, a case that could soon involve allegations of assault and battery and intentional infliction …
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Raw Story
Sara Boboltz / HuffPost:
Ex-Federal Judge Blasts Judiciary And Entire Nation For Not Calling Out Trump More
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PoliticusUSA and New Republic
J.D. Wolf / MeidasTouch:
Trump Posts Image of Joe Biden Kidnapped And Bound With Rope — Trump signals approval of violent imagery targeting his political opponents — On Truth Social, Trump posted a video of Trump themed vehicles driving in New York. One of the trucks has an image of Joe Biden on the back bound with rope,.
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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Joey Fox / New Jersey Globe:
Federal judge strikes down county lines for this year's election — Quraishi agrees with Kim that county lines represent irreparable harm to candidates — In a monumental decision released today, U.S. District Judge Zahid Quraishi struck down the county organizational line …
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NBC News, HuffPost, Washington Examiner, Daily Kos and Mother Jones
Jared Gans / The Hill:
New Jersey ballot design scrapped by judge in win for Andy Kim
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Politico and Washington Post
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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Benjamin Oreskes / Los Angeles Times:
RFK Jr.'s campaign is celebrating Cesar Chavez Day. The labor icon's family is not having it — During the 1980 presidential primaries, Fernando Chavez traveled for months with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as they worked on the presidential campaign of his uncle Sen. Ted Kennedy.
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NBC News, Democrats and MeidasTouch
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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. …
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PoliticusUSA, The Hill and UPI
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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New York Post:
Gov. Hochul asked to leave wake for slain NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller — Gov. Kathy Hochul was asked to leave the wake for slain NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller on Friday afternoon. — Hochul arrived at the Massapequa Funeral Home on Long Island for the second day of viewings around 1:45 p.m.
NBC News:
Best Buy offers to screen LGBTQ nonprofit donations after conservative pressure, filing shows — In an email exchange with a conservative think tank, tucked into an SEC filing, the electronics retailer offered to screen its employee groups' donations to LGBTQ causes.
Isaac Arnsdorf / Washington Post:
Trump stays silent on detained U.S. reporter as he avoids criticizing Putin — Trump has consistently gone out of his way to avoid criticizing the Russian president and routinely demonizes reporters — Former president Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee …
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Washington Examiner, The Guardian, Associated Press and Fox News
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.
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Breitbart, Quartz and Ars Technica
New York Daily News:
Family of Brian Sicknick, D.C. officer who died after Jan. 6 riot, slam Trump attending wake for NYPD cop Jonathan Diller — The father and brother of Brian Sicknick, the police officer who died during the Jan. 6, 2021 riots at the U.S. Capitol, blasted Donald Trump's appearance at a wake Thursday …
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New York Post, MeidasTouch, Raw Story, Ultimate Newswire and Forbes
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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’
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Raw Story, New York Post, IJR, NBC New York, Breitbart, Blaze Media, The Western Journal, RedState, New York Times, Washington Examiner, PIX11, New York Daily News, The Daily Beast, NBC News and ABC News
Lucy Dean Stockton / The Lever:
Hogan Pressed For Bigger Ships, Despite Safety Warnings — Days after a massive cargo ship collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Larry Hogan called for the federal government to foot the bill for the bridge's reconstruction.
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PBS NewsHour
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 …
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Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Americans Really Don't Like Trump's Health-Care Plans
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The Status Kuo
Kathleen Culliton / Raw Story:
‘In office forever’: Trump's Project 2025 partner calls for ending presidential term limit — Conservatives are advocating to repeal the U.S. Amendment that limits presidential terms, prompting President Joe Biden's campaign to warn an election year victory for former President Donald Trump …
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Media Matters for America
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 …
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Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller, RedState and New Republic
Adriel Bettelheim / Axios:
Exclusive poll: Americans strongly back abortion pill access, FDA drug powers … - But the public is split almost evenly on obtaining pills through the mail, which is among the FDA permissions that anti-abortion doctors are challenging at high court. — 6 in 10 strongly or somewhat agree …
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MeidasTouch, New York Daily News, Washington Examiner, The American Conservative, Townhall and USA Today
Gloria Rodríguez-Pina / El País:
Donald Tusk: 'We are in a pre-war era. I don't exaggerate' — The Polish prime minister warns that Europe is at ‘the most critical moment since the end of the Second World War’ and must commit more to defense and protecting Ukraine — Donald Tusk, 66, has an image of his childhood etched in his memory.
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The Sun, RedState, Washington Examiner, KDFX-TV, Politico, Euromaidan Press and Metro.co.uk
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 …
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Raw Story and Above the Law
George Chidi / The Guardian:
Georgia lawmakers make it easier to challenge a voter's registration — Legislators change state laws including increasing documentation officials need to certify elections — The fight for democracy is supported by — Georgia legislators changed state election laws in the midnight hours of Friday …
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New Republic, NBC News, UPI, Associated Press and The Western Journal
Brandi Buchman / Law & Crime:
Rudy Giuliani begs bankruptcy court to let him keep his Florida condo so he can keep podcasting to pay creditors — When Rudy Giuliani defamed two poll workers with bunk allegations of election fraud in 2020, it triggered a wave of threats so acute, one of the workers was forced to flee her longtime home in Georgia.
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Raw Story and New York Post
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 …
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