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12:40 PM ET, March 29, 2024

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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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Daniel Arkin / NBC News:
Louis Gossett Jr., Oscar-winning actor from ‘An Officer and a Gentleman’ and ‘Roots,’ dies at 87  —  Gossett's victory at the 55th Academy Awards in 1983 made him only the second Black man to win an acting Oscar, 19 years after Sidney Poitier won for his leading role in “Lilies of the Field.”
Discussion: Los Angeles Times, Twitchy and CBS News
Jay Stahl / USA Today:
Louis Gossett Jr., 1st Black man to win best supporting actor Oscar, dies at 87
Discussion: Associated Press
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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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
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
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:   Beating Trump in the Money Wars, Biden Gathers Top Donors
New York Post:
President Biden's celeb-packed $25M fundraiser is the height of Dem elitism
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  —  Health care may turn out to be a major winning issue for Democrats.  —  Expanding access to health care has been a shared policy priority for Joe Biden and the former Democratic presidents who joined him onstage at a lucrative …
Discussion: The Status Kuo and The Dispatch
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: Daily Kos, WFAA-TV and Associated Press
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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.
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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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
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. …
Discussion: The Hill and Los Angeles Times
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 and KDFX-TV
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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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 …
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ABC News:
Trump attends NYPD officer's wake as he highlights crime on the campaign trail
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.
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 …
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.
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.
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.
 
 
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Robert Kagan / Washington Post:
Trump's anti-Ukraine view dates to the 1930s. America rejected it then. Will we now?
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James Rogan / Washington Examiner:
Biden's green economy will break the energy grid
Gregory S. Schneider / Washington Post:
Va. Gov. Youngkin arrived like a GOP star, but arena failure clouds legacy
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The Guardian:
Taliban edict to resume stoning women to death met with horror
Brian Calvert / Vox:
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Tori Otten / New Republic:
A Judge Finally Found Fraudulent Votes. They're All From a Republican.
John-John Williams IV / The Baltimore Banner:
Racists called Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott a ‘DEI mayor.’ Here's how he responded
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
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: NBCUniversal Vice Chairman Bonnie Hammer plans to leave the company at the end of the year; she has been with the company since 2004

Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
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