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Politico:
Hill GOP to Trump: Tamp down the talk of grudges and Jan. 6 — Donald Trump's bid to oust a Florida Republican who backed Ron DeSantis over him is reviving a long-running GOP anxiety: that he can't be dissuaded from the grudges and inflammatory rhetoric that plagued his party's lawmakers during his first term.
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Edith Olmsted / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Former Defense Secretary Tells Bill Maher He Is ‘Definitely Not’ Voting for Ex Boss — ‘DEFINITELY NOT’ — “There's no way I'll vote for Trump, but every day that Trump does something crazy, the door to voting for Biden opens a little bit more, and that's where I'm at,” Esper said.
Chauncey DeVega / Salon:
The “martyrdom” of Donald J. Trump — “It's all slapstick comedy: Posing as a Christ-like figure is so outlandish and absurd” — Donald Trump has repeatedly shown that he can reasonably be described as evil. Yet, white “Christian” evangelicals are among his most loyal, stalwart, and enthusiastic supporters.
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Jim Wallis / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Bible Just Might Earn Him Eternal Damnation — NOT-SO-GOOD BOOK — Trump's Holy-Week grift not only makes him a heretic and an idolator but endangers his immortal soul. … I have vivid memories of then-President Donald Trump standing in front of St. John's Episcopal Church …
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Chris Quinn / Plain Dealer:
Our Trump reporting upsets some readers, but there aren't two sides to facts: Letter from the Editor — A more-than-occasional arrival in the email these days is a question expressed two ways, one with dripping condescension and the other with courtesy: — Why don't our opinion platforms …
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Melissa Nann Burke / The Detroit News:
Michigan Republican congressman suggests nuking Gaza, ending humanitarian aid — Michigan U.S. Rep. Tim Walberg suggested that nuclear weapons should be dropped on Gaza, which his office said was a metaphor to “support Israel's swift elimination of Hamas.” — “It should be like Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
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Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
AT&T resets account passcodes after millions of customer records leak online — US telco giant takes action after 2019 data spill — Phone giant AT&T has reset millions of customer account passcodes after a huge cache of data containing AT&T customer records was dumped online earlier this month, TechCrunch has exclusively learned.
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David Cohen / Politico:
Van Hollen: Defy Netanyahu to guarantee Gazans don't starve — “We have a situation where Netanyahu continues to essentially, you know, give the finger to the president of the United States,” the senator said. — Sen. Chris Van Hollen on Sunday continued to push President Joe Biden …
Associated Press:
Crews carefully start removing first piece of twisted steel from collapsed Baltimore bridge — Crews start removing first piece of twisted steel from collapsed Baltimore bridge — Teams of engineers worked Saturday on the intricate process of cutting and lifting the first section …
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New York Post:
Dem clients of daughter of NY judge in Trump hush money trial raised $93M off the case — Two major Democratic clients of the daughter of the judge overseeing Donald Trump's hush-money trial have raised at least $93 million in campaign donations — and used the case in their solicitation emails …
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Jason Beeferman / Politico:
‘No one told me to leave’: Hochul defends decision to attend slain NYPD officer's wake — Hochul defended her decision to attend the wake for NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller after a confrontation with a mourner and increased scrutiny around her policies on crime.
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Robert Reich:
Record corporate profits from your thinning wallets — The latest economic data shows two big things: — (1) Corporate profits reached a record high in the fourth quarter of last year. — (2) Inflation is still with us. The government reported Friday that the Fed's preferred inflation …
Tom Perkins / The Guardian:
US appeals court kills ban on plastic containers contaminated with PFAS — Conservative fifth circuit overturns EPA's ban prohibiting Inhance from using manufacturing process creating toxic compound — A federal appeals court in the US has killed a ban on plastic containers contaminated …
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Paul Wiseman / Associated Press:
Who wouldn't like prices to start falling? Careful what you wish for, economists say — Many Americans are in a sour mood about the economy for one main reason: Prices feel too high. Maybe they're not rising as fast as they had been, but average prices are still painfully above where they were three years ago.
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