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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Trump Media stock closes 21% lower after company reports $58 million loss for 2023 … This photo illustration shows an image of former President Donald Trump reflected in a phone screen that is displaying the Truth Social app, in Washington, DC, on February 21, 2022.
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David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
The Easter Madness Of Donald J. Trump — A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM's Morning Memo. — Trump's Messianic Complex — I trust that most of you were offline celebrating the holiday, warming to the Spring, welcoming baseball back, or watching college basketball.
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Michael C. Bender / New York Times:
The Church of Trump: How He's Infusing Christianity Into His Movement — Ending many of his rallies with a churchlike ritual and casting his prosecutions as persecution, the former president is demanding — and receiving — new levels of devotion from Republicans.
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Vanity Fair, Sun-Sentinel, Mediaite and Althouse
Washington Post:
Florida Supreme Court allows one of nation's strictest abortion bans to take effect — The high court simultaneously ruled that a referendum enshrining abortion rights can go on the November ballot — Florida's conservative Supreme Court ruled Monday that the state's constitution does …
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Alex Thompson / Axios:
Exclusive: Trump allies plot anti-racism protections — for white people … Targets would range from decades-old policies aimed at giving minorities economic opportunities, to more recent programs that began in response to the pandemic and the killing of George Floyd.
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New Republic, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, Raw Story, Mock Paper Scissors and RedState
Reuters:
Would-be Tesla buyers snub company as Musk's reputation dips — The ranks of would-be Tesla buyers in the United States are shrinking, according to a survey by market intelligence firm Caliber, which attributed the drop in part to CEO Elon Musk's polarizing persona.
NBC News:
Ex-Trump aide Hope Hicks expected to testify in former president's New York criminal trial — The former White House communications director met with prosecutors from the Manhattan District Attorney's Office last year. — Former White House communications director Hope Hicks is expected …
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Andrew Goudsward / Reuters:
US judge receptive to Trump documents claims in warning sign for prosecutors — A federal judge overseeing the criminal case that accuses Donald Trump of mishandling classified documents has signaled an openness to the former U.S. president's defense claims, in a sign that prosecutors might face a difficult road ahead.
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Lauran Neergaard / Associated Press:
A biased test kept thousands of Black people from getting a kidney transplant. It's finally changing — (AP Video by Tassanee Vejpongsa; Production by Shelby Lum) — Jazmin Evans had been waiting for a new kidney for four years when her hospital revealed shocking news …
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Politico:
First human case of avian flu in Texas raises alarm — Potential cow-to-cow avian flu transmission in Idaho is worrying pandemic experts. — A Texas dairy worker has tested positive for the avian flu, marking the first identified human case of an illness in the U.S. that has sickened …
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Laura Kelly / The Hill:
Israel's government passes law to temporarily shut down Al Jazeera — Israel's legislature passed a law Monday paving the way to shut down the Qatar-based Al Jazeera news network, under legislation allowing for the temporary ban of foreign news networks that the government deems a threat to national security.
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Emily Shapiro / ABC News:
Driver rams into front gate of Atlanta FBI office, taken into custody — The car appeared to try to follow an authorized vehicle entering the gate. — A man rammed a vehicle into the FBI entrance gate at the Atlanta field office, April 1, 2024. — A driver rammed into the front gate …
Washington Post:
How Republicans texted and emailed their way into a money problem — Small-dollar donations to Trump and the GOP are way down since 2019 and 2020. But the former president's team says they see a turnaround. — In the years after Donald Trump lost the presidency to Joe Biden …
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Davidrlurie / Public Notice:
The GOP's extremism problem predates Trump — This free edition of PN is made possible by paid subscribers. If you aren't one already, please click the button below to support our independent journalism. — 🐘 Subscribe to Public Notice 🐘 — There's an old adage that politics has no tolerance for losers.
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
A U.S. Senator Is Shaming Universities Into Returning Native American Human Remains — “The worst kind of colonialism,” Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) said of schools and museums holding onto thousands of stolen bones. But it's complicated. — WASHINGTON - A couple of months ago …
Sarah Ewall-Wice / Daily Mail:
More than half of voters support slapping 10 percent tariffs on all imports, in boost for Trump's populist, protectionists policy — Former President Trump is proposing to put a 10 percent tariff on all imports — A Daily Mail poll found that 54 percent of likely voters support the idea
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Washington Post:
Democrats spar over registration as worries over young and minority voters grow — The rise in Trump support among nonregistered voters has run up against a long-held Democratic policy priority of growing the voter rolls — A confidential memo circulated among top Democratic donors …
Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
“Trending: Easter Controversy,” or: How little lies pave the way for the next big lie — No-News Weekend Internet is stupid-dangerous in the Trump era — as this weekend's attack on the Transgender Day of Visibility shows. — This weekend's gaslighting from the right around Easter falling …
Hannah Fingerhut / Associated Press:
Migrants in Iowa wonder whether to leave over a bill that could see some arrested and deported — A bill in Iowa that would allow the state to arrest and deport some migrants is stoking anxiety among immigrant communities, leaving some to wonder: “Should I leave Iowa?”
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New York Times:
China's Advancing Efforts to Influence the U.S. Election Raise Alarms — China has adopted some of the same misinformation tactics that Russia used ahead of the 2016 election, researchers and government officials say. — Covert Chinese accounts are masquerading online as American supporters …
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Emma Goldberg / New York Times:
Hospitals Must Get Written Patient Consent for Pelvic Exams, H.H.S. Says — In a letter to teaching hospitals, the federal health agency said that institutions could lose Medicare funding if they didn't comply. — The Department of Health and Human Services said on Monday …
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Patrick Whittle / Associated Press:
Maine's trail system makes the state an outdoor destination. $30M in improvements could come soon — Maine's beloved outdoor trail network could receive millions of dollars of improvements under a proposal conservationists have asked lawmakers to put before voters.
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Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Frost endorses Alsobrooks in Maryland Senate race — Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) on Monday endorsed Prince George's County Executive Angela Alsobrooks over fellow Rep. David Trone (D-Md.) in the closely watched Democratic Senate primary in Maryland. — Frost adds to the growing divide …
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