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7:35 PM ET, April 3, 2024

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Jeff Mason / Reuters:
Chef Jose Andres says Israel targeted his aid workers ‘systematically, car by car’  —  Celebrity chef Jose Andres told Reuters in an emotional interview on Wednesday that an Israeli attack that killed seven of his food aid workers in Gaza had targeted them “systematically, car by car.”
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Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
The IDF Killing of World Central Kitchen Workers Isn't Going Away  —  The Netanyahu government is availing itself of the ancient legal principle of “Hey, sh*t happens.”  —  There is no reason for the United States to be engaged with any government that can do this.  From the BBC:
Discussion: Politico and Roll Call
NBC News:
Displeasure with Biden's handling of Hamas-Israel war was on display at closed-door White House meeting
Tesnim Zekeria / Popular Information:
A humanitarian catastrophe  —  A U.N.-backed report published in mid-March found residents …
Washington Post:
Biden blasts Israel over aid workers, but his Gaza policy is unchanged
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Exclusive: Trump Media saved in 2022 by Russian-American under criminal investigation  —  Trump's social media company went public relying partly on loans from trust managed by person of interest to prosecutors  —  Donald Trump's social media company Trump Media managed to go public last week …
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US Department of Justice:
Two Individuals Plead Guilty To Participating In Insider Trading Scheme Based On SPAC Merger With Trump Media & Technology Group  —  For Immediate Release  —  U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York  —  Michael Shvartsman and Gerald Shvartsman Made More Than $22 Million …
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Brothers plead guilty to insider trading tied to Trump media company
Discussion: Bloomberg
Marshall Cohen / CNN:
Federal judge condemns ‘normalization’ of January 6 while sentencing defiant rioter  —  A federal judge on Wednesday blasted a convicted January 6 rioter for downplaying the US Capitol attack and using the kind of revisionist rhetoric that former President Donald Trump often uses on the campaign trial.
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Michael Kunzelman / Associated Press:
Man who used megaphone to lead attack on police during Capitol riot gets more than 7 years in prison
Discussion: MeidasTouch and Associated Press
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
‘Sovereign citizen’ Jan. 6 rioter gets seven years for leading mob assault on officers
Discussion: Law & Crime and Associated Press
Norman Eisen / CNN:
Why Judge Aileen Cannon is on thin ice in Trump's Mar-a-Lago case  —  Editor's Note: Norman Eisen, who served as counsel to House Democrats in the first Trump impeachment, is a senior fellow at Brookings.  E. Danya Perry, a founding partner of Perry Guha LLP, formerly served as a federal prosecutor …
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Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Frustrated Prosecutors Ask Trump Documents Judge to Act on Key Claim
Aaron Zitner / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Leads Biden in Six of Seven Swing States, WSJ Poll Finds  —  Incumbent trails in most battlegrounds that decided 2016 and 2020 elections
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Doina Chiacu / Reuters:
Trump Leads Biden in Battleground US States, WSJ Poll Finds
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
Nebraska Republicans' bid to help Trump win the Electoral College, explained  —  The state has an odd rule that gave Biden an electoral vote in 2020.  Trump wants to change that.  Can he?  —  On Tuesday, Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen (R) urged his state's legislature to change its rules …
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NBC News:
Trump and GOP leaders push to change Nebraska electoral votes to winner-take-all
New York Times:
Judge Won't Delay Trump's Criminal Trial to Wait for Immunity Ruling  —  The former president had asked the judge to push back his Manhattan criminal trial, slated to begin April 15, until after the Supreme Court decides whether he is immune from prosecution.
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Ken Kolker / WOOD-TV:
Family of woman found dead on highway angered by Trump's speech
José Andrés / New York Times:
Let People Eat  —  In the worst conditions you can imagine — after hurricanes, earthquakes, bombs and gunfire — the best of humanity shows up.  Not once or twice but always.  —  The seven people killed on a World Central Kitchen mission in Gaza on Monday were the best of humanity.
Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Anti-Trump lawyer George Conway gives $900,000 to Biden … The minimum gift for the event is $500.  — The lead hosts are Melissa Moss, a strategic consultant who's very visible around Washington, and her husband, Jonathan Silver.
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Donald Trump has no idea what to do on abortion  —  No modern presidency has been as consequential for the anti abortion movement as Donald Trump's.  And perhaps no present-day politician appears as uncertain about what to do about the issue now as Donald Trump.
Lachlan Cartwright / New York Times:
What I Saw Working at The National Enquirer During Donald Trump's Rise … I was outside Manhattan criminal court.  It was a sunny spring day, and the Secret Service and the Police Department had blocked off the streets with barricades.  The sidewalks were clogged with news crews from around the world.
Lauren Boebert for Congress:
Statement from Congresswoman Lauren Boebert's campaign:  —  Yesterday afternoon, Congresswoman Lauren Boebert was admitted to UCHealth Medical Center of the Rockies in Loveland after experiencing severe swelling in her upper left leg.  After undergoing a CT Scan, doctors found an acute blood clot …
Fox News:
Former ESPN host says her Biden interview was entirely ‘scripted’ by network execs: ‘Every single question’  —  Former ESPN host Sage Steele revealed that her 2021 interview with President Biden was “scripted” by network executives.  —  In an interview with Fox News Digital, Steele recalled the …
Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Bond Backer Repo'd Soldier Cars  —  HANKEY PANKY  —  Don Hankey's company agreed to a settlement with Trump's DOJ after systematically violating the rights of military employees by illegally repossessing their cars. … When billionaire financier Don Hankey underwrote Donald Trump's …
Jessica Taylor / Cook Political Report:
In Tightening Presidential Battleground, Nevada Senate Moves To Toss Up  —  Democrats face an incredibly challenging 2024 Senate map that has them almost entirely on defense.  While our three Toss Up races have remained constant and fairly obvious for some months now — Ohio, Montana and Arizona …
 
 
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Hannah Fingerhut / Los Angeles Times:
Iowa repeals gender parity rule for governing bodies as diversity policies garner growing opposition
Discussion: Iowa Capital Dispatch
Bryan Schott / Salt Lake Tribune:
Utah Rep. Celeste Maloy endorses Trump's plan for mass detention and deportation of migrants
Discussion: Washington Times
Blake Jones / Politico:
Assembly Dems buck Newsom's budget
Discussion: Sacramento Bee
Saul Elbein / The Hill:
Mining for EVs, batteries could wipe out 1/3 of African great apes
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Elena Schneider / Politico:
Biden campaign beefs up its polling operation
Discussion: The Hill and Sun-Sentinel
Washington Post:
As obesity rises, Big Food and dietitians push ‘anti-diet’ advice
Discussion: The Hill
Jamie Frevele / Mediaite:
‘They Cut My Quote’: RFK, Jr. Claims He Didn't Say Biden Is a Worse Threat Than Trump — But Here's What He Said
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
Project 2025 reveals its goal: Trump as president for life
 

 
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Guthrie Scrimgeour / Wired:
Hawaii's The Garden Island stops using AI-generated newscasters on YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram after two months, likely due to the negative public response

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming
 
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