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No Labels Will Abandon 2024 Presidential Campaign Effort — The centrist group plans to announce it won't field a third-party ‘unity ticket’ after months of failing to find a candidate to lead its effort — WASHINGTON—No Labels, the centrist group which has sought to field a third-party presidential bid …
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Julia Mueller / The Hill:
No Labels abandons 2024 presidential effort — The bipartisan group No Labels won't put forward a third-party presidential ticket after failing to find a candidate, multiple outlets have reported. — No Labels will reportedly announce Monday that it hasn't been able to recruit …
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No Labels 2024 Ballot Project
No Labels 2024 Ballot Project
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Katrina Kaufman / CBS News:
Is Trump's $175 million civil fraud bond valid in New York? — When former President Donald Trump posted a $175 million bond in New York on Monday, it appeared that he had evaded a financial crisis. He had paused enforcement of the more than $460 million judgment against him following a civil fraud trial, while his appeal is pending.
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New York Times:
G.O.P. Congressman's Wild Claim: F.B.I. Entrapped Jan. 6 Rioters — More than three years after the attack on Congress, a Republican subcommittee chairman offered a series of baseless and disproved claims about it, reflecting an effort on the right to falsify what occurred.
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Kelly Garrity / Politico:
RFK Jr. disavows fundraising email boosting ‘J6 activists’ — The statement was an “error,” Kennedy's campaign said. — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s presidential campaign walked back a line in a fundraising email sent to supporters Thursday afternoon, which described people detained for storming the Capitol in 2021 as “J6 activists.”
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Jeffrey Clark's bid to aid Trump election scheme violated attorney rules, DC Bar panel finds — Disciplinary investigators who brought the charges against Clark say they intend to advocate for his disbarment. — A disciplinary panel in Washington has found that Jeffrey Clark …
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Cory Doctorow / Pluralistic:
Pluralistic: Too big to care (04 Apr 2024) — Too big to care: Enshittification is a choice. — Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. — This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 — Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. — Recent appearances: Where I've been.
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Will Oremus / Washington Post:
Musk's X pivots again, restoring blue checks to popular accounts — The social network formerly known as Twitter is now gifting premium features to users with at least 2,500 verified followers — A year after his controversial decision to remove verification from popular Twitter accounts unless …
Hugh Hewitt / The Hugh Hewitt Show:
Former President Donald Trump On Israel's War, 2024 And Much More — Former President Donald Trump joined me this morning: — Audio: — 04-04hhs-trump — Transcript: — HH: Joined by our very special guest, former President Donald Trump. Mr. President, welcome back.
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Politico:
Reps. Andy Biggs, Paul Gosar subpoenaed in Arizona probe of Trump fake electors — The Arizona attorney general is nearing a decision on whether to charge Trump allies with crimes, but there is no indication Biggs or Gosar will face charges. — Arizona investigators probing Republicans' efforts …
Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:
The Washington press corps doesn't have a freaking clue — I've been away for nearly two weeks, almost entirely unplugged, and let me tell you, a little distance makes the failure of the American political press even more horrifying and inexcusable. — The nation stands on the edge of a precipice …
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Axios:
Scoop: Johnson faces new pressure from Democrats on foreign aid … - “He's a bit boxed in,” one House Democrat said of Johnson. … - “No matter which path he walks down ... one's with alligators, one's with piranhas. … - In addition to Ukraine and Gaza, the letter calls for aid to Sudan …
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Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Ted Cruz Is Getting Nervous He's Going to Lose His Senate Seat — The Texas senator's questionable podcast deal with iHeartMedia is raising eyebrows amid his increasingly desperate fundraising efforts — THE WALLS ARE closing in around Ted Cruz, and the Republican senator is lashing out.
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Kelly Jensen / BOOK RIOT:
Louisiana HB 777 Would Criminalize Librarians and Libraries Who Join the American Library Association — Despite the fact that l ibrarians are among the most trusted professionals, per data acquired in several studies of parents on the perceptions of the profession, lawmakers across …
Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
Judge denies Trump bid to dismiss classified documents prosecution — A federal judge refused Thursday to throw out the classified documents prosecution against Donald Trump, rejecting a defense argument that the case should be tossed because he was entitled as a former president to retain the records after he left office.
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Why Trump wants to game Nebraska's electoral vote, mapped — A transparent Donald Trump-backed attempt to reconfigure — dare we say “rig” — the electoral college to be more in his favor in 2024 has fallen short. At least for now. — The technically nonpartisan but heavily Republican …
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WOWT-TV:
Attempt to consolidate Electoral College votes fails in Nebraska Legislature
Attempt to consolidate Electoral College votes fails in Nebraska Legislature
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Minho Kim / New York Times:
Biden Takes Aim at SpaceX's Tax-Free Ride in American Airspace — President Biden wants companies that use American airspace for rocket launches to start paying taxes into a federal fund that finances the work of air traffic controllers. — Every time a rocket soars into the sky carrying satellites …
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Washington Post:
Biden warns Netanyahu the situation in Gaza is ‘unacceptable’ — The president said U.S. policy will change if Israel does not immediately take ‘specific, concrete, and measurable’ steps to address the disaster — President Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday …
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CNN:
Biden to Netanyahu: Protect civilians or else
Biden to Netanyahu: Protect civilians or else
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Louis Casiano / Fox News:
Blinken says Ukraine will eventually ‘become a member of NATO’ — Debate of Ukraine's membership to the 32-member alliance continues amid its war with Russia — Ukraine will eventually join NATO as support from its member countries remains “rock solid,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday.
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Filip Timotija / The Hill:
Alyssa Farah Griffin rips RFK Jr. in op-ed: ‘Gaslighting and real-time pivoting’ — Former Trump administration aide Alyssa Farah Griffin went after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in an op-ed published in The Daily Beast, calling out the independent presidential candidate for “gaslighting and real-time pivoting” …
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Rebecca Picciotto / CNBC:
Biden says U.S. economy is world's best. Trump calls it a ‘cesspool.’ Data is clear. … U.S. President Joe Biden, delivers remarks on the U.S. economy and his administration's effort to revive American manufacturing, during his visit in Flex LTD, a factory that makes solar energy microinverters …
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
How Trump's story about Ruby Garcia's family went horribly awry — Donald Trump boasted about speaking to members of a murder victim's family. It now appears he made that up. — In light of Donald Trump's overtly anti-immigrant platform, it wasn't too surprising to see the Republican seize …
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Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
New book details Steve Bannon's ‘Maga movement’ plan to rule for 100 years — Isaac Arnsdorf's Finish What We Started shows how the strategist wanted to create a dominant coalition to take US political power — Steve Bannon, Donald Trump's 2016 campaign chair and White House strategist …
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Greg Ip / Wall Street Journal:
What's Wrong With the Economy? It's You, Not the Data — Many Americans believe that the economy and their finances are worse than they really are — In The Wall Street Journal's latest poll of swing states, 74% of respondents said inflation has moved in the wrong direction in the past year.
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