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Wall Street Journal:
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 …
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:   Centrist group No Labels won't field a ticket in the presidential election
Associated Press:
No Labels won't run a third-party campaign after spending millions trying to recruit a candidate
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.
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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Sarah D. Wire / Los Angeles Times:
Trump says he'll jail his opponents.  Members of the House Jan. 6 committee are preparing  —  Members of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol have warned America for three years to take former President Donald Trump at his word.
Discussion: Raw Story and KTLA
Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost:
Trump's Jan. 6 Accomplice Jeffrey Clark Broke Attorney Ethics Rules, Legal Panel Says  —  A D.C. Bar panel found that Clark's efforts to overturn the 2020 election should result in discipline, potentially including disbarment.  —  LOADING  —  A legal panel made a preliminary determination …
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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Manu Raju / CNN:
Greene keeps alive campaign to oust Johnson and warns against new push for Ukraine aid
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.
NBC News:
RFK Jr. campaign says Jan. 6 ‘activists’ have been ‘stripped of their Constitutional liberties’  —  Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said he would consider pardoning Jan. 6 defendants if elected president, and his campaign compared them to “political prisoner” Julian Assange.
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Nick Niedzwiadek / Politico:
Biden moves to defang political assaults on federal workforce  —  The move is widely seen as a response to former President Donald Trump's efforts to root out what he called a “deep state” that thwarted his policies.  —  The Biden administration put the finishing touches Thursday on a plan …
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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 …
Discussion: Raw Story, RedState and Mediaite
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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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
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 …
Discussion: annieasksyou
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
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 …
Discussion: CNN and Raw Story
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 …
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” …
Discussion: The Daily Beast
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 …
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 …
The White House:
Readout of President Joe Biden's Call with Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel  —  President Biden spoke by telephone with Prime Minister Netanyahu.  The two leaders discussed the situation in Gaza.  President Biden emphasized that the strikes on humanitarian workers and the overall humanitarian situation are unacceptable.
Nick Robertson / The Hill:
Trump tests gag order by sharing articles on judge's family  —  Former President Trump shared articles critical of Judge Juan Merchan and his family on Wednesday, appearing to test the bounds of the gag order placed on Trump in his New York hush money case.  —  Merchan expanded the gag order Monday …
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Evicted, arrested and being sued by the boss: When will MAGA learn loyalty to Trump ends in sorrow?  —  Another week, another round of people destroying their lives while Trump skates free of consequences  —  When I saw the news that the stock price of Truth Social went into freefall …
Discussion: Vox, CNBC, Raw Story and Associated Press
Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2024: Trump +8 Over Biden, Third-Party Candidates Have Little Impact  —  President Joe Biden continues to trail former President Donald Trump in their election rematch, regardless of which third-party candidates are included on the ballot.  —  The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone …
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Breitbart
 
 
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