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David Axelrod / The Atlantic:
What Donald Trump Fears Most  —  A potential reckoning that he has spent a lifetime eluding could be coming.  —  Donald Trump's biographers all seem to agree that he didn't get a lot of love from his father.  But what Fred Trump did impart to his son was an indelible lesson …
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Opening statements to show the stark personal and political stakes of Trump's first criminal trial
Discussion: Raw Story
Josh Gerstein / Politico:   Prosecutors say Trump's hush money was ‘election interference.’ Will jurors — and voters — believe it?
Julia Mueller / The Hill:
What happens if Trump gets convicted ahead of November?
Discussion: USA Today, Forbes, Plain Dealer and PJ Media
New York Times:
Will a Mountain of Evidence Be Enough to Convict Trump?
CNN:
Columbia University faces full-blown crisis as rabbi calls for Jewish students to ‘return home’  —  Columbia University is facing a full-blown crisis heading into Passover as a rabbi linked to the Ivy League school urged Jewish students to stay home and tense confrontations on campus sparked condemnation …
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Fox News:
White House condemns ‘blatantly antisemitic’ protests as agitators engulf Columbia University
New York Post:
Columbia rabbi warns Jewish students to go home, don't come back to campus because of ‘extreme antisemitism’
Marc Elias / Democracy Docket:
Republicans Are Suing for the Right To Harass Election Workers  —  You might think that even in today's highly polarized election environment there would be a bipartisan consensus to protect election workers from intimidation and harassment.  If you thought so, you would be wrong.
New York Times:
Biden Earth Day Event Will Try to Reach Young Voters, a Crucial Bloc  —  At a national park in Virginia on Monday, the president will point to investments in clean energy and appear with future members of his American Climate Corps.  —  President Biden will travel to a national park in Virginia on Monday …
Discussion: NPR, The Hill, The Guardian and The Nation
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Associated Press:
Biden is marking Earth Day by announcing $7 billion in federal solar power grants
Discussion: Washington Examiner and UPI
Associated Press:
Papua New Guinea leader takes offense after Biden implies an uncle was eaten by cannibals  —  MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape accused Joe Biden of disparaging the South Pacific island nation by implying that an uncle of the U.S. president had been eaten by …
Juliegrace Brufke / Axios:
House Republicans blame Greene and Freedom Caucus for lack of border wins … - GOP leadership brought up border security provisions alongside their foreign aid package — but the package was blocked by Republicans from reaching the House floor under normal rules.
Discussion: New York Times and The Hill
Washington Post:
How Trump has become angrier and more isolated on Truth Social  —  For years, Donald Trump was among Twitter's loudest and most inescapable voices: a brash, bomb-throwing businessman turned president who could capture the global news cycle with a single tweet.
Discussion: Raw Story
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court to decide if Biden administration can regulate ‘ghost guns’  —  The latest gun rights dispute concerns the Biden administration's effort to regulate gun-making kits the same way as commercially available firearms.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed …
Discussion: Associated Press and The Hill
Politico:
Playbook: The Biden polling bump persists  —  With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  TOP-ED — Former VP MIKE PENCE in the NYT: “Donald Trump Has Betrayed the Pro-Life Movement”  —  NEW POLL — Encouraging signs for President JOE BIDEN in a new NBC News poll:
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Christine Fernando / Associated Press:
A crush of lawsuits over voting in multiple states is creating a shadow war for the 2024 election
Discussion: Raw Story
Brian Beutler / Off Message:
No Strange New Respect For Mike Johnson  —  At least not until he explains why he sacrificed thousands of lives, swaths of territory, and perhaps the future of Ukraine for nothing.  —  ∙ Paid  —  A weekend of important news has quickly overshadowed something striking that led up to it …
Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:
Newsom proposes law to help Arizonans get abortions in California  —  California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said Sunday he would introduce legislation that would help Arizonans get abortions in his state, a move that comes after the Arizona Supreme Court this month ruled that a near-total abortion ban …
Associated Press:
Terry Anderson, AP reporter abducted in Lebanon and held captive for years, has died at 76  —  Terry Anderson, the globe-trotting Associated Press correspondent who became one of America's longest-held hostages after he was snatched from a street in war-torn Lebanon in 1985 and held for nearly seven years, has died at 76.
Ron Filipkowski / The Daily Beast:
Trump's a Fraud When It Comes to Law and Order and ‘Backing the Blue’  —  FAKE JUSTICE  —  He pardoned crony crooks against DOJ's recommendations, and he's promised to let Jan. 6 insurrectionists—who brutally attacked cops—off the hook. … Donald Trump likes to project himself …
The Daily Beast:
Russian Who Bankrolled Trump's Truth Social Set Up Dodgy Sex Pill Sites  —  HARD TO SWALLOW  —  Russian banker—who reportedly has family links to the Kremlin—was key backer of Donald Trump's Truth Social.  But that wasn't his only controversial project.
Discussion: Alternet.org
Meryl Kornfield / Washington Post:
RFK Jr. rarely mentions abortion — and sends mixed signals when he does  —  For many Americans, November's presidential election is about one issue: abortion.  President Biden hopes that a pro-abortion rights message will carry him to reelection, and Donald Trump regularly brags about his role …
Sophia Cai / Axios:
Some Trump chats with foreign leaders annoy Biden's team … - Biden administration officials privately have questioned whether some of Trump's meetings were appropriate, even as President Biden has jumped at the chance to accuse Trump of aligning with far-righters, strongmen and dictators.
 
 
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The White House:
Statement from President Joe Biden on Passover
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Vance versus McConnell defines GOP Ukraine fight
Discussion: RedState and Politico
Julian Borger / The Guardian:
Israel has yet to provide evidence of Unrwa staff terrorist links, Colonna report says
Discussion: Reuters
Henry Gass / Christian Science Monitor:
Can cities criminalize camping? Here's what to know about Supreme Court case.
Wall Street Journal:
Chinese-Americans Are Pushing San Francisco Toward the Political Center
Nick Robertson / The Hill:
Trump wins Puerto Rico primary unopposed
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Hakeem Jeffries emerges as Congress' shadow speaker
Alex Thompson / Axios:
Legal fees pile up for embattled Squad member Cori Bush
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Examiner
CNN:
On a panel with CNN senior political commentator Scott Jennings and CNN political commentators …
Discussion: Punchbowl News