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6:15 PM ET, April 22, 2024

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New York Times:
Live Updates: Jurors in Trump Criminal Case Told That He Lied ‘Over and Over and Over’  —  Donald J. Trump is charged with falsifying business records to cover up a sex scandal that threatened to derail his 2016 campaign.  A lawyer for Mr. Trump insisted that the former president “did not commit any crimes.”
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Chauncey DeVega / Salon:
“The alternate reality Trump lives in is crumbling” with first criminal trial: ex-federal prosecutor  —  “I think that Donald Trump is probably trying to get himself thrown into prison”  —  With a jury now impaneled, Donald Trump's hush-money trial can finally begin in earnest.
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Unpacking the alleged crime that made Trump's alleged crime a felony  —  Attorneys offered opening arguments in the criminal trial of Donald Trump on Monday in Manhattan, beginning the process of presenting to the jury the state's case against the former president.
David Axelrod / The Atlantic:
What Donald Trump Fears Most  —  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: There are two kinds of people in the world—killers and losers—and like his father, Donald had to be a killer.
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
Live updates Opening statements expected in Trump hush money trial  —  NEW YORK — Opening statements are expected Monday morning in Donald Trump's trial for allegedly falsifying business records to hide a hush money payment during the 2016 presidential election campaign.
Minouche Shafik / president.columbia.edu:
Statement from Columbia University President Minouche Shafik  —  Dear Members of the Columbia Community,  —  I am deeply saddened by what is happening on our campus.  Our bonds as a community have been severely tested in ways that will take a great deal of time and effort to reaffirm.
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CNN:
Tensions are so high at Columbia ahead of Passover that all classes will be virtual today  —  Officials at Columbia University, facing surging tensions on campus that raised safety concerns, have announced all classes will be virtual on Monday as Passover begins.
Yale Daily News:
LIVE: Yale police arrests 47 pro-divestment student protesters, demonstration moves to block intersection  —  Officer Halstead told the News that the police are monitoring the scene to ensure that protesters remain safe and do not put up structures in violation of a 5:38 p.m. email sent to the Yale community by Kimberly Goff-Crews.
CNN:
Columbia University faces full-blown crisis as rabbi calls for Jewish students to ‘return home’
The White House:
Statement from President Joe Biden on Passover
Washington Post:
House Republican infighting getting worse after foreign aid vote  —  One GOP lawmaker said he serves with “some real scumbags,” while others fought over Speaker Mike Johnson's strategy for bringing up the aid package  —  The House came together Saturday to pass a sweeping $95 billion foreign aid package …
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Elaina Plott Calabro / The Atlantic:
The Accidental Speaker  —  This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter.  Sign up for it here.  —  You could be forgiven for thinking it was Mike Johnson's idea to host the House Republicans' annual policy retreat at the Greenbrier resort in West Virginia …
Naomi Hartono / NASA Blogs:
NASA's Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth  —  For the first time since November, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is returning usable data about the health and status of its onboard engineering systems.  The next step is to enable the spacecraft to begin returning science data again.
Walter Shapiro / New Republic:
The GOP's Worst Fears About the End of Roe v. Wade Have Come True  —  Nearly two years after the leak of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's draft opinion overturning Roe v Wade, abortion refuses to step out of the spotlight on center stage in American politics.
Discussion: HuffPost and The Hill
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Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:
Newsom proposes law to help Arizonans get abortions in California
Marist Poll:
Biden Edges Trump in Two-Way Presidential Contest; Opens Up Lead Among Definite Voters  —  Despite a still close contest between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, Trump's support among white voters and independents has splintered.  Biden is doing better …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The next president may be chosen by indifference
Liz Cheney / New York Times:
The Supreme Court Should Rule Swiftly on Trump's Immunity Claim  —  On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear Donald Trump's arguments that he is immune from prosecution for his efforts to steal the 2020 presidential election.  It is likely that all — or nearly all …
New York Post:
Ilhan Omar's daughter, Isra Hirsi, says she's homeless, cries poverty after suspension from $90K-per-year college over anti-Israel protests  —  The privileged daughter of Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar amazingly claims she's homeless and can't get food after being kicked out of her prestigious $90 …
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.
Hanna Trudo / The Hill:
Abortion-rights group launches ad in Michigan, Wisconsin warning about RFK Jr.  —  An abortion-rights group is attacking Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as extreme and unfit to serve over abortion rights, as the health issue takes focus in the presidential election.  —  Reproductive Freedom …
Discussion: The Michigan Daily
Angela Dewan / CNN:
The world dumps 2,000 truckloads of plastic into the ocean each day.  Here's where a lot of it ends up  —  Photographs and video by Edu Ponces/RUIDO Photo  —  The western coast of Java in Indonesia is popular with surfers for its world-famous breaks.  There's a majestic underwater world to explore, too.
Politico:
Next Ukraine package to be larger than normal, include armored vehicles  —  The Senate could approved more than $60 billion for Kyiv as soon as Tuesday.  —  The Biden administration is preparing a larger-than-normal package of military aid for Ukraine that will include armored vehicles …
Ana Ceballos / Miami Herald:
Some migrants flown by DeSantis to Martha's Vineyard qualify for victim visas, feds say  —  Some of the 49 migrants flown to Martha's Vineyard by the state of Florida are now able to legally work in the United States and have temporary protections from deportation — because they are considered victims …
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
‘Civil War’ is terrifying not for what it says about America, but about journalism  —  Around 2 p.m. on Friday, I opened my laptop and bought a ticket on Fandango for that night's showing of Civil War, the No. 1 movie in America that depicts a not-too-distant U.S. future of killing fields, refugee camps and bombed-out shopping malls.
Discussion: Scripting News and Variety
Cheyanne M. Daniels / The Hill:
John Legend says Trump believes ‘to his core’ that ‘Black people are inferior’  —  Singer John Legend says former President Trump is a racist down “to his core.”  —  Speaking to MSNBC's Jen Psaki on Sunday, Legend spoke of Trump's response to the Black Lives Matter protests following the 2020 murder of George Floyd.
Discussion: MSNBC and The Daily Beast
Brandi Buchman / Law & Crime:
Unite the Right tiki torch man pleads guilty to assaulting cops on Jan. 6  —  A man convicted of burning a tiki torch while chanting white supremacist slogans at the Unite the Right rally in 2017 has reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors and has admitted to assaulting two police at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Discussion: NBC News
Patrick Whittle / Associated Press:
Youth group, environmental organizations sue Maine for action on climate  —  A youth organization and a pair of environmental groups are suing the state of Maine to try to force the state to reduce carbon emissions in the era of climate change.  Maine Youth Action, the Conservation Law Foundation …
Hugh Jackson / Nevada Current:
Trump, RNC promise ‘aggressive’ election interference in battleground states  —  Workers at the Washoe County Registrar of Voters counting early ballots in 2020.  The process was live-streamed online.  (Screengrab via YouTube)  —  Policy, politics and progressive commentary
Discussion: BizPac Review and Associated Press
Pluralistic:
Paying for it doesn't make it a market (permalink)  —  Anyone who says “If you're not paying for the product, you're the product” has been suckered in by Big Tech, whose cargo-cult version of markets and the discipline they impose on companies.  —  Here's the way that story goes …
 
 
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Emanuel Fabian / The Times of Israel:
‘I will always carry the pain’: IDF intel chief Aharon Haliva resigns over Oct. 7 failure
Joseph Choi / The Hill:
White House moves to protect patient abortion records
Discussion: Axios, HHS News releases and The 19th
The Hill:
California launches unprecedented targets to achieve carbon neutrality by 2045
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
The GOP's Pro-Russia Caucus Lost. Now Ukraine Has to Win.
Leah Willingham / Associated Press:
In race for his Senate seat, Joe Manchin endorses West Virginia Democratic Mayor Glenn Elliott
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Examiner
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Julian Borger / The Guardian:
Israel has yet to provide evidence of Unrwa staff terrorist links, Colonna report says
Discussion: Al Jazeera
The Daily Beast:
Russian Who Bankrolled Trump's Truth Social Set Up Dodgy Sex Pill Sites
Discussion: Raw Story and Alternet.org
Washington Post:
How Trump has become angrier and more isolated on Truth Social
Discussion: Raw Story
Associated Press:
Papua New Guinea leader takes offense after Biden implies an uncle was eaten by cannibals
 

 
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Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Filing: Trump asks SCOTUS to pause the law that could ban TikTok, saying the court should give him time to “pursue a political resolution” of the dispute

Youkyung Lee / Bloomberg:
Shares of South Korean entertainment companies related to Squid Game drop 20%+ following a less-than-perfect debut for the new season of the series on Netflix

CBS News:
Greg Gumbel, a CBS Sports anchor and commentator who covered the NFL and college basketball for more than 20 years, died at 78 of cancer
 
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