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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 …
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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.
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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 …
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Trump's Trial Is the Reality Show He Never Wanted — The former president faces weeks of challenging witnesses and tawdry stories. — Prosecutors and defense attorneys will make opening statements today in a criminal fraud trial in New York that Donald Trump has tried mightily, and unsuccessfully, to delay.
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Raw Story and Washington Examiner
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Opening statements to show the stark personal and political stakes of Trump's first criminal trial
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Raw Story
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Prosecutors say Trump's hush money was ‘election interference.’ Will jurors — and voters — believe it?
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Washington Times
New York Times:
Will a Mountain of Evidence Be Enough to Convict Trump?
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Julia Mueller / The Hill:
What happens if Trump gets convicted ahead of November?
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Forbes, USA Today, Plain Dealer and PJ Media
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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Jessica Costescu / Washington Free Beacon:
Columbia University Campus Unravels in Face of Escalating Anti-Semitic, Eliminationist Protests
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Fox News:
White House condemns ‘blatantly antisemitic’ protests as agitators engulf Columbia University
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.
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.
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Raw Story
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.
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New York Times and The Hill
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 …
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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 …
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
How Biden Can Press His Ukraine Advantage — A great new spot from our pals at Republican Voters Against Trump is out this morning. “I was wondering if you guys are hiring right now,” the narrator toting the hidden camera asks a sequence of mall-store managers. “I'm currently facing 88 felonies.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The next president may be chosen by indifference — Those born in 1995 or after have never been able to vote in a presidential general election for any Republican besides Donald Trump. If you were born four years after that, your choices between the two major parties have only been Trump and Joe Biden.
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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 …
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Austin Sarat / The Hill:
Americans who want to protect democracy need to stand up for public libraries — Public libraries, once considered the backbone of America's civic infrastructure, are now under attack in many places across the country. Every day, librarians are harassed, threatened and intimidated for doing …
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.
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MSNBC and The Daily Beast
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.
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Scripting News and Variety
Julian Borger / The Guardian:
Israel has yet to provide evidence of Unrwa staff terrorist links, Colonna report says — Exclusive: Review finds government has yet to substantiate claims UN relief agency staff have ties to Hamas or Islamic Jihad — Israel has yet to provide supporting evidence of its claims that employees …
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Reuters
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Vance versus McConnell defines GOP Ukraine fight — First-term Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) are the faces of the debate over Ukraine that has split the GOP for months and raises the question of who is in charge of the Republican Party.
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.
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Alternet.org
Associated Press:
Biden is marking Earth Day by announcing $7 billion in federal solar power grants — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is marking Earth Day by announcing $7 billion in federal grants for residential solar projects serving 900,000-plus households in low- and middle-income communities.
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