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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Greene faces uphill battle to oust Johnson — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is escalating her threat to remove Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) from power, but she faces a steep climb if she hopes to achieve that goal. — Not only has the Speaker recently received a glowing review …
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Punchbowl News:
House GOP conservatives galvanize against Tony Gonzales … Hardline House GOP conservatives tell us they're feeling a renewed sense of motivation to go after Gonzales after he called out Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and House Freedom Caucus Chair Bob Good (R-Va.) on CNN this weekend.
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Washington Examiner and The Gateway Pundit
Punchbowl News:
The winner of this Congress? Joe Biden
The winner of this Congress? Joe Biden
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Washington Post:
House Republican infighting getting worse after foreign aid vote
House Republican infighting getting worse after foreign aid vote
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The Gateway Pundit, The Texas Tribune, Washington Examiner, American Greatness and Washington Times
Elaina Plott Calabro / The Atlantic:
The Accidental Speaker — This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter.
The Accidental Speaker — This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter.
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NBC News:
Senate to hold key test vote on Ukraine aid, Israel funding and TikTok ban — The package of foreign aid and legislation that would provide a pathway to banning TikTok in the U.S. is expected to be signed into law by President Joe Biden in the coming days. — WASHINGTON — The Senate …
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Patrick Svitek / Washington Post:
Trump continues his reversal on TikTok, accusing Biden of wanting to ban it
Trump continues his reversal on TikTok, accusing Biden of wanting to ban it
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Daniel Wiessner / Reuters:
US agency poised to ban worker ‘noncompete’ agreements — The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is expected on Tuesday to approve a rule that would ban agreements commonly signed by workers not to join their employers' competitors, which it says limit worker mobility and suppress their pay.
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Bloomberg:
Biden's New Chopper Is Demoted After Scorching White House Lawn — New presidential helicopters delayed under $5 billion program — Marine One helicopter is iconic symbol of American president … The VH-92 Patriot is landing only on paved runways for now, flying missions …
Miranda Nazzaro / The Hill:
‘Plasmic Echo’ was FBI code name for Trump classified documents probe — The FBI's code name for its investigation into former President Trump's handling of classified documents was “Plasmic Echo,” according to court filings published Monday. — The name was listed in unredacted court …
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New York Times:
Live Updates: Prosecutors Say Trump's Attacks Are Threat to Trial — Prosecutors in Donald J. Trump's criminal trial want him held in contempt for attacking witnesses and others close to the case, which centers on a hush-money payment to a porn star. Testimony is set to resume later Tuesday morning.
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Axios:
How Republicans castrated themselves … - Letting any member call a vote on removing the speaker. … - Surrendering authority of the Rules Committee, which sets the terms for how legislation will be handled during votes.
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Raw Story
Ashley Strickland / CNN:
Voyager 1 is sending data back to Earth for the first time in 5 months — For the first time in five months, NASA engineers have received decipherable data from Voyager 1 after crafting a creative solution to fix a communication problem aboard humanity's most distant spacecraft in the cosmos.
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Naomi Hartono / NASA Blogs:
NASA's Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth
NASA's Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth
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Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Inside the Off-the-Record Calls Held by Anti-Trump Legal Pundits — Some of the country's most prominent legal commentators are holding off-the-record sessions to hash out the latest twists and turns in Donald Trump's legal saga. — As the Jan. 6 committee was working on its bombshell investigation …
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Anthony Robledo / USA Today:
Minnesota Sen. Nicole Mitchell arrested on suspicion of burglary after being found in home — Mitchell, a Democrat, was arrested after being found inside a home in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, police say. She was booked into Becker County jail on a burglary charge.
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Steve Karnowski / Associated Press:
Minnesota State Senator Nicole Mitchell Arrested On Suspicion Of Burglary
Minnesota State Senator Nicole Mitchell Arrested On Suspicion Of Burglary
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Morgan Fischer / Arizona Republic:
Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to help Arizonans get abortions in California. Here's what to know — California Gov. Gavin Newsom is set to propose legislation to make it easier for Arizonans to seek abortions in his state, he announced Sunday. — Health care providers in Arizona …
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Tina Reed / Axios:
Biden moves to block abortion records from investigators
Biden moves to block abortion records from investigators
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Norman L. Eisen / Just Security:
Why Trump Will Likely be Held in Contempt and What Then — Trial in The People of the State of New York vs. Donald J. Trump, the first-ever criminal prosecution of a former U.S. president, began on Monday, April 15. Although the trial is still in its early stages, Trump has already run …
New York Times:
Trump Calls for More Protests Outside Trial: ‘Rally Behind MAGA’ — With support from demonstrators in Lower Manhattan spotty so far, Donald Trump issued a call to “rally behind MAGA,” and suggested the poor turnout was a result of a plot against his supporters.
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Politico:
Xavier Becerra plots political future after Biden administration — The Health and Human Services secretary is making moves to run again in California. Maybe even too many moves. — Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra's plans to leave the Biden administration and run …
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Washington Examiner and The Daily Caller
Julie Ray / Gallup:
No Soft Power Shake-Ups for Now — Germany is No. 1 in leadership approval ratings; Russia is unpopular — This article is the first in a series detailing the results from the latest Rating World Leaders report, which analyzes trends in approval ratings of the leadership of the U.S., Germany, Russia and China in over 130 countries.
Politico:
Republicans are starting to worry about RFK Jr. — Even Donald Trump acknowledged Monday that the independent candidate “probably hurts both” Biden and him. — Republicans are waking up to the reality that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could sink their standard-bearer just as easily …
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