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12:40 AM ET, April 23, 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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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.
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.
David Axelrod / The Atlantic:
What Donald Trump Fears Most
Discussion: Alternet.org and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Live updates Opening statements expected in Trump hush money trial
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 …
Punchbowl News:
The winner of this Congress?  Joe Biden  —  House Republicans came into the 118th Congress with big plans.  They were going to cut taxes and spending, impeach President Joe Biden and members of his Cabinet and use their leverage to force Democrats to accept stringent new border security and immigration policies.
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
Yale Daily News:
LIVE: Pro-Palestine protesters disperse from blocking intersection, move to Cross Campus
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.
Discussion: CNN and UPI
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 …
Discussion: CNN, Newsweek, Business Insider and NBC News
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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 …
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.
Discussion: CBS News
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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 …
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, Washington Post and The Hill
Tina Reed / Axios:
Biden moves to block abortion records from investigators  —  The Biden administration on Monday updated federal health privacy rules to protect patients seeking abortion and providers involved in the procedure. … The big picture: Health plans and providers will be barred from disclosing …
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Joseph Choi / The Hill:
White House moves to protect patient abortion records
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 …
Kirby Wilson / Tampa Bay Times:
DeSantis has one of the highest governor disapproval ratings, poll finds  —  However, DeSantis is popular overall, and beloved by Republicans.  —  Gov. Ron DeSantis has one of the highest disapproval ratings among governors in the country, according to a new survey conducted by Morning Consult …
Discussion: Politico and Twitchy
US EPA:
Solar for All  —  Under the $7 billion Solar for All program, the 60 selected applicants will create new or expand existing low-income solar programs, which will enable over 900,000 households in low-income and disadvantaged communities to benefit from distributed solar energy.
Emma Misiaszek / WSTM:
President Joe Biden to visit Syracuse following $6.1 billion Micron grant news  —  SYRACUSE, N.Y. — It's official: President Joe Biden will be visiting Syracuse this Thursday following the news that Micron will receive a $6.1 billion grant under the CHIPS & Science Act.
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.
Discussion: The Hill
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 …
Patrick Svitek / Washington Post:
Trump continues his reversal on TikTok, accusing Biden of wanting to ban it  —  Trump worked to force a sale of TikTok when he was in the White House.  On Monday he called Biden ‘responsible for banning TikTok.’  —  Former president Donald Trump is digging in against a potential ban …
 
 
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Patrick Whittle / Associated Press:
Youth group, environmental organizations sue Maine for action on climate
Emanuel Fabian / The Times of Israel:
‘I will always carry the pain’: IDF intel chief Aharon Haliva resigns over Oct. 7 failure
The Hill:
Harris discusses reproductive freedom at campaign event: Watch live
Hugh Jackson / Nevada Current:
Trump, RNC promise ‘aggressive’ election interference in battleground states
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Brandi Buchman / Law & Crime:
Unite the Right tiki torch man pleads guilty to assaulting cops on Jan. 6
The Hill:
California launches unprecedented targets to achieve carbon neutrality by 2045
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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
Cheyanne M. Daniels / The Hill:
John Legend says Trump believes ‘to his core’ that ‘Black people are inferior’
Discussion: MSNBC and The Daily Beast
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Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
‘Civil War’ is terrifying not for what it says about America, but about journalism
Discussion: Scripting News and Variety
Marc Elias / Democracy Docket:
Republicans Are Suing for the Right To Harass Election Workers
Liz Cheney / New York Times:
The Supreme Court Should Rule Swiftly on Trump's Immunity Claim
 

 
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