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9:45 AM ET, April 23, 2024

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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 …
Discussion: Fox News, Truthout, RedState, Axios and HuffPost
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Politico:
Johnson weighs earmarks tweaks
Discussion: HuffPost and Breitbart
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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Derek Robertson / Politico:
TikTok and the future of trade war
Discussion: Bloomberg and Fox News
Patrick Svitek / Washington Post:
Trump continues his reversal on TikTok, accusing Biden of wanting to ban it
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.
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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.
Discussion: The Register, Raw Story and UPI
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 …
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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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.
Discussion: American Prospect
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.
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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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, NBC News and Business Insider
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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 …
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Takes Aim at Chinese Banks Aiding Russia War Effort  —  Washington says Beijing's dual-use trade has helped Moscow rebuild its war machine  —  The U.S. is drafting sanctions that threaten to cut some Chinese banks off from the global financial system, arming Washington's top envoy …
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.
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
Tesnim Zekeria / Popular Information:
A historic victory for unions  —  On April 19, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced that workers at a Volkswagen auto plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, voted to join the United Auto Workers (UAW) union.  The union won by a 73% majority, with more than 2,600 votes - a historic feat.
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 …
Jake Lahut / The Daily Beast:
Melania Quietly Emerges From the Shadows—at a Sparse Event for Log Cabin Republicans  —  BACK IN BLACK  —  Melania Trump's return to the campaign trail is just beginning.  But it was notable that she chose a small gathering for Log Cabin Republicans for her first solo event.
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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CBS News:
Few have heard about Biden's climate policies, even those who care most about issue — CBS News poll
Discussion: The Hill
Reuters:
Thailand to replace military-appointed Senate, reduce its powers
Discussion: Bloomberg
William K. Rashbaum / New York Times:
Could Trump Go to Prison? If He Does, the Secret Service Goes, Too
Discussion: BizPac Review
Ronald Mann / SCOTUSblog:
Court to mull injunction in Starbucks case against Memphis union organizers
Discussion: NPR, Washington Examiner, WTTG-TV and Reason
Kirby Wilson / Tampa Bay Times:
DeSantis has one of the highest governor disapproval ratings, poll finds
Discussion: Politico and Twitchy
Emma Misiaszek / WSTM:
President Joe Biden to visit Syracuse following $6.1 billion Micron grant news
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US EPA:
Solar for All  —  Under the $7 billion Solar for All program, the 60 selected applicants …
Emanuel Fabian / The Times of Israel:
‘I will always carry the pain’: IDF intel chief Aharon Haliva resigns over Oct. 7 failure
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Unpacking the alleged crime that made Trump's alleged crime a felony
Walter Shapiro / New Republic:
The GOP's Worst Fears About the End of Roe v. Wade Have Come True
Discussion: NBC News, HuffPost and Washington Post
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
Discussion: The Hill
Hugh Jackson / Nevada Current:
Trump, RNC promise ‘aggressive’ election interference in battleground states
Discussion: Associated Press and BizPac Review
Minouche Shafik / president.columbia.edu:
Statement from Columbia University President Minouche Shafik