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Tara Suter / The Hill:
GOP senator: Greene ‘dragging our brand down’  —  Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) took a shot at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) Tuesday, saying she is “dragging our brand down.”  —  “She is a horrible leader,” Tillis said of Greene, according to audio played on CNN's “Erin Burnett OutFront.”
Discussion: Mediaite, Alternet.org and Vanity Fair
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Kyla Guilfoil / NBC News:
GOP senator bashes Marjorie Taylor Greene: ‘She is dragging our brand down’  —  Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., called Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., one of the Republican party's “biggest risks” following her opposition to passing foreign aid.  —  Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C. …
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Congress Pokes Trump, Putin in Eye  —  The foreign aid bill—$95 billion for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, plus other sundries like a possible ban on TikTok—is headed to Joe Biden's desk after the Senate approved it 79-18 last night.  —  A quick reminder: It was only months ago …
Discussion: Must Read Alaska and The Guardian
CNN:
Biden signs foreign aid bill providing crucial military assistance to Ukraine  —  President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed into law an aid package providing crucial military assistance to Ukraine, capping months of negotiations and debate.  —  The aid package, passed by the Senate late Tuesday evening …
Myah Ward / Politico:   Biden hails foreign aid bill's passage, pledges to get arms shipped within ‘hours’
Arlette Saenz / CNN:
How the White House convinced Mike Johnson to back Ukraine aid
Politico:
How McConnell and Schumer beat hardline conservatives on Ukraine
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Senate sends sweeping foreign aid package to Biden's desk
Meridith McGraw / Politico:
How Donald Trump Gets His News  —  The former president is a voracious press consumer.  Here's how his media diet has changed since his last presidential campaign.  —  Donald Trump has always had a symbiotic relationship with the media.  Back when he was a Manhattan bachelor and real estate mogul …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
The press helps MAGA target jurors.  And it's not just Fox.  —  PN is a reader-supported publication made possible by paid subscribers.  If you aren't one, please click the button to support our independent journalism.  —  📺 Subscribe to Public Notice 📺
David Koenig / HuffPost:
Airlines Required To Give Automatic Cash Refunds For Canceled And Delayed Flights  —  The Biden administration is defining a significant delay as lasting at least three hours for domestic flights and six hours for international ones.  —  LOADING  —  The Biden administration issued final rules Wednesday …
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Washington Post:
Chris Christie, unplugged  —  Good morning, Early Birds.  We hope your allergies aren't as bad as ours, but sorry to be the bearer of bad news: The tree and grass pollen count in D.C. today is “high.”  Tips: earlytips@washpost.com.  Was this forwarded to you?  Sign up here.  Thanks for waking up with us.
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New York Times:
Three Takeaways From the Pennsylvania Primaries
Politico:   Why Biden's blasé about campus turmoil
CNN:
How the House GOP's Biden impeachment effort fell apart  —  House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer was eager to take the reins of a high-stakes investigation into President Joe Biden and his family, seen as central to the House Republican agenda - a coveted perch that brought the added benefit of elevating his national profile.
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Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
Sean Hannity hasn't mentioned the GOP impeachment probe on Fox in over a month
Discussion: Raw Story
Tina Reed / Axios:
New ban on noncompetes could have big impact on health care … - Between 37% and 45% of physicians are affected by noncompetes, according to the American Medical Association.  — The FTC projected the rule could reduce health care costs by up to $194 billion in the next decade.
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Andrea Hsu / NPR:
U.S. bans noncompete agreements for nearly all jobs
Washington Post:
Live updates Supreme Court hears arguments in case over emergency abortion care  —  The Supreme Court is currently hearing arguments Wednesday over whether the federal government has the power to penalize hospitals that fail to provide emergency abortions even in states with strict bans on the procedure.
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Monica Alba / NBC News:
Biden campaign plans to keep using TikTok through the election  —  The possible ban that the president signed into law Wednesday won't go into effect until January, at the earliest, and his campaign told NBC News that it will keep using TikTok for now.  —  WASHINGTON — Joe Biden's re …
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Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to President Biden's desk
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
UN Calls For Independent Investigation Into Gaza Mass Graves  —  The Palestinian Civil Defense alleges that bodies with their hands tied and buried under heaps of trash were discovered in mass graves near Gaza hospitals raided by the IDF  —  The United Nations is calling for an “independent …
Edward Zitron / Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At:
The Man Who Killed Google Search  —  This is the story of how Google Search died, and the people responsible for killing it.  —  The story begins on February 5th 2019, when Ben Gomes, Google's head of search, had a problem. … For those unfamiliar with Google's internal scientology-esque jargon, let me explain.
Alex Thompson / Axios:
Exclusive: Trump brothers Eric and Don Jr. emerge as loyalty czars … - Don Jr.'s goal “is to keep the John Boltons of the world outside a second Trump administration,” a person close to him told Axios, referring to Donald Trump's hawkish former national security adviser who wrote a bestselling book lambasting the former president.
Marc A. Caputo / The Bulwark:
How “The Nelson Mandela of America” Is Making Bank Off of His Criminal Trial  —  IN THE FIRST WEEK OF HIS CRIMINAL TRIAL, Donald Trump raised about $5.6 million online by warning his small dollar-donors that the “Deep State” was out to lock him up.  —  “I JUST STORMED INTO COURT,” …
Victoria Prodeline / Monmouth University …:
Opinion Divided on Foreign Aid Package  —  West Long Branch, NJ - Public opinion is divided on the recently passed foreign aid package.  Support registers a few points higher than opposition while 1 in 5 have no opinion.  The Monmouth ("Mon-muth") University Poll finds that passage …
Discussion: The Hill and Political Wire
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
George W. Bush was a terrible president  —  Looking back at the last — disastrous — era of efficacious conservative policymaking  —  If you're in the DC area, I'm hosting a book talk for Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld about their new book “The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics.”
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Why is Trump giving someone a ‘key to the White House’?  —  From Jan. 20, 2017, until Jan. 20, 2021, Donald Trump was president of the United States.  This is a position that includes many perks, offered to the person who was selected by American voters to serve as chief executive.
Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
Trump's New Legal Bills Are Hiding an $8 Million Mystery  —  CONCEALED CARRY  —  Trump is using a GOP compliance firm as a go-between to pay lawyers, allowing him to hide who he's actually paying.  Experts have real questions whether he can do that.
Discussion: Raw Story
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Romney: 'You don't pay someone $130,000 not to have sex with you'  —  Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) says no one is buying the story that former President Trump didn't have a sexual relationship with adult film actor Stormy Daniels, quipping to CNN: “you don't pay someone $130,000 not to have sex with you.”
Gregory Korte / Bloomberg:
Biden's Gains Against Trump Vanish on Deep Economic Pessimism, Poll Shows  —  The president is trailing Donald Trump in six of seven swing states as a majority of poll respondents see the economy worsening by the end of the year.  —  President Joe Biden's recent polling bump in key battleground states …
 
 
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Peter Jamison / Washington Post:
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
India issues a notice to Wikipedia over bias concerns, questioning if it should be classified as a publisher, after judges called its open editing “dangerous”

 
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