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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: Alternet.org, Mediaite and Vanity Fair
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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 …
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. …
Washington Post:
Chris Christie, unplugged
Politico:
How McConnell and Schumer beat hardline conservatives on Ukraine
CNN:
Biden signs foreign aid bill providing crucial military assistance to Ukraine
Politico:   Why Biden's blasé about campus turmoil
Stephen Neukam / Axios:
Trump allies zero in on hush-money prosecutor
Discussion: The Daily Caller
New York Times:
Three Takeaways From the Pennsylvania Primaries
Myah Ward / Politico:   Biden hails foreign aid bill's passage, pledges to get arms shipped within ‘hours’
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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Craig Mauger / The Detroit News:
Trump is a co-conspirator in Michigan's 2020 false electors plot, state investigator says  —  Lansing — Michigan prosecutors consider former President Donald Trump and some of his top aides co-conspirators in the plot to submit a certificate falsely claiming he won Michigan's 2020 election …
Discussion: Bloomberg, PoliticusUSA and Raw Story
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Laura Romero / ABC News:
Trump, Giuliani, Meadows are unindicted co-conspirators in Michigan fake elector case, hearing reveals  —  The Michigan AG last year charged 16 Republicans with being “fake electors.”  —  Former President Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a Farmers for Trump campaign event …
Discussion: New York Times
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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Oriana Pawlyk / Politico:
Biden administration makes it easier for flyers to get refunds
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.
Discussion: Raw Story
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
Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to President Biden's desk … A bill that would force China-based company ByteDance to sell TikTok — or else face a US ban of the platform — is all but certain to become law after the Senate passed a foreign aid package including the measure.
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Brian Fung / CNN:
Biden just signed a potential TikTok ban into law. Here's what happens next
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.
Mychael Schnell / The Hill:
New Jersey Rep. Donald Payne Jr. dead at 65  —  Rep. Donald Payne Jr. (D-N.J.), who represented New Jersey in the House for more than a decade, has died at the age of 65.  —  New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) confirmed Payne's death in a statement on Wednesday.
Ankush Khardori / Politico:
How to Know If the Supreme Court Is in the Tank for Trump  —  Trump's bid for immunity from prosecution in Washington is an absurd farce.  Will the court's conservatives bail him out?  —  This week at the Supreme Court, a simple question will sound difficult: Can a former president …
Bonchie / RedState:
DISGUSTING: Hamas Releases Propaganda Video of American Hostage Missing His Arm  —  Hamas has released a propaganda video featuring one of the American hostages it holds.  In it, Hersh Goldberg-Polin is seen reading a pre-prepared script blaming Israel for October 7th and everything that has transpired since.
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.
Declan Harty / Politico:
Trump Media CEO calls on GOP lawmakers for help in Wall Street fight  —  The letter marks a new salvo in Trump Media's claims that the company's stock is being manipulated by professional traders betting on its downfall.  —  Trump Media & Technology Group CEO Devin Nunes is escalating …
Discussion: CNBC, CBS News, Raw Story and The Guardian
Quinnipiac University Poll:
2024 Race: Dead Heat: Biden 46%, Trump 46%, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Support For Legal Abortion Reaches All-Time High  —  mail_outline  —  If the election for president were being held today, the race would be a dead heat between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump …
Discussion: PoliticusUSA
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.
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
Jason Beeferman / Politico:
New York governor to Mike Johnson: Stay in Washington  —  New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said House Speaker Mike Johnson should be focusing on Washington instead of “politicizing” the ongoing crisis at Columbia University.  —  ALBANY, New York — Gov. Kathy Hochul doesn't see the benefit …
New Republic:
How Trump and the GOP are Using RFK Jr. to Pull a Big Scam  —  New polls this week served up a surprise: They showed Robert F. Kennedy's presidential run pulling more support from Donald Trump than from President Biden.  And even some Republicans are publicly insisting that they fear the same.
 
 
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