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Alexandra Hutzler / ABC News:
Marjorie Taylor Greene says she's moving ahead with effort to oust Speaker Johnson  —  Her plan seems doomed to fail as Democrats said they would help save Johnson.  —  Marjorie Taylor Greene (2nd R) and Thomas Massie (R) hold a press conference outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on May 1, 2024.
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Politico:
Playbook: How the GOP tried to talk MTG down  —  With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  WHEN HISTORY RHYMES — “NYPD sweeps occupied Hamilton Hall, arrests dozens,” Columbia Spectator: “The arrests came on the 56th anniversary of the 1968 police sweep …
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Back to 1968?  —  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is shooting her shot, forging ahead with her doomed crusade to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson.  “I think the American people need to see a recorded vote,” she said moments ago from the steps of the Capitol.  “Does members of Congress support the Uniparty?”
Axios:
Democrats enter panic mode as Gaza protests erupt … - “The longer they continue, and the worse that they get, the worse it's going to be for the election overall,” one House Democrat told Axios.  — The demonstrations, the lawmaker warned, are “bringing out [the public's] most conservative side.”
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Bridget Bowman / NBC News:
Democrats win a New York special election, further narrowing the House GOP's majority  —  Democratic state Sen. Tim Kennedy won a special election in the deep blue 26th District in western New York to serve the rest of Brian Higgins' term.  —  Democrats won a special election for a House seat …
Discussion: Oregonian, Hackwhackers and Politico
Azi Paybarah / Washington Post:
Democrat Tim Kennedy wins New York special election for House seat  —  Once he is sworn in to represent the state's 26th Congressional District, the Republican majority in the chamber will temporarily fall to just one vote.  —  State Sen. Tim Kennedy (D) is projected to win the special election …
Discussion: Mississippi Today
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Trump backs surveillance and prosecution of women to enforce abortion bans  —  As part of an extensive interview with Time Magazine, former President Donald Trump expanded on what abortion access would look like in the United States in a potential second term.
Discussion: Salon, New Republic, Democrats and Forbes
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Arek Sarkissian / Politico:
Florida's 6-week abortion ban is now in effect.  Clinics in the state are scrambling.  —  The stricter ban has also ended Florida's status as a bastion for abortion access in the Southeast.  —  TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Florida's strict ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy went …
Associated Press:
Dueling protesters clash at UCLA hours after police clear pro-Palestinian demonstration at Columbia  —  Officers have taken protesters into custody after Columbia University called in police to end the pro-Palestinian occupation on the New York campus.  The scene unfolded shortly …
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New York Times:
Here's where campus protesters have been arrested over the past day.
Associated Press:
Police clear pro-Palestinian protesters from Columbia University's Hamilton Hall
Lauren Irwin / The Hill:
GOP senator calls for deporting certain foreign student protesters
Discussion: Twitchy and Raw Story
Marc A. Caputo / The Bulwark:
Trump: ‘Marco has this residency problem.’  —  DONALD TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN STAFF has assembled a dozen dossiers on possible running mates, but they largely remain unopened by the presidential candidate, who's conducting his own vetting process by asking friends, consultants, and insiders whom they think he should pick and why.
Discussion: Washington Examiner and CBS News
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Multi-state E.coli outbreak connected to walnuts: CDC  —  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned on Tuesday of an E. coli outbreak linked to organic walnuts sold in bulk that has so far infected 12 people across the states of California and Washington.
David Hume Kennerly / The Atlantic:
The Danger of a Small Act of Cowardice  —  The first time I photographed Gerald Ford, he was a day away from being nominated as vice president, after Spiro Agnew had resigned in disgrace.  The portrait I made ran on the cover of Time, a first for both of us.  Ford was my assignment, then he became my friend.
Ken Bensinger / New York Times:
Law Firm Defending Trump Seeks to Withdraw From a Long-Running Case  —  The firm, LaRocca Hornik, has represented Donald Trump's political operation in numerous suits dating to his first presidential run, including a pregnancy discrimination case in New York.
Discussion: Raw Story
Liz Dye / Public Notice:
SCOTUS plays dumb as Trump claims sweeping immunity  —  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 ✍️
Discussion: Rolling Stone
Peter Smith / Associated Press:
United Methodists repeal longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy  —  United Methodist delegates repealed their church's longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy with no debate on Wednesday, removing a rule forbidding “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” from being ordained or appointed as ministers.
Discussion: al.com, WUSA and Religion News Service
Zach Montellaro / Politico:
Court tosses map that created second Black House district in Louisiana  —  The ruling, if it stands, could be a win for Republicans, since Democrats were almost certain to win the newly drawn district.  —  A panel of federal judges has tossed out Louisiana's new congressional map …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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Kevin McGill / Associated Press:
Judges Reject Map That Would Have Given Louisiana New Majority-Black House District
Ed Mazza / HuffPost:
Trump Unleashes Bizarre ‘Word Salad’ Answer During Live Nighttime TV Interview  —  The former president left many confused with his rambling answer on Fox News.  —  LOADING  —  Donald Trump has people wondering just what he was trying to say during a rambling monologue on Fox News …
Discussion: Axios
Akayla Gardner / Bloomberg:
Biden Clears $6 Billion in Debt for Closed Art School's Students  — Move will help 317,000 students who attended subpar colleges  — Biden looks to deliver student-debt relief ahead of election  —  President Joe Biden is forgiving $6.1 billion in student loans for more than 300,000 attendees …
Lauren Irwin / The Hill:
White House considers admitting some Palestinians from Gaza as refugees  —  The Biden administration is considering admitting certain Palestinians to the U.S. as refugees, a report by CBS News found.  —  Senior officials in several U.S. agencies have discussed the idea of resettling Palestinians …
Discussion: Foreign Policy
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Marina Villeneuve / Salon:
Historian says Trump lawyer “deliberatively misleading” SCOTUS: Ben Franklin “would be horrified”  —  Franklin's actual speech cited at immunity hearing “says exactly the opposite of what John Sauer was implying”  —  When Trump lawyer D. John Sauer spoke before the Supreme Court last week calling …
Brittany Sheehan / RedState:
NEW: DHS Docs Show Top Cities Biden Admin Flew Migrants Under Controversial Program, 80% to Single State  —  Internal data obtained by Fox News via a House Homeland Security Committee subpoena to Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas' Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shows that thousands …
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
Trump threatens to prosecute Bidens if he's re-elected unless he gets immunity  —  Time magazine called the ex-president's plans ‘an imperial presidency that would reshape America and its role in the world’  —  Donald Trump has warned that Joe Biden and his family could face multiple criminal …
Discussion: New York Daily News, Raw Story and TIME
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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / New Republic:
Trump Hints Another January 6 Could Happen If He Loses the Election
Dan De Luce / NBC News:
Russia is trying to exploit America's divisions over the war in Gaza  —  The effort includes artificial intelligence, fake social media accounts and a spike in state-sponsored Russian propaganda.  —  Russia is seeking to exploit America's divisive debate over Israel's offensive in Gaza through overt …
Discussion: Just Security
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Trump's trying to dismantle the Blue Wall again.  That would be disaster for Biden.  —  Biden's loss of support with younger voters and voters of color has helped make the Sun Belt swing states less competitive — and the “Blue Wall” Rust Belt states key to his reelection.
Discussion: Boston Herald
Victoria Guida / Politico:
The Fed Thinks Time is on Its Side.  That Could Get Awkward.  —  The economy's resilience could be pushing a potential rate cut into the fall, setting up an awkward choice for the central bank on the eve of the 2024 election.  —  As Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell weighs how soon to cut interest rates …
 
 
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Henry J. Gomez / NBC News:
Trump to hold Ohio fundraiser with VP contender JD Vance
Discussion: USA Today and Washington Examiner
Austin Petersen / Human Events:
The Trump trial witnesses don't pass the laugh test
Wall Street Journal:
Will Looser Marijuana Rules Help Biden Move the Needle With Young Voters?
Discussion: Axios and Associated Press
Matt Shuham / HuffPost:
Nearly Two-Thirds Of Election Officials Worry Politicians Will Interfere With Their Work: Poll
Discussion: Politico and NBC News
Roop Raj / WJBK-TV:
Donald Trump interview: Israel-Gaza conflict, EVs, and his Venezuela claims
Discussion: HuffPost, The Daily Beast and Raw Story
Theodore Schleifer / Puck:
Guess Who's Coming to Elon's Dinner
Discussion: Business Insider
 Earlier Items: 
William Vaillancourt / The Daily Beast:
Fox Business Host Goes There: Biden's ‘Woke’ Tax Policies Are Anti-White
Nick Robertson / The Hill:
Barnard president loses vote of no confidence as criticism mounts over protest response
ProPublica:
Philips Agrees to Pay $1 Billion to Patients Who Say They Were Injured by Breathing Machines
Discussion: New York Daily News
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trumpworld has a new nonsensical theory of his document-case innocence
Discussion: Raw Story
Arp Laszlo / What Was I Doing Again?:
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Brandi Buchman / Law & Crime:
‘Jeffrey Clark betrayed his oath’: Trump DOJ lawyer behind fake electors plot should be disbarred, disciplinary panel says
 

 
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Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Disney said Disney+ Q4 ARPU in the US and Canada, down 1% QoQ to $7.70, was affected partly by new wholesale arrangements with some distributors

The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney expects to spend $24B on content in 2025, up from $23.4B in 2024, due to sports programming expenses rising after NFL rate increases and NBA contracts

Liam Scott / Voice of America:
Reporters Without Borders sues X in France for “complicity in disseminating false information”, after X failed to block a fake video with RSF's logo
 
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