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11:50 AM ET, May 7, 2024

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New York Times:
Live Updates: Stormy Daniels Is Expected to Testify in Trump's Trial  —  Ms. Daniels, who received $130,000 in hush money to keep silent about her story of having had sex with Donald J. Trump, is at the center of the case against him.  —  Here's the latest on the trial.
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CBS News:
Trump trial live updates as Stormy Daniels takes the stand to testify today  —  Stormy Daniels, the adult film star who received $130,000 in 2016 in exchange for her silence about an alleged sexual encounter with Donald Trump, has been called to the stand to testify in the former president's trial.
New York Times:
Jurors in Trump Trial Hear Witness Tie the President to the Payment  —  Before prosecutors began presenting crucial records, the judge held Donald J. Trump in contempt, saying his complaints about the jury were “a direct attack on the rule of law.”  —  After two weeks of enthralling jurors …
Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
Biden to condemn current antisemitism in Holocaust remembrance amid college protests and Gaza war  —  President Joe Biden is set to issue a forceful condemnation of antisemitism during a Tuesday ceremony to remember victims of the Holocaust at a time when the Hamas attack on Israel and controversy …
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The White House:
FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Ramps Up Actions to Counter Antisemitism on College Campuses and Protect Jewish Communities
Discussion: Axios, NBC News and UPI
Politico:
Inside the Johnson-MTG talks
Discussion: Axios and Raw Story
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Israelis frustrated with U.S. handling of hostage talks … - The U.S. official said “this is an extremely difficult process with negotiations conducted through intermediaries in Doha and Cairo.”  — He added that the U.S. believes Israel has engaged in the talks in good faith …
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Judge Pushes Back Critical Filing Deadline in Trump Documents Case  —  Judge Aileen M. Cannon did not immediately set a new date, but the delay increases the chance that the trial will not happen before the November election.  —  Reversing one of her own decisions, the federal judge overseeing …
Brittany Gibson / Politico:
Trump on going to jail over gag order: 'I'll do that sacrifice'  —  The judge has threatened the former president with possible jail time, something Trump and his supporters think may bolster his campaign.  —  Donald Trump said he would rather risk imprisonment than comply with a gag order …
Jason Gewirtz / CNBC:
Abortion bans drive away up to half of young talent, new CNBC/Generation Lab youth survey finds … Young people are seen on the Emory University campus in Atlanta, Georgia on October 14, 2022.  —  The youngest generation of American workers is prepared to move away from states …
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Why is the simplest explanation of campus protests so hard to accept?  —  Young people were sympathetic to Palestinians even before the war began.  Why is that ignored?  —  Over the weekend, New York Police Chief of Patrol John Chell took to social media to offer thoughts on the college campus protests …
Hanna Trudo / The Hill:
Trump looks to cut off oxygen to RFK Jr.  —  Former President Trump is taking concrete steps to deprive Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of oxygen as they compete for a portion of the same voters.  —  Trump is going to the Libertarian Party national convention this month and criticized Kennedy …
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
The right-wing uproar about Title IX  —  For the last 50 years, Title IX has had an extraordinary impact on the nature of higher education in the United States.  Passed in 1972 as an amendment to the Higher Education Act, Title IX prohibits sex-based discrimination at any school that receives funding from the federal government.
Discussion: WFLA-TV, The Daily Wire and Fox News
Politico:
Inside the increasingly ugly GOP fight over a Texas runoff  —  Tony Gonzales has made a lot of Republican enemies.  Party leadership is still defending him, against his opponent “The AK Guy” and his own conservative colleagues.  —  Rep. Tony Gonzales' centrist voting record and willingness …
Ben Metzner / New Republic:
Former Republican Official Finds a Spine, Endorses Joe Biden  —  Georgia's former Republican Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan announced Monday that he is endorsing Joe Biden in the 2024 election, a stunning defection that puts him at odds with other leaders in his party.
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Geoff Duncan / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Why I'm voting for Biden and other Republicans should, too
James Bickerton / Newsweek:
Donald Trump to Attend Fundraiser on Day of Barron's Graduation  —  Donald Trump is scheduled to give the keynote address at the Minnesota Republican Party's annual Lincoln Reagan Dinner on May 17, the same day he requested off court to attend his son Barron Trump's graduation ceremony.
Noah Bierman / Los Angeles Times:
Young voters don't give Biden credit for passing the biggest climate bill in history  —  President Biden spent his Earth Day in a national forest this year with an explicit pitch to young people: a climate jobs corps intended to excite Gen Z the way John F. Kennedy's Peace Corps inspired their grandparents.
Politico:
Trump tries to privately mediate Johnson-Greene fight  —  The former president had a lengthy phone call with the Georgia firebrand over the weekend, telling her to stand down from her ouster threat, according to three Republicans familiar with the matter.
Nick Robertson / The Hill:
House swears in New York Democrat, thinning GOP majority  —  Rep. Tim Kennedy (D-N.Y.) was sworn in on the House floor Monday, replacing the now-retired Rep. Brian Higgins (D-N.Y.) and leaving Republicans with just a one-vote margin for any partisan vote.  —  Kennedy, previously a state senator …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:
Congresswoman battling brain disorder delivers House speech using a text-to-voice app  —  Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D-Va.), whose ability to speak, hear and move has been affected by a degenerative brain condition, uses assistive technology to help her navigate life on the Hill.
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Examiner
Reuters:
Russia's Vladimir Putin sworn in as president for a fifth term  —  President Vladimir Putin was sworn in for a new six-year term on Tuesday at a Kremlin ceremony that was boycotted by the United States and a number of other Western countries due to Russia's war in Ukraine.
USA Today:
Guilty?  By nearly 3-1, Americans predict a Trump conviction, though some see unfairness  —  Susan Page Rachel Barber Sudiksha KochiUSA TODAY  —  Guilty?  —  Americans by nearly 3-1 predict that former President Donald Trump will be convicted on all or some of the felony charges he faces …
Discussion: The Hill and AllSides Balanced
Koh Ewe / TIME:
Ole Miss Student Kicked Out of Fraternity After Video Caught Racist Gestures Toward Protester  —  Video footage of a student making racist gestures, seemingly imitating a monkey, toward a Black woman who was part of a scheduled pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Mississippi …
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Glenn H. Reynolds / New York Post:
Dems use the legal system to target the right — yet give the left a pass
Meryl Kornfield / Washington Post:
Libertarians asked Trump to headline their convention — stirring anger
Lucas Ropek / Gizmodo:
Boeing Admits That Its Employees Falsified Aircraft Records for 787 Dreamliner
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Trump Says Abortion ‘Not That Big Of An Issue,’ GOP Is ‘Party Of Fertilization’
Discussion: Daily Kos and Michigan Advance
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John Sailer / UnHerd:
MIT becomes first elite university to ban diversity statements
Axios:
Scoop: Kristi Noem angled for top NRA job
Discussion: Mediaite, Raw Story and Slate
Alexander Ward / Politico:
Israel approved Rafah military operation and started striking Hamas targets
Mia Gingerich / Media Matters for America:
Bitter pills: The Daily Wire suggests its new vitamins will boost sperm counts and fight “wokeness”
Michael Schaffer / Politico:
Kristi Noem's Team Told Her to Nix the Dog Story 2 Years Ago
 

 
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Richard Deitsch / New York Times:
Netflix's first livestream of NFL games avoided major buffering and freezing issues that plagued the Tyson-Paul fight for the most part, after early glitches

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Richard Parsons, who had a long career as chairman, CEO, and as a board member of media companies including CBS and Time Warner, died at 76 of bone cancer

Reuters:
Palestinian sources say an Israeli airstrike killed five journalists from Al-Quds Today; the Israeli military called the five “operatives posing as journalists”

 
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