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Washington Post:
What Trump promised oil CEOs as he asked them to steer $1 billion to his campaign — Donald Trump has pledged to scrap President Biden's policies on electric vehicles and wind energy, as well as other initiatives opposed by the fossil fuel industry. — As Donald Trump sat …
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Ben Lefebvre / Politico:
‘A little bold and gross’: Oil industry writes executive orders for Trump to sign
‘A little bold and gross’: Oil industry writes executive orders for Trump to sign
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Financial Times, Raw Story and Rolling Stone
Matthew Haag / New York Times:
Live Updates: After Stormy Daniels, Testimony Turns to Trump's White House — Hours of heated testimony from Ms. Daniels focused on her account of a liaison with Donald J. Trump. Madeleine Westerhout, who was a key gatekeeper for Mr. Trump during his presidency, followed a Trump Organization employee …
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump loses second bid for mistrial in hush money case … Trump lawyer Susan Necheles cross-examines Stormy Daniels on May 9th, 2024. — A judge Thursday denied a request by Donald Trump's lawyers for a mistrial — their second failed attempt in three days to scrap the former president's criminal hush money trial.
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Salon, Business Insider, New York Times, Axios, Politico, Washington Examiner, Boston Herald, Associated Press, Raw Story, WAGA-TV and UPI
Ankush Khardori / Politico:
‘Grueling’: The Trial May Be Getting to Trump — Did Stormy Daniels' testimony help or hurt the case against Trump? POLITICO's reporters in the courtroom and on the campaign trail take you behind the curtain. — Until this week, Donald Trump's criminal trial in Manhattan has been …
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The Guardian, New York Times, Raw Story, Deadline, KRQE-TV, HuffPost and NBC News
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Trump's political fate likely won't be decided by the courts after all — The former president is on trial in Manhattan, but his other cases seem increasingly stalled. — What once resembled a wall of legal obstacles that stood between Donald Trump and his return to the White House …
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Fox News, The Dispatch, Twitchy, IJR, The Guardian, Bloomberg, AllSides Balanced, Forbes, The Atlantic, Semafor, Vanity Fair, Axios, New Jersey Online and HotAir
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Caught in Stormy's tempest, Trump gets a taste of his own medicine
Caught in Stormy's tempest, Trump gets a taste of his own medicine
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Washington Examiner, Raw Story, Daily Kos, Washington Times, Louder With Crowder, PJ Media, WBUR, Fox News and Advocate
Wall Street Journal:
Hakeem Jeffries Flexes Power as Mike Johnson Flounders — Some Democrats want their leader to take a harder line if they need to rescue the Republican House speaker again — WASHINGTON—House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries stepped in to save Speaker Mike Johnson this week after months …
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Politico:
Greene's rebellion sparks new talk of consequences for House GOP rebels — Possible sanctions include arming the GOP conference with the ability to force a vote on booting hardliners from committees or even ejecting them altogether.
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New Republic
Marianna Sotomayor / Washington Post:
As co-rulers of the House, the Democratic majority-in-waiting may have already arrived
As co-rulers of the House, the Democratic majority-in-waiting may have already arrived
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Inside Elections and WWLP-TV
Jacob Sullum / Reason:
California Students Get $1 Million After They Were Expelled for Wearing Supposedly Racist Acne Masks — During a sleepover in August 2017, three 14-year-old boys, two of whom were about to start attending St. Francis High School in Mountain View, California, took a picture of themselves wearing dark green acne masks.
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Reclaim The Net and The Gateway Pundit
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Summer Lin / Los Angeles Times:
Two expelled Bay Area high school students awarded $1 million in ‘blackface’ lawsuit
Two expelled Bay Area high school students awarded $1 million in ‘blackface’ lawsuit
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Breitbart, New York Post and Law & Crime
Jessica Schulberg / HuffPost:
There's A GOP Plan For An Execution Spree If Trump Wins The White House — Buried on page 554 of the plan is a directive to execute every remaining person on federal death row — and dramatically expand the use of the death penalty. — LOADING — During the final six months …
Eileen Sullivan / New York Times:
Ex-Nebraska Lawmaker Faces New Charges in Campaign Finance Case — The indictment of Jeff Fortenberry, a Republican, renewed a case in which he was convicted of lying to federal agents but that an appeals court later overturned. — Former Representative Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska …
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Associated Press, Roll Call and Nebraska Examiner
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Federal prosecutors reissue criminal charges against ex-Rep. Jeff Fortenberry
Federal prosecutors reissue criminal charges against ex-Rep. Jeff Fortenberry
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CBS News
Katherine Koretski / NBC News:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appears to surprise his running mate with his position on abortion — Kennedy and Nicole Shanahan appeared on separate episodes of Sage Steele's podcast, with Kennedy saying women should be able to make the decision “even if it's full-term.”
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Washington Examiner, Breitbart, RedState, Newsbusters, Twitchy, New York Post and The Daily Beast
New York Times:
How Republicans Echo Antisemitic Tropes Despite Declaring Support for Israel — Prominent Republicans have seized on campus protests to assail what they say is antisemitism on the left. But for years they have mainstreamed anti-Jewish rhetoric. — The Republican speaker of the House …
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Raw Story, No More Mister Nice Blog, Orlando Sentinel, Contemplating Life …, Canadian Press and New York Magazine
Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
Maryland 2024 Poll: Alsobrooks 42%, Trone 41% — Home Polls Maryland 2024 Poll: Alsobrooks 42%, Trone 41% — Hogan with Majority Support in GOP Primary, But Trails in General Election — A new Emerson College Polling/The Hill/DC News Now survey in Maryland finds the Democratic U.S. Senate primary …
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Washington Examiner, Roll Call, NBC News and Washington Times
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Day Before Biden Admin Announced It Would Withhold Weapons From Israel, It Issued Sanctions Waiver To Allow Arms Sales to Qatar and Lebanon — Less than a day before the Biden administration announced its intent to cut off U.S. arms sales to Israel, it issued a sanctions waiver …
David Strom / HotAir:
‘Therapy With Hillary’ — If you want to understand the twisted minds of the Left, you could do worse than watching clips from Morning Joe and The View. — Before you say, “Why should I care what those harridans and crazies think?” you should step back for a minute.
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Daily Kos
Politico:
‘Failing act of political theater’: Greene ostracized after Johnson ouster push — Centrists have regarded the Georgia firebrand with a degree of skepticism for a while. Now she's even losing conservative allies.
Reuters:
Cease-Fire Talks Stall as Anger Flares Over Israel's Incursion Into Rafah … The halt in talks is a setback amid hopes for an agreement to free hostages. — High-level hostage negotiations in Cairo were put on hold Thursday, according to officials briefed on the negotiations and Egyptian state media …
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USA Today, Reuters, Politico, Fox News, New York Times, spiked, Al Jazeera, Associated Press, Just Security, Breitbart, Al-Monitor and The Forward
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
The dangerously illiberal judges — A group of Trump appointees vow they won't hire clerks from Columbia because students there engaged in protest they don't like. … It was likely only a matter of time before right-wing federal judges decided to weigh in on student protests over the ongoing slaughter of Palestinians.
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Above the Law, PJ Media and Fortune
Emily Shugerman / The Daily Beast:
New Witness Bill Could Doom Harvey Weinstein at Retrial — COVERING THE BASES — The proposed law would allow prior bad acts to be used in sexual assault cases—the kind of evidence an appeals court threw out in the Hollywood mogul's case. … The reversal of Harvey Weinstein's rape conviction …
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Raw Story and Mercury News
Asher Notheis / Washington Examiner:
‘Total lie:’ Ann Coulter denies opposing Ramaswamy's presidency due to his race — Commentator Ann Coulter has denied saying she would not have voted for Vivek Ramaswamy in the Republican Party's 2024 primary elections due to his Indian ethnicity, calling accusations of racism a “total lie.”
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New York Post, RedState, TMZ.com, Boing Boing, The Daily Beast and HuffPost
Melanie Lefkowitz / Cornell Chronicle:
After ‘transformational’ tenure, Pollack to retire June 30 — President Martha E. Pollack, who oversaw the creation of significant interdisciplinary programs, including a new school of public policy; expanded the affordability and accessibility of a Cornell education; and whose navigation …