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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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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, Deadline, KRQE-TV, Raw Story, HuffPost and NBC News
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Trump's political fate likely won't be decided by the courts after all
Trump's political fate likely won't be decided by the courts after all
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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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Rachel Swan / San Francisco Chronicle:
Jury awards $1M to boys forced out of elite Bay Area school over ‘blackface’ they said was acne cream
Jury awards $1M to boys forced out of elite Bay Area school over ‘blackface’ they said was acne cream
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Twitchy, The Post Millennial, Metro.co.uk, Fox News, The Daily Caller, RedState and Joanne Jacobs
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 …
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 …
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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Reuters:
Exclusive: Jared Kushner pitching donors on father-in-law Trump, sources say — Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has been making calls to encourage donors to attend a Trump fundraiser in New York, two sources told Reuters, in one of the first indications of Kushner working to help re-elect his father-in-law.
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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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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NBC News:
Two top Border Patrol officials who partied with Mexican tequila mogul are now under investigation — The grandson of the founder of Don Julio tequila wanted to launch a Border Patrol-branded tequila. Those plans have been scrapped amid an internal CBP probe.
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
NPR:
Medical residents are starting to avoid states with abortion bans, data shows — Isabella Rosario Blum was wrapping up medical school and considering residency programs to become a family practice physician when she got some frank advice: If she wanted to be trained to provide abortions, she shouldn't stay in Arizona.
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Associated Press and Eschaton
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 …
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Twitchy, WHDH-TV and Patterico's Pontifications
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
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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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.
John Podhoretz / Commentary Magazine:
Biden's Shameful Betrayal — Joe Biden deserves nothing but condemnation, censure, and withering contempt for his announcement tonight that he will withhold significant amounts of the recently approved aid to Israel should the government begin a full-on siege of the last Hamas redoubt in, around, and under Rafah.
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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 …