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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 loses second bid for mistrial in hush money case
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CNN, Associated Press, Salon, NBC News, Axios, Politico, New York Daily News, New York Times, The Guardian, Raw Story, Washington Examiner, UPI and WAGA-TV
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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Fox News, Talking Points Memo, The Dispatch, Twitchy, IJR, The Guardian, Bloomberg, AllSides Balanced, Forbes, The Atlantic, Semafor, Vanity Fair, New Jersey Online, Axios and HotAir
Ankush Khardori / Politico:
‘Grueling’: The Trial May Be Getting to Trump
‘Grueling’: The Trial May Be Getting to Trump
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Associated Press, The Guardian, New York Times, Deadline, KRQE-TV, Raw Story and HuffPost
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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Mercury News, Reclaim The Net and The Gateway Pundit
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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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HotAir, Twitchy, The Post Millennial, RedState, Metro.co.uk, The Daily Caller, Joanne Jacobs and Fox News
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, Law & Crime and New York Post
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
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
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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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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
Axios:
Jim Jordan's quiet power play for 2025 … - Jordan privately told colleagues what he would be doing differently than Johnson during the recent fight over foreign aid funding, multiple sources told Axios. — The Ohio Republican has been noticed handing out more campaign checks to colleagues, multiple lawmakers told Axios.
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Raw Story, Associated Press and Washington Monthly
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.
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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Axios, Associated Press and Eschaton
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 …
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The American Mind and Mock Paper Scissors
Elizabeth Elkind / Fox News:
House GOP drafting Biden impeachment articles over Israel aid cutoff threat — ‘The House has no choice but to impeach President ‘Quid pro Joe’ Biden,’ says Rep Cory Mills — FIRST ON FOX: Rep. Cory Mills, R-Fla., is preparing impeachment articles against President Biden over his threat …
Marshall Cohen / CNN:
Back-to-back rulings against Hunter Biden pave way for June gun trial — Hunter Biden's latest attempts to throw out his federal gun case were rejected in back-to-back rulings Thursday, teeing up a high-stakes criminal trial next month in Delaware. — The president's son had asked …
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Jimmy Cloutier / OpenSecrets.org:
Shell company steering $2.6 million to Republican PACs raises concerns of illicit funding scheme — A complaint with the Federal Election Commission alleges that a corporation with ties to the former chief financial officer of the Republican State Leadership Committee illegally steered nearly $2.6 million …
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USA Today
Amanda Yen / The Daily Beast:
Stormy's Courtroom Outfit Had Great Significance — ART IMITATES LIFE — The jumpsuit she wore on the stand is the same one she donned for a 2021 satirical film in which Donald Trump sells his soul for the presidency. — TRAGIC — Dr. Kimberly Nix started sharing her cancer journey three years ago …
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Raw Story
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.
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New York Post and NBC Bay Area
Rebecca Davis O'Brien / New York Times:
Are R.F.K. Jr. Signature Gatherers Misleading New Yorkers for Ballot Access? — More than half a dozen New York City residents described encounters with people seeking their signature who did not make clear that their aim was to place the independent 2024 candidate on the ballot.
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CNN
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 …
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
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 …
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