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Exclusive: Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs seen physically assaulting Cassie Ventura in 2016 surveillance video obtained by CNN — A 2016 surveillance video obtained exclusively by CNN shows Sean “Diddy” Combs grab, shove, drag and kick his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura during an altercation …
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Olga R. Rodriguez / Associated Press:
Man convicted of attacking ex-Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband with a hammer sentenced to 30 years — The man convicted of attempting to kidnap then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and attacking her husband with a hammer was sentenced Friday to 30 years in prison.
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Jon Michael Raasch / Daily Mail:
Glamorous GOP Rep. Beth Van Duyne breaks her silence on love affair with married Georgia Republican Rich McCormick — McCormick was seen stroking Van Duyne's arm during the State of the Union — By JON MICHAEL RAASCH, POLITICAL REPORTER ON CAPITOL HILL, FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and MORGAN PHILLIPS, CONGRESS REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
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NBC News:
Body shaming, IQ insults and cross talk: House committee meeting devolves into chaos amid personal insults — The hearing was derailed when Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., responded to a question from Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, by saying, “I think your fake eyelashes are messing up what you're reading.”
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Cameron Manley / Business Insider:
House committee hearing disrupted as Marjorie Taylor Greene and AOC clash over ‘fake eyelashes’ jibe
House committee hearing disrupted as Marjorie Taylor Greene and AOC clash over ‘fake eyelashes’ jibe
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Ryan Lizza / Politico:
‘Political Malpractice’: The Debate Commission Chief Thinks Trump Blew It — Frank J. Fahrenkopf Jr. lets loose on the potentially mortal wound to the Commission on Presidential Debates, and why Biden got the better of Trump. — Despite all the talk that Joe Biden killed the Commission …
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Jonathan Lemire / Politico:
Biden's team had a few demands for a Trump debate. A major one: No crowd.
Biden's team had a few demands for a Trump debate. A major one: No crowd.
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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
MAGA Rage at Trump's Trial Just Got Darker and More Dangerous — In recent days, a parade of Republicans have shown up at the Manhattan courthouse where Donald Trump faces criminal charges related to the hush-money scheme he concocted to deceive American voters during the 2016 election.
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Dana Liebelson / Politico:
'A Governor Who Doesn't Seem to Have Much Interest in Governing Arkansas' — Sarah Huckabee Sanders' increasing number of critics think she's too worried about her national profile. — Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders assumed a podium on a recent spring morning in Arkansas …
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Barak Ravid / Axios:
Scoop: U.S., Iran held talks this week on avoiding more attacks … - The talks occurred just over a month after Iran's unprecedented missile assault on Israel on April 13. — The attack put the Middle East on the cusp of a regional war. … - It was the first-ever direct attack on Israel that had been launched from Iranian soil.
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Jack Ewing / New York Times:
UAW Loses Unionization Vote at Mercedes Factories in Alabama — The election, fiercely opposed by the state's political leaders, was seen as a test of the United Automobile Workers' ability to unionize factories in the South. — Workers at two Mercedes-Benz factories near Tuscaloosa …
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Ginia Bellafante / New York Times:
Why Is N.Y.U. Forcing Protesters to Write Apology Letters? — The university calls it a “restorative practice”; the students call it a coerced confession. — At one point during the demonstrations at Columbia University in 1968, protesters took the acting dean of the liberal arts college hostage.
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The Guardian:
Trump-linked dark-money group spent $90m on racist and transphobic ads in 2022, records show — Revealed: Citizens for Sanity was one of top political spenders last election cycle and is back for 2024 with more extreme messaging — A dark money group with ties to Trump's inner circle dropped …
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Politico:
Why Trump keeps dreaming he can flip Minnesota — The state hasn't gone for a Republican nominee for president since Richard Nixon in 1972. — Donald Trump has fixated on the idea he can expand the map in a general election that's likely to be decided in six swing states.
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Media Matters for America:
Trump's corrupt offer to Big Oil executives almost entirely ignored in top local newspapers and TV markets in battleground states — Trump's promise to repeal climate action and solicitation of campaign donations from oil executives is vital information for voters
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NBC News:
Sen. Dick Durbin says Justice Alito should recuse in Trump cases because of upside-down flag — Durbin's statement came after a report said an upside-down American flag flew outside Alito's home days after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and before Biden's inauguration.
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James Gordon / Daily Mail:
Lauren Boebert turns up to Trump trial just days after her son appeared in court on felony charges without her — Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert joined fellow GOPers at Trump's NYC trial — Boebert was a no-show at her teenage son Tyler's criminal trial last week
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