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Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
Mike Johnson says the quiet part on Fox  —  PN is a reader-supported publication made possible by paid subscribers.  Appreciate our independent journalism?  Then please sign up to support us.  —  📈 Subscribe to Public Notice 📈  —  It was a given, of course …
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Axios:
Behind the Curtain: Speaker Johnson's secret muse … - In our column on Johnson's historic road-to-Kyiv conversion, we told you how the speaker defied the loudest, most threatening GOP personalities, dug deep into government intelligence, and shifted his position on the most vital foreign policy legislation in years.
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
‘2,000 Mules’ Retracted, Still Lodged in Grandma's Brain  —  Sen. Tim Scott wants you to know: 2024 is not an abortion-policy election.  —  “The Supreme Court has already ruled that this is a states' issue.  President Trump and Speaker Johnson have both said that this will remain a states' issue …
ProPublica:
Multiple Trump Witnesses Have Received Significant Financial Benefits From His Businesses, Campaign  —  Nine witnesses in the criminal cases against former President Donald Trump have received significant financial benefits, including large raises from his campaign, severance packages …
Discussion: New Republic and Mediaite
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Texas professors sue to fail students who seek abortions  —  Men are using abortion bans to control and abuse women in their lives for “consensual sexual intercourse”  —  A pair of Texas professors figured out that their female students have sex and, boy, they do not like it.
Washington Post:
Sally Buzbee steps down as Executive Editor of The Washington Post.  Matt Murray and Robert Winnett take editorial leadership roles in new newsroom structure.  —  The Washington Post also announced today its intention to launch a new division of the newsroom dedicated to better serving audiences …
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Politico:
Playbook: The Trump verdict lands on the Hill  —  With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  WAPO SHOCKER — SALLY BUZBEE is out as the Washington Post's executive editor after a three-year run, to be immediately replaced by former WSJ editor in chief MATT MURRAY and …
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
The campaign dichotomy in one newsletter :slightly_smiling_face:
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Google Leak Reveals Thousands of Privacy Incidents  —  Google has accidentally collected childrens' voice data, leaked the trips and home addresses of car pool users, and made YouTube recommendations based on users' deleted watch history, among thousands of other employee-reported privacy incidents …
Jon Michael Raasch / Daily Mail:
Donald Trump campaign has raised over $200 MILLION in just THREE days since guilty felony verdict, son Eric Trump claims  — Eric Trump says $70 million has flown into campaign coffers from small donors  — The Trump heir also noted how gangster Al Capone has less felonies than his dad
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New York Times:
Biden Expected to Sign Executive Order Restricting Asylum  —  The move, expected on Tuesday, would allow the president to temporarily seal the border and suspend longtime protections for asylum seekers in the United States.  —  President Biden is expected to sign an executive order …
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Politico:
Hunter Biden's gun trial starts today.  Here's what to know.  —  The president's son is accused of illegally possessing a gun as a drug user in 2018.  —  WILMINGTON, Delaware — As Hunter Biden walks into court Monday to go on trial, he'll pass a familiar sight: a large photo of his father, sporting a reassuring grin.
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Anders Hagstrom / Fox News:
Jury selection kicks off in Hunter Biden's federal gun crime trial
Robert Jimison / New York Times:
Jackson Lee, Veteran Democrat in Congress, Says She Has Pancreatic Cancer  —  The Texas congresswoman, who has served in the House for nearly three decades, said she had begun treatment and would work with leaders to be present for votes in Washington.  —  Representative Sheila Jackson Lee …
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Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee diagnosed with pancreatic cancer
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
8 years later, Trump haunted by rhetoric about candidates, crimes  —  By the reasoning Donald Trump pushed in 2016, his candidacy creates “an unprecedented constitutional crisis,” and he has “no right to be running.”  —  Eight years later, some find it easy to forget some of the more ridiculous elements …
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court sends dispute over Arkansas' GOP-drawn congressional map back to lower court  —  Last month, the Supreme Court ruled on South Carolina's congressional map, making it more difficult to bring racial gerrymandering claims.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday told …
Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
Aileen Cannon hands Trump weeks to argue against latest gag order demand  —  Judge Aileen Cannon, the jurist presiding over special counsel Jack Smith's criminal case against Trump for storing highly classified national defense information, is giving the former president two weeks to rebut Smith's request to impose a gag order.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Washington Post:
Russia co-opts far-right politicians in Europe with cash, officials say  —  A Kremlin-backed media outlet — the Prague-based Voice of Europe — funneled hundreds of thousands of euros to far-right politicians, officials say.  —  PRAGUE — When an associate of one of Russian President …
Discussion: The Kyiv Independent
David Wildstein / New Jersey Globe:
Menendez will file independent re-election bid  —  The New Jersey Globe has learned that Bob Menendez will enter the race for the United States Senate today, filing nominating petitions with over 2,000 signatures in Trenton to seek re-election to a fourth term as an independent.
Discussion: CNN, NBC News and Mediaite
Dánica Coto / Associated Press:
Puerto Rico's two biggest parties hold primaries as governor seeks 2nd term and voters demand change  —  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The future of Puerto Rico's political status and its rebounding but fragile economy are at the center of fiery debates as the island's two biggest political …
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Jamie Raskin blasts GOP at hearing: ‘Some of them blindly worship convicted felons’  —  Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) blasted Republican members of Congress for their blind “worship” of convicted felons like former President Donald Trump.  —  At a Monday hearing with former National Institutes …
Discussion: PoliticusUSA
 
 
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David Smith / The Guardian:
The reich stuff - what does Trump really have in common with Hitler?
Discussion: Raw Story
Robert Reich / The Guardian:
Why is a group of billionaires working to re-elect Trump?
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Two years later, obvious misinformation is finally taken down
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Democrats must defend Trump's guilty verdict against MAGA jury denial
John Parkinson / ABC News:
Anthony Fauci faces grilling by Republicans over COVID-19 response, origins
Peter Stone / The Guardian:
Top Democrats launch inquiry into Trump's brazen $1bn pitch to oil execs
Discussion: PoliticusUSA
Ruxandra Iordache / CNBC:
Kremlin warns Washington of ‘fatal’ miscalculation to let Kyiv use U.S.-supplied weapons inside Russia
Discussion: Financial Times, UPI, Politico and Reuters
 Earlier Items: 
Reuters:
Claudia Sheinbaum claims sweeping mandate to become Mexico's first female president
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
What Europe Fears … In early april, a crowd of diplomats and dignitaries gathered …
Discussion: NBC News
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
All the arguments against Trump's convictions, debunked
Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: Trump falsely claims he didn't call to lock up Hillary Clinton
Isabella Murray / ABC News:
Half of Americans think Trump's guilty verdict was correct, should end campaign: POLL
Kaia Hubbard / CBS News:
Donald Trump joins TikTok after reversal on app he tried to ban as president