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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 …
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Bloomberg, New Republic, Raw Story, Iowa Starting Line, New Jersey Online and Mediaite
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.
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Washington Examiner and Breitbart
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 …
New York Times:
Biden Is Expected to Sign Order Letting Him Seal Border With Mexico — 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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David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Trump's Most Audacious Lie Yet — When someone lies as prodigiously as Donald Trump—The Washington Post stopped counting at more than 30,000, around the time he left office—handing out superlatives is challenging. Even so, the former president might have told his most audacious lie yet this weekend.
The Hill:
Menendez files independent bid for Senate seat — Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) filed to run for another term in the Senate as an independent on Monday, as his federal bribery trial continues. Menendez had announced in March that he would not seek the Democratic nomination for his Senate seat …
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New Jersey Globe
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David Wildstein / New Jersey Globe:
Menendez will file independent re-election bid
Menendez will file independent re-election bid
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CNN, Washington Free Beacon, New York Times, Washington Examiner, HuffPost, Breitbart, NBC News, The Daily Caller, The Dispatch and Mediaite
David Edwards / Raw Story:
‘Suspend!’ Marjorie Taylor Greene smacked down by GOP chair at hearing with Dr. Fauci — Democrats called for the words of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) to be taken down after she refused to call former National Institutes of Health Director Anthony Fauci “doctor.”
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David Edwards / Raw Story:
Jamie Raskin blasts GOP at hearing: ‘Some of them blindly worship convicted felons’
Jamie Raskin blasts GOP at hearing: ‘Some of them blindly worship convicted felons’
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Breitbart and PoliticusUSA
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.
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USA Today
Asher Notheis / Washington Examiner:
Congressman's son steals the show as father speaks at House podium — Rep. John Rose (R-TN) brought his son, Guy, with him to the House floor on Monday, and the youngster has now gone viral for his facial expressions as his father spoke. — The older Rose was delivering a speech …
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New Republic, New York Times, USA Today, The Daily Caller, Raw Story, New York Post and IJR
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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Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Michael Cohen's family doxed after Trump guilty verdict in porn star hush money case — The latest doxing attempt fits into a pattern of threats against individuals who speak out against former President Donald Trump. — WASHINGTON — The addresses and phone numbers of former Trump lawyer …
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The American Conservative
Ed Mazza / HuffPost:
Eric Trump Claims Black Voters Are Turning To His Dad ‘In Spades’ — Critics slammed the son of the former president over his claim — and his choice of words. — LOADING — Eric Trump, son of Donald Trump, claimed his father's conviction on 34 felony charges last week is making …
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IJR, The Daily Caller, Washington Examiner and Mediaite
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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
Donald Trump campaign has raised over $200 MILLION in just THREE days since guilty felony verdict, son Eric Trump claims
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RedState, Twitchy, IJR, One America News Network and ABC News
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 …
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Digital Trends and My Nintendo News, more at Techmeme »
David Smith / The Guardian:
The reich stuff - what does Trump really have in common with Hitler? — Comparisons between the ex-president and the 20th-century Nazi leader are controversial but a new book says they resemble each other as political performance artists — When Donald Trump shared a video that dreamed of a …
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Raw Story
Robert Reich / The Guardian:
Why is a group of billionaires working to re-elect Trump? — Oligarchs like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel aren't just hostile to progressivism. They're hostile to American democracy itself — Elon Musk and the entrepreneur and investor David Sacks reportedly held a secret dinner party …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump's many dog whistles about unrest and violence — The former president's post-conviction comment about a “breaking point” follows a long line of suggestive comments. The thrust is unmistakable. — Before the 2016 election, Marco Rubio warned about it. Ted Cruz warned about it.
Andrew Perez / Rolling Stone:
The Most Ridiculous, Right-Wing Supreme Court That Dark Money Could Buy — The high court's conservative supermajority is in your body, helping elect Trump, and in-your-face corrupt. No one is going to stop them — OVER THE PAST two decades, the Supreme Court has been captured by dark money interests …
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Raw Story
Erin Mulvaney / Wall Street Journal:
Appeals Court Blocks Venture Firm's Grant Program for Black Women — Panel sides with opponent of affirmative action who challenged Fearless Fund's awards meant to boost minority startups — A federal appeals court on Monday blocked Atlanta-based investment firm Fearless Fund from continuing …
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Fortune, The Daily Caller and The Root
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.
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The Gateway Pundit
Emily Atkinson / BBC:
Nigel Farage to stand in election and become leader of Reform UK — Summary — Nigel Farage says he will stand for election in Clacton - days after ruling himself out — At a campaign event in central London, Farage also confirms he will become leader of Reform UK
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US Department of Justice:
Chief Financial Officer Of Multinational Media Company Charged With Participating In Scheme To Launder At Least $67 Million In Fraud Proceeds — For Immediate Release — U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York — Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District …
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Mediaite and The Gateway Pundit
Anderson Cooper / CBS News:
Regretful Wisconsin fake elector says he was tricked into signing phony document claiming Trump won in 2020 — This is an updated version of a story first published on Feb. 18, 2024. The original video can be viewed here. — The month after the presidential election in 2020 …
Caitlin Emma / Politico:
Congress is already bracing for a 2025 fiscal pileup — It could make the past six months of shutdown heartburn look tame. — Congress is headed for a perilous spending pileup in early 2025 — with crisis points on the debt ceiling, federal spending, tax cuts and budget caps all hitting in rapid succession.
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PoliticusUSA
Khadeeja Safdar / Wall Street Journal:
Epstein Accuser Files Lawsuit Alleging Famed Psychiatrist Henry Jarecki Facilitated Sexual Abuse — Woman's lawsuit alleges Jeffrey Epstein sent her for psychological treatment to wealthy psychiatrist, who sexually abused her over several years — Henry Jarecki has won awards practicing psychiatry …
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Washington Examiner, The Daily Beast, CNBC and TMZ.com