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NBC News:
'It's very possible': Trump floats imprisoning his political opponents — Discussing his guilty verdict, Trump said his opponents were going down a “terrible path.” — Fresh off last week's historic guilty verdict, former President Donald Trump had a warning for his political opponents on Tuesday.
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Washington Post, Axios, Raw Story, Newsmax, Mock Paper Scissors, New Republic, USA Today and CNN
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New York Times:
The G.O.P. Push for Post-Verdict Payback: ‘Fight Fire With Fire’ — Republican leaders in and out of government are publicly pushing to prosecute Democrats as legal retribution for Donald Trump's felony conviction. — Republican allies of Donald J. Trump are calling for revenge prosecutions …
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Raw Story and New Jersey Online
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Why Trump's rhetoric about imprisoning his political foes matters
Why Trump's rhetoric about imprisoning his political foes matters
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Digby's Hullabaloo and Washington Post
Axios:
Behind the Curtain: MAGA's jail plan … Nowhere would that be truer than at the Justice Department, which Trump wants to make his fief and retribution arm. — Bannon told us Bragg could be targeted using the 14th Amendment (equal protection) and Fourth Amendment (outlawing unreasonable searches …
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New Republic, Vanity Fair, The Guardian and Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
Behind Closed Doors, Biden Shows Signs of Slipping — Participants in meetings said the 81-year-old president performed poorly at times. The White House said Biden is sharp and his critics are playing partisan politics. — WASHINGTON—When President Biden met with congressional leaders …
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Stephen Neukam / Axios:
Scoop: Senate Dem campaigns ready abortion rights blitz … - Campaigns in all battleground states will partake, a Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee aide told Axios. — The blitz will include paid advertising from the DSCC, events hosted by campaigns and local organizations, and social media activity.
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Alaska Public Media, STAT and New York Times
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NOTUS:
It's Not an Accident That So Many GOP Senate Candidates Are Rich
It's Not an Accident That So Many GOP Senate Candidates Are Rich
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NPR, Politico, New York Times and Washington Examiner
Stephen Neukam / Axios:
Scoop: GOP campaign arm's birth control message
Scoop: GOP campaign arm's birth control message
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USA Today, The Guardian, ABC News and The Daily Caller
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
The facts about Biden's new immigration policy — On Tuesday, President Joe Biden announced executive actions that would impose sweeping changes to how the nation treats asylum seekers. Anyone who attempts to cross the border outside of a designated port of entry will be considered presumptively ineligible …
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Newsweek, Breitbart, Boston Herald, New Republic, WHNT-TV, Religion News Service, The Daily Signal, Roll Call, Fox News, Santa Cruz Sentinel, UPI, Mediaite and The White House
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The White House:
A Proclamation on Securing the Border
A Proclamation on Securing the Border
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Alabama Reflector, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Free Beacon, WOLA, Reason, Department of Homeland …, Washington Examiner, OutsideTheBeltway, Power Line, The Hill, New York Times, ACLU, The Daily Caller, CBS News, Breitbart, National Review, Defense One, South Dakota Searchlight, Los Angeles Times and RedState
The White House:
Remarks by President Biden on Securing Our Border
Remarks by President Biden on Securing Our Border
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Washington Examiner, Breitbart, City & State New York, Democrats and Bloomberg
Elliot Spagat / Associated Press:
How Biden's new order to halt asylum at the US border is supposed to work
How Biden's new order to halt asylum at the US border is supposed to work
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Reuters, Associated Press, Fox News, Florida Phoenix, ABC News, Reason and Semafor
CNN:
Judge Cannon expands hearing on Trump's request to declare special counsel's appointment invalid — Judge Aileen Cannon is planning on holding a sprawling hearing on Donald Trump's request to declare Jack Smith's appointment as special counsel invalid, signaling the judge could be more willing …
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HuffPost, New Republic, The Gateway Pundit and Business Insider
Sheera Frenkel / New York Times:
Israel Secretly Targets U.S. Lawmakers With Influence Campaign on Gaza War — Israel's Ministry of Diaspora Affairs ordered the operation, which used fake social media accounts urging U.S. lawmakers to fund Israel's military, according to officials and documents about the effort.
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Haaretz, New Republic, The Verge, USA Today, The Times of Israel, Working Class Solidarity and Middle East Monitor
Brendan Cole / Newsweek:
Russia's Gas Giant Reports Costly Impact of Putin's War — The gas giant Gazprom, which has been an engine of Russia's economy, will pay a decadelong price for Russian leader — 's invasion of Ukraine. — The U.K. newspaper Financial Times reported Wednesday that it had seen research commissioned …
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Financial Times and Twin Cities
NBC News:
Trump's VP search accelerates — Prospective running mates have received vetting materials as the race for the No. 2 spot on Trump's ticket narrows to three or four candidates, sources tell NBC News. — Donald Trump's search for a running mate is intensifying, as the former president awaits sentencing …
Ron Dicker / HuffPost:
MSNBC Host Chris Hayes Guffaws At Matt Gaetz's ‘Law’ Defense Of Trump — The cable news channel has been yukking it up lately at Republican antics. — LOADING — MSNBC's Chris Hayes on Tuesday nearly busted a gut laughing at Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) for his declaration that he loves the law and has given his life for it.
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Mediaite, Above the Law and IJR
Associated Press:
Gunman captured after shootout outside US Embassy in Lebanon — The Lebanese army said Wednesday a gunman attempted to attack the U.S. embassy near Beirut. The Lebanese military in a statement said that soldiers shot an assailant, who they only described as a Syrian national.
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Washington Examiner, Reuters, NBC News, New York Daily News, Middle East Monitor, The Daily Beast, Washington Times, One America News Network, The Daily Caller, CBS News, Fox News, RedState, Associated Press, New York Times, UPI, USA Today, The Times of Israel, Al Jazeera, Just Security, Bloomberg and 77 WABC
Milan Singh / Slow Boring:
Most young people aren't liberals — We have the same concerns as the rest of the electorate … Joe Biden is losing ground with young voters. — In 2020, Biden won 60% of voters aged 18-29, compared to 37% for Trump and 3% for third parties, according to figures from Catalist.
emptywheel:
Gaps and Forms: Hunter Biden's Defense — The first day of the Hunter Biden trial revealed a lot about gaps in the prosecution's case and Abbe Lowell's plan to mount a defense. — As this post will show, it will be easier for prosecutors to prove Count 3, Possession of a Firearm by a Drug User …
Andrea Bernstein / ProPublica:
What Donald Trump's Criminal Trial Reveals About a Potential Second Trump Administration — The picture that emerged in the New York courtroom was of a person on top of details, aware of what his team is doing. Along with outside events, it suggests Trump will be even less constricted by rules and norms than he was before.
Politico:
Playbook: Inside Dems' Bibi breach — With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine — DRIVING THE DAY — IN MEMORIAM — Ben White, a longtime POLITICO reporter and Morning Money author who also worked for CNBC, the NYT, the FT, WaPo and The Messenger, died Saturday at 52 …
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No More Mister Nice Blog
Lauren Weber / Washington Post:
Conservative attacks on birth control could threaten access — Far-right conservatives are sowing misinformation that inaccurately characterizes IUDs, emergency contraception, even birth-control pills as causing abortions — Republican lawmakers in Missouri blocked a bill to widen access …
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Democrats
Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
Alabama federal judges forced LGBTQ advocates into a long, secretive “inquiry” — This is Part 1 of a two-part report. Part 2 was published Wednesday. — In the midst of the wave of anti-LGBTQ laws being passed across the nation in recent years, many of the nation's leading LGBTQ civil rights lawyers …
Laura Nahmias / Bloomberg:
NYC's Job Boom Is Fueled by Taxpayer-Funded $38,280 Health Gigs — Almost all the gains were in publicly funded home health care — Construction, manufacturing, retail lag behind 2020 levels — New York Mayor Eric Adams likes to boast that since he took office in January 2022 …
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IJR
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Scoop: Dem groups to pour millions into downballot races in battleground states … - Money is already pouring into the same swing states, which will be critical to President Biden's re-election. … - The National Democratic Redistricting Committee and the States Project …
Jessica Glenza / The Guardian:
US maternal mortality rate far higher than in peer nations, report finds — Alarming disparities persist, particularly between white and Black mothers, according to new report by Commonwealth Fund — The US has a far higher rate of maternal mortality than other peer wealthy nations …
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CBS News, Singal-Minded and UPI
Politico:
Suddenly Trump's got nothing to say about Hunter Biden — It's a surprise given how the former president previously attacked him. — After years of using Hunter Biden's legal and personal dramas to bash his father, former President Donald Trump and his campaign have been largely silent …
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NBC News, Breitbart, The Daily Caller, The Guardian, Fox News, Los Angeles Times and Washington Post