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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, Mock Paper Scissors, Newsmax, 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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Vanity Fair, The Guardian, New Republic and Raw Story
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, UPI, Mediaite, Associated Press and The White House
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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
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 Examiner, Washington Free Beacon, WOLA, Reason, Department of Homeland …, ACLU, OutsideTheBeltway, Power Line, The Hill, New York Times, The Daily Caller, Breitbart, CBS News, National Review, Defense One, South Dakota Searchlight, Los Angeles Times and RedState
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
Spencer Brown / Townhall:
Sen. John Kennedy Sums Up Biden's Border Executive Order As Only He Can
Sen. John Kennedy Sums Up Biden's Border Executive Order As Only He Can
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NRCC, RedState, Committee on Homeland Security, The Daily Caller and Washington Examiner
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
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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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The Guardian, ABC News and The Daily Caller
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
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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Washington Examiner, Media Matters for America, HuffPost, Deadline, DNyuz, IJR, KTVX-TV, The Transom, Twitchy, Talking Points Memo, The Daily Caller, Breitbart, New Jersey Online, National Review, RedState, Mediaite, Fox News, New York Post, Power Line, The Gateway Pundit, CBS News, Politico and Daily Kos
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
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, The Daily Beast, NBC News, New York Daily News, Middle East Monitor, CBS News, Washington Times, One America News Network, The Daily Caller, Fox News, RedState, Associated Press, UPI, New York Times, 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 …
Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
Alabama federal judges forced LGBTQ advocates into a long, secretive “inquiry” — Part 1: An April 2022 order questioning if LGBTQ civil rights lawyers engaged in “judge shopping” in challenging an anti-transgender law prompted a two-year investigation.
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
Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
Former Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn starts PAC after losing House run — The PAC will back candidates running against pro-Trump Republicans. — Harry Dunn, the former Capitol Police officer who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6 and unsuccessfully ran for a House seat in Maryland last month …
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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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Breitbart, NBC News, The Guardian, Fox News, Los Angeles Times and Washington Post
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 …
NBC News:
Donald Trump to attend private meeting with Business Roundtable weeks after conviction — President Joe Biden was also invited but will be on a foreign trip at the time, so the White House chief of staff is addressing the group in his place. — Former President Donald Trump will attend …
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