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Barak Ravid / Axios:
Trump to Axios: Iran deal possible by Tues., otherwise “I am blowing up everything” — President Trump claimed in an interview with Axios that the U.S. is “in deep negotiations” with Iran and that a deal can be reached before his deadline expires on Tuesday.
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Laura Esposito / The Daily Beast:
Trump Skips Easter Church to Take Self-Worship Tour of D.C. — SACRED SKIP — Rather than attend Easter services, the president spent the day roaming D.C. and visiting his golf course. — Donald Trump, a Christian, opted to skip Easter service and instead went on a bizarre tour of Washington, D.C.
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Laura Esposito / The Daily Beast:
Trump, 79, Drops F-Bomb in Unhinged Easter Morning Threat — HE HAS RISEN — The president started off the holiest Sunday with profanity. — Donald Trump began the holiest day on the Christian calendar with a profanity-filled Truth Social tirade in which he praised Allah.
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Associated Press:
US aviator missing after Iran shot down fighter jet has been rescued — The United States said Sunday it rescued a service member missing behind enemy lines since Iran downed a fighter jet, as President Donald Trump escalated pressure on Tehran with a new looming deadline to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
In New Threats, Trump Seems Emboldened by a Successful Rescue — In an expletive-filled social media post, Mr. Trump said Iran should open the Strait of Hormuz or he will bomb bridges and power plants. — After celebrating the recovery of a lost airman from the mountains in Iran on Saturday night …
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Meridith McGraw / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Warns Iran He Could Strike ‘Every Power Plant,’ in WSJ Interview — 'If they don't do something by Tuesday evening, they won't have any power plants and they won't have any bridges standing' — WASHINGTON—President Trump threatened to destroy all of Iran's power plants …
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Washington Post:
U.S. rescues missing crew member in Iran after fighter jet shot down — The successful return of the missing airman came after an intense search-and-rescue mission, and all personnel involved in the rescue have returned safely, according to a U.S. official.
Daniel W. Drezner / Drezner's World:
The Strategic Defeat of the United States — Congratulations, Trump administration, you played yourself — and America. — To understand the strategic disaster that is unfolding in the Persian Gulf, let's take a gander at the last two columns of one of the war's initial optimists: New York Times columnist Bret Stephens.
Reuters:
Iran War Live Updates: Trump Escalates Threat to Hit Iranian Power Plants After U.S. Rescues Downed Airman — President Trump used an expletive-laden social media post to taunt Iranian leaders, saying that the United States would attack if they did not fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
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NBC News:
Second airman in F-15E that was shot down over Iran rescued safely, U.S. officials sayNEW!
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Jacob Wendler / Politico:
Trump again threatens to hit Iranian civil infrastructure
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Nick Arama / RedState:
Libs Go Wild About Rumor on Trump's Health - Then He Nukes the Story With Important Post
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Associated Press:
Satellite image company restricts Mideast content, citing a U.S. government request.
G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
Why Democrats are suddenly winning back the left — and the “double-haters” — This is my weekly Sunday roundup of new political data published over the last seven days. It is free to read, but if you want to support independent data-driven political journalism, become a paying subscriber.
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Irie Sentner / Politico:
‘Proactively fall in line:’ Holocaust Memorial Museum quietly changed content after Trump returned to office … “It seems like they were trying to proactively fall in line as to not then be forced to change,” one of the people said. — The museum pulled from its website a page called …
Paul Krugman:
Living in Hell — War crimes coming: A horrifying update — America as we knew it may end Tuesday. — Hi, I'm Paul Krugman. Sunday morning update. Yesterday, I talked about how awful Trump's message about glory to God and all of that was, but it's looking much, much worse today.
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Brentin Mock / Democracy Docket:
Reports: DOJ Civil Rights chief Harmeet Dhillon to be promoted amid department shakeup — U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights Division chief Harmeet Dhillon may be promoted to Associate Attorney General, according to a report from the conservative Daily Wire news outlet.
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Jonathan Cohn / The Bulwark:
This Was the Moment Donald Trump Lost His Mojo — DONALD TRUMP LAST WEEK gave an unexpectedly candid riff on his governing priorities—and, in the process, revealed that he's losing one of his most important political skills. — It happened on Wednesday, during a private Easter luncheon at the White House.
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