Top Items:
New York Times:
Live Updates: Jurors in Trump Criminal Case Told That He Lied ‘Over and Over and Over’ — Donald J. Trump is charged with falsifying business records to cover up a sex scandal that threatened to derail his 2016 campaign. A lawyer for Mr. Trump insisted that the former president “did not commit any crimes.”
RELATED:
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Unpacking the alleged crime that made Trump's alleged crime a felony — Attorneys offered opening arguments in the criminal trial of Donald Trump on Monday in Manhattan, beginning the process of presenting to the jury the state's case against the former president.
Discussion:
Washington Examiner, NBC News, Progress Pond, New York Times and Forbes
Chauncey DeVega / Salon:
“The alternate reality Trump lives in is crumbling” with first criminal trial: ex-federal prosecutor — “I think that Donald Trump is probably trying to get himself thrown into prison” — With a jury now impaneled, Donald Trump's hush-money trial can finally begin in earnest.
Discussion:
Raw Story, New York Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Washington Times and PoliticusUSA
David Axelrod / The Atlantic:
What Donald Trump Fears Most — Donald Trump's biographers all seem to agree that he didn't get a lot of love from his father. But what Fred Trump did impart to his son was an indelible lesson: There are two kinds of people in the world—killers and losers—and like his father, Donald had to be a killer.
Discussion:
Raw Story
Washington Post:
Live updates Opening statements expected in Trump hush money trial — NEW YORK — Opening statements are expected Monday morning in Donald Trump's trial for allegedly falsifying business records to hide a hush money payment during the 2016 presidential election campaign.
Discussion:
Business Insider, CBS News, USA Today, WHDH-TV, NPR, Semafor, Washington Times, Forbes, The Hill, Alternet.org and Fox News
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Trump's Trial Is the Reality Show He Never Wanted
Discussion:
Salon, Forbes, Axios, New York Post and New York Times
Minouche Shafik / president.columbia.edu:
Statement from Columbia University President Minouche Shafik — Dear Members of the Columbia Community, — I am deeply saddened by what is happening on our campus. Our bonds as a community have been severely tested in ways that will take a great deal of time and effort to reaffirm.
Discussion:
The Hill, HotAir, Washington Post, Mediaite, CBS News, Washington Times, The official website …, New York Times, Politico, New York Post, Committee on Education & …, Reuters, BizPac Review, Middle East Monitor, Axios, Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller, Forbes, Breitbart, The Gateway Pundit, The Times of Israel, Al Jazeera, Washington Free Beacon, New York Daily News, Bloomberg and Twin Cities
RELATED:
CNN:
Tensions are so high at Columbia ahead of Passover that all classes will be virtual today — Officials at Columbia University, facing surging tensions on campus that raised safety concerns, have announced all classes will be virtual on Monday as Passover begins.
Discussion:
The Hill, Washington Free Beacon, Washington Examiner, Fox News, New York Times, IJR, Boston Herald, Axios, UPI, Politico and New York Daily News
Yale Daily News:
LIVE: Yale police arrests 47 pro-divestment student protesters, demonstration moves to block intersection — Officer Halstead told the News that the police are monitoring the scene to ensure that protesters remain safe and do not put up structures in violation of a 5:38 p.m. email sent to the Yale community by Kimberly Goff-Crews.
CNN:
Columbia University faces full-blown crisis as rabbi calls for Jewish students to ‘return home’
Discussion:
Spectrum News NY1, Fox News, Axios, New York Post, Politico, HotAir, NBC News, New Republic, Washington Examiner, The Spectator World, acecomments.mu.nu, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, The College Fix, The Daily Caller, Jerusalem Post, New Statesman, Washington Free Beacon, WNYW-TV, The Hill, Breitbart, New York Daily News, Caitlin Johnstone, The Federalist, Popular Information, USA Today, Why Evolution Is True, WTTG-TV, The Free Press, Columbia Daily Spectator, Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, Power Line, Slate, Columbia Barnard Hillel, Florida Politics, BizPac Review, Mediaite, Newsbusters, The Times of Israel, CBS News, al.com, The Moderate Voice, RedState, Twitchy and Babylon Bee
Washington Post:
House Republican infighting getting worse after foreign aid vote — One GOP lawmaker said he serves with “some real scumbags,” while others fought over Speaker Mike Johnson's strategy for bringing up the aid package — The House came together Saturday to pass a sweeping $95 billion foreign aid package …
RELATED:
Elaina Plott Calabro / The Atlantic:
The Accidental Speaker — This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. — You could be forgiven for thinking it was Mike Johnson's idea to host the House Republicans' annual policy retreat at the Greenbrier resort in West Virginia …
Discussion:
Business Insider, RedState, CNN and The Guardian
Naomi Hartono / NASA Blogs:
NASA's Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth — For the first time since November, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is returning usable data about the health and status of its onboard engineering systems. The next step is to enable the spacecraft to begin returning science data again.
Walter Shapiro / New Republic:
The GOP's Worst Fears About the End of Roe v. Wade Have Come True — Nearly two years after the leak of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's draft opinion overturning Roe v Wade, abortion refuses to step out of the spotlight on center stage in American politics.
RELATED:
Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:
Newsom proposes law to help Arizonans get abortions in California
Discussion:
Breitbart, The Daily Caller, NPR, The Gateway Pundit, BizPac Review, Washington Times, MSNBC, The Hill, Axios, Politico, Washington Examiner, Sacramento Bee, New York Times and al.com
Marist Poll:
Biden Edges Trump in Two-Way Presidential Contest; Opens Up Lead Among Definite Voters — Despite a still close contest between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, Trump's support among white voters and independents has splintered. Biden is doing better …
Discussion:
Washington Post, nationalinterest.org, Raw Story and NBC News
RELATED:
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The next president may be chosen by indifference
Discussion:
NBC News, Digby's Hullabaloo, New Jersey Online and PJ Media
Liz Cheney / New York Times:
The Supreme Court Should Rule Swiftly on Trump's Immunity Claim — On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear Donald Trump's arguments that he is immune from prosecution for his efforts to steal the 2020 presidential election. It is likely that all — or nearly all …
Discussion:
Mediaite, The Guardian, New Jersey Online, Plain Dealer, The Hill, Raw Story, Washington Examiner, WHDH-TV, HuffPost and Bloomberg
Hanna Trudo / The Hill:
Abortion-rights group launches ad in Michigan, Wisconsin warning about RFK Jr. — An abortion-rights group is attacking Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as extreme and unfit to serve over abortion rights, as the health issue takes focus in the presidential election. — Reproductive Freedom …
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo, Democrats, Washington Post and The Michigan Daily
Angela Dewan / CNN:
The world dumps 2,000 truckloads of plastic into the ocean each day. Here's where a lot of it ends up — Photographs and video by Edu Ponces/RUIDO Photo — The western coast of Java in Indonesia is popular with surfers for its world-famous breaks. There's a majestic underwater world to explore, too.
Discussion:
The Hill, New Jersey Online and Sun-Sentinel
New York Post:
Ilhan Omar's daughter, Isra Hirsi, says she's homeless, cries poverty after suspension from $90K-per-year college over anti-Israel protests — The privileged daughter of Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar amazingly claims she's homeless and can't get food after being kicked out of her prestigious $90 …
Politico:
Next Ukraine package to be larger than normal, include armored vehicles — The Senate could approved more than $60 billion for Kyiv as soon as Tuesday. — The Biden administration is preparing a larger-than-normal package of military aid for Ukraine that will include armored vehicles …
Discussion:
Breaking Defense, Daily Caller News Foundation, PJ Media and Business Insider
Marc Elias / Democracy Docket:
Republicans Are Suing for the Right To Harass Election Workers — You might think that even in today's highly polarized election environment there would be a bipartisan consensus to protect election workers from intimidation and harassment. If you thought so, you would be wrong.
Ana Ceballos / Miami Herald:
Some migrants flown by DeSantis to Martha's Vineyard qualify for victim visas, feds say — Some of the 49 migrants flown to Martha's Vineyard by the state of Florida are now able to legally work in the United States and have temporary protections from deportation — because they are considered victims …
Discussion:
Tampa Bay Times, Breitbart, Orlando Sentinel and Sacramento Bee
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
‘Civil War’ is terrifying not for what it says about America, but about journalism — Around 2 p.m. on Friday, I opened my laptop and bought a ticket on Fandango for that night's showing of Civil War, the No. 1 movie in America that depicts a not-too-distant U.S. future of killing fields, refugee camps and bombed-out shopping malls.
Discussion:
Scripting News and Variety
Cheyanne M. Daniels / The Hill:
John Legend says Trump believes ‘to his core’ that ‘Black people are inferior’ — Singer John Legend says former President Trump is a racist down “to his core.” — Speaking to MSNBC's Jen Psaki on Sunday, Legend spoke of Trump's response to the Black Lives Matter protests following the 2020 murder of George Floyd.
Discussion:
MSNBC and The Daily Beast
Brandi Buchman / Law & Crime:
Unite the Right tiki torch man pleads guilty to assaulting cops on Jan. 6 — A man convicted of burning a tiki torch while chanting white supremacist slogans at the Unite the Right rally in 2017 has reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors and has admitted to assaulting two police at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Discussion:
NBC News
Hugh Jackson / Nevada Current:
Trump, RNC promise ‘aggressive’ election interference in battleground states — Workers at the Washoe County Registrar of Voters counting early ballots in 2020. The process was live-streamed online. (Screengrab via YouTube) — Policy, politics and progressive commentary
Discussion:
BizPac Review and Associated Press
Patrick Whittle / Associated Press:
Youth group, environmental organizations sue Maine for action on climate — A youth organization and a pair of environmental groups are suing the state of Maine to try to force the state to reduce carbon emissions in the era of climate change. Maine Youth Action, the Conservation Law Foundation …
Senior Data Journalist, NY — 
Manager - Publishing Editorial, Manila — 
Oil Reporter, Singapore — 
Newsperson - State Govt. & Politics, CA — 
Business Reporter, SC — 
State Government Reporter, WA — 
Climate Crisis Columnist — 
Multimedia Journalist, CA — 
Community Engagement Mgr., DC — 
Senior California Politics Reporter, CA — 
Staff Writer - Business, NY — 
Team Editor - Opinion, ON — 
Assistant Correspondent, DC — 
Climate & Weather Reporter, MN — 
Senior Tech Editor, Remote US — 
Lead Business Reporter, TN — 
Managing Editor, WA — 
Private Credit Reporter, NY — 
Trending News Reporter, TX — 
City Correspondent, London — 
Legislative Reporter, CA — 
Reporter, PA — 
Visual Editor, Remote — 
Staff Writer, MI — 
Senior Political Reporter, DC — 
California Playbook Writer, CA — 
National Investigative Reporter, NY — 
Business & Gaming Reporter, NV — 
Coastal Climate Reporter, SC — 
Environment & Energy Reporter, CT — 
Coordinating Editor, OR — 
Editor, Remote US — 
Business Reporter, WA — 
Editor-in-Chief, AZ — 
