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Joe Biden / YouTube:
America Is An Idea  —  It's time for respected leadership on the world stage—and dignified leadership at home.  It's time for equal opportunity, equal rights, and equal justice.  It's time for an economy that rewards those who actually do the work.  It's time for a president who will stand up for all of us.
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo plans to open his formidable fundraising network to Joe Biden's 2020 campaign  — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has indicated to party donors that he's looking to open his formidable fundraising network to Joe Biden, according to people who have spoken with him recently.
Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
When Obama Talked Biden Out of Running for President  —  Barack Obama stood in the Rose Garden, watching Joe Biden announce that he wasn't going to run for president—exactly what he wanted and had helped make happen.  —  Four years later, the president has come a long way on his views of a Biden run.
Discussion: Slate
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Joe Biden could be the best bet to beat Trump.  If he gets that far.  —  By launching his 2020 campaign with shameful images of what happened in Charlottesville 20 months ago, former vice president Joe Biden has put the focus on what should be the central question of the 2020 election.
Alex Roarty / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
After sprint to left, some 2020 Democrats inch back toward the middle  —  Beto O'Rourke was nearing the end of his stump speech when he turned to an unexpected subject in the 2020 primary: pragmatism.  —  The former Texas congressman was outlining a health care plan that …
Steve Israel / The Hill:
This is the Joe Biden you rarely see
Discussion: Breitbart and Politico
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
New Biden senior adviser Sanders donated to Buttigieg in March
Discussion: Breitbart and Washington Post
Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
Symone Sanders, Bernie's Former Press Secretary, Goes to Work on Biden's Campaign
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
How Does Joe Biden Fit Into a Changing Democratic Party?
Discussion: The Week
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Joe Biden's Campaign Announcement Video, Annotated
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Biden serves notice: This is all about Trump
Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
North Korea issued $2 million bill for comatose Otto Warmbier's care  —  BEIJING — North Korea issued a $2 million bill for the hospital care of comatose American Otto Warmbier, insisting that a U.S. official sign a pledge to pay it before being allowed to fly the University of Virginia student from Pyongyang in 2017.
Ian Duncan / Baltimore Sun:
FBI raids Baltimore City Hall, home of Mayor Catherine Pugh, offices of job training center  —  FBI and IRS agents are raiding Baltimore's City Hall and the home of Mayor Catherine Pugh.  —  Dave Fitz, an FBI spokesman, confirmed agents from the Washington field office were executing search warrants …
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
WJZ: Baltimore Mayor May Have Fled The State After FBI-IRS Raid  —  The hits just keep coming for Baltimore mayor Catherine Pugh, but they might have trouble finding her.  Baltimore's CBS affiliate WJZ reports that Pugh was on hand when the FBI and IRS conducted a multi-location raid …
Discussion: CBS Baltimore
CBS Baltimore:
Where Is Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh?  Source Says She Left Home, State After FBI Raid  —  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Where is Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh?  It's the question buzzing around the city as the FBI and IRS raid Pugh's home, City Hall and several other locations tied to her Thursday.
David Shortell / CNN:
Feds search locations tied to Baltimore's mayor in connection with book scandal
Discussion: Axios and The Root
Motherboard:
Why Won't Twitter Treat White Supremacy Like ISIS?  Because It Would Mean Banning Some Republican Politicians Too.  —  A Twitter employee who works on machine learning believes that a proactive, algorithmic solution to white supremacy would also catch Republican politicians.
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Trump is terrified that his aides might not lie for him
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
Sorry, Mr. President. Congress has every right to investigate you.
Discussion: New York Times and Raw Story
Andrew Napolitano / Fox News:
Judge Andrew Napolitano: Did President Trump obstruct justice?  —  When the Department of Justice designated Robert Mueller as special counsel to take over the FBI investigation of the Trump campaign in May 2017, Mueller's initial task was to determine if there had been a conspiracy …
Deanna Paul / Washington Post:
How angry pilots got the Navy to stop dismissing UFO sightings  —  A recent uptick in sightings of unidentified flying objects — or as the military calls them, “unexplained aerial phenomena” — prompted the Navy to draft formal procedures for pilots to document encounters, a corrective measure that former officials say is long overdue.
Gregg Re / Fox News:
Bernie Sanders visibly frustrated as hecklers unload at She The People Forum for women of color  —  2020 presidential contender Bernie Sanders faced an aggressive and, at times, outwardly combative audience at the She The People Forum devoted to women of color in Houston on Wednesday …
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Sarah Ruiz-Grossman / HuffPost:
Elizabeth Warren Lays Out Plan To Combat Black Maternal Mortality
Laura Barrón-López / Politico:
‘Racism and sexism’: Women of color slam white male tilt of Dem primary
NBC News:
Mueller report shows Trump campaign left itself wide open to Russians, officials say  —  “The Russians found a group of people who were not intelligence savvy” and didn't listen to U.S. intel officials, said a CIA veteran.  —  WASHINGTON — The Mueller report's narrative of secret meetings between members …
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Mark R. Warner / USA Today:
Sen. Warner: Trump and Russia threatened our democracy. What are we going to do about it?
Discussion: twitchy.com
USA Today:
We found 85,000 cops who've been investigated for misconduct.  Now you can read their records.  —  USA TODAY is leading a national effort to obtain and publish disciplinary and misconduct records for thousands of police officers.  —  At least 85,000 law enforcement officers across the USA …
NBC News:
Boston-area judge charged with helping undocumented immigrant escape courthouse to elude ICE  —  Judge Shelley Joseph and court officer Wesley MacGregor were hit with obstruction of justice charges for their role in aiding the defendant in April 2018.  —  A Massachusetts judge conspired …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Katherine Lam / Fox News:
Massachusetts judge who helped illegal immigrant escape ICE arrest indicted, federal authorities say
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Douglas Murray / Spectator:
The Scruton tapes: an anatomy of a modern hit job … Sometimes a scandal is not just a scandal, but a biopsy of a society.  So it is with the assault on Sir Roger Scruton, who in recent weeks has been smeared in the media, fired by the government and had his life's work assailed.
Discussion: National Review
Deanna Moore / Radio 104.5:
NYC To Ban Hot Dogs and Processed Meats To Improve Climate  —  New York City is the first city in the United States to eliminate processed meats.  —  Mayor Bill de Blasio approved an ambitious $14 billion Green New Deal on Monday, April 22, to combat climate change.
Discussion: twitchy.com and IJR
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: The U.S. Chamber wants to disentangle its brand from the GOP and hopes to rebuild the center  —  THE BIG IDEA: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, navigating dramatic cultural change that's transforming the worlds of politics and business, plans to become less aligned with the Republican Party than it has been for decades.
Eugene Volokh / Reason:
Is the Government Required to Count the Number of Citizens in Each State?  —  I don't myself have any expertise on the Census citizenship question case (which has mostly been litigated as an administrative law case), but I thought Prof. Blackman's query was intriguing, and wanted to post it:
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
Maria Bartiromo's stock has risen at Fox Business Network and Fox News  —  As an anchor at Fox Business Network, Maria Bartiromo can lay claim to the title of hardest working person in TV business news.  Five days a week she is front and center at “Mornings With Maria,” a three-hour mix of financial news …
Discussion: TVNewser
Scott Waldman / E&E News:
Facebook fact-checker has ties to climate doubt  —  Facebook's newest fact-checking partner is connected to an enterprise that was founded by a conservative Fox News host and that routinely promotes climate doubt.  —  The social media giant is partnering with CheckYourFact.com …
Pete Williams / NBC News:
U.S. incarceration rate drops 10 percent over decade to hit lowest level in 20 years  —  Department of Justice statistics also showed that “noncitizens made up roughly the same portion of the U.S. prison population, 7.6 percent, as of the total U.S. population.”
Washington Post:
How Trump has changed white evangelicals' views about morality  —  So what if Mayor Pete Buttigieg calls him a “porn star president”?  —  Recently, Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg has been criticizing religious conservatives — especially Vice President Pence …
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Andrew O'Reilly / Fox News:
Former California Democratic Party chair Eric Bauman named in sexual assault lawsuit
Discussion: IJR and Los Angeles Times
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
California's Skies and the Limits of Regulation
Discussion: Mother Jones
Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
Tulsi Gabbard Is Running a Presidential Campaign on Freelancers
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Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed News:
A Democratic Group Is Asking 2020 Candidates To Sign A New Pledge: Play Nice And Then Support The Nominee
Discussion: Political Wire and New York Times
Molly Beck / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Bernie Sanders trolls Donald Trump's visit to Wisconsin
CNN:
Fake news and public executions: Documents show a Russian company's plan for quelling protests in Sudan
The Daily Beast:
FBI Questions Elliott Broidy's One-Time Partner
Discussion: Raw Story
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
How Trump Took the Shine Off Washington's Glitziest Night
Andrew Ferguson / The Atlantic:
A Republic Too Fractured to Be Funny