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Reuters:
Alex Jones' InfoWars files for bankruptcy in U.S. court  —  Far-right wing website InfoWars on Sunday filed for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas in the face of multiple defamation lawsuits.
Burgess Everett / Politico:
McConnell-tied super PAC makes early $141M play for the Senate  —  A Mitch McConnell-aligned super PAC is booking $141 million in fall advertisements to help turn the Senate red, a staggering sum that sets the stage for a vicious battle over the chamber's control.
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Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Out-of-state money floods midterm races  —  Candidates in key midterm primaries are getting huge cash boosts from wealthy out-of-state donors — funneled through groups that can raise and spend unlimited sums for them, according to an Axios analysis. … It precedes major Senate primaries …
Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
Days after the sinking of a Russian warship, questions linger.  —  A video released by Russia's Ministry of Defense purporting to show dozens of uniformed crew members from the missile cruiser Moskva standing in formation, apparently days after the ship sank, did not answer lingering questions …
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Julia Davis / The Daily Beast:
Russian Propaganda Turns to ‘Lord of the Rings’ to Stir Ukraine Hatred
Discussion: Raw Story
Bel Trew / The Independent:
Bound, beaten, killed: Ukrainian civilians reveal horrors of Russian torture chamber
Jonathan Lis / Haaretz:   Russia Summons Israeli Envoy After Lapid's ‘Regrettable’ Remarks on Ukraine War
New York Times:   ‘They Are Gone, Vanished’: Missing Persons Haunt Ukrainian Village
Gilles Guillaume / Reuters:
French prosecutor studying EU anti-fraud agency report on Le Pen  —  French prosecutors said on Sunday they are examining a report by the European Union's anti-fraud agency accusing far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen and members of her party of misappropriating thousands of euros' worth of EU funds.
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John Irish / Reuters:   French far-left gives no voting instructions after internal consultations
Associated Press:
US rocked by 3 mass shootings during Easter weekend; 2 dead  —  HAMPTON, S.C. (AP) — Authorities in South Carolina say they are investigating shooting at a club in Hampton County early Sunday that left at least nine people injured.  It was the third mass shooting in the U.S. over the Easter holiday weekend.
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Claire McNear / The Ringer:
‘I Have 100 Percent, and I Intend to Keep It That Way’: Kamala Harris Breaks Down Her Daily Wordle Habit  —  The Wordle craze has hit the vice president's office, but there's a problem: The veep can't send anyone her squares  —  When Vice President Kamala Harris admitted last week at a fundraiser …
Ben Kesslen / New York Post:
Woke Ariz. diversity activists falsely accuse black DJ of wearing blackface  —  Two local diversity advocates in Arizona are taking heat after calling a school district racist for hiring a DJ to perform in black face — but it turns out the DJ was black.  —  Stuart Rhoden and Jill Lassen …
Josh Boak / Associated Press:
Biden to require US-made steel, iron for infrastructure  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is taking a key step to ensuring that federal dollars will support U.S. manufacturing — issuing requirements for how projects funded by the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package source their construction material.
Washington Post:
Rick Scott became the Senate GOP's election general, then went to war  —  With an aggressive fundraising effort and a controversial policy plan, the Florida senator has been upsetting colleagues.  He's okay with that.  —  Florida Sen. Rick Scott has been publicly dressed …
BBC:
Dozens arrested at Sweden riots sparked by planned Quran burnings  —  More than 40 people have been arrested during four days of violent clashes in cities in Sweden between police and people angry at plans by a far-right group to burn copies of the Quran.  —  Three people were injured …
James Downie / Washington Post:
Will the media let Sen. Mike Lee go unquestioned?  —  Earlier this month, Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) became the fourth of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Donald Trump last year to announce his retirement.  On Sunday, Upton and NBC's “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd discussed …
Discussion: The Bulwark and Mediaite
Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Lonely Anatoly: The Russian ambassador is Washington's least popular man  —  No one wants to talk to Anatoly Antonov.  —  Russia's ambassador to the United States can't get meetings with senior officials at the White House or the State Department.  He can't convince U.S. lawmakers to see him, much less take a photo.
Discussion: Raw Story
Adrianna Rodriguez / USA Today:
COVID vaccines are not meant to prevent all infections, experts say.  Americans need to reset their expectations.  —  Watch Video: COVID vaccine second booster: Here's who can get the 4th shot  —  Denny Mitchell couldn't believe he tested positive for the coronavirus in January.
John Harwood / CNN:
Biden confronts a host of problems he can't do much to solve  —  There's just not much President Joe Biden can do about it.  —  There's not much he can do to curb inflation.  —  There's not much he can do to stop migrants from reaching America's southern border.
Wall Street Journal:
Cut Tariffs to Help Inflation and Ukraine  —  A modest easing of border taxes could lower inflation by 1.3 points.  —  President Biden is deploying gimmicks to try to show the public that he is fighting 8.5% inflation, but here's something he could do that really would help: ease President Trump's destructive tariffs.
 
 
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