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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Top takeaways from last night's big primaries  —  With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  JUST POSTED — Eric Cortellessa's six-month investigation for The Washington Monthly into Maryland transit policy under Gov. LARRY HOGAN.
Annie Linskey / Washington Post:
Republicans collide in key primaries as Trump's pull tested in S.C., Nev.
Maya King / New York Times:
Herschel Walker, Critic of Absentee Fathers, Has a Second Son He Doesn't See  —  Herschel Walker, the Republican nominee for Senate from Georgia, who has often spoken out against absentee fathers, particularly in Black households, on Tuesday publicly acknowledged having fathered a second son with whom he is not in contact.
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Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
Herschel Walker Says He's a Model Dad.  He Has a Secret Son.  —  The GOP Senate hopeful, who has bemoaned “fatherless households,” was named in a paternity case. … For years, former football star turned Republican senatorial candidate Herschel Walker has expressed an enormous pride …
Bruce Siwy / Erie Daily Times-Morning News:
Democrats Fetterman, Shapiro show early leads in USA Today Network/Suffolk University poll  —  A USA Today Network/Suffolk University poll in Pennsylvania released this week suggests a clear U.S. Senate frontrunner — with a tighter race for governor.  —  According to the Suffolk University …
Discussion: Twitchy and Political Wire
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Five Blunt Truths About the War in Ukraine  —  Five sentences sum up the war in Ukraine as it stands now.  —  The Russians are running out of precision-guided weapons.  The Ukrainians are running out of Soviet-era munitions.  The world is running out of patience for the war.
Discussion: SpyTalk, Washington Post and WFLA-TV
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Morgan Lee / Associated Press:
GOP commission refuses to certify New Mexico primary vote  —  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Votes in a New Mexico community are at risk of not counting after a Republican-led commission refused to approve primary election results over distrust of Dominion vote-tallying machines.
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Seth Rich's killing was exploited on Fox News and online.  His parents are fed up  —  The fatal shooting of a young Democratic Party aide named Seth Rich early in the morning of July 10, 2016, brought incalculable loss to his parents.  —  Within days, Joel and Mary Rich then had to endure an unimaginable …
Discussion: Raw Story
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
Leave Joe Biden Alone  —  This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture.  Sign up for it here.  —  Every administration has its ups and downs …
Discussion: CNN
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Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Democrats doomed by feeble Joe Biden and weak batch of candidates behind him
Peter Savodnik / Common Sense:
A ‘Trojan Horse’ in the Los Angeles D.A.'s Office  —  On May 31, 2018, Desiree Andrade was scrolling through Facebook when she saw a local news report about the body of an unidentified man found at the base of a canyon in the forest north of Los Angeles.  Andrade's son, Julian, who was 20, had disappeared two days earlier.
Carla K. Johnson / Associated Press:
US abortions rise: 1 in 5 pregnancies terminated in 2020  —  The number and rate of U.S. abortions increased from 2017 to 2020 after a long decline, according to figures released Wednesday.  —  The report from the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights …
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Phillip W. Magness / Reason:
Is Twitter-Famous Princeton Historian Kevin Kruse a Plagiarist?  —  When former Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke intimated in early 2017 that he would be joining Donald Trump's nascent administration, CNN obtained a copy of Clarke's master's thesis from the Naval Postgraduate School and revealed …
Discussion: Power Line
New York Times:
Self-Driving and Driver-Assist Technology Linked to Hundreds of Crashes, U.S. Data Shows  —  The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration released data on 10 months of crashes involving systems like Tesla's Autopilot.  A handful of accidents turned deadly.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Scoop: Keisha Lance Bottoms to join White House  —  President Biden is tapping former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms to replace Cedric Richmond as one of his most senior aides, bringing a Democratic rising star and former VP contender into the White House at a critical juncture, Axios has learned.
Washington Post:
GOP spends millions on election volunteers to search for fraud  —  The Republican National Committee's volunteers could lay the groundwork for future court challenges where the Trump campaign came up short in 2020  —  The Republican National Committee is spending millions this year …
Jim Saunders / Miami Herald:
South Florida synagogue sues over Florida's new 15-week abortion ban  —  BY JIM SAUNDERS NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA  —  A South Florida Jewish congregation has challenged a new state law that blocks abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, contending the measure violates privacy and religious-freedom rights.
Discussion: Reuters and Webb Chatham Report
Robert Maguire / CREW:
Group behind Trump SCOTUS picks brought in nearly $50 million in secret money … As the Supreme Court stands on the brink of loosening gun restrictions and rolling back decades of abortion protections, tax documents obtained by CREW show that the dark money group that poured millions of dollars …
Ella Nilsen / CNN:
Wind and solar power are ‘bailing out’ Texas amid record heat and energy demand  —  (CNN)Texans are cranking on the air conditioning this week amid an unusually early heat wave, setting new records for electricity demand in the state, which surpassed 75 gigawatts on Sunday and smashed the 2019 record.
Discussion: Informed Comment
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Evan Halper / Washington Post:
Why an energy crisis and $5 gas aren't spurring a green revolution
Discussion: nationalinterest.org
The American Conservative:
National Conservatism: A Statement of Principles  —  A world of independent nations is the only alternative to universalist ideologies seeking to impose a homogenizing, locality-destroying imperium over the entire globe. … We are citizens of Western nations who have watched with alarm …
Washington Post:
Publix heiress paid Kimberly Guilfoyle's $60,000 speaking fee on Jan. 6  —  The funds were directed to Donald Trump Jr.'s fiancee through Turning Point Action, a nonprofit run by Charlie Kirk  —  Kimberly Guilfoyle, a fundraiser for former president Donald Trump and the fiancee of his eldest son …
Mitt Romney:
Romney, Burr, Daines Announce Family Security Act 2.0  —  Pro-family, pro-life, and pro-marriage plan would streamline existing policies for working families into a monthly cash benefit  —  WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Mitt Romney (R-UT), Richard Burr (R-NC), and Steve Daines (R-MT) …
Barnini Chakraborty / Washington Examiner:
Republican Mayra Flores wins South Texas House seat long a Democratic stronghold  —  Rising Republican star Mayra Flores beat out Democratic challenger Dan Sanchez on Tuesday in a special election to finish Democratic Rep. Filemon Vela's current term in South Texas, a competitive congressional seat …
Pippa Stevens / CNBC:
Biden tells oil companies in letter ‘well above normal’ refinery profit margins are ‘not acceptable’  —  This is breaking news.  Please check back for updates.  —  President Joe Biden on Wednesday called on U.S. oil refining companies to produce more, saying they need to help alleviate the burden of high prices on consumers.
Eric Cortellessa / Washington Monthly:
No Way to Build a Railroad  —  Maryland's outgoing GOP Governor Larry Hogan is eyeing a 2024 run for president.  He is also leaving behind a mass transit mess.  —  On January 26, Maryland's Department of Transportation (MDOT) announced some good news—and some bad news.
Laura Bassett / Jezebel:
Richard Spencer Listed Himself on Bumble as Politically ‘Moderate’  —  The white supremacist told Jezebel in a text exchange that he no longer identifies as a “white nationalist” and asked that we respect his privacy.  —  Alerts  —  I wasn't expecting to have a borderline-introspective conversation …
Discussion: Raw Story and Insider
 
 
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