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4:40 PM ET, March 23, 2023

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Laura Italiano / Insider:
Trump grand jury will not hear ‘hush-money’ case for the rest of this week: source  — Trump's Manhattan ‘hush-money’ grand jury will not consider the case this week.  — The grand jury has not heard evidence in the case since Monday, when a surprise witness testified.
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Fox News:
NY grand jury not expected to consider Trump case Thursday, source says … A Manhattan grand jury will not hear testimony, deliberate or vote on the hush-money case against former President Donald Trump Thursday, a source has confirmed to Fox News.  —  Since the grand jury does not sit on Fridays …
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
March 22, 2023  —  This week, news has been focused on the former president's possible indictment …
Ben Jacobs / Vox:
Trump can run for president from prison. Just ask Eugene Debs.
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
N.Y. prosecutor rebuffs GOP demand for documents related to Trump investigation
Discussion: Alternet.org
Houston Keene / Fox News:
Manhattan DA Bragg responds to House GOP doc request, says Trump ‘created a false expectation’ of arrest
Andrew Solender / Axios:
House GOP widens Manhattan DA probe with outreach to ex-prosecutors
Jen Smith / Daily Mail:
Tallahassee principal is forced to resign after parents complained that Michelangelo's statue of David is ‘pornographic’ and shouldn't be shown to sixth grade art history class  — Hope Carrasquilla was pushed out of Tallahassee Classical School in Florida
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Sara Boboltz / HuffPost:
Florida Principal Out After Viewing Of Michelangelo's ‘David’ Upsets Parents  —  One parent reportedly called the masterpiece “pornographic.”  —  The principal of Florida's Tallahassee Classical School is out of a job after parents complained that their sixth-grade children …
Dan Kois / Slate:   An Interview With the School Board Chair Who Forced Out a Principal After Michelangelo's David Was Shown in Class
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Man at Center of Jan. 6 Conspiracy Theory Demands Retraction From Fox  —  A lawyer for Ray Epps has demanded that the Fox host Tucker Carlson publicly apologize for “false and defamatory statements” that Mr. Epps served as a federal agent during the Capitol attack.
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Zach Montague / New York Times:
Woman Who Stormed Pelosi's Office on Jan. 6 Is Sentenced to Three Years  —  Prosecutors said that Riley June Williams, 24, had acted as an “accelerant” in the Capitol attack, leading those around her past police lines and into the speaker's office.  —  WASHINGTON — A Pennsylvania woman …
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Far-right extremist Riley Williams sentenced to 3 years in prison for storming Capitol on Jan. 6  —  WASHINGTON — A far-right extremist who was “obsessed” with white nationalist Nick Fuentes was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison for storming the U.S. Capitol and directing a mob toward …
Matt Novak / Forbes:
Donald Trump Shares Fake AI-Created Image Of Himself On Truth Social  —  Images created with artificial intelligence have flooded social media in recent months, with some people using AI tools like Midjourney to imagine what it would look like for Donald Trump to be arrested.
Discussion: Associated Press
Politico:
Jeff Zients discovers the thanklessness of the White House chief of staff gig  —  It's early and the job is thankless.  But Biden's new chief of staff and his leadership style have drawn some detractors.  —  The grumbling has already begun over Joe Biden's new chief of staff.
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Fox News
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump's kitchen-sink attack on DeSantis, parsed
Discussion: The Hill, Florida Politics and RedState
New York Times:
DeSantis Calls Putin a ‘War Criminal,’ Clarifying Earlier Comment on Ukraine
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Casey Parks / Washington Post:
'I've always known I was different': Four trans people share their stories
Discussion: KFF
Politico:
Court rejects Trump's urgent bid to keep lawyer's records from special counsel  —  The ruling effectively permits the Justice Department to circumvent Trump's attorney-client privilege after a lower-court judge found that the documents likely contain evidence of a crime.
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Robert Reich:
What connects Trump's likely arrest with the bank bailouts?  —  Answer: the anti-democracy movement  —  What connects the two biggest stories now dominating the news — Donald Trump's likely arrest and the Fed's bailouts of shaky banks?  —  Start with multi-billionaire Peter Thiel, and follow the money.
Discussion: The Mahablog and Washington Post
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Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
Trump to return to Fox as they rekindle their mutually beneficial relationship
Discussion: The Hill
Jeannie Suk Gersen / New Yorker:
The Secret Joke at the Heart of the Harvard Affirmative-Action Case  —  A federal official wrote a parody of Harvard's attitude toward Asian Americans and shared it with the dean of admissions.  Why did a judge try to hide that from the public?  —  Last fall, some mysterious new activity appeared on the Supreme Court's docket.
NBC News:
Father of slain Parkland victim arrested in fiery moment at House gun law hearing  —  WASHINGTON — Manuel Oliver, the father of a 17-year-old Parkland shooting victim, was arrested Thursday on Capitol Hill after he appeared to shout at a Republican lawmaker who was speaking during a hearing on gun regulations.
Aimee Picchi / CBS News:
Subscriptions can be hell to cancel.  Now, the FTC wants a new “click to cancel” rule.  —  Subscriptions can be tough to cancel, with some companies putting consumers on lengthy holds or subjecting them to sales pitches to try to change their minds.  It's such a pain point that subscriptions …
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Lauren Aratani / The Guardian:
FTC introduces proposal to make US subscriptions easier to cancel
Discussion: NPR
Mary Ellen Klas / Miami Herald:
Where is DeSantis traveling on state business?  Legislature wants to make it a secret  —  Citing an increase in public records requests for the governor's travel schedule, Florida legislators are advancing a bill that would shield from the public any information about how and where Gov. Ron DeSantis and other state officials go.
James Pollard / Associated Press:
South Carolina comptroller to resign after $3.5B error  —  Embattled South Carolina Comptroller General Richard Eckstrom will resign next month after a $3.5 billion accounting error in the year-end financial report he oversaw.  The state's chief accountant will leave the elected post he has held …
Associated Press:
Biden approval dips near lowest point: AP-NORC poll  —  Approval of President Joe Biden has dipped slightly since a month ago, nearing the lowest point of his presidency as his administration tries to project a sense of stability while confronting a pair of bank failures and inflation that remains stubbornly high.
Simon Schuster / MLive.com:
Conspiracies and a Holocaust meme mark the dawn of Karamo's Michigan Republican Party  —  The longtime headquarters of the Michigan Republican Party, four blocks from Michigan's Capitol and the seat of political power in this state, sits empty and disused.  —  A trust made up of former party …
Lucille Sherman / Axios:
Scoop: Mark Robinson to announce bid for North Carolina governor  —  North Carolina's Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson is expected to announce his long-anticipated run for governor April 22, Axios has learned.  — And he'll do it in a place that became the hornet's nest …
Jon A. Shields / New York Times:
The Books That Show Conservatism at Its Best  —  Mr. Shields is a professor of government at Claremont McKenna College.  He has written widely on the American right and the politics of higher education.  —  When conservative undergraduates look around for mentors these days, who do they find?
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Jonathan Martin / Politico:
Sinema Trashes Dems: ‘Old Dudes Eating Jell-O’  —  The Arizona senator courts GOP donors by ridiculing her former Democratic colleagues.  Ever since Sen. Kyrsten Sinema became an independent in December, her Democratic colleagues have been restrained about the shift, careful not to alienate …
David Meyer / Streetsblog New York City:
STREETSBLOG EXCLUSIVE: Andy Byford to Join Amtrak  —  Former NYC Transit President and beloved “Train Daddy” Andy Byford will join Amtrak next month as an executive vice president, Streetsblog has learned.  —  Byford, who earned his nickname during his time running the MTA's city bus …
Discussion: Bloomberg and Gothamist
CBS News:
Oxford school shooter's parents can face manslaughter trial, court says in groundbreaking case  —  The parents of a teenager who killed four students at a Michigan high school can face trial for involuntary manslaughter, the state appeals court said Thursday in a groundbreaking case of criminal responsibility for the acts of a child.
 
 
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Mike Palicz / Americans for Tax Reform:
Conservative Groups Release Letter Opposing Government-Run Tax Prep
Discussion: GovExec.com and The Hill
BBC:
World Athletics bans transgender women from competing in female world ranking events
Reuters:
DeSantis agenda wins in Florida but could cost him in 2024: Reuters/Ipsos
Discussion: NBC News
Tirien Steinbach / Wall Street Journal:
Diversity and Free Speech Can Coexist at Stanford
Neil Vigdor / New York Times:
Arizona Supreme Court Turns Down Kari Lake's Appeal in Her Election Lawsuit
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Tom Perkins / The Guardian:
Trump appointees interfered to weaken EPA assessment of toxic chemical
Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
All the Indictments Everywhere All at Once
Discussion: Bulwark+
Andrius Sytas / Reuters:
Ecumenical patriarch: Russian Church shares blame for ‘crimes’ in Ukraine
Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
China Says It Opposes a Forced Sale of TikTok
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Matt Taibbi Can't Comprehend That There Are Reasons To Study Propaganda Information Flows, So He Insists It Must Be Nefarious
 

 
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New York Times:
The NBC News-Ronna McDaniel saga highlights the perks and perils of partisan talk TV; a source says McDaniel is now seeking $600K+ for her two year deal

New York Times:
Karlie Kloss' Bedford buys Life publication rights from Dotdash Meredith and plans to resume regular print publication in 2025; Josh Kushner will be publisher

Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
The Atlantic is profitable, has 1M subscribers, and revenue grew 10% in 2023 thanks to a 50% price hike, a harder paywall, and a shift to in-depth reporting

 
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