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5:55 PM ET, March 26, 2023

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Ben Samuels / Haaretz:
Thousands Take to Streets After Netanyahu Fires Defense Minister  — Supreme Court gives Netanyahu a week to respond to petition  — Movement for Quality Government in Israel calls on court to punish Netanyahu  — Agriculture Minister plans to vote for overhaul legislation
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Patrick Kingsley / New York Times:
Netanyahu Fires Defense Minister Who Urged Delay in Court Overhaul  —  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel removed the defense minister, Yoav Gallant, after he called for a halt to the government's plan to limit judicial authority.  —  Reporting from Jerusalem
Haaretz:
Netanyahu Fires Defense Minister Gallant for Calling to Stop Judicial Overhaul  —  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Likud's Yoav GallantCredit: Avi Ohayon/GPO  — Supreme Court gives Netanyahu a week to respond to petition  — Movement for Quality Government in Israel calls on court to punish Netanyahu
Politico:
Playbook: The return of ‘crazy town’  —  Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  WACKO IN WACO — It was everything that supporters of DONALD TRUMP love about the former president — and everything his GOP critics absolutely abhor.
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Caleb Howe / Mediaite:
Trump Rally Crowd Eerily Quiet As He Acts Out Ron DeSantis Crying and Begging for His Help  —  GOP primary candidate Donald Trump held a campaign rally in Texas on Saturday and attacked Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis at length, as he has spent many weeks doing, but his own MAGA crowd was noticeably under-enthused by the remarks.
Discussion: BizPac Review, Politico and The Hill
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Hating the people who hate Trump is the only force that moves GOP voters
Discussion: Washington Press
Mike Copeland / Waco Tribune-Herald:
Trump draws thousands to Waco rally, sticks with familiar themes
New York Times:
Trump Puts His Legal Peril at Center of First Big Rally for 2024
Jay Kuo / The Status Kuo:   The Week Ahead  —  Today's week ahead first takes a peek behind us at the events of last week …
David Smith / The Guardian:
Trump describes 2024 election as ‘the final battle’ from podium in Waco
David French / New York Times:
The Potential Trump Indictment Is Unwise  —  For the first time in American history, a hotly anticipated indictment of a former American president may actually be handed up.  Manhattan's district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, seems set to bring charges related to Donald Trump's allegedly paying off …
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Sophia Cai / Axios:
Trump suggests DA “dropped” Stormy case … - “I think they've already dropped the case,” Trump told reporters aboard his plane after appearing at a campaign rally in Waco, Texas. … - Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's office has declined to comment on the case, which appears …
John Blake / CNN:
What's ‘digital blackface?’  And why is it wrong when White people use it?  —  Maybe you shared that viral video of Kimberly “Sweet Brown” Wilkins telling a reporter after narrowly escaping an apartment fire, “Ain't nobody got time for that!”  —  Perhaps you posted that meme …
Discussion: TMZ.com, RedState and Fox News
Joshua Rhett Miller / New York Post:
Hollywood's top Native American producer is a fake, activists claim  —  One of Hollywood's leading Native American figures is being accused of faking her claims of Cherokee heritage, The Post can reveal.  —  Award-winning Heather Rae, 56, serves on the Academy of Motion Pictures' Indigenous Alliance …
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Why we're still stuck in Trump's world  —  There is a madness running through our nation's public life.  Our country seems nearly powerless to counteract it because it's built into the structure of American politics, the belief system of Republican voters and the polarization of opinion in Congress.
Craig Simpson / Telegraph:
Agatha Christie classics latest to be rewritten for modern sensitivities  —  Poirot and Miss Marple mysteries have original passages reworked or removed in new editions published by HarperCollins.  —  Agatha Christie novels have been rewritten for modern sensitivities, The Telegraph can reveal.
Discussion: Breitbart and Deadline
New York Times:
Steve Cohen's Amazin', Maddening, Money-Losing Bid to Own New York  —  Once a symbol of Wall Street excess, Cohen has invested lavishly in the Mets, becoming the most beloved billionaire in Queens.  Is that enough to reverse team history?  —  PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Around early 2020 …
Institute for the Study of War:
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, March 25, 2023  —  Click here to see ISW's interactive map of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.  This map is updated daily alongside the static maps present in this report.  —  Click here to access ISW's archive of interactive time-lapse maps of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Discussion: Bloomberg
Brian Klaas / The Atlantic:
Rule By Law in Florida  —  Would President DeSantis be worse for American democracy than President Trump?  —  After donald trump sabotaged the 2022 midterm elections for Republicans by endorsing unelectable extremists, a comforting narrative took root among GOP elites.
Discussion: Wired
Joseph Menn / Washington Post:
Indicted Chinese exile controls Gettr social media site, ex-employees say  —  Guo Wengui, arrested March 15 on fraud charges, was known to have invested, but the extent of his influence on the site has not been previously reported.  —  NEW YORK — An exiled Chinese tycoon indicted …
Discussion: Political Wire
Reuters:
Lebanon wakes up in two time zones as clock change row deepens divisions  —  Lebanon woke up in two time zones on Sunday amid an escalating dispute between political and religious authorities over a decision to delay the clock change by a month.  —  Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati decided …
Discussion: Reuters, Associated Press and The Sun
Albert Hunt / The Hill:
Pundit of venom and division: Newt Gingrich has not changed  —  Newt Gingrich is having another rebirth: reported whisperer to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), quoted hundreds of times as the supposed wise man to all things Congress and Washington, an off-Broadway version of Jim Baker or Leon Panetta.
 
 
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Michael M. Phillips / Wall Street Journal:
Al Qaeda Closes In on a Stalwart U.S. Ally in Africa
William Wan / Washington Post:
She lost her trans son to suicide. Can a Kentucky lawmaker make her colleagues care?
6abc:
Pipe burst at Trinseo PLC releases hazardous material into Bucks County creek; Coast Guard responds
Discussion: The Hill and The Post Millennial
Al Jazeera:
NATO condemns Putin for ‘dangerous’ nuclear rhetoric
Associated Press:
Biden's Justice Dept. keeps hard line in death row cases
Maia Szalavitz / New York Times:
The A.D.H.D. Medication Shortage Reflects Bad Drug Policy
Discussion: RedState, Slate and NBC News
April Rubin / New York Times:
George Washington University Is Moving on From ‘Colonials’
Nate Monroe / Florida Times Union:
Hi America, now Ron DeSantis is your problem, too
 Earlier Items: 
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Comer's ‘oversight’ is focused on phony scandals
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
NBC News:
How did a police chase in Mississippi end with an innocent woman shot in her bedroom?
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Senate Banking Committee faces intense 2024 politics in bank collapse hearings
CNN:
Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna announces he won't seek California Senate seat, endorses Rep. Barbara Lee
Neal E. Boudette / New York Times:
President Is Ousted in United Auto Workers Election
Discussion: Bloomberg and WCBD News 2
A.G. Gancarski / Florida Politics:
Lincoln Project ad questions where Ron DeSantis was on 9/11
Discussion: The Lincoln Project
 

 
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