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Stephen Neukam / The Hill:
Nashville officials report ‘multiple patients’ from school shooting  —  Emergency officials in Nashville, Tenn., said on Monday they responded to an “active aggressor” at a school in the city with “multiple patients” reported.  —  The Nashville Fire Department said on Twitter that it responded …
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Washington Post:
6 killed, including 3 children, at Nashville school; shooter also dead  —  Bystander describes police response, emotional parents outside school … Updated just now  —  At least three children and three adults are dead after a shooting at a private Nashville grade school, authorities said Monday.
David K. Li / NBC News:
Shooting at Nashville Christian school leaves multiple injured and gunman dead, officials say  —  The “active shooter” incident unfolded at The Covenant School on Burton Hills Boulevard in Nashville.  —  Gunfire erupted at a Tennessee Christian school on Monday with “multiple” …
Helen Lewis / The Atlantic:
How Did America's Weirdest, Most Freedom-Obsessed State Fall for an Authoritarian Governor?  —  A journey through Ron DeSantis's magic kingdom In the course of a single month this year, the following news reports emanated from Florida: A gun enthusiast in Tampa built a 55-foot backyard pool shaped …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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Michael C. Bender / New York Times:
Pro-DeSantis Super PAC Hires Another Former Trump Aide
Cameron Joseph / VICE:
Trump's Favorite Extreme Think Tank Is Jumping Ship for DeSantis
Discussion: Raw Story
Aaron Rupar / Public Notice:
Trump and DeSantis have the same authoritarian plan to “drain the swamp”
Discussion: Newsbusters and The Atlantic
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
In Waco, Trump stokes anger and valorizes violent actors  —  At a dubiously timed rally, he pairs calls for resistance with tacit assurances that those who did would be defended  —  Donald Trump walked down the steps from his private jet and onto the stage at his rally in Waco, Tex. …
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump leans into extremism at first 2024 rally as legal woes mount
Maayan Lubell / Reuters:
Israel government to delay disputed judiciary bill amid mass protests  —  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday delayed a decision on bitterly contested plans for a judicial overhaul until next month amid fears that Israel's worst national crisis in years could fracture his coalition or escalate into violence.
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Sam Sokol / Haaretz:
Israel's Embassies Shutter Abroad as Diplomats Strike Against Netanyahu-led Overhaul  —  While the strike itself is likely temporary, the government's judicial overhaul has already started to inflict significant damage on Israel's reputation abroad, former Israeli envoy says
Associated Press:
Israeli president urges Netanyahu to halt legal overhaul
Akbar Shahid Ahmed / HuffPost:
Netanyahu Delays Power Grab After Protests Swell
Michael Hauser Tov / Haaretz:   Netanyahu Maintains Public Silence, but Rallies Right-wingers on WhatsApp
Aaron Zitner / Wall Street Journal:
Americans Pull Back From Values That Once Defined U.S., WSJ-NORC Poll Finds  —  Patriotism, religion and hard work hold less importance  —  Patriotism, religious faith, having children and other priorities that helped define the national character for generations are receding in importance to Americans …
Washington Post:
The gun that divides a nation … The AR-15 wasn't supposed to be a bestseller.  —  The rugged, powerful weapon was originally designed as a soldiers' rifle in the late 1950s.  “An outstanding weapon with phenomenal lethality,” an internal Pentagon report raved.
Discussion: Washington Post
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Ashley Parker / Washington Post:   A Southern town embraces its AR-15 factory
Stephen Neukam / The Hill:
Most in new poll say Trump investigations are fair  —  A majority of Americans think that the slate of state and federal investigations into former President Trump are fair, according to a new poll, despite Republican attempts to frame the probes as a left wing witch hunt of the former president.
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Ryan Cooper / American Prospect:
Donald Trump Deserves to Be Indicted
Discussion: Politico
Sarah Fitzpatrick / NBC News:
Ex-Tucker Carlson producer files new claims Fox News lawyers coached her testimony in Dominion lawsuit  —  Abby Grossberg sued Fox last week, alleging she was coerced into giving misleading testimony about the network's election fraud coverage.  She was fired Friday.
Jeffrey S. Solochek / Tampa Bay Times:
Removal of ‘Ruby Bridges’ film from Pinellas school sparks outrage  —  A parent complained that the movie might teach white children to hate Black children.  —  The Disney movie “Ruby Bridges,” which tells the tale of a 6-year-old who integrated New Orleans schools in the 1960s …
The Texas Tribune:
Texas Observer, legendary crusading liberal magazine, is closing and laying off its staff  —  The 68-year-old progressive publication, which published Ronnie Dugger, Molly Ivins and Kaye Northcott, hit financial troubles and wasn't able to broaden its audience, board members said.
Scott Jaschik / Inside Higher Ed:
The Role of Politics in Where Students Want to Go to College  —  Study finds that nearly one in four high school seniors said they passed up, out of political concerns, a college they would have initially considered because of its state.  The trend is evident among conservatives and liberals.
Discussion: Forbes
Alexander Sammon / Slate:
What the Heck Is Joe Biden Thinking Lately?  —  After his historic midterm wins, he's suddenly tacking right.  A new hire may be why.  —  In mid-March, the Biden administration formally approved the Willow oil drilling project on federally owned landed in Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve.
Timothy Noah / New Republic:
They're Not Joking: House Republicans Actually Compare Themselves to the Mob  —  Sometime late last year, the leaders of the five power centers within the House Republican caucus started calling themselves the Five Families.  “You know my reference,” Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene …
Discussion: Backbencher and Raw Story
John Ganz / Unpopular Front:
The Jock/Creep Theory of Fascism  —  It's Real and It Works … A little while ago, I came up with the idea that that the difference between Italian Fascism and German Nazism was that Fascism essentially had “Jock-Douche” vibes while Nazism had “Creep-Loser” vibes.
Monmouth University Polling Institute:
4 in 10 Dems Want Biden to Step Aside in 2024  —  But these voters don't have a favored alternate  —  West Long Branch, NJ - Even though most Democrats hold a favorable opinion of President Joe Biden, only one in four would want him to run for a second term.
Discussion: NBC News and New York Post
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
The Dual Education of Hakeem Jeffries  —  Shaped by Black Brooklyn and trained by Manhattan's legal elite, the House Democrats' new leader is not easily pigeonholed.  —  The campus at Binghamton University was in uproar.  Whispers of outside agitators swirled among the mostly white student body.
The White House:
Executive Order on Prohibition on Use by the United States Government of Commercial Spyware that Poses Risks to National Security  —  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:  —  Section 1.  Policy.
Center for American Progress:
Tax Cuts Are Primarily Responsible for the Increasing Debt Ratio  —  The need to increase the debt limit1 has focused attention on the size and trajectory of the federal debt.  Long-term projections show2 that federal debt as a percentage of the U.S. economy is on a path to grow indefinitely …
Discussion: Semafor
Lauren Hirsch / New York Times:
First Citizens to Acquire Silicon Valley Bank in Government-Backed Deal  —  Banking regulators, which announced the deal late Sunday, had been looking for a buyer since seizing control of the failed bank.  —  First Citizens BancShares will acquire Silicon Valley Bank, the California lender whose collapse …
Robert Downen / The Texas Tribune:
Houston GOP official knew for years of child sex abuse claims against Southern Baptist leader, law partner  —  Under oath, outspoken anti-gay activist Jared Woodfill said he was told in 2004 that Paul Pressler had sexually abused a minor.  But Woodfill did not cut ties with the Southern Baptist leader …
Discussion: Houston Chronicle
 
 
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
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Discussion: The Hill
Devan Cole / CNN:
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Discussion: Fox News and The Hill
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Discussion: Wall Street Journal
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Brittany Gibson / Politico:
Abortion puts New York Republicans on defense
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