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12:15 PM ET, April 2, 2023

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Alisa Wiersema / ABC News:
ABC News exclusive: Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson announces 2024 presidential run  —  He says that Trump should drop out of the race given his recent indictment.  —  Speaking to ABC News' Jonathan Karl, former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson announces his plan to run for the Republican presidential nomination.
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Kelly Garrity / Politico:
Asa Hutchinson announces presidential bid, says Trump should withdraw from race  —  “I am going to be running,” the former Arkansas governor said.  —  Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson is running for president in 2024, he said Sunday.  —  “I am going to be running.
Andrew Demillo / Associated Press:
Hutchinson launches GOP 2024 bid, calls on Trump to drop out  —  Asa Hutchinson, who spent two terms as governor of Arkansas, will seek the Republican presidential nomination, positioning himself as an alternative to Donald Trump just days after the former president was indicted by a grand jury in New York.
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Trump legal team will look to challenge ‘every potential issue’ once indictment is unsealed  —  Donald Trump's legal team will look to challenge “every potential issue” in his indictment once the charges are unsealed, an attorney for the former president said Sunday.
CNN:
Former Arkansas Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson announces White House bid
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump ceded the moral high ground on presidential indictments long ago
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Jared Gans / The Hill:
Jeb Bush questions Trump indictment, says jury should be ‘the voters’
Insider:
Trump surges to a 26-point lead over Ron DeSantis in the 2024 GOP presidential primary post-indictment: poll
Vivian Salama / Wall Street Journal:
Blinken Calls on Russian Counterpart to Release Evan Gershkovich  —  U.S. Secretary of State tells Sergei Lavrov that the continued detention of the correspondent is unacceptable  —  WASHINGTON—Secretary of State Antony Blinken pressed his Russian counterpart for the release …
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Pjotr Sauer / The Guardian:
My friend Evan Gershkovich is no spy.  Just a brave reporter jailed in Moscow  —  The US journalist arrested last week is the first to be accused of espionage in Russia since the cold war  —  ours before Russia's federal security service, the FSB, came for him, my best friend, Evan Gershkovich, sent me a text.
Discussion: Fox News, NBC News and Vanity Fair
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Journalist Detained by Russia Was Reporting Stories That ‘Needed to Be Told’  —  Evan Gershkovich, who works for The Wall Street Journal, knew the risks of reporting in Russia but felt a deep connection to the country, his friends said.  —  The reporting job in Moscow had everything Evan Gershkovich …
Patrick Marley / Washington Post:
Expensive court race will decide future of abortion in Wisconsin  —  Voters will decide Tuesday if conservative or liberal judges control the Wisconsin Supreme Court ahead of decisions on abortion and redistricting.  —  ELKHART LAKE, Wis. — Tuesday's election for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court …
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Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:   Democrats Run on Abortion, Even for Offices With Little Say on the Issue
Benjamin Wittes / Dog Shirt Daily:
My Twitter Account Has Been Suspended  —  Elon Musk protects the russian embassy against an April Fools joke  —  Good Evening.  —  I decided when I woke up this morning and saw PwnAllTheThings having fun impersonating the Russian foreign ministry on Twitter that my Twitter account might not survive this April Fools Day.
Discussion: CNN
Jane Pauley / CBS News:
Sen. John Fetterman on depression, recovery, and “making up any lost time”  —  At six foot eight, Sen. John Fetterman is still a formidable man, despite two serious assaults on his health in less than a year: he suffered a stroke last May, and after a private struggle for years …
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
No Labels group raises alarms with third-party presidential preparations  —  It has money, name-brand political backers and declines to describe either President Biden or Donald Trump as acceptable candidates  —  Former senator Joe Lieberman knows better than most the impact third-party bids can have on presidential elections.
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Starbucks fired the employee responsible for igniting the Starbucks Workers United union campaign  — Starbucks fired Alexis Rizzo, the employee responsible for igniting the Starbucks Workers United union campaign, CNBC confirmed.  — Rizzo worked as a shift supervisor at Starbucks …
Discussion: CNN
Institute for the Study of War:
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, April 1, 2023  —  April 1, 9 pm ET  —  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 …
Discussion: The Hill
New York Times:
Chicagoans Are Picking a Mayor.  Here's What Matters From 4 Key Wards.  —  Voters will go to the polls on Tuesday in the nation's third-largest city, a place where neighborhoods often stand apart.  —  CHICAGO — Chicago is known as a city of neighborhoods, a sprawling metropolis divided …
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Over 24 hours, rumblings of a reckoning for the right  —  It started at the top, late Thursday afternoon.  —  Reporters staking out the clerk's office at the New York County Criminal Court building noticed an unusual commotion.  After the media was steered out of the area …
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Trump and Fox News, Twin Titans of Politics, Hit With Back-to-Back Rebukes
 
 
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