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8:30 AM ET, April 10, 2023

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Wall Street Journal:
New Details on Intelligence Leak Show It Circulated for Weeks Before Raising Alarm  —  The secret documents were first posted in January to a small group on a messaging channel that trafficked in memes, jokes and racist talk  —  One of the most significant leaks of highly classified U.S. documents …
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Yaroslav Trofimov / Wall Street Journal:   Ukraine May Run Out of Air Defenses by May, Leaked Pentagon Documents Warn
Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
Leaked Pentagon Documents Reveal Secrets About Friends and Foes
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Where does the Tennessee House Speaker actually live?  —  Last week, Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton (R) led the charge to expel two members of the Tennessee House, Justin Jones (D) and Justin Pearson (D).  Jones and Pearson were expelled for expressing solidarity with protesters …
Discussion: Ballotpedia and Alternet.org
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Safia Samee Ali / NBC News:
'Our vote doesn't matter': Black Tennessee residents frustrated over expulsion of legislators
Discussion: Newsbusters
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Nandita Bose / Reuters:
White House plans support for drugstores, pharma in abortion pill battle
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
Mansplaining GOP Rep Thinks It's Time to ‘Get Off’ the Abortion Issue
Discussion: CNN
Politico:
As Trump dominates the airwaves, ‘it feels like f—king 2016’  —  Trump's opponents are struggling to find a spotlight of their own in the 2024 campaign.  —  With the volume blaring on The Donald Trump Show, other Republican presidential hopefuls are struggling to make any noise of their own.
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Frank Luntz / New York Times:
How to Make Trump Go Away  —  After more than three decades in and around politics, I now spend most of my time grappling with political questions in the classroom and in focus groups.  There is one conundrum that fascinates me above others: Why does Donald Trump still generate such loyalty and devotion?
Josh Kraushaar / Axios:
GOP's stormy 2024 outlook
Discussion: The Guardian and Fox News
Reuters:
Fox News settles with Venezuelan businessman in election defamation lawsuit  —  Fox News said on Sunday it has reached a settlement with a Venezuelan businessman Majed Khalil, ending a defamation case in which Khalil said he was falsely accused on air of helping to rig the 2020 U.S. presidential election against Donald Trump.
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Alberto Luperon / Law & Crime:
Fox settles defamation lawsuit from Venezuelan businessman over broadcast tying him to Dominion election claim
Discussion: Raw Story
Vivian Wang / New York Times:
China Sentences Leading Rights Activists to 14 and 12 Years in Prison  —  Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi were detained after organizing a small seaside gathering of activists to discuss human rights.  Their lengthy sentences point to Beijing's intolerance of dissent.  —  Reporting from Beijing
Washington Post:
Research with exotic viruses risks a deadly outbreak, scientists warn  —  A growing number of scientists are reconsidering the dangers of prospecting for unknown viruses and conducting other high-stakes work with pathogens  —  BANGKOK — When the U.S. government was looking for help …
New York Times:
The Real-World Costs of the Digital Race for Bitcoin  —  Bitcoin mines cash in on electricity — by devouring it, selling it, even turning it off — and they cause immense pollution.  In many cases, the public pays a price.  —  Texas was gasping for electricity.
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Dean Obeidallah / The Dean's Report:
Gov Greg Abbott pardons a murderer who killed a BLM protester to make Tucker Carlson happy  —  The GOP's assault on rule of law and democracy  —  The GOP's assault on both democracy and the rule of law was on full display this week.  There was the Tennessee GOP's white supremacy preserving expulsion …
Keith Bradsher / New York Times:
Elon Musk Says Tesla Will Build Shanghai Battery Factory  —  The facility will produce large batteries that will help electric utilities stabilize grids and use more renewable energy.  —  Reporting from Beijing  —  Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla, announced on Twitter on Sunday …
Commander, U.S. 7th Fleet:
7th Fleet Destroyer conducts Freedom of Navigation Operation in South China Sea  —  On April 10, the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Milius (DDG 69) asserted navigational rights and freedoms in the South China Sea near the Spratly Islands, consistent with international law.
Discussion: Bloomberg, CNN and UPI
Alexander Ward / Politico:
GOP embraces a new foreign policy: Bomb Mexico to stop fentanyl  —  Republicans suggest everything from terrorist labels to an invasion to decimate drug cartels in Mexico.  —  A growing number of prominent Republicans are rallying around the idea that to solve the fentanyl crisis, America must bomb it away.
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
$388 in Sushi.  Just a $20 Tip: The Brutal Math of Uber Eats and DoorDash  —  Delivery drivers were hailed as pandemic heroes.  But they say the rise of contactless delivery has made customers less inclined to tip generously and gig work is becoming an even harder way to make a living.
Dante Chinni / NBC News:
How abortion changes election maps  —  The state Supreme Court election in Wisconsin is only the latest example of how abortion is driving election results since the Dobbs decision.  —  WASHINGTON — A Wisconsin election set the stage last week for Democrats to act on a range of issues in the state …
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Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:   GOP wages an asymmetrical war on democracy because it can't get the votes
 
 
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Caroline Kitchener / Washington Post:
Two friends were denied care after Florida banned abortion. One almost died.
Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
Hounded by baseless voter fraud allegations, an entire county's election staff quits in Virginia
Discussion: Raw Story
Jason Kandel / Law & Crime:
Florida man charged in ‘stupid’ road-rage shooting that wounded both shooters' daughters
The Post Millennial:
ANDY NGO REPORTS: Portland BLM-Antifa rioter convicted for killing infant son
Discussion: Just The News
Nahal Toosi / Politico:
‘A whole appeasement psychology’: How America let Putin off the hook after Crimea
New York Times:
El Salvador Decimated Its Ruthless Gangs. But at What Cost?
Timothy Puko / Washington Post:
In big climate move, EPA set to unveil tough limits on auto emissions
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‘Death to Christians’: Violence steps up under new Israeli gov't
 

 
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Max Tani / Semafor:
Many outlets have increased reliance on Apple News+; The Daily Beast is set to make $3M-$4M from it in 2024, and Time says it delivers a 7-figure annual revenue

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The NFL knows it provides must-see TV, earning $75M/game from Netflix and showing games across Amazon, YouTube, Disney, Comcast, Fox, and Paramount

Pew Research Center:
About 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are unavailable now and 8% of pages from 2023 are unavailable; 23% of news pages have at least one broken link
 
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