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Associated Press:
Police: 4 killed in shooting at downtown Louisville building — A shooting at a bank in downtown Louisville killed at least four people and wounded at least eight others Monday, police said. The suspected shooter was also dead. — The shooting, the 15th mass killing in the country this year …
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LMPD: 4 dead, 8 injured including 2 officers from downtown Louisville shooting; suspect dead — LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - The Louisville Metro Police Department confirmed four people have died from an active shooting in downtown Louisville near Slugger Field on Monday morning.
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Amanda Holpuch / New York Times:
5 Dead and 8 Injured in Shooting in Louisville, Ky., Police Say
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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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Anthony Man / Orlando Sentinel:
Trump's South Florida supporters stick with him despite criminal charges. 'If he doesn't win in 2024, I'll never vote again.'
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Eric Cortellessa / TIME:
Exclusive: Florida GOP Congressman Backs Trump for President, as More Prepare to Follow Suit
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Sam Adler-Bell / New York Times:
The One Thing Trump Has That DeSantis Never Will
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Meg Kinnard / Associated Press:
DeSantis to make 1st public appearance in South Carolina
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Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
Hounded by baseless voter fraud allegations, an entire county's election staff quits in Virginia — In Buckingham County, four people quit their jobs after a feud between local Republicans and the general registrar consumed the small community. — BUCKINGHAM, Virginia — Lindsey Taylor loved running elections here.
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NBC News:
Biden's 2024 campaign is starting to take shape, minus the announcement — With no major primary opposition, Biden has the luxury of launching the campaign on his own terms. But a looming clash with Republicans on spending is creating a time crunch. — WASHINGTON — Top White House advisers …
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CNN:
Biden judicial push hits roadblocks with GOP veto-power and Democratic absences — The remarkable pace with which President Joe Biden has sought to remake the federal bench has been put into jeopardy by dual threats: Democratic Senate absences and a Senate rule that gives Republicans the ability …
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Biden says he plans on running in 2024
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Jill Lawrence / The Bulwark:
The Racial Element of Trump's Attacks on His Prosecutors — Why it matters that he calls them “racist” and “animal.” — Indictment season is officially underway and Donald Trump's legal Houdini act is closing after a fifty-year run. Yes, he's making history.
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Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
How Stormy Daniels Sees It Ending … Stormy Daniels saged the room and shuffled the oracle deck. It was the evening of April 1, and the woman at the center of the legal drama that led to the first criminal indictment of a U.S. president had agreed to ask the guides for help to see more clearly the past …
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 …
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David Edwards / Raw Story:
Tennessee House speaker admits he's powerless to stop reinstatement of expelled Democrats
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Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
DeSantis Pushes Toughest Immigration Crackdown in the Nation — The Florida governor is pushing an aggressive proposal to penalize those who aid undocumented immigrants and to track costs for providing them with health care. — TALLAHASSEE — Led by Gov. Ron DeSantis …
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Caroline Kitchener / Washington Post:
Two friends were denied care after Florida banned abortion. One almost died. — New abortion restrictions have disrupted the standard of care for a pregnancy complication both women experienced late last year — MIRAMAR, Fla. — Anya Cook did not want to push.
CNN:
The Texas pardons board is investigating after GOP governor's request in case of sergeant convicted of killing protester at 2020 BLM rally — The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles is launching an investigation upon the Republican governor's request for an expedited probe and pardon recommendation …
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Army Times:
How the Army quietly discharges soldiers charged with violent crimes — Stationed at Army posts thousands of miles apart, two soldiers faced a flurry of criminal charges after they allegedly assaulted women within days of each other in early 2017. — One soldier was accused of physically assaulting …
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Robert Reich:
Is the GOP becoming the American fascist party? — Tennessee offers a chilling example — I hate to say this, but America no longer has two parties devoted to a democratic system of self-government. We have a Democratic Party, which — notwithstanding a few glaring counter-examples …
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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.
NBC News:
Is a ruling in Texas on abortion the Supreme Court's next stress test? — A decision by a Trump-appointed judge that casts doubt on federal approval of a key drug used for medication abortion could reach the justices in short order. — WASHINGTON — When the Supreme Court overturned …
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
The loneliness of Fox News' Bret Baier — Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier is perhaps the best personification of Fox Corp chief Lachlan Murdoch's description of Fox News as a network that targets the “center-right.” While his selection of stories and analysts often appeal …
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John-Henry Perera / Houston Chronicle:
Rep. Dan Crenshaw posts #boycottbudlight video with fridge full of Karbach, owned by same company — Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate — Rep. Dan Crenshaw has jumped on the #boycottbudlight bandwagon but he made a critical mistake in the execution.
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
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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.
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Max Moran / American Prospect:
If the Law Is Legitimate, Clarence Thomas Must Stand Trial — The Supreme Court justice repeatedly broke the law for two decades. But do the laws even apply to the leaders on our judicial branch? — ProPublica reported last week that for two decades, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas …
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NBC News:
Eyeing re-election, Ted Cruz seeks to burnish a bipartisan image — It's a tricky balancing act for the senator, staying true to his right-wing firebrand persona while reaching out to the Texas swing voters who nearly sent him packing in 2018. — WASHINGTON — Sen. Ted Cruz built …
Rich Lowry / National Review:
How a Flamboyant Gay Man Conquered Corporate America — Dylan Mulvaney figured it out. You shouldn't be surprised to learn that Dylan Mulvaney is an actor. The trans celebrity studied musical theater and had a part in The Book of Mormon prior to deciding during the pandemic that he was a woman …
BBC:
Twitter: BBC objects to ‘government funded media’ label — The BBC is objecting to a new label describing it as “government funded media” on its main Twitter account. — The corporation has contacted the social media giant over the designation on the @BBC account to resolve the issue “as soon as possible”.
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Jessica Piper / Politico:
Twitter fails to report some political ads after promising transparency — The platform started accepting political ads again in January. — Elon Musk took over Twitter last fall with a pledge of transparency for the social media giant — but so far political advertising on the platform has been anything but forthcoming.
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