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12:40 PM ET, April 13, 2023

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Washington Post:
Leaker of U.S. secret documents worked on military base, friend says  —  The man behind a massive leak of U.S. government secrets that has exposed spying on allies, revealed the grim prospects for Ukraine's war with Russia and ignited diplomatic fires for the White House is a young …
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New York Times:
Leader of Online Group Where Secret Documents Leaked Is Air National Guardsman  —  Federal investigators are searching for the person who shared top secret documents that revealed government secrets about the Ukraine war.  —  The leader of a small online gaming chat group where a trove …
New York Times:
New Leaked Documents Show Broad Infighting Among Russian Officials  —  The additional documents also suggest the breach of American intelligence agencies could contain far more material than previously believed.  —  The depth of the infighting inside the Russian government appears broader …
CNN:
Biden suggests US government is close to identifying intel leaker  —  President Joe Biden appeared to suggest Thursday that the US government is close to identifying the leaker responsible for the disclosure of sensitive government secrets posted to social media.
CNN:   Pentagon leak leads to limits on who gets access to military's top secrets
Julian Borger / The Guardian:
Pentagon leaks linked to young gun enthusiast who worked at military base - report
Discussion: Al Jazeera and Washington Examiner
Joe Eskenazi / Mission Local:
Arrest made in SF killing of Bob Lee — tech exec's alleged killer also worked in tech  —  Mission Local is informed that the San Francisco Police Department early this morning made an arrest in the April 4 killing of tech executive Bob Lee, Mission Local is told that San Francisco police …
Associated Press:
DOJ to ask Supreme Court to put abortion pill limits on hold  —  A federal appeals court ruled that the abortion pill mifepristone can still be used for now but reduced the period of pregnancy when the drug can be taken and said it could not be dispensed by mail.
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Politico:
Appeals court keeps abortion pill on the market but sharply limits access
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Hear Trump Officials Tell Fox Their Election Fraud Claims Were Bogus  —  Not only did Giuliani and others say they had no proof to back their Dominion claims, a Trump official told Fox News in early December 2020 to save the date for January 6.  —  The Kraken has been released.
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New York Times:
Trump Faces Questioning in N.Y. Attorney General's Lawsuit  —  Letitia James, the attorney general, has sued Donald J. Trump and three of his children, accusing them of a “staggering” fraud.  —  Donald J. Trump was being questioned under oath on Thursday in a civil fraud lawsuit brought …
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Annie Karni / New York Times:
Feinstein, Under Pressure to Resign, Asks to Step Down From Judiciary Panel  —  The 89-year-old California Democrat, who has been absent from the Senate for more than a month after being diagnosed with shingles, said she would seek a temporary replacement on the powerful committee.
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Jared Gans / The Hill:
Pelosi on calls for Feinstein to resign: 'I've never seen them go after a man who was sick in the Senate'  —  Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the former Speaker, questioned calls for Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) to step down over her health, arguing that she has never seen a man in that position face similar calls.
Matt Dixon / NBC News:
Ron DeSantis' team tries to stop Florida Republicans from endorsing Trump  —  The governor's team has reached out to at least six Florida congressional Republicans over the past week, trying to stop the bleeding.  —  Gov. Ron DeSantis' political operation has started calling Republican members …
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Alex Leary / Wall Street Journal:
Ron DeSantis, Down in Polls and Taking Flak From Donald Trump, Looks to Rebound
Discussion: Fox News, The Hill and Deseret News
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — North Carolina Sen. Ted Budd Endorses Donald Trump for President
Amanda Carpenter / Bulwark+:
Tim Scott Looks at Joe Biden and Thinks Civil War  —  SOUTH CAROLINA SENATOR TIM SCOTT, one of those affable Republicans often touted as “the future” of an optimistic, inclusive GOP, carefully selected the timing and location for the announcement of his exploratory committee for his party's 2024 presidential nomination.
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Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
Biden administration to widen Medicaid and ACA health coverage to DACA immigrants  —  The Biden administration is proposing new rules that would allow immigrants covered by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to qualify for health insurance through Medicaid and Affordable Care Act marketplaces …
Discussion: NBC News and The Hill
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Associated Press:
Biden expanding migrant access to government-funded health plans, officials say
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Jim Jordan's new stunt reveals the folly of ‘governing by Fox News’  —  Who could have predicted that structuring congressional hearings around the overriding goal of generating content for Fox News would prove to be a recipe for buffoonish failure?  —  After winning the House last November …
J. Michael Luttig / The Atlantic:
The Court Is Likely to Reject the Independent State Legislature Theory  —  And that offers hope for American democracy  —  It is often difficult, if not impossible, to tell what the Supreme Court is thinking about a case from the questions the justices ask counsel.
Washington Post:
Special counsel focuses on Trump fundraising off false election claims  —  A new batch of subpoenas seeks to compare public claims of voter fraud after the 2020 election versus private texts and emails  —  Federal prosecutors probing the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol …
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Trump steps into center of youth-led “Tennessee Three” backlash  —  Former President Trump will travel this week to Nashville, the epicenter of a growing youth-led backlash over the Tennessee House's expulsion of two Black Democratic state lawmakers for joining protests against gun violence.
Discussion: Politico, Semafor and CBS News
Maggie Tokuda-Hall / Pretty Ok Maggie:
Scholastic, and a Faustian Bargain  —  Recently, I got an email with an offer from Scholastic's Educational Division to license Love in the Library for an AANHPI narratives collection, I was thrilled.  If you've been in kids' books for more than ten minutes then you are aware of the staggering reach of Scholastic.
Punchbowl News:
NEWS: The House GOP debt limit proposal  —  There are a few behind-the-scenes developments happening on the debt limit that we want to share with you. … The legislation would lift the debt limit until May 2024.  Leadership is considering either a cap on non-defense discretionary spending …
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Scoop: Biden's pick for Labor looking doubtful  —  President Biden's nomination of Julie Su as Labor secretary is in serious danger, as Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) has told the Biden administration he has deep reservations about her, according to people familiar with the situation.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and RedState
Politico:
The RNC chose Fox for first debate but rankled conservatives by entertaining CNN  —  The committee got the easy debate decision out of the way.  The ones after that are a lot harder.  —  A line of TV network executives made a pilgrimage to the Republican National Committee's headquarters …
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Dramatic realignment swings working-class districts toward GOP  —  Nine of the top 10 wealthiest congressional districts are represented by Democrats, while Republicans now represent most of the poorer half of the country, according to median income data provided by Rep. Marcy Kaptur's (D-Ohio) office.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and al.com
The Post Millennial:
BREAKING: Video shows reinstated TN State Rep Justin Jones stopping cars and assaulting drivers in summer of 2020  —  Footage has been unearthed of disgraced Tennessee state representative Justin Jones stopping cars and assaulting drivers in 2020.  —  Minute Read
Adam Mintzer / WKRN-TV:
‘There is no legislation’: As TN governor calls for gun reform, no GOP lawmakers say they're working on it  —  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — On Tuesday, Gov. Bill Lee stood alone as he asked for lawmakers to pass a bill to keep guns away from dangerous people.  However, it isn't clear who is working to write that legislation.
Discussion: WATE-TV
Fox News:
Biden administration invests $300 million to repair bridges across the country  —  The Biden administration is closing out a three-week push to highlight the benefits of infrastructure investments in local communities by awarding nearly $300 million to help repair or replace more than a dozen bridges across the country.
Discussion: The White House, UPI, The Hill, CNN and Roll Call
Pew Research Center:
In a Growing Share of U.S. Marriages, Husbands and Wives Earn About the Same  —  Even when earnings are similar, husbands spend more time on paid work and leisure, while wives devote more time to caregiving and housework  —  Even when earnings are similar, husbands spend more time on paid work and leisure …
Discussion: The Hill, CBS News, NPR and The 19th
 
 
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Craig Mauger / The Detroit News:
Whitmer signs gun control bills passed in response to deadly MSU shooting
John Daniel Davidson / The Federalist:
For $80 Billion (And Counting) U.S. Taxpayers Have Bought A Bloody Stalemate In Ukraine
Discussion: Reason
Jordan Green / Raw Story:
Watch: Tennessee cops let violent neo-Nazis off with warnings after they menaced a charity drag show
The Boston Globe:
New faculty-led organization at Harvard will defend academic freedom
Alexander Burns / Politico:
Lula's Plan: A Global Battle Against Trumpism
Discussion: Associated Press
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Record Party Gap on Environment-Economic Growth Tradeoff
Discussion: The Hill
Sam Levin / The Guardian:
Man with schizophrenia was left naked in jail cell for weeks before death, video shows
Discussion: The Indianapolis Star
Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
Trump accidentally admits Michael Cohen told the truth in his new lawsuit: Legal expert
Ben Giles / NPR:
The Arizona House expels a Republican lawmaker for her role in baseless testimony