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11:15 AM 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:
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 …
Discussion: Mediaite, The Guardian, Al Jazeera and CNN
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
Discussion: USA Today
Associated Press:
Appeals court preserves partial access to abortion pill, but with tighter rules  —  A federal appeals court preserved access to the abortion pill mifepristone for now but reduced the period of pregnancy when the drug can be used and said it could not be dispensed by mail.
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Chris Geidner / Law Dork with Chris Geidner:   Fifth Circuit says mifepristone stays approved during appeal, but questions remain
Politico:
Appeals court keeps abortion pill on the market but sharply limits access
MSNBC:
Audio with Fox News shows Trump team privately admitted lacking evidence on Dominion claim  —  Alex Wagner shares exclusive audio recordings made by former Fox News producer Abby Grossberg while she was a producer for Maria Bartiromo that show members of Donald Trump's team being less confident …
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Josephine Harvey / HuffPost:
‘Such An Idiot’: Nicolle Wallace Bursts Out Laughing Over Trump Comment On Fox News  —  The MSNBC anchor took aim at the former president's embrace of authoritarian leaders.  —  MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace laughed in disbelief after showing viewers an excerpt from Donald Trump's recent interview …
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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Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — North Carolina Sen. Ted Budd Endorses Donald Trump for President
Discussion: NBC News, The Hill and The Daily Caller
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
DeSantis to head to D.C. as he nears presidential bid
Discussion: NBC News
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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NBC News:
Trump to be deposed in New York AG's business fraud lawsuit
Graham Kates / CBS News:
Trump expected to answer questions in deposition in New York City, source says
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 …
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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Punchbowl News:
4/13/23 ☀️ Punchbowl News AM  —  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 …
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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 …
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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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
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.
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.
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.
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 …
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
Discussion: TheBlaze, Twitchy and Fox News
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: RedState and Reuters
Popular Information:
If at first you don't succeed, defund the public library  —  Across the country, right-wing activists and politicians are pushing to ban hundreds of books from public school libraries.  While this is often described as an effort to remove “pornography” from school libraries …
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
Craig Mauger / The Detroit News:
Whitmer signs gun control bills passed in response to deadly MSU shooting  —  East Lansing — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed bills to combat gun violence Thursday, two months after a mass shooting on the campus of Michigan State University left three students dead and five injured.
Discussion: Detroit Free Press and WOOD-TV
Alex Gangitano / The Hill:
Investigators ‘getting close’ to identifying US intelligence leaker: Biden  —  President Biden on Thursday said that investigators are “getting close” to identifying the source of a U.S. intelligence leak that revealed details about the war in Ukraine and U.S. spying efforts on some of its closest allies.
Axios:
Josh Green's new book on the populist left  —  Josh Green of Bloomberg Businessweek will be out Jan. 9 with “The Rebels,” a book about the populism on the left that was galvanized by the 2007-08 financial crisis. … - “The Rebels,” he says, is “about the rise of left-wing populism …
Josephine Harvey / HuffPost:
Tucker Carlson Might Have Just Delivered His Most Racist Fox News Rant Yet  —  The Fox News host suggested Tennessee lawmaker Justin Pearson, who is Black, talks like a “sharecropper.”  —  Tucker Carlson went on an overtly racist tirade against a Tennessee state lawmaker on Wednesday night …
Ben Giles / NPR:
The Arizona House expels a Republican lawmaker for her role in baseless testimony  —  PHOENIX — An Arizona Republican legislator has been expelled from the state House of Representatives for inviting a witness to present false charges about lawmakers and other state officials — and then …
 
 
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Axios:
Scoop: Schumer lays groundwork for Congress to regulate AI
Discussion: Fox News and Washington Post
John Daniel Davidson / The Federalist:
For $80 Billion (And Counting) U.S. Taxpayers Have Bought A Bloody Stalemate In Ukraine
Discussion: Reason, The Hill and Fox News
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
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
How to Avoid a War With China
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Record Party Gap on Environment-Economic Growth Tradeoff
Discussion: The Hill
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Man with schizophrenia was left naked in jail cell for weeks before death, video shows
Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
Trump accidentally admits Michael Cohen told the truth in his new lawsuit: Legal expert
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Anheuser-Busch loses more than $5 billion in value amid Dylan Mulvaney Bud Light controversy
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