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Sascha Pare / LiveScience:
Orcas have sunk 3 boats in Europe and appear to be teaching others to do the same.  But why?  —  Scientists think a traumatized orca initiated the assault on boats after a “critical moment of agony” and that the behavior is spreading among the population through social learning.
Discussion: BGR
Adam Cancryn / Politico:
Biden's 14th Amendment message to progressives: It ain't gonna happen  —  The president's advisers fear such a move would trigger a legal battle, undermine global faith in U.S. creditworthiness and damage the economy.  —  Progressive lawmakers renewed their call for President Joe Biden …
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Finger-Pointing Won't Save Anyone if Default Leads to Economic Collapse
Discussion: The Hill
Catie Edmondson / New York Times:
Debt Limit Talks Hit Snag as G.O.P. Declares a ‘Pause’
Washington Post:
White House, GOP resume debt ceiling talks after brief breakdown
Todd / Mid Hudson News:
Homeless men recruited for veteran hotel scam  —  POUGHKEEPSIE - Seven homeless men have come forward to say they were part of a group of men recruited at a Poughkeepsie homeless shelter to act as veterans that had been displaced from a Newburgh hotel in order for a non-profit organization to perpetrate a fraud on the public.
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Phillip Pantuso / Albany Times Union:
Homeless men say they were recruited to pose as displaced vets  —  The men say they were coached by Sharon Toney-Finch to spin a tale of eviction from the Crossroads Hotel  —  POUGHKEEPSIE — Two men currently staying at a homeless shelter in Poughkeepsie said they were among a group …
Albany Times Union:
Story of homeless veterans displaced by migrants was false  —  A claim that veterans were ousted from Hudson Valley lodging as a result of NYC's migrant surge was a tall tale  —  Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate  —  NEWBURGH — Over the past week, a sensational story …
Joseph Spector / Politico:
Prosecutors looking into false reports of veterans displaced by migrants
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Homeless Vets Story Eaten Up By Fox News Turns Out to Be Spectacularly False
David Weigel / Semafor:
Megan Hunt doesn't want to be your Democratic hero.  She just wants to protect her trans son.  —  The Subject  —  “I don't like you.”  Nebraska state Sen. Megan Hunt said that to Republicans in March, as she filibustered legislation that would ban gender-affirming treatment for minors like her son, Ash Homan.
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Lydia O'Connor / HuffPost:
This Was A Very Bad Week For Abortion Rights And Democracy  —  Republican lawmakers in Nebraska, North Carolina and South Carolina all found ways to revive restrictive abortion bans in their states.  —  In the past week, Republican lawmakers across multiple states took aggressive aim at reproductive rights …
Molly Hennessy-Fiske / Washington Post:
Nebraska passes 12-week abortion, gender-affirming care for minors ban
Kwame Anthony Appiah / New York Times:
My Husband Flies First Class and Puts Me in Coach.  Is That Fair?  —  The magazine's Ethicist columnist on who deserves what in a marriage. … — Name Withheld  —  From the Ethicist:  —  The institution of marriage has always taken on characteristics of the society in which it arises.
Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
Rudy Giuliani's raw reaction to sexual assault suit by employee he ‘dated’ was quietly edited, and the truth may be even stranger  —  Two days after a woman filed a salacious lawsuit accusing Rudy Giuliani of rape, The Gateway Pundit ran the former mayor's raw and “EXCLUSIVE” reaction to her sexual abuse claims.
Discussion: Daily Kos
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NBC News:
U.S. and allies plan to provide Ukrainian pilots with F-16 fighter jets, official says
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
FBI misused surveillance tool on Jan. 6 suspects, BLM arrestees and others  —  Crime victims, political donors, and potential sources were targeted in digital searches that the FBI says have now been scaled back  —  The FBI has misused a powerful digital surveillance tool more than 278,000 times …
Charlie Mahtesian / Politico:
DeSantis' weakness as Trump slayer has GOP rivals smelling blood  —  PAPER TIGER?  — Next week is poised to be one of the most eventful of the 2024 presidential campaign.  Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) today filed his official paperwork to run, in advance of his home state launch event Monday.
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Kevin Bohn / NewsNation:
DeSantis expected to file candidacy paperwork Wednesday
Guy Trebay / New York Times:
Do Dress Sneakers Belong in the Oval Office?  —  People felt strongly after spotting the hybrid shoe at a meeting with the president.  —  Think of it as a rare instance of cross-aisle consensus or else a sartorial trend gone badly wrong.  But it did not go unnoticed when …
Discussion: The Spectator World
Liam Stack / New York Times:
A University Fired 2 Employees for Including Their Pronouns in Emails  —  The firings set off a debate at Houghton University, a small Christian institution in western New York, which said its decision was not based only on the pronoun listings.  —  When Raegan Zelaya and Shua Wilmot decided …
Politico:
Georgetown invited Navalny's kid to commencement.  ‘Chaos’ followed.  —  A chorus of students at Georgetown University's foreign service school are lashing out at the administration over a controversial choice of speaker for Saturday's commencement — the daughter of an imprisoned Russian opposition leader.
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Justice Gorsuch says COVID emergency orders among ‘greatest intrusions on civil liberties’  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court got rid of a pandemic-related immigration case with a single sentence.  —  Justice Neil Gorsuch had a lot more to say, leveling harsh criticism of how governments …
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
D.C. police lieutenant indicted with tipping off Proud Boy Enrique Tarrio about arrest  —  After Jan. 6, Lt. Shane Lamond said he supported the group and didn't “want to see your group's name or reputation dragged through the mud,” an indictment alleged.  —  WASHINGTON — A Metropolitan …
Rolling Stone:
Fox News Just Axed Its Investigative Unit, Sources Say  —  More layoffs could still be on the way as the network tries to cut costs following its settlement with Dominion, insiders tell Rolling Stone … “The rank and file journalists are getting let go meanwhile upper management …
Minyvonne Burke / NBC News:
NYC hospital employee seen in viral video appearing to take bike from young Black men has receipts showing she rented it, lawyer says  —  Attorney Justin Marino told NBC New York that Sarah Comrie, who he said is six months pregnant, had just finished a 12-hour shift and rented the bike.
Brooke Leigh Howard / The Daily Beast:
California Cops Probing Insane Video of Driver's N-Word Meltdown  —  According to the viral clip, the man was so busy spewing slurs on an Oakland Interstate that he crashed his car.  —  California police are looking into a wild video of a white driver yelling racial slurs to a Black motorist …
Discussion: DeadState and Raw Story
Barbara Mcmahon / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Ex Playboy model Karen McDougal shares intimate details of her ‘ten-month affair’ with Donald Trump, claiming he told her he loved her and SHE ended it - moving on with Bruce Willis - in explosive interview with Daily Mail  — Karen McDougal, an ex-Playboy model who claims …
Discussion: New York Post and Raw Story
Eliot A. Cohen / The Atlantic:
It's Not Enough for Ukraine to Win.  Russia Has to Lose.  —  Anything less will encourage Russian imperialism and embolden autocrats around the world.  —  The United States has suffered from a deliberate fuzziness in formulating its objectives in the Russian war in Ukraine.
Washington Post:
The short life of Baby Milo  —  Nobody expected Baby Milo to live for long.  —  He arrived in the world with no kidneys, underdeveloped lungs and a life expectancy of between 20 minutes and a couple of hours.  —  He lived for 99 minutes.  —  Milo Evan Dorbert drew his first and last breath on the evening of March 3.
Washington Post:
Border crossings down, but many migrants released to U.S. to ease crowding  —  About 11,000 recent border crossers deported in the past week, according to U.S. data, while 21,000 were released to await a court date  —  The number of migrants crossing the southern border illegally has continued …
 
 
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Karen Attiah / Washington Post:
Gun and abortion laws have made Texas a woman's nightmare
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
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Discussion: Power Line
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CNN:
How GOP attacks on ‘wokeism’ helped lead the Pentagon to abandon its effort to combat extremism in the military
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
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Discussion: DeadState and Raw Story
Sam Levine / The Guardian:
He voted in Florida for the first time in 2020. Then came the criminal charges
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Two GOP senators smear a witness to defend Clarence Thomas