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Patrick Smith / NBC News:
Driver arrested and Nazi flag seized after truck crashes into security barriers near the White House  —  The driver of the U-Haul truck faces multiple charges after the Monday night incident, which the Secret Service said may have been intentional.  —  A driver was arrested and a Nazi flag …
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Nathan Howard / Reuters:
Driver detained as truck crashes near White House; Nazi flag found  —  The U.S. Secret Service said it had detained the driver of a rented box truck that crashed into security barriers near the White House on Monday night, perhaps intentionally, but that there were no injuries or ongoing danger.
CNN:
U-Haul driver faces multiple charges after crashing into a security barrier near White House in Lafayette Square, police say  —  The driver of a U-Haul who crashed into a security barrier in Lafayette Square near the White House Monday night was arrested on multiple charges …
ABC News:
Man who wanted to seize power struck White House barrier with truck, law enforcement says
Troy Pope / wusa9.com:
U-Haul truck smashes into security barrier near White House, driver arrested
Washington Post:
GOP extortion has backed Biden into a corner.  He still has a way out.  —  As America hurtles toward default on its debts and the subsequent economic cataclysm, it's looking as if President Biden is running out of options.  He still has a way out — remaining prepared to invoke the 14th Amendment …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:   Court sets legal showdown on debt limit 14th Amendment argument
Matt Bruenig / People's Policy Project:   The Debt Limit Situation
Neil H. Buchanan / Verdict:
Will the Democrats Unilaterally Disarm on the Debt Ceiling in the Name of Being “Normal”?
Discussion: FIRST DRAFT
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
Florida school bans poem read at Biden inauguration after objection of just one parent  —  The poem that was read by poet Amanda Gorman at President Joe Biden's inauguration has been banned from elementary schools in Miami-Dade County, Florida after the objections of just one parent.
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Sommer Brugal / Miami Herald:
Miami-Dade K-8 bars elementary students from 4 library titles following parent complaint  —  A K-8 school in Miami-Dade County last month issued restrictions for elementary-aged students on three books and one poem after a parent objected to five titles, claiming they included topics …
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Alternet.org
NBC News:
Ron DeSantis will launch his presidential bid with Elon Musk  —  The Florida governor will announce he is running for president on Twitter Wednesday evening in a conversation with Musk.  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will announce he is running for president during a discussion with Twitter CEO Elon Musk …
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Here's How Bad CNN's Post-Trump Town Hall Ratings Have Been  —  This reporting is featured in this week's edition of Confider, The Daily Beast's media newsletter.  Subscribe here and send your questions, tips, and complaints here.  —  More than a week after CNN's disastrous town hall …
Perry Bacon Jr / Washington Post:
7 news outlets reimagining political journalism in smart ways  —  Political journalism is in crisis.  Over the past few months, BuzzFeed News, FiveThirtyEight, Vice and a number of other outlets that specialize in political news have substantially cut staffing and coverage.
Peter Kafka / Vox:
Do Americans really want “unbiased” news?  —  CNN and the Messenger both say they're chasing the middle.  Uh-oh.  —  Item 1: Last week, the Messenger, a news operation run by the team that built and sold the Hill, launched to plenty of jeers from critics, while inside the company …
Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg:
Billionaire Harlan Crow, Benefactor to Justice Thomas, Rebuffs Senate on Ethics Probe  —  Harlan Crow, the Texas billionaire and GOP megadonor with close ties to Clarence Thomas, refused to answer questions from a Senate committee about his years of gifts to the Supreme Court justice.
Wall Street Journal:
Special Counsel Is Wrapping Up Trump Mar-a-Lago Probe  —  Some Trump associates anticipate an indictment—and raising funds off it  —  WASHINGTON—Special counsel Jack Smith has all but finished obtaining testimony and other evidence in his criminal investigation into whether former President …
Discussion: Raw Story and RedState
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
The looming existential crisis for cable news  —  The number of cable subscribers, dropping for years, just took a record-breaking plunge.  Sooner or later, it will hurt news channels' bottom line.  —  After a week of promotion and controversy, CNN staged a live town hall telecast …
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Reality is an endlessly useful political opponent  —  Kari Lake lost the Arizona gubernatorial election by about 17,000 of the votes cast by Nov. 8, 2022.  —  She lost the election in the mind of the public when it was called by the Associated Press on Nov. 14.  She lost officially when the election was certified on Dec. 5.
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Joe Duhownik / Courthouse News Service:
Kari Lake loses election challenge
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
As funds run short, Treasury asks agencies if payments can be made later  —  Senior Biden aides are rummaging through the nation's books, looking for new ways to conserve cash while Washington battles over the debt ceiling  —  The Treasury Department has asked federal agencies whether …
Kate McGee / The Texas Tribune:
UT-Austin tried to hire a game theorist for its new free-enterprise think tank.  He turned down the job because of fights over tenure.  —  Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick wants to eliminate tenure, but his attempts have impacted the institute he helped create.  —  It was going to take Keith Schnakenberg …
Hannah Knowles / Washington Post:
DeSantis envisions shaping ‘7-2 conservative majority’ on Supreme Court  —  The Florida governor suggested that Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, John G. Roberts Jr. and Sonia Sotomayor could all retire over the next two presidential terms  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis previewed …
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Jared Gans / The Hill:
Trump Organization finishes last in brand reputation survey for second straight year  —  The Trump Organization, the company led by former President Trump and his family, finished last in an Axios Harris survey of brand reputations for the second year in a row.
Discussion: Axios
Shan Wu / The Daily Beast:
AG Merrick Garland Needs to Get Out of the Business of Defending Trump  —  E. Jean Carroll wants to add Trump's latest insults to a pending defamation case.  The attorney general still allows the federal government to help Trump's defense. … E. Jean Carroll's latest legal move …
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Charlie Kirk's ‘Turning Point’ Pivots to Christian Nationalism  —  The organization founded to promote the free market sure is spending a lot of time promoting attacks on the separation of church and state … Its mission, as recorded with the IRS since 2012, is to enlighten students about …
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
How Vivek Ramaswamy helped make Martin Shkreli the ‘pharma bro’  —  Ramaswamy's hedge fund firm invested with the since-infamous Shkreli.  Later, he would say he was “pathologically incapable of telling the truth.”  —  Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican presidential candidate who made a fortune in biotech …
Olivia Beavers / Politico:
House GOP auctions off McCarthy's used chapstick as debt talks intensify  —  The fundraiser, which Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) won with a $100,000 bid, is set to benefit Republicans' campaign arm.  —  House Republicans are bidding for steep spending cuts in exchange for raising the debt ceiling.
Hannah Natanson / Washington Post:
Objection to sexual, LGBTQ content propels spike in book challenges  —  An analysis of book challenges from across the nation shows the majority were filed by just 11 people  —  Books about LGBTQ people are fast becoming the main target of a historic wave of school book challenges …
Discussion: Raw Story
Char Adams / NBC News:
A Black professor has long said what the IRS now admits: The tax system is biased  —  Dorothy Brown's book “The Whiteness of Wealth” laid the groundwork for the IRS' recent admission that Black people are disproportionately audited.  —  The Internal Revenue Service is increasingly acknowledging …
Discussion: Politico
Ariel Zilber / New York Post:
Target CEO defends ‘woke’ capitalism during calls to boycott kids ‘tuck friendly’ swimwear  —  Target's top executive dismissed the social media uproar over the retailer's new line of LGBTQ-friendly clothing, including “tuck-friendly” swimwear for children, saying that marketing the products are good for business.
Katherine Hempstead / The Hill:
Work requirements are a policy failure: Why are they still an option?  —  Bringing people into the workforce and helping them stay there should be a national priority.  So should be ensuring that everyone has their basic needs met.  —  We've reached an inflection point in our economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Andrew Kerr / Washington Free Beacon:
Black Lives Matter Hemorrhaged Cash in 2022, Tax Documents Show … Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation ran an $8.5 million deficit and saw the value of its investment accounts plummet by nearly $10 million in the most recent tax year, financial disclosures show.
Ann M. Simmons / Wall Street Journal:
Russian Court Extends Evan Gershkovich's Pretrial Detention by Three Months  —  WSJ reporter was detained on March 29 while on a reporting trip in the Urals  —  A Russian court extended until at least Aug. 30 the pretrial detention of Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter deemed …
Axios:
Biden campaign spends big to close digital deficit  —  In its first month, President Biden's re-election campaign has already tripled what Donald Trump's team has spent in online ads in 2023, an attempt to jump-start small donations and lessen Trump's digital advantage.
Drew Hawkins / The Guardian:
Republican John Kennedy: southern plain-talk or Foghorn Leghorn shtick?  —  The Louisiana senator, once a Democrat, trots out folksy, at times racist lines in an exaggerated accent - but is it a put-on?  —  enator John Neely Kennedy, a Louisiana Republican, offended Mexicans across the world …
Matthew Barakat / Associated Press:
Appeals court upholds admissions policy at elite Virginia high school  —  A divided federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the constitutionality of a new admissions policy at an elite public high school in Virginia that critics say discriminates against highly qualified Asian Americans.
Discussion: Fox News and The Daily Caller
Rich Lowry / National Review:
The Busing of Migrants Has Worked  —  The ire of Democratic mayors and governors would be best directed at the author of this mess, President Biden.  —  B  —  uild the wall" hasn't been a sentiment often heard in South Side Chicago.  —  But someone held a sign calling for the barrier …
 
 
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Michelle Boorstein / Washington Post:
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Robert J. Shapiro / Washington Monthly:
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Emily Brooks / The Hill:
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