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Alexandra Ulmer / Reuters:
Exclusive: Hotelier Robert Bigelow gives Trump $1 million for legal fees  —  Hotelier Robert Bigelow told Reuters on Tuesday he gave Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump $1 million for his legal fees and agreed to donate another $20 million to a pro-Trump outside group for campaign purposes.
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Politico:
Playbook: Election-year politics hampers the Hill  —  With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  ONE STEP CLOSER — The House Homeland Security Committee voted shortly after 1 a.m. to advance impeachment articles against DHS Secretary ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS on an 18-15 party-line vote.
Politico:
As judges mull presidential immunity, Trump reaps the benefits of delay  —  For over three weeks, the D.C. Circuit has been sitting on a potentially decisive question.  —  Whether Donald Trump faces a potential prison sentence in 2024 is at the mercy of a federal appeals court that's operating …
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
Trump Has Devoured the Republican Establishment  —  It was almost 15 months ago that The New York Post published a full-page cover photo of Ron DeSantis with the headline “DeFUTURE.”  His 19-point victory in the Florida governor's race was one of the few bright spots of the 2022 elections …
Jessica Piper / Politico:
DeSantis super PAC quietly funnelled money into anti-Trump group
Discussion: New York Post and Political Wire
Rolling Stone:
Trump Allies Pledge ‘Holy War’ Against Taylor Swift  —  Taylor Swift hasn't even endorsed Joe Biden's 2024 campaign, but Trump is already privately grousing he's “more popular” than her  —  Singer-songwriter Taylor Swift hasn't even endorsed President Joe Biden for reelection yet.
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Kimberly Leonard / Politico:
Biden mocks Trump during Florida fundraiser  —  He lamented that Florida had faced a “real dose of Trumpism.”  —  MIAMI — President Joe Biden came to South Florida to cash in and dump all over Donald Trump.  —  During a fundraiser in Jupiter, Florida, on Tuesday, Biden rallied donors …
Bloomberg:
Biden Faces Blame for Border Crisis, Swing-State Voter Poll Shows
Discussion: Axios and Benzinga
Jessica Piper / Politico:
RFK Jr. is still drawing more backing from Trump donors, even as an independent
Washington Post:
Judge orders Tesla to undo Elon Musk's $56 billion pay package  —  The ruling by a Delaware court stems from a Tesla shareholder lawsuit over the tech billionaire's 2018 compensation package  —  A Delaware judge on Tuesday ruled that Elon Musk's generous 2018 compensation package …
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Randall Chase / Associated Press:
Elon Musk cannot keep Tesla pay package worth more than $55 billion, judge rules  —  Elon Musk is not entitled to landmark compensation package awarded by Tesla's board of directors that is potentially worth more than $55 billion, a Delaware judge ruled Tuesday.
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Steve Reilly / The Messenger:
Hunter Biden Got Charged in Gun Case ‘For Partisan Political Reasons’ by Prosecutors Who ‘Succumbed’ to Trump: Court Filings
Discussion: Washington Examiner and KRDO
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Syphilis Is Soaring in the U.S.  —  Cases have risen by 80 percent since 2018, the C.D.C. reported.  But chlamydia remains by far the most common sexually transmitted infection.  —  Syphilis, once nearly eliminated in the United States, continues to resurge, reaching the highest rate …
Discussion: Fox 8 Cleveland WJW, CBS News and KRDO
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David Gilbert / Wired:
The ‘Take Our Border Back’ Convoy Is Already a Complete Mess  —  Instead of immigrants, the group of extremists mostly battled each other, paranoia, and their GPS systems.  —  On Monday morning, the organizers of the Take Our Border Back convoy kicked off their road trip to the Texas-Mexico border in Virginia Beach.
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Congressman urging Texas to ignore the Supreme Court is backed by major law firms  —  Congressman Chip Roy (R-TX) is publicly urging Texas to ignore the Supreme Court.  In previously unreported comments, Roy explained that he feared his position would push the country into “a post-constitutional world.”
Discussion: UPI, The Texas Tribune and The Hill
Justin Rohrlich / The Daily Beast:
Disturbing Bill Would Let Arizona Legislators Ignore Election Results  —  The proposed bill would give the legislature absolute power to control the state's electoral college votes, disenfranchising millions of citizens.  —  An Arizona lawmaker who signed on to be a “fake elector” …
Olivia Reingold / The Free Press:
WATCH: American Miseducation.  A New Documentary from The Free Press  —  How did our universities become hotbeds of hate?  Olivia Reingold set out to investigate.  —  For the last ninety years, New Yorkers have come together for the annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony at Rockefeller Center.
Discussion: Power Line
Washington Post:
Prosecutor in Trump Georgia case settles divorce ahead of testimony  —  The lead prosecutor in the Georgia election interference case against former president Donald Trump and his allies settled a contentious divorce dispute on Tuesday, canceling a hearing scheduled for Wednesday morning …
Jonathan Edwards / Washington Post:
Man sentenced to 18 years for bombing church that was hosting drag event  —  Aimenn Penny grew angrier and angrier late on March 24, as he watched online videos about drag shows, prosecutors said.  —  Committed to stopping one near his home in northeastern Ohio, he got in his vehicle and …
Brooke Migdon / The Hill:
Florida bars transgender residents from changing gender on driver's licenses  —  Transgender Floridians will no longer be able to change their gender on state-issued driver's licenses, according to a Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles memo addressed to county tax collectors.
Ashraf Fahim / Reuters:
Explorer may have found wreckage of Amelia Earhart's plane in Pacific  —  A former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer says he believes he has found the wreckage of Amelia Earhart's plane, which disappeared nine decades ago, on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean using sonar data from a deep-sea drone.
Timour Azhari / Reuters:
Iraq's Kataib Hezbollah suspends attacks on US forces  —  Iran-aligned Iraqi armed group Kataib Hezbollah announced on Tuesday the suspension of all its military operations against U.S. troops in the region, in a decision aimed at preventing “embarrassment” of the Iraqi government, the group said.
Henry Rodgers / The Daily Caller:
Ron DeSantis Calls For Ilhan Omar To Be Expelled From Congress, Denaturalized And Deported  —  Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis called Tuesday for Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar to be expelled from Congress, denaturalized as a U.S. citizen and deported back to Somalia in response …
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The historically familiar subtext to fears about immigrants to the U.S.  —  There are very real pressures that exist because of the recent increase in immigrants to the United States.  The number of immigrants who have been released into the country to await legal proceedings is over 2 million since 2021 …
Adam Klasfeld / The Messenger:
Discrepancies in a $48 Million Loan Involving Trump and His Chicago Tower Should be Criminally Investigated: Legal Experts  —  The court-appointed monitor overseeing Trump's business empire added new intrigue on Friday to the Chicago loan amid disputes over its size, the parties to the agreement, or whether it even exists
Discussion: Salon
Axios:
House Democrats close ranks against “bulls**t” Mayorkas impeachment  —  House Democrats are expecting their caucus to stay unified against a Republican vote to impeach Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas that could come as soon as next week.
Heather Vogell / ProPublica:
We Found That Landlords Could Be Using Algorithms to Fix Rent Prices.  Now Lawmakers Want to Make the Practice Illegal.  —  After a ProPublica investigation, U.S. senators introduced a bill to curb “price fixing” linked to rent-setting software.  “Setting prices with an algorithm is no different …
 
 
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Nick Robertson / The Hill:
Jeffries raised more than $113M for House Democrats in 2023
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Associated Press:
Justice Department investigating Democratic Rep. Cori Bush over alleged misuse of campaign funds
ABC News:
US readies retaliatory strikes for drone attack by Iran-backed militants
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The voters are rejecting Washington's failed border deal
Discussion: WUSA, HuffPost and Washington Examiner
Jerusalem Post:
Israeli commandos, dressed as doctors, foil terror attack in Jenin hospital
Paul Farhi / The Atlantic:
Is American Journalism Headed Toward an ‘Extinction-Level Event’?
Washington Post:
Inside Kyrsten Sinema's reelection decision: Will ‘voters even care’ about her record?
Discussion: Politico
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