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12:30 PM ET, March 12, 2024

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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
How the Special Counsel's Portrayal of Biden's Memory Compares With the Transcript  —  The special counsel, Robert K. Hur, accused the president last month of “significant” memory problems.  The interview transcript offers context to his report.  —  A transcript of a special counsel's hourslong interview …
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Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Full transcript of Biden's special counsel interview paints nuanced portrait  —  The president doesn't seem as absent-minded as Hur has made him out to be — and Hur doesn't appear as crass as Biden has portrayed him  —  President Biden was in the early stages of his interview …
Andrew Feinberg / The Independent:
Robert Hur will testify as private citizen with help from Trumpworld figures  —  EXCLUSIVE: Ex-Special Counsel arranged to leave Justice Department the day before his appearance with the House Judiciary Committee  —  Special Counsel Robert Hur to testify on Biden's handling of classified documents
Associated Press:
Special counsel Hur is set to testify before a House committee over handling of Biden documents case  —  The special counsel who impugned the president's age and competence in his report on how Joe Biden handled classified documents will himself be up for questioning this week.  —  Photos
Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Special Counsel Who Investigated Biden to Defend Report by Saying He Needed to ‘Show My Work’  —  Republicans are likely to pepper Robert K. Hur about his justifications for not charging the president.  Democrats will almost certainly slam him for making broad assertions about Mr. Biden's memory.
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
News outlets that trumpeted Hur's story now discover “context” and “nuance” in transcript  —  Major news outlets that ran dozens of stories hyping then-special counsel Robert Hur's claim that President Joe Biden evinced a “poor memory” during their interview are now acknowledging that Hur's depiction …
Greg Norman / Fox News:
Former Special Counsel Robert Hur testifies on findings from Biden classified documents probe
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Biden pounces as Trump eyes cuts to Social Security and Medicare  —  Democrats want nothing more than to see Donald Trump talk about cutting Social Security and Medicare.  Fortunately for them, that's exactly what happened.  —  At a time when so much of American politics seems radical …
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Dan Rather / Steady:
Calling Out a Would-Be Bully In Chief
Discussion: Raw Story and The Hill
Theo Leggett / BBC:
Boeing whistleblower found dead in US  —  Prior to his death, whistleblower John Barnett was testifying against Boeing over concerns about standards.
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
‘Absolute bloodbath’ at RNC as new leadership loyal to Trump purges staff  —  Chair Michael Whatley and co-chair Lara Trump move to reorganize the party, with an expected cull of 60 members  —  Donald Trump's new leadership team at the Republican National Committee started the process …
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Washington Post:
RNC fires dozens of employees after Trump-backed leadership takes over
Steve Kennedy / Slate:
It Sure Seems Like the Courts Have Placed Christianity Above Other Faiths  —  “Religious freedom” is having a moment in federal courts.  One of the big successful goals of the conservative legal movement was that religious freedom would be advanced in a way that it supposedly had not been before.
Washington Post:
Trump asked Elon Musk if he wanted to buy Truth Social  —  The idea went nowhere, but the former president and the billionaire X owner have continued to communicate more than was previously known  —  Former president Donald Trump asked Elon Musk last summer whether the billionaire industrialist …
Tovah Lazaroff / Jerusalem Post:
Diplomatic source to ‘Post’: Gaza maritime route was Netanyahu's idea - exclusive  —  According to the source, on October 22, two weeks following the war's outbreak, Netanyahu discussed with President Biden the concept of “delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza via the sea”
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Robert Jimison / New York Times:
Senators Urge Biden to Stop Arming Israel, Citing Violation of U.S. Aid Law
Aleks Phillips / Newsweek:
Donald Trump Stung as New Poll Shows How Unpopular He Is  —  Donald Trump continues to have a low favorability score among Americans, new polling shows, despite being the likely Republican nominee after winning the lion's share of primaries and seeing off his only remaining rival.
Discussion: IJR
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
There's new reason to think Trump still has classified documents  —  The central reason that Donald Trump was indicted for retaining documents marked as classified but President Biden was not is that Trump tried to retain the documents once the government sought their return.
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CNN:
Exclusive: ‘Trump Employee 5,’ who unknowingly helped move classified documents, speaks out
Rolling Stone:
Team Trump Begs Him to Keep His Mouth Shut at NYC Criminal Trial  —  The former president's lawyers and aides are trying to “prevent him from talking his way into a mess,” says one Trump adviser  —  SEVERAL LAWYERS AND political advisers for Donald Trump tell Rolling Stone that they want him to keep …
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
New data explodes myth of crime wave fueled by migrants  —  Republican politicians and sympathetic media outlets are claiming that America is in the midst of a violent “crime wave,” driven in part by undocumented immigrants.  New data, however, demonstrates that there was not a spike in violent crime in 2023.
Bill Press / The Hill:
Does telling the truth matter anymore?  —  To say that this nation is hopelessly politically divided is the understatement of the year.  It shouts out at you in every political poll.  We no longer have two competing political parties but two armed enemy camps.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Republicans say Britt being treated like Sarah Palin 2.0  —  Alabama Sen. Katie Britt's (R) debut on the national political stage is prompting comparisons to another fiery conservative mom: former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R).  —  The comparisons took a new life late Saturday …
Discussion: The Nation
Jeremiah Poff / Washington Examiner:
The US DEI regime failed Haiti  —  The National Palace of Haiti was once among the most recognizable and beautiful architectural landmarks of one of the world's poorest countries.  —  Today, the site where it stood is empty.  The building was demolished in 2012 after sustaining severe damage …
Discussion: Al Jazeera
 
 
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Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
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Patrick Svitek / Washington Post:
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
On the Tripwire of a ‘Red Line,’ It's Often Presidents Who Trip
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Reese Gorman / The Daily Beast:
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Deepak Puri / The Democracy Labs:
Who posted the $91 million bond for Trump? Follow the Russian connections.
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Political Wire
Mike Schneider / Associated Press:
Florida teachers can discuss sexual orientation and gender ID under 'Don't Say Gay' bill settlement
 

 
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Rodney Tiffen / Inside Story:
Court discovery docs from the UK's News Group phone hacking cases give more detail about evidence destruction and indicate the company gathered political intel

Alex Sherman / CNBC:
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New York Times:
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