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1:40 PM ET, March 29, 2024

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Beth Harris / Associated Press:
Louis Gossett Jr., 1st Black man to win supporting actor Oscar, dies at 87  —  Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar and an Emmy winner for his role in the seminal TV miniseries “Roots,” has died.  He was 87.  —  Gossett's first cousin Neal L. Gossett told …
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Jay Stahl / USA Today:
Louis Gossett Jr., 1st Black man to win best supporting actor Oscar, dies at 87
Discussion: Associated Press
Stephen Robinson / Public Notice:
Trump's actual record comes back to haunt him  —  This isn't 2016 anymore. … Donald Trump continued his Nazi-style rhetoric at his most recent campaign rally in Dayton, Ohio, warning that if he didn't win the presidential election, “it's going to be a bloodbath for the country.”
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Trump can't remember much.  He hopes you won't be able to, either.  —  The Very Stable Genius is glitching again.  —  This week, he announced that he is not — repeat, NOT — planning to repeal the Affordable Care Act.  He apparently forgot that he had vowed over and over again to do exactly that …
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Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Americans Really Don't Like Trump's Health-Care Plans  —  Health care may turn out to be a major winning issue for Democrats.  —  Expanding access to health care has been a shared policy priority for Joe Biden and the former Democratic presidents who joined him onstage at a lucrative …
Discussion: The Status Kuo and The Dispatch
New York Post:
Anti-Israel protesters disrupt Biden's lavish NYC fundraiser with Obama, Clinton, where tickets went for up to $500K: ‘War pig’  —  Several waves of protesters disrupted President Biden's grandiose fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall Thursday, where he kicked it with former Presidents Barack Obama …
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ABC News:
Biden fundraiser with Obama, Clinton sees jokes and some protests over war
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:   Beating Trump in the Money Wars, Biden Gathers Top Donors
New York Post:
President Biden's celeb-packed $25M fundraiser is the height of Dem elitism
Daniel Han / Politico:
Judge kills NJ's controversial ballot design for June primary  —  The judge ordered the use of office block ballots for the June primary, where candidates are placed together by the office they are seeking.  —  New Jersey's controversial ballot design that gives party-backed candidates …
Discussion: New Jersey Globe and New Yorker
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Jared Gans / The Hill:
New Jersey ballot design scrapped by judge in win for Andy Kim  —  A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting the use of New Jersey's “county line” ballot, a highly consequential ruling that could significantly reshape the state's political system.
Kanishka Singh / Reuters:
Biden threatens Russia with costs on Evan Gershkovich arrest anniversary  —  President Joe Biden said on Friday the U.S. will impose costs for Russia's “appalling attempts” to use Americans as bargaining chips in a statement to mark the one-year anniversary of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich's arrest in Russia.
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The White House:
Statement from President Joe Biden on the Wrongful Detention of Evan Gershkovich
The Daily Beast:
Trump Has a Big Problem With GOP Voters  —  NOT DONE YET  —  The GOP primary has been effectively over for weeks, but voters are still showing up to cast their ballots for anyone but Donald Trump. … ZOMBIE PRIMARY  —  Donald Trump may believe the 2024 Republican presidential primary is done—but clearly, it's not done with him.
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Colin Lecher / The Markup:
NYC's AI Chatbot Tells Businesses to Break the Law  —  The Microsoft-powered bot says bosses can take workers' tips and that landlords can discriminate based on source of income … In October, New York City announced a plan to harness the power of artificial intelligence to improve the business of government.
Sam Levine / The Guardian:
Crystal Mason: Texas woman sentenced to five years over voting error acquitted  —  Appeals court rules Mason, now 49, did not know she was ineligible when she voted in 2016 and throws out conviction  —  The fight for democracy is supported by  —  A Texas appeals court has thrown …
Discussion: Daily Kos, KHOU-TV and Associated Press
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Washington Post:
Many GOP billionaires balked at Jan. 6.  They're coming back to Trump.  —  Elite donors are rediscovering their affinity for the former president over taxes — even as he vows to free Jan. 6 defendants, promises mass deportations and faces 88 felony charges
Discussion: Raw Story
Bailee Hill / Fox News:
Trump sends message to Biden, Obama for missing NYPD officer's wake: Have to go ‘whether they like it or not’  —  Trump talks to Brian Kilmeade in exclusive interview after attending wake for officer Jonathan Diller  —  Former President Trump slammed President Biden during an exclusive interview with …
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
'They all say he's bad': Morning Joe astonished by number of Trump appointees who hate him  —  President Joe Biden was joined by two of his Democratic predecessors for a fundraiser that raked in more than $26 million, and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough pointed out that Donald Trump would never be able …
CBS News:
Cesar Chavez's family to endorse Biden after RFK Jr. claims civil rights leader would've voted for him  —  President Biden is set to be endorsed Friday by members of Cesar Chavez's family — a mostly symbolic gesture, but one meant to send a signal to independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. …
Discussion: The Hill, UPI and Los Angeles Times
Andrew Picken / BBC:
Scotland was ‘hoodwinked’ by Donald Trump, says former aide  —  Donald Trump flanked by his children and pipers on the official opening day of the Trump International Golf Links course in Aberdeenshire in 2012  —  The man who helped broker the deal for Donald Trump's first Scottish golf resort …
Discussion: Raw Story and KDFX-TV
Politico:
The real D.C. crime wave  —  Welcome to POLITICO's West Wing Playbook, your guide to the people and power centers in the Biden administration.  —  In a sense, it's a daring crime given that the aircraft and the individual traveling in its executive cabin are among the most heavily secured entities in the world.
Brian Beutler / Off Message:
Donald Trump, COVID-19, And The Francis Scott Key Bridge Calamity  —  Four years ago this week, it became clear that Donald Trump would husband emergency pandemic resources like ventilators and personal protective equipment for Republican-run states.  Or rather, Trump made it clear.
US EPA:
Biden-Harris Administration Finalizes Strongest Ever Greenhouse Gas Standards for Heavy-Duty Vehicles to Protect Public Health and Address the Climate Crisis While Keeping the American Economy Moving  —  WASHINGTON - Today, March 29, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced final …
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Robert Kagan / Washington Post:
Trump's anti-Ukraine view dates to the 1930s. America rejected it then. Will we now?
Discussion: The Bulwark
James Rogan / Washington Examiner:
Biden's green economy will break the energy grid
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
March 28, 2024  —  Yesterday the National Economic Council called a meeting …
Jonathan Martin / Politico:
Why Hasn't Biden Called Chris Christie?
Gregory S. Schneider / Washington Post:
Va. Gov. Youngkin arrived like a GOP star, but arena failure clouds legacy
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and WUSA
The Guardian:
Taliban edict to resume stoning women to death met with horror
Brian Calvert / Vox:
AI already uses as much energy as a small country. It's only the beginning.
 Earlier Items: 
Daniella Diaz / Politico:
Marylanders plot a Hill bridge response
Discussion: HuffPost, The Hill and Business Insider
Tori Otten / New Republic:
A Judge Finally Found Fraudulent Votes. They're All From a Republican.
John-John Williams IV / The Baltimore Banner:
Racists called Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott a ‘DEI mayor.’ Here's how he responded
 

 
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Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:
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Michael Peel / Financial Times:
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