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9:50 AM ET, April 2, 2024

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New York Times:
Gag Order Against Trump Is Expanded to Bar Attacks on Judge's Family  —  Donald Trump had in recent days targeted the daughter of Juan Merchan, the judge overseeing his criminal trial in Manhattan, in blistering social media posts.  —  The New York judge overseeing Donald J. Trump's upcoming …
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Associated Press:
Donald Trump has posted a $175 million bond to avert asset seizure as he appeals NY fraud penalty  —  Donald Trump posted a $175 million bond on Monday in his New York civil fraud case, halting collection of the more than $454 million he owes and preventing the state from seizing his assets …
ABC News:
Trump secures $175 million bond in New York civil fraud case  —  An appeals court last week reduced the amount of bond he was required to post.  —  Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Rome, GA, March 9, 2024.  —  Former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants …
Discussion: Raw Story, Mediaite, The Hill and RedState
Shayna Jacobs / Washington Post:
Trump posts $175M bond to keep N.Y. authorities from seizing property  —  NEW YORK — Donald Trump posted a $175 million bond on Monday to prevent New York authorities from seizing his assets, including properties such as Trump Tower, pending appeal of a civil fraud judgment against him of nearly a half-billion dollars.
Discussion: CNN, Breitbart and Associated Press
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
Supporting Trump Means Supporting a Culture of Violence
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Matt Egan / CNN:
Trump's net worth plunges $1 billion as his media stock tumbles
Brendan Farrington / Associated Press:
Florida Supreme Court upholds state's 15-week abortion ban, but voters will soon have a say  —  The Florida Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for the state to ban abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, before many women know they are pregnant, while also giving voters a chance to remove restrictions in November.
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Kimberly Leonard / Politico:
Florida's abortion ruling puts Trump on the spot over DeSantis' bans
Washington Post:
Florida Supreme Court allows one of nation's strictest abortion bans to take effect
Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
Florida Supreme Court hands down two key abortion decisions
Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
World Central Kitchen Says U.S. Citizen Among 7 Staff Killed in ‘Targeted’ Triple Israeli Attack  —  ‘UNFORGIVABLE’  —  José Andrés' international aid organization said it would pause its work in Gaza in the wake of the killings.  —  A dual U.S.-Canadian citizen …
Meryl Kornfield / Washington Post:
RFK Jr. rebuked for calling Biden bigger threat to democracy than Trump  —  Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. repeatedly advanced an argument Monday that President Biden poses a greater threat to democracy than Donald Trump, a comment that drew swift rebukes from several historians and experts.
Discussion: Louder With Crowder
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William Vaillancourt / The Daily Beast:
RFK Jr. Lays Out Argument That Biden's a Bigger Threat to Democracy Than Trump  —  DEVIL'S ADVOCATE  —  On CNN, Kennedy—who some believe could help Trump win in November—was also confronted with his old criticisms of “spoiler” candidate Ralph Nader before the 2000 election.
Associated Press:
Iran vows response after strike it blames on Israel demolishes consulate in Syria  —  Iran and one of its key proxies vowed Tuesday to respond to a strike widely attributed to Israel that demolished Iran's consulate in the Syrian capital of Damascus and killed eight people, including two Iranian generals.
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Barak Ravid / Axios:
U.S. tells Iran it “had no involvement” in Israel strike
Public Notice:
Manufacturing discontent  —  How Dems can fight back against Republican resentment politics. … It's become something of a cottage industry to explore how white rural animus gives much-needed support to Republican candidates in local, state, and national elections.
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Corporate profit bonanza  —  In the last three months of 2023, after-tax corporate profits reached an all-time high of $2.8 trillion.  This is part of a long-term growth in corporate profits that began in the 1980s, picked up steam at the turn of the millennium, and exploded since 2020.
Discussion: The Hill and Fortune
Joe Grogan / The Hill:
Biden's Justice Department looks for scapegoats in overdose deaths  —  Americans concerned about the politicization of our legal system won't be comforted by the Department of Justice's lawsuit against Walmart's alleged role in the opioid crisis, which looked political from the jump.
Discussion: Mercury News
Elizabeth Elkind / Fox News:
House Republicans push to rename DC international airport after Trump  —  ‘In my lifetime, our nation has never been greater than under the leadership of President Donald J Trump’: Reschenthaler  —  FIRST ON FOX: A group of House Republicans is pushing to rename Washington, D.C.'s …
Discussion: MeidasTouch
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Fake right-wing panic about “trans” Easter is part of Trump's push for Christian nationalism  —  Phony claims that Democrats “mock your faith” are a cynical excuse to strip Americans of religious freedom  —  Most Americans spent Easter weekend with traditional activities like church or egg hunts …
David Axe / Forbes:
The Russian Army Just Launched The Biggest Tank Assault Of The War  —  Forty-eight tanks and fighting vehicles attacked along a single road west of Avdiivka—and got massacred  —  On Saturday, the Russian army launched what may have been one of the largest-scale tank assaults of Russia's 25-month wider war on Ukraine.
Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
Trump Allies Plan Anti-Racism Overhaul to Protect White People: Report  —  NEW PRIORITY  —  Donald Trump's close allies want to overhaul anti-racism protections to focus on protecting white people rather than people of color if he wins another term in November, according to a report.
Audrey McAvoy / Associated Press:
Lou Conter, last survivor of USS Arizona from Pearl Harbor attack, dies at 102  —  Lou Conter, the last living survivor of the USS Arizona battleship that exploded and sank during the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, has died.  He was 102.  —  Conter passed away on Monday at his home in Grass Valley …
 
 
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Sarah Posner / Talking Points Memo:
Apocalyptic Picture Trump Paints For Evangelicals Shows Where Campaign Is Headed
Discussion: Right Wing Watch
Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
12-Year-Old Suspect Arrested as Child Killed in Finland School Shooting
Rowaida Abdelaziz / HuffPost:
Anti-Muslim Incidents In U.S. Break Records, According To New Report
Discussion: Al Jazeera, NPR, Reuters and The Hill
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Scoop: Sullivan to meet MBS to push Saudi side of Israel mega-deal
Discussion: The Times of Israel and Reuters
Jonathan Swan / New York Times:
Trump's Call for Israel to ‘Finish Up’ War Alarms Some on the Right
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
Nate Raymond / Reuters:
Conservative US judge says AI could strengthen ‘originalist’ movement
 Earlier Items: 
Emily Shapiro / ABC News:
Driver rams into front gate of Atlanta FBI office, taken into custody
Margaret Hartmann / New York Magazine:
Melania Trump Is Back — But Maybe Not for Long
Hannah Fingerhut / Associated Press:
Migrants in Iowa wonder whether to leave over a bill that could see some arrested and deported
Discussion: Associated Press
NBC News:
Ex-Trump aide Hope Hicks expected to testify in former president's New York criminal trial
Lauran Neergaard / Associated Press:
A biased test kept thousands of Black people from getting a kidney transplant. It's finally changing
Discussion: New York Times and WGN-TV
Politico:
First human case of avian flu in Texas raises alarm
 

 
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Mia Sato / The Verge:
Memo: Gannett is adding AI-generated summaries to the top of some stories, with a disclaimer at the bottom; some USA Today stories already show the summaries

Steven Waldman / @stevenwaldman:
The California Senate Appropriations Committee approves a bill imposing fees on Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon to pay for local news through employment tax credits

 
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