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12:20 PM ET, April 30, 2024

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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump held in contempt for violating hush money trial gag order — gets $9,000 fine and jail warning … Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump sits in the courtroom, as his criminal trial over charges that he falsified business records to conceal money paid …
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NBC News:
Judge holds Trump in contempt for violating gag order in hush money trial  —  Prosecutors from the Manhattan District Attorney's Office accused Trump of violating the gag order numerous times since it went into effect.  —  The judge presiding over Donald Trump's hush money case on Tuesday held …
New York Times:
Trump, Venting About Lawyer in His Criminal Trial, Seeks More Aggression  —  Todd Blanche upended his career to represent Donald J. Trump and has been the former president's favorite.  But Mr. Trump has made him a focus of his episodic wrath.  —  Donald J. Trump's Manhattan criminal trial …
Eric Cortellessa / TIME:
How Far Trump Would Go  —  The former President, at Mar-a-Lago on April 12, is rallying the right at home and seeking common cause with autocratic leaders abroad.Photograph by Philip Montgomery for TIME  —  Donald Trump thinks he's identified a crucial mistake of his first term: He was too nice.
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TIME:
Read the Full Transcripts of Donald Trump's Interviews With TIME … Over the course of the interviews, Trump discussed his agenda for a second term, which includes deporting millions of people, cutting the U.S. civil service, and intervening more directly in Justice Department prosecutions than his predecessors.
Erin Doherty / Axios:
Trump's most revealing quotes yet on what he'll do if he wins in 2024
Discussion: USA Today and Louder With Crowder
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump: It's up to states to monitor pregnancies, prosecute abortions
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump on prospect of political violence in November: ‘It depends’
Juliegrace Brufke / Axios:
GOP lawmakers say Marjorie Taylor Greene's motion to vacate has fizzled … - “Even trolls online have said they don't want it,” one member told Axios.  — “I dont think she's going to do it - I think that window for her has passed,” another argued.
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Mychael Schnell / The Hill:
Greene vows to move ahead on Johnson ouster vote after Democrats promise to save him  —  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is vowing to move ahead with a vote to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), even after Democratic leaders said they would shield the Louisiana Republican from a conservative coup.
Zac Anderson / USA Today:
FBI data shows America is seeing a ‘considerable’ drop in crime.  Trump says the opposite.  —  Jeff Asher is a New Orleans-based crime data analyst who has worked at the CIA and Department of Defense.  He leans towards caution when describing trends in his line of work.
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
The biggest political deception of 2024  —  In the 2024 presidential election, one of the central attacks that Trump and his political allies are levying against Biden is that Biden is responsible for a “migrant crime” wave.  The argument was summarized by Trump in a March 22 video:
Discussion: Jeff-alytics
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Kristi Noem doubled down on dog-killing to win over MAGA — now her story is backfiring in her face  —  South Dakota's governor gets the sadism of Trump supporters, but screws up by saying the quiet parts out loud  —  Squint hard enough and perhaps one can see how Gov. Kristi Noem, R-S.D. …
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The Guardian:
Kristi Noem's story of killing her dog points to class two misdemeanor
Laura Donnelly / Telegraph:
Sex is biological fact, NHS declares in landmark shift against gender ideology  —  Campaigners welcome change to constitution, which will ban trans women from female-only wards, as ‘return to common sense’  —  The NHS is to declare that sex is a matter of biology in a landmark shift against gender ideology.
Tara Suter / The Hill:
‘Frustrated’ ex-Trump aide says she won't vote for former president  —  Sarah Matthews, an ex-staffer of former President Trump, said Monday she would not cast her vote in November for Trump, signaling she could instead vote for President Biden.  —  “When we have a candidate on the ballot …
Discussion: The Daily Beast and HuffPost
Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
Trump Holds Edge Over Biden in Seven Key Swing State Polls  —  Home Polls Trump Holds Edge Over Biden in Seven Key Swing State Polls  —  Democrats Maintain Lead over Republicans in Five Senate Races  —  New Emerson College Polling/The Hill swing state polls find President Biden trailing …
Amira McKee / Columbia Daily Spectator:
Dozens occupy Hamilton Hall as pro-Palestinian protests spread across campus  —  This is a developing story.  Check back for updates.
Charisma Madarang / Rolling Stone:
Ted Cruz Wants Airlines to Keep Your Cash When They Cancel Your Flight  —  Cruz and three other congressional lawmakers offered legislation that could undermine the Biden administration's new airline refund rule  —  AFTER THE BIDEN administration issued a final rule last week …
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Katya Schwenk / The Lever:
Congress May Cancel Your Automatic Flight Refunds
Discussion: UPI
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The Guardian:
Revealed: Tyson Foods dumps millions of pounds of toxic pollutants into US rivers and lakes  —  Nitrogen, phosphorus, chloride, oil and cyanide among the 371m lb of pollutants released by just 41 plants in five years  —  Nina Lakhani in Dakota City and Lexington, Nebraska, with graphics by Alvin Chang
Megan Brenan / Gallup:
Immigration Named Top U.S. Problem for Third Straight Month  —  Immigration has been the most politically polarizing issue mentioned in past 24 years  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — A steady 27% of Americans say the most important problem facing the U.S. is immigration, topping Gallup's open-ended trend …
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Examiner
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Yet another dubious election deadline maneuver, in Florida  —  The retirement-announcement two-step strikes again  —  Rep. Bill Posey (R-Fla.) staunchly supported challenging the 2020 election results in the run-up to Jan. 6, 2021.  “Running fair and transparent elections is something America must live up to,” he said that day.
Ally Mutnick / Politico:
The Maryland Senate race testing Democrats' commitment to diversity  —  David Trone says his money would free up national Democrats to focus on other states — but Angela Alsobrooks would make history.  —  Nearly every major Democrat in Maryland is lining up behind Angela Alsobrooks' attempt …
Discussion: The Dispatch
Stephen Neukam / Axios:
Senate Democrats unveil Big Oil report after 3-year investigation … - The joint 66-page report from the Senate Budget and House Oversight Committees claims some of the largest oil companies have internally acknowledged since the 1960s that fossil fuels cause climate change.
Discussion: The Guardian
 
 
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Associated Press:
Israel-Hamas war protesters and police clash on Texas campus, Columbia University begins suspensions
CNN:
Hunter Biden demands that Fox News remove ‘intimate’ images from its platforms
Jacqueline Toboroff / Human Events:
Both Joe Biden and Barack Obama prefer Iran to Israel - why?
Discussion: PressTV and The American Spectator
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Why an Immunity Ruling in Trump's Favor Might Not Alter the Shape of His Trial
Discussion: ABC News, Raw Story and SCOTUSblog
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Trump says Republicans always wanted to leave abortion law to states. That's false.
Shawn McCreesh / New York Magazine:
Can former CNN pundit John Avlon flip a Long Island congressional seat blue with his West Wing throwback politics?
Discussion: Political Wire
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Andrew Greene / ABC:
India's Modi government operated ‘nest of spies’ in Australia before being disrupted by ASIO
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Senate GOP “Breakfast Club” plots post-McConnell changes
Discussion: The Hill
MSNBC:
Tenn. lawmakers react to new bill allowing teachers to carry guns in schools
Massy Arts / Pluralistic:
Cigna's nopeinator (permalink)
Discussion: ProPublica
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Pelosi accuses MSNBC host of being ‘apologist for Donald Trump’
Marshall Cohen / CNN:
Michigan AG executes search warrants on Google and X in ongoing 2020 fake electors probe