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Garrett Graff / Doomsday Scenario:
Is Trump About To Nuke Iran? — The fact we can't say “no” for sure should terrify us. … Is Donald Trump set to nuke Iran tomorrow night, Tuesday at 8 p.m. ET? — The chances at this moment are, at least, non-zero. — The simple fact that we can't say “definitely no, absolutely not …
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PJ Media, MS NOW, ABC News, Newsweek and Agence France-Presse, more at Mediagazer »
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Ashleigh Fields / The Hill:
Former NATO commander on Iran rejecting ceasefire proposal: ‘They still have cards to play’ — James Stavridis, a former NATO commander, on Monday said Iran hasn't accepted a ceasefire because they “still have cards” to play in the war. — Stavridis, during an appearance on CNN's …
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NewsMax.com and Los Angeles Times
Michael Tomasky / New Republic:
You Can Smell It Now: The Trump Presidency Is in Total Free Fall
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Politico, Washington Examiner, Townhall, HuffPost, The Hill, Raw Story and New York Times
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
All the President's Bullshit (on Iran)
All the President's Bullshit (on Iran)
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New York Sun and Townhall
Ron Filipkowski / Meidas+:
Today in Politics, Bulletin 343. 4/6/26 — ... Trump gave another unhinged maniacal press conference today with Pete Hegseth about the status of his War in Iran: — “The entire country could be taken out in one night. We're giving them till tomorrow, 8 ET. And after that they're going to have no bridges.
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Washington Examiner
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New York Post:
Trump vows to catch ‘leaker’ who revealed US could not initially reach F-15 pilot in Iran: ‘Give it up or go to jail’
NBC News:
Trump threatens to jail journalists in hunt to find leaker of Iran fighter jet story
Trump threatens to jail journalists in hunt to find leaker of Iran fighter jet story
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Reuters, Newsweek, Straight Arrow News, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, Raw Story, The Federalist, GB News, Washington Times, Mediaite, IJR, The Hill and Crooks and Liars
Torrie Herrington / NOTUS:
Trump Threatens to Jail Reporter Over Iran Rescue Mission ‘Leak’
Trump Threatens to Jail Reporter Over Iran Rescue Mission ‘Leak’
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Mediaite, NBC News, Variety, Bloomberg, twitchy.com, New York Post, New York Sun, The Guardian, TMZ.com, IJR, Townhall, Mother Jones, Political Wire and Al Jazeera
David Bauder / Associated Press:
AP says it will offer buyouts as part of pivot away from newspaper-focused history — The Associated Press, one of the world's oldest and most influential news organizations, said Monday it is offering buyouts to an unspecified number of its U.S.-based journalists as part of an acceleration away …
Victor Nava / New York Post:
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin plans to ‘take a hard look’ at international airports in sanctuary cities — Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin suggested Monday that the Trump administration could take action against international airports in sanctuary cities that refuse …
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NOTUS, The Hill, RedState, Newsweek, The Daily Caller, Townhall, Fox News, Raw Story, The Post Millennial, Breitbart and The Guardian
Chris Cameron / New York Times:
Hegseth Likens Easter Rescue of U.S. Airman to Resurrection of Jesus Christ — President Trump also asserted that God supports the American war against Iran “because God is good, and God wants to see people taken care of.” — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday likened the rescue …
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CNN, Washington Post, American Greatness, Raw Story, The Daily Wire, New York Magazine, Breitbart, Fox News, New Republic, Deseret News and New York Post
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Nancy Cook / Bloomberg:
Trump Relies on ‘Good Instincts’ to Guide Iran War
Trump Relies on ‘Good Instincts’ to Guide Iran War
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Jewish Insider
Katrina Miller / New York Times:
Artemis II Astronauts Name Moon Crater After Carroll, Reid Wiseman's Late Wife — The crew shared an emotional moment with mission control and the family of Reid Wiseman, whose wife, Carroll, died in 2020, on the ground in Houston. — As the astronauts of Artemis II traveled farther …
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CBS News, MS NOW, LiveScience, The Daily Wire and The Verge
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Marcia Dunn / Associated Press:
Artemis II astronauts race to set a new distance record from Earth and behold the moon's far side
Artemis II astronauts race to set a new distance record from Earth and behold the moon's far side
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Washington Examiner, Associated Press, SPACE.com, CBS News, The Japan Times, New York Post, NASA, LiveScience, NPR, The Gateway Pundit, One America News Network, Scientific American, GB News, Los Angeles Times, Al Jazeera, Palm Beach Post, Blaze Media, Federal News Network, France 24, Wired, FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth, PetaPixel, Fox News, RedState, Pharyngula, WALV-TV, Straight Arrow News and KUSA-TV, more at Mediagazer »
Ryan Grenoble / HuffPost:
Trump Rambles About Autopen, Joe Biden To Table Full Of Kids At Easter Event — Random kid: “What?” — It's every kid's dream: Meet the president, maybe paint an Easter egg, hear all about a right-wing conspiracy that claims the past president's use of autopen invalidates his major policy achievements …
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Fox News, Washington Examiner, Raw Story, Daily Mail, twitchy.com and The Gateway Pundit
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Associated Press:
Photos of Trump's Monday, talking Iran at Easter Egg Roll and mimicking a sniper in the press room
Photos of Trump's Monday, talking Iran at Easter Egg Roll and mimicking a sniper in the press room
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New Republic, The Spectator, USA Today, PoliticusUSA, Washington Times, Washington Examiner, Newsweek, The Gateway Pundit, New York Times, New York Magazine, Page Six, One America News Network, RedState, Reuters, Raw Story, NPR, The US Sun, Associated Press, HuffPost, The Hill, MPR News, Fox News, CBS News, New York Post, Middle East Monitor, NewsMax.com, Mediaite, Breitbart, Eschaton and Daily Mail
New York Times:
Newly Obtained Video of Minneapolis Shooting Undermines ICE Account … Almost immediately after an immigration agent shot and wounded a Venezuelan immigrant in Minneapolis this winter, the federal government cast the injured man as an attempted murderer and the agent as the victim of a brutal beating.
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Los Angeles Times, Axios, MPR News, Digby's Hullabaloo, NewsMax.com, Raw Story, New Republic and Talking Points Memo
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Will Sommer / The Bulwark:
The Blaze Fires Reporter Behind Its Crazy Jan. 6th Pipe Bomber Story — And he's firing back, alleging the publication was “in the fetal position” over lawsuit threats. — ∙ Paid — Welcome back to False Flag! … Blaze Reporter Steaming Over Firing
Associated Press:
DeSantis signs Florida law to label groups as terrorists and expel student supporters — Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a measure into law Monday that gives him along with other Florida leaders the ability to label groups as domestic or foreign terrorist organizations and expel state university students who support them.
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Orlando Sentinel, Newsweek, Reuters, New Republic and Florida Politics
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
House Democrat moves to impeach Hegseth over Iran war — A House Democrat announced Monday she will introduce articles of impeachment against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth over his handling of U.S. operations in Iran. … - Polls have shown Hegseth is among the least popular members of the Cabinet …
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The Hill, Washington Examiner, PoliticusUSA and Raw Story
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Brian Beutler / Off Message:
Impeachment As A Referendum On The Iran Fiasco
Impeachment As A Referendum On The Iran Fiasco
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The Bulwark and Washington Times
David Shepardson / Reuters:
Trump proposes to cut 9,400 TSA workers, $1.5 billion from budget — The White House is proposing to cut more than 9,400 workers and just over $1.5 billion from the 60,000-employee Transportation Security Administration that handles airport security operations, according to budget documents.
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Jacobin, NewsMax.com and New Republic
Wall Street Journal:
The Next Target for the U.S. and Israel Is Iran's Economy — The two allies have been steadily stepping up attacks on Iranian infrastructure and are planning to hit energy facilities — TEL AVIV—The U.S. and Israel have a set of targets lined up in Iran designed to cripple the country's economy …
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Vox, The Hill and Al Jazeera
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Associated Press:
Airstrikes on Iran kill more than 25 as new ceasefire proposal is shared
Airstrikes on Iran kill more than 25 as new ceasefire proposal is shared
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NBC News, Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera, CNBC, Bloomberg, RedState, The Preamble, The Times of Israel, Associated Press, Washington Examiner, Christian Science Monitor, Mississippi Free Press, Colorado Politics, The Daily Caller, Drop Site News, NewsMax.com, The Free Press, The Hill, Straight Arrow News, FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth, News Talk 105.9, CNN, Townhall, The Gateway Pundit and Jewish Insider
Amichai Stein / Jerusalem Post:
Russia provided Iran with list of Israeli energy targets, Ukrainian intelligence finds - exclusive — According to the findings, the targeted sites were divided into three categories based on their strategic importance. — Russian intelligence has provided Iran with a detailed list …
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France 24 and NewsMax.com
Sarah Atwood / The Detroit News:
UM Chinese researcher dies after alleged questioning by feds — Chinese officials are calling on the United States to investigate the death of a University of Michigan researcher after undergoing what they labeled “hostile questioning” by federal law enforcement.
Annie Ma / Associated Press:
Trump administration terminates agreements to protect transgender students in several schools — The Education Department said Monday it has terminated agreements that previous administrations reached with five school districts and a college aimed at upholding rights and protections for transgender students.
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Associated Press, New York Times, twitchy.com, Reuters and Newsweek
Esther Fung / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon and U.S. Postal Service Reach Delivery Deal — The e-commerce giant would cut back the packages it ships through USPS by 20%, less than the proposal the sides had discussed earlier — Amazon.com and the U.S. Postal Service have reached a new package-handling agreement …
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The US Sun, NewsMax.com and Jacobin, more at Techmeme »
New Yorker:
Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted? — New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI. — In the fall of 2023, Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI's chief scientist, sent secret memos to three fellow-members of the organization's board of directors.
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The Information, Bloomberg, Washington Examiner, The Hill, Ars Technica and Semafor, more at Techmeme »
Yunior Rivas / Democracy Docket:
In latest attack on overseas voters, Republicans sue Virginia — A new lawsuit filed Monday by the Republican National Committee (RNC) seeks to strip voting access from a group of U.S. citizens living abroad. It's the GOP's latest move in its growing campaign against overseas voters.
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Civil Discourse …, Breitbart and The American Spectator
Maria Sherman / Associated Press:
Wireless Festival boss stands by Ye headlining concerts as sponsors pull out — As sponsors pull out from London's Wireless Festival over headliner Ye, its organizer is standing by the rapper formerly known as Kanye West. — Melvin Benn, the managing director at Festival Republic …
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CNN, The Hollywood Reporter, Telegraph, TMZ.com, Los Angeles Times, Daily Mail, Variety, GB News, The US Sun, NewsMax.com, WALV-TV, Page Six, New York Sun, The Times of Israel, NPR, Just Jared, Associated Press, Showbiz411, New York Times and CBS News
Holly Otterbein / Axios:
Scoop: Platner declares Mills nearly finished in Maine Senate primary — Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner is making the case that his primary race against Gov. Janet Mills is all but over, a full two months ahead of their primary election on June 9.
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NOTUS, The Portland Press Herald and Bangor Daily News
Yunior Rivas / Democracy Docket:
New Hampshire GOP bans student IDs for voting, adds to growing restrictions — New Hampshire's new law eliminating student IDs as valid identification for voting marks the latest move in a broader GOP effort to restrict ballot access in the state. — Gov. Kelly Ayotte (R) signed House Bill 323 …
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Concord Monitor
Perry Bacon / New Republic:
Bernie Sanders's New, Necessary, Bold Act: Taking on the AI Oligarchs … This time last year, Senator Bernie Sanders was giving speeches in front of thousands of people, decrying what he correctly describes as an “oligarchy” that dominates American business and politics.

