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Jonah Kaplan / CBS News:
Army survivors of deadly attack in Kuwait dispute Pentagon's account, say unit “was unprepared” to defend itself — Add CBS News on Google — Survivors of the deadliest Iranian attack on U.S. forces since the war began have disputed the Pentagon's description of events and said their unit …
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The Independent, New Republic, Raw Story, NewsMax.com and Mediaite
Brian Beutler / Off Message:
An 11-Point Plan To Fascism-Proof America — Inside the mailbag: Iran ... Graham Platner ... Gavin Newsom — Sean: How should elected Democrats fight back against the epic levels of “sanewashing” we are seeing since the start of the Iran War, which reached yet another peak with shocking downplaying of Trump's profane Easter threats.
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NBC News:
Republicans block effort to halt Trump's war with Iran after ‘civilization’ threat
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The Hill, The Guardian, MS NOW and Washington Examiner
Reuters:
US Republicans block bid to rein in Trump Iran war powers
US Republicans block bid to rein in Trump Iran war powers
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Fox News, The Hill, Talking Points Memo, Politico, The Nation, Congressman Hakeem Jeffries and Newsweek
Andrew Solender / Axios:
House GOP stops Dem attempt to hamstring Trump on Iran
House GOP stops Dem attempt to hamstring Trump on Iran
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Roll Call
Associated Press:
Democrats grow bolder on talk about removing Trump from office after his Iran threats
Democrats grow bolder on talk about removing Trump from office after his Iran threats
Elie Mystal / The Nation:
We Have 2 Weeks to Stop Trump From Committing New Atrocities
We Have 2 Weeks to Stop Trump From Committing New Atrocities
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Washington Times
Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
The State That Could Decide Trump's Gerrymandering War
The State That Could Decide Trump's Gerrymandering War
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The Federalist, twitchy.com, Raw Story, Election Law Blog, Cardinal News, Washington Times and New York Sun
NBC News:
Trump ‘optimistic’ about Iran peace deal even as ceasefire appears strained — The temporary break in fighting appeared fragile as Israeli forces continued pummeling Lebanon and the Strait of Hormuz saw only minimal shipping traffic. — WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump told NBC News …
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Bloomberg
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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Iran Schools Trump in the Art of the Deal — What does an “open” Strait of Hormuz look like, in Iran's telling? This morning, we got some clarity. Iran is claiming that vessels can sail through as they wish—but that because they have heavily mined the main shipping channel …
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The Hill, Forbes, Townhall, New Republic, Mediaite, Washington Examiner, NewsMax.com, The Post Millennial and IJR
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Netanyahu announces negotiations with Lebanon after U.S. pressure — Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that he has instructed his cabinet to launch direct negotiations with Lebanon as soon as possible. … Senior U.S. officials said Witkoff asked Netanyahu to …
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Lena H. Sun / Washington Post:
CDC delays publishing report showing covid vaccine benefits — The acting CDC director cited concerns with the methodology, but the design has long been used to test vaccine effectiveness. — The acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has delayed publication …
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Ars Technica, New Republic, NewsMax.com and The Independent
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Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Top C.D.C. Official Delays Report on Covid Shot's Effectiveness
Kenyatta Thomas / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
EFF is Leaving X — After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn't a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. The math hasn't worked out for a while now. — The Numbers Aren't Working Out — We posted to Twitter (now known as X) five to ten times a day in 2018.
Politico:
Inside the battle to be Trump's next attorney general … GOP veteran with a key ally — At the center of the battle is Harmeet Dhillon, a media savvy veteran of Republican Party politics who has led DOJ's Civil Rights Division in the second Trump term. Dhillon's eponymous law firm spent years taking …
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Yunior Rivas / Democracy Docket:
Former Proud Boys leader urges MAGA to give Harmeet Dhillon ‘a fair shot’ if promoted at DOJ
Former Proud Boys leader urges MAGA to give Harmeet Dhillon ‘a fair shot’ if promoted at DOJ
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Weaponization Watch and twitchy.com
Justin Jouvenal / Washington Post:
Supreme Court remade by Trump ushers in historic defeats for civil rights — The court is the first since at least the '50s to reject claims in a majority of cases involving women and minorities, an analysis conducted for The Post shows. — The sharply conservative Supreme Court …
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Milena Wälde / Politico:
Trump lashes NATO after ‘frank and open’ Rutte meeting — “REMEMBER GREENLAND, THAT BIG, POORLY RUN, PIECE OF ICE!!!” U.S. president rages. — U.S. President Donald Trump tore into NATO after a roughly two-hour private meeting with Secretary-General Mark Rutte on Wednesday …
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U.S. Cadets Were Stuck in the Persian Gulf After Trump Bombed Iran — The Trump administration failed to warn vessels with close ties to the U.S. military ahead of the strikes, leaving them trapped in the region. — Copy — When the United States dropped its first bomb on Iran …
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New Republic
New York Times:
White House Secures Foreign Steel for Ballroom Project — ArcelorMittal, a European steel maker, is donating tens of millions of dollars of foreign steel for President Trump's new ballroom. — President Trump has championed the U.S. steel industry, promising to strengthen …
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New Republic, The Independent, MS NOW, Just Jared, Cafe Hayek and Raw Story
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Daniel W. Drezner / Drezner's World:
The Beclowning of the Madman Theory — The tentative cease fire negotiated earlier this week is not —repeat, not — an example of the Madman Theory at work. — It looks like President Trump's threat to commit war crimes by destroying Iran's entire civilization will not, thankfully, be carried out in the short run.
Sharon Yoo / KING-TV:
UW graduate student deported through SEA as protesters demand answers — A union representing University of Washington graduate student workers says Kennedy Orwa's student visa was rescinded without explanation. … SEATAC, Wash. — A protest broke out at SEA International Airport on Wednesday …
Susan Haigh / Associated Press:
US Postal Service to suspend employer payments to workers' pensions, citing cash crunch — The U.S. Postal Service said Thursday it has informed federal budget officials it will temporarily suspend its employer contributions to Federal Employees Retirement System annuities …
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Federal News Network, CBS News and Bangor Daily News
Wall Street Journal:
Justice Department Opens Investigation Into NFL — Government officials have raised questions about whether the league is engaging in anticompetitive tactics that harm consumers — The Justice Department has opened an investigation into whether the National Football League has engaged …
Spencer Kimball / CNBC:
The Strait of Hormuz is not open as Iran controls access after ceasefire, UAE oil CEO says … The Strait of Hormuz has not opened to ship traffic after the U.S. and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire, said the CEO of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) on Thursday.
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Washington Post:
USDA secretary's ‘He is Risen’ Easter email unnerves some staff members — The email was the latest in a string of unprecedented expressions of Christian proselytizing by administration leaders. — Employees at the U.S. Department of Agriculture were greeted Monday by a rare …
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Raw Story
Paul Krugman:
Job Growth on ICE — The employment slowdown: Causes and consequences — Armageddon may (or may not) be on hold for a little while, so let's talk about other issues, like the state of the economy — in particular, what's going on with job growth, where important things are happening.
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Raw Story
Jack Nicas / New York Times:
5 Takeaways From the U.S. Push Against the Far Left — The Trump administration has made countering antifa and other far-left groups a counterterrorism priority, despite increasing threats from the Middle East. — The Trump administration in recent months has made far-left groups a target of its global counterterrorism machine.
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New York Times
David R. Lurie / Public Notice:
A regime of idiots: A complete inventory of Trump stooges — PN is supported by paid subscribers. Become one ⬇️ — 🧠 Subscribe to PN 🧠 — While the end point is unclear, Trump's would-be dictatorship is politically broken.
Asawin Suebsaeng / Zeteo:
First Draft: 👀 Furious Trump Launches Huge Hunt Over Iran Leaks — A looming blockbuster book by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan of the New York Times has the president raging and demanding scalps, insiders tell Zeteo, even as the Iran ceasefire seems in doubt. — ∙ Paid
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Andy Mukherjee / Bloomberg:
The Iran War Is China's Global Payments Debut — It has been China's long-held dream to dethrone King Dollar. Beijing got its first break after Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, and Russian lenders were deleted overnight from the messaging system that moves the world's money.
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Semafor and Al Jazeera
Max Rego / The Hill:
Sasse details cancer battle in new interview: ‘Death is something we should hate’ — Former Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) detailed his battle with cancer and reflected on his life during a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times's Ross Douthat. — The conversation, released Thursday as part of Douthat's …
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Washington Examiner, New York Times and Washington Times
Reuters:
Melania Trump says she never had a relationship with Epstein — First lady Melania Trump on Thursday denied ever having a relationship with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and said the claims about it are defaming her. — “The lies linking me with the disgraceful Jeffrey Epstein need to end today …
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Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
By All Means, Let the War Crimes Trials Begin! … The Left and some on the Right went crazy over a recent Trump tweet. — He warned that if the Iranian regime did not cease blocking the international Strait of Hormuz, he would hit its dual military-civilian infrastructure.
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American Thinker and The American Spectator
Joey Cappelletti / Associated Press:
What one campaign rally in Michigan reveals about young voters ahead of the midterm elections — As students banged on desks and stomped their feet inside a packed lecture hall at the University of Michigan, someone decades older stood in the back, quietly taking in the scene.
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Bloomberg
Scott Lincicome / Bloomberg:
EVs Represent All That's Wrong With US Industrial Policy — Almost five years after the start of the US's big experiment with industrial policy, we can begin to assess the results. Zeroing in on electric vehicles, the results are not good - losses have mounted, American tech supremacy has slipped and …
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The Information and France 24
