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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.
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
Trump threatens to prosecute Bidens if he's re-elected unless he gets immunity  —  Time magazine called the ex-president's plans ‘an imperial presidency that would reshape America and its role in the world’  —  Donald Trump has warned that Joe Biden and his family could face multiple criminal …
Erin Doherty / Axios:
Trump's most revealing quotes yet on what he'll do if he wins in 2024
New York Times:
Here's where campus protesters have been arrested over the past day.  —  Columbia in New York and Portland State University closed their campuses after pro-Palestinian demonstrators took over buildings.  More than 1,100 protesters have been arrested across the country in recent weeks.
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Zach Kessel / National Review:
Northwestern Cuts Deal with Encampment Organizers, Establishes Full-Ride Scholarship for Palestinian Students  —  After five days of anti-Israel demonstrators occupying Deering Meadow on Northwestern University's campus, Northwestern president Michael Schill and the rest of the university's leadership decided …
Lauren Irwin / The Hill:   GOP senator calls for deporting certain foreign student protesters
NBC News:
Campus protests live updates: Columbia closed to nonresidential students, encampments cleared at other schools
Associated Press:
US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana in a historic shift, AP sources say  —  The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, The Associated Press has learned, a historic shift to generations of American drug policy …
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NBC News:
Biden administration plans to reclassify marijuana, easing restrictions nationwide  —  Cannabis is currently classified along with drugs like heroin and LSD.  The DEA is expected to reschedule it into a category that includes Tylenol and steroids.  —  WASHINGTON — The Biden administration …
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Lauren Irwin / The Hill:
White House considers admitting some Palestinians from Gaza as refugees  —  The Biden administration is considering admitting certain Palestinians to the U.S. as refugees, a report by CBS News found.  —  Senior officials in several U.S. agencies have discussed the idea of resettling Palestinians …
Discussion: CBS News and Foreign Policy
Brady Knox / Washington Examiner:   Biden administration contemplating bringing Palestinian refugees into US: Report
Ken Bensinger / New York Times:
Law Firm Defending Trump Seeks to Withdraw From a Long-Running Case  —  The firm, LaRocca Hornik, has represented Donald Trump's political operation in numerous suits dating to his first presidential run, including a pregnancy discrimination case in New York.
Discussion: Raw Story
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New York Times:
Live Updates: Lawyer for Stormy Daniels Takes Stand in Trump Criminal Trial
Kevin McGill / Associated Press:
Judges Reject Map That Would Have Given Louisiana New Majority-Black House District  —  The decision is likely to be appealed to the Supreme Court, leaving Louisiana in congressional district limbo for now.  —  LOADING  —  A new congressional district map giving Louisiana …
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Zach Montellaro / Politico:   Court tosses map that created second Black House district in Louisiana
Brandi Buchman / Law & Crime:
‘Jeffrey Clark betrayed his oath’: Trump DOJ lawyer behind fake electors plot should be disbarred, disciplinary panel says  —  The District of Columbia's Office of Disciplinary Counsel issued a recommendation this week battering the credibility of former Donald Trump Justice Department attorney Jeffrey Clark …
New York Times:
After Ukraine Aid Vote, Republicans Braced for Backlash Find Little  —  Some Republicans who backed the aid encountered little resistance from voters, who were far more willing to embrace it — and less interested in ousting the speaker over it — than their right-wing colleagues.
Discussion: The Hill
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NBC News:
Marjorie Taylor Greene struggles to find GOP support for deposing Mike Johnson
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 …
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Azi Paybarah / Washington Post:
Democrat Tim Kennedy wins New York special election for House seat  —  Once he is sworn in to represent the state's 26th Congressional District, the Republican majority in the chamber will temporarily fall to just one vote.  —  State Sen. Tim Kennedy (D) is projected to win the special election …
Ken Klippenstein:
Why I'm Resigning From The Intercept  —  I resigned from The Intercept today in order to pursue a new kind of journalism here on Substack, one more hard-hitting than what's possible in the corporate world.  The Intercept has been taken over by suits who have abandoned its founding mission …
Arp Laszlo / What Was I Doing Again?:
USPol #USPolitics #Politics #Fascism  —  11 thoughts on “#USPol #USPolitics #Politics #Fascism”  —  @ArpComics Peaceful protesters who don't trespass or cause damage to property are for the most part left to protest peacefully.  What is happening now is an embarrassment and is in no way a protest.
ProPublica:
Philips Agrees to Pay $1 Billion to Patients Who Say They Were Injured by Breathing Machines  —  The proposed settlement will effectively end more than 700 lawsuits filed after the 2021 recall of millions of the company's widely used sleep apnea devices and ventilators.  —  Co-published with Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Discussion: New York Daily News and NPR
Nick Robertson / The Hill:
Barnard president loses vote of no confidence as criticism mounts over protest response  —  The president of Barnard College at Columbia University lost a faculty-wide vote of no confidence on Tuesday, as criticism mounts over the school's response to a pro-Palestine encampment that has sparked …
Isabela Dias / Mother Jones:
How a Few Secret Donors Are Fueling the New Right-Wing Infrastructure  —  The Bradley Impact Fund helps finance the work of groups led by Michael Flynn and Stephen Miller.  Most of the money can be traced to four undisclosed sources, documents show.  —  In early 2021, Stephen Miller …
William Vaillancourt / The Daily Beast:
Fox Business Host Goes There: Biden's ‘Woke’ Tax Policies Are Anti-White  —  QUIET PART OUT LOUD  —  Larry Kudlow on Tuesday made the assumption that Joe Biden's tax policies are part of a bigger scheme against conservatives.  —  Fox Business Network host and former Trump White House …
 
 
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Igor Bobic / HuffPost:
'I Didn't Shoot My Dog': Mitt Romney Resents Being Compared To Kristi Noem
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trumpworld has a new nonsensical theory of his document-case innocence
Discussion: Raw Story
Roque Planas / HuffPost:
Border Patrol Agents Joked About Killing Migrant Children, Records Show
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Adriel Bettelheim / Axios:
Turning point: COVID-era hospital reporting set to end
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Fox News Quietly Deletes Hunter Biden ‘Mock Trial’ Series
Lauren Sforza / The Hill:
Obama says Trump ‘not considered a serious guy’ in New York
Byron Tau / NOTUS:
War Zone Surveillance Technology Is Hitting American Streets
Amira McKee / Columbia Daily Spectator:
Dozens occupy Hamilton Hall as pro-Palestinian protests spread across campus