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Abortion proves winning strategy for Alabama Democrat

(Politico) An Alabama Democrat who campaigned aggressively on abortion access won a special election in the state Legislature on Tuesday, sending a message that abortion remains a winning issue for Democrats, even in the deep South. Marilyn Lands won a state House seat in a rare competitive race to represent a district that includes parts of Huntsville. Lands, a mental health professional, centered her bid on reproductive rights and criticized the state’s near-total abortion ban along with a recent state Supreme Court ruling that temporarily banned in vitro fertilization.

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A New Litmus Test for RNC Employees

(Political Wire) “Those seeking employment at the Republican National Committee after a Trump-backed purge of the committee this month have been asked in job interviews if they believe the 2020 election was stolen, making the false claim a litmus test of sorts for hiring,” the Washington Post reports. “The question about the 2020 election has startled some of the potential employees, who viewed it as questioning their loyalty to Trump and as an unusual job interview question.”

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McDaniel eyes big payout after NBC drama ($600,000 and more for doing nothing)

(Politico) The ramifications of NBC’s decision yesterday to part ways with former RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel just two days after her paid network debut on “Meet the Press” are just starting to shake out. But they could be expensive. McDaniel expects to be fully paid out for her contract — two years at $300,000 annually — since she did not breach its terms, according to a person close to McDaniel. That means that her single, not-quite-20-minute interview Sunday could cost NBC more than $30,000 per minute, or $500 per second.

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Judge Merchan hits Trump with a gag order

(New York Times) The New York judge presiding over one of Donald J. Trump’s criminal trials imposed a gag order on Tuesday that prohibits him from attacking witnesses, prosecutors and jurors, the latest effort to rein in the former president’s wrathful rhetoric about his legal opponents. The ruling comes on the heels of Justice Merchan’s setting an April 15 trial date, rejecting Mr. Trump’s latest effort to delay the proceeding. It will mark the first criminal prosecution of a former American president.

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GOP Lawmaker Blames 'Diversity' for Bridge Collapse

(Political Wire) Utah lawmaker Phil Lyman (R), who is running for governor, quickly used Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse to boost his gubernatorial campaign by blaming the accident on efforts to make workplaces more diverse, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. Said Lyman: “This is what happens when you have Governors who prioritize diversity over the wellbeing [sic] and security of citizens.”

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Trump campaign says it will deploy 'soldiers' to polling places

(Raw Story) The Trump campaign says it plans to change tactics from 2020 when Joe Biden beat the then-incumbent president by more than 7 million votes, and this time go on "offense" by having "soldiers" and "poll watchers" at polling places. "We're not going to play defense, like we unfortunately did in 2020. We're going to have soldiers, poll watchers on the ground who are making sure that there are no irregularities and fraud like we saw in the last election."

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Trump is leading a 'top-down conspiracy against the constitutional order': Ex-GOP insider David Frum

(Raw Story) David Frum, a former Republican insider who worked as a speechwriter for President George W. Bush, put former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election in stark terms on Wednesday. "We haven't seen a top-down conspiracy against the constitutional order since the 1860s in the United States," he said. "And so... it feels new because it's so old and a lot of people are baffled."

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Trump Goes on Bizarre Rant About 'CROOKED JOE BUDEN' Who 'DISINFORMATES AND 'MISINFORMATES' About Obamacare

(Mediaite) The former president and presumptive Republican nominee seems to think that word is out that he would terminate the Affordable Care Act, because that’s precisely what he ran in 2016, tried to do in his four years in the White House, failed to accomplish — and has vowed to attempt again if he is re-elected. But Trump is blaming President Joe Biden or some mythical figure named “CROOKED JOE BUDEN” in his social media post, whom he claims “DISINFORMATES AND MISINFORMATES ALL THE TIME.”

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Blow for Sunak as revised figures confirm UK went into recession last year

41 min ago - Official figures have confirmed that the UK economy went into recession at the end of last year, after the latest estimate found it contracted in the last two quarters of 2023. In a blow to the government’s economic standing, the Office for Nati ... (The Guardian)

Biden to roll back Trump's expansion of short-term health insurance plans

1 hr ago - Published 5:08 AM EDT, Thu March 28, 2024 CNN — The Biden administration is curtailing short-term health insurance plans, which it calls “junk insurance” that can leave patients contending with big medical bills. The rule, which was ... (CNN Politics)

Yellen Asked to Probe Security Issues in Ammunition Maker's Sale

1 hr ago - March 28, 2024 at 6:00 AM EDT Representative Clay Higgins, a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, has asked Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to “thoroughly review national security concerns” in the proposed sale of a US ammunitio ... (Bloomberg)

Federal court upholds DeSantis-backed congressional map

2 hrs ago - 03/27/2024 06:53 PM EDT Updated: 03/27/2024 07:58 PM EDT A panel of federal judges upheld Florida’s congressional map, turning away a challenge that alleged it was discriminatory against Black voters after the district held by former Rep. Al La ... (Politico)

Biden administration unveils new rules for federal government's use of artificial intelligence

2 hrs ago - Published 5:27 a.m. ET March 28, 2024 | Updated 5:27 a.m. ET March 28, 2024 WASHINGTON ― The Biden administration Thursday announced three new policies to guide the federal government's use of artificial intelligence, billing the standards as ... (USA Today)

Insurers could face losses of up to $4 billion after Baltimore bridge tragedy, analyst says

2 hrs ago - LONDON, March 27 (Reuters) - Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse could cost insurers billions of dollars in claims, analysts say, with one putting it at as much as $4 billion, which would make the tragedy a record shipping insurance loss. S ... (Reuters)

Biden fundraiser with Obama and Clinton expected to raise $25 million

2 hrs ago - 2 hours ago President Biden's campaign says his Radio City fundraiser on Thursday night with former Presidents Obama and Clinton is expected to raise over $25 million. Why it matters: The impressive haul — the campaign says — would make it ... (Axios)

Man who threatened Pelosi, Mayorkas sentenced to 11 months in prison

3 hrs ago - 03/27/24 8:48 PM ET A California man who left threatening voicemails for Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Homeland Security Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas was sentenced to 11 months in prison, the Justice Department announced on Wednesday. David ... (The Hill)

Fani Willis vows nothing 'will derail' Trump's election interference trial

4 hrs ago - March 27, 2024, 5:41 PM Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis vowed to bring former President Donald Trump's Georgia election interference case to trial in a letter to House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, arguing that her office has ful ... (ABC News)

CNN Exclusive: Conservative bigwig Matt Schlapp agreed to hefty settlement to end sexual assault lawsuit

4 hrs ago - Updated 10:45 PM EDT, Wed March 27, 2024 CNN — The Republican operative who accused American Conservative Union chairman Matt Schlapp of sexual assault last year received a significant financial settlement in exchange for dropping his lawsuit ... (CNN Politics)

Judge forges ahead with pretrial motions in Georgia election interference case

4 hrs ago - Updated 12:10 AM EDT, March 28, 2024 ATLANTA (AP) — The charges against former President Donald Trump in the Georgia election interference case seek to criminalize political speech and advocacy conduct that the First Amendment protects, his lawy ... (AP)

Woman convicted of stealing diary of Biden's daughter misses NYC sentencing again

4 hrs ago - PUBLISHED: March 27, 2024 at 6:08 p.m. | UPDATED: March 27, 2024 at 6:34 p.m. A Florida woman convicted of stealing President Biden’s daughter’s diary from a Delray Beach rental to sell to far-right group Project Veritas was a no-show at he ... (NY Daily News)

Election denier who Trump wanted to take over DOJ invokes the 5th in disbarment hearing

5 hrs ago - March 27, 2024, 5:13 PM EDT WASHINGTON — An environmental lawyer whom Donald Trump wanted to take over the Justice Department in the days before the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol repeatedly asserted his Fifth Amendment right against self-inc ... (NBC News)

Pennsylvania's mail-in ballot dating rule is legal under civil rights law, appeals court says

5 hrs ago - March 27, 2024, 10:25 PM HARRISBURG, Pa. -- A requirement for Pennsylvania voters to put accurate handwritten dates on the outside envelopes of their mail-in ballots does not run afoul of a civil rights law, a federal appeals court panel said Wednesd ... (ABC News/AP)

Baltimore bridge collapse recovery team finds victims' likely vehicles

9 hrs ago - Divers recovered the bodies of two construction workers who died when a massive cargo ship struck and collapsed a Baltimore bridge, as investigators revealed Wednesday that hazardous material was leaking from breached containers on the stranded vesse ... (Washington Post)

Trump Attacks R.F.K. Jr., a Third-Party Wild Card

10 hrs ago - Former President Donald J. Trump attacked Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the independent presidential candidate, on Wednesday morning, casting Mr. Kennedy as a liberal Democrat in disguise while also seeming to back him as a spoiler for President Biden’ ... (NY Times)

NBC offered Ronna McDaniel a better contract to appear on MSNBC

12 hrs ago - MSNBC President Rashida Jones participated in recruiting former Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel earlier this month and McDaniel was offered a more lucrative contributor contract after she agreed to appear on MSNBC and not just NBC ... (Washington Post)

Chris Christie turns down No Labels presidential bid after discussions

12 hrs ago - Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie (R) has decided against running as the No Labels candidate for president after spending time and money gaming out the prospects of a centrist third-party bid against President Biden and former president Donal ... (Washington Post)

In reversal, Netanyahu sending delegation to White House for Rafah talks

13 hrs ago - Updated 7 hours ago Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is planning to send two top Israeli officials to Washington as early as next week for talks about a possible military operation in Rafah, four U.S. and Israeli officials told Axios. Why it ... (Axios)

Interior Department rule aims to crack down on methane leaks from oil, gas drilling on public lands

13 hrs ago - Mar 27, 2024 6:57 PM EDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration issued a final rule Wednesday aimed at curbing methane leaks from oil and gas drilling on federal and tribal lands, its latest action to crack down on emissions of methane, a p ... (PBS News Hour/AP)

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